Produced by Overkill
Engineered by Terry Date
Mastering by Howie Weinberg
Executive producer: Jon & Marsha Zazula
Engineer: Matt Lane
Photography: Michael Paras

1989 - Megaforce/Atlantic

BOBBY BLITZ ELLSWORTH - vocals
D.D. VERNI - bass
BOBBY GUSTAFSON - guitar
SID FALCK - drums

1. Time To KIll
2. Elimination
3. I Hate
4. Nothing To Die For
5. Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
6. Birth Of Tension
7. Who Tends The fire
8. The Years Of Decay
9. E.vil N.ever D.ies

TIME TO KILL

Violent indecision, surge of mass religeon!
Let me out of prison, I'm just killing time.

Every time I turn around,
I start to hear a familiar sound!
Counting down as time stands still,
Yes I think it's time to kill!

All the mental anguish, speaks a common language!
I have yet to lavish, a chance to walk away.
And
Every time I turn around,
I start to hear a familiar sound!
Counting down as time stands still,
Yes I think it's time to kill!

Unknowing, unseeing,
Revelations unfold before your eyes.
Relenting, repenting,
No time to think or compromise.
Time falling, time calling!
Into a void and seal the past, as
Your're waiting, annhilating!
Making it real, making it last!!

Worn out compromises, inside out demises!
See! through all the lies, we don't walk away.
An' every time we turn around,
Start to hear that familiar sound,
New beginning, time stands still,
Yes I think it's time to kill!

ELIMINATION

Terminal! What disease?
You told me too late 'what's that cough'n wheeze?'
Fatal?! You're shittin' me.
A second opinion is what I need.
Laughin' in a windstorm, blowin' all the cornstalks down.
Cryin' in a funeral home, forward my mail...
Six feet underground!

Contagious?! So why not?
Not just me, wantin' ta rot.
Painful? Ya'I know,
It couldn't be easy when I had to go.
I'm yankin' on the plug and I can't seem to get it loose.
Pullin' all the stops, your ideals change,
We got nothin' to loose!

Elimination. E! limination. (2x)
Eliminate the right,
Eliminate the wrong,
Eliminate the weak,
Eliminate the strong,
Eliminate your feelings,
Eliminate, too late,
Eliminate the hope,
Eliminate, eliminate!!

An' if I had just one more day I'd turn it all around.
I'd make a play ay good clean livin' an' dig me outta the ground!
An' If I had just one more day I'd say it to your face,
I'd pull the plug on everyone! Eliminate this race!

We want the cure, and we want it now.
Reissue hope, we don't care how!
You're making' a mess, diseasin' the nation,
Runaway train to elimination!

Hopeless?! There's no doubt,
Set on a slow burn from the inside out.
Careful? What for?
Last one out closes the coffin door.
Spendin' all ya saved and yer wishin' for a little more.
If I'm lookin' at the ceiling then I must be,
Layin' on the floor!

Terminal! What disease?
You told me too late 'what's that cough'n wheeze?'
Fatal?! You're shittin' me.
A second opinon there's gotta be.
Laughin' at the epidemic, something is going around.
Crying at the epidemic, pullin' on nails,
Six feet underground!

I HATE

Got so much trouble, hate this job.
Tried to get out, trapped like a dog.
No I don't like, pumpin' gas.
Do ya hate to wait?

Life's a game, we play your rules.
Bottle half empty or the bottle half full?
It does no good, no good to shout,
But I scream I hate!

Say I'm hostile, gotta relax,
Beter get a grip, here's the facts!
I hate bein' here!

So much trouble, over me,
Surrounded by jerks, can'tcha see?
Smile to my face I know you lie,
Knife in the back.

Another game, rules rules rules.
Not for me ya fuckin' fool.
Open yer mouth just one more time an' my foots going down.

In one ear out the other,
A waste of time, don't even bother,
I hate bein' here!

oh oh oh ah ah ah ah!
I hate people that make ya feel small,
I hate havin' my back against the wall,
Y'know I hate being talked down to.
I hate your rules, I hate 'em all!
Hate being marked to take the fall.
Planets not big enough for me'n you...
But most of all I hate you.

Think I know how ya got this far,
Think I know how ya got where you are.
Think I'll hate you when you're dead?
I know I'll hate you!

Smile to my face, know ya lie,
Say I got problems? Ask yourself why.
Hate the games, I hate the rules,
You're gonna lose.

Say I'm hostile, gotta relax.
Better get a grip, here's a fact:
Not much more of you!

I hate people that make ya feel small,
I hate havin' my back against the wall,
Y'know I hate being talked down to.
I hate your rules, I hate 'em all!
Hate being marked to take the fall.
Planets not big enough for me'n you...
But most of all I hate you.

