Corrosion Of Conformity

Well I'm feeling left behind
Lord, what a waste of time
They're coming to get you
Run on

How can I respect your crime
When all you criminals whine?
They bought and sold you
Run on, run on

Well you can call me crazy
Or you can call me wrong
'Cause, see I was born a liar
Albatross - fly on, fly on

My home is kind
Man, it pays to be blind
Well, I promise to forget you
Run on, yeah

No swallowed pride
No conspiracy lined
Broken promise of virtue
Run on, Lord, run on

Well you can call me lazy
But I know where I belong
'Cause, 'cause I was born a liar
Albatross - fly on

With your trust in love
From your God above

Ooh I believe
The albatross is me

Well you can call me crazy
You can call me wrong
'Cause, 'cause I was born a liar
Albatross - fly on, fly on

I should have seen the signs
Now the memory's far behind
It was no big loss
Fly on albatross, yeah

Fly on
Fly on abatross, yeah
Fly on
Fly on

My problems seem a world away
Close the line and they'll all go away
Close the line and listen close your eyes to me and sell in
My mind my face sell in and you'll be replaced
Clothes the line and listen close your eyes to me and sell in
I think that I've seen you before

Once in a while you
Be better listening to the fools for a change
I can see it in your eyes, it's the ones not like you
You despise

I'm no different than you, it's just that I do whatever I want to
That's what sets us apart I was free from the start, now your leaving
Tell me whose heart is bleeding

So, once in a while you'd
Be better listening to the fools for a change

What comes around follows and the truth becomes harder to swallow
So, bang, bang they shoot you down
No one says a word as your body hits the ground
Pick her up and put her down
The crowd screams aloud "she's not breathing"
And the only hands that reaches, is the one alone
You've been cheating my friend
Tell me whose heart is bleeding again

So, once in a while you'll
Be better listening to the fools for a change

Once in a while you'll
Be better listening to the fools

Blind - product of pride
Fuck, you don't speak for me
Proud is what I am
But I never condemn a man
One race - no way
Nightmares come true these days
We all know this fight is for real

(Chorus)
Howling like a jackal, begging to be heard
Growing like a cancer, beliefs that fight the word
White noise

Pain triggers the mind
This pale solution lied
Time - the names will change
But still these scars remain
More lies - more hate
Your strength controls your fate
Go inside - do you like what you find?

(Chorus)

Rise - fight
Wrong - right
Lost - sight

Stand - victim of fear
Your voice is screaming clear
Power reveals the need
Addictive dreams still bleed
Instinct - breaks through
These few can't hide what's true
This noise won't stop the way we feel

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When they cracked the whip, nothing was said
When the flames burned, nothing was said
When they notched the barrels, nothing was said
When the bays opened, nothing was said
When the dogs were set loose, nothing was said
When colors run red, nothing was said
When innocents cried in the face of the guilty
No one said anything

Powers is the heroin of the small-minded man
And force, force is the needle - the gun in his hand
He lusts to control all the people and the land
Complete, total destruction - his ultimate end

All love lost will be reborn
Fire will burn
Take your first breath
Breathe your first freedom

Our Fourth world - nearing its end
Purification - close at hand

Try but you cannot deny the earth is alive
Our rivers, they are dying and smoke kills the sky
Modern man's cities are built on their lies
When cleansing flames burn, no one can hide
(from the truth)

All love lost...

Our Fourth world - nearing its end
Purification - close at hand

The time it happened all before, the end was a flood
Man became so arrogant and paid with his blood
No lesson was wver learned - our fate stays the same
Profane civilization will perish in flame

All love lost...

