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BLACK SABBATH

BLACK SABBATH

BLACK SABBATH

What is this that stands before me?

Figure in black which points at me

Turn around quick, and start to run

Find out I'm the chosen one

Oh nooo!

Big black shape with eyes of fire

Telling people their desire

Satan's sitting there, he's smiling

Watches those flames get higher and higher

Oh no, no, please God help me!

Is it the end, my friend?

Satan's coming 'round the bend

people running 'cause they're scared

The people better go and beware!

No, no, please, no!

THE WIZARD

Misty morning, clouds in the sky

Without warning, the wizard walks by

Casting his shadow, weaving his spell

Funny clothes, tinkling bell

Never talking

Just keeps walking

spreading his magic

Evil power disappears

Demons worry when the wizard is near

He turns tears into joy

Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by

Never talking

Just keeps walking

spreading his magic

Sun is shining, clouds have gone by

All the people give a happy sigh

He has passed by, giving his sign

Left all the people feeling so fine

Never talking

Just keeps walking

spreading his magic

BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP

Precious cups within the flower

deadly petals with strange power

faces shine a deadly smile

back up on you at your trial

Chill and numbs from head to toe

icy sun with frosty glow

Why'd you go reaching your sorrow?

why'd you go read no tomorrow

Feel your spirit rise with the priest

feel your body falling to its knees

Take your walk of remorse

take your body to a corpse



if you want all remorse


Now from darkness, there springs light

Wall of Sleep is cold and bright

Wall of Sleep is lying broken

Sun shines in, you are awoken

N.I.B.

Oh yeah!

Some people say my love cannot be true

please believe me, my love, and I'll show you

I will give you those things you thought unreal

The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal

Oh yeah!

Follow me now and you will not regret

leaving the life you led before we met

You are the first to have this love of mine

forever with me 'till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real

before you know the way I'm going to feel

I'm going to feel

I'm going to feel

Oh yeah!

Now I have you with me, under my power

Our love grows stronger now with every hour

Look into my eyes, you will see who I am

my name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Oh yeah!

Follow me now and you will not regret

leaving the life you led before we met

You are the first to have this love of mine

forever with me 'till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real

before you know the way I'm going to feel

I'm going to feel

I'm going to feel

Oh yeah!

Now I have you with me, under my power

Our love grows stronger now with every hour

Look into my eyes, you will see who I am

my name is Lucifer, please take my hand

EVIL WOMAN

Evil Woman

I've seen a look of evil in your eyes

You've been filling me all full of lies

Sorrow will not change your shameful deeds

Do well best, someone else has better seen

Evil woman, don't you play your games with me


Now I know just what you're looking for

You want me to claim that child you bore

Well you know that it must he not be

And you know the way it got to be


Evil woman, don't you play your games with



Wickedness lies in your moisten lips

Your body moves just like the crack of a whip

Blackness sleeps on top of your stray bed

Do you whish that you could see me dead





WICKED WORLD

The world today is such a wicked thing

Fighting going on between the human race

People give good wishes to all their friends

While people just across the sea are counting the dead

A politician's job they say is very high

For he has to choose who's got to go and die

They can put a man on the moon quite easy

while people here on earth are dying of old diseases

A woman goes to work every day after day

She just goes to work just to earn her pay

Child sitting crying by a life that's harder

he doesn't even know who is his father

SLEEPING VILLAGE

Red sun rising in the sky

Sleeping village, cockerels cry

Soft breeze blowing in the trees

peace of mind, feel at ease

WARNING

Now the first day that I met ya

I was looking in the sky

When the sun turned all a blur

and the thunderclouds rolled by

The sea began to shiver

and the wind began to moan

It must've been a sign for me

to leave you well alone

I was born without you, baby

but my feelings were a little bit too strong

you never said you love me

and I don't believe you can

'cause I saw you in a dream

and you were with another man

You looked so cool and casual

and I tried to look the same

But now I've got to know ya

tell me who am I to blame?



Now the whole wide world is movin'

'cause there's iron in my heart

I just can't keep from cryin'

'cause you say we've got to part

Sorrow grips my voice as I stand here all alone

And watch you slowly take away

a love I've never known



PARANOID

WAR PIGS

Generals gathered in their masses

just like witches at black masses

evil minds that plot destruction

sorcerers of death's construction

in the fields the bodies burning

as the war machine keeps turning

death and hatred to mankind

poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away

they only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds

Making war just for fun

Treating people just like pawns in chess

Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning

as the war machine keeps burning

No more war pigs of the power

Hand of god has sturck the hour

Day of judgement, god is calling

on their knees, the war pigs crawling

Begging mercy for their sins

Satan, laughing, spreads his wings

ALL RIGHT NOW!

PARANOID

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind

people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time

All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy

Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

Can you help me occupy my brain?

Oh yeah

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find

I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry

Happiness I cannot feel and love to me us so unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state

I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late

PLANET CARAVAN

We sail through endless skies

stars shine like eyes

the black night sighs

The moon in silver trees

falls down in tears

light of the night

The earth, a purple blaze

of sapphire haze

in orbit always

While down below the trees

bathed in cool breeze

silver starlight breaks down the night

And so we pass on by the crimson eye

of great god Mars

as we travel the universe

IRON MAN

Has he lost his mind?

Can he see or is he blind?

Can he walk at all,

Or if he moves will he fall?

Is he alive or dead?

Has he thoughts within his head?

We'll just pass him there

why should we even care?

He was turned to steel

in the great magnetic field

Where he traveled time

for the future of mankind

Nobody wants him

He just stares at the world

Planning his vengeance

that he will soon unfold

Now the time is here

for Iron Man to spread fear

Vengeance from the grave

Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him

They just turn their heads

Nobody helps him

Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead

fills his victims full of dread

Running as fast as they can

Iron Man lives again!

ELECTRIC FUNERAL

Reflex in the sky warn you you're gonna die

Storm coming, you'd better hide from the atomic tide

Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties

Turns people into clay, radiation minds decay

Robot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rage

plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon

dying world of radiation, victims of mad frustration

Burning globe of oxy'n fire, like electric funeral pyre

Buildings crashing down to a cracking ground

Rivers turn to wood, ice melting to flood

Earth lies in death bed, clouds cry water dead

Tearing life away, here's the burning pay

Electric Funeral

Electric Funeral

Electric Funeral

Electric Funeral

And so in the sky shines the electric eye

supernatural king takes earth under his wing

Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings

Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!

HAND OF DOOM

What you gonna do? Time's caught up with you

Now you wait your turn, you know there's no return

Take your written rules, you join the other fools

Turn to something new, now it's killing you

First it was the bomb, Vietnam napalm

Disillusioning, you push the needle in

From life you escape, reality's that way

Colours in your mind satisfy your time

Oh you, you know you must be blind

To do something like this

To take the sleep that you don't know

You're giving Death a kiss,

Oh, little fool now

Your mind is full of pleasure

Your body's looking ill

To you it's shallow leisure

So drop the acid pill, don't stop to think now

You're having a good time baby

But that won't last

Your mind's all full of things

You're living too fast

go out enjoy yourself

Don't bottle it in

You need someone to help you

To stick the needle in, yeah

Now you know the scene, your skin starts turning green

Your eyes no longer seeing life's reality

Push the needle in, face death's sickly grin

Holes are in your skin, caused by deadly pin

Head starts spinning 'round, you fall down to the ground

Feel your body heave, Death's hands starts to weave

It's too late to turn, you don't want to learn

Price of life you cry, now you're gonna die!

FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS

Goin' home, late last night

suddenly I got a fright

Yeah I looked throught the window and surprised what I saw

Fairy boots were dancin' with a dwarf, all right now!

Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies

Yeah Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes, well all right now!

So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me

he said "Son, son, you've gone too far.

'cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do."

MASTER OF REALITY

SWEET LEAF

ALRIGHT NOW!!

Won't you listen?

When I first met you, didn't realize

I can't forget you, for your suprize

you introduced me, to my mind

And left me wanting, you and your kind

I love you, Oh you know it

My life was empty forever on a down

Until you took me, showed me around

My life is free now, my life is clear

I love you sweet leaf, though you can't hear

Come on now, try it out

Straight people don't know, what your about

They put you down and shut you out

you gave to me a new belief

and soon the world will love you sweet leaf

AFTER FOREVER

Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?

Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave

Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?

Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?

When you think about death

do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?

Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope -

do you think he's a fool?

Well I have seen the truth,

yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways

And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared

at the end of our days

Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say

If they knew you believe in God above?

They should realize before they criticize

that God is the only way to love

Is your mind so small that you have to fall

In with the pack wherever they run

Will you still sneer when death is near

And say they may as well worship the sun?

I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ

I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced

Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?

You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve

Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone

Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one

The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate

Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.

CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE

Revolution in their minds - the children start to march

Against the world in which they have to live

and all the hate that's in their hearts

They're tired of being pushed around

and told just what to do

They'll fight the world until they've won

and love comes flowing through

Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today

Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way?

Must the world live in the shadow of atomic fear?

Can they win the fight for peace or will they disappear?

So you children of the world,

listen to what I say

If you want a better place to live in

spread the words today

Show the world that love is still alive

you must be brave

Or you children of today are

Children of the Grave, Yeah!

LORD OF THIS WORLD

You're searching for your mind don't know where to start

can't find the key to fit the lock on your heart

you think you know but you are never quite sure

your soul is ill but you will not find a cure.

Your world was made for you by someone above

but you chose evil ways instead of love.

You made me master of the world where you exist

the soul I took from you was not even missed.

Lord of this world

Evil possessor

Lord of this world

He's your confessor now!

SOLITUDE

My name it means nothing

my fortune is less

My future is shrouded in dark wilderness

Sunshine is far away, clouds linger on

Everything I posessed - Now they are gone

Oh where can I go to and what can I do?

Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you

You just laughed when I begged you to stay

I've not stopped crying since you went away

The world is a lonely place - you're on your own

Guess I will go home - sit down and moan.

Crying and thinking is all that I do

Memories I have remind me of you

INTO THE VOID

Rocket engines burning fuel so fast

Up into the night sky they blast

Through the universe the engines whine

Could it be the end of man and time

Back on earth the flame of life burns low

Everywhere is misery and woe

Pollution kills the air, the land and sea

Man prepares to meet his destiny

Rocket engines burning fuel so fast

Up into the night sky so vast

Burning metal through the atmosphere

Earth remains in worry, hate and fear

With the hateful battles raging on

rockets flying to the glowing sun

Through the empires of eternal void

Freedom from the final suicide

Freedom fighters sent out to the sun

escape from brainwashed minds and pollution.

Leave the earth to all its sin and hate

find another world where freedom waits.

Past the stars in fields of ancient void

Through the shields of darkness where they find

Love upon a land a world unknown

where the sons of freedom make their home

Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves

leave them to their future in the grave

Make a home where love is there to stay

VOLUME 4

WHEELS OF CONFUSION

Long ago I wandered through my mind

in the land of fairy tales and stories

Lost in happiness I had no fears

Innocence and love was all I knew

was it illusion?

Soon the days went passing into years

Happiness just didn't come so easy

Life was born of fairy tales and daydreams

Innocence was just another word

was it illusion?

Lost in the wheels of confusion

Running through furnace of tears

Eyes full of angered illusion

Hiding in every ???

So I found that life is just a game

But you know there's never been a winner

Try your hardest, just to be a loser

The world will still be turning when you're gone

yeah when you're gone!

TOMORROW'S DREAM

Well I'm leaving tomorrow at daybreak

catch the fastest train around nine

Yes I'm leaving the sorrow and heartache

before it takes me away from my mind

Send me love and I may let you see me

Send me hopes that can spin in my head

But if you really want me to answer

I can only let you know when I'm dead

When sadness fills my days

It's time to turn away

and then tomorrow's dreams

become reality to me

So realize I'm much better without you

You're not the one and only thing in my heart

I'll just go back to pretending I'm living

so this time I'm gonna have to depart

CHANGES

I feel unhappy

I feel so sad

I lost the best friend

That I ever had

She was my woman

I loved her so

But it's too late now

I've let her go

I'm going through changes


We shared the eve's

We shared each day

In love together

We found a way

But soon the world

Had its evil way

My heart was blinded

Love went astray



It took so long

To realize

That I can still hear

Her last goodbyes

Now all my days

Are filled with tears

Wish I could go back

And change these years



SUPERNAUT

I want to reach out and touch the sky

I want to touch the sun

but I don't need to fly

I'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon

And find a distant man a-waving his spoon

I've crossed the ocean, turned every bend

I found the crossing near a golden rainbow's end

I've been through magic and through life's reality

I've lived a thousand years and it never bothered me

Got no religion, don't need no friends

Got all I want and I don't need to pretend

Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind

I've seen the future and I've left it behind

SNOWBLIND

What you get and what you see

Things that don't come easily

Feeling happy in my vein

Icicles within my brain

(cocain)

Something blowing in my head

Winter's ice, it soon will spread

Death would freeze my very soul

Makes me happy, makes me cold

My eyes are blind but I can see

The snowflakes glisten on the tree

The sun no longer sets me free

I feel there's no place freezing me

Let the winter sun shine on

Let me feel the frost of dawn

Fill my dreams with flakes of snow

Soon I'll feel the chilling glow

Don't you think I know what I'm doing

Don't tell me that it's doing me wrong

You're the one who's really a loser

This is where I feel I belong

Crystal world with winter flowers

Turns my day to frozen hours

Lying snowblind in the sun

Will my ice age ever come?

