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Live in Amneville
Live in Amneville
bbcode
Hit the lights
Master of puppets
The shortest straw
Seek and destroy
Kirk solo #1
Welcome home (sanitarium)
Ride the lightning
The memory remains
All nightmare long
Sad but true
Bass solo
The call of Ktulu
One
For whom the bell tolls
Blackened
Kirk solo #2
Fade to black
Enter sandman
Encore Jam
Helpless
Damage Inc.
Creeping death
Hit the lights
No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
with volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

With all our screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
				
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Master of puppets
End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my ame, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my ame, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, Master, Where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, You promised only lies
Laughter, Laughter, All I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help You Die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my ame, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
				
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The shortest straw
suspicion is your name
your honesty to blame
put dignity to shame
dishonor
witchhunt modern day
determining decay
the blattand disarray
disfigure
the public eyes' disgrace
defying common place
unending paper chase
unending

deafening
painstaking
reckoning
this vertigo it doth bring

shortest straw
challenge liberty
downed by law
live in infamy
rub you raw
witchhunt riding through
shortest straw
this shortest straw has been pulled for you

pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
shortest straw has been pulled for you

the accusations fly
discrimination, why?
your inner self to die
intruding
doubt sunk itself in you
it's teeth and talons through
your living catch 22
deluding

a mass hysteria
a megalomania
reveal dementia
reveal

secretly
silently
certainly
in vertigo you will be

shortest straw
chalenge liberty
downed by law
live in infamy
rub you raw
witchhunt riding through
shortest straw
this shortest straw has been pulled for you

pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
shortest straw has been pulled for you

shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
pulled for you
shortest straw
shortest straw has been pulled for you

behind you, hands are tied
your being, ostracized
your hell is multiplied
upending
the fallaout has begun
oppresive damage done
your many turned to none
to nothing
you're reaching your nadir
your will has disappeared
the lie is crystal clear
defending

channels red
one word said
blaclisted
with vertigo make you dead

shortest straw
chalenge liberty
downed by law
live in infamy
rub you raw
witchhunt riding through
shortest straw
this shortest straw has been pulled for you
pulled for you
				
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Seek and destroy
We are scanning the scene
in the city tonight
We are looking for you
to start up a fight
There is an evil feeling
in our brains
But it is nothing new
you know it drives us insane

Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy

There is no escape
and that is for sure
This is the end we won't take any more
Say goodbye
to the world you live in
You have always been taking
but now you're giving

Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy

Our brains are on fire
with the feeling to kill
And it will not go away
until our dreams are fulfilled
There is only one thing
on our minds
Don't try running away
`cause you're the one we will find

Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Running,
On our way
Hiding,
You will pay
Dying,
One thousand deaths
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
Searching,
Seek and Destroy
				
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Kirk solo #1
[Instrumental]
				
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Welcome home (sanitarium)
Welcome to where time stands still
no one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, No windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
that dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
can't they see it's why my brain says Rage

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there
and cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
but violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
he's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
but they think this saves us from our Hell

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again.
				
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Ride the lightning
Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me

Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me

Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end

Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend

My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die

Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see

How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be

Wakened by the horrid cream
Freed from the frightening dream

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames
				
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The memory remains
fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane
but the memory remains

heavy rings on fingers wave
another star denies the grave
see the nowhere crowd
cry the nowhere cheers of honor

like twisted vines that grow
hide and swallow mansions whole
in light of an already
faded prima donna

fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
but the memory remains

heavy rings hold cigarettes
up to lips that time forgets
while the hollywood sun sets
behind your back

and can't the band play on
just listen, they play my song
ash to ash
dust to dust
fade to black 

fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
dance little tin goddess

"ya ya" part

drift away
fade away
little tin goddess

ash to ash
dust to dust
fade to black

fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
fortune, fame
mirror vain
gone insane...
but the memory remains

ash to ash
dust to dust
fade to black...
but the memory remains

yeah
faded prima donna yeah, yeah

(solo)
dance little tin goddess dance
				
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All nightmare long
luck. runs. out.
crawl from the wreckage one more time
horrific memory twists the mind
dark, rugged, cold and hard to turn
path of destruction, feel it burn
still life
incarnation
still life
infamy

hallucination
heresy
still you run, what's to come?
what's today?

'cause we hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long
feel us breathe upon your face
feel us shift, every move we trace
hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
luck. runs.

you crawl back in
but your luck runs out

1. 2.

luck. runs. out.

the light that is not light is here
to flush you out with your own fear
you hide, you hide, but will be found
release your crypt without a sound

still life
immolation
still life
infamy

hallucination
heresy
still you run, what's to come?
what's today?

'cause we hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long
feel us breathe upon your face
feel us shift, every move we trace
hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long
luck. runs.

you crawl back in
but your luck runs out

then you crawl back in
into your obsession
never to return
this is your confession

hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long
feel us breathe upon your face
feel us shift, every move we trace
hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
luck. runs.

