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Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait lyrics



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01. Bastard chain

Searching for power, who is to blame?
You weak little bastard - bound to symbols of pain
Hiding in shadows, a pungent smell
You haven't decide your own fate cause
Your story of life is too bitter to tell
Your dying eyes with a cowards reflection,
Heading for the true direction, forward to die!

Bastard Chain, with souls so lame the bastards chain
Bastard Chain, with souls so lame
A Bastards chain

So you say your mind belongs to them?
Turned upside down again and again and again
Feel ashame, feel ashame
Yourself to blame, yourself to blame
Only yourself...
Only yourself you can blame! only yourself you can blame!

Helpless you will devour,
Everything that comes before your eyes
Citizens of restless power, never let your scorn rule your fate...
Your fate!! ...always dragging you down, to the ground,
A disgrace, a disgrace, your "masterpiece", your "masterrace"
Only yourself... only yourself you can blame!
Only yourself you can blame!

Hey!
Won't you tell me your name and justify your way of thinking
Walking the stairs of the manipulated ones
Only yourself... only yourself you can blame!
Only yourself you can blame !

02. Like an average stalker

I think you just forgot to tell me why,
Why I was fading out again
Why my mask of sanity was slipping off again, my friend
Beware of hatred when your time stands still

Like the average stalker
Forge to forgive
Like the average stalker

I'm just sliding, disappear into the night
Like a strange and a forgotten light
One, two, three, four and I'm at your door
Calculating infinity
In my silence where no one else can hear,
What is right, what is wrong (right, wrong)
In my silence where no one else forgives
Where the sane and insane strikes together as one

Where is the fire, it makes no sense at all
I'm just hiding beneath the hour
Disabled through affliction I can't reach out
Reach out, reach out
In my silence where no one else can hear
What is right what is wrong (right, wrong)
In my silence where no one else forgive
Where the sane and insane strikes together as one
With a violent work of art I proceed,
In this lack of faith I get what I need, what I need!

Like the average stalker,
Forge to forget,
Like the average stalker,
Like a silent talker,
Like the average stalker

03. Needlefeast

Well, it's one for the money,
Two for the show it makes no difference where I'll go
Push injections in my skin
To make my mission begin
Needles to fly, needlefeast, needles to die, needlefeast
Gotta get inside, gotta get inside, needles to die needles to fly
Burning up my hunger, lay it all to rest!
Waking up my hostile pain, put it to the test
When all is said and done I tell you I'm the one
The one to reign supreme I'm like a brickwall
I'm a solid player and I'm standing tall
Who can make me fall
On this very road...
Needles to fly, needlefeast, needles to die, needlefeast
Gotta get inside, gotta get inside, needles to die needles to fly
Fly! Fly! Fly!

This life I cannot face it, with the writings on the wall,
This time - it's hard to face it
As I'm screaming what am I doing here?!

I bite the days like a suctionpump
Another breath, another punch
It makes me catch my breath
Needles to fly, needlefeast, needles to die, needlefeast
Gotta get inside, gotta get inside, needles to die needles to fly
Fly! Fly! Fly!

Before you steal my breath away
I like to know if I was led astray
Neurosis comes to me at night
It holds the truth cause I'm...
One for the money, two for the show
Straight to hell is where I go!
Go!Go!Go!

This life I cannot face it, with the writings on the wall
This time - it's hard to face it
As I'm screaming...
What am I doing here?!

