... And Justice For All
1988
Blackened is the end
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity
Death of Mother Earth
Never a rebirth
Evolution's end
Never will it mend
NeverFire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackenedBlistering of earth
Terminate its worth
Deadly nicotine
Kills what might have been
Callous frigid chill
Nothing left to kill
Never seen before
Breathing never more
NeverFire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
BlackenedOpposition... contradiction ... premonition ... compromise
Agitation... violation ... mutilation ... planet dies
Darkest color
Blistered Earth
True death of lifeTermination... expiration... cancellation... human race
Expectation... liberation... population... lay to waste
See our mother
Put to death
See our mother dieSmouldering decay
Take her breath away
Millions of our years
In minutes disappears
Darkening in vain
Decadence remains
All is said and done
Never is the sun
NeverFire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Fire
Is the outcome of hypocrisy
Darkest potency
In the exit of humanity
Color our world blackened
Blackened
Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
OverpowerThe ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling the strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With praying mindsThe ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so realLady Justice has been raped
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in
Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is true ? I cannot tell
Cannot feelThe ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price we pay
Nothing can save us
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Do you see what I see ?
Truth is an offence
You silence for your confidenceDo you hear what I hear ?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination
Keep you where they mustDo you feel what I feel ?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express ?Do you take what I take ?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurdDoesn't matter what you see
Or into or what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I sayIndependence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exceptionDo you fear what I fear ?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to meDo you choose what I choose ?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negativeDo you need what I need ?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside to each his ownDo you trust what I trust ?
Me myself and I
Penetrate the smoke screen
I see through the selfish lieDoesn't matter what you see
Or into or what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I sayIndependence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exceptionDo you know what I know ?
Your money and your wealth
You silence just to hear yourselfDo you want what I want ?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence lengthen freedom's ringDoesn't matter what you see
Or into or what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I sayIndependence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bendFreedom no longer frees you
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into or what you reed
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or real
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops meNow that the war is through with me
I'm waking up I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain nowHold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God wake meBack in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll liveFed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from meHold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God wake meNow the world is gone I'm just one
Oh God help me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help meDarkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame
Dishonor
Witchhunt modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray
Disfigure
The public eyes' disgrace
Defying common place
Unending paper chase
UnendingDeafening. Painstaking. Reckoning
This vertigo it doth bringShortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest strawThe accusations fly
Discrimination why ?
Your inner self to die
Intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
It's teeth and talons through
Your living Catch-22
DeludingA mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia
Reveal
Secretly. Silently. Certainly
In vertigo you will beShortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Pulled for you Shortest straw
Shortest straw has been pulled for youBehind you hands are tied
Your being ostracized
You hell is multiplied
Upending
The fallout has begun
Oppressive damage done
Your many turned to none
To nothing
You're reaching your nadir
Your will has disappear
The lie is crystal clear
DefendingChannels red
One word said
Blacklisted
With vertigo make you deadShortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
My life suffocates
Planting seeds of hate
I've loved turned to hate
Trapped far beyond my fateI give you take
This life that I forsake
Been cheated all my youth
You turned this lie to truthAnger
Misery
You'll suffer unto meHarvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrowPure black looking clear
My work is done soon here
Try getting back to me
Get back which used to beDrink up
Shoot in
Let the beating begin
Distributor of pain
Your loss becomes my gainAnger
Misery
You'll suffer unto meHarvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrowAll have said their prayers
Invade their nightmares
To see into my eyes
You'll find where murder liesInfanticide
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow...
Never hunger
Never prosper
I have fallen prey to failure
Struggle within
Triggered again
Now the candle burns at both endsTwisting under schizophrenia
Falling deep into dementiaOld habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed end of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling meBirth of terror
Death of much more
I'm the slave of fear my captor
Never warnings
Spreading its wings
As I wait for the horror she brings
Loss of interest question wonder
Waves of fear they pull me underOld habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling meInto ruin
I am sinking
Hostage of this nameless feeling
Hell is set free
Flooded I'll be
Feel the undertow inside meHeight * Hell * Time * Haste * Terror * Tension
Life * Death * Want * Waste * Mass DepressionOld habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me
When a man lies he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home
(Cliff Burton)
Dear Mother
Dear Father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in day outlive my life through you
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call lifeDear Mother Dear Father
Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspiredInnocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindlyDear Mother Dear Father
Time has frozen still what's left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee it's life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chanceDear Mother Dear Father
You've clipped my wing before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I've always heard from you
Do as I say not as I doInnocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindlyI'm in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue meDear Mother Dear Father
Hidden in your world you've made for me
I'm seething
I'm bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew