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We are not the sons of GodWe are not His chosen people nowWe have crossed the path He trodWe will feel the pain of it beginning
Shadow fingers rise aboveCrying figures stab the desert skyOh behold the power of manOn its tower, ready for the fall
Locking hands together wellRaise a city, build a living hellJoin the race to suicideListen for the tolling of the bell
Out of the universeA strange life is bornUnholy unionTrinity reformed
Yellow sun, it's evil twinIn the black the wings deliver himWe will split our souls withinAtom seed to nuclear dust is riven
Out of the universeA strange life is bornUnholy unionTrinity reformed
Out of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand suns
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Bury your moralsAnd bury your deadBury your head in the sandE=MC squared you can relateHow we made God with our hands
Whatever would RobertHave said to his GodOf how we made war with the sunE=MC squared you can relateHow we made God with our hands
All nations are risingThrough acid veils of love, and hateChain letters of satan uncertainty us all to this
All nations are risingThrough acid veils of love, and hateCold fusion and fury
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Divide and conquer while ye mayOthers preach and others fall and prayIn the bunkers where we'll dieThere the executioners they lie
Bombers launch with no recallMinutes warning of the missile fallTake a look at your last dayGuessing you won't have the time to cry
Out of the universeA strange love is bornUnholy unionTrinity reformed
Out of the darknessOut of the darknessOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand sunsOut of the darknessBrighter than a thousand suns
Holy Father we have sinned
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The keys to death and hellThe ailing kingdom doomed to failThe bonds of sin and heart will breakThe pilgrims course will take
Quelling the devils mightAnd ready for eternal fightAching limbs and fainting soulHoly battles take their toll
Liberty and hope divineChanging the water into wineSo to you we bid farewellKingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy life eternalRaise me up take me homePilgrim sunrise pagan sunsetOnward journey begun
To courage find and gracious willDeliver good from illClean the water clean our guiltWith us do what you will
Then will my judge appearBear no false angel that I hearFor only then I will confessTo my eternal hell
Now give us our holy signChanging the water into wineSo to you we bid farewellKingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy life eternalRaise me up take me homePilgrim sunrise pagan sunsetOnward journey begun
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Now give us our holy signChanging the water into wineSo to you we bid farewellKingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy life eternalRaise me up take me homePilgrim sunrise pagan sunsetOnward journey begun
Spirit holy life eternalRaise me up take me homePilgrim sunrise pagan sunsetOnward journey begun
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In the gloom the gathering storm abatesIn the ships gimlet eyes awaitThe call to arms to hammer at the gatesTo blow them wide throw evil to its fate
All summers long the drills to build the machineTo turn men from flesh and blood to steelFrom paper soldiers to bodies on the beachFrom summer sands to armageddon's reach
Overlord, your master not your godThe enemy coast dawning grey with scudThese wretched souls puking, shaking fearTo take a bullet for those who sent them here
The world's alight, the cliffs erupt in flameNo escape, remorseless shrapnel rainsDrowning men no chance for a warrior's fateA choking death enter hell's gate
Sliding we go, only fear on our sideTo the edge of the wire,and we rush with the tideOh the water is red,with the blood of the deadBut I'm still alive, pray to God I survive
How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
The rising dead, faces bloated tornThey are relieved, the living wait their turnYour number's up, the bullet's got your nameYou still go on, to hell and back again
Valhalla waits, valkyries rise and fallThe warrior tombs, lie open for us allA ghostly hand reaches through the veilBlood and sand, we will prevail
Sliding we go, only fear on our sideTo the edge of the wire,and we rush with the tideOh the water is red,with the blood of the deadBut I'm still alive, pray to God I survive
How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
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How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
How long on this longest day'Til we finally make it throughHow long on this longest day'Til we finally make it through
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Hold a halo round the worldGolden is the dayPrinces of the Universeyour burden is the waySo there is no better timewho will be born todayA gypsy child at day breakA king for the day
Out of the shadows and into the sunDreams of the past as the old ways are doneOh there is beauty and surely there is painBut we must endure it, to live again
Dusty dreams in fading daylightFlicker on the wallsNothing new your life's adriftWhat purpose to it all?Eyes are closed and death is callingReaching out its handCall upon the starlight to surround you
Out of the shadows and into the sunDreams of the past as the old ways are doneOh there is beuty and surely there is painBut we must endure it, to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sunDreams of the past as the old ways are doneOh there is beauty and surely there is painBut we must endure it, to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sunDreams of the past as the old ways are doneOh there is beauty and surely there is painBut we must endure it, to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sunDreams of the past as the old ways are doneOh there is beauty and surely there is painBut we must endure it, to live again
A man who casts no shadow has no soul
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Let me tell you about my lifeLet me tell you about my dreamsLet me tell you about the things that happenAlways real to me
Let me tell you of my hopeOf my need to reach the skyLet me take you on an awkward journeyLet me tell you whyLet me tell you why
Why should these curses be laid upon me?I won't be forgiven 'til I can break freeWhat did I do to deserve all this guilt?Pay for my sins with the sale of my soulDemons are trapped all inside of my headMy hopes are gone reach for heaven from hell
