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PANTERA LYRICS
"Reinventing Hell" (2003 Best of/Compilation)
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Domination
3. Cemetery Gates
4. Mouth For War
5. Walk
6. This Love
7. Fucking Hostile
8. Becoming
9. I�m Broken
10. 5 Minutes Alone
11. Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover)
12. Drag The Waters
13. Where You Come From
14. Revolution Is My Name
15. Immortally Insane
16. The Badge
1. Cowboys From Hell
Under the lights where we stand tall
Nobody touches us at all
Showdown, shootout, spread fear within, without
We're gonna take what's ours to have
Spread the word throughout the land
They say the bad guys wear black
We're tagged and can't turn back
You see us comin'
And you all together run for cover
We're takin over this town
Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen my friend, you see
It's been slow down below,
Aimed at you we're the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, we've won
Ain't talking no tall tales friend
'Cause high noon, your doom
Comin' for you we're the cowboys from hell
Pillage the village, trash the scene
But better not take it out on me
'Cause a ghost town is found
Where your city used to be
So out of the darkness and into the light
Sparks fly everywhere in sight
From my double barrel, 12 gauge,
Can't lock me in your cage
You see us comin'
And you all together run for cover
We're takin over this town
Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen my friend, you see
It's been slow down below,
Aimed at you we're the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, we've won
Ain't talking no tall tales friend
'Cause high noon, your doom
Comin' for you we're the cowboys from hell
2. Domination
Agony is the price
That you'll pay in the end
Domination consumes you
Then calls you a friend
It's a twisted fall
Binds are like steel
And manipulates the will to be
And it's hard to see
How soon we forget
When there's nothing else
Left to destroy
It's a useless ploy
Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall
It's domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails it's a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend
Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall
It's domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails it's a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend
3. Cemetery Gates
Reverend reverend is this some conspiracy?
Crucified for no sins
An image beneath me
Whats within our plans for life
It all seems so unreal
I'm a man couldnt have feel this world
Left in my misery...
The reverend he turned to me
Without a tear in his eyes
It's nothing new for him to see
I didn't ask him why
I will remember
The love our souls had
Sworn to make
Now I watch the falling rain
All my mind can see
Now is your (face)
Well I guess
You took my youth
I gave it all away
Like the birth of a
New-found joy
This love would end in rage
And when she died
I couldn't cry
The pride within my soul
You left me incomplete
Memories now unfold.
Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the
Cemetery gates
Sometimes when I'm alone
I wonder aloud
If you're watching over me
Some place far abound
I must reverse my life
I can't live in the past
Then set my soul free
Belong to me at last
Through all those
Complex years
I thought I was alone
I didn't care to look around
And make this world my own
And when she died
I should've cried and spared myself some pain...
Left me incomplete
All alone as the memories still remain
The way we were
The chance to save my soul
And my concern is now in vain
Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the cemetery gates
4. Mouth For War
Revenge
I'm screaming revenge again
Wrong I've been wrong for far too long
Been constantly so frustrated I've moved mountains with less
When I channel my hate to productive
I don't find it hard to impress
Bones in traction
Hands break to hone raw energy
Bold and disastrous
My ears can't hear what you say to me
(Chorus)
Hold your mouth for the war
Use it for what it's for
Speak the truth about me
Determined
Possessed
I feel a conquering will down inside me
Strength
The strength of many to crush who might stop me
My strength is in number and my soul lies in every one
The releasing of anger can better any medicine under the sun
Bones in traction
Hands break to hone raw energy
Bold and disastrous
My ears can't hear what you say to me
(Chorus)
There comes a time within everyone
to close your eyes to what's real
No comprehension to fail I vacuum the wind for my sail
Can't be the rest
Let others waste my time
Owning success is the bottom line.
Like a knife into flesh
After life is to death
Pulling and punching the rest of duration
NO ONE can piss on this determination
5. Walk
Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence
One step from lashing out at you...
You want in to get under my skin
And call yourself a friend
I've got more friends like you
What do I do?
(Pre) Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been
Belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time
(Chorus) Respect, walk
Run your mouth when I'm not around It's easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize
Can you hear the violins playing you song?
