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01. Scavenger Of Human Sorrow

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
What pain will it take
To satisfy your sick appetite
Go in for the kill

Always in sight, prey
The time always right, feast
Feed on the pain, taste
Sorrow made flesh, sweet

Live how you want
Just don't feed on me
If you doubt what i say
I will make you believe
Shallow are words from those who starve
For a dream not their own to slash and scar

Big words, small mind
Behind the pain you will find
A scavenger of human sorrow
Scavenger

Abstract theory the weapon of choice
Used by scavenger of human sorrow
Scavenger

So you have traveled far across the sea
To spread your written brand of misery

Always in sight, prey
The time always right, feast
Feed on the pain, taste
Sorrow made flesh, sweet

Live how you want
Just don't feed on me
If you doubt what i say
I will make you believe
Shallow are words from those who starve
For a dream not their own to slash and scar

Big words, small mind
Behind the pain you will find
A scavenger of human sorrow
Scavenger

Abstract theory the weapon of choice
Used by scavenger of human sorrow
Scavenger

02. Bite The Pain

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
Look down at the body
You may see no trace of wounds
But in the eye
The eye of the beholder
One cannot assume

Not a drop of blood is drawn
But you know how it bleeds
Beware of the sharp edged weapon
Called human being

It is a shield of passion
And strong will
From this I am the victor
Instead of the kill

I will not feed your hunger
Instead, I bite the pain
Looking not back but forward
I bite down

Try to cover up the trail of deceit
And daggers spawned from your soul

Acid, the tears of remorse flow in vain
Too late for regrets, save it
For the next ill fated game

It is a shield of passion
And strong will
From this I am the victor
Instead of the kill

I will not feed your hunger
Instead, I bite the pain
Looking not back but forward
I bite down

03. Spirit Crusher

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
It comes from the depths of a place unknown to the keeper of dreams
If it could then it would steal the sun and the moon from the sky
Beware

Human at sight, monster at heart
Don't let it inside
It could tear you right apart

No guilt, it feeds in plain sight
Spirit crusher
Stay strong and hold on tight
Spirit crusher

Speaking in killing words
The vicious kind that crush and kill
No mercy, its pleasure to taste
The blood that it bled

When it's time to feed to fulfill
The need to consume a breath
Some will rise standing tall
Breathing out all the breath from
The voice of a soul

Human at sight, monster at heart
Don't let it inside
It could tear you right apart

No guilt, it feeds in plain sight
Spirit crusher
Stay strong and hold on tight
Spirit crusher

Speaking in killing words
The vicious kind that crush and kill
No mercy, its pleasure to taste
The blood that it bled

04. Story To Tell

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
Drifting into the lives
Seep into the soul
Where emotions hide

Dark skies were beating me down
With shadows of deceit
Slashing at trust till it forever bleeds
With doubt, with pain, with trust
Is pain

When you think of me in your multidimensional mind
Try and wash the evil from your mind and open it

When you taste the truth
You will see like others before me
To you, I am past
A story to tell
Tell it

If you think you own the end
Take another look at the script of sadness
Etched in the book

Dark skies were beating me down
With shadows of deceit
Slashing at trust till it forever bleeds
With doubt, with pain, with trust
Is pain

When you think of me in your multidimensional mind
Try and wash the evil from your mind and open it

When you taste the truth
You will see like others before me
To you, I am past
A story to tell
Tell it

05. Flesh And The Power It Holds

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
I told you once but I will say it again
When you live the flesh it's the beginning of the end

It will take you in
It will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds

Passion is a poison laced with pleasure bitter sweet
One of many faces that hides deep beneath

It will take you in
It will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds

Touch, taste, breathe, consumed

Deja vu, already knew from the first encounter
But now I know to let go of words to speak no more

Like a wind upon your face, you can't see it but you know it's there
When beauty shows It's ugly face, just be prepared

Passion burns like fire carried by the wind
The end of a time, a time to begin

It will take you in
It will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds

It builds you up one way and tears you right back down
A time to begin, the end of a time

It will take you in
It will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds

Touch, taste, breathe, consumed

Deja vu, already knew from the first encounter
But now I know to let go of words to speak no more

Like a wind upon your face, you can't see it but you know it's there
When beauty shows Its ugly face, just be prepared

06. Voice Of The Soul

Music by Chuck Schuldiner
[Instrumental]

07. To Forgive Is To Suffer

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
To forgive is to suffer

Throughout our time a thought escapes us
to enforce a word, no
Holding on to pain, it may seem to some

The easy way to say OK
Twist your knife a little deeper
Words to sharp, actions dark
Hide the blade of the deceiver

Enforce the words no more, be free
Alone you might just find serenity

To forgive is to suffer
To accept another day
We choose to give away
Another piece of life
To forgive is to suffer

Once or twice is kind
Three or four is blind
It is not the end yet a way to begin
The power of words both good and bad

The easy way to say OK
Twist your knife a little deeper
Words to sharp, actions dark
Hide the blade of the deceiver

Enforce the words no more, be free
Alone you might just find serenity

To forgive is to suffer
To accept another day
We choose to give away
Another piece of life

08. A Moment Of Clarity

Music & lyrics by Chuck Schuldiner
I would describe it as an invisible darkness casting a shadow
A blinding black guarded by hope
My soul is kept safe from the bloody claws

Look through beyond, what vision lets me see
Time after time, unneeded misery

My dreams, I own
No price for you
I grip them tight and hope for sight

Open my eyes wide to see
A moment of clarity
Confusion gone, it's in your hands
Your turn to ask why

Life is like a mystery
With many clues, but with few answers
To tell us what it is that we can do
To look for messages that keep us from the truth

Look to beyond, what vision lets me see
Time after time, unneeded misery

My dreams, I own
No price for you
I grip them tight and hope for sight

Open my eyes wide to see
A moment of clarity
Confusion gone, it's in your hands
Your turn to ask why
Oh god, why?

09. Painkiller

Music & lyrics by Judas Priest
Faster than a bullet
Terrifying scream
Enraged and full of anger
He's half man and half machine

Rides the Metal Monster
Breathing smoke and fire
Closing in with vengeance soaring high

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Planets devastated
Mankind's on its knees
A saviour comes from out the skies
In answer to their pleas

Through boiling clouds of thunder
Blasting bolts fo steel
Evils going under deadly wheels

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb
Chromium plated boiling metal
Brighter than a thousand suns

Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave
Nevermore encaptured
They've been brought back from the grave

With mankind ressurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from Armageddon to the skies

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller
Wings of steel Painkiller
Deadly wheels Painkiller