Corrosion of Conformity

Sleep, sleep, sleep, oh sleep for me And rest your soul, just like the roses at your feet Dream, dream, dream, dream awhile for me And travel far away 'till the distance is complete There's 13 Angels standing on display I think they're gonna take you away One...

If the pure didn't hate you You know they'd have to create you You've been forged from their fears Another myth drowns in tears A loyal opposition Another failed inquisition Breeds potential victims That make fearful decisions You keep on crawling Ac...

Well I'm feelin' left behind, Lord what a waste of time they're coming to get you, run on How can I respect your crime When all you criminals whine They bought and sold you, run on, run on You can call me crazy You can call me wrong Couse I was born a liar Al...

Words make fuel the power of fools to be used Shadow you cast the longer it gets the shorter you last Back to the wall now the one that you serve has abandoned your call Desire backfires you become the opposed where you once had aspired And you fall from the a...

Some people know the order, But they're hard to find Some people roll you over And then they blow your mind Some have the will to occupy Some people can't remember But that's nothin' new Some people kill for lovin' Including me and you But I guarantee your tim...

When you live your life uptight untrusted but their blind from the grind but only you can see when the bones that you own have long been dusted you realize who you're not supposed to be I've been told things get better Isolation grind My life is Hazy Hazy Haz...

In the beginning maybe you were born to follow, singing everybody else's song Now you want one for your own Oh the sky comes apart, so you depart For a new start in the winter's heart Respond in kind with the other free thinking sheep Join their refrain...

Ultimate, Desolate Condition Of Man Laid To Waste Born Again, Dead Again, Once Again Take Me Out Of This Place You're In Violation, You Cross The Line The Line You Found Within Your Mind And When The Process Comes Undone You Die Alone, The Victory's None [Ch...

Deep in the soul of a man who's seen it all- he stands alone with borrowed I'm standing with two nothings new but they look at you with broken backs and bleeding minds And tell you they know even though you fall behind You'll be the one who walks the line stan...

Your mind is controlled You're a puppet on a string Their flag you'll wave Their anthem you'll sing Your will is broken Where it once was strong You've got no choice But to go along So come along quietly We'd like to hear your views If they're not ours We'll...

I've been looking for answers to set you free Black are the reasons you gave to me Never, never look back Just move, move ahead You were lucky, friend You could be dead Ignore the future or bury your head in the sand It's a two-bit fantasy that...

Back in time before they crossed the line, and the truth was made of gold Cross of paths that was based on the past, or so the story goes Strike fear and the end draws near, and the peasants wore a blindfold Stack 'em up, stack 'em up, burn 'em down, and th...

I see the world through blood shot eyes Streets filled with blood from distant lies The dogs of war never comprise, No time for rearranging Help me Jesus, help me clean my wounds He said he cannot heal that kind Bleeding soul becomes a bitter mind He said it...

By my looks, by me behavior Try to classify me, find a label You judge me as I judge you Won't live up to your stereotype Won't live up to your image You judge me as I judge you Preconcieved picture of someone like me You think you know my type Preconcieved pi...

So much to do. We're gonna have fun. College town, life on the run Just go, go, go. So much to do. Living the fast life, like living in a fucking zoo. College town Life fast paced College town Fucked up place 

Standin' on the ceiling, it's alright Suspended by the dreams you seem to lose You've been floatin' for a while, a while, can't hold on Standin' on the ceiling, it's alright, it's alright Somebody is tryin' to get the best of me So now you're flying like you...

The beast you've been fighting Is only fooling you It's no use hiding Your still being used It's all-enclosive Soon you'll be consumed Rotting in jail Tortured or ruined 

Behind the bars, can't feel the scars Scars that won't heal wasted potential Potential vaporization Incineration of doubt burn away Sadness tears evaporate Forget the forgotten consumed By those who brought them Reality comes crawling crawling Reality crawling...

Time has shown the lines Crown of thorns divine Choices are hard to find Mistakes are few but they are mine Earth so far below Spirits sinking low Reasons don't seem so odd Sleep tight you're in the arms of god 

They Say They Live Their Lives With Purity Only Looking Through The Whites Of Their Eyes One Nation Under God, Just Like Protectory Are They Really Hearing The Third World Cries? History Repeats Itself Self-Emulation Breeding Prosperity As The Nation Grows, T...

