Metal Church

Better flood that restless soul of ecstasy and fright In a path, splattered gore all through the night Wakin' up at midnight, my bodies soaked in sweat All my friends are down the stairs, watching the TV set Hearing now a scratching noise outside my window pa...

Shadows in a dark place lurk inside the walls Hiding from daylight hiding from us all Windows of a past life, reflections hard to find Memories of lost days, etch their place in time Anger and frustration, diseases of the mind Just like the evils, the evi...

A permanent disguise hid within the eyes Paint a vivid picture of our lives We look into the future and kneel to one knee We plea for absolution and judgment to be It's not the cross you bear, of some you should beware And I can see that you don't really care...

I hold the key to the world's security Any price they'll pay to me, pay to me I see the signs, and I heed the call, no one will know me, no one at all Freedom is calling, the money's green, and to no country will I pledge my loyalty I pass for someone wh...

Times like these to people please Fables spread like some disease New age gods like old facades Write a book You'll like the odds Inventing gods Old facades Take apart human heart you will start Through the doorway of all your sorrows Beginning to pu...

Starved for destination, a beggar man by trade A desperate man needs more than someone else to blame Friendless he appears, he hides behind his tears For things he's lost, or things he'll never have at all The forgotten man wanders misplaced in the world...

Badlands [K. Vanderhoof / M. Howe] I ride alone, the wasteland that I cross Will take another life, we'll take another loss I feel a dry wind, dust is in my eyes The artic cold at night, the earth, it tells me lies God in heaven, my only friend Will I live...

Deep slumber awakened by sirens I realize life's been thrown to the lions What I saw last night, our city so fair And to my horror, the bloody town square The time is now, we must avenge We form tonight, we kill tonight We must rest to regain our strength We...

I've been waking up shaking, and the bottles are gone What will I do with my day, and how will I get along I need a replacement for the habit I have I just need to get something, I can't live in the past The craving grows stronger the longer I'm away The pain...

Curse the man, curse the prophet, worse the man without any eyes Play the madman, play the poet, some say he hides in a perfect disguise Less the man that heeds no warning, and lets the sand run through his hands His fingers stiff with anticipation,...

The war is over The crypt we now taste In the late 1900's, there is no human race We split the planet with atomic birth Man has died We seal the urn. Negotiations are over Troops are marching to their doom All that I see is a nightmare The smoke is blotting o...

In a web of confusion you're strangled by your fear A hopeless situation you've been in for years No hope for tomorrow, no hope for today Always defending mistakes that you've made When you're lost on the wrong side and you're feeling no pain You plead f...

Cleaning up the wreckage of the past, how many more times Will we have to pass the test Their eyes have been upon our every move, they're waiting for us We answer not to you It's blood money, we're paying all the time, It's blood money, no reason or no rh...

Going to blow your mind If you have the time Now can you feel it moving through you Like holding fire with your hands Now can you feel the spirit moves you To reveal the master plan You see it coming all full circle But you still don't understand No...

Dreams of the dark embracing me, these thoughts I can't control Searching for light to set me free, from my troubled soul Good against evil battles in my mind, the fighting never stops Man, I've struggled with temptation and sin, in my darkest thoughts When wi...

We come into this world to give and not to take We stray the path intended further from the gates We play with fire and we're always getting burned When you walk unholy ground another lesson learned Free again, free again I know I can breathe again I can brea...

I don't care what you think, it means nothing to me Your opinions are useless words, annoying usually So you think you had me down, guess what surprise surprise In the air I sense the fear and I see it in your eyes What you say is what you choose It's a...

Black scared and bleeding From the lashes to my soul I chose to stand my ground Not do as i was told Thinking like mindless sheep These people were my friends Now i feel abandoned With a pain that never ends [REFREN] My blood is boiling now On this...

Living my life by the numbers Counting backwards every day Seeing things I let decay there I've been watching every day I hear you screaming, get off of my back I hear it every day How will it feel when your world’s turning black? How can it feel so go...

On the pedastal you stand of promises to keep I can make the changes and keep you off the streets I will never let you down, together we can win All I need is your support, the funds keep flowing in I am the one who will make all the difference I am the one w...

The bills I can't pay it's the same everyday All of my life I've done what I thought was right, the way it should be But deep in the night when it all just comes to light, of how it could be Can't find that gold mine I'm sub prime And living too close...

I'm your conductor, welcome to the station Always got an empty seat, no need for reservation There's no need to hesitate, come and step inside Take a chance, climb aboard, come enjoy the ride Here we have the secrets, here we have the answers All forgott...