CORNUCOPIA

Too much in the truth they say

Keep it 'till another day

Let them have their little game

illusion helps to keep them sane

Let them have their little toys

fast sports cars and motor noise

exciting in their plastic place

frozen food in a concrete maze

You're gonna go insane

I'm trying to save your brain

I don't know what's happening

My head's all torn inside

People say I'm heavy

They don't know what I hide

Take a life, it's going cheap

kill someone, no one will weep

Freedom's yours, just pay your dues

We just want your soul to use

You're gonna go insane

I'm trying to save your brain

ST. VITUS' DANCE

So you think you know what's going on inside her head

You think she wants your money but it's you she wants instead

When you think about the things that she did love to go

it breaks your heart but deep down boy you know it hurts to go

You feel your love so shattering

you feel you want to die

Just because someone did take off

telling you a lie

If I were you I'd try again and try to make amends

She only thinks of you, you know I'm talking as a friend

UNDER THE SUN / EVERY DAY COMES AND GOES

Well I don't want no demon to tell me what it's all about

No black magician telling me to get my soul out

Don't believe in violence, I don't even believe in peace

I've opened the door and my mind has been released

Well I don't want no preacher telling me about the god in the sky

No I don't want no one to tell me where I'm gonna go when I die

I wanna live my life with no people telling me what to do

I just believe in myself, 'cause no one else is true

Every day just comes and goes

Life is one big overdose

People try to ruin me

and I can't seem to eliminate them

People riding their real pace

keep on running their rat race

The ante is risen once a week

in their world of make-believe

So believe what I tell you, it's the only way to fight in the end

Just believe in yourself, you know you really shouldn't have to pretend

don't let those empty people try and interfere with your mind

Just live your life and leave them all behind

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH

You've seen life through distorted eyes

You know you had to learn

The execution of your mind

You really had to turn

The race is run the book is read

The end begins to show

The truth is out, the lies are old

But you don't want to know

Nobody will ever let you know

When you ask the reasons why

They just tell you that you're on your own

Fill your head all full of lies

The people who have crippled you

You want to see them burn

The gates of life have closed on you

And now there's just no return

You're wishing that the hands of doom

Could take your mind away

And you don't care if you don't see again

The light of day

Nobody will ever let you know

When you ask the reasons why

They just tell you that you're on your own

Fill your head all full of lies

Where can you run to

What more can you do

No more tomorrow

Life is killing you

Dreams turn to nightmares

Heaven turns to hell

Burned out confusion

Nothing more to tell

Everything around you

What's it coming to

God knows as your dog knows

Bog blast all of you

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Nothing more to do

Living just for dying

Dying just for you

A NATIONAL ACROBAT

I am the world that hides

The universal secret of all time

Destruction of the empty spaces

Is my one and only crime

I've lived a thousand times

I found out what it means to be believed

The thoughts and images

The unborn child that never was conceived

When little worlds collide

I'm trapped inside my embryonic cell

And flashing memories

Are cast into the never ending well

The name that scorns the face

The child that never sees the cause of man

The deathly darkness that

Belies the fate of those who never ran

Well I know its hard for you

To know the reason why

And I know you'll understand

More when it's time to die

Don't believe the life you have

Will be the only one

You have to let your body sleep

To let your soul live on

Love has given life to you

And now it's your concern

Unseen eyes of inner life

Will make your soul return

Still I look but not to touch

The seeds of life are sown

Curtain of the future falls

The secret stays unknown

Just remember love is life

And hate is living death

Treat your life for what it's worth

And live for every breath

Looking back I've lived and learned

But now I'm wondering

Here I wait and only guess

What this next life will bring

SABBRA CADABRA

Feel so good I feel so fine

Love that little lady always on my mind

She gives me lovin' every night and day

Never gonna leave her

Never going away

Someone to love me

You know she makes me feel alright

Someone who needs me

Love me every single night

Feel so happy since I met that girl

When we're making love

It's something out of this world

Feels so good to know that she's all mine

Going to love that woman till the end of time

Someone to live for

Love me till the end of time

Makes me feel happy

Good to know that she's all mine

Lovely lady make love all night long

Lovely lady never do me no wrong

I don't wanna leave ya

I never wanna leave ya

Anymore no more

Lovely lady

Mystifying eyes

Lovely lady

She don't tell me no lies

I know I'll never leave ya

I'm never gonna leave ya

Anymore no more

KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE

Well people look and people stare

Well I don't think that I even care

You work your life away and what do they give?

You're only killing yourself to live

Killing yourself to live


Just take a look around you what do you see

Pain, suffering, and misery

It's not the way that the world was meant

It's a pity you don't understand



I'm telling you

Believe in me

Nobody else will tell you

Open your eyes

And see the lies, oh yeah

You think I'm crazy and baby

I know that it's true

Before that you know it I think

That you'll go crazy too

I don't know if I'm up or down

Whether black is white or blue is brown

The colors of my life are all different somehow

Little boy blue's a big girl now

So you think it's me who's strange

But you've never had to make the change

Never give your trust away

You'll end up paying till your dying day

WHO ARE YOU

Yes I know the secret

That's within your mind

You think all the people

Who worship you are blind

You're just like Big Brother

Giving us your trust

And when you have played enough

You'll just cast our souls

Into the dust

Into the dust

You thought that it would be easy

from the very start

Now I've found you out

I don't think you're so smart

I only have one more question

Before my time is through

Please I beg you tell me

In the name of hell

Who are you?

Who are you?

LOOKING FOR TODAY

It's complete but obsolete

All tomorrow's become yesterday

In demand but second hand

It's been heard before you even play

Up to date but came too late

Better get yourself another name

You're so right but overnight

You're the one who has to take the blame

Everyone just gets on top of you

The pain begins to eat your pride

You can't believe in anything you knew

When was the last time that you cried

Don't delay you're in today

But tomorrow is another dream

Sunday's star is Monday's scar

Out of date before you're even seen

At the top so quick to flop

You're so new but rotting in decay

Like butterfly so quick to die

But you're only looking for today

Everyone just gets on top of you

The pain begins to eat your pride

You can't believe in anything you knew

When was the last time that you cried

Looking for today

Glamour trip so soon to slip

Easy come but oh how quick it goes

Ten foot tall but what to fall

Hard to open yet so easy to close

Front page news but so abused

You just want to hide yourself away

Over-paid, but soon you fade

Because you're only looking for today

Looking for today

SPIRAL ARCHITECT

Sorcerers of madness

Selling me their time

Child of god sitting in the sun

Giving peace of mind

Fictional seduction

On a black snow sky

Sadness kills the superman

Even fathers cry

Of all the things I value most of all

I look inside myself and see

My world and know that it is good

You know that I should

Superstitious century

Didn't time go slow

Separating sanity

Watching children grow

Synchronated undertaker

Spiral skies

Silver ships on plasmic oceans

In disquise

Of all the things I value most in life

I see my memories and feel their warmth

And know that they are good

You know that I should

Watching eyes of celluloid

Tell you how to live

Metaphoric motor-replay

Give, give, give!

Laughter kissing love

Is showing me the way

Spiral city architect

I build, you pay

Of all the things I value most of all

I look upon my earth and feel the warmth

And know that it is good

SABOTAGE

HOLE IN THE SKY

I'm looking through a hole in the sky

I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie

I'm getting closer to the end of the line

I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine

I'm living in a room without any view

I'm living free because the rent's never due

The synonyms of all the things that I've said

Are just the riddles that are built in my head

Hole in the sky, take me to heaven

Window in time, through it I fly

I've seen the stars disappear in the sun

The shooting's easy if you've got the right gun

And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars

I don't believe there's any future in cause

Hole in the sky, take me to heaven

Window in time, through it I fly

Yeah

I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast

I've seen the western world go down in the east

The food of love became the greed of our time

But now I'm living on the profits of pride

SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE

Take me through the centuries to supersonic years

Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears

All I have to give you is a love that never dies

The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes

Yeah

Mother mooch is calling me back to her silver womb

Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb

Seventh night the unicorn is waiting in the skies

A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies

Yeah

Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears

Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years

When our love will ride away into eternal skies

A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies

Yeah

Oh my child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams

In your eyes I see no sadness, you are all that loving means

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above

We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love

MEGALOMANIA

I hide myself inside the shadows of shame

The silent symphonies were playing their game

My body echoed to the dreams of my soul

This god is something that I could not control

Where can I run to now?

The joke is on me

No sympathizing god is insanity, yeah

Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?

Why don't you just get out of my life now?

Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?

Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?

Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes

I mixed reality with pseudogod dreams

The ghost of violence was something I seen

I sold my soul to be the human obscene

How could it poison me?

The dream of my soul

How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah?

Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?

Why don't you just get out of my life now?

Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?

Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?

Well I feel something's taken me I don't know where

It's like a trip inside a separate mind

The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream

Is telling me to leave it all behind

Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow

Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow

How I lied, went to hide

How I tried to get away from you now

Am I right if I fight?

That I might just get away from you now

Sting me!

Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return

It's giving me the chance of saving my soul

Beating the demigod, I'm fading away

I'm going backwards but I'm in control


Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow

Was it wise to disguise


Is there a way that I could pay

Or is it true I have to stay with you now?

How I lied, went to hide


Am I right if I fight?

