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Produced by
Testament and GGGarth Mixed by Michael Wagener Mixed at Scream L.A. Engineered by Kill Bennedy Digital editing by Paul Decarli Recorded at A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA and Studio D, Sausalito, CA Mastered by Stephen Marcussen Cover design, illustration an photography by Dave McKean Band photography by Michael Miller 1994 - ATLANTIC RECORDING |
CHUCK BILLY - vocals
ERIC PETERSON - rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals
JAMES MURPHY - lead guitar
GREG CHRISTIAN - bass
JOHN TEMPESTA - drums (additional drummer)
1. Low
2. Legions (In Hiding)
3. Hail Mary
4. Trail Of Tears
5. Shades Of War
6. P.C.
7. Dog Faced Gods
8. All I Could Bleed
9. Urotsukidoji
10. Chasing Fear
11. Ride
12. Last Call
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy
Fuel the fire
for war
Itīs man against mankind
Bruises that they bear
Been beaten down with time
Innocent people suffer the loss
Your broken hope so close to the cross
Sometimes you just donīt know
How low... how low you can, go...
So low itīs sickening
Low... Low... show some mercy...
Hey you piece of shit
Just leave the kids alone
Why canīt you bear
The things that we endure
Innocent people suffer the loss
Lost hope with faith ti the cross
Sometimes you just donīt know
How low... How low you can go
Show some sympathy
Low... Low... show some mercy
Solo: James
I donīt like you for your warped demented ways
I hope they lock you down so you never get away
Low... Low... show some symphaty
Low... Low.. show some mercy...
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy, James
Domestically
violent
With razor blade smiles
A two faced role model fool
Infested with anger
A well hidden crime
Teaching those lessons so cruel
Ah, torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You call this... a family?
Battered, abusive
Thereīs no wrong or right
When youīre enslaved in your room
Hiding from demons
In urban daylight
Knowing that theyīll be here soon
Confusion and bruises
And scars left for life
When physical evidence fades
Silently screaming
Just to be loved
Their innocence taken away
Ah, the torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You call this... a family?
Solos: Eric, James
Virtues are shattered
By parents they trust
When all love they give is misused
The next generation
The damaged will learn
To keep spinning wheels of abuse
Ah, the torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You call this... a family?
Music:
Peterson, Murphy
Lyrics: Billy, James
I am alive
I feel dirt in my eyes
Thereīs no escape when redemption is lost
Iīm not a saint
Thereīs no use looking
No sins to deny
Just my will to go on
Arms of darkness
Embrace me in madness
In my life itīs mandatory
Hard to resist you
I still canīt forgive you
For sins that I cannot wash away
Hail Mary full of grace
Throw some light upon this race
Intertwining final breath
Now... in the hour of death
Solo: James
Bound by lies
Of constant denial
Pay for my sins that I bear for a child
Iīm not a saint
Thereīs no use denying
Falling from grace
Is my reason to go on
Hail Mary full of grace
Push me down, and kick me in my face
Intertwinning final breath
Now... in the hour of death
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy
Solo: Eric
See the sun as the day is done
Life is of the broken ones
Some will stray as time will come
All their lives, they live it well
Red man proud and giving hell
Some stand and shining tall
Can you hear them call...
See the sun as itīs setting still
Tears fall from a warrior
Damn those who I feel
Set a trail to the promised land
Mother and child holding hand in hand
Through the snow or through the sands
All across the land...
Full moonīs rising from the sky, a warriorīs riding
Ride with the wind
So far away, the spirits will guide you
No more sorrow
Donīt look back
your freedom will follow
Flying so free
Canīt you see... on the trail of tears
Solos 1 & 3: James
Solo 2: Eric
Full moonīs rising from the sky
a warriorīs riding
Ride with the wind
So far away, the spirits will guide you
No more sorrow
Donīt look back, your freedom will follow
Flying so free
Canīt you see... on the trail of tears
Solo: Eric
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy, James
Burial of a
human being
A man before a boy
Born to fight in another manīs world
Not a world where thereīs war
Born religiously
Truth is what they see
Death wonīt come from peace
Who fuels this war?