From way across the world, to right here where we are The screams can still be heard in the silence of the night The disciples spread the word and spare the non-believers A message has been burned into the minds of all Throughout the years some come and s...

And when the strings are pulled again, the puppets dance like mortal men Who carved in stone our future and our past Shall we read the blood stained pages and take counsel with the sages And hear the chanting of a mind's collapse In my name, I will bring you f...

The blind will lead the blind again down a lonely path to hell The fires await in the fading moon of another realm The key is turned, it unlocks the grave, it awaits the dead All casualties of a major plague under their command Call out to them and they will...

Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Stealing from you everything you wanted Pay the price in everything you do Can't escape ’cause you are being haunted Loving everything I stole from you Falling, falling out of view It's calling...

I live my life the best I can, sometimes I need a change Losing all my marbles wasn't part of the game Existing day by day tormented by the telephone It's hard enough to live my life, why don't you live your own? I pay out money with a check, I never use the...

Rain forever, darkened skies Hopeless is a way of life out here No one ever sees the sun, got a future on the run in fear The walking dead they lurk the streets, The whores and damaged industry of night Morbidly they carry on No one's home, the lights a...

A mystery of the universe a tale of the dead Far into the psyche and far until the end The mind it often wonders about the few and far between But in these lines I think you'll find that you will believe Oh far beyond the violent skies you can see a watchful...

I've got nowhere to go I've got some rocks to throw today A child so lost in time A kid whose mind's been blown away He's heard all he can hear And seen more than he wants to see This town's all dead end streets Signs saying what young men should be...

I hear it in a minstrel wind, it's crying out the tune Of a prophet's only hope to tell the world He wrote down it on parchment, but alas no one believes Of the vision only one man could conceive He knows it's true Will the people have the ears to h...

I prey upon your morbid fear Of terminal disease You won't know the difference Now it's time for surgery Another shot, another pill Two weeks therapy I take all major credit cards Your money is what I need I'm a healer I will keep you all alive I'm...

So now I've told you time after time Jump to conclusions when you make up your mind Is this the road you want to be on You'll find out soon that it's not very long Evil is breeding the master is grieving A lie so deceiving We all fall down I see the news and...

Hear the sounding, feel the pounding Pain is coming, you don't know where Blood is thick, you're feeling sick Live with the choices you have made Hard as stone it must be so In a systematic life of lies Flight or fight, run or die You can't stand to even try...

I've got no time for decisions All I can do is complain They threaten with institutions I think they're all insane Ruthlessly holding on The person they want you to be I took the easy way out Flee from reality I'm in a state of confusion I don't kno...

Generation nothing, walks a crooked path Generation nothing, never coming back Got no dreams just plans and schemes and things to never tell Generation nothing lives in hell I'm just a damage case who just found overdrive Another chance to be alive I'm...

A lonely god you captured, do you feel the pain Tried to help the people but your help was all in vain You gave to us their fire, but who was watching you Chainin' out a reason, now what you gonna do? Whoa, oh Yeah! Alright! Come on! Right now! Now tha...

In an act of desperation, he put a gun to his head In his mind confusion, nothing but delusion, thinking he was better off dead No one to be his savior, from the vices he made Voices callin' to him, left his life in ruins, drugs have led his mind astray...

When the whole wide world around you crumbles to the sea I don't know what it might mean to me If you look around you'll find that freedom isn't free Just look up, you'll find you're on your knees It's a crime You crossed the line And to this day of pen...

You've got to live for the moment, you've got to go for the throat You're given only one chance and you know that life's too short Feel your pulse getting stronger, no fear in your eyes Never showing weakness and you never compromise The hero's soul, drift...

Your woman's unfaithful, she's got a backdoor man You've seen the signs and you understand They'll soon be dead, now, I know just what to do I got the guns, ha-ha, I got the tools Yes, I'm the One they call the best In the name of all, I'm just a hitman I'll...

Walk into a distant room bare walls speak loud and clear You left no shadows for me to see can't believe that you're not here Your missing face the bitter taste I long to be inside But hurtful words left you disturbed so you left it all behind All of the...

You won't find me, in my bed right off the bat 'Cause I've been working, all night long for centuries Bloody Mary, the drink of choice for those who dabble In the nightlife, a well dressed beast with savoir-faire Great God Almighty, I get the craving when...

I'm trapped in the pressure cooker when will I ever learn While my world has reached the boiling Point of of no return Don't light a match near me I'm bound to explode Don't pull this shit with me I want what I'm owed I've seen the facts and the figu...