That I might just get away from you now

Suck me!

I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth

I've seized my soul in the fires of hell

Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine

I simply try, but he wants me to fail


Now I've found my happiness, providence of sorrow

No more lies, I got wise

I despise the way I worshipped you yeah

Now I'm free, can't you see

And now instead I won't be led by you now

Free!

THE THRILL OF IT ALL

Inclination of direction, walk the turned and twisted rift

With the children of creation futuristic dreams we sift

Clutching violently we whisper with a liquefying cry

Any deadly final answers that are surely doomed to die

Won't you help me Mr. Jesus, won't you tell me if you can?

When you see this world we live in, do you still believe in Man?

If my songs become my freedom, and my freedom turns to gold

Then I'll ask the final question, if the answer could be sold

Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it

'Cause I've got no reason to lie, yeah

Forget your problems that don't even exist

And I'll show you a way to get high, oh yeah

Oh yeah!

So come along, you know you matter to me

Remember freedom is not hard to find, yeah

Time to stop all your messing around

Don't you think that I know my own mind, oh yeah

Oh yeah!

Why can't you believe, it's not here to perceive

Do you always have to be told, yeah

For you have been taught that if your mind has been bought

Life's entire answer was sold, oh yeah

Oh yeah!

AM I GOING INSANE (RADIO)

Everybody's looking at me, feeling paranoid inside

When I step outside I feel free, think I'll find a place to hide

Tell me people, am I going insane?


Every day I sit and wonder how my life it used to be

Now I feel like going under, now my life is hard to see

So tell me people, am I going insane?


So I'm telling all you people, listen while I sing again

If I don't sound very cheerful, I think that I'm a schizo brain

So tell me people, am I going insane?


THE WRIT

The way I feel is the way I am

I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you

Just to you

What kind of people do you think we are?

Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you

Just for you

The faithful image of another man

The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you

Yeah for you

The shot troopers laying down on the floor

I wish they'd put an end to my running war with you

Yeah with you

Are you metal, are you man?

You've changed in life since you began

Yeah began

Ladies digging gold from you

Will they still dig now you're through

Yeah you're through

You bought and sold me with your lying words

The voices in the deck that you never heard came through

Yeah came through

Your folly finally got to spend with a gun

A poisoned father who has poisoned his son, that's you

Yeah that's you

I beg you please don't let it get any worse

The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you

Yeah curse you

All of the promises that never came true

You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true

Ah, that's true

Are you Satan, are you man?

You've changed in life since it began

It began

Vultures sucking gold from you

Will they still suck now you're through

(Cats, Rats)

The search is on, so you just better run

And find yourself another way

Probably dead, they don't feel a thing

To keep them living for another day

(Rats, Rat)

You are nonentity, you have no destiny

You are a victim of a thing unknown

A mantle picture of a stolen soul

A fornication of your golden throne

A smiling face, it means the world to me

So tired of sadness and of misery

My life it started some time ago

Where it will end, I don't know

I thought I was so good

I thought I was fine

I feel my world is out of time

But everything is gonna work out fine

If it don't I think I'll lose my mind

I know, I know, I know, yeah yeah I know

Listen to me while I sing this song

You might just think the words are wrong

Too many people advising me

But they don't know what my eyes see

But everything is gonna work out fine

TECHNICAL ECSTASY

BACK STREET KIDS

I'm just another back street kid

Rock 'n Roll music is the only thing I really dig

Can't stop the music going round inside my head

I'm a rock 'n roll soldier,gonna play it until I'm dead

Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me

Sitting in the back seat of a shiny limousine

Living in a taxi can't remember where I've been

Playing my music,sitting in my hotel room

Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom


Living life comes easy if you know which way you're going

Got to see yourself in other's eye's,surprised?

Living like I want to don't come easy,but I'm trying

Sorting out what's true and what are lies,it's wise

Brought up in a back street living with the salt of the land

Seems that now my music's paying off my tax demands

So listen to the music,want to see you get so high

'Cos I'm a back street rocker and I will be till the day I die


YOU WON'T CHANGE ME

I'm just a man and I am what I am

Nobody will ever change my ways

I don't need money and I don't need no lies

I only need to live for today

But I'd like to talk things over with you

I want to hear the things you say,today

Although you won't change my anyway,no no way

I wish you'd come and see me,I'd like to hold you

I want to set my mind all free

You understand me woman,you give me time

But I don't need no sympathy

Still I wonder what it's like to be loved

Instead of hiding in myself

Nobody will change me anyway,no no way

Nobody's gonna change my world

That's something too unreal

Nobody will shange the way I feel

So listen to me now,hear what I say

Please give me time and maybe love

If there's a God up there,well I hope he helps me

I need him now to set me free

'Cos it may be that it's over for me

If you don't hear the things that I say,today

Nobody will change me anyway,no,no way

Nobody's gonna change my world,that's something too unreal

Nobody will change the way I feel

IT'S ALL RIGHT

Told you once about your friends and neighbours

They were always seeking but they'll never find it

It's alright,yes it's alright

Where to go and where to see

It's always been this way and it can never be

It's alright,yes it's alright

Give it all and ask no return

And very soon you'll see and you'll begin to learn

That's it's alright,yes it's alright

Don't you know that it's so good for you

You can be making love and see it all go through

But it's alright,yes it's alright

GYPSY

Watching the universe at the end of another day

Fatalistic ships froma distant shore

In the back of my mind I could see she was standing there

Like the feeling you have

When you've been there before

She was a gypsy woman

She was as cold as the day

She said I'd got it coming

And then she took me away

She took me through the shadows of her sunken dream

I thought it's over me, she wasn't all she seemed

She took my hand and then she started to speak

She told me she'd had the call

With eyes of fire that were burning my soul

She looked into her crystal ball

She read my fortune then she read my mind

She didn't like my thoughts at all

She showed me shadows, a spectre of life

My soul just wanted to scream

She stared so deeply into my eyes

That's when I fell into a dream

When I awoke in bed she lay beside me

And she read me with her eyes, she said

So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now

Gypsy woman you're the devil in drag

You are the queen of all hell

You took my body, now you're wasting my soul

You've got me under your spell

And as the sun shines on another day

You're gonna take my mind as well, it’s over

So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now.

ALL MOVING PARTS STAND STILL

Super animation,turning on a nation

And they're saying all moving parts stand still

Since he was elected,adrenalin injected

Hear him saying all moving parts should kill

Just like the hero he's got them all on the run,

yes he's won

Since he passed the motion

They're building in the ocean

And he's saying all men should be free

What a combination,peace and radiation

And he's saying free men should fight for me

Just like his momma,he seems to get his pleasure from pain,

And the rain,ain't that strange? Very strange

I like choking toys

You've got to see me before you meet the boys

Teacher's burnt the school,

He's had enough of sticking to the rules

People stop and see

he's got to be more decadent than me

Just to pass the time

He gets his kicks from licking off the wine

Pretty silly ladies

All Cynthia'd and Sadie's

Call him and he takes their numbers down

Says he is a woman

Should have seen it coming

And she says she's married to a clown

Just like a lady she'll keep you guessing through the night

Not tonight,well I might,oh alright...!

ROCK'N'ROLL DOCTOR

Well I'm sick and tired of hearing 'bout the world and it's hang ups

Gonna get myself together,

Take a ride downtown

Gotta see my Rock'N'Roll doctor *3

Gotta see him, see him today. He's gonna blow me away

He makes me happy when I'm feeling down

Take away my worry takes away my frown


Gotta see him,see him today

He gonna blow me away

If you wanna feel groovy

Give the doctor a call

Doctor rock will help you anytime at all


Gotta see him,see him today

He gonna blow me away

SHE'S GONE

I've been gone a long long time,waiting for you

I din't want to see you go

And now it's hurting so much,what can I do?

