Testament - Souls Of Black lyrics
Tracks 01. Beginning Of The End
02. Face In The Sky 03. Falling Fast 04. Souls Of Black 05. Absence Of Light 06. Love To Hate 07. Malpractice 08. One Man's Fate 09. The Legacy 10. Seven Days Of May 01. Beginning Of The End Music by Peterson
[Instrumental]
02. Face In The Sky Music by Peterson/Skolnick Lyrics by Billy
Shadows glow from the full moonlight
Hear clouds cry, it's so insane Souls hold on to the key of life See how it's bleeding from the pain When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face in the sky Walk with me, my friend to a darkened place Welcome down to the abyss Caught between two worlds with no advocate The legion's army Holds on to your fate When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face in the sky Screams from the night Seem to intensify As the air shifts silent through Ghouls crowded in the clouds On a misty night Guarding secrets Man has brought to you When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face in the sky 03. Falling Fast Music by Peterson/Clemente Lyrics by Billy
Locked in the darkened world
Made to never last That's where the dreams you seek Are like stories from the past Sweet infant child's born Sweet mother of the womb Hope it is over soon Not much more can I take Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back Nerves slip away from Within your conscious mind Translucent hopes are now Nothing but dismal lies You lived your life so down To the bitter end Better think it over now Your life has just begun Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back From suicide Just show me life is how And not a bitter war The odds in favor now It's hard to live and learn Silence the sorrow And don't let it slip away Think of tomorrow As the future of today Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back From suicide I'm falling fast!! Locked in the darkened world Made to never last That's where the dreams you seek Are like stories from the past Sweet infant child's born To the mother of the womb Hope it is over soon Not much more can I take Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back From suicide I'm falling fast!! 04. Souls Of Black Music by Peterson/Skolnick/Clemente Lyrics by Billy
Can't you see
That in the world we live in Political lies Are just corporate decisions They'll take away All the hopes, not their promises They'll put an end to this Land of the living Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black They got control Of the heart of a nation Their social bribes Seem so graciously As time goes by 'Cause time as you can see Will slowly die for you and me Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black So put an end To this idolization Antagonizing so commonly Open your eyes 'Cause the lie's there so plain to see Life goes on There's no guarantees Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black They're bleeding so black 05. Absence Of Light Music by Peterson/Billy Lyrics by Billy/Skolnick
Life as we know,
Is full of gloom Oppress the masses We'll lead to our doom We want the right To live or die Can't take away What we feel inside Like empty shadows, Afflict our brains Envision dreams Just to ease the pain There's more to life That to satisfy I ask myself For the reason why. If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way. If ever there comes a day Renovations blown away Realize what we've thrown away Is there no end To this endless war The fear of man In now what's in store. We look at life as a memory Long live the dreams That they took from me. If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way. 06. Love To Hate Music by Peterson/Skolnick Lyrics by Peterson/Clemente/Billy
Hail to the new leader now
Ruler of this land, With plans that follow To demonstrate Fear the blackened band So horrid And deathly true Dishonest and powermad Unspoken, sealed fate Bursting to desolate His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But along the way He'll have to dwell In his own hell Clear the streets See them marching While columns take a stand Time provoked, their mirror of hatred With dark uncanny plans To take out And follow through Just following their orders With death rates And death's roll Those poor unfortunate souls His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But along the way He'll have to dwell In his own hell Twisting and turning Through the mazes in your head But in a time like this You're beter off dead The time has come now Put up or shut down The feelings that you have Were lost and never found His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But along the way He'll have to dwell In his own hell 07. Malpractice Music by Skolnick/Peterson Lyrics by Skolnick/Billy
We all will go and stay sometime
Soon to be victim of a crime Loss of blood and death is near Take a number, can you wait right here Check in - to the place Reduce your life into disgrace Isn't there some kind Of better way When it's time to operate Fatalistic figures hold your fate Just relax you'll feel no pain Hope they put you in the right domain Patient helpless to defy Negligence is why Check in - to the place Reduce your life into disgrace Isn't there some kind Of better way Within the laws They'll rip you off They write you off Malpractice! And in the end They'll let you in Please come again Malpractice! Suffer until you get well Bleak existence like a prison cell If you find your life is lost Dedicate the world to pay the cost Patients helpless to defy Negligence is why Check in - to the place Reduce your life into disgrace Isn't there some kind Of better way Within the laws They'll rip you off They write you off Malpractice! And in the end They'll let you in Please come again Malpractice! 08. One Man's Fate Music by Peterson/Clemente Lyrics by Billy
Time is nothing but life's decay
Pitch your reverend path This is the path you paved What you will find Is life's only way There's no looking back There must be a better way Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day What you will find Is life's only way There's no looking back Back to a better way Black skies fade to shadow grey The darkness is so deep Prayers for the light of day What you will find Is life's only way There's no looking back Back to a better way Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day That leads to one man's fate There ain't no better way to die Fate, there's no compromise Hate leads to suicide Trapped in a crystal haze Hail to a dead man's day Time is but a passageway Trying to believe Your life was sanity A matter of time Is all that you need Life's not coming back Back to those better days Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day 09. The Legacy Music by Peterson/Clemente/Skolnick Lyrics by Skolnick/Billy/Peterson
We're gonna take you back
Through the pages of the past Just another lonely boy I could laugh and play And live in any other way Then the devil took my soul The fortune and the fame I knew I was not the same And I know I'd never return Looking at the sky I knew I would never die And forever shining through Wish the sky would say That blue would turn to grey And I know I'd be there Life was like a fantasy Taken by reality Does anyone remember me You once knew me Flashes of the day I knew I was here to stay But no one stays the same Turn the pages back in time Through the chapters in my mind Life's too short to leave behind It's too late now Life was like a fantasy Taken by reality Does anyone remember me You once knew me Flashes of the day I knew I was here to stay But no one Knows my name 10. Seven Days Of May Music by Peterson/Skolnick Lyrics by Skolnick/Billy
Put your life on the line
To hesitate is a waste of time No giving in to repent Unto the system of the government It's called the People's Republic here The propaganda so sincere Oh, what a joke and a blatant lie From criminals ranking high Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting Until I die for the cause Put an end to hypocrisy Lead the way to democracy No longer will be play the fool To brutalized military rule They started forty years ago We never could say yes or no Million souls make our voice We want the right to make a choice Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting Until I die for the cause Freedom, freedom calling Out from the pain Freedom, freedom falling Seven days of may They tried to show a peaceful path Then it turned into a bloom bath In the squarethey plan the game That's when the thanks of the army came They called the murders minimal Described their victims as criminals Dead souls like you and me Who only wanted free society Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting Until I die for the cause Freedom, freedom calling Out from the pain Freedom, freedom falling Seven days of may |