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Covered in sinners and dripping with guiltMaking you money from slime and from filth.Parading your bellies in ivory towersInvesting our lives in your schemes and your powers.
You got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief's in your head.You've got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief in your head.
Be quick or be dead — Be quick (quick, quick) or be dead (dead, dead, dead)See…what's ruling all our livesSee…who's pulling stringsSee…what's ruling all our livesSee who pull the stringsI bet you won't fall on your faceYour belly will hold you in place.
The serpent is crawling inside of your earHe says you must vote for what you want to hear.Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're alrightSo pull yourself, stupid, rob yourself blind.
You got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief in your head.You've got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief's in your head.
Be quick or be dead — Be quick (quick, quick) or be dead (dead, dead, dead)
You got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief's in your head.You've got to watch them — Be quick or be deadSnake eyes in heaven — The thief's in your head.
Be quick or be dead — Be quick!
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She fell in love with his greasy machineShe leaned over wiped his headkickstart cleanShe'd never seen the beast beforeBut she left there wantingmore more moreBut when she was walking ondown the roadShe heard a sound that madeher heart explodeHe whispered to her to get on the back"I'll take you on a ridefrom here to eternity"
Hell ain't a bad placeHell is from here to eternityHell ain't a bad placeHell is from here to eternity
She must be having one of hercrazy dreamsShe'd never sat on a piece so meanIt made her feel like she's on cloud nineShe even thought she heard theengine sigh
But like all dreams that come to an endThey took a tumble at the devil's bendThe beast and Charlotte they weretwo of a kindThey'd always take the line...from here to eternity
Hell ain't a bad placeHell is from here to eternityHell ain't a bad placeHell is from here to eternity
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Lying awake at night I wipe the sweatfrom my browBut it's not the fear 'cosI'd rather go now
Trying to visualize the horrors thatwill lay aheadThe desert sand mound a burial ground
When it comes to the timeAre we partners in crime?When it comes to the timeWe'll be ready to die
God let us go now and finish what'sto be doneThy Kingdom ComeThy shall be done- on Earth
Trying to justify to ourselves thereasons to goShould we live and let liveForget or forgive
But how can we let them go on this way?The reign of terror, corruption must endAnd we know, deep down there'sno other wayNo trust, no reasoning, no more to say
Afraid to shoot strangersAfraid to shoot strangers
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We live our lives in feverIn a choking sweat of fearIn the heat of the night you can feel so muchIn the heat of the night I scream 'Don't touch!'
I remember a time when we used and abusedAnd we fought all our battles in vainI remember a time we thought that passion was freeIn the heat of the night body is a flameWe live in fever...
I hear your secret heartbeatI can hear your silent criesThe kids have lost their freedomAnd nobody cares 'til somebody famous dies
I remember a time when we used and abusedAnd we fought all our battles in vainI remember a time we thought that passion was freeIn the heat of the night body is a flame
Fever ... we live in fever
Now we live in a world of insanityFear is the key to what you want to beYou don't get a say the majority gets it's wayYou're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die
I hear your silent heartbeatI hear your silent criesOhhh your just in lies lies and lies
The kids have lost their fredomand nobody cares till somebody famous dies...Keep telling lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies
I remember the time when we used and abusedAh was just liesI remember the time we thought that passion was freeAh was just lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies
Hear the night
We live in fever
Now we live in a world of insanityFear is the key to what you want to beYou don't get a say the majority gets it's wayYou're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...
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I'd sail across the oceanI'd walk a hundred milesIf I could make it to the endOh just to see a smile
You see it in their facesThe saddness in their tearsThe despereation and the angerMadness and the fear
[Chorus]No hope, no life, just pain and fearNo food, no love, just greed is here
Starvation and the hungerThe suffering and the painThe agonies of all-out warWhen will it come again?
The struggle for the powerA tyrant tries againJust what the hell is going on?When will it ever end?
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You see the full moon floatYou watch the red sunriseWe take this things for grantedBut somewhere someone's dying
Contaminated watersPollution and decayJust waiting for disease to strikeOh will we learn someday?
No hope, no life, just pain and fearNo food, no love, no seed, childhoods end.