You're Dead Heard Too Much, Know Too Much - Don't Know If I Can Take It If The System Had One Neck, You Know I'd Gladly Break It They've Got Us Where They Want Us - Stuck In This Sick Romance They Need No Chain - It's In Our Brain And We Don't Stand A Chance I...

Today I woke up happy. There was something in the back of my mind. Creeping depression, manic and black. No way to get my happiness back. Dark Thoughts Misery Dark Thoughts Self pity Dark Thoughts There are no words Dark Thoughts There are no words No energy...

Is there no one to deliver you from your ignorance? Maybe you'll look and see there be no deliverance. Turn to vulture parasites who pray on lost souls Suck the blood of hapless fools who give them control! No deliverance Pick your wn deliverance No deliveranc...

Charleston 1822 Fought a man For freedom nail & tooth Say goodbye to slavery Kill kill Denmark Vesey Kill Denmark Vesey Kill kill kill denmark vesey Before Nat Turner Before John Brown Gullah Jack - gonna hunt you down We gonna take the armory...

Some wonder, some filter, some trip to pass the time Just ask him and he'll tell you nothing better then a desperate mind I'm in love with a widow soon to be, I don't think I can fight it Anthems broke and I'm spinning 'round again, Stayin' dizzy 'cause I lik...

There ‘s a righteous fool among the weak Where a fallen man is bitter sweet And with his soul he deficates Into this world he filled with hate All your lies have turned to logic And you got nothing in your pocket Who? You! The truth is hard to find When you go...

New, the sky is clear, you reappear And I lost my way a million to one and you come around when the day is done And I wonder which one knows ? And I wonder which one goes ? I'm doublewide.. I'm doublewide And I don't have a reason, something's gone wrong And...

There's a question mark in the place of a spark that used to be an answer aiming straight for the heart but you missed the mark and the arrow turned to cancer NOW you get so high but you still can't fly and you wonder if you're really where you want to be 'ca...

Broken down from a life unsteady A tale already known Pierce the dawn and the Lord breathes heavy Upon your burning soul, alright Innocent and heartless Delusion by your side Blinded by reality Can you stand the test of time? Stand the test of time...

The Water Drips From Wells Of Shame Spilling Through These Words (Of Blame) Listen To The Battle Cries Of A Race That Knows It's Dying Read The Bleeding Words Of Those Who Feel The Wheel Is At Their Heal Then Somebody Tells Me That's The Way It Was Meant To Be...

Darkness shine a light into the black night night of the soul Into the storm, you have to ride out, you have to ride it out Beware of deposed gods plotting a return They long to plunder by thunder in the end don't get burned Bought the best pedestal, all t...

What right do you have to exclude us. Going out of your way to make excuses. You live in a time warp where everything is fine. Anything you can't control you deny. We can't play your clubs because of your restrictions. Dress codes, rules, and age limits. 

Hung on the cross to die Crucified for your crimes Spikes in your limbs To pay for your sins An eye for an eye An eye for an eye An eye for an eye Will justify murder by the state. 

As time accelerates perspectives beyond Crumbling before the sum where entropy is God Dangerous fool, Worm-Eaten soul Scatter in wind, Wither in shadow Crawled out of your hole Arrows of scorn your crown adorn Proud among the thorns Validation in negat...

There's a me in there somewhere Between the passion and the pain Between the stars and the heavens Within three long wasted days There's a me in there somewhere He's all black-eyed and blue From the man I keep fighting But he was fighting for you Oh,...

here we stand before the call accused of fire, it's too cold and you're too old for me it's time to expire serve to see of what could be burn the freak and set him free outta sight outta sight outta time and you're way outta line they cool the tongue to tame...

Sixty feet out of reach, hammer down every time And we was gittin' it on, gittin' it on Don't fuck with the stroker, it's 60 over And I know that we was gittin' it on, gittin' it on Power down in the hole, and you was smokin' on the shoulder Sucked you up lik...

Past regrets and future fears Turns a boy to a man sooner than planned All the same, the boy remains Even though he's free, he can't fly with these heavy chains Saw your mother yesterday And she had these words to say like a judgement day I think he shoulda k...

