KINGS OF METAL - MANOWAR


"Wheels Of Fire"



Since the dawn of time

I've rolled across the earth

Spinning in the dust

Long before your birth

Eating tar and gasoline

Every light I see is green

Open pipes, my machine's triple-plated chrome



Spirit of the wheel



Wheels of fire burn the night

Ride across the sky

Wheels of fire burning bright 

We live to ride



Motors running

Now you're gonna learn

Waiting on the line

Make your tires burn

Fast, faster, faster, faster

Speeding always kills

Nothing else takes us to get these thrills



Spirit of the wheel



Wheels of fire burn the night

Ride across the sky

Wheels of fire burning bright

We live to ride



Blood and thunder on the road

My heart is pounding

My blood is nitroglycerine

I'm fire

Burning, burning, burning, burning

Ready to explode

Don't want nothing left of me to scrape off the road



Spirit of the wheel



Wheels of fire burn the night

Ride across the sky

Wheels of fire burning bright

We live to ride



Clouds of smoke

Tires screaming

Fire in my hair

Blown into a thousand pieces

Scattered everywhere

Fast, burn, burning, faster

Wanna take a ride

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire ride



Spirit of the wheel



Wheels of fire burn the night

Ride across the sky

Wheels of fire burning bright

We live to ride



"Kings Of Metal"



Manowar Manowar living on the road

When we're in town speakers explode

We don't attract wimps 'cause we're too loud

Just true metal people that's Manowar's crowd



They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill

Other bands play Manowar kill



We like it hard, we like it fast

We got the biggest amps, man they blast

True metal people wanna rock not pose

Wearin' jeans and leather, not cracker jack clothes



They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill

Other bands play Manowar kill



We're the kings of metal commin' to town

When we light up, have the roof nailed down

Don't try to tell us that we're too loud

'Cause there ain't no way that we'll ever turn down



They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill



"Heart Of Steel"



Build a fire a thousand miles away

to light my long way home

I ride a comet

My trail is long to stay

Silence is a heavy stone

I fight the world and take all they can give

There are times my heart hangs low

Born to walk against the wind

Born to hear my name

No matter where I stand I'm alone



Stand and fight

Live by your heart

Always one more try

I'm not afraid to die

Stand and fight

Say what you feel

Born with a heart of steel



Burn the bridge behind you

Leave no retreat

There's only one way home

Those who laugh and crowd the path

and cut each other's throats

Will fall like melting snow

They'll watch us rise with fire in our eyes

They'll bow their heads

Their hearts will hang low

Then we'll laugh and they will kneel

and know this heart of steel was

Too hard to break

Too hard to hold



Stand and fight

Live by your heart

Always one more try

I'm not afraid to die

Stand and fight

Say what you feel

Born with a heart of steel



"The Crown And The Ring" (Lament Of The Kings)



From a battle I've come

To a battle I ride

Blazing up to the sky

Chains of fate

Hold a firey stride 

I'll see you again when I die



High and mighty alone we are kings

Whirlwinds of fire we ride

Providence brought us the crown and the ring

Covered with blood and our pride



Heroes await me

My enemies ride fast

Knowing not this ride's their last

Saddle my horse as I drink my last ale

Bow string and steel will prevail



High and mighty alone we are kings

Whirlwinds of fire we ride

Providence brought us the crown and the ring

Covered with blood and our pride



Odin I await thee

Your true son am I

I hail you now as I die

I pledge you my sword and to no man I kneel

Ours is the kingdom of steel



High and mighty alone we are kings

Whirlwinds of fire we ride

Providence brought us the crown and the ring

Covered with blood and our pride



"Kingdom Come"



See the white light

The light within

Be your own disciple

Fan the sparks of will

For all of us waiting

Your Kingdom will come



Rays of power shinning

Rays of magic fall

On the golden voice that speaks within us all

For all of us waiting

Your kingdom will come



Kingdom Come



Feel the white light

The light within

Yea it burns a fire that drives a man to win

For all of us waiting

Your kingdom will come



Kingdom Come



Words of power

Calling to us all

Holding us together while other kingdoms fall

No longer waiting

Our kingdom has come



Kingdom Come



Kingdom comming

Another kingdom falls

The rightful are waiting 

But all are not rightful

Wait and receive the weight of the fall



Kingdom Come



*"Pleasure Slave"



She is waiting to kiss my hand

But she will wait for my command

My chains and collar brought her to her knees

She now is free to please



Woman, be my slave

That's your reason to live

Woman, be my slave

The greatest gift I can give

Woman, be my slave



Before her surrender she had no life

Now she's a slave, not a wife

Her only sorrow is for women who live with lies

She's taken off her disguise



Woman, be my slave

That's your reason to live

Woman, be my slave

The greatest gift I can give

Woman, be my slave



Your body belongs to me



Woman, come here

Remove your garments

Kneel before me

Please me



Woman, be my slave

That's your reason to live

Woman, be my slave

The greatest gift I can give

Woman, be my slave



"Hail & Kill"