Burn

The number in nations
The god in their hearts
The justice in swine
The devil in God

VOTE

This long hand that breaks our backs
Still casting shadows on all that we see
Unjustified...mercy killing is just a feeling
To keep our numbers from being free

(Chorus)
Prison for praise is not worth thinking
Sin is still in and our ballots are shrinking
So unleash the dogs - the only solution
Forgive and forget, fuck no
I'm talking about a revolution

The prophet man's got a needle in his hand
Draws his dreams from your soul - bleeding
minds into sand
The year of the fear has arrived decades too late
And our right to stand and fight is now
solely sealed in fate

(Repeat first chorus)

One last chance mission with a vision
'cos our lives are just cards i their stack
Our time is short but theirs is shorter
How much longer can they hold us back

(Chorus)
Prison for praise - the obvious answer
Once had power mad - living disaster
Don't fuck with me 'cos I'm on a freedom train
That bears no name - this time
I'm voting with a bullet

This view they once knew made our nooses too tight
This justice in swine
This devil in god

So God bless my soul - I've got total control
And the crosshairs lined up dead in my sight

I'm voting with a bullet

Taught to believe from the onset, of heaven
and hell and between
The institution's retribution - damnation from on high
Living and dying together never did nothing at all
Except for the few who got rich off of you
And the rest, they were herded like sheep

(Chorus)
Mine are the eyes of god
And what I see is not what was meant to be
Mine are the eyes of god
Mine are the eyes
Mine are the eyes of god

Down the road to betrayal of values they
held to be true
An abberation, deviation to get to hte spirit of life
The whole goddamn world is riding on words
for thousands of years
It's just like the west, to think it knows best
When answers are subject to change

(Chorus)

They took what could have been
And turned it upside down
They twisted all things seen
What's lost must now be found
I got to see it
Got to believe it
I got to be there

I got to see it
Got to believe it

Given the power of reason yet throwing it all
to the wind
No solution in evolution - only the blood-stained glass
A soul full of lies in contention, begs sacred
yet worships profane
Lose sight of the fact that you're where it's at
Not the stars, not the cross, nor the moon

(Chorus

Ultimate, desolate condition of man
Laid to waste
Born again, dead again, once again
Take me out of this place

You're in violation, you cross the line
The line you found within your mind
And when the process come undone
You die alone, the victory's none

(Chorus)
Hear the warning, the end's Beginning
When you break the circle, you have no right to live

It's the breaking of the circle right at the start
Which make this mother fall apart
In this division of the law
You're driven to the one last flaw

(Chorus)

Heal these wounds

Terminal, criminal sedition of man
On the earth
Born Again, dead again, once again
Tyranny awaits rebirth

Greed kill the need and bleeds the lines
Now your brilliance no longer shines
Charred remains the way you feel
And still in time these wounds won't heal

(Chorus)

When you kill the mother, there's no other

I've been looking for answers to set you free
Black are the reasons you gave to me

Never, never look back
Just move, move ahead
You were lucky, friend
You could be dead

Ignore the future or bury your head in the sand
It's a two-bit fantasy that the man in your
head demands
You can say it with a vengeance - you'll be
back from the grave

Time waits for no one - this has to be true
Mine ran out a long time ago - there's nothing
nothing you can do

Never...

Now you're living with a burden that rests
upon your mind
You were lying to yourself 'cos you were
afraid of what you'd find
You can say it with a vengeance - you'll be
back from the grave
We'll be waiting a long, long time before
you're ever saved

Drifting so far away - things seem so strange
Thought you could escape - believed things
would change

Never...

Ignore the future or bury your head in the sand
It's a two-bit fantasy that the man in your
head demands
Now you're living with a burden that rests
upon your mind
You were lying to yourself 'cos you were
afraid of what you'd find
You can say it with a vengeance - you'll be
back from the grave

Heard too much, know too much - don't know
if I can take it
If the system had one neck, you know I'd
gladly break it
They've got us where they want us - stuck in
this sick romance
They need no chain - it's in our brain
And we don't stand a chance

If we keep doing this deadly dance
End this sick romance
The dance of the dead
It's all in my head

Know the deal, the way we feel - those of us who care
Constant pain, the endless rain becomes
too much to bear
Feel the need to concede - pretend it's all ok
But the horror, today, tomorrow, will never
ever go away

If you give in to the deadly dance
You've got to take that chance
The dance of the dead
It's all in your head

Ain't got the time or peace of mind to deal
with the likes of you
Your narrow views, your two-bit moves just
tell me that you're through
You're dead
You're dead
You're dead

Don't give in, live the sin - let them see the sight
There's no answer in the end - live free, fall or fight
Keep in mind, that you'll find them standing in the way
Run them down to the ground - make the guilty pay

And there'll be no more deadly dance
End their idiot prance
The dance of the dead
It's all in their heads

The dance of the dead
The dance of the dead

Dead

They say they live their lives with purity
Only looking through the whites of their eyes
One nation under God, just like protectory
Are they really hearing the third world cries?