My sins are many, my guilt is too heavyThe pressure of knowing of hiding what I knowI'm able to see things,Things I don't want to seeThe lives of a thousand souls,weigh heavy down on me
I know they're crying for help reaching outThe burden of them will take me down as wellThe sin of a thousand souls not died in vainReincarnate still in me live again
Someone to save meSomething to save me from myselfTo bring salvationTo exorcise this hell
Someone to save meSomething to save me from myselfTo bring SalvationTo exorcise this hell
Someone to save meSomething to save me from my hellA destinationAway from this nightmare
Someone to save meSomething to save me from myselfTo bring salvationTo exorcise this hell
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Are you a man of peace Or a man of holy war Too many sides to you Don't know which anymore So many full of life But also filled with pain Don't know just how many Will live to breathe again
A life that's made to breath Destruction or defense A mind that's vain corruption Bad or good intent A wolf in sheep's clothing Or saintly or sinner Or some that would believe A holy war winner
They fire off many shots And many parting blows Their actions beyond a reasoning Only god would know And as he lies in heaven Or it could be in hell I feel he's somewhere here Or looking from below But I don't know, I don't know
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
More pain and misery in the history of mankind Sometime it seems more like The blind leading the blind It brings upon us more of famine, death and war You know religion has a lot to answer for
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
And as they search to find the bodies in the sand They find its ashes that are Scattered across the land And as the spirits seem to whistle on the wind A shot is fired somewhere another war begins
And all because of it you'd think That we would learn But still the body count the city fires burn Somewhere theres someone dying In a foreign land Meanwhile the world is crying stupidity of man Tell me why, tell me why
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
For the greater good of god (8 times)
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell me now what war is Again tell me what life is
For the greater good of god (8 times)
He gave his life for us he fell upon the cross To die for all of those who never mourn his loss It wasn't meant for us to feel the pain again Tell me why, tell me why
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There are secrets that you keepThere are secrets that you keepThere are secrets that you tell to me aloneI can't reach things I can't seeYou don't see this strange worldquite the same as meDon't deny me what I amNothing hidden still you fail to see the truthThese are things you can't reveal
These are things you can't reveal
We are part of some strange planWhy the slaughter of the brotherhood of manInfernal sacrifice of hellFire breathing lead the wayMounds of bodies as they all burn into oneRevenge is living in the pastTime to look into a new millennium
Spiral path leads through the mazeDown into the fiery underworld belowFire breathing lead the wayLucifer was just an angel led astray
Free your soul and let it flyGive your life to the Lord of LightKeep your secrets and rain on meAll I see are mysteries
Free your soul and let it flyGive your life to the Lord of LightKeep your secrets and rain on meAll I see are mysteries
We are not worthy in your blackand blazing eyesWe gather demons in the mirror every dayThe bridge of darkness casts ashadow on us allAnd all our sins to you we give this day
Others wait their turntheir lives were meant to lastUse yours wisely as the light is fading fastFree your soul and let it flyMine was caught I couldn't tryTime returns again to punish all of us
We are cast out by our bloody father's handWe are strangers in this lonely promised landWe are the shadows of the one unholy ghostIn our nightmare world the only one we trust
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Free your soul and let it flyGive your life to the Lord of LightKeep your secrets and rain on meAll I see are mysteries
Free your soul and let it flyGive your life to the Lord of LightKeep your secrets and rain on meAll I see are mysteries
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Tell you a thingThat you ought to knowTwo minutes of your timeThen on you go
Tell tale of the menAll dressed in blackThat most of themNot coming back
Sent off to the warTo play little gamesAnd on their returnCan't name no names
Some strange yellow gasHas played with their mindsHas reddened their eyesRemoved all the lies
And strange as it soundsDeath knows no boundsHow many get wellOnly time will tellOnly time will tell
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You lie in your death bed nowBut what did you bring to the tableBrought us only holy sinUtter trust is a deadly thing
To the prayer of holy peaceWe didn't know what was lying underneathSo how could we be such foolsAnd to think that we thought you the answer
I can't begin to understand in all the liesBut on your death bed I can see it in your eyesJust as clear as all the sweat upon your browIt really makes sense I can see it clearly now
Tangled up in a web of liesCould have been a way to prophesiseUnaware of the consequenceNot aware of the secrets that you kept
Nothing that we could believeTo reveal the façade of faceless menNot a thing that we could foreseeNow a sign that would tell us the outcome
You had us all strung out withpromises of peaceBut all along you cover plan was to deceiveCan it put to rights now only time will tellYour prophecies will send us all to hell as well
Left to all our golden sonsAll to pick up on the peaceYou could have given all of themA little chance... at least
Take the world to a better placeGiven them all just a little hopeJust think what a legacyYou now... will leave
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We seem destined to live in fearAnd some that would say Armageddon is nearBut where there's a life - well there's hopeThat man won't self destruct
Why can't we treat our fellow manWith more respect and a shake of their handsBut anger and loathing is rifeThe death on all sides isbecoming a way of life
We live in an uncertain worldFear, understanding and ignoranceis leading to deathOnly the corpses are leftFor vultures that prey on their bones
But some are just not wanting peaceTheir whole life is death and miseryThe only thing that they knowFight fire with fire life is cheap
But if they do stop to thinkThat man is teetering right on the brinkBut do you think that they careThey benefit from death and pain and despair