Brothers I am calling from the valley of the kings

with nothing to atone

A dark march lies ahead, together we will ride like

thunder from the sky

May your sword stay wet like a young girl in her

prime

Hold your hammers high



Blood and death are waiting like a raven in the sky

I was born to die

Hear me while I live

As I look into your eyes

None shall hear a lie

Power and dominion are taken by the will

By divine right hail and kill



Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill

Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill



My father was a wolf

I'm a kinsman of the slain

Sworn to rise again

I will bring salvation, punishment and pain

The hammer of hate is our faith

Power and dominion are taken by the will

By divine right hail and kill



Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill

Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill



Rip their flesh

Burn their hearts

Stab them in the eyes

Rape their women as they cry

Kill their servants

Burn their homes

Till there's no blood left to spill

Hail and Kill

Power and dominion are taken by the will

By divine right hail and kill



Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill



"The Warriors Prayer"



Grandfather, tell my a story!

Alright, go and get your storybook.

No, No, not one of those, a real story!

A real story?

Yes, tell me about when you were a boy.

Well, then, I shall have to take you back with me,

a long way in time...



"It was my thirteenth year on a cold winter's

day, as I walked through the enchanted

forest, I heard the sound of horses, and men

at arms, I felt compelled to walk on and

find the place of these sounds, and when

the forest did clear I was standing on a

hill before me the armies of the worlds

standing, waiting. I thought to myself, for

whom or for what are they waiting?

Suddenly a gust of wind came up from the

North, there appeared a lone rider, holding

a sword of steel, then from the south came

another, bearing a battle ax, from the east

came a third holding a spiked club, and 

finally from the west, a rider who weilded

a great hammer of war. With them came

their soldiers of death, followed by an 

Army of Immortals. They were few in number

but the look in their eyes told all who

beheld them that they would leave this day

only in victory or death. And there was a 

great silence...

My heart began to pound, storm clouds

filled the sky with darkness, rain came, and

the four winds blew with such anger that I

held fast to a tree. I watched the four

riders raise their weapons into the air.

Without warning, screaming their war cry

they led the attack, down to the battle they

rode, they met the armies of the world with

a mighty clash! I could feel the ground

shake, the earth drank much blood that

day. Each of the four, was unto himself,a

whirlwind of doom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



When the smoke did clear, many thousands

were dead. There was much blood and gore.

Their bodies lay broken and scattered

across the battlefield like brown leaves

blown by the wind. And I saw the four ride

together to the top of the hill, while below

them the soldiers of death assembled, all

those who would now swear allegiance

to them.



And the four spoke the words of the 

Warrior's Prayer.



GODS OF WAR I CALL YOU, MY SWORD

IS BY MY SIDE.

I SEEK A LIFE OF HONR, FREE FROM

ALL FALSE PRIDE.

I WILL CRACK THE WHIP WITH A BOLD

MIGHTY HAIL.

COVER ME WITH DEATH IF I SHOULD

EVER FAIL.

GLORY, MAJESTY, UNITY

HAIL, HAIL, HAIL.



And as I stood and looked on, I heard the

Armies of the world hail them without

End, and their voices of citory carried

Long and far throughout the land!"



Well, that's it, did you like the story?

Yeah, it was great!

Oh good, I'm glad. Now off to bed with you.

Grandfather?

Yes?

Who were those four men?

Who were they?

THEY WERE THE METAL KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!



"Blood Of The Kings"



Brothers the battle is raging

Choose your side

Sing with us the BATLE HYMS

INTO GLORY RIDE

HAIL TO ENGLAND

THE SIGN OF THE HAMMER's our gide

Forever we're FIGHTING THE WORLD

Side by side



On a crusade

The world we bring

Four Kings of Metal

Four Metal Kings

Death to the false ones

Dance on a string

'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king

'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king



Our armies in England, Scotland, and Wales

Our brothers in Belgium, Holland and France will not

fail

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy

Switzerland, Austria

Back to the glory of Germany



On a crusade

The world we bring

Four Kings of Metal

Four Metal Kings

Death to the false ones

Dance on a string

'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king

'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king



Sound the DEATH TONE

On our MARCH FOR REVENGE

Spill THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES

THE OATH of a friend

Fight the HOLY WAR for THE CROWN AND THE RING

Six magic circles made by the BLOOD OF THE KINGS



Wherever we ride, It's metal we bring

Four Kings of Metal

Four Metal Kings

Death to the false ones

Dance on a string

'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king

'Till the blood on your sword is the bloof of a king

Blood of a king



All songs written by Joey DeMaio except

"Kings of Metal" and "Hail and Kill"

written by Joey DeMaio and Ross The 

Boss. All songs published by Inar Music.

Copyright 1988




*Track is CD only

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