History repeats itself

Self-emulation breeding prosperity
As the nation grows, the brotherhood dies
"Free as a bird" are words meant for you and me
Words that never fit between the lies

History repeats itself

I was born in a nightmare - didn't have a choice
No one seems to listen to 'cos no one seems to
hear my voice
I am but one of billions - teaming faceless legions
Damned to repeat the crimes of those who went before

(Chorus)
The teeth in the gears of the killing machine
Are getting sharper as time moves on
As the politician's wingtip presses on the gas
A thousand soldiers will soon be gone
Plowing through the land to annihlate for peace
Another war child is spawned
Sowing seeds of destruction in the name of the beast
Damned for all time

Burning future remembers the smoldering past
Just a cruel lesson - chalked-up experience
Life is a sin when it begins in an iron mask
Die if you try using your biased sense

History repeats itself

Rivers of corruption flowing way too fast
Racing to pollute for their own greed
Malnutritioned wings don't have the strength to last
Fight to the death over one last seed

History repeats itself

I am a witness to all that is and all that should not be
I am cursed with a vision that forces me to see
Sometimes I prayto an unmoving void
For the day that I may close my eyes to
the horror which fills me inside

(Chorus)

Damned for all time..

Father forgive me
Mother forsake me
I think they've all become to strong

Brother believe me
Silence is deadly
And it's giving me the strength to carry on

Time has come, now I'm blind deaf and numb
Your killing me, your killing me
When I look into your eyes I can see it's
The world that you despise
And your giving me the strength to carry on
Forgive me...

Look for the devils in their eyes,
Laughing, the blood has long been dried
To hide in your disguise it goes on and on and on....
Wallow, pearls before swine

If the liar deceives you
The the sin will appear true
Even if it leads me to the end

Killer accuse me
The devil breathes easy
Giving me the strength to carry on

Time has come, now I'm blind deaf and numb
Your killing me, your killing me
When I look into your eyes I can see it's
The world that you despise
And your giving me the strength to carry on

Look for the devils in their eyes,
Laughing, the blood has long been dried
To hide in your disguise it goes on and on and on....
Wallow, pearls before swine

Now you've blown away the sun
Darkened eyes and bitten tongue
Now you've blown away the son

The water drips from wells of shame
Spilling through these words (of blame)

Listen to the battle cries of a race that knows
it's dying
Read the bleeding words of those
Who fell the wheel is at their heal
Then somebody tells me that's the way it was
meant to be
These things will never be

(Chorus)
All they see is nothing
They just hear the echoes in the well
All they see is nothing
Silence of the sin, the echoes in the well

Stare deep into the frigid eye of a man
who knows he's lying
These are those men who make mistakes
But don't erase the pain
Then they whisper to me that's the way it
was meant to be
These things will never be

(Chorus)

There are those who find these times a crime
And those whose souls will never mind
Or those who need to plant these seeds
Living in sin's been induced again
By beating the paths of downtrodden men
Or those who think they know their souls
Stab deep in their hearts and listen to the echoes...

All they hear are the echoes in the well

Beginning of this world swelled with mankind
Who built a tool to kill a fool and lead the blind
Invent a rule to keep you down and call it a sin
The stand behind the wall and watch the games begin

Separate by class but keep the middle low
Instill the order with a border just for show
Give them weapons and let them have their piece of mind
Then tip them off so they can kill what's not their kind

And watch them shake like you

If tales come true when judgements due they'll call us all liars
And put us in their hell and set our souls on fire
Remember sin your only friend he brought your through
Hallucenate with hate and watch them shake like you