Powers is the heroin of the small-minded man And force, force is the needle - the gun in his hand He lusts to control all the people and the land Complete, total destruction - his ultimate end All love lost will be reborn Fire will burn Take your first breath...

How did I come to become How did we come to become this way When we were inseparable Formula of rituals I have lived Lost time-resentment I can't forgive when we were inseparable Made a commitment to resentment You will never forget it Side by side oblivous pr...

I have been hunting on the I-10 with Jesus and a liar And watched ancient man use a gun to retire I've seen the wall fall down and crush the old So now every body's hungry but they'd rather be cold Let it go, let it go, let it go Before we lose it all in time...

Holier, much holier than you were before No more Now your purpose, Jesus, flowing in your soul No more Feel complete what a nice retreat to the call No more The wrath of God will serve you well as bodies fall In hate Finding the answers, distoring the question...

"Looking for answers?" laughed the hungry child "Pushing your ansers leave none desired." The hungry child worships Spreading their cancer into unscarred brains Damaged and unoccupied, ready to train The hungry child worships Powerfully twisting words he's res...

Frightened by decisions Escape within your mind Soon all the decisions are made for you And there's no turning back There's no hope for you It's just dope for you Think you're in control But you know it isn't true Indifferent indifferent 

Deafening sound Blackens the sky Ashes rain down Puritans die Infinite war Infinite war Infinite war Overlord, bring decibels of revolt Two minutes and counting Kill to remember This war is a knife Which will never surrender Infinite war “deafening sound” Infi...

American dollars and weapons gleam Support another corrupt regime Human rights long out of style Another killing another farce-trial Intervention All the millions spent in aid Spent on the war parade Technological march of death Finalize a child's last breath...

Distant wings bring you down like a soldier Alive inside but your soul getting colder And there's nothing left nowhere to hide Nothing left its genocide You're gonna find out It is that way becausse it is It is that way because it is It is that way because it...

If I was king of all the rotten stealing filth from those forgotten would you be my queen of this desperate land, do you give a damn? What if I had to scold you listen once but never tried and true What if I had to trade you for another man, do you think I ca...

Paralyzed alone and frightened Laying low so you won't be sighted Something out there wishes you death You'll have to run or fight til you last breath Faint sounds in the alley City beast is out there prowling Rabid pack with sirens howling Already on the way...

Hate, with no direction Love, with no affection Fear, without a cause Death, without a loss Living a life pain and deceit. Waiting for death where no one will weep 

Born in the land of confidence dying of disease. Paralyzed standing tall but rotting at the knees. The leeches are speechless. Soon to be uncovered is the weight of fattened lamb. Broken wheel, smoking mirror, poison slight of hand. The leeches are speechless....

Well I got me a distant story So I wrote me a distant tune Of how they used to bask in the glory And how I wished that I could too Little man, be here tomorrow They said they could change my ways But instead they tried to stone me And I been sleeping ri...

Saw the news today, some D.C. suit trying to break away, said he lost another million just another old man trying to pass the buck with a dirty hand good thing he knows his bible Stick his ass in hell ever better in in this tiny cell make him understand the m...

I'm at a loss for words There are no words to explain What I am witnessing Is fucking with my brain You can see it in my eyes It will never be the same It will never, never, never Be the same Time to tear down what remains And start something new I'm tired of...

Certain leaders build their tools of death Saying it's all to keep the peace They're saying one thing doing another Both sides of the scales of power The deadly loads increase Mad world we're living in a mad world We're living in a mad mad mad mad mad world As...

Far from reach how the serpents preach life is a sin when the shepherds are breeding In the quiet place force the mind to erase so the people can pray to the distant drummer These are primitive times These are primitive times These are primitive times no care...

Television mass mind control Through cathode rays beliefs are sold. Examples of what is correct and what is not. Opinions are presented as fact. Minds are controlled Death and war are portrayed realistically. As not to raise objection to patriotic slaughter....

Taught To Believe From The Onset, Of Heaven And Hell And Between The Institution's Retribution - Damnation From On High Living And Dying Together Never Did Nothing At All Except For The Few Who Got Rich Off Of You And The Rest, They Were Herded Like Sheep [Ch...

Grace, pride, tell me what's your name? Crippled will with tomorrows pill And I feel no pain but I can't remember Whose to blame... This is not my home This is not my home But the source was always known Migrain I beg, you steal, do you show me your signs of a...

