Machine Head

Can you hear their cries? Nowhere can the children run to hide Crimson rivers Flow down hills Atone our ills And woe to all her songs of love A farewell to arms Mutilated lives Blackening as coffin line the sides Filled with fathers Who has won?...

Well I see, I feel On my way You close your eyes, scared to think You might see A world that spends more to kill than to cure Living, writhing, diseased, so unpure It hardens me, the things I see But I won't break. it gives me strength Our suffering. won't a...

What is a man that stays true to the game But has to cheat a little to get by Well that's a person that I know too well Don't want to know but I don't have to ask why Everyone like a loaded gun You want some shit. I'll fuckin' pound you, son Don't need a reaso...

You tried to spit in the eye of a dead man’s face Attacked the ways of a man not yet in his grave But your hate was over all too soon Because nothing is over and nothing’s through ‘Til we bury you Chorus: For the love of brother I will sing this fuc...

Go! All my life I have been used by you Time has come our game of love is through. Since I was born I've lived in the cold I've lived in the dark Now I want heat now I want light igniting spark I'm not a martyr but I am truth and you are a liar But now...

[Pre-verse] As I fall, Over and over Drunken through vodka... As I fall, Over and over Drunken through vodka & cola Shard's of glass burning the back of my head As I turn red All out war Each one get on the floor Red so hot Follow the middle son Concrete...

Anticipating, salivating, intoxicating How I've been waiting To gently soak in Your dream that's broken Caress my hands Around your throat When I choke the last gasp of air out of you I'll mesmerize you, hypnotize you Paralyze you, my snake eyes blind you My...

You tell me, I've been walking on a railing Been excelling at failing That I think wrong, I don't belong I don't fit, I don't give a shit Take my guitar and microphone, pour out my fuckin' soul Insecurity, I'll strip it down to the bone - fuck it I ain't a str...

I was that kid sittin' over in the corner, smiling with a shit-eating grin And I was that kid smilin' in the back of class 'cause I'm fryin' on mescaline I was that kid drinkin' 40's on the bleachers getting drunk after school Gettin' home too late, fallin' on...

Yesterday I told my sons "sometimes the bad guys win" And that it made me scared about the world that we live in But I had to reassure them that it wouldn’t be for long Sons we have to be ourselves We have to be strong I said “boys you are the future, so...

I gotta rise, I'm sick of your lies And I won't be your scapegoat now Ain't gonna bend and won't 'til the end Understand on my word I vow A pig, a pig, that's all you'll ever be REFUSE TO COWER TO THE SWINE I'm sick of it, at the end of my wits 'Caus...

In this struggle Are we dead or alive? Freedom is not existence It's why we survive Shake our grief Hold on to belief It can't enslave us forever There is relief No change will be permanent Our strength enduring Bright incandescent Take a chance before we fal...

Fuck you all! My redemption is knowing this will be over My aggression, I fear I’ve lost control Who is this man I stare? Mirror reflects a stranger Fist shatters the despair Awake the pain to anger Chorus: How do I close thine eyes of murder? How...

The grieving widow's pose, she stands with head held high Never to re-marry, never gonna try 'Cause that would end the symphony of sadness that we play And end the songs of wanderlust that she commiserates So she takes another shot of Crown, it helps to ea...

Sailing under sheets of rain The waves crashing inside my brain A gray horizon lies below The oceans pulling undertow Swallowed by the silence of the watery abyss Save me I'm drowning Beneath the silt I'm sinking Beneath the silt Clouds of ashen pa...

I am skin and bones, broken stones See the scars that I show I live outside the bounds, in the unknown I can't ingratiate, to the hate, ‘cause their world suffocates Carve my own path and form my destiny’s shape This storm won’t wait The rain is fall...

I understand your every fear Your every pain your every tear With every struggle you conquer Turn heart to steel And will to iron You want more? You'll get it Determined, ferocious Grit down and bite the bullet Dare to unbind Smash and redefine Th...

They say we been going down and going down Been traveling on the road to nowhere Going down, round and round Trying to get to the place where we started When I was just a boy at four years old thought the world was joy As a kid I'd play, just create the day a...