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Maybe one day I'll be an honest manUp till now I'm doing the best I canLong roads, long days, of sunrise, to sunsetSunrise to sunset
Dream on brothers, while you canDream on sisters, I hope you find the oneAll of our lives, covered up quicklyby the tides of time
Spend your days full of emptinessSpend your years full of lonelinessWasting love, in a desperate caressRolling shadows of nights
Dream on brothers, while you canDream on sisters, I hope you find the oneAll of our lives, covered up quicklyBy the tides of time
Sands are flowing and the linesare in your handIn your eyes I see the hunger, and thedesperate cry that tears the night
Spend your days full of emptinessSpend your years full of lonelinessWasting love, in a desperate caressRolling shadows of nights
Spend your days full of emptinessSpend your years full of lonelinessWasting love, in a desperate caressRolling shadows of nights
Spend your days full of emptinessSpend your years full of lonelinessWasting love, in a desperate caressRolling shadows of nights
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On a cold October morning As frost lay on the ground Waiting to make my move I make no sound
Waiting for the mist to cover all around I carefully picked my time then took the wall
I'm sick and tired of running The hunger and the pain A stop to look about then off again
Being at the wrong place And the wrong time Suspected of a hit that was my crime
I am a fugitive being hunted down like game I am a fugitive but I've got to clear my name
Always looking 'round me Forever looking back I'll always be a target for attack
Ever moving onwards Always on the run Waiting for the sight of a loaded gun
I am a fugitive being hunted down like game I am a fugitive but I've got to clear my name
Even if I find them And get to clear my name I know that things can never be the same
But if I ever prove My innocence some day I've got to get them all to make them pay
I am a fugitive being hunted down like game I am a fugitive but I've got to clear my name
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There's a madman in the corner of your eyeHe likes to pry into your sunlightHe wants to burst into the street with you and IA world of shadows and rainHe's seen what love isHe wants to pay you back with guilt
He lies to you he won't let you beHe's got your Chains of MiseryHe won't be still till he's turned your keyHe holds your Chains of Misery — Yeah!He's got your Chains of Misery
There's a prophet in the gutter in the streetHe says "You're damned!"And you believe himHe's got a vision but it shines out through your eyesA world of hatred and fearHe smelt what love meansHe wants to pay you back with pain
He lies to you he won't let you beHe's got your Chains of MiseryHe won't be still till he's turned your keyHe holds your Chains of MiseryHe lies to you he won't let you beHe's got your Chains of MiseryHe won't be still till he's turned your keyHe holds your Chains of Misery
It's only love that holds the key to your heartIt's only love
He lies to you he won't let you beHe's got your Chains of MiseryHe won't be still till he's turned your keyHe holds your Chains of MiseryHe lies to you he won't let you beHe's got your Chains of MiseryHe won't be still till he's turned your keyHe holds your Chains of MiseryHe's got your Chains of Misery
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(Harris/Gers)
Now I'm here, can you see me?'Cos I'm out on my ownWhen the room goes cold, tell meYou can feel me.....'cos I'm here
Here I am, can you see mePassing through, on my wayTo a place I'd been to only in myDreams'before
In a world of delusionNever turn your back on a friend'Cause you can count yourReal true friends on one hand.....through life
There are those that deceive youThere are those that'll let you downIs there someone out there that wouldDie for you.....thought not
Live your life with a passionEverything you do, do wellYou only get out of life what you put in.....so they say
In a world of confusionPeople never say what they meanIf you want a straight answerGo look for one.....right now
In a room full of strangersDo you stand with your back to the wall?Do you sometime feel like you'reOn the outside.....looking in?
You can make your own luckYou create your own destinyI believe you have the powerIf you want to.....it's true
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The rebel of yesterday, tomorrow's foolWho are you kidding being that cool?
Trying to break away from runningwith the packBut they ain't listening so you'vegotta go back
You're a weekend warrior whenyou're one of the crowdBut it's over, just look at you now...
You're not so brave the way you behaveIt makes you sick, gotta get out quickIt's all bravado when you're outwith your matesIt's like a different person goes throughthose gatesAnd the game beginsthe adrenalin's highFeel the tension maybe someonewill die...
A weekend warrior latelyA weekend warrior sometimesA weekend warrior maybe you ain'tthat way anymore
You've gotta get out gotta get awayBut you're in with a clique it's noteasy to strayYou've gotta admit you're justliving a lieIt didn't take long to work out why
It's hard to say why you got involvedJust wanting to be partjust wanting to belong...
A weekend warrior latelyA weekend warrior sometimesA weekend warrior maybe you ain'tthat way anymore
Some of the things that you've doneyou feel so ashamedAfter all it's only a game... isn't it?And after all the adrenalin's goneWhat you gonna do on Monday?
A weekend warrior latelyA weekend warrior sometimesA weekend warrior maybe you werenever like that at all