No dreams = No dreams crushed No hope = No hope is false No expectations = No disappointment No reason to go on Brooding and suicidal Looking for a new outlook Always wanted to make a difference Better take another look. 

Shackled down to wasted days I think it's time to break these chainS Planets align from the inside The bitter truth still mystifies Where is this king that wears no crown Driftin' behind because I'm sliding down Helpless man you can't ignore Watch your back ‘c...

Who mocks the infidel's faith Mocked by haze and hate Forever score doubt of doubt Flame the torch to burn you out Standing tall to messenger's death No reward from angel's breath Town is full without a sound Blinds the knife across the crown And the...

Need to drink to fucking think If you'd think you wouldn't drink Takes a man to drink so much A real man doesn't need a crutch Everybody tells me that it's cool But I'll just let them play the fool Drinking a fifth make you brave It only takes you to an early...

Your number's come up Too bad you're fucked In the wrong place At the wrong time Minding your own business You put up no resistance Now you lay bleeding There was no feeling You handed over the wallet They just let you have it On the quiet street A block from...

Life gave you everything And you threw it all away Through the heart of the darkness Never feels the same Huh, it never feels the same Living like a fool, nothing gets nothing And I got nowhere to hide Searching for the truth has to mean something I'm...

Every lyric you disect What the fuck do you expect We're just a fucking band Aren't we generally correct? Rebellion's not the clothes you wear Or the way you style you hair Or any pitiful design We don't souls, we need minds Nothing's gonna change Because you...

Round for years, I'm an old disaster So crawl in my arms and burn out faster Known you for years as you've passed me by So now I'm floating around and I'm sinking high So now you've got your own match, can you make me a fire? So I can burn in the ash lik...

I said baby mama, I don't know your name But I said baby, sugar I can play your game Every night when we leave the hall I see you hanging around You wanna ride in my big black car baby Wanna go uptown (Chorus) I know who you are baby I know what they...

On your way back to earth, assigned another birth On your way back to dawn, the last will now be first Searching for for what's already your's, already your possession They have no answers, one is the soul, nothing to offer they have cast all their stones...

Rain, sleepless rain is comin' down again It's the same, same, same just like you know when... Yes I do. Oh.. it's floodin' in the holy land Oh.. I'm drownin' like a workin' man... Oh.. but there is nowhere else that I would rather be, yeah... One more time....

Burning Tree, Blackened Sky - This Land God Forsaken A Thousand Men Prepare To Die - Their Spirit Long Been Broken In Misery, Hear Their Cry - Mouths Hang Wide Open Flashing Steel, Hot Lead - The White Man Has Spoken Painted Smiling Face Pockets Filled, Lust F...

Life shuts you down life shuts you down Suffocate inside when overkill surrounds Pain kills the time pain kills the time Depression bends the rules and now you're Losing your mind! Close your eyes Another sunrise over and over! Burn by the spoon and now you're...

Father forgive me Mother forsake me I think they've all become to strong Brother believe me Silence is deadly And its giving me the strength to carry on Time has come, now I'm blind, deaf & numb You're killing me, you're killing me When I look into your ey...

Because you're old and rich You don't care about this earth Only about your filthy profits Poisoned Planet nuclear war It's not you're problem anymore The problems belong to your generation The consequences to mine You've spoiled my chances and robbed me of...

I've got a positive outlook Won't get stuck Drowning in my surroundings Never give in never give up Don't let them scare you no matter what Where are you putting your energy? So much hate and jealousy All hope is caving in Patience is growing thin Got to put...

Pray for power Your main weapon is mistrust Pray for power It's for power you lust Molten minds poured int the mold Filthy hands burning sin to be sold The bible says, so we demand to uphold God's word enforced and controlled Weathered symbols slowly...

From the pulpit the puppet's mouth is infested with suggestion. A description unfitting, resonate and predigested. A transaction of extraction, transference is here. Stir the pot to see what you've got to appear. Psychic vampire, paranoia down the wire. Psych...

Lost in a dream high and wide Whatever price to keep it by our side The steps to the top are very steep King of the hill when all are fast asleep but I'm Stuck in between and I know you know what I mean What a pity...Redemption City Broken hearts toast anoth...

