Slayer (p)1988 SOUTH OF HEAVEN ---------------- An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs. Judgement day the second coming arrives. Before you see the light you must die Forgotten children, conform a new faith, Avidity and lust controlled by hate. Never ending search for you shattered sanity, Souls of Damnation in their own reality Chaos rampant An age of destruct. Confrontations. Impulsive habitat. Bastard sons begat your cunting daughters, Promiscuous mothers with incestuous fathers. Engreat souls condemned for eternity, Sustained by immoral observance a domineering deity. Chaos rampant An age of destruct. Confrontations. Impulsive sabbath. On and on, south of heaven. The roo t of all evil is the heart of a black soul. A force that has lived all eternity. A never ending search for a truth never told. The loss of all hope and your dignity. Chaos rampant An age of destruct. Confrontations. Impulsive habitat. On and on, south of heaven. SILENT SCREAM -------------- Nightmare, the persecution A childs dream of death. Torment, ill forgotten A soul that will never rest. Guidance, it means nothing In a world of brutal time. Electric, circus, wild, Deep in the infants mind. Silent scream Bury the unwanted child. Beaten and torn Sacrifice the unborn. Shattered, adolescent Bearer of no name. Restrained, insane games Suffer the children condemned. Scattered, remnants of life, Murder a time to die. Pain, sufferaged toyed, Life's little fragments destroyed. Silent scream Crucify the bastard son. Beaten and torn Sanctify lives of scorn. Life preodrained Humanity maintained. Extraction termination Pains aginizing stain. Embryonic death, Embedded in your brain. Suffocation, strangulation, Death is fucking you insane. Nightmare, the persecution A childs dream of death. Torment, ill forgotten A soul that will never rest. Innocence withdraw in fear. Fires burning can you hear Cries in the night. LIVE UNDEAD ----------- Cascaded darkness Walls close in on me. Nailed shut by my eyes still see. Sever anguish as my body evolves. The pain of life after death it resolves. Emptiness in twilights rebirth, The fained sounds of shoveled earth. Madness growing as your mind dissolves. Merely secrets in my dreams. Night grows cold, twilights near, On the edge of madness the wounds are sheared. Forms of hanging, flesh shredded carcass No spared breath. Imprisoned in a shell, ready to explode, Dead soul, Stone cold, Out into the night. Voices inside my head Hold me under. Voices oppress. Like roaring thunder. An echo bouncing inside my brain. How much can I take of the pain, The pain ! A war raging deep inside my head, A split decision that will end with me dead. You see the agony in my eyes, Protruding aimless, I think its time to die. A cannibals desire feeds the fire that burns in your head. Intense pain eat away at your brain, Thorazine pumping trough your veins. Death walks inside you, Smell death around you, Hells evil spell takes a soul, Hear the sound of the bell Counting off death tols. Laughing as you eternally rot, Searching for human flesh And life's blood. Live Undead. BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS ------------------------ Time melts away in the living inferno, Trapped by a cause that I once understood. Feeling a sickness building inside of me, Who will really have to answer to. March on through the the rivers of red. Souls drift, they fill the air. Forced to fight, behind, The crooked cross. Do only what is expected of me, With no emotions my feelings suppressed. Blind obedience carries me through all. Conscience a word I learned to forget. March on through the rivers of red, Flesh burns, it fills the air. Forced to fight, behind, The crooked cross. Time melts away in the living inferno, Trapped by a cause that I once understood. Blind obedience carries me through all, Do only what is expected of me. March on through the the rivers of red. Souls drift, they fill the air. Forced to fight, behind, The crooked cross. MANDATORY SUICIDE ------------------ Murder at your every foot step. A childs toy sudden death. Sniper blazes you thru your knees Falling down can you feel the heat, Burn ! Ambushed by the spray of lead Count the bullet holes in your head. Offspring sent out to cry, Living mandatory suicide. Suicide. Holes burn deep in your chest, Raked by machine gun fire. Screaming skull sent out to die, Living mandatory suicide. Suicide. Lying, dying, screaming in pain. Begging, pleading, bullet drip like rain. Minds explode, pain sheers to your brain, Radical amputation this is insane. Fly swatter stakes, drive thru your chest. Spikes impale you as you're forced off the crest. Soldier of misfortune Hunting with bated breath. A vile smell, like tasting death. Dead bodies, dying and wounded Litter the city streets. Shattered dlass, bits of clothing and human deceit. Dying terror, Blood's cheap, it's everywhere. Mandatory suicide, massacre on the front line. GHOST OF WAR ------------ Fate silent warriors sleeping souls will rise. Once firgotten soldiers come to life. Fallen mercenary, dormancy is done, Not content with wars we never won. Memories can't ignore. Anguish of before. Satisfy the scorn. Rise ghost of war. Target assassinate, time of your life has expired. Hatred vicimize, rage in their eyes as they die. Violence inflicting of pain, savage morticians deny Drive the salt in the wound, arouse the subconscious to lie. Chorus: I deal in pain. All life I drain. I dominate. I seal your fate. I deal in pain. All life I drain. Memories can't ignore, Rise ghost of war. READ BETWEEN THE LIES --------------------- Evangelist you claim god speaks through you, Your restless mouth full of lies gains popularity. You care not for the old that suffer, When empty pockets cry from hunger. Penniless from their generosity, Sharing their money to quench your greed. Searching for the anwer to their prayers The cry their last wish of need. Save me. His spirit lives and breathes in me. The almighty transformed to your screeen. The meanings lost in its translation, No holy words, describe his deception. You say you'll help us find the lord, Tell me preacher how do you know. A simple quest for a visible savior, To lead us through our final prayer. Save me. Send your donations, Contribute to the cause. Luxuries, Your righteous reward ? Praise the lord, praise god, Is what you wish to sell. There is no heaven without a hell. In your minds eye could you truly believe, That by giving you can save your soul, Could you be so naive ! You heal the sick, raise the dead, You blind the congregation With the things you say. Religious blackmail a deceit of trust, That death will come and all will be lost. Can you hear the serpents call, Look deep in those deceiving eyes. Ignore the writing on the wall, You should read between the lies. When doubt subsides his honesty An inquiry, is it blasphemy ? Impure the soul, thats made to suffer, No sermons left to hide or cover, An empty promise, lie unfulfilled, To steal a dream or get it killed. They claim your trip to heavens nearby, You may believe it, but satan wouldn't lie. CLEANSE THE SOUL ---------------- Body that rest before me, With every dying breath, Speellbound and gagged, I commence your flesh to dirt. Body that lay before me, In everlasting death. Entombed in abcess, To rot and lie stinking in the earth. Empty altar awaits its victim Stained glass windows black. Candles burn the midnight oil, Incense fills the night. Observing trance awaking state Lying still unknowing. Reciting the passages of time Prepare for impaling. Deaths an art, flesh and earth never part, A power of the mind. Death shines on the air of silence, A ritual of endless time. Purged of your dead body, Sacrificed of your life. Unearthly ritual sealed in fire Enter the kingdom of desire. SPILL THE BLOOD --------------- Come walk with me through endless time. See what has been and what the future sees. Share the wisdom of the old world that has past, Step in a life that's yet to be born. You spill the blood, Eternal soul. I'll show you sights that you would not believe. Experience pleasure thought unobtained. At one with evil that has ruled before, Now smell the stench of immortality. You spill the blood, Eternal soul. Spill you blood let it run on to me, Take my hand and let go of your life. Close your eyes and see what is me, Raise the chalice, embrace for evermore. You spill the blood, Eternal soul.