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ANTHRAX LYRICS
"Live (The Island Years)" (1994 Live album)
1. (Efilnikufesin) N.F.L.
2. A.I.R.
3. Parasite
4. Keep It In The Family
5. Caught In A Mosh
6. Indians
7. Antisocial
8. Bring The Noise (with Public Enemy)
9. I Am The Law
10. Metal Thrashing Mad
11. In My World
12. Now It's Dark
1. (Efilnikufesin) N.F.L.
It started back in high school
So cool, king of the scene
You found that making people laugh
Was more than just a dream
The public took right to you
Like flies to a pile of shit
So funny and smart, so talented
But success just couldn't fit
Wasting your life no future bright
Dancing on your grave
Living like a slave, someone should've said...
NFL, Efilnikufesin NFL
NFL, Efilnikufesin NFL
Wake up dead in a plywood bed
Six feet from the rest of your life
And when you couldn't see your own dependency
NFL, NICE FUCKIN' LIFE
The whole world is your playground
Yet you can't find your niche
Your only friends, it helps you through
Helps you dig your daily ditch
The bottom line can't touch you
Cause you're above the rest
But your little friend's the enemy
And the bottom line is death
You lived a life of excess
GODDAMN shame it's such a waste
Just one too many cookies
From the batch no one should taste
Yet his memory stills stays with us
Cause watching him was fun
Too bad things weren't different
Who knows what he'd have done
2. A.I.R.
Young and free, something you'll never be
A childhood's end, it's lunacy
Pure dictation, they don't listen
And you're just waiting for what you're missing
Welcome to your nightmare
you just can't walk away
It's time for you, to choose, your fate
You just can't let it lay
Welcome to your nightmare
Your whole life's on the way,
Today
You're no good, misunderstood, A.I.R.
All their hopes and visions, of what they want you to be
Crucial times, made up minds, A.I.R.
So high and mighty, though much too blind to see
Who are you gonna live your life for?
Conformity will trap you like a locked door
Independence means owning your decisions
Authority will put your soul in prison
Fight, or go insane, there's no one else to blame
Stop, their influence, you can't give them a chance
Break, right through the wall, that separates us all
Start, your second life, without their hands in sight
You got your pride, you got your visions
Don't subside, don't ever give in
Don't compromise just keep on grinning
The games they play you just keep on winning
Keep on winning
Keep on winning
Keep on winning
A.I.R.
3. Parasite
(written by Ace Frehley), originally performed by Kiss
She'll always be there trying to grab a hold
She thought she knew me, but she didn't know
That I was sad and wanted her to go
Parasite lady
Parasite eyes
Parasite lady
No need to cry
I didn't wanna have to get away
I told her things I didn't want to say
I need her and I hope she'll understand
Parasite lady
Parasite eyes
Parasite lady
No need to cry
4. Keep It In The Family
Mankind,
The Public Enemy's Not the Man Who Speaks His Mind
The Public Enemy's the Man That Goes and Acts Blind
Searching for an Answer That He'll Never Find
An Action from Reaction and You Can't Make a Retraction
Once You've Put Your Head out
And Then You're Blue in the Face,
As You Try to State Your Case
You Can Think with Your Dick but it Can't Shout
Yo
I Try to Understand What the Hell Is Going on
I Can't Imagine How Things Ever Got So Far Gone
You Separatists, Say You Want Your Own State
I'll Give Them a State, a State of Unconsciousness
Retribution, No Solution, Constitution
Discrimination, Through the Nation, Raining Hatred
I Yell, When There's Schism You must Rebel
I Yell, So You'll Hear
I Yell, I Refuse to Live in Your Hell
I Am What You Fear
I'm the Truth, I Don't Keep it in the Family
Live Your Life, Take Someone Else
Keep it in the Family
The Real World's Outside Your Door
You Can't Keep it in the Family
You've Got the Longest Way to Fall
Keep it in The, Keep it in The, Keep it in the
Family
Don't Even Try to Tell Me What You Think Is Right
When to You Blacks Are Niggers, and Jews Are Kikes
And You Expect to Be Taken Seriously
But Your Actions, They're More than Curiously.
Juvenile, You Emulate What You Hate
And You Don't Even Know Why You Feel this Way
'Cause Daddy Hated This, and Mommy Hated That
And Your Own Ability to Reason's like a Tire Gone Flat
Yo.
I Try to Understand What the Hell Is Going on
I Can't Imagine How Things Ever Got So Far Gone
You Separatists, Say You Want Your Own State
I'll Give Them a State, a State of Unconsciousness
Retribution, No Solution, Constitution
Discrimination, Through the Nation, Raining Hatred
I Yell, When There's Schism You must Rebel
I Yell, So You'll Hear
I Yell, I Refuse to Live in Your Hell
I Am What You Fear
I'm the Truth, I Don't Keep it in the Family
Live Your Life, Take Someone Else
Keep it in the Family
The Real World's Outside Your Door
You Can't Keep it in the Family
You've Got the Longest Way to Fall
When You Keep it in The, When You Keep it in the
When You Keep it in the Family
When You Keep it in The, When You Keep it in the
When You Keep it in the Family
Acting out of Pure Cold Hatred
'Cause of What Another's Race Is
Color of Another's Face Is
Different, and Your Own Frustrations
Taking on a Violent Nature
Full of Hate, So Full of Hate
You'd Kill a Man Is That Your Fate
Your Street Becomes a Police State
Why the Hell Do You Hate?!
Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate
Hate, Hate!!!
I'm Not Gonna Stand for it
Someone's Gonna Pay for it
I Yell, We Rebel
We're the Truth and We Won't Keep it in the Family
Live Your Life, Take Someone Else
Keep it in the Family
The Real World's Outside Your Door
You Can't Keep it in the Family
You've Got the Longest Way to Fall
Keep it in the Family
I'm the Thing That You Most Fear
I Don't Keep it in the Family
I Am the Truth You Won't Hear
Keep it in the Family
The Real World's Outside Your Door
You Can't Keep it in the Family
You've Got the Longest Way to Fall
Keep it in the Family
5. Caught In A Mosh
Why don't you listen to me when I try to talk to you
Stop thinking of yourself, for just a second fool
Shut up, shut up, I don't wanna hear your mouth
Your mother made a monster, now get the hell out of my house
Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like clapping with one hand
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
Don't tell me how to do my job
There's the door, your name's on the knob
You're always in the way, like a beast on my back
Were you dropped as a baby, cause brains you lack
Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh
Talking to you, is like clapping with one hand
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
Think-before you speak
Or suffer for your words
Learn, to give respect
That others, give to you
AAAAAAAAAAAh, The best you can do
Hey Man!
I'm trying to reason but you don't understand
Talking in circles, we'll never get it straight
Just you and me in our theatre of hate
Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like talking with one hand
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
6. Indians
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve
FORCED OUT-Brave and Mighty
STOLEN LAND-They can't fight it
HOLD ON-To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much their lives are really missin'
WE'RE DISSIN THEM...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Respect is something that you earn
Our Indian brothers' getting burned
Original American
Turned into second class citizen
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and Prejudice
WARDANCE!!!
TERRITORY, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it make its configuration
PREJUDICE, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what this land is all about
7. Antisocial
You're a train ride to no importance
You're in love with hell existence
Money is all that you desire
Why don't you pack it in and retire
It's common nature you can't fool me
I'm just the money that you can't let free
Rainy day genius clouds your mind
don't you realize the blind lead the blind
You're anti, you're antisocial
Oh mister time will you ever unwind
Or just rebuild a new design
Your claim to fame is law and order
The rich get rich, the poor get poor
You put a price tag on what you see
This one's for you, that's for me
If that's winning I'd rather lose
Why don't you listen to my senseless views
You're anti, you're antisocial
How do you feel?
You're a train ride to no importance
You're in love with hell existence
Money is all that you desire
Why don't you pack it in and retire
It's common nature you can't fool me
I'm just the money that you can't let free
Rainy day genius clouds your mind
Don't you realize the blind lead the blind
You're anti, you're antisocial
ANTISOCIAL.....
8. Bring The Noise (with Public Enemy)
Bass!
How low can you go?
Death row, what a brother knows
Once again back is the incredible
The rhyme animal
The young* cannibal*, D, Public Enemy, number one
"Five-O" said, "Freeze!" and I got numb
Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun
But it's the wax that the terminator x spun
Now they got me in a cell 'cause my records, they sell
Cause a brother like me said, "Well...
...Farrakahn's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to
what he can say to you, what you ought to do"
Follow for now, power of the people, say,
"Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical"
Black is back, all in, we're gonna win
Check it out, yeah y'all c'mon, here we go again
Turn it up! Bring the noise
Never badder than bad 'cause the brother is madder than mad
At the fact that's corrupt like* a senator
Soul on a roll, but you treat it like soap on a rope
Cause the beats in the lines are so dope
Listen for lessons I'm saying inside music
That the critics are blasting me for
They'll never care for the brothers and sisters now across
The country has us up for the war
We got to demonstrate, come on now, they're gonna have to wait,
'till we get it right
Radio stations I question their blackness
They call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play this
Turn it up, Bring the noise
Get from in front of me, the crowd runs to me
My deejay is warm, he's X, I call him Norm ya know
He can cut a record from side to side
So what, the ride, the glide should be much safer than a suicide
Soul control, beat is the father of your rock 'n' roll
Music for whatcha, for whichin', you call a band man
Makin' a music, abuse it, but you can't do it, ya know
You call'em demos, but we ride limos too
Whatcha gonna do? Rap is not afraid of you
Beat is for Sonny Bono, beat is for Yoko Ono
Run-DMC first said a deejay could be a band
Stand on it's own feet, get you out your seat
Beat is for Eric B and L. L. as well, hell
Wax is for Anthrax, still I can rock bells ever
Forever, Universal it will sell
Time for me to exit, Terminator X-it
Turn it up, Bring the noise
From coast to coast, so you stop being like a comatose
Stand my man? The beat's the same with a boost-toast
Rock with some pizzazz, it will last, why you ask?