I remember you seems like yesterday Do you remember me? I got lost on the way Wrong muddy road is nothing new We stand but this river is washing through River rise from tear drops without warning Float away while flooding yesterday I'll be gone I won't be back...

Those who first see the light are the one extinguishing. If blood should reign and rivers boil, feel the earth beneath burning. Where do you look now for knowing that some great fall looms? Crucible has been cast, this is the way that cannot last. Iron sn...

Sleeping on the wing Busted flat and dusted boy your minds a terrible thing Said the man with a dirty hand who claimed that he was king Choking angels from inside trying to make them sing 'Cause your short of breath and close to death from sleeping on the wing...

Over time mistakes were few but I believe they're mine Faded mind youth was old and the years were so unkind, so unkind Well I'm the one, I face the change I know that stands before me Believe in me 'cause I damn sure don't believe in you I cannot deny my...

Beginning of this world selled with mankind Who built a tool to kill a fool and lead the blind Invent a rule to keep you down & call it sin Then stand behind the wall and watch the games begin Separate by class but keep the middle low In still the order wi...

Once in awhile you'd be better listening to the fools for a change I can see it in your eyes, it's the one who's not like you, you despise I'm no different than you, it's just that I do whatever I want to that's what sets us apart, I was free from the start, n...

There's a boy they call the sleepin' man, he's been asleep for days There's a girl lyin' next to him, following his ways Dreaming of a foreign place, where the people always pray Nowhere else to run to...now So this is where they stay That's all she wanted t...

Rising reveals an angel My burning heart was over thrown She came to take away this pain boy But what I felt was never shown So much left unknown I found the road but I can't turn back Over looked out of time So much left behind Drifted away reality follow the...

Son and Daughter Take one Tried to be your son and daughter rolled into one You said you'd equal any man for having your fun Now didn't you feel surprise to find The cap just didn't fit? The world expects a man To buckle down and to shovel shit What'll you do...

Oh lord I must be crazy, Settled down and I find nothing new.. Older days, they used to matter but I don't care Cause I got nothin' to lose And if I stare too long, I might not see you right Over time, the heart goes out of sight And if I stare too long, I m...

Scorn by your petrified eyes Reborn with unjustified lies With no apologies shown Demonology known I think we're dying too fast When the fury exceeds Only the angles believed It couldn't last couldn't last It wouldn't last it can't last Trial! No denial! Guilt...

Just as long as we are here, standing tall for one more year Sing out loud and keep away the cold When you're blind and you can't see Realize it's them, not me I might be hard to find, you know it happens everytime When I'm tired I crawl, I can't stand to se...

In sight - the throne is my right The Seventh King Say goodnight - to the past I indite Now come kiss the ring Because I know you must - Hide disgust Tarquinius Superbus Omnibus Tarquinius Superbus I fight - this coup my vendetta The Etruscan Way De...

This ecological atrocity finally Caves in on itself...perhaps it's All for the better Lock your doors and say goodnight As toxins leach out of sight We're living in the new age Of electronic security Technocracy probable cause Technocracy bending some laws Liv...

Not so long ago. The children laughed and played. Now they're just charred corpses Annihilated they play no more. When everything is contaminated Tell me what is gained. Tell me who has won when nothing remains? Burned limless victims of power's abuses The p...

With fear they bend your ear, words darken the season. With pride their shallow ride, vanity's believing. Riding high but my soul is all tore down. Gathering momentum, into the ground. These words are tainted, dis-info-tainment. What I see is acid to all logic...

break neck fat race world does it taste just like it should? you only own what's etched in stone better get it while it's good don't weep big city sheep I'm just trapped in your hemisphere you tell me what I should know and I can tell you what you wanna hear...

Oh I put in my time, oh not believing your lines Oh believe it all works out, hope it all works out in time I've seen the numbers of the day, It looks like time has up and flown away I've seen the golden ones stumble and fall, looks like the shine is off th...

Please pray for the plowboy 'cause there's more than meets the eye Once and twice might protect you Land of fatted lamb don't lie Land of fatted lamb don't lie So you reach out for the sky And I can't save you I can't save you Still I try to But I don't think...

Shadowed truth never tries to hide An inconvenient pride Builds abundant supplies As the Puritan dies The attrition machine Builds a new guillotine And in the place of its birth Breeds a new Nazarene Grind down the iron gears Plunge the pike, work, w...

