Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A lyrics
Tracks 01. A Call To Arms
02. Riot Act 03. Funeral Hymn 04. Children Of A Worthless God 05. As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be 06. The Atrocity Exhibition 07. Iconoclasm 08. The Garden Of Bleeding 09. Bedlam 123 01. A Call To Arms Music by Exodus
Intro
02. Riot Act Music & lyrics by Exodus
Rise up and revolt
Overthrow the government Level all the temples Destroy the monuments Return to anarchy Defy the Christian law Prepare for mutiny Prepare for coup d'etat So begins our final riot act Now that your in, there'll be no turning back Smash everything, wreck it all with pride The power of our revolution won't ever be denied Reduce the halls of power To ruin and to ash An end to Christianity An end to holy mass The dawn of an iron age Return to Pagan law Lex Talionis We rule by fang and claw So begins our final riot act Now that your in, there'll be no turning back Smash everything, wreck it all with pride The power of our revolution won't ever be denied 03. Funeral Hymn Music & lyrics by Exodus
Let not the sun go down on my wrath
I let it shake the world Vengeance is the grudge I bear Flag of reckoning unfurled You are the architect Of your own demise So smile no more I am the gatekeeper, And you are mine for evermore Come greet the reaper You know the time is nigh This is the day of reckoning, Your time to die Brave men they spin in fear At the sound of my voice Say goodbye to life so dear You no longer have a choice Burnt black and silent, Rust and blood Upon my reaper's blade I come collect the tolls Gather up all the debts unpaid I call when you least expect But when you deserve it the most Behold the timekeeper The end is getting close Come greet the reaper You know the time is nigh This is the day of reckoning, Your time to die Brave men they spin in fear At the sound of my voice Say goodbye to life so dear You no longer have a choice The dead no longer have A cross to bear The dead no longer have Need to despair Death has come And set the snare Death will come When you are unaware The misbegotten have the gall To think them safe and sound They try to cheat the reaper Scatter, hide, no matter, found The wheel of life is standing still For them it turns no more Now comes the soul keeper And you become my whore Come greet the reaper You know the time is nigh This is the day of reckoning, Your time to die Brave men they spin in fear At the sound of my voice Say goodbye to life so dear You no longer have a choice 04. Children Of A Worthless God Music & lyrics by Exodus
Brainwashed into madness,
Your children are killers without fear Manipulate and dominate, Stealing their lives for your hate Twisted perverted minds, Think as we do or you die Demagogue, fanatical tyrant A false prophet seething with lies I you fear, seeing through your lies You I fear, raping of innocent minds Follow us blindly or die like a dog Blood mixed with sand for this holy war Your saviors a killer, you die for Allah You are all children of a worthless god Propagation of violence Your one god a disease upon man Execution, crucifixion The answer for those not in your plan The penalty for contempt against your god Is death and nothing else Ignorant infidels Are subhuman and will all burn in hell I you fear, seeing through your lies You I fear, raping of innocent minds Follow us blindly or die like a dog Blood mixed with sand for this holy war Your saviors a killer, you die for Allah You are all children of a worthless god Smite the perverts and the obstinate Praising the death of the free United States of Islam That's what you would like it to be Violate the unbelievers Praising crimes against man Human rights mean nothing Doctrine of death a scourge upon man I you fear, seeing through your lies You I fear, raping of innocent minds Follow us blindly or die like a dog Blood mixed with sand for this holy war Your saviors a killer, you die for Allah You are all children of a worthless god 05. As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be Music & lyrics by Exodus
We didn't pay attention
To lessons learned in the past Soon the sands in the desert Will melt from the atomic blast Mesopotamia's ground zero For the coming of world war Thousands die in the sand And I still don't understand what for As it was, as it soon shall be We're teetering on the brink Of a world war III A repetition of history As you soon shall see As it was, as it soon shall be War mongering leader of ours Waves the flag of democracy Sending our men out to die In the name of bureaucracy The oil fields of Iraq Are overflowing with blood Another man dies but the lies Rain down like a flood As it was, as it soon shall be We're teetering on the brink Of a world war III A repetition of history As you soon shall see As it was, as it soon shall be No weapons of mass destruction No threat to me Just one man's agenda for war, Not a land of the free I never gave a shit About the Middle East But now we lie in the bed that we've Made, start the atomic feast As it was, as it soon shall be We're teetering on the brink Of a world war III A repetition of history As you soon shall see As it was, as it soon shall be 06. The Atrocity Exhibition Music & lyrics by Exodus
The glorious frailty of the human mind
