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ANTHRAX LYRICS
"Universal masters collection" (2002 Best of/Compilation)
1. Mad House
2. A.I.R.
3. Armed and Dangerous
4. I am the law
5. I'm the man (91)
6. Make me laugh
7. Anti-Social
8. In my world
9. Got the time
10. Keep it in the family
11. Bring the noise
12. Indians
13. Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
14. H8 Red
15. Pipeline (Ventures cover)
1. Mad House
White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Tapped, in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
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. Armed and Dangerous
Trapped up inside here, like lions in a cage
I've been a mark of injustice
Bound by these chains
Can't find a reason, I'm on my own
My destiny waits for a sign of me
I'm leaving alone
I'm out on my way now
It's been so many years
The chase is my lifeblood
I have no more fears
Fire, burns in my veins
Anger, shows on my face
Hatred, it poisons my soul
Look out, I'm about to explode
Evil ones try to destroy us
We're armed and prepared for attack
We'll take on the world with rebellion
We're dangerous down to the last
Armed and Dangerous
Armed and Dangerous
Am I evil, or am I insane
The lion inside of me, is no longer tame
A blade in my left, a gun in my right
To beat you within, an inch of your life
4. 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 may wind up dead
Truth and justice are what he's fighting for
Judge Dredd the man, he is the law
DROKK IT
With his 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
And Mega-city was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
And crushed the Sov's with their counter-attack
DROKK IT
[PRE-CHORUS:]
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, it's 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 whith his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner
DROKK IT
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]
[BRIDGE:]
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
[LEAD BREAK]
[REPEAT BRIDGE]
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]
5. I'm the man (91)
1991, always on the run
Seven years ago we wrote this one
Like Ernest and Julio, before it's time
Sever years later and it's holding up fine
Stupid motherf*ckers like to slug us and dis
But there was no bandwagon when we wrote this
'Cause we stretched our boundaries
We opened the door
That no one attempted before
Five guys in shorts, who gives a shit
We do what we like, we don't care where we fit
All you new jacks, what is it?
You're kidding me, get off our dicks
Now we're Anthrax and we take no shit
And we don't care for writing hits
The sound you hear is what we like
And I'll steal your pop-tarts like I stole your
(Psych!)
Beat the beats the beats you beat
The only thing harder's the smell of my feet
So listen up close or you might get dissed
Go drain the lizard or take a piss...
Watch the beat
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
Kick you and your father back in place
Step off sucker understand
Don't you know
I'm the man
We got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
If ya think we've got egos well we're just hams
Scott plays stickball and likes to skate
Frankie's never on time he's always...
Drinking the drinks, the drinks I drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack, they offer joints
We don't do drugs do you get our meaning...
Point, point, point, point, and watch the beat
For a heavy metal band raps a different way
But we like to be different and not cliche
Well they say rap and metal can never mix
Well all of them can suck our...(dicks)
Fart the farts the farts he farted
I pick my nose but I'm not retarded
Like El Duce says "Smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt, with your fuckin' face
You stupid idiot...
Sooooooo, as this rap is winding down
It's plain to see I forgot my hat
You know Anthrax is number one
But we don't care we just wanna have...(party)
Buff the buff the buff he buffed
We are the kings and all shall buff
We're like a diamond, this is forever
And will remain the hardest ever!
6. Make me laugh
Spread the word
Through me God is heard
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killin' joke
Evangelist
You're making me laugh
Jesus saves
But only after I've been paid
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killin' joke
Evangelist
End your hoax
God say's have a TV show
God say's baby do some blow
God say's taxes are a sin
'God say's pour the money in
Rape the poor, faith no more
Faith for cash, make me laugh
Faith no more, face the whore
Rape your past, make me laugh
Never, never, ever sin
Unless God say's to stick it in
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killin' joke
Evangelist
The truth can choke
Defrocked from your seat
Don't shit where you eat
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killin' joke
That God talks to you
There's no hope
God say's have a TV show
God say's baby do some blow
God say's taxes are a sin
God say's pour the money in
Rape the poor, faith no more
Faith for cash, make me laugh
Faith no more, face the whore
Rape your past, make me laugh
God say's have a swimming pool
God say's keep the doghouse cool
God say's planes and boats and cars
God say's have and amusement park
God say's go and masturbate
God say's file taxes late
God say's paint your face all sick
God say's be a real prick
God say's have a TV show
God say's baby do some blow
God say's taxes are a sin
God say's pour the money in
7. Anti-Social
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. 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
9. Got the time
Wake up, got another day to get
Through now, got another man to see
Gotta call him on the telephone AY-O
Gotta find a piece of paper
Sit down, got another letter to write
Think hard, gotta get a letter just right
Little ringin' on the telephone oh no,
Gotta write another letter
No such thing as tomorrow
All we want, Two, three, go!
Time, got the time tick tick tickin' in my head
Time, got the time tick tick tickin' in my head
Time, got the time tick tick tickin' in my head
Tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head
If I, tell ya what I'm doing today
Will you, shut up and get out of my way
Someone ask me what the time is, I don't know
Only know I gotta know now
No time, tryin' ta get a watch repaired
No time, never got a thing to wear
Little ringin' on the telephone
Oh no, hear a ringin' in my head now
10. 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
11. Bring the noise
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...
12. Indians
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve
[BRIDGE:]
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 ...
[PRE-CHORUS:]
On reservation
A hopeless situation
Respect is something that you earn
Our Indian brother's getting burned
Original American
Turned into, second class citizen
[REPEAT BRIDGE]
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS:]
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
[REPEAT BRIDGE]
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]
[MOSH PART]
[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's all about
[LEAD BREAK]
[REPEAT FIRST VERSE]
[REPEAT BRIDGE]
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]
13. 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
14. H8 Red
So I Say to You
So You Look at Me
What Do I Have to Do?
And You Look at Me
So I Say to You
You Just Look at Me
What the Hell Do You See?
Do I Hate You?
No, I Don't Think So
Words Don't Describe What My Feelings Know
Do I Hate You?
No, and I Refuse to Go
Down to Your Level Just to Feed My Ego
Do I Hate You?
Yes, I Got it off My Chest
I Hate You for Making Me Regress
Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop
Looking at Me
What Do You See?
I Don't See in Black and White
I See Things in Wrong and Right
Do I Hate You?
Think, it Takes a Man to Think
And to Admit His Ignorance
You Can't Just Look at My Face
You Can't Judge Me by My Race
We Gotta,
Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop
What Do You See?
So I Say to You
Just Look at Me
I Say to You
Different and...
All this Hatred
All this Hatred
And Do I Hate You?
I Can't Take it
All this Hatred
You May Not Know this
We May Be Different
Different but Equal
Different and Free
You May Not Know this
We May Be Different
Different but Equal
Different and Free
All this Hatred
All this Hatred
And Do I Hate You?
I Can't Take it
Stop this Hatred
Now!
Do I Hate You? Do I Hate You? Yes
Do I Hate You and Placate You? Ohh
Do I Hate You? Do I Hate You? No!!
No, I'm Not That Arrogant
To Not Admit My Ignorance
And Do You Think I Really Care
When You Sit There and You Stare
I Can't Help Feel Sorry for You
And Maybe Even Pity Too
My Answer's No and this Is True
Do I Hate You?!
All this Hatred
All this Hatred
I Can't Take it
All this Hatred
You May Not Know this
We May Be Different
Different but Equal
Different and Free
15. Pipeline (Ventures cover)
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