I wanted you to be my wife

The days are passing slowly,since you've gone

Your memories are all I have

I sit here waiting but you'll never show

Without you I can't carry on

You said you'd always love me,all of my life

And then you said your last goodbye

Why the sudden change,why all the lies,

I should have seen it in your eyes

The endless hours of heartache,waiting for you

My summer love has turned to rain

The silent emptiness of one sided love

My life means nothing now you're gone...

DIRTY WOMEN

The neon lights are shining on me again

I walk the lonely streets in search of a friend

I need a lady to help me to get through the night

If I could find one then everything would be alright

The sleepy city is dreaming the nigh time away

Out on the street I watch tomorrow becoming today

I see a man,he's got take away women for sale

Yes for sale

Guess that's the answer

'Cos take away women don't fail...

Oh dirty women,they don't mess around

Oh dirty women,they don't mess around

You've got me coming

You've got me going around

Oh dirty women,

They don't mess around

Walking the streets I wonder will it ever happen

Gotta be good then everyting will be o.k.

if I could score tonight then I will end up happy

A woman for sale is gonna help me save my day...

NEVER SAY DIE!

NEVER SAY DIE

People going nowhere, taken for a ride

Looking for the answers that they know inside

Searching for a reason, looking for a rhyme

Snow White's mirror said "partners in crime!"

Don't they ever have to worry?

Don't you ever wonder why?

It's a part of me that tells you

Oh, don't you ever, don't ever say die

Never, never, never say die again

Sunday's satisfaction, Monday's home and dry

Truth is on the doorstep, welcome in the lie

All dressed up in sorrow, got no place to go

Hold back, `till it's ready, taking it slow

Don't they ever have to worry?

Don't you ever wonder why?




Don't you ever say die

Don't you ever say die

Never say die

Panic, silver lining, writing's on the wall

Children get together, you can save us all

Future's on the corner, throwing us a die

Slow down, turn around, everything's fine

There's no need to have a reason

There's no need to wonder why




JOHNNY BLADE

Tortured and twisted, he walks the streets alone

People avoid him, they know the street's his own

Cold blade of silver, his eyes they burn so wild

Mean as a tiger, society's own child

Go the tiger, burn in hate

You know you have to, Johnny Blade

He's the meanest guy around his town

One look and he will cut you down

Johnny Blade, Johnny Blade

Life has no meaning, and Death's his only friend

Will fate surprise him, where will he meet his end?

He feels so bitter, yes he's so full of hate

To die in the gutter, I guess that's Johnny's fate

Rivals all across the land

He kills them with his knife in hand

He's the meanest guy around his town

One look and he will cut you down



Well you know that Johnny's a spider

And his web is the city at night

He's a victim of modern frustration

That's the reason he's so ready to fight

He's the one that should be afraid

What will happen to you, Johnny Blade?

Oh he knows his future's decided

And he ain't gonna change it, no way

He was born to die in the gutter

He'll keep fighting `till the end of his days

Been alone all through his life

His only friend is a switchblade knife

He's the one who should be afraid

What will happen to you, Johnny Blade?

You fool the people

Who's fooling who?

It's time to listen

Who's fool are you?

JUNIOR'S EYES

Junior's eyes looked up to the skies in tears

He prayed that his maker, the giver and taker, would `pear

Junior sighed, as his hands reached out to the sky

Junior cried, the day that his best friend died

Yeah!

They're coming home again tomorrow

I'm sorry it won't be for long

With all the pain I've watched you live within

I'll try my hardest not to cry

When it is time to say goodbye

Junior's eyes, they couldn't disguise the pain

His father was leaving, and Junior's grieving again

Innocent eyes watched the man who had gave everything

Junior's sorrow, who knew what tomorrow would bring?

Yeah!






Junior's eyes looked into the skies once more

Now he knew well, this life was hell for sure

He desperately tried, his fingertips stretched to the stars

Reaching for reason, along with the time and the scars

Yeah!






HARD ROAD

Old men crying, young men dying

World still turns as Father Time looks on, on and on

Children playing, dreamers praying

Laughter turns to tear as love has gone, has it gone?

Oh, it's a hard road


Whirlwind churning, lovers learning

On this path of life we can't back down, is it wrong?

Widows weeping, babies sleeping

Life becomes the singer and the song, sing along


Carry your own load

Why make the hard road?

Why can't we be friends?

No need to hurry

We'll meet in the end

Why make the hard road?

Why can't we be friends?

No need to worry

Let's sing it again

Brother's sharing, mother's caring

Nightime falling victim to the dawn, shadows small

Days are crawling, time is calling

To the Earth that not that life has gone, love line drawn


Carry your own load


Oh, it's a hard road...

We're living in sorrow, we're living the best

And look to the future, `cause life goes together now


And look to the future, `cause life goes together now


And look to the future, `cause life goes together now...

HOCK WAVE

There's no reason for you to run

You can't escape the fate of the chosen one

Black moon rising, in a blood red sky

This time you realise that you're gonna die

Drinking your blood brew is your answer

That's what you plan to do

No dreaming, time you cheat this master

You're on your own going through

Wind of mist has taken over your mind

And you think you're on your own

Don't believe you are the only one here

Look around, you're not alone

Feel the forces from another world

Ghostly shadows fill your mind

Evil power hanging over you

As you freeze, you're like a child

Look behind you!

Somebody's calling

Someone is near

Feel yourself falling

Falling with fear

You tell yourself you're dreaming

You realise you're screaming

You know that this shouldn't happen to you

You tell yourself that it's scary too

But there is nothing you can do, oh!

Ghostly shadows from the other world

Evil forces in your mind

Trapped between the worlds of life and death

Frozen in the realms of time

Look behind you!

You feel yourself falling, you're at the end of the line

Your body is crawling, but your senses are blind

Cold, cold feelings are running through your brains

Ice cold fingers, running through your veins

AIR DANCE

She sits in silence, in her midnight world

Her faded pictures, of her dancing girls

Her, distant dreamer, on the seas of time

Her happy memories, dancing through her mind

In days of romance

She was the queen of dance

She'd dance the night away

And as the seasons turn the days to years

She holds her pictures, hears the silent cheers

The days grow lonely for the dancing queen

And now she dances only in her dreams

In days of romance

She was the queen of dance

She'd dance the night away, away, away, away

OVER TO YOU

Born in the window

Cold blooded spoof

Raised in the prison

You called the school

Taught young in legends

Told what to do

I handed my childhood

Over to you

Travelling endlessly, I'm searching for mind

I'm almost afraid of what I will find

Wandering aimlessly, oh what can I do?

I handed my future over to you, to you

Over to you

Future looks blue

What can I do?

Watching for freedom

Fighting our wars

Feeding our children

Keeping your laws

Someday you'll suffer

And what I'll do

I'll hand all your promises

Over to you

Standing inside myself, I'm losing control

You made me believe in the stories you told

Waiting impatiently, what else can I do?

I handed my future over to you, to you

Over to you

Future looks blue

What can I do?

Tears filled of sadness

Stealing myself

Which burning secrets?

What to they tell?

Mad politicians

Can tell it true

I handed my children

Over to you

All over, over to you

All over, over to you

All over, over to you...

SWINGING THE CHAIN

It's against my uniform

To be a civil judge

All the songs are history now

`Bout rock stars and their grudge

Let us cast our minds back

To thirty years or more

You took up all the vandals

Will Hitler beat `em all?

And we're sad and sorry

Really sorry that it happened that way

Yes we're sad and sorry

But why'd you have to treat us that way?

