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INTRUDER LYRICS
"Escape from Pain" (1990 EP)
1. 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago cover)
2. Escape from Pain
3. Cold-Blooded Killer
4. Kiss of Death
5. T.M. (You Paid the Price)
1. 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago cover)
Waiting for the break of day
searching for something to say
flashing lights against the sky
giving up I close my eyes
sitting cross-legged on the floor
25 or 6 to 4
Staring blindly into space
getting up to splash my face
wanting just to stay awake
wonder how much I can take
should I try to do some more
25 or 6 to 4
Feeling like I bought to sleep
spinning room is sinking deep
searching for something to say
praying for the break of day
25 or 6 to 4
2. Escape from Pain
Falsely accused for hiding guns,
thrown in the hole, the torture has begun
guards they laugh and say "soon you will tell
the bloody straitjacket is your living hell"
wrapped so tight feel I'm buried alive
stabbing pains, growing numbness inside
bodily secretions burn away my skin
all hope is leaving, despair rushes in
I will escape from pain
Dragged from my cell for the second time,
I beg for mercy I've done no crime
they just laugh as they drag me away,
it's now or never, my judgement day
I can't tell them what they want to know,
so back in the jacket is where I go
fighting the pain I look to the sky –
please god help me – I don't want to die!
I will escape from pain
My body twitches, I wait for death
the pain, how it has grown
stretching out to infinity, it's all I've ever known
then through the pain I feel a change I've never felt before
total peace flows through my soul
my mind it starts to soar
As I rise up, I turn and look down
I see my body sprawled there on the ground
freed from anguish, gone is my despair
it doesn't matter now what goes on down there
I have broken from the chains that bind
they cannot touch me now
I leave their world behind
Years have passed and I'm a free man,
but I can't forget what happened back then
strapped in the jacket again and again,
one on top another, they tried to do me in
but I always would escape
they finally gave up, my will they couldn't break
granted a pardon after seven years, but only time will dry my tears
I have escaped from pain
3. Cold-Blooded Killer
People live for the sunrise
I for the rise of the moon
they walk about in the sunlight,
like the dead i wait in my tomb
I awake and meet the darkness
feel the hunger in my veins
no way to stop these feelings
now it's more than just a game
It never ends – it's all the same
I need to feed to end my pain
I'm enslaved to my needs
I'm nothing more than a cold-blooded killer – that's what I am
cold-blooded killer – destroyer of man
So many wasted years gone
kill to live and live to kill
no end to all the slaughter
long ago I lost the thrill
I have taken the lives of millions, the innocent and the brave
with your blood I live on, but in the end, I will pay
It never ends – it's all the same
I need to feed to end my pain
I'm enslaved to my needs
I'm nothing more than a cold-blooded killer – that's what I am
cold-blooded killer – destroyer of man
4. Kiss of Death
You were faithful to the family
they gave you everything you could ever need
the don treated you just like a son
how was he to know that you would be the one
was it the feds – did they have a line on you?
or was it cash that turned your head?
it doesn't matter, 'cause when we are through,
you'll be glad that you are dead
Kiss of death – for your dishonor
Kiss of death – now you must pay
Kiss of death – make peace with your maker now
Did you think that you would not be caught
or did you think that allegiance could be bought?
it doesn't matter, in the end it's all the same
you made the final move in a deadly game
just like Judas you betrayed the one you loved
on his power you did feed
but unlike Judas, the tables have been turned,
prepare yourself to receive the...
Kiss of death – for your dishonor
Kiss of death – now you must pay
Kiss of death – make peace with your maker now
I don't know why I did as I had done
I feel as though ironic victory is won
and through this irony justice will be served
'cause I know in the end we get what we deserve
This is a lesson for those that will hear
just try and cross us, then you'll know fear
when you least expect it, is when we make our call
there's no escaping the hammer when it falls
we have the power to bring you to your knees or make you dreams come true
both the options are laid at your feet
now the choice is up to you
5. T.M. (You Paid the Price)
What went on in you head when they told you
did you think that it was all a lie?
you were leading cattle to the slaughter
you still lived when all around you died
how many lives did it take to convince you -
did you see that what you did was wrong?
serving death to the people of the city
were you so cold you could not see the harm?
Mary – Mary – oh the blood of a thousand lives stain your hands
Mary – Mary – but you paid the price
How did you feel when they said you had killed them – did you feel their agony and pain?
or did you think that they were mistaken – you would never, never kill or maim
you wouldn't let them cut in your body
you thought they were nothing more than fools
when you have to answer to the master
their souls will avenge themselves on you
Mary – Mary – oh the blood of a thousand lives stain your hands
Mary – Mary – but you paid the price
I feel your sorrow, your agony and pain
it's time to weep no more, sentence is over, your debt has been paid
lay your soul to rest
Did you finally tire of the running - or did your conscience finally get to you?
did they get you when you were not looking?
either way, your game was all through
26 years you were locked from the outside
they slammed the door and threw away the key
you calmly accepted your 'sentence'
for with your death you knew you'd then be free
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