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WHIPLASH LYRICS
"Ticket to Mayhem" (1987)
1. Perpetual Warfare (Intro)
2. Walk the Plank
3. Last Nail in the Coffin
4. Drowning in Torment
5. The Burning of Atlanta
6. Eternal Eyes (Last Nail in the Coffin, Part 2)
7. Snake Pit
8. Spiral of Violence
9. Respect the Dead
10. Perpetual Warfare (Outro)
1. Perpetual Warfare (Intro)
2. Walk the Plank
Ship has set sail, sea will prevail
Swallow the slaughter, drink the salt water
Pawn of the power, sea will devour
Infinite day, awaiting the hour
[Chorus:]
Walk the plank
Walk the plank
Tred ball and chain, infliction of pain
Vulture's arise, death in their eyes
Under the gun, food supply none
Knife in the back, nowhere to run
[Repeat chorus]
[Post-chorus:]
All hope is lost been double crossed
Legion of death steal your last breath
The treachery of muting, lightning and thunder
Make the mind wander
Water's infected, captain's arrested
Sharks in the water, body's injected.
3. Last Nail in the Coffin
Without one breath of life from the coffin'
The body begins to arise
It's rotted skin smelling of death
A hand of bones creeps from inside
Emerging with two glowing eyes
These eyes are forever hypnotizing
Burning your very soul
Passionate, painless, paralysing
They're gonna turn your blood cold
These eyes will forever hypnotize you
They'll turn around and they'll blind you
Evil inside those eyes.
4. Drowning in Torment
What is seen
Through the eyes of the crippled mind
No wasted time
No wasted line
Unforeseen death What a seen
When the terror of the mind
Is craving evil lines
Confusion time
One step closer to...
Lust decides your fate
So the seeds will grow
Snow will dominate
Life is left to blow
Living dream, illusion being
Strength evolves from stimulation
The minds railing
Another gram is blown, eyes gleam
Numbness felt through the veins
Surging
The nose burning
Never learning
One step closer to...
Hell inside the soul
Melts into the brain
Life is uncontrolled
Victim of cocaine
Dream your life, life's a dream
Another line, a deadly scheme
You will pay
Through the nose
An evil plot to get the blow
You will see, you are left
With nothing more, you bargained for
The money's gone, left in despair
You coming down, what you can't bear
Hell inside the soul melts into the brain
Life is uncontrolled, victim of cocaine
Conscious will never recover
Temptations taking control
Body's rejecting the substance
School of the wasted enrolled
Evil prevails to take over
Something like driving while blind
Reality must take cover
Left with a scar on the mind.
5. The Burning of Atlanta
The craving to ignite, reflects a glowing light
The fire in his eyes is bearing no disguise
Armed with an evil grin, that sparks the flame within
The pyromaniac will burn this town, ignoring all costs
[Chorus:]
Atlanta is burning down
Atlanta is burning down
Atlanta is burning down
Atlanta is burning down
Thousands will die
And there's no telling why
In his psychotic mind, his twisted thoughts unkind
No motive to this deed, he's of an evil breed
A killer to his grave, now who could ever save
The striker meets the match, the flames begin to catch
And he's gone
[Repeat chorus]
The culprit of the crime will not escape this time
Cause what he left behind, would be the proof they'd find
A tank of gasoline was proof...the guillotine.
6. Eternal Eyes (Last Nail in the Coffin, Part 2)
A bomb explodes in your head, it's one of those days
You should have stayed in bed, something's gone wrong
Nothing's gone right, eternal eyes will take you alive
It's a fact of life, it's a fact of death - eternal eyes
Are you dead or alive, can't get them out of your face
Can't get them out of your mind, you'll never escape
With two feet in your grave.
7. Snake Pit
Judgement day's here, smell of death's near
Captor's ignoring the cries
Tragedy's stand, trouble at hand
Death jury plots the demise
Hungry to kill
Torture at will
Anxiously waiting the word
Sentence to cast
Won't be the last
Laugh when the verdict is heard
Last straw
Through with the final injunction
Case closed
No one will ever get free
[Chorus:]
Snake pit
Snake pit
Snake pit
Guilty of sin, no one will win
Death jurors plot till the death
Justice at large, make up a change
Waiting to steer your last breath
Gaffe will fall, order from all
Silence overcomes the court
Don't say a word
Sentence is heard
Might make the vision distort.
8. Spiral of Violence
One man with our lives in his hands
So much power
And so much pressure - is waiting on his command
Brainstorm
From out of the norm, a winning battle plan
And it's out of our hands
So the regiments form
[Chorus:]
The angel of war
Unleashing terror
Who'll throw the first crushing blow
Who will decide who has the last laugh
Who will throw the last blow
One of a kind
Who's out of his mind
He who thinks he holds all the answers
Can destroy all mankind
[Repeat chorus]
Warren
Heard cut through the sky
Flip of a coin turns heads you will live
Lands on tails you will die
Napalm
A nuclear bomb
A flamethrower and a hand grenade
And I'm back in Viet Nam.
9. Respect the Dead
Ones your souls at rest
That's when you'll confess
Cut you down to size
Make you realize
That you not so tough
Say you've had enough
What it takes to learn
On the cross you'll burn
You must respect the dead
That's where your future lies
You must respect the dead
Or they'll rip out your eyes
When you in your tomb
You will meet with doom
Cause you've cursed the dead
Better left unsaid
You'll regret the days
That you've spit on graves
Now your time has come
You immortal scum.
10. Perpetual Warfare (Outro)
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