04. Neurotica rampage

Neurotica you player and daughter of mine
Don't you think I know what's all behind
I suck on your evil punches that my grants soul tumble and roll
You give me strength to break my chains
Demonic assaults is all that remains
Raising hell within my veins,
Claim it's right to play those games
You're making me repeat myself again
Bury the hatchet, light my torch
A true believer, a deadly force
You're making my sore eyes live again
The wrath of my demon
Is all that I can give back to you
No use for solitude It's better to be burned
And not to learn that your master will return
You give me strength to break my chains
Demonic assaults is all that remains
Raising hell within my veins
Claim it's right to play those games
You're making me repeat myself again
Bury the hatchet,light my torch
A true believer, a deadly force
You're making my sore eyes live again

Hear! hear them say it's so clear
What's behind and so near
Hear them say it's so clear...
That you're one of them

Look at the inside and tell me that everything there is so sane
You're so affective and only got your roots to blamed
You give me strength to break my chains
Demonic assaults is all that remains
Raising hell within my veins,
Claim it's right to play those games
You're making me repeat myself again
Bury the hatchet, light my torch
A true believer, a deadly force
You're making my sore eyes live again

You give me strength to break my chains
Demonic assaults is all that remains

05. The analyst

Straight forward on the path of life
Who makes you choose that way
Is it a crime to give it all up
To leave it all behind
Oh...this is all so crystal clear
Going on in shallow blindness
To watch the madmen sort things out
No time to spill
Isn't it such a thrill?
By self-deception I am bound to take it seriously
I'm way beyond, I've put myself in such horrible way to go

I think you just made a big mistake...
This is just a fake cause I am
Guilty by association, sinner of mankind,
I'm forced to build my life upon this, hidden path
I just can't find.

Well...is this all so crystal clear?
Sometimes it seems like time stands still
Demolish myself at free will
Can you watch me burn
As the sun goes down and my life is overturned,
Can I identify myself with the judgement that I'm facing here
Can't deny, won't deny that
I'm level with the ground by fear

Punished and banished I kill the ways of life
You predict and restrict my views in the hands of time

You wear the face of desperate man displacing his fatal actions
Refuse to recall the miserable times of stupid and naive attractions Going on in shallow blindness
To watch the madmen sort things out
No time to spill,
Isn't it such a thrill?
By self-deception I am bound to take it seriously
I'm way beyond, I've put myself in such a horrible way to go

I think you just made a big mistake...
This conversation's over
The analyst may have won this case of
Discrimination and nothing but lies
This fallen era makes me wonder
Is it worth it when your dignity dies

06. Grand failure anthem

Look at the pale face in the sky
It seems so ravaged inside the sense of rage is burning my eyes
Burning in my eyes, burning to deny
I'm apart of a fallen machine
Which reflects my life of misery
Please guide my way through fallen galaxies
Grand Failure anthem
You'll never see what you've become
We want to get some well-earned respect before we choke
Well, there isn't anything that will kill our lust, our lust for power...
They say: "may you get an hour in
Heaven before the devil knows your dead!"
Grand failure anthem
You'll never see what you've become
We'll never get some well-earned respect cause we have...
Failed! Failed! Failed!
Ripped another spine til'the end of time
Failed! Failed! Failed!
We're being flushed down the drain

And the one you hate
Will suddenly be yourself
And it's all to late...

Anything, anything what will
Make my conscience clean
Is there anyone out there
Who can restore what we have destroyed?
Grand failure anthem
You'll never see what you've become
We'll never ever get some well-earned respect cause we have...
Failed! Failed! Failed!
Ripped another spine 'till the end of time
Failed! Failed! Failed!
We're being flushed down the drain

Disruptive and bound to kill itself
The face of earth will turn
When you're crawling to the cross
And your inner thoughts reveal themselves
Grand failure anthem
You'll never see what you've become
We'll never get some well-earned respect cause we have...
Failed! Failed! Failed!
Ripped another spine 'till the end of time
Failed! Failed! Failed!
We're being flushed down the drain...

So you have died, you pale face in the sky
The rage is burning...burning my eyes I'm blind
Grand failure anthem
We'll never see what we've become
We'll never get some, well earned respect...