In the empty spaces of the mind, that's here I store my past A ghostly image that I fear has yet to be surpassed I pray that I won't carry all the pain 'till the end No direction from your guardian, the one who should protect I'm innocent of their decisio...

Maybe if you'de listen than you'de know what I just said If you think the words I'm singing are why your kids are dead Maybe could it be that no one was there to hear Did you pay attention to their angers and their fears? You're trying to find someone to blame...

Just the pain has worn me down Don't play me far ahead Living quiet, fighting for some time Your gonna see one day Your not listening now You haven't heard a word I said Your laughter burns hot An existing pawn Your lies are open now Nothin' left to...

When everything's coming up roses The thorns will still leave scars on my hands Just pour me a scotch and a soda I'll get drunk and I'll act like a man I gotta get some of that magic I hear the voices calling A song I dare not trust And all my sleepless drea...

He's burning through the distant mist of Earth To find what's missing in his soul Into the blinding light, eternity The rim of hell he will control And so he brings us, all into the fold Relentless advocate to the stories that he's told There is no endi...

In your eyes a veiled disguise No surprise Now it waits for you Into the fray it went away Or so they say Still it waits for you Still inside the great divide Is growing inside There it waits for you Alone I pray for all who say They've lost their...

There's no other place to run, and nothing new under the sun Don't we hear the tolling of the bells I thought we got beyond all this, with marching and the angry fist Still we stand up shouting what the hell Like rats in a cage, with uncontrolled rage Yo...

And when you hear the sound, of your life crashing down And no one seems to give a damn You will be all alone, left in the danger zone A very sad and lonely man... Do you understand? And when it's time to pay, for all your evil ways Your story no one wil...

t's the calm before the storm Wishing you could see the light Growing fear and sadness there Can you tell its your final sight Tubes and wires keep you here Not alive and yet not dead No feelings You're wide awake in your head While the prayers have been said...

You see my life is rather simple I'm just another face And all your textbooks All you know Will soon construct the case Warped emotions like a river Everywhere a bend And what we cannot hold together We try to keep within Listen doctor you cannot help me The...

Straight into a vicious wind, this is where it all begins You bare your soul one last time, laying everything on the line The struggle of so many years, all the pain, all the tears Still you're always pushing on, waiting for your day in the sun We see with blo...

Just the other day I heard the newsman say Enemy missiles fired And coming out our way Will we all be told Just who the hell we are Where we take our ships Of trade to port calls very far [REFREN] Beyond the line of death He says he'll get you If you dare def...

Mama, I'm crying, did the silver angel warn the earth From a blue sky falling? Father, I'm frightened, what will happen if it falls again? Will you be there to shelter me? The little dot that falls, a little boy, that's all That's all... Morning c...

The endless years and hardluck tales, and some that have just moved on, I guess it could be envy when I wonder what's gone wrong Fingers point at all the problems, but that won't change my mind I must have been held back in hardknox school a few more times...

[K. Vanderhoof] I never was a man of wonder, nothing special in my eyes Pedestrian of common streets, an angel in disguise A childhood spent as any other, any other child Would bring a great divide, and now these worlds collide Now that many years have passed...

One foot within the grave, your life has been enslaved Your soul can not be saved, nor the penance that you gave You put the fear on a grown man's face You shake the ground with all that you create You are a god amongst all mortal men You are the reason that w...

As you stand on the edge of your life what are your last thoughts Do you remember when you were full of life Your judgment has been clouded oh for so many years There is a lake you have created oh from all of the tears Now meet your maker, thou shall repent N...

Many, many years ago on a distant shore Men did gather secretly beyond a hidden door They travelled long and travelled far Dark into the night Yes, this is the place they've chosen To build the Metal site. Congregation rises, starts to chant a hymn Of evil, l...

Please let us at them, Goes the barrack room cry, I'm glad I'm not going. I'm not dying to die. I've got all my medals Survived sneak attacks It's not worth all the feelings And compassion I lack. Out on the run, guns at your back, They've got you in their si...

When you look at yourself you can see a bewildering soul A shell of a once stable man who's lost all control You've journeyed so long now you've sealed all your plans But when you look at your reflection you try to understand In the mirror of lies...

Too many people are walkin' around Too many people are dead in this town And all you people are dressing like clowns And it's bringing me down I see you out there and you're like a disease You point your finger of judgement with ease (With ease) You're...

Tomorrow is here today, ones and zeros pave the way Nothing's real but looks the same The future's looking far too bright and I can never sleep at night New creations just a click away Interaction from your chair, a social life not really there No one is who...