Compare ourselves with others

And cover them in sin

Oh, God what a terrible

A terrible state we're in

There must be some way out of here

A comprimise that's right

If we cannot work it out

We're gonna have to fight


Really sorry that it happened that way


We cannot go on in those days

I'm talking about my brothers

Yeah, I'm talking `bout sisters as well

I wish you good luck

Good luck!

Oh, but the world's still on fire

Chain the hope you take on, liar

This fire

We're on fire, we're on fire, yeah...

HEAVEN AND HELL

NEON KNIGHTS

Oh no, here it comes again

can't remember when we came so close to love before

Hold on, good things never last

nothing's in the past, it always seems to come again

again and again and again

Cry out to legions of the brave

time again to save us from the jackals of the street

Ride out, protectors of the realm

capatin's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights

Circles and rings, dragons and kings

weaving a charm and a spell

Blessed by the night, holy and bright

called by the toll of the bell

bloodied angels fast descending

moving on a never-bending light

phantom figures free forever

out of shadows, shining ever-bright

Neon Knights!

Neon Knights! all right!

Cry out to legions of the brave

time again to save us from the jackals of the street

Ride out, protectors of the realm

capatin's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights

again and again, again and again and again

Neon Knights!

Neon Knights!

all right!

CHILDREN OF THE SEA

In the misty morning, on the edge of time

We've lost the rising sun, a final sign

As the misty morning rolls away to die

reaching for the stars, we blind the sky

We sailed across the air before we learned to fly

We thought that it could never end

We'd glide above the ground before we learned to run, run

Now it seems our world has come undone

Oh they say that it's over

and it just had to be

ooh they say that it's over

we're lost children of the sea, oh

We made the mountains shake with laughter as we played

hiding in our corner of the world

Then we did the demon dance and rushed to nevermore

threw away the key and locked the door

Oh they say that it's over, yeah


yes they say that it's over

we're lost children of the sea

In the misty morning, on the edge of time

We've lost the rising sun, a final sign

As the misty morning rolls away to die

reaching for the stars, we blind the sky

Oh they say that it's over, yeah


oh they say that it's over

poor lost children of the sea, yeah

LOOK OUT! the sky is falling down!

LOOK OUT! The world is spinning round and round and round!

LOOK OUT! The sun is going black, black

LOOK OUT! It's never never never coming back, LOOK OUT!

LADY EVIL

There's a place just south of Witches' Valley

where they say the wind won't blow

and they only speak in whispers of her name

There's a lady they say who feeds the darkness

it eats right from her hand

With a crying shout she'll search you out

and freeze you where you stand

Lady Evil, evil

she's a magical, mystical woman

Lady Evil, evil in my mind

She's queen of the night

all right!

In a place just south of Witches' Valley

where they say the rain won't fall

Thunder cracks the sky, it makes you bleed, yeah

There's a lady they say who needs the darkness

she can't face the light

with an awful shout, she'll find you out

and have you for the night

Lady Evil, evil


Lady Evil, evil on my mind


So if you ever get to Witches' Valley

Don't dream or close your eyes

and never trust your shadow in the dark

'Cause there's a lady I know who takes your vision

and turns it all around

the things you see are what to be, lost and never found

Lady Evil, evil


Lady Evil, evil on my mind


She's the queen of sin

Look out, she'll pull you in!

Lady wonder!

HEAVEN AND HELL

Sing me a song, you're a singer

do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil

The Devil is never a maker

the less that you give, you're a taker

So it's on and on and on, it's Heaven and Hell, oh well

The lover of life's not a sinner

The ending is just a beginner

The closer you get to the meaning

the sooner you'll know that you're dreaming

So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on

It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell

I can tell, fool, fool!

Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion

for every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer

and it's on and on, on and on and on....

They say that life's a carousel

Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well

The world is full of Kings and Queens

who blind your eyes and steal your dreams

It's Heaven and Hell, oh well

And they'll tell you black is really white

The moon is just the sun at night

And when you walk in golden halls

you get to keep the gold that falls

It's Heaven and Hell, oh no!

Fool, fool!

You've got to bleed for the dancer!

Fool, fool!

Look for the answer!

Fool, fool, fool!

WISHING WELL

Throw me a penny and I'll make you a dream

You find that life's not always what it seems, no no

Then think of a rainbow and I'll make it come real

Roll me, I'm a never ending wheel

I'll give you a star

so you know just where you are

Don't you know that I might be

your wishing well

your wishing well

Look in the water, tell me what do you see

Reflections of the love you give to me

Love isn't money, it's not something you buy

So let me fill myself with tears you cry, why?

Time is a never ending journey

Love is a never ending smile

Give me a sign to build a dream on

Dream on...

Yeah, Throw me a penny and I'll make you a dream

You find that life's not always what it seems, no no

Love isn't money, it's not something you buy

So let me fill myself with tears you cry

I'll give you a star

so you know just where you are

Someday, some way, you'll feel the things I say

Dream for a while

of the things that make you smile

'Cause you know

don't you know

oh, you know

that I'm your wishing well

your wishing well

your wishing well

I wish you well

I'm your wishing well

DIE YOUNG

Yell with the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all

your back's to the wall

Chain the sun, and it tears away and it breaks you as you run,

you run, you run!

Behind the smile, there's danger and a promise to be told:

you'll never get old - ha!

Life's fantasy - to be locked away and still to think you're free

you're free, you're free!

So live for today

Tomorrow never comes

Die young, die young

can't you see the writing on the wall?

Die young, gonna die young

someone stopped the fall

Yell with the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all

your back's to the wall

Chain the sun, and it tears away and it breaks you as you run,

you run, you run!

So live for today

Tomorrow never comes

Die young, young!

Die young, die young!

Die young, die young, young!

Die young, die young, die young, die young, die young!!

WALK AWAY

Lord she's handsome as she flows across the floor

Nothing I've seen in my life has ever pleased me more

She's got the look of freedom, and it makes you think she's wild

But I can see right through it all, it's the way to have a child

Oh, walk away

she's looking to love you

there's nothing to say

just turn your head and walk away

walk away, walk on

She moves in sunlight, never seen the night at all

Like a star in the midnight sky, burns before it falls

I've never been lonely, and I can't imagine why

Maybe she could be the one to tell me, I guess it's do or die

Can't see her fire

but I can feel her heat, all right!

It's rising higher

I'm walking the wire

walk on by!

Oh! Walk away!

she's looking to love you

there's nothing to say

just turn your head and walk away

oh, walk on by, walk away!

walk on!

you'll feel her fire, she'll lift you higher

but don't be fooled! just turn your head and walk away!

LONELY IS THE WORD

It's a long way to nowhere

and I'm leaving very soon

On the way we pass so close

to the back side of the moon

Hey join the traveler if you got nowhere to go

Hang your head and take my hand

it's the only road I know

Oh! Lonely is the word, yeah yeah yeah!

I've been higher than stardust

I've been seen upon the sun

I used to count in millions then

but now I only count in one

come on, join the traveler

if you got nowhere to go

Hang your head and take my hand

it's the only road I know

Yeah, Lonely is the word

got to be the saddest song I ever heard

Yeah, Lonely is the name

MOB RULES

TURN UP THE NIGHT

A rumble of thunder, I'm suddenly under your spell

No rhyme or reason, or time of the season, but oh well

The darkened deliver, I shake and I shiver down your soul

You know what to cover, I think for another it's a story told

So get a good hold, yeah

Regiment fooled you, you thought that you knew who you are

A simple equation, that's the relation, but that's gone too far

A time of suspicion, a special condition that we all know

So let it all go!

Turn up the night!

Turn up the night!

Turn up the night, it feels so right!