You stabbed me in the back over a sliver A feeling I have been betrayed Both hands broken together Clenching fists cause the rage It comes in spades From a life of pain I don't care 'cause I don't give a fuck It tears a path right through me A systematic vis...

Hate breeds hate my eyes they have seen The decimation of all that is pure, pure A system that feeds their machine with The blood, sweat and money of the poor, poor Corruption gets rich, honesty just exists 'Cause nobody cares anymore, anymore Fuck it all Fuc...

I bite the hand 'cause this hands feeds off me Devoid of emotion, it lives to cheat Ignorance is bliss, and respect I gave you Friend you did claim this Too bad you can't speak the truth Give respect 'Cause the rule is blood for blood Beatings are what you'l...

A blind man asked an angel Could you please help But was told Take me from this altar I won't falter But I might fall This bitter man would understand Through all his life, a needle had Been his saviour, been his God So he tried to make a change Tried to rear...

Into the battles, making cages rattle There's a pain that's inside us and we're letting it out Charge right in, we dare to fail No one is giving in, always we live to win A hunger turns and burns inside of all of us And it will not be denied Walking a path un...

I'm not the billionaire class From San Lorenzo with the trailer trash I can't afford a fucking thing in sight Something about this state is just so right San Francisco, give me your money Drug-crazed, road-rage, don't ya act funny I wanna smoke till I'm...

I feel so empty and alone, I wonder If this is ever going to go away Cause now this changes everything Smash all your sacred cows Break all your sacred vows Never look down on me What you get, what you see I could never be another brick in the wall Yo...

War! Do you hear revolution's call? It's time to fight our own denial Warmongers keep us locked in fear Invoke the past, a moment of tears An ugly truth Put forth by our youth Under the threat of patriotic brute, so Use your rage It is a weapon We...

I am a nightmare walking - psychopath talking king of my jungle - just a gangster stalking Living life like a firecracker - quick is my fuse Then dead as a deathpack - the colors I choose red or blue cuz or blood - it just don't matter Sucker die for your life...

I am your nightmares, true scares That dream when you can't stop from falling Can't fight, can't run Can't stop the person you've become I am your heartbreaks, mistakes That place inside you hate I am that shadow following every move, reminding you That it's...

The bell tolls on as the rain comes down On my face, the drops, they sound I slowly melt into grey abyss Depression and her endless kiss I hope to feel the life again End the numbness, living in I sit in silence, deaf to all And I can't look you in the...

Here in the darkness that I lay Depression heavy in its weigh And how my body aches to leave To sing its final eulogy My sons I love you evermore And though the road beckons once more I see the damage that I've done In search for redemption But I am just a bro...

Blind man ask me forgiveness I won't deny myself Disrespect you have given Your suffering's my wealth I feed off pain, force fed to love it And now I swallow whole I'll never live in the past LET FREEDOM RING WITH THE SHOTGUN BLAST! Burn my fist to the concre...

Thou have fathered Son and daughter Doth begat, yet raised not bother Paralyzed your children lives Wither vines of family ties Self-destruction Make him function Crayons and clay Days turn blue to gray Days turn blue to gray Seventeen when Family...

When she looked right into my eyes and said to me The hurt that you try to hide is killing me I drink a thousand lies, To freeze the past in time I've tried to fill this silence up But now it's back again See the pain in my eyes See the scars deep inside My G...

Well I look at justice in a different light I been to jail, it didn't make me right Try and conform but won't be deaf blind dumb Been beaten down, just harder I've become Death church rising Hate church rising Lost church rising Death church rising Hey Jesus...

In times of peace You must prepare for war In times of war You must prepare for peace In times of peace You must prepare for war In times of war You must prepare for peace In times of peace You must prepare for war In times of peace You must prepare...

Sitting in the empty black The last slivers of dusk have passed Accept the dawn to ease the fear One day I will not be here Death she comes and with her thread Upon me ties a mask for dead Its tears of blood begin to seep And bleed the sky Descend the shades...

