HELPLESS

(Originally performed by "Diamond Head")

I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away

Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light

See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless

I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.

I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, ohh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above

See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless

I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun

Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.

Cannot squeeze the life from me!

I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun

Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.

Cannot squeeze the life from me!

THE SMALL HOURS

(Originally performed by "Holocaust")

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there

You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air

CHORUS

And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day

Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast

And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea

CHORUS

Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair

Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb

THE WAIT

(Originally performed by "Killing Joke")

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight

The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait

After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views

The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait


CRASH COURSE IN BRAIN SURGERY

(Originally performed by "Budgie")

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is driving me insane, insane yeah

Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah

Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady moutain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words again yeah, yeah, yeah

LAST CARESS/GREEN HELL

(Originally performed by "Misfits")

LAST CARESS

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

I've got somethin' to say
I raped your mother today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as she spread

These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress

These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress

One Last Caress today,
Ohhh  Ohhh  Ohhh

GREEN HELL

Here in this place lies the key to your death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place is the means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green hell

You did your best as someone could
I bet you never knew you would
Did you run away from it?
I bet you thought you were really good

We're gonna burn in hell
Green Hell Green Hell
Like every hell but kind of green
Green Hell Green Hell
Try let me get back up there
Green Hell Green Hell
Feel it burning in your cereal
Green Hell Green Hell
Throw our fuckin' friends inside
Green Hell Green Hell
Gotta fuckin' pay and you must stay
Green Hell Green Hell
Cannot forget about the best
Green Hell Green Hell
Hell is reigning in your blood
Green Hell Green Hell
Gotta burn it all
Green hell

You did your best as someone could
I bet you never knew you would
And did you run away from me
I bet you think they were really good

Here in this place lies the key to your death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place sister won't let it in
Touch it, feel it
Green hell

You did your best as someone could
I bet you'd never knew you would
Did you run away from it?
I bet you thought you were really good
You've come to this as someone told
I bet you'd never knew you would
Gonna bring
Green hell

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