Reckless minds they set the bait, in the grass the serpents wait. Believe you're blessed when you say yes. Then you know the trap is set. That's right, the moneychangers. Thrown out of the temple, you know it didn't last a day. Now returned in the clothes of...

Guardian angel, devil in wait Sampled your wares, was a mistake Darkness within revealed Spun out on the light that you crave Recognize what is in sight and what's hidden will come into view I hear you rail against the competition What you're selling is...

Drink of the nectar Drink of the nectar Drink of the nectar Drink of the nectar The true believer Let reason sleep, drinking 

Invalid at last smothers the working class nihilist to be turns the scrape into a gash walking tall and ignorant-this man is now a militant deceiving the prophets confession to release this endless aggression One is the soul Amplified Suicide Keeps the masses...

Feed the fire the rite of fuel. Conspire. The end begins the mute they die. Kill the fly kill the fly. Bow down or walk away. Walk away. Surreal babylon is here to stay. In retreat we plan attack so sweet. Our plans complete. Celebrate this power. Light the ow...

Visualize the demise of a self inflicted prison. History doesn't have to win. Just because the words been written. Reverse the curse of endless thirst. Chapter to verse the stake is driven. Saturated memory the recognition worn. Been a steep and winding path....

Another legend built to stand behind the glass cannot withstand Flight of resurrection, illuminating the deception The faces pressed against the glass, shut out of forever You cannot rewind or reset the eyes The tunnel at the end of light stole your sight...

The Number In Nations The God In Their Hearts The Justice In Swine The Devil In God Vote This Long Hand That Breaks Our Back Still Casting Shadows On All That We See Unjustified...Mercy Killing Is Just A Feeling To Keep Our Numbers From Being Free [Chorus] P...

What you despise is what you've become. How low can you go? The hospital? Am I out of my head? Where is the backbone, you used to own? Did you sell it to the corporate head? Sunken so low for the gold. Another sell out now. Now I'm out of my head, cause you're...

Deafness, silence wait for me. Like it loud, wide open loud. Won't turn it down for anything Never learn, let it burn Burn my hearing, jar my brain Never learn, let it burn Beyond the threshold of pain Say, I'm on the brink Can't even think What you say I'm...

Blind - Product Of Pride You Don't Speak For Me Proud Is What I Am But I Never Condemn A Man One Race - No Way Nightmares Come True These Days We All Know This Fight Is For Real [Chorus] Howling Like A Jackal, Begging To Be Heard Growing Like A Cancer, Belief...

Long back in another time, when you walked a razor's line Tuned to frequencies crystalline, and the ride was serpentine And so you read between the lies, and find what you need to find Oh, the result is preordained, so blame just who you need to blame Wea...

Oh say man, are you still alive, cause I heard your ship was sinking Back in town, but there's nothin' around, man, I know the feeling' I'm talkin' bout it Who's got the fi-yah? Who's got the fi-yah? Who's got the fi-yah? Leave it for the love, and try to cal...

When I was young some wise fool told me live & learn but nothing comes for free so I did what I could when I was able to keep the truth away from our table Young blood creepin what you need Wiseblood shake em down to his knees guaranteed Well I never wal...

torn from within disciple until the end wasting time is how it's always been kiss the floor steal the key lock the door there's many ways to decline bonefide crucified in your prime that you left behind... twighlight explodes in my time of the blind you can't...

Waiting for the sun to rise you lost another day Son of man used to stealing, you'd better find another way Still I rise, still I rise under the silver moon Never searching for the answer, now the hunter is the fool Such a fool I survive tired lies Beh...

Never bitched never moaned never gave The king the time Never lied never cried never gave the queen a dime Still it seemed to me we were losing all the time But underneath we can breath and were standing On our own never known never know Running while your wor...

Sacrifices must be made to the gods of war again It's the grunt that pay the price and the profiteers who win. Who brought this world of sorrow? Who stole your tomorrow? Far from home brought by lies, fighting on you don't know why. Death rains drones from on...

Amplified on fire, strapped to take you higher Queens appear, strapped you made it clear Is everybody with me, is everybody cool Is anybody lazy, am I the only fool ? Hell yeah maybe you a roc n rolla Hey, hey maybe I should of been colder Ditch that wish an...