We turn desire to fire Electric sparks to the wire Highered the stakes when we bought This monster life Prevail by daring to fail Others content just to sail Hail the future we bring We bring chaos to blocks Like, riots to watts Blow up spots, taking the crow...

Come burn with me Because I burn with conviction From a pain you'll never never Understand Never forget what i said Cause you ain't half of me I'll shatter and break Anything that stands In front of me Were taking down What the fuck is ever In our way So get a...

Yell with the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all Your back's to the wall Chain the sun, and it tears away and it breaks you as you run You run, you run! Behind the smile, there's danger and a promise to be told: You'll never get old - ha! Li...

One life, one will Black heart, black steel Ignore the hate, it's do or die motherfucker, die motherfucker (This is do or die) My hate is real This fire, it kills No other choice, it's do or die motherfucker, die I don't give a fuck about you haters an...

Bow down to no one Bow down to none Straight down Been going Been sleepwalkin' In a violent haze This world In ruin The chain shackles Like a foul disease Bow down to no one Bow down to none This rage This struggle It is a feeling That's devouring Can't b...

Elegies are to be sung Winds of armageddon come Ignorance within your bliss Soon you will atone for this In your carcinogenic haze Baneful of a newer age Flowers of a different scent Poisons of the earths lament A requiem Earth belong not to you Belong all we...

The strands of memories spread like webs of cold Along my skin I feel the frost taking its hold Burning up, my insides start to freeze Cannibalistic past, thoughts rife with disease Come and set me free Stand my ground Won't let the bastards grind me do...

Can't match the stare within these eyes Derive your strength from all your lies Can't stand the pain with which I seethe This integrity is what I breathe I'll inhale this life I gave to you And exhale the vile Time will tell the cards my friend Never will I c...

I am no longer alive Somewhere along this life I have died inside My soul has been denied Rise of the black hearts We take to the skies The ravens of omen We don't go down without a fight Your grave we dig tonight With fury and might We're freaks an...

I remember was the month october, In a garage I was standing, Scared and somber, I could smell your breathing, And the pain you're leaving, So ashamed I'm feeling, And now I am left to fate. For all the times I've been losing my mind, You molest and destroy j...

You gotta Stand tall and cut away the ties Drop walls and hold that head up high The world is fast and youth aint gonna wait So grab a hold before it gets to late Bare your soul and strip away the cold Of withered life thats past so gray and cold Cause all the...

Oh your sweet little lies Oh your sweet little lies I can hear when I hold you close to me When I look in your eyes I see through your disguise What I see is an only lonely void And I can see hell in your eyes Cause you're drowning inside Those fake t...

Let me feel my palms around your throat Let me see the pain of lost control Let me hear your heart racing inside Let me see the darkness that you hide When the night crashes down See (No vision) Can you believe? (Derision) Will I fall? (Down so far)...

The ashes chaff between my fingernails The cigarettes have stained my skin My lungs are sore from breathing in these chemicals I thrive inside this life of sin My bones are rotten to the marrow inside My veins are coursing only ice A heart of steel beats...

(Iron Maiden cover) I'm waiting In my cold cell When the bell Begins to chime Reflecting on My past life And it doesn't have Much time 'Cause at 5 o'clock They take me To the Gallows pole The sands of time For me Are running low When The prie...

This is a call to arms, will you stand beside me? This is our time to fight no more compromising And this blackened heart will sing for sad solidarity Halo over our demise Following a god so blind Sallow in their sickening Swallow not, the shit they...

Hard times are comin' your way You're gonna have to rise above it some day Organize your life and figure it out Or you'll go under without a doubt Hard times! Hard times! Seems I'm bein' forced into a mold Hard times! Hard times! Forcin' me and I'm growin' co...

Call me the spider king, I creep along the night I weave a web so dense, once caught there is no flight So delicate the strands I weave around my victims taut The terror suffocates their shattered afterthoughts I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown Hea...

I'm looking through a hole in the sky I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie I'm getting closer to the end of the line I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine I'm living in a room without any view I'm living free because the rent's never due T...