you crawl back in
but your luck runs out

your luck runs out
				
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Sad but true
hey
i'm your life
i'm the one who takes you there
hey
i'm your life
i'm the one who cares
they
they betray
i'm your only true friend now
they
they'll betray
i'm forever there

i'm your dream, make you real
i'm your eyes when you must steal
i'm your pain when you can't feel
sad but true

i'm your dream, mind astray
i'm your eyes while you're away
i'm your pain while you repay
you know it's sad but true

you
you're my mask
you're my cover, my shelter
you
you're my mask
you're the one who's blamed
do
do my work
do my dirty work, scapegoat
do
do my deeds
for you're the one who's shamed

i'm your dream, make you real
i'm your eyes when you must steal
i'm your pain when you can't feel
sad but true

i'm your dream, mind astray
i'm your eyes while you're away
i'm your pain while you repay
you know it's sad but true

hate
i'm your hate
i'm your hate when you want love
pay
pay the price
pay, for nothing's fair
hey
i'm your life
i'm the one who took you here
hey
i'm your life
and i no longer care

i'm your dream, make you real
i'm your eyes when you must steal
i'm your pain when you can't feel
sad but true

i'm your truth, telling lies
i'm your reasoned alibis
i'm inside open your eyes
i'm you

sad but true
				
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Bass solo
[Instrumental]
				
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The call of Ktulu
[Instrumental]
				
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One
i can't remember anything
can't tell if this is true or dream
deep down inside i feel to scream
this terrible silence stops me

now that the war is through with me
i'm waking up i can not see
that there is not much left of me
nothing is real but pain now

hold my breath as i wish for death
oh please god,wake me

back in the womb its much too real
in pumps life that i must feel
but can't look forward to reveal
look to the time when i'll live

fed through the tube that sticks in me
just like a wartime novelty
tied to machines that make me be
cut this life off from me

hold my breath as i wish for death
oh please god,wake me

now the world is gone i'm just one
oh god,help me hold my breath as i wish for death
oh please god help me

darkness imprisoning me
all that i see
absolute horror
i cannot live
i cannot die
body my holding cell

landmine has taken my sight
taken my speech
taken my hearing
taken my arms
taken my legs
taken my soul
left me with life in hell
				
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For whom the bell tolls
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
				
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Blackened
Blackened Is the End
Winter it Will Send
Throwing All You See
Into Obscurity

Death of Mother Earth
Never a Rebirth
Evolution's End
Never Will it Mend

Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Color Our World Blackened

Bustering of Earth
Terminate its Worth
Deadly Nicotine
Kills What Might Have Been

Callous Frigid Chill
Nothing Left to Kill
Never Seen Before
Breathing Nevermore

Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Color Our World Blackened

Blackened

Opposition...Contradiction...Premonition...Compromise
Agitation...Violation...Mutilation...Planet Dies
Darkest Color
Blistered Earth
True Death of Life

Termination....Expiration...Cancellation...Human Race
Expectation...Liberation...Population...Lay to Waste
See Our Mother
Put to Death
See Our Mother Die

Smouldering Decay
Take Her Breath Away
Millions of Our Years
In Minutes Disappears

Darkening in Vain
Decadence Remains
All Is Said and Done
Never Is the Sun

Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Fire
Is the Outcome of Hypocrisy
Darkest Potency
In the Exit of Humanity
Color Our World Blackened

Blackened
				
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Kirk solo #2
[Instrumental]
				
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Fade to black
Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone

No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye
				
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Enter sandman
say your prayers little one
don't forget, my son
to include everyone

tuck you in, warm within
keep you free from sin
till the sandman he comes

sleep with one eye open
gripping your pillow tight

exit light
enter night
take my hand
off to never never land

something's wrong, shut the light
heavy thoughts tonight
and they aren't of snow white

dreams of war, dreams of liars
dreams of dragon's fire
and of things that will bite

sleep with one eye open
gripping your pillow tight

exit light
enter night
take my hand
off to never never land

now i lay me down to sleep
pray the lord my soul to keep
if i die before i wake
pray the lord my soul to take

hush little baby, don't say a word
and never mind that noise you heard
it's just the beast under your bed,
in your closet, in your head

exit light
enter night
grain of sand

exit light
enter night
take my hand
we're off to never never land
				
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Encore Jam
[Instrumental]
				
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Helpless
i gotta see you moving fast  
see you come my way  
see the dreams, i hope they last  
never fade away.  
 
gotta see the lights above  
make it loud tonight  
gotta set it all a-fire  
set it all a-light  
 
see the flashing lights  
hear the thunder roar  
i am gonna set you all a-light  
gotta make it man  
i ain't got a choice  
gotta fill this hall tonight  
 
helpless  
helpless  
helpless  
helpless  
 
i don't what i'm gonna do  
maybe not tonight  
gotta set you all a-fire  
gotta treat you right.  
 
i can see the flashing lights  
lit before your love, ohh  
gotta hear the thunder roar  
coming from above.  
 
see the flashing lights  
hear the thunder roar  
i'm gonna set you all alight  
gotta make it man  
i ain't got no choice  
gotta fill this hall tonight  
 
helpless  
helpless  
helpless  
helpless  
 
i can see the stars  
i can see what's going on  
every night alone  
i sing my song just for fun.  
 
only time will tell  
if i'll make it myself someday  
this stage is mine  
music is my destiny.  
 
cannot squeeze the life from me!  
 
i can see the lights  
but i can see what's going on  
every night alone  
i sing my song just for fun.  
 
business in collapse  
some men don't like it so  
helpless maybe babe,  
but you can leave or join the show.  
 
cannot squeeze the life from me!  
				
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Damage Inc.
Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end

Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated

Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall

Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated

We chew and spit you out
we laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from

Damage Incorporated

Damage jackals ripping right through you
sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
step a little closer if you please

Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
				
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Creeping death
Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years

So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death

Now
Let my people go, land of goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down the nil
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire

So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death

Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
I
Rule the midnight air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and flood final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass

So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
				
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