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Toxic Shock - Welcome Home... Near Dark lyrics



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01. Intro

[Instrumental]

02. Behind The Guillotine

A rotten cellar full of rats, the last refuge for me
In former days a mighty god but now they're after me
I took their gold, I was the judge and they had to obey
Behind me now the prowling mob longing for my breath

Insanty lives
Mental decay
Fear of death
Makes me cry
Terror and pain
The last remains
A glorious kingdom left to die
Immorality breaks
A revolution begins
Draging with power to the end
Tortured soul
Alone in the night
Waiting for the executioner

Devestation! Termination! Violation! Conjuration!
Seeds of death

Behind the guillotine
The true reality

Behind the guillotine
Where all hate wasn't meant to be

The king, the law in front his death, forsaken all alone
What happened to my last servants, no more they're for my own
I hear the steps coming down, for escape now it's too late
Cold sweat on my throat, this greed concludes my fate

03. Change From Reality

Dishonest, deluded, I was born into the city
Just making my way across this pavement of life
Closing my eyes, pounding the streets again
God only a dream and the will to survive
Watching the mud, growing insane
Making us ill, torment the brains
I must take a new path to escape from the streets
Can't control my own rage and the hunger I feel

Disturbed I'm conscience, I share with your fear
Threatened by violence wickedness it's all to near
I sleep in holes, my pride I've sold
The gutter's my home, so I hate this shit

The city's blind, incaged we live together
With pushers and pimps, muggers and thieves
They spread the disease, the ones who can not exist
No way to escape from the darkness around
A thunder it pounds, cracking my bleeding ears
All light is gone no longer for me to see
There's a need for a change, a sign for all poor
Destruct the mistakes, a change from reality

Darkness! Is all that I have
Wreckage! Is all that I get
I wish I could run from this grave

Breaking with all that is past

Change from reality
Nobody lose
Time to get out
Playing to win
Leaving behind
Change from reality
Smashing all bounds
No more bad sin

Now, that you left the dead
You're stronger than ever before
Forgotten is all that once passed
'Cause you are the darknes around!

04. Dragons Eye (The Story Part I)

Awaken from a dream, the vision now reality
To fight against nature's cruelest things
You ran from deserts, searched your life
The luxury will only set you free
There is no chance this is the game for you
To win the race, the power of your strain
A legend of an eye the outbreak of all sins
Now you are hunting this precious stone

Blinding the night
Possessed is your mind
Burning the darkness a red dragon eye
Thousands of years
Thousands who tried
Thousands who died with an infinite cry

Cutting the ground, shooting to the point
Through the dangerous jungle, to the holy place
You came to get your triumph in the end
A few last steps on a mystic ground
No fears, no bounds can break your will
Kick the doors, take a look, take the gleaming eye
Staring in this eye makes you hypnotized
Magic grips you, you won't see no more the light

Welcome - the abyss waits
This time - you have lost the game
Your dreams - are running out
The curse - will last on you

05. World Power Rules

War condemns imprisoned ones
To be reduced by death
A quest for freedom, a search for life
By grasping for the last breath

I lay under a shattered dream, what will happen to me?
Condemned to hell! Trapped by fear!
A prisoner rotting in a dirty cage, longing to be free
No way to exit from the dark, world on it's knees

War - has - begun - an ocean of blood
Brought - forth - terror and path
Rules - the land - am I still dreaming
This - tale - or have I gone insane

Humanity broke, freedom was false, built on promise, filled with lie
True versions, surpassing the dream, insanity's lost all bounds
Life is in vain, they dig their graves, the final fight is close the end
No reason at last, can't remind the past, there's nothing more for us to say

Blackened earth
Smell of death
Blood runs from my eyes
World power rules
The forgotten souls
And lost distorted lives

I wish me far away from all this madness
Unwanted results, ignorant behave
A victim takes his part in this malicious game
No hope for me, they die without a number or a name