My eyes see through the lies And I see the wolves among the sheep I smell the fear inside And the odor brings me to my knees I'm at the end of my rope hanging on These scars are dragging on my soul And we won't let go We could live forever if we just l...

In this house of suffering I gotta let some joy in I hear that freedom will win Oh where oh where can jah love Be now My dear, it`s here in the underground Inside the hearts of your own children In this house of suffering I spiritualogic grin, In one way grace...

Sangre Sani (repeat) I am death Arms held outstretched I am hell Born this mortal shell I am wrath Take this bloodbath God sent me to kill you What started out as wonder The smell of scorched earth It filled me with a sense of bliss Inside my head...

Be my one, would you take my sun Would you tell someone Whether we had fun With you heroes, double zeros Running circles a round you fears I'm never ever falling again Would you tkae my grace Look into my face With your limp handshake And your smile that's fak...

So pain told you to take her Well I learned to accept that feeling 'Cause I found how to numb it If only for just a short while I'd get so high I'd forget my name I scarred my fists, I scarred my brain I think that I'm going insane I think that I'm going insan...

[instrumental] [voiceover] We’re in a critical phase of human civilization that our survival is really in question There is generally a feeling that something that there’s something happening People have been exposed of course to the whole concept of peak...

Hear me now Bearing down upon a path we choose Chosen from the start living different rules Existence something to cherish true Will not succumb to doubts that I hold onto Release the fear of my pain In so much pain Give me the will to fight Every obstacle tha...

All hail Praises be to thee Oh ye paper deity As we hail our sacred cow To the bankers we will bow Endless profit from their wars Making slaves of all the poor Your new God is on the hill ''The almighty'' dollar bill I want to burn down Wall St. bab...

I never ask myself why injustice befell me Accepted of the fact, try and live a life of peace I'm not a violent man, but to those who'd threaten me My enemy, for my family I'll show thee Death I will fight you to Wrath provoked you cannot bear Our lives...

Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there? C'mon! I was born as a bastard, no father, no master, A shadow in silence left searching for answers Put up for adoption and left with no op...

We rise We fall And then we come together and Despise this all So get your middle fingers in the air And sing They can't ignore us anymore It’s up to us So hear me out cause I don’t give a fuck I’m stuck I’m heading off the deep end like a truck No...

Love for my love, hate for my hate Strength for my strength, pain for my pain Pride for my pride, match it inside Trust that I find in you But it's hard and it's brutal, it's nasty and rude and It's dirty and mean when they treat you like yesterdays News They...

Dark Lady read me the future! The ancient verse hidden away I turn from the ever-gray, and... Tarot cards keep us enraptured! Open mind become the sage Let this unlock the cage! Ancient power... Darkest hour... Open your third eye and you'll see......

Why was I born? Sometimes I wish I didn't know Been times when I wish that I had just never been Why did you have me? Or better yet why'd you leave? So to the parents who could fuck But then abandoned me I'll give to this world what you couldn't give Love the...

Sweet caress Grazes my skin It’s loveless These hooks sink in Behind an angel’s disguise An insect preys Mandibles cut like a knife A reckoning Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder the tattered wings they sound Descending down Down they com...

Just a castaway An island lost at sea Another lonely day With no one here but me More loneliness Than any man could bear Rescue me before I fall into despair I'll send an SOS to the world I'll send an SOS to the world I hope that someone gets my I h...

You Said When That Day Came Strength Is All I Had You Said When That Day Would Come I'll Know The Sound Of Fear But Now You Ask For Forgiveness You Ask For My Respect You Beat Upon Me 'till I Broke Stripping, Taking Everything From Me Drain Me Of My Power Suc...

You Said When That Day Came Screams Was All I'd Hear You Said When That Day Would Come I'll Know The Sound Of Fear And Now You Ask Forgiveness You Ask For My Respect You Beat Upon Me 'til I Broke Stripping, Taking Everything From Me Drain Me Of My Power Suck...