I hate people that make ya feel small,
I hate havin' my back against the wall,
Y'know I hate being talked down to.
I hate your rules, I hate 'em all!
Hate being marked to take the fall.
Planets not big enough for me'n you...
But most of all I hate you.
I hate you (3x)
(with 'I hate you'´s on top)
I hate!!

NOTHING TO DIE FOR

Old enough to know better too young to care.
Bent on self destruction goin' nowhere.
If I had a reason I could make it work for me,
If I had a answer it wouldn't be so hard to see.
Feelin', oh, just the same,
Feelin', oh, like no pain,
Goin' on down the drain.

Make my own decisions, just you go'way.
Take the consequences just not today.
Got enough reasons, still not workin' for me.
Got all answers, it's still so hard to see.
Something's confusin' me,
Somethin' is abusing me,
Somethin' is refusing me,
Life.

Let me live! (nothin' ta fight for)
I wanna give. (nothin' ta cry for)
I've been through hell and back so many times before.
Take me there! (nothin' ta lie for)
I don't care where. (nothin' ta die for)
And show me why!
There's nothin' to die for! too....

Old enough to know better too dead to change.
Went in with a full deck goin' out deranged.
I had a reason, tried it didn't work for me.
I had all the answers, I was to blind to see.
Mirror man in my eye
Mirror man gonna cry
Mirror man make ya die.

Let me live! (nothin' ta fight for)
I wanna give. (nothin' ta cry for)
I've been through hell and back so many times before.
Take me there! (nothin' ta try for)
I don't care where. (nothin' ta die for)
And show me why!
There's nothin' to die for! too....

PLAYING WITH SPIDERS /
SKULLKRUSHER

Standin' at the crossroads, which way ya gonna go an' watcha gonna do when it comes?
Barganin' with gasoline, take a ride on this machine. Oh! Gonna get me some... When it comes...

Just how far ya gonna go, somebody should letcha know once you're in ya ain't gettin' out!
Put aside your foolish pride, so you take just one more ride I don't think ya know what it's about..
Here it comes...

Ridin' on a livin' hell, got another soul to sell, right is right an' wrong is wrong...
Life's a dream. On this machine, and lasts just about as long!

So ya think ya know it all, an' when ya ride ya never fall, I got some news for you..
Entice you with a wicked smile, take a ride for a while, seems like the news is true!
Yes it's true!

Ten thousand nightnares! ten thousand years!
Ten thousand martyrs crying, ten million tears.
All the thinking never done, all the murder, all the fun!
Wash the blood from your hands, bury your secrets in the sand
And forget!

Your mouth gone dry,
Shortness of breath,
Symptoms of fear,
Symptoms of death! death! death...

Tracks go on for miles through the agony and smiles, layin' there in peices on the ground.
What the hell ya take a chance, Krusher calls make your stance, when you're dead ya never make a sound.

Racin' with the devil.
Engine slowing down...
Fifty years too early!!
An' you're layin' on the ground!
You're Krushed!

Oh take me away on the ride o' your life,
Oh put me away, Deathpusher.
Oh take me away, last time of my life!
Oh put me away, Skullkrusher.
Oh take me away on the ride o' your life,
Oh put me away, Deathpusher.
Oh take me away(3x), Skullkrusher.
Oh take me away on the ride o' your life,
Oh put me away, Deathpusher.
Oh take me away, last time of my life!
Oh take me away, Skullkrusher.

BIRTH OF TENSION

(Always says he's on time, ) (any help, comments here appreciated...)
(thats a bunch of bullshit.)
(Time an' time again...)

Hhuuu..
You are killin' me, mouth is movin' but I cannot hear you speak.
Life's a tragedy, try livin' in a world not for the weak.
Keep your dreams inside your heart,
Never let the pressure tear you apart!
Truth is whispered on a breath,
Loud enough to cover the smell of death!

Never thought too important to mention,
Livin with the birth the birth of tension.
Never thought too important to mention,
Livin' with the tension, tension, tension!

Don't you understand? Too much tension snap then you loose your grip.
Too many demands. Start at birth snap from the womb you're ripped!
Leave your dreams inside, behind,
Never had a reason that you'll never find.
Tension builds another way.
Gonna make you all go away!

Never thought too important to mention,
Livin with the birth the birth of tension.
Never thought too important to mention,
Livin' with the tension, tension, tension!

Too much tension...all around.
Too much tension bring ya down.
All the pressures, in the narrow mind...
All the reasons you'll never find!

Did you kill your father?
Sleep with your mother?
Idolize your sister were you jealous of your brother?
Didja kick the dog? were ya beat with a strap?
Were ya really abused were ya fakin' all that?
Too tense!

