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MACHINE HEAD LYRICS
"Year of the Dragon: Japan Tour Diary" (2000 Live album)
1. Desire to Fire
2. Take My Scars
3. The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
4. Struck a Nerve
5. Ten Ton Hammer
6. Old
7. A Nation of Fire
8. Davidian
9. Nothing Left
1. Desire to Fire
We turn desire to fire electric spark to the wire
Highred the stakes when we brought this monster
Life prevail by daring to fail others content just to sail
Hail the future we bring
We bring chaos to blocks like riots to watts blow up spots,
Taking the crown off the top notch
Create the pace that you all will follow
Sporadic flow buckles up like a calico
We d-o smoke sensmilla vodka and c-o-k-e is the real deal
You flubber, never had to suffer
Life's gettin harder and it's only getting rougher
Save some for me can't stop what we're going to be
Walk with me and take this seed
A fire for you so dare to fail will you
When my pen hits pad it results in catastrophe
Words and verbscome to form a disaster
If you want it, you got it never hit I spot it
Now come and watch me rise
All the tools, that blew more money than latrell
You tell, I don't know you think I know you too well you feel
And stumbled laughin as you tumbled
I guess you forgot about the power we rock
Coz "all hail the" Machine Head battery
The good, the bad, the ugly
Damaging your battery yeah you been fucked stuck in a rut
Your life has been sucked your tail has been tucked
Save some for me can't stop what we're going to be
Just watch as I demonstrate the reason we dominate
Walk with me and take this seed
A fire for you so dare to fail will you
If we stand alone and believe it all
And you tell me it's all I believe in
Yes we stand alone and believe it all
If you tell me it's all we believe in
Because we'll chew and spit you out
And pray upon the weaker
Take what we want
Walk with me and take this seed
A fire for you so dare to fail will you
2. Take My Scars
It's been around for a thousand years
And it'll be here for plenty more
It is the face hidden in disgrace
That has become now an open sore
It is a false messiah
It is the face of pain
The bringer of the bittersweet
The heretic insane
Take my scars
Through hands of God
I found a better way
To break the walls
Fed all the lies and desensitized
Taught to believe that it is the way
Taught to divide and exactly why
You'll never understand my rage
You've never had to borrow
You've never had to steal
You eat it with your silver spoon
For me it's real
Take my scars
Through hands of God
I found a better way
To break the walls
[Lead: Robb]
Blood and concrete
Piss and wine
Whores that fuck
To feel divine
They'll clean their needles
In their shrine
In ignorance
It's bliss you find
Why can't you fuckin' open
Open your eyes
3. The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
Yes I've walked the path that's righteous
Many men have walked before
Yeah this pain cell, the broken shell
Scraped, shackled onte the floor
So welcome to the world that I lived in
Puking out violence hate
My world entered a false recluse
Sickening from disease
But then I see
This thing in me
Make me want it more than you
But I deny your flesh
Cause pain's my wish
Racing on self destruct
So hold on to the end...
It's all about the blood, the sweat, the tears
A tribute to the strength built through the years
Oh yes I've walked the path that
Gives me confidence strong and pure
Now I realized that freedom rises
From confronting the source
I built these walls around me
And I can't break them all away
And I focus on the strength I call
Insufferable and insane
So hold on to the end...
It's all about the blood, the sweat, the tears
A tribute to the strength built through the years
A tribute to soul...
Take this
Focus
Madness
To take...
...hold...on...on...on...
Hold on.. falling.. please let go..
Hold on.. I'm falling... I'm falling down again...
It's all about the blood, the sweat, the tears
A tribute to the strength built through the years
A tribute cos time will set 'em off
Cos time will set 'em off
4. Struck a Nerve
Give me power to end all of the strife
Courage to kill the pro-life
I don’t want to see
You can’t change me
You tell me not to bow
Just follow for now
You’re oh so holier than thou
The more things change
The more they stay the same
The more
Things change
The more
They stay the same
Give me patience to deal with all the strain
Balance to take the fuckin’ pain
I don’t want to fake
And I won’t break
We’re too happy to be
In our apathy
We smile single file to the line
The more things change
The more they stay the same
The more
Things change
The more
They stay the same
So c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
We gotta wake up
You don’t know you’re right
Your right from wrong
We gotta wake up
5. Ten Ton Hammer
I am the thing that makes you sick
I am the blame that gets placed quick
Detect the crack within your lie
I'll be the wrath of your disdain
I'll be the fear in you ingrained
Become the facts that you deny
I can feel this pain is real
I hate deep down inside
And like broken glass you'll shatter
With bloody fists
I'll batter
Like a ten ton hammer
I'll be the trembling in your breath
Trickle of blood upon your flesh
You'd love to watch me take the fall
I'll be the thing that you despise
'Cause I'm the path to your demise
And I'm a be there standing tall
I can feel this pain is real
I hate deep down inside
And like broken glass you'll shatter
With bloody fists
I'll batter
Like a ten ton hammer
I can't stand or take another day my friend
You could learn a thing or two
I can feel this pain is real
I hate deep down inside
And like broken glass you'll shatter
With bloody fists
I'll batter
Like a ten ton hammer
6. Old
I am the man that defends all things profane
6000 years is the time that I shall reign
And with a grin drank the blood of holy swine
Impurity made the blood turn into wine
[Chorus:]
Old man, dead hand
If only their insanity
The lie feeds off their greed
Jesus wept
I am the pain that feeds off your weakness
A sickening born of hate, not of the blessed
And with the time I will crush all things you prey
Destroying all from the known to the arcane
[Chorus]
Burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they won't find me
Try to suck my power empty
Got no crown of thorns on me
So burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they won't find
Try to suck my power dry
You got no crown of thorns on me
[Chorus]
7. A Nation of Fire
Well I see, I feel
On my way
You close your eyes, scared to think
You might see
A world that spends more to kill than to cure
Living, writhing, diseased, so unpure
It hardens me, the things I see
But I won't break, it gives me strength
[Chorus:]
Our suffering, won't always be
We'll dominate, this nation on fire
The media it
Blinds our eyes
A people divided
And force feds lies
The black and white societies corrode
Warring, hating, blind, a rage explodes
So take my hand across this land
I won't go down, stand my ground
[Chorus]
This nation's built on fighting war after war
And for my brothers, I will fight and stand for
'Cause I won't break, Your truth is fake
If blood ran red, You's leave me for dead
A nation on fire
A nation on fire
You tell me peace, Well I hear gunshots all night
The scars I have, I've earned 'cause I've had to fight
An endless pain, and it won't change
We just sat by, and watched this world die
A nation on fire
A nation on fire
8. Davidian
Blind man ask me forgiveness
I won't deny myself
Disrespect you have given
Your suffering's my wealth
I feed off pain, force fed to love it
And now I swallow whole
I'll never live in the past
Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast
Burn my fist to the concrete
My fear is my strength
Power, rage unbound because
Been pounded by the streets
Cyanide blood burns down the skyline
Hatred is purity
The bullet connects at last
Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast
Scarred
Pour the salt in the wound
Unscarred
9. Nothing Left
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