One more time you've gotten into my head I've let your words get into me Every time I try to talk, you never listen You got the answers, I don't know a thing But you ask me what these lights are in my eyes They're a freight train ahead And they're straight co...

You won't see us come [4x] You won't see us come In the night With these knives, And these bloodstains on our hands Paint the walls. Taste the blade On the night of long knives. Midnight we kill. In summer '69 there came a prophet, His words were...

I am only nothing, I am only this I am just a man with these two fists You have asked forgiveness You have asked respect Only something that you did forget All you gave you had planned to take Beat upon me but I won't break Stripping everything from me ? No !...

Withered away I see it Every day complacent Desecrates the fabric of lies Emptiness fills inside me Bitterness has denied me Faith like this well Could I really give a shit When I feel it Come falling I turn you away I am the things that you fear...

I want to know How it feels When we die Can you take me under? Chorus: Dream over Grieve no more And breathe one last time Now I lay thee down She watched me leave Me bleeding On the floor As she takes me under (Chorus) Godless mimicry Where...

And with this now we die! And with this now we die! Standing at the edge of the world Uncertainty calling as the page unfurls Fortune, Heaven or Hell Shedding my body of this mortal shell Black steel and iron A Lion Heart is forged from these bones Fe...

I am the man that defends all things profane 6000 years is the time that I shall reign And with a grin drank the blood of holy swine Impurity made the blood turn into wine Old man, dead hand If only in their insanity The lie feeds off their greed Jesus wept...

Welcome in my friend Out of the cold where it's warm Please step in What's your name my friend My name's the same What a strange coincidence Glad you're come to this place What's the pleasure you chase Oh, you like playing with speed Well I have all the answer...

Lie in this state Of perdition Never to awake It negates An admission Stricken by fate There's no salvation it dwells in your bones There's no remission this sickness it owns Make love to denial her sober embrace Nails they've embedded never to release In ma...

I'm at the end of my rope And I'm starting to choke The noose is tightening around my throat It's strangling the hope That's hiding in my soul I argue with myself 'cause I can't take control So drag me through the trough With my Vietnam cough And take...

Call me the billionaire breaker, turn 'em into my bitch I'm the king of the freaks a' down here diggin' a ditch I'm at a weed cafe on a Netherlands street Riding a caffeine buzz and I'm starting to peak Mescaline pile, gettin' me high Laser beam eyes, pun...

We sail into the black And all those secrets Lost in your eyes And all those regrets You hold inside And all hose memories Left by design And all those mysteries Lost in your eyes Lost in your eyes We sail into the black We sail into the black And...

You'll find me screaming at the sun It singes my eyes The plan I devise, in this chess game to shatter the crook And now the queen takes the rook You think that you can read me like a book But you mistook the pushback, skull crack, now I take the pawn Th...

The taste of avenging blood Suffer horror she's with stood Disgust, the core of her soul The crime takes a new toll Rapes the soul Hear her pain Listen To what she'd scream I'm gonna see you bleeding Face down in the dirt I'm gonna give you back what You've t...

Yes i hold some keys of gold With cigarettes and silver bullets Angels cry and devils lie The world is our stage Look inside and try and find The part of me that's whole I wish I knew But I got threw behind Take my hand Across this land Escape this, all the h...

I’m Wasted and ugly, I am the underbelly A fat fuck and a fairy The reject they wish to bury Pre Chorus: They want to Murder us, silence us Divide and conquer us As they lead, as we die Let these three words decide Chorus: I love you! Why do I ha...

Bitterness infested, justice is molested Govern my contested ways As a child arrested, as a man detested Happiness inside my pain You hate my life Because you see my strife Could never understand or try It makes me mad Because it makes me sad But I don't care...

Give me power to end all of the strife Courage to kill the pro-life I don't want to see You can't change me You tell me not to bow Just follow for now You're oh so holier than thou The more things change The more they stay the same The more things change The...

Electricity is pulsing through our veins a charge is racing A chain reaction through the four of us, to you, will make the transformers begin converting into overdrive Power surge now exploding through Energy, filling the ominous void within you No need to li...