You are... killin' me. So many ways so little time to think.
Life's catastrophe. Glass is empty an' I really need a drink!
Movin' all so very quick,
Movin' so fast that it gets me sick.
Let me outta here!
Livin' ain't livin' with the tension and the fear!

Never thought too important to mention,
Livin with the birth the birth of tension.
Never thought too important to mention,
Livin' with the tension, tension, tension!
Yeow!

WHO TENDS THE FIRE

Who tends the fire?
Who keeps the torches lit?
Who fills your eyes with smoke so you can't see...?
I need the fire.
I need the torches lit,
To see through all the smoke covering me....

I have seen the fires burning!
Burning through the night...
I have watched the tides-a-turning...
And they go from dark to light....

What is this meaning?
What does this writing mean?
Where do I go? What do I do,
For now...?
Prophecies are foolish.
They never last they never,
Speak the truth.
So why are they calling me now...?

I have seen the fires burning!
Burning through the night...
I have watched the tides-a-turning...
And they go from dark to light....

I don't know cause I cannot see.
All I'm sure is I gotta be,
I'm not sure that I'm even me,
But I know that I gotta be.

Yes I know that you're gonna die,
Birth, life, death is the reason why.
Save those tears that your gonna cry,
Cause I know that you're gonna die.

Yes I know that I cannot see,
And I'm sure that I gotta be.
All these voices are killing me,
An' they say that I got, say that I got, say that I gotta be me...

Who tends the fire?
Who keeps the torches lit?
Who fills your eyes with smoke so you can't see...?
I need the fire.
I need the torches lit,
To...see....

I have seen the fires burning!
Burning through the night...
I have watched the tides-a-turning...
Still the fire burning bright...

THE YEARS OF DECAY

Out, on this road, takes it's toll...
And you pay for everything you do,
Under lights. Made me blind,
This place is the same as last... night...

Out. of control, takes it's toll,
But you learn to live with your dreams an',
Speaking your mind to those you find...
Listning to what you have to say!
I wouldn't change the way...
I wouldn't stop the decay...

Promised, the world,
As your world changed before our eyes.
And the days became the weeks, an' the weeks the years....
An' no one remembers our very first day,
How it slippped away...

Forever, I wait. Pulling in,
Pulling out as the motors whine.
To remind me I'm home and I'm here to stay...!
As we decay!!
Another day...
Decay away!

Out on this road....
Payin' this toll!!
aaaAAAOW! Make me whole set the stage!!
Fill it with anger! Fill it with rage!!!!
No! I don't know what is today!
I know it falls, in the years of decay!!

Self, sacrifice, every night,
And together we paid a price in blood,
That spilled out, through the years...
And another day passes away...!
Look to the black, drawn farther back!
Look to each day, see the decay!!
Times I've had.
Good and bad.
Win or loose,
This is what. I. choose..!!

The years! Of decay! (2 voices) Decay away...
(the years of decay)
(2 times)
Decay awaaaaa.....yy..
(the years of decay)

E.VIL N.EVER D.IES

Revenge is sweet for those who wait,
Never early always late,
Waiting now to consumate a marriage made in hell.
Hand in hand you walk alone,
As good advice seems to drone,
Evil cuts right to the bone.

Has it come!? Awaken me?!
Is it done?! and will it ever die?
Will it go!? Taking me!? Don't you know!
Evil! Never dies.

Keep me close to your heart,
Adversity will come apart,
And finish just before you start,
Never question why.
Today was then, remember when
Skipping numbers one through ten,
Permanence through the pen.

Has it come!? Awaken me?!
Is it done?! and will it ever die?
Will it go!? Taking me!? Don't you know!
Evil! Never dies.

Read the rights, a prophet's word,
I've learned to deal with the absurd,
And reach a darkened pinnacle of light...

Money hungry power thirsty
Penny pinching fear inflicting
Double crossing back stabbing
Promising eterninty for a price
Sucking brainwashing mind raping
Soul steeling constant preaching
Salvation reaching lowest form of human fucking life!
Evil Never Dies!

Laughter stands accusing me,
Emotion stands abusing me,
The battered and the bruising, me,
Is there darkness when you die?
Heard a sound, no one there,
Heard a shot, no one cares,
Laughter turns into dispair!

Has it come!? Awaken me?!
Is it done?! and will it ever die?
Will it go!? Taking me!? Don't you know!
Evil! Never dies.

Evil hidden everywhere,
Evil has a chilling stare,
Null and void of any care,
Is where the answer lies.
It does no good to beg or cry,
Id does no good to question why
It does no good it never dies.
DIE!

Has it come!? Awaken me?!
Is it done?! and will it ever die?
Will it go!? Taking me!? Don't you know!
Evil! Never dies.
(2x)