Leads us to deceive the mother of mankind Nature is our master, we serve her through our deeds She teaches us that only death is guaranteed If there was a hell, there must I ever be Eternal life in heaven is but a fallacy So if death is nothing, but a path to be trod Walk with me and let me introduce you to your God Come see an exhibition of atrocity An ocean of eternity One in which the shore you'll never see Or your God of make believe You speak to the sky and no one answers back And yet you wager the word of God is fact The horrors we imagine in vivid clarity Become a spectacle, your God's atrocities A mirror image, reflection of your soul Just nature's play, all her children have a role God's an actor, the world nature's stage Our fates are scripted like so many Letters on a page A composition of atrocity The Story of Christianity A fairy tale of tyranny Recipe for catastrophe Man's inclination Is to bend those who oppose to our will Does your great creator think The good are better made by ills? Dream after dream, time after time he who conquers endures The grand design of the mother We the disease, and her the cure Unsatisfied longing for the slaughter The master often slays her sons and her daughters Death is but and undress of skin and of bone When you return to her, no sins to atone The ending is the same for the vile and devout Let all the poisons that lurk in the mind Hatch out She has predetermined our end Nothing more she will portend 07. Iconoclasm Music & lyrics by Exodus
Man creates the god
And the god destroys the man Betrayed by their own invention The shepherd butches the lamb A lion at the head of an army Of sheep when comes time to feed Like Saturn devoured his children They're consumed by belief I am the chosen one And I hold the key Behold the prodigal son This good I do lives long after me Let iconoclasm set you free Christ is the same yesterday And today, forever a lie They concocted the heavens To keep all the puppets in line Narcotic, addictive desire To believe they won't go to hell A dog that has bitten its master That it once knew so well I am the chosen one And I hold the key Behold the prodigal son This good I do lives long after me Let iconoclasm set you free Figment of imagination Oracle of ignorance Corrupter of society Killer of reason and innocence An object of man's creation Made to fill the hole inside But that abyss has only been opened wide Wolves they guard the flock And they slaughter the sick and the weak Sorrow is all that they find When salvation is all that they seek The truth is the greatest lord Where no fool commands the wise Religion ten times undone No room for compromise I am the chosen one And I hold the key Behold the prodigal son This good I do lives long after me Let iconoclasm set you free 08. The Garden Of Bleeding Music & lyrics by Exodus
Viscerated bodies
Planted deep beneath the earth They fertilize the soil And feed for all they're worth Within the garden Of unearthly delights True meaning of horror's found And hell's within our sights He plants the seeds The germinate Black misdeeds, they pollinate Within the garden of bleeding's Where the devil waits To introduce you to your fate Endless orchards dot the land Of corpses up on spikes Beauty's in the eye of the Beheaded on a pike Bathed in lakes of fire Until a cinder's what remains The stench of death it makes The flowers bloom in his domain He plants the seeds The germinate Black misdeeds, they pollinate Within the garden of bleeding's Where the devil waits To introduce you to your fate Bodies hang from branches Like grapes hang from the vine Garlands made of human flesh They decorate his shrine On the wind and through the trees, The cries of suffering For this is the garden Of the king of the unclean 09. Bedlam 123 Music & lyrics by Exodus
Turn on the havoc
Let confusion reign Random acts of violence Shall not be done in vain A din of destruction An overture of rage Countdown to bedlam Let the mayhem Accelerate Soon we all Will celebrate Feel the primal urge Adrenaline surge Join the altercation To the third degree At full capacity With no discrimination Total oblivion No phenomenon Just par for the course To the starting line Your time to shine On my mark we Quarrel! We subjugate We bring calamity Everybody cooperate Let's start the bedlam 1-2-3 Anticipating the Coming of the brawl Collide like cannon fire But only on my call I provoke the melee And I fan the flame Coerce the herd into a Stampede They salivate Turmoil We aggravate Feel the primal urge Adrenaline surge Join the altercation To the third degree At full capacity With no discrimination Total oblivion No phenomenon Just par for the course To the starting line Your time to shine On my mark we Quarrel! We subjugate We bring calamity Everybody cooperate Let's start the bedlam 1-2-3 On my command Everybody run amuck Slam into everyone Never stop to give a fuck This is the pinnacle Of tumult, It's what you've waited for so Let the vortex Stimulate On this day We commemorate Feel the primal urge Adrenaline surge Join the altercation To the third degree At full capacity With no discrimination Total oblivion No phenomenon Just par for the course To the starting line Your time to shine On my mark we Quarrel! We subjugate We bring calamity Everybody cooperate Let's start the bedlam 1-2-3 |