Those same friends tell me your every word
(Pre)
(Chorus)
Are you talking to me? No way punk
6. This Love
If ever words were spoken
Painful and untrue
I said I loved but I lied
In my life
All I wanted
Was the keeping
Of someone like you
As it turns out
Deeper within me
Love was twisted and pointed at you
Never ending pain, quickly ending life
(Chorus)
You keep this love, thing, child, toy
You keep this love, fist, scar, break
You keep this love
I'd been the tempting one
Stole her from herself
This gift in pain
Her pain was life
And sometimes I feel so sorry I regret this the hurting of you
But you make me so unhappy
I'd take my life and leave love with you
I'd kill myself for you,
I'd kill you for myself
(Chorus) No more head trips
7. Fucking Hostile
Almost every day I see the same face
On broken picture tube
It fits the attitude
If you could see yourself
You put you on a shelf
Your verbal masturbate
Promise to nauseate
Today I'll play the part of non-parent
Not make a hundred rules
For you to know about yourself
Not lie and make you believe
What's evil is making love and making friends and meeting
God you're own way
The right way
(Chorus)
To see To bleed
Cannot be taught
In turn
You're making us
Fucking hostile
We stand alone
The truth in right and wrong
The boundaries of the law
You seem to miss the point
Arresting for a joint?
You seem to wonder why
Hundreds of people die
You're writing tickets man
My mom got jumped -- they ran!
Now I'll play a public servant
To serve and protect
By the law and the state
I'd bust the punks
That rape steal and murder
And leave you be
If you crossed me
I'd shake your hand like a man
Not a god
(Chorus)
Come meet your maker, boy
Some things you can't enjoy
Because of heaven/hell
A fucking wives' tale
They put it in your head
Then put you in your bed
He's watching say your prayers
Cause God is everywhere
Now I'll play a man learning priesthood
Who's about to take the ultimate test in life
I'd question things because I am human
And call NO ONE my father who's no closer that a stranger
I won't listen
(Chorus)
8. Becoming
A long time ago I never knew myself
Then the memory
Of shame birthed its gift
No more
The small one, the weak one, the frightened one
Running from beatings, deflating
I'm becoming more
Than a man
More than you ever were
Driven and burning
To rise beyond Jesus
I'm born again with snakes eyes
Becoming Godsize
I found my life was slipping through my hands Perhaps
Through death my life won't be so bad
I can see you, can fuck you, inside of you
Staring through
Your eyes
Belittle your friends to serve me, to suck me
To realize my saving grasp
I of suicide
I the unlord
I'm born again with snakes eyes
Becoming Godsize
9. I�m Broken
I wonder if we'll smile in our coffins while loved ones
Mourn the day, the absence of our faces, living, laughing,
Eyes awake
Is this too much for them to take?
Too young for ones conclusion, the lifestyle won
Such values you taught your son
That's how
Look at me now
I'm broken
Inherit my life
One day we all will die, a cliched fact of life
Force fed
To make us head
Inbred to sponge our bleed
Every warning, a leaking rubber, a poison apple for mingled blood
Too young for ones delusion the lifestyle cost
Venereal Mother embrace the loss
That's how
Look at you now
You're broken
Inherit your life
10. 5 Minutes Alone
I see you had your mind all made up you group of
Pitiful liars
Before I woke to face the day, your master
Plan transpired
-Something told me-
this job had more to
Meet the eye
My song is not believed?
My words some-
What deceiving?
Now I'm unwhole
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are
Can't leave the scar
You cry for compensation
I ask you please just give us...
5 minutes alone
I read your eyes, your mind was made up
You took me for
A fool
You used complexion of my skin for a counter
Rascist tool
-You can't burn me-
I've spilled my guts out
In the past
Taken advantage of because you know where
I've come
My past
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are
Can't leave the scar
You cry for compensation
I ask you please just give us...
5 minutes alone
11. Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover)
We sail through endless skies
Stars shine like eyes
The black night sighs
The moon in silver trees
Falls down in tears
Light of the night
The earth, a purple blaze of sapphire haze
In orbit always
While down below the trees
Bathed in cool breeze
Silver starlight breaks down the night
And so we pass on by the crimson eye of great god
Mars as we travel the universe
12. Drag The Waters
A smack on the wrists is the words from the mouth
of the outsiders, lawyers, police
A small price to pay for the dope and the guns
and the rape, it should all be O.K.