The drum beats on as I fall in trance Stepping away from the endless dance My enemies in the endless abyss The snakes slithering out of the mist No subtleties truth is all that I ask No pleasantries you can take off the mask This world has left me bruise...

It's been around for a thousand years And it'll be here for plenty more It is the face hidden in disgrace That has become now an open sore It is a false messiah It is the face of pain The bringer of the bittersweet The heretic insane Take my scars Through ha...

Check check check check! Ten fold, Ten fold, We grow ten fold, Ten fold, Ten fold! We got these so-called friends, Claiming way too hard to have all that. When it comes down to it, It's them who's talking the most. They got a problem with us, Cause we tell i...

I am the thing that makes you sick I am the blame that gets placed quick Detect the crack within your lie (your lie) I'll be the wrath of your disdain I'll be the fear in you engrained Become the facts that you deny (deny) I can feel this pain is real I hate...

Yes I walk the path, the righteous Many men have walked before And this pain's held A broken shell Straight shackled onto the floor So welcome to the world That i lived in Puking up bile and hate My world has turned To false inclusion Sickening broken state...

I see the sun begin to rise And I'm blinded too I've seen the world through jaded eyes that I'm crying through I've watched the darkness hypnotize And can't fight it Hold on I'm falling Can't breathe anymore An ocean has opened These scars need to heal over...

And I watched through bitter eyes As the blood filled in the cracks, black A burning effigy Told me I should kneel 'cause I'm worshipping With terror, a disease Bum the sacred oil Chorus: They told us there'd never come a day They told us that...

This world does not want me This world does not care And I'm a product of this world Confused. I'd say that's fair This pain will never leave me It's scarred upon my brain Destroying everything that brought this Just to keep me, just to keep me sane A hatred...

Along deserted avenues Steam begins to rise The figures primed and ready Prepared for quick surprise He's watchin' for a sign His life is on the line Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Dogs whine in the alleys...

This ends now This ends now And I don't care about last year Won't be afraid of what the future holds can't fear Want not the past and the safety it brings It doesn't mean anything We've come too far There's no going back now Bring on the future with an open...

I used to want to take a drill to my head Let the pain out of the hole I used to want to cut the veins in my neck Cool the blood boiling my soul When I wondered, why my daily headaches thundered Tried to buffer, pushing down the pain I suffered Mutilated, feel...

And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between 'Cause that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam When you balance life on a triple beam When you balance life on a triple beam I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a bri...

Words of the righteous We will not bend The odds keep stacking up against Strengthen our perseverance Break down the cycle Of errors past We have to face up to the truth Relinquish every grudge or bruise Every ounce of strength grasps One solid dream Violent...

I want you to know this I want you to know just what I feel You told me through sacred lies I told you once with bloodshot eyes You told me don't ask Just stay away from me You told me it'd be alright I told you once, then told you twice You can't face Can't...

Fuck the world! Go! They never see me coming Their faces twisted in shock Now the fools come gunnin' To put our heads to the block Sick of the laughter, sick of the pain Sick of the feeling this feeling of shame Sick of the white folks privileged and...

Veins are a racetrack for fuel that I need Life on the edge is the bread which I feed Standing alone, open for all to see My tunnel vision for life, it drives me Focus in closer Releasing the fear White - knuckle blackout, adrenaline rush Wide-eyed and red-f...

This is who we are This is what I am We have nowhere else to go Divided we will stand We are the ugly Beaten and torn Brooding with power and ready for more We are the hungry Sick of this world Of robbers of thieving Of vultures unfurled We have been left o...

Ask me how it feels To feel like you're a failure When everything that's real Burns the flame in anger I've heard it all before I've felt some pain and more More than you could ever dream More than it probably seems I've sat with head in hand Stressed by my de...

The night is black Without a moon The air is thick, and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like...

Unleash the wolves Carnage has no rules Comparison, competition We’ll bury one and all Solo: Demmel Look in the eyes of rage A loyalty bred of suffering The fire inside it burns eternally, victory Look in the eyes of pain The scars on our souls for...