Roll with the rock stars, you'll never get accepted as
We got to plead the fifth, we can investigate
Don't need to wait, get the record straight
Hey, posse's in effect, got Flavor, Terminator
X to sign checks, play to get paid
We got to check it out down on the avenue
A magazine or two is dissing me and dissing you
Yeah, I'm telling you...
9. I Am The Law
Fifteen years in the academy
He was like no cadet they'd ever seen
A man so hard, his veins bleed ice
And when he speaks he never says it twice
They call him Judge, his last name is Dredd
So break the law, and you wind up dead
Truth and justice are what he's fighting for
Judge Dredd the man, he is the law
DROKK IT!
With gun and bike he rules the streets
And every perp he meets will taste defeat
Not even Death can overcome his might
Cause Dredd and Anderson, they won the fight
When the Sov's started the Apocalypse war
Mega-City was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
Crushed the Sov's with their counter-attack
DROKK IT!
Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...
Chorus
I AM THE LAW!
And you won't fuck around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City... I AM THE LAW
In the cursed earth where mutants dwell
There is no law, just a living hell
Anarchy and chaos as the blood runs red
But this would change if it was up to Dredd
The book of law is the bible to him
And any crime committed is a sin
He keeps the peace with his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner
DROKK IT!
CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's his only enemy and he's going to war
CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your ISO-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's his only enemy and he's going to war
10. Metal Thrashing Mad
Racing down the road
In a street machine of steel
Gears are jammed in full
I'm the madman at the wheel
Got my foot pinned to the floor
You can feel the engine roar
Got thunder in my hands
I'm metal thrashing mad
Driving like a maniac
Can't go any faster
Burning up the road
Headed for disaster
Got my foot pinned to the floor
You can feel the engine roar
Got thunder in my hands
I'm metal thrashing mad
11. In My World
They're Gonna Put Me in Jail?
Man, I'm Already in Jail
Don't They Know That My Life
Is Just One Big Cell
I'll Bite the Hand That Feeds Me
And I Could Give a Damn If That Hand Needs Me
Why Can't You Live Me Alone?
A Lie May Fool Someone Else
But it Tells You the Truth
You're Weak, Just Another Clone
I Just Want My Life
To Do Whatever I like
Yeah, It's a Selfish Need
To Have No Responsibility
So I'll Say What I'm Gonna Say
'Cause I'm Going to Hell Anyway
I'd Rather Be Alone
In My World
I'm Not Afraid
I Am Not Afraid
Nothing Touches Me I'm a Walking Razor Blade
Face the Face of Fear
Face the Face of Death
Laugh When Others Tear
Hate When Others Laugh
In My World It's So Cold
My Defense Is like Stone
No One Gets Inside, 'Cause
In My World I'm Home
In My World I Loathe
And You'll Always Pay a Toll
No One Gets Inside, 'Cause
In My World I'm Home
An Adult at Thirteen
My Childhood Was a Dream
A Full Clout Nightmare, a Sight Unseen
My Greatest Fear as a Kid
One Which I Always Kept Hid
Was to Come Home from School
And Find My Mother Dead
I Just Want My Life
To Do Whatever I like
Yeah It's a Selfish Need
To Have No Responsibility
So I'll Say What I'm Gonna Say
'Cause I'm Going to Hell Anyway
I'd Rather Be Alone
In My World
I'm Not Afraid
I Am Not Afraid
Nothing Touches Me I'm a Walking Razor Blade
Face the Face of Fear
Face the Face of Death
Laugh When Others Tear
Hate When Others Laugh
In My World It's So Cold
My Defense Is like Stone
No One Gets Inside, 'Cause
In My World I'm Home
In My World I Loathe
And You'll Always Pay a Toll
No One Gets Inside, 'Cause
In My World I'm Home
Home!!!
I'm Not Afraid
I Am Not Afraid
Nothing Touches Me I'm a Walking Razor Blade
Face the Face of Fear
Face the Face of Death
Laugh When Others Tear
Hate When Others Laugh
I Am Not Afraid
I Am Not Afraid
I Am Not Afraid
12. Now It's Dark
In dreams I can rule your life, with me nothing's ever right.
Sing for me up on a stage, keep your mind trapped in a cage.
I'm your man I'm what you need, dance with me but never lead.
One deep breath will set me free, don't you fuckin' look at me.
You know that I am...
One fuckin' well dressed man!
Now it's dark, but I can see,
Don't you fuckin' look at me.
Now it's dark, your gonna be,
Exactly what I want to see.
Now it's dark, Mommy,
Don't you fuckin' look at me!
A sensation,
Of elation,
Intoxication,
Now it's dark!
A candy coated existence, underneath is decadence.
What was hidden you have found, made it your own battleground.
Pretty, pretty don't say please, don't you fuckin' look at me.
You know that I am...
One fuckin' well dressed man!
I'll send you a love letter
Straight from the bottom of my heart.
You'll be fucked forever
The candy coated clown's done his part.
I'm your man I'm what you need
Dance with me but never lead.
One deep breath will set me free
Don't you fuckin' look at me.
You know that I am...
One fuckin' well dressed man!
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