I can see the future A needle and a suture A deeper wound will long be healing For on the ground you will be kneeling You're looking up while it's tearing you down Asking for nothing but taking you down In for a penny you're in for a pound You have bec...

No one's born with hatred, it's something that you learn How do you think the good Lord feels, about the crosses you burn What makes you hate the difference of someone's skin or race? You must think you have more rights to be living in this place I do...

A future is something that you'll never know Something that's hiding and will never show Seeing the fingers are pointing at you, will you die? Losing your mind is like losing your soul Something you're fighting while losing control You're on your knees wh...

Like a creeping shadow moving through the room No one else can see it, I sense impending doom Plugged into my mind somehow, it haunts me all day long Like a strange religion, the children marching on I hear the voices, they're calling me back Oh God what...

A man exists alone Hidden by a shell Touched in such a wicked way No one could ever tell Is what he sees for real? Or only in his mind? The staring of the old man's eyes Chills him deep inside It is the eye That will destroy him Stuck in the mind It is the ey...

When you have balance and sleep through the night Then you will feel everything is alright Follow the leader and lead you astray And when you hear me get out of my way There is a reason that we're here tonight Injection of power to get in the fight Wher...

No matter what you say, You're gotta make it through the day. You know you will, you know you will. Just call the doctor on the phone, Tell 'em you can't make it all alone. Gotta get your fix. So climb aboard your scarlet ship, Stars are brightly dancing in y...

Stick your fingers in the eyes of night Rip open the Belly of Death Now you'll see What is real Tear down the image of youth all around Steal the dreams from their minds And you'll be All their lies Can it be what you're taught to believe It's nothing more t...

When you hear the lies Somewhere deep the truth is hidden Look into my eyes In the stone nothing is written Feeling good, feeling strong Didn't think I'd last this long Reaching deep, my soul to keep Praying every night for sleep Turn the page in my o...

Integrity of construction The best money can buy Her size is greater than any A Belfast shipyard's pride Signal flags spelled out the word "Success" On her maneuvering trials Preservers and lifeboats were not in excess Unsinkable, no plans to save lives Athin...

From the falling of the night To the coming of the day We are in it for the fight To wish the pain away And you know it's always right But you know you’re gonna pay So you get a sharper knife And commence to cut away Revolution underway Revolution un...

Do you feel in the middle? Do you feel kinda strange? Do you feel just a little Lost, insane? Do you take everything for granted? With defeat in your name Or will seeds you have planted, seeds you have planted Rot away? Do you feel lack of solace Wh...

In a holy war from these shores Where lands are hot and dry Nations forged by gods own hand These kingdoms in the sand A billion dollars everyday The un-people pay Political shemes and the war machines Its a news media scene Still Gods children die...

Like a loaded gun Aimed at everyone Trying to get somewhere before your time is done The grinding never ends It wears you down and then Chews you up and spits you out and starts again Like a torture that's only in your head Want to crawl out of my skin...

Sneaking up behind you Can you feel my breath upon your neck You won't see me coming Just a spirit no one can detect Look in my eyes, you'll never know You turn your back and run away You'll never see, just what I see I am the dark that won't let go I...

Always in my head, but nothings ever said Only one thing keeps me here where angels fear to tread Watching all the time, ignoring all the signs Pushing buttons on the ground and trying to shut my eyes Now the payment's coming due And I'm tired of warning...

Time is taking its sweet time The clock is ticking and I'm going to lose my mind So tell me, tell me how it feels Whispering the everlasting mystery deal Now if you really feel it's true There's nothing you can ever say or ever do Moving on with endless...

Is it just the Things you see that make it all worth while Put your God into a box and keep him by your side Hopeless is the refugee escaping from the truth The mothership has passed you by now there's nothing you can do My time is finished here Now choose wh...

I'm gone I'm outta here, it's not the place for me I've lost the sense of self and my reality I can't believe my eyes, it's right in front of me I watched you change your face In hopes of changing me Like a soul eating machine Feeding on my hopes and dr...

Break down the walls of forever. Pull down hard on the lever. Let them know that you can turn the key. Though they try to hold us down. Turn it up, that chainsaw sound. I just love to see my parents flee. So you see that they're all going nowhere. Everybody's...

I can see the empty sky that's not to far away There will be no place to hide, the light got in the way Back to start do it again and try some other way If you don't take it to heart you'll die another day We don't suffer fools That is the golden rule W...

Dreaming that you're feeling that you're falling and it’s a long way down Right before you hit you shudder before you hit the ground The edges are frayed and laid into place stalling time escapes your brain The slightest sign of an un-kept mind they tell yo...