06. True Insanity

Psychiatrists, picking my brain
Dissection, declares me insane
Diagnoses treatment of my emotional display
Can't understand a word what fucking say
A method to destruct my subconscious mind
Aggressive behaviour is leaving me behind

Personal disorder, senseless distress
Evidence of crime, my social disease
Examination! Desintegration!
Fear can't pass my person is lost

Insane
Insane
Insane
Insane

You don't act the way we do, you're a psychopath
Listen to the words we pray, they could be your last
You must obey, there is none to say
Now we give you pills, they bring back your faith

A nonconfirmed insanity
Doctors they qualified profanity
Developments and effects manifest my anxieties

Erasures in mind got lost all my memories
Rehabilitation in a world which is confused
Telling is right, but you only will be used

07. One End

You keep watching yourself in a mirror of time
And the end of the road has arrived
But was it worth to live this life 'til the shadow of death falls on you
Good days turned to a dark black zone
And a curse seemed to tear on your body and soul
Now time has passed more and more grief at last, deliverane for you tonight

Youth, is gone, gone with the years, forever more
Folds, they crack your face, spliting your brain, twisting you mad
Power, seems to fade, on your way, to the gate
Pain, in your back, you can't run from your fate

Remembering the days when all seemed ok
Your view was great, all problems away
Right was for might, the weak left to die
Life was fun, to laugh and to cry
Then came the time of sadness for you
The terror in mind which broke you in two
Your health you have lost, all treasures are gone
Now you got nothing! Except your old bones

No! deadly intent for me
Life! Live one more day
No! going one end
Alone! With dreams unfulfilled

Rich and poor, now they are all the same
Greed and hate, can't change the way
One end, death takes you apart
You suffering victims, it's always this game

08. Welcome Home... Near Dark (The Story Part II)

A house in a sinister world
The mystic around this house
This nature is the coldest hate
An incarnation born near dark
The entrance seems an open mouth
Is this the gate to a twilight zone?
A grinning skull wants you to come in

You passed halfway through insanity

Welcome home - to enter your reality
Welcome home - to the haunted mystery
Welcome home - the ending of your dreams
Welcome home - to this place near dark

What's happened, there are no memories
Reached for the wealth, nothing in the end
It's a dark cold house with no exit to get out
Your fears are ripping you in two
Freezing death holds you in its hands
There are sudden voices in your head
Which are knocking in your brain
They're calling you and forcing you to go

Go! - follow the light
Feel! - the revelation for you
Go! - come to your aim
Feel! - is this hell?

09. Termination

Screams of souls in agony escorts an endless fight
Nuclear artillery, pray for death, discharge their might
War machines keep rolling on, attacking out-burned land
Warriors set the sky in flames to bring this world to the end

Warlords lead the overkill
Crushing every life they will
Broken bones are atomized
To suck the light
Fireballs take the breath
Slings you into deadly depths
Last men ride a rabid charge
The time will extinct

Dirty rotten thoughts to kill, planning megadeath
Sending sons of mayhem, emotionless, mechanic fiends
Barren wasted land of hate, beyond the front of doom
Corpses trapped in the sand, late filth, down to hell

Termination

10. The Challenge

Time's black eyes, they're watching me
I'm alone but still not free
A last massive roar cuts my mind
I know there's no escape to find
Dark big clouds nothing to see
Startling sounds they torture me
Nightmare turns to solid thing
Outbreak of the crudest sin

You will bleed
On your way
Slow death
In the back

Creeping on this wasted earth, never thought that this could be
Where are all those faces gone, perished in this third world war
I'm one of the last, I heard their scream and they did fall
In blood we payed for all our sins, for all our faults, hopes and
Dreams

Walking the way through some last remains
Entering the door to an abstracte gate
Fear of death has come into my mind
The challenge from the mysteries of life

Was the future in the past
Or rules this reality at last?
Can't get the answer to survive
This here ain't no place for life
Not alive but yet not dead

Standing in cold rain afraid
I was too blind I could not feel
I don't know what will happen to me