Solo: Eric
Sacred ground of life
Burnt remains of the dead
Bodies lay to rest
Spirits of the earth
Rancid man, burned alive
Too blind to see whatīs wrong from right
Locked inside this cage
So many times blood has poured
Walk with shadows
Hear the shades of war... forever more
Brought into this world of bitter pain
Are we safe... or just insane
Solo: James
Rancid man, burned alive
Too blind to see whatīs wrong from right
Darkness veils their way
So many times blood has poured
Walk with shadows
Hear the shades of war... forever more
Music:
Christian, Peterson
Lyrics: Christian
Damn the
machine the systemīs corrupted
Abusive power in everywhere
Our elected officials, pass laws to help
But whoīs paying them off
And in the end, whe the people pay
Such a heavy price, just for being alive
And if this country was really free
Weīd make paper from hemp and let the forest live
But corporate America, and billion dolar industries
Have so much power
Yet they stand to lose
Too much fucking money
Thereīs nothing we can do... but...
Take back all that weīve lost
At any price that it costs
Our freedom was worth fighting for
Resistence now or nevermore
Solo: James
And what about the CIA
What the fuck is their real job anyway
Starting civil wars in Third World countries
Importing heroin from the far east
Talk about cocaine, neither kept away
From the youth of today... now
Thereīs nothing we can do... but...
Take back all that weīve lost
At any price that it costs
Our freedom was worth fighting for
Resistence now or nevermore
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Peterson, Billy, James
Of dog faced
gods
Through the Nile sands whisper
Of ancient times, mayfly names
Flickered and gone
The blood and honey
Dripping from their jaws
Through the Nile sand whisper
Ancient times, fade into the dawn
Of dog faced gods
Manifest in the night
The sacred rights
Handed down through times of old
Dark words of power
Blood upon their tombs
Through incantations
Locusts fly, signaling doom
Confirm who I am
Confort all I can
Conceive sorcery
Corrodes disbelief
Solo: James
Of dog faced gods
Dead civilization
Through priest of power
Invoking life of the ancient one
The blood and honey
Dripping from their jaws
Through the Nile sand whisper
Travel through time to the land unknow
Confirm who I am
Confort all I can
Conceive sorcery
Corrodes disbelief
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy
I like to
dominate
I create your fate
Many years gone by
I rule society
You cannot be me
I am the master
Canīt you hear me, breathing for you
Do not ignore
Reach out to me, put your knife through me
Watch me bleed for you... yeah... right...
Try to realiate
I release your hate
Why donīt you bleed for me
What do you need to prove
I can see through you
Youīre not the master
Canīt you see me, dying for you
Do not ignore
Reach out to me, put your knife through me
Watch me bleed for you... dying... dying...
All I could bleed
Canīt you understand
Grab life by the hand
Whereīs the democracy
I gave all I could bleed
Solos 1 & 3: Eric
Solos 2 & 4: James
Fuck government policy
Land is of the free
Donīt take away
Your two bit society
Dying for your greed
Now watch them bleed...
Yeah... all I could bleed
Music:
Peterson, Christian
Lyrics: Billy, James
Paralyzed
And never coming back
Even when your eyes are open
Everything turns to black
Soon forgotten senses
Incubates the soul
Hiding from the light fantastic
Waiting for the show
Contemptation
Reality starts to fade
Creeping stare behind dead eyes
As the minutes burn the day
Inactive wandering
Still canīt get a grip
Can God hear you cry
Before you start to slip
Chasing Fear
Human mind unglued
Unaware
That fear is chasing you
Endless waiting
For nothing to appear
Even when your eyes are shut
The visions are so clear
Harmonious dissidence
Obscure reckoning
Did you hear that final note
Of silent suffering
Chasing fear
Human mind unglued
Dissapear
The sickness inside of you
Chasing fear
Nothing you can do
Unaware
That fear is chasing you
Solos: Eric, James
Loss of function
Withering of the will
Condemned to a state of nothing
Moving in for the kill
Brain cells slowly boil
With memories intertwined
Listening to that empty space
Atrophy of the mind
Chasing fear
Human mind unglued
Dissapear
The sickness inside of you
Chasing fear
Nothing you can do
Unaware that fear is chasing you
Music:
Peterson
Lyrics: Billy, James
Doesnīt know
what to do anymore
Jesus makes love to the spike
A trick for a fix and feeling so sick
Just canīt seem to get right
Once he was the king of his world
A world without any order
Sold it all without thinking twice
Just for a spoonful of water
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ceremonious ritual
Raising of the veins
Always early and feeling so late
Waving goodbye to the train
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Solo: James
Slowly scratching away at the world
Fearless when he is stoned
Obsessed by the dreams of what couldīve been
Trapped in his kingdom alone
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Music: Peterson, Christian
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