Lost, lost in a maze, can't rearrange, my mind is unclear Fade, fade into black, but not fade away Who should I turn to, where should I go, six feet too deep in the ground How long can I take this, how long will it last I can't stop re-living my past Beyo...

You're playing with your magic cards And laughing at the dark The devil sends his best regards To your own amusement park For now it's all just fun and games And none of this is real Until you find yourself in chains 'Cause you just spin that wheel Y...

Domination everywhere laid upon your feet Kill the rich and feed the poor, prepare to take your seat Your crown of thorns you wear so well fits you like a glove Your reign of terror wreaks of hell, you're the evil one Burning and burning you can't resist the f...

I think, you've lost Another bit of your mind I see, your lies Some kind of contract you've signed I can't tell, if you want Another day in hiding And just like all cowards, you run away And so the coward runs away There is no fight another day The...

It's way past midnight There's a howling wind Oh God what can it be? Something out there evil And it's coming straight for me The house is dark and very cold I know there's no one here Why am I scared to death Just petrified with fear 'Cause I'm shakin' and I...

What will you say to me today Tell me to do You are the words lead me astray But I'm on to you Now that I've had some time to think How it will be I will not heed your whispering All inside my head You try to tear me up inside Sometimes you do But n...

In these days of depressing times, There stands one final truth There's no doubt in my mind at all: the future belongs to the youth So take a stand and show them the best you can do The odds are against you, or so you assume Fight for your rights, they're you...

Why don't you find a worthwhile cause to channel your energies? Like finding a solution to starvation and disease I know that you're concerned about your First Ammendment rights But don't you burn our flag to make your point, that's just not right If you t...

I just can't believe my ears, some music out these days The human factor has diminished, in oh so many ways Fancy footwork gets top bill and I'll put on such a show One more Midi cable and my band is ready to go One more moneymaker and I'm set for life St...

Mechanical waste is all we offer we suffer the taste then eat some more Look for bare space we’ll place an add no matter what it’s for The visual leaks into the after the retina bakes a greenish glow The human touch lost to man made waves the propaganda sho...

In the mind's eye we commit the perfect crime We are drawing nearer, we're only one step away When we visualize the destruction from inside We tear ourselves apart and we are to blame Too far and never near the ending will appear To pose another question of w...

It's more than understanding, to realize just what it means Interpretations, different meanings, can be drawn out of anything It all makes sense now, I see it clear The picture comes together, and I have lost the fear Your heart is the key The powers that be...

Rituals are carried out for reasons quite unknown The fact remains you have no mind to call your own Condoned by a bible I have written for myself No duplicates, there's only one inside my shelf The spell can't be broken You all have been chosen You're dying...

I don't think that you believe me I don't think you care 'Cause if you did you wouldn't be so scared You don't think there's any future You just sit and stare Just have a seat in my electric chair Electrify (Electrify) Feel it in the air Catch you una...

You're caught in a vice by your own device, torment and pressure, a way of life You felt the stardom and tasted the fruit, you claw your way back It's all that you can do Falling from grace, so many have done, get to the top and bask in the sun Make some mista...

We will not follow Rome The twisting of our faith With the hand of God You wrote the new light The queen has decreed You must believe like me So it is written so it shall be So it shall be So the list was captured And it's time for us to die Followi...

Vacant eyes, a portrait of pain, every time I look at the world Tell me why, we cannot bring change, we've flown to high on borrowed wings What will tomorrow bring Only time will tell, we're searching, to escape ourselves, before it's over Guilt and lies, pave...

Rip it up, kick it out. Blood begins to flow. Taking chances, The only way I know. Sacrificed everything. I'm the grinding stone. Ripping flesh, drawing blood. I'de love to eat your bones. My world will not cave in. I will dare so I will win. Hear the timebom...

Night time, see the castles burning Smoke in the skies and tears in their eyes As the world keeps turning Sleep now, hear a distant thunder It's far away, at least for today Close your eyes and wonder Spring turns so quickly to summer Summer so quickly...

In a darkened graveyard glows a light. I see it shine there every night. I know somewhere there's a hidden door. There's an answer here we must explore. No, I'll not submit to reason. I'll sit and watch the seasons change. We watch the children pray. Save us...

Obtain a cloak of power That brings us all genocide The further sands before the masses Malevolence inside [REFREN] Truth to falsify Poisoning their minds Hell is on the rise The west must now align Perceive what is right Rush headlong into the fight No way...

With banner high they ride to glory, a new beginning to an age-old story Spreading fear with hateful eyes, then into the night they ride In the end the same conclusion, a weathered world of disillusion A war of words, a chain reaction, you can hear the million...