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TANKARD LYRICS
"Doomsday News III - Thrashing East Live" (1990 Split)
1. Flag of Hate
2. Riot of Violence
3. Love Us or Hate Us
4. Behind the Mirror
5. Alien
6. Chemical Invasion
7. Maniac Forces
8. Hosanna in Excelsis
9. I for an Eye
10. For Those Who Died
11. D.O.A.
12. Absorbed
13. Read My Scars
1. Flag of Hate
Dark shadows lie over the city
Tonight someone will die, you can hear
Some painful scream the air is full of flies
The mayhemic legions are ready
to steal the human souls
Come into my vault and do what you've been told
I'll eat your intensities no matter
if you pray or please
I'll bring you down to your knees
Tonight you're gonna meet your fate
You'll try to run but it's too late
I am here to liquidate
[Chorus]
Time to rise your Flag of Hate
Destroy the world is our only aim
To strike'em down is the only way
To make'em dead and make'em pay
The gallow of the underground
snipers on the sea of blood
All what we want is to crucify your "God"
The posers on this Earth have no right to live
We gonna spit their brains torture
is what we give
2. Riot of Violence
Greedy for blood
Paralysed by power
The decision to die
Tales of terror
Deep in the corner
Passion to kill
Corpse on the ground
Minds starts to chill
A man lies in the corner, covered with blood
Bloody wounds on his body, praying to his god
People pass him by, but they say
Why should we care about him? he will die today
Riot of violence
Find your own way
You must go alone
Kill all next to you
They want the throne
The infectious disease
Is the only life
You're scared to death
Die by their knife
A man lies in the corner, covered with blood
Bloody wounds on his body, praying to his god
People pass him by, but they say
Why should we care about him? he will die today
Brutality and mighty wars, warriors start to fight
With bombs and guns, the troops have come to extinguish the light
I'd rather not go wild tonight, but I must save myself
On a field littered with corpses
Stands a lonely flower
It reminds the world how it was
But we kicked it away with power
3. Love Us or Hate Us
Don't try to tell us
What is right for us
We don't give a fuck anyway
Don't try to steal
Imagination from us
Things we believe
We will never betray
Those who has the power to
Suck us dry - throw us away
Those who never could create
Destroy the music of today
Those devoid of any feeling
Those who make the compromise
Betray themselves to make a deal
Sell their soul at any price
Sounds without feeling,
Energy of agressions
From money hungry brains
And not from the heart
Fortune, fame and glory
Are their obssessions
Salesman, deaf to music
Blind to art
No honesty, just sterility
A cautious sound they make
Without creativity
It's still the same
As another age
When they took the words
Of truth and put them
To a flame
[CHORUS]
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Some have eyes
And still can't see
Their plastic noise is
Anything but music to me
Mechanized and computerized
Switch off your brain and
Make sounds that dehumanize
[CHORUS REPEATS]
Don't try to take our dreams
Away from us
We will never be like you
Love us or hate us
It doesn't matter to me
We don't want to be a part
Of this sick society
Those who have a passion to
Will never change our way of life
We may not think the way you do
But we know that we are right
Those who want to form a world
Of friends and monotony
Have to do it without us
Cause we always be free
4. Behind the Mirror
Entering a part of your mind
Where reality is lost and time stands still
Dreams and nightmares are one
Only hell knows if this is real
No human being has been here before
Not a single soul has seen this before, you are
Entering a new world and you are the first
The mysteries of life becoming clearer
Behind the mirror [X2]
Flying through the black hole
Things look strange in this new dimension
You expected a brave new world
But what is this - only hate and destruction
No love, no hope only weakness and violence
When you return reality carries on for you
Nothing can help you escape from this world
A place of hate and terror
Behind the mirror [X2]
Born in this world of hate
You try to escape through
The dimensions you made, trying and trying (again)
Scared of live you exist in endless fear
[Last part of second verse repeated]
5. Alien
It come to earth three years ago from deep in space
A brilliant U.F.O.! I could not believe it
Refuge! I let it stay with me a while
Stupid! Now I with that he would go
Alien, Alien - he's a drunkard
Alien, Alien - he ate my food
Consumed my chow 'til nothing's left every week
Are you happy now? I cannot avoid it!
Nosey! He snoops around my private stuff
Porno! And sold my stack of magazines
He broke into my well stocked fridge and drank my beer
I can't get really drunk tonight, the stores are closed
Leave now! You drive me nuts, don't want you here
Oh no! He locked the keys in his spacecraft
6. Chemical Invasion
STOP THE CHEMICAL INVASION
German beer's among the finest
The beer is pure and chemical free
A standard set which we are proud of
A standard met by no other land
Purity laws and chemical free
No body pollution - no change!
Preservatives shall soon be common
And the beer will be bastardized
Cnemical invasion
Fight for your right to drink pure beer
Cnemical invasion
It's your right the time is here
Make a stand and try to fight it
They'll poison us with import beer
'Cause German beer - it is the purest
And there's no room for chemical here
Purity laws and chemical free
No body pollution - no change!
No loss for us - refuse to buy it
We'll rather keep our bodies clean
7. Maniac Forces
Bombs of destruction threaten our world
They say: We need'em for defending
Millions of citizen must hunger for their insanity
Wiping out our whole planet
Maniac forces
Russians and Americans accuse each other
Of having more bombs than the other one
We live in an uncertain world
Be afraid of the beginning of World War 3
8. Hosanna in Excelsis
Soldiers of fortune,
kings of Hades,
in our quest for power unite,
black messiahs,
devastation angels,
gird our loins -
prepare to fight:
With weapons drawn in anger,
at last we stand our ground,
crusaders of damnation,
in death our purpose is found at last.
Charge!