07. Structure divine

Cause I can't find pleasure anywhere,
This life is strangling me
If I would turn myself inside out
Would I find peace of mind, would I find peace of mind?
And when the silence remains
And all the fields stays the same
It isn't different from the power that it holds
Now,where is the pain?,
As I gaze between my desires
There's a shadow and a bleeder every once in a while,
Can't you see my eyes they're trembling
Beware the millions of senses locked in this rusty cage,
A fanatic rage this time I will stand still
And no blood will be spilled

Yeah, I think I'm loosing it,
Back to normal a feast on the moral, served on a silver plate...

And when the silence remains
And all the fields stays the same
It isn't different from the power that it holds
Now, where is my pain?
A big hail to my sadistic pleasures
They saved my soul for a special price
As I begin to fade, the creature cries
So I'm heading for another one that will
Watch me raise my bloodstained banner
No questions asked,
No question asked

A competition that will last until the silent one will speak
So this is it, is this the century sun?
Mother of destruction, please let me be the one to know
Father of my pure aggression, don't cut the way where I will go

08. Shadowchild

I lick the surface of a freedom ride
Under a hammering light....I scream!
Let's roll the dice of the future
Burning in my hand
I've built destruction upon the velvet skies
Maybe I'm strong, maybe I'm wrong

Lead us
Shadowchild - soiled bu your faith in disguise
Shadowside - reflecting the eyes

I'm raising hell, a magic spell
Pain and pleasure together as one
I will recall, I will recall
When I'm down the stairs....
I spit human cries, I can feel when they lie
My sun being one with the...universe
Hear my call

Creating my crown from the millions of lights
I'm abused beyond recognition
Pre-Millenium futuristic I predict you all to live
Under an individual sun
We're all collecting our senses and run...

Lead us,
Shadowchild - soiled bu your faith in disguise
Shadowside - reflecting the eyes
Lead us
Shadowchild - the truth's lying far from your life
Shadowside - reflecting the eyes...

09. Final fatal force

Forevermore, fucked, strapped to the floor
Headlong while I'm pissing on your floor
Nameless, clueless a brick in the game
Soon to be removed from the face of the earth
Is this a human feast? I was in slumber...now!
Am I to be released?
Way down in my electric pit
Where all you gimps reign supreme
Where I by your strings are dangling
Twinkle, twinkle, dangling tip, tap, toe
Is this a human feast? I was in slumber...now!
Am I to be released?
At least I had a hunger for more!

Final, fatal, fatal force, feed the flame once more
Final, fatal, fatal force to get rid of yourself

This final verdict with a diabolical view
Can I ever be free from what is pulling me through
Narcissistic, pure electric the savior incarnated
Is this a human feast? I was in slumber...now!
Am I to be released?
At least I had a hunger for more!

So you say I'm just a wicked soul, well watch me operate!!

So you see me coming back for more
You trace my steps like a dawg
Nameless, clueless a brick in the game
Soon to be removed from the face of the earth
Is this a human feast? I was in slumber...now!
Am I to be released?
At least I had a hunger for more!

10. A predator's portrait

A lesson in democracy, I will never, never be
A servant of a moral standard, a rebelsoul for the free
I scream and I burn, I deny what I've learned
Can't fight what's inside, on this blasphemous ride
Here I stand!

Cause he will remain, will remain the same
He's a part of the game and he will remain

As I cry for more
The angels burn their core
Let the evil saints have their way
When I'm heading for oblivion.
Achieving my goals in everyway
In malicious ways I hail the insane
Nevertheless:my broken promises
I scream and I burn,I deny what I've learned
Can't fight what's inside,on this blasphemous ride
Here I fall!

Now, take a look at the predator's portrait
Cause these walls are closing in!

Now, take a look at the predator's portrait
Cause these walls come tumbling down

Come watch me bleed one more time!
No substitute left to find!,
All that I hear is what I preach!
A mighty soul is what I keep!

I step on the face whose dragging me down
Fed up with the precious talk
Like a sinner revealing himself again
Now his down and out, and ready to strike,
His ready to strike, his ready to strike, to clear his very inside