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THE ELECTRIC HELLFIRE CLUB LYRICS
"Burn, Baby, Burn!" (1993)
1. Invocation / Age of Fire
2. Psychedelic Sacrifice
3. Fall From Grace
4. Prodigal Son (A Libertine's Lament)
5. MR. 44
6. Where Violence Is Golden...
7. The Electric Hellfire Acid Test
8. Epitaph
9. Black Bus
1. Invocation / Age of Fire
The time has come for us to make infernal dreams reality
And turn the world into a funeral pyre
The gates of Hell are open
Filling hearts and minds with hope
The time has come to cleanse the world with fire
Television angels falling,
There's a revelation calling
This world will never be the same
No more false prophets preaching
An end to all the lies they're teaching
Everything is going up in flames
Synagogues and churches is burning
Can't you see the tide is turning?
How many fires will it take?
Before you realize that god is dead
Until you open up your eyes and see your god is dead
God is dead...Satan lives!
God is dead...Satan lives!
This is the new Way...Hail Hellfire!
This is the new Age...Hail Satan!
This is the age of lust and dark desire
It's the age of anger, it's the Age of Fire
Burn! Burn, baby, burn! Burn! Burn, baby, burn!
And the pulpit of lies is crumbling now
As the puppets of Christ come tumbling down
Let the fire in our hearts become a fire in our minds
And let our minds light fires among all mankind
Burn! Burn, baby, burn! Burn! Burn, baby, burn!
2. Psychedelic Sacrifice
They say the Devil is alive and well
In Northport, Long Island
A sleepy town turned upside down
By a little Satanic violence
Ricky was the Acid King
A heavy metal fan
Leader of the Knights of the Black Circle
Satan's Left-Hand Man
A bunch of teenage loners
Looking for some thrills
Fucked-up, drug-crazed stoners
On the highway to Hell
Drugs, death and the Devil
A psychedelic sacrifice
For the love of Satan
Someone had to pay the price
They took him down to the killing ground
Where no one could hear his cries
Screaming for his mama
While Ricky tore out his eyes
Say you love Satan
All the drugs you've taken
Were a sacrament in his name
Say you love Satan
Claim him as your savior
Let yourself go insane
Ricky was the Acid King
He said that he could do anything
In a prison cell between heaven and Hell
He made the angels sing
Drugs, death and the Devil
You will never understand
A psychedelic sacrifice
Because Satan is my main man!
Say you love Satan
All the drugs you've taken
Were a sacrament in his name
Say you love Satan
Claim him as your savior
Let yourself go insane
3. Fall From Grace
Do you remember when...
We fell from grace and were cast out of Heaven?
Our paradise denied
God-forsaken for the sin of pride
The chosen few, the tribes of Cain
We built an empire of chaos and pain
A dark labyrinth of corruption and disease
But I'd rather rot in Hell than live on my knees!!!
Do you remember when...
The world fell to ruin at the hands of evil men?
A new regime with a single cause:
To establish pleasure as the only law
Every man and woman a slave,
Arenas wet with the blood they gave
We slaughtered millions just to watch them die
Then we piled all the corpses up until they reached the sky.
NO!!!!!!
We lost our faith,
We fell from grace
And if I ever see your God again I'll spit in his face
Burning in Hell...we were left to die
But now the fire's in our hearts and someday we'll
COME ALIVE!...inside of our prison cells and
CRAWL! CRAWL! CRAWL!...up from the the depths of hell and
RISE! RISE! RISE!...back to power 'til we
FALL! FALL! FALL!...from grace again!!!
We will build a new paradise
East of Eden where the shadows lie
A new order that makes gods of men
Someday we will rule the world again!
WE WILL RULE THE WORLD AGAIN!
WE WILL RULE THE WORLD AGAIN!
We will rule the world again.
4. Prodigal Son (A Libertine's Lament)
Take a message to my father
Tell him I have returned
That I now embrace this lonely place
And the family I spurned
I have lived a life of sin
Debauched and decadent
This filth I've wallowed in
Has left me cold and unrepentant
I crossed the line between pleasure and crime
A modern-day De Sade
I chose the way of Gilles de Rais
And the enemies of god
I'm your greatest failure
Nothing can save me
Prodigal Son of the Evil One
I am what you made me
Say a prayer to your ugly god
For the souls of children offered up
We drank their blood, we ate their flesh
And reveled in the sweet smell of excess
I will live forever
For I am truly blessed
My name will live in infamy
Synonymous with death
I'm your greatest failure
Nothing can save me
Prodigal Son of the Evil One
I am what you made me
5. MR. 44
Greetings from the gutter where the red, red rivers run
I bring you sweet salvation from the barrel of a gun
Is she a virgin or is she a whore?
I don't really give a damn
I'm Mr. 44
I'm a bottomless pit
With nothing in it
A void filled with unclean spirits
A hound of Hell on a long, long leash
Can you count the number of this beast?
Mr. 44
Every time I pull my trigger
The Devil's work is done
Hellfire and damnation from the barrel of a gun
22 Disciples of Hell knocking at death's door
To each his own, but make mine murder
I'm Mr. 44
6. Where Violence Is Golden...
Carnal secrets of passion and pain are told
In a torture garden where violence is golden
Where the flowers of Evil grow
With each transgression more seeds are sown
Forbidden pleasures are bought and sold
In a city of sin where violence is golden
A black market of dark desire
Something for everyone…to each his own
What's your fetish?
What's your pleasure?
Designer violence, made to measure
Like a velvet glove
Like a ball and chain
Like the kiss of a whip when you're hungry for pain
7. The Electric Hellfire Acid Test
Step inside the Technicolor dream machine
And listen to the fury of a world you've never seen
Hellfire's all around in Sensurround sound
Once you get a taste of it, you're never coming down
Tune in, turn on
While you've still got a soul to sell
Tune in, turn on
We'll take you straight to Hell
Wrap yourself in psychotropic ecstasy
In surrealistic visions of e-lec-trici-ty
Change the meaning of the word "reality"
There's no limit to your soul, no telling what you'll see
Anything your heart desires
What are you waiting for?
Why don't you set your mind on fire?
And open up the door....
Throw caution to the wind
Strike reason from the rhyme
Electric Hellfire is burning in your mind
Hell ain't just another place to visit when you're dead
Paradise is in your mind
So feed your head
Tune in, turn on
While you've still got a soul to sell
Tune in, turn on
We'll take you straight to Hell
8. Epitaph
9. Black Bus
Well this is our finest hour
It's the death rattle of flower power
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Take a little ride on the Black Bus
The Black Bus is gonna take us flying
On a one-way trip down the Devil's highway
Six hundred sixty-six miles
Damnation's back in style
We left our hearts in San Francisco
When the psychedelic sounds gave way to disco
We traded flowers for knives
We got the Fear and it changed our lives
We hit the road back in '68
When the Summer of Love became the Summer of Hate
They all tried to warn us
About the place called Hotel California
A black church with a Black Pope
Preaching the gospel of Satan's hope
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Take a little ride on the Black Bus
The Black Bus is gonna take us flying
On a one-way trip down the Devil's highway
Six hundred sixty-six miles
Damnation's back in style
Death Valley, '69
On a death-trip ride
Our egos died
It all comes down to this
Cease to exist
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