Nighttitme sorrow, taken like a pain

Black will not become a white, it's all the same

Evil lurks in twilight, dances in the dark

Makes you need the movement, like a fire needs a spark to burn!

A rumble of thunder, I'm suddenly under your spell

No rhyme or reason, or time of the season, but oh well

The darkened deliver, I shake and I shiver down your soul

So get a good hold, yeah

Turn up the night!

Turn up the night!

Turn up the night, it feels so right!

Turn up the night!

Turn up the night!

If it feels right

turn off the light!

Turn up the night!

VOODOO

Say you don't know me, you'll burn

you can refuse, but you'll lose, it's by me

Say you don't want me, you'll learn

nothin you do will be new, 'cause I'm through

Call me a liar, you knew

you were a fool, but that's cool, it's all right

Call me the Devil, it's true

some can't accept but I crept inside you

So if a stranger calls you

Don't let him whisper his name

'Cause it's Voodoo, oh!

Fade into shadow, you'll burn

your fortune is free, I can see it's no good

Never look back, never turn

It's a question of time 'till your mine and you learn

So if a stranger sees you

Don't look in his eyes

'Cause he's Voodoo!

Say you don't know me, you'll burn

you can refuse, but you'll lose, it's by me

Say you don't want me, you'll learn

nothin you do will be new, 'cause I'm through

Voodoo!

Bring me your children, they'll burn!

Never look back, never turn!

Cry me a river, you'll learn Voodoo!!

SIGN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS

If there isn't light when no one sees

then how can I know what you might believe?

A story told that can't be real

somehow must reflect the truth we feel, yeah

Fade away, fade away

vanish into small


break the crystal ball - OH!

It's the sign

feels like the time!

On a small world, west of wonder

somewhere, nowhere all

There's a rainbow that will shimmer

when the summer falls

If an echo darts in dancer

when it hears a certain song

Then the beast is free to wander

but never is seen around

And it's the Sign of the Southern Cross

it's the Sign of the Southern Cross

all right

sail away

to the sign

ohh

From the book, the word is spoken

whispers from forgotten psalms

Gather all around the young ones

they will make us strong

Reach above your dreams of pleasure

given life to those who died

Look beyond your own horizons

sail the ship of signs

And it's the Sign of the Southern Cross

it's the Sign of the Southern Cross


break the crystal ball


I can't accept it anymore

On a real world, west of wonder

somewhere, nowhere all

There's a rainbow, see it shimmer

when the summer falls

From the book, the word is spoken

whispers from forgotten psalms

Gather all around the young ones

they will make us strong!

It's the Sign of the Southern Cross

It's the Sign of the Southern Cross

Don't live for pleasure

make life your treasure

Fade away!

Eight miles high, about to fall

and no one there to catch you

look for the sign, the time

the Sign of the Southern Cross, yeah

MOB RULES

Close the city and tell the people that something's coming to call

Death and darkness are rushing forward

to take a bite from the wall, oh

You've nothing to say

They're breaking away

If you listen to fools...

The Mob Rules

The Mob Rules

Kill the spirit and you'll be blinded, the end is always the same

Play with fire, you burn your fingers

and lose your hold of the flame, oh

It's over, it's done

the end is begun


The Mob Rules

You've nothing to say

Oh, They're breaking away


Break the circle and stop the movement,

the wheel is thrown to the ground

Just remember it might start rolling and take you right back around

You're all fools!

The Mob Rules!

COUNTRY GIRL

Fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine

She was up from a nether world, just to bust another soul

Her eyes were an endless flame, holy lightning

Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, yeah

We sailed away on a crimson tide, gone forever

Left my heart on the other side, all to break it into bits

Her smile was a winter song, a Sabbath ending

Don't sleep or you'll find me gone, just an image in the air

In dreams I think of you

I don't know what to do with myself

Time has let me down

She brings broken dreams, fallen stars,

the endless search for where you are

(sail on, sail on)

Fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine

She was up from a nether world, just to bust another soul

Her eyes were an endless flame, unholy lady

Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, oh!

Don't sail away on a crimson tide!

Don't leave your heart on the other side!

Her eyes are an endless flame

Desire with a special name

Don't ever fall in love!

Don't give your heart away!

No never, never fall in love with a country girl!

SLIPPING AWAY

Slipping away, just a heartbeat from disaster

Nothing could make me stay, close your eyes and I'll be gone

Turn the page, yeah, time to start another story

Slipping away, slipping away, time to move along

No reason to stay

oh, when I'm slipping away

Take a look at yourself, you've been running in a circle

Round and round you go, you're a start without an end

Start a new life, yeah, from the city of the gypsies

Running away, slipping away, right behind the plow

Slipping away

Slipping away

Nobody to pay

look out, 'cause I'm slipping away

Rockin' the glass, I won't leave you my reflection

A future without a past, no more road to take me back

Come if you will, just don't question my direction

Running away, slipping away, we can find the sun

Slipping away

Slipping away

got nobody to pay

and you're slippin' away

No more running in a circle

it's time to move along

round, round, round we go

a start without an end

so I'm slipping away

Slipping away

FALLING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

I think about closing the door

and lately I think of it more

I'm living well out of my time

I feel like I’m losing my mind

I should be at the table round

a servant of the crown

the keeper of the sign

to sparkle and to shine

Never, no never again!

listen to me and believe what I say if you can

Never, this is the end

you know I've seen the faces of doom and I'm only a man

Help me, tell me I'm sane

I feel a change in the earth, in the wind and the rain

Save me, take me away

you know I've seen some creatures from hell

and I've heard what they say!

I've got to be strong

oh, I'm falling off the edge of the world

think you're safe, but you're wrong!

We are falling off the edge of the world!

Look out! there's danger! no where to run!

It seems like desperate measures but sometimes it has to be done

Over, it's over at last

There's a message inside as we build a new life from the past

We're falling off the edge of the world!

Yes, the edge of the world!

It's the end of the world!

OVER AND OVER

Sometimes I feel like I'm dying at dawn

and sometimes I'm warm as fire

But lately I feel like I'm just gonna rain

and it goes over, and over, and over again, yeah

Too many flames, with too much to burn

and life's only made of paper

Oh, how I need to be free of this pain

but it goes over, and over, and over, and over again

Yeah, sometimes I cry for the lost and alone

and for their dreams that will all be ashes

But lately I feel like I'm just gonna rain

and it goes over, and over, and over, and over again

(Over)

(Over)