We're cleansing the world with
destruction and war,
fear for your life when we knock at your door,
there will be no salvation,
just death and starvation,
and Earth shall be Hell evermore.
Hark! The fallen Angels sing:
"Glory to Satan our King,
the Holy Church we thus defied,
the usurper crucified."
Prayer shall offer no protection,
from the swords of Blasphemy,
holy altars rent asunder,
in our deeds - priests their destruction see:
The fear that dwells within them,
at the wrath of Satan's hoard,
grows and fills their hearts with terror,
those who live by prayer - die by the sword.
We're cleansing the world with
destruction and war,
fear for your life when we knock at your door,
there will be no salvation,
just death and starvation,
and Earth shall be Hell evermore.
Hark! The fallen Angels sing:
"Glory to Satan our King,
the Holy Church we thus defied,
the usurper crucified."
Dark formations fly above us,
ghastly are the Lords of Hell,
who proudly storm the gates of heaven,
from which their noble masters fell...
Soldiers of fortune,
kings of Hades,
in our quest for power unite,
black messiahs,
devastation angels,
gird our loins -
prepare to fight:
With weapons drawn in anger,
at last we stand our ground,
crusaders of damnation,
in death our purpose is found at last.
Charge!
We're cleansing the world with
destruction and war,
fear for your life when we knock at your door,
there will be no salvation,
just death and starvation,
and Earth shall be Hell evermore.
Hark! The fallen Angels sing:
"Glory to Satan our King,
the Holy Church we thus defied,
the usurper crucified."
9. I for an Eye
[INTRODUCTION]
This tale I tell that all may see,
behind God's truth lurks treachery.
[VOICE OF GOD]
'Mine is the right to glory and light,
and you shall have heartache and pain,
yours must be Hell -
for in Heaven I'll dwell,
I care not for that earthly domain.'
[HOST OF RIGHTEOUS ANGELS]
'For crimes against divinity -
the loneliness of purgatory,
your kingdom rule - Humanity,
Mankind shall be your Hell.'
[LUCIFER]
'Why have you done this to me -
tell me what is my crime,
I'm tried and convicted -
guilty the fate that is mine.
You say I'm a Devil -
then by Hell the Devil I'll be.'
[NARRATION]
'As aeons passed without cessation -
brewing hatred from damnation,
in darkness Satan waited -
laughed as God the Earth created,
and man in his own image made -
unaware that plans were laid,
'till from the dark eternal night -
a serpent crawled into the light.
And so from darkness a rage without measure -
burst spreading the cancer 'cross Eden,
corrupting and tempting and never relenting,
abusing man's newly found freedom.'
[LUCIFER]
'Out of the abyss I come the avenger
shapeless and faceless - Yet I have a name,
I shall tighten my grip on your now flawed creation,
endeavour to show you the meaning of pain.'
'It soothes my heart,
to see you cry,
when I am done,
you will learn as I -
to suffer in Hell.'
'Impaled on the horns of a dilema -
it seems what were my nightmares,
are now naught but dreams,
for you who have riches know paradise well,
and I who have nothing am burning in Hell.'
10. For Those Who Died
Our tounges they could not silence,
with their malicious lies,
their unforgotten violence,
remember those who died.
And as my flesh is put to fire,
I hear their voices still,
their unjust accusations,
demanding I am killed.
'We shall show no mercy to heathen
such as thee,
who stand accused and have refused
the Church's clemency,
your wicked acts are endless,
though the crimes they cannot name,
innocent or guilty proved,
we'll burn you just the same.'
Burning, into the fire.
Burning, a funeral pyre.
Burning, into the fire.
Burning, a funeral pyre.
This self-righteous inquisition,
is a plague upon our land,
as false as the confessions they force
from shattered hands.
Abused my broken body is cleansed
by righteous flame,
their God a 'God of Mercy' -
yet in whose name I'm slain.
My innocence the victim of their
superstitious fears,
religious persecution for the past
three hundred years,
preaching peace and mercy 'neath the
shadow of the knife,
a papal reign of terror -
slaughter in the name of Christ.
11. D.O.A.
I won't go till the sun lights the night
And the moon is melting my skin
Water turns to fire
And flames are freezing to ice
I won't go till I've tasted dark wine
Made out of deepest sorrow
Absorbing winds of suffering
On fields of blood and tears
Pictures move fast...the end in sight
But I will break...the laws of time
I won't go till I've immersed myself
On the trail of mystery
Searching for the sacred two headed worm
Who crawls down my soul
12. Absorbed
I have to forget, push things from my head
I've got to leave that past of blood and tears
My brain...injected, information...infected
I'm absorbed lost in my storm
I've got to stop and clear my conscience
I've got to look for another direction
My arms...out stretched, my hands...touch nothing
I'm absorbed by the fog of my lies
You're out there...somewhere
Outside getting on with life
I'm in here...nowhere
Inside looking for a key
So what can I do to find myself
Which way is right, which way is left
Direction undiscovered, my body exhausted
I'm absorbed totally confused
13. Read My Scars
My cry echoes on a naked wall
Cold like a crystal
Numbered hours creeping
Insanity strangles reality...
Weakened, crushed, formed
New dimensions arise
My mind becomes a fortress
Inpregnable, shut
The walls between us make the public safe...
Read my scars...see why I'm like that
Read my scars...and don't ask me why
Whisper turns into a scream
Light would burn my skin
My legs, useless instruments
My eyes, almost blind
See the sunny world outside
Ignorant of the fact
Faking shock, forgetting fast
Freedom is a gift...
My cry echoes on a naked wall
Cold like a crystal
Numbered hours creeping
Insanity strangles reality...
The walls between us make the public safe...
Read my scars...see why I'm like that
Read my scars...and don't ask me why
The walls between us make the public safe...
Read my scars...see why I'm like that
Read my scars...and don't ask me why
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