Your father is rich, he's the judge, he's the man,
he's the God that got your sentence reduced
But in the back of his mind, he well knows what
he'd find if he looked a little deeper in you - in you
Drag the waters some more
Like never before
Sweet is the slice and the lips - you're gonna have that woman -
she is your favorite lay
Promised you (swore) that no one had been there,
and she was going to keep it that way
Let it move in, you got thin, and got high, and
your money went and so did your friends
But she's by your side, and her smile cannot hide
the premonition of the beckoning end - the end
Drag the waters some more
Like never before
In with it, out with it
13. Where You Come From
It's strange to be around again
Can't kill (the) bastard in the skies
I was asking for it all,
Being dragged down the road
Call it wisdom or ignorance
(chr)
But it's still alive
And it's in me now
And it lives and breathes
(but),...
...I can't give a fuck
I've got a big mouth
And there's a lot to learn
From a bottle of whiskey
It's where you come from
(The South)
A remedy to the curse
On harder wares control
Look at what's around
But I just can't lie around
Feeling sorry for myself
(chr)...
...I could care less
I've got a big mouth
And there's a lot to learn
From weed and whiskey
It's where you come from
(Solo)
I fell in front of my friends
I dropped out in front of the world
You call that supernatural?
It ain't
I've got a big mouth
And there's a lot to learn
From a bottle and whiskey
It's where you come from
Black wings will weather your flight
For some there's no second time
Following paths of your life
I stepped off the mountain to (the) sky
Watch your ass no(w)
It's where you come from
It's where you come from
14. Revolution Is My Name
68' into the world born
And the Seventies, a breath after the war
Life was confusing because of my age
Should my eyes open for tomorrow�s gains?
I can't help the way I am
There's no trust and there's no end
What is my name?
(Chorus)
It will never change
So here it stays
Forever is my name
From now on, can't look the other way
Keep in mind and listen to what I say
Take under wing all the ones who are lost
Build up around them an infinite wall
Don't you know just who I am?
Take the hand of wisdom's friend
What is my name?
(Chorus)
It's time to change
It can't stay the same
Revolution is my name
It will never change
So here it stays
Forever is my name
What is my name? (x4)
Forever...
What is my name? (x4)
Revolution...
(2nd Chorus)
15. Immortally Insane
deathlike silence,
red cloud shades,
a race that walls immortality,
the undying battle of extinction
who would believe in sanctuary?
Weapons of less oposed historic,
life is yielded onto sour ground,
a jester shell is designated,
for warning to you, both man and beast,
destroying, foundation,
arguing, forever!
Immortally Insane.
Evil hardly a tranquil place,
the prophecy lives its hateful face.
For war is like lightening strike again and again.
Seperating the the land from the wolf and man
Survivers will rise from satan ....
the skulls or rivals lay in rows in my cell.
The seeds of breeding swallow the waste
creating more for the next one,
destroying, foundation,
arguing, forever!
16. The Badge
Young and dumb, truth and justice fantasy.
Fresh out of the academy.
Five time loser bust his head, make your day.
Unless you're paid off to look away.
Do you think this corruption will ever stop?
What makes a person wanna be a cop?
Ran a red light, storm the house and bust the guy.
Do you like to see his children cry?
Pick-up a hooker, take her for a little ride.
But get sucked off on the side.
Sworn to serve and protect, forget the killing,
Badge wearing fascist villain.
Pissed in the street, you bust the guy.
Do you like to see his children cry?
The badge means you suck, a child lays there dead.
As you look back, what goes through your head?
Some still call him pig.
Some still call him pig.
Young and tough, truth and justice fantasy.
Fresh out of the academy.
Five time loser, bust his head, make your day.
Unlesss you're paid off then you look away.
He burned a flag, storm the house and bust the guy.
Do you like to see his children cry?
Ran a red light, take her for a little ride,
But get sucked off on the side.
The badge means you suck, a child lays there dead.
As you look back, what goes through your head?
Talk to them, you can work it out.
You better not even try it.
You make a play for his gun.
They'll kill you: say it was a riot. Riot!!!
What's behind the badge?
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