BORN AGAIN

TRASHED

It really was a meeting

the bottle took a beating

the ladies of the manor

watched me climb into my car and I was

going down the track about a hundred and five

They had the stopwatch rolling

I had the headlights blazing I was really alive

And yet my mind was blowing

I drank a bottle of tequila and I felt real good

But on the twenty-fifth lap at the canal turn

I went off exploring

I knew I wouldn't make it the car just wouldn't make it

I was turning the tires burning

the ground was in my sky

I was laughing the bitch was trashed

and death was in my eye

I had started pretty good and I was feeling my way

I had the wheels in motion

There was Peter and the Greenfly laughing like drains

Inebriation

The crowd was roaring I was at Brands Hatch

in my imagination

But at the canal turn I hit an oily patch

Inebriation

Ooh Mr. Miracle, you saved me from some pain

I thank you Mr. Miracle, I won't get trashed again

Ooh, can you hear my lies

Don't you bother with this fool just laugh into my eyes

So we went back to the bar and hit the bottle again

but there was no tequila

Then we started on the whiskey just to steady our brains

'Cause there was no tequila

And as we drank a little faster at the top of our hill

We began to roll

And as we got trashed we were laughing still

oh bless my soul

DISTURBING THE PRIEST

Let's try getting to the sky, hang on or you're going to die

Sour life can turn sweet, it's laying at your feet

Sweet child with an innocent smile watches closely all the while

Don't be fooled when he cries, keep looking at the eyes

Good life is contradiction because of the crucifixion

If you're ready and have the need,

I will take your soul and plant my seed

You just gotta listen to the night at the ending of the day

You just gotta listen to the night as safety slips away

Moving out of sight are the things you need to see to feel

And as they slip away becoming so unreal unreal

You just gotta listen to the night as you're going up the stairs

You just gotta listen to the night

and don't forget to say your prayers

And as you lose control to the eyes in dark disguise

And icy fingers send electric lies

We're disturbing the priest, won't you please come to our feast

Do we mind disturbing the priest,

not at all, not at all, not in the least

ahhhh, Do we mind disturbing the priest

aahhhh, not at all, not at all, not in the least

The force of the devil is the darkness the priest has to face

The force of the night will destroy him but will not disgrace

To get into his mind and to his soul you gotta set alight

The flames of doubt so deep inside inside

The devil and the priest can't exist if one goes away

It's just like the battle of the sun and the moon and night and day

The force of the devil, that's we're all told to fear

Watch out for religion when he gets too near too near

We're disturbing the priest, won't you please come to our feast

Do we mind disturbing the priest,

not at all, not at all, not in the least

Good life is contradiction because of the crucifixion

If you're ready and have the need,

I will take your soul and plant my seed

aahhhh, ahhhh, ah ha ha ha haaa!

Let's try getting to the sky, hang on or you're going to die

Sour life can turn sweet, it's laying at your feet

Sweet child with an innocent smile watches closely all the while

Don't be fooled when he cries, keep looking at the eyes

Oh, disturbing the priest!

ZERO THE HERO

Accept the fact that you're second rate, life is easy for you

It's all served up on a gold plated plate

and we don't even have to talk to you

Your face is normal, that's the way you're bred

and that's the way you're going to stay

Your head is firmly nailed to your TV channel

But someone else's finger's on the control panel

What you gonna be, what you gonna be brother

Zero the Hero

Don't you wanna be, don't you wanna be brother

Zero the Hero

When you gonna be, when you gonna be brother

Zero the Hero

Impossibility impissibolity mother

Really a Hero

You sit there watch it all burn down

it's easy and breezy for you

You play your life to a different sound

No edge no edge you got no knife have you

Your life is a six-lane highway to nowhere

You're going so fast you're never ever gonna get down there

Where the heroes sit by the river

with a magic in their music as they eat raw liver


Zero the Hero


Zero the Hero


Zero the Hero


Really a Hero

You stand there captain we all look, you really are mediocre

You are the champion in the Acme form book

But I think you're just a joker

Your facedown life ain't so much of a pity

But the luv-a-duckin' way you're walkin' around the city

with your balls and your head full of nothing

it's easy for you sucker but you really need stuffing


Zero the Hero


Zero the Hero


Zero the Hero


Really a Hero

DIGITAL BITCH

She wears her leather just to satisfy

she really throws it around

There ain't one thing she can't afford to buy

she's the richest bitch in town

Her big fat daddy was a money machine

he made a fortune from computers

She's got more money than I've ever seen

but she's a greedy emotional looter

Keep away from the digital bitch



She's so rich, the digital bitch

She's got five rollers and a fine estate

a big house up on the hill

She throws parties just to celebrate

her life is just one enormous thrill

She buys poor people just to have around

She has a trophy for each lover

The bitch is rich but baby pound for pound

she's got a lot more to discover

Maybe she could please me if I saw beneath her veil

But she's just an imitation woman up for sale

She got so famous that she's on TV

She's got a professional smile

But I switch over 'cos she ain't for me

She disturbs me all the while

She looks so happy but she's got it wrong

she's always going faster

She sings her life to such a different song

she needs a loving and dominant master

BORN AGAIN

As you look through my window

deep into my room

at the tapestries all faded

their vague and distant glories

concealed in the gloom

The icy fingers of forgotten passions

softly brushing my lips

at the tips of my primitive soul

As you look through my door

deep into my room

can you feel the mighty wall of power

it's waiting, waiting in the gloom

The distant shadows of forgotten champions

those who live in me still

and will rise when we challenge and kill

Born again

You'll be born again

Look at this prince of evil

fighting for your mind

fighting all the priests of shame

For the thrust of my challenge is aimed

at the hearts of mutant gods

who think we're all the same

They're controlling our minds

and they use us for fortune and fame

As you look through my window

deep into my room

at your future and freedom

the grey and plastic retards all floating in circles

And as you taste the fruits of new sensations

softly brushing your lips

as we rise when we challenge and kill

Born again

You'll be born again

If you want to be king for a day

just do what I say

Everybody's got to think like a hunter

just search for your prey

Be alive through the night and the day

just do it my way

HOT LINE

Take me to the river baby drink my wine

When I'm going down won't you throw me a line

Lead me to religion take me up them stairs

When I take a tumble will you say me some prayers

When will you show me a sign

When will you throw me a line

Help me to the answer baby set me free

I'm torn between the devil and the deep blue sea

Maybe if you wanted you could save my face

Keep me out of trouble and I'm a living disgrace

Show me to a sucker and you'll see my name

Standing in a line with the shadows of fame

Lead me to a legend take me up them stairs

When I take a tumble will you say me some prayers

KEEP IT WARM

Sweet woman are you feeling right

What was it that you did last night

You made me crazy you made me fly

I can't forget the hungry look in your eye

Ooh what's the matter with me

I'm justa runner I was born free

But since I met you I can't leave you alone

I'm leaving now but I'll be coming home

Keep it warm at the place by your side

Nobody's gonna take away our magical ride

Keep it warm for me when we talk on the phone

Don't forget will you pretty one that your man is coming homne

D'you hear the rumor that is going around

Say I'm ruined 'cos I'm settled down

It's not true well maybe half and half

you know I love you but I still like a laugh

Ooh I'm feeling fine I got it right for the first time

Sweet woman I can't stay for long, but every one will be proved wrong

I'm like a gypsy, I need to roam, but don't worry I'll be coming home

I need the danger I need the thrill

I need to know what is over each hill

Ooh I'm a different man I'm still running but you understand

since I met you I can't leave you alone

I'm leaving now but I'll be coming home

SEVENTH STAR

IN FOR THE KILL

Thunder shattered the dawn

Raging with fury, the king has come

The power of terror will reign

There is no mercy in pleading

In for the kill, no quarter be shown

Live for the thrill of battle alone

Blessed by the will to die for the throne

In for the kill

In for the kill

Freedom is taken by storm

The blood on his hands is still running warm

The power of terror will reign

There is no mercy in pleading

In for the kill, no quarter be shown

Live for the thrill of battle alone

Blessed by the will to die for the throne

In for the kill

For the kill

Thunder shattered the dawn

Raging with fury, the king has come

Death and destruction riding the storm

Blood on his hands still running warm

In for the kill

The king has come

NO STRANGER TO LOVE

Cold is the night

Lonely till dawn

Cry for the light

For the love that won't come

You said that you'd never

Leave me alone

I gave you my heart

You cried for my soul

An angel won't come

This devil won't go

Something is wrong

I just can't get away

Living on the street, I'm no stranger to love

Why can't you see I'm no stranger to love

But I'm a stranger in your arms

Yes, I'm a stranger in your arms

Maybe it's right

But I just can't understand

The hurt that I feel

For my love second hand

I know I should leave

But I just can't walk away


Why can't you see I'm no stranger to love


I'm a stranger in your arms

Living on the street, I'm no stranger to

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