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PANTERA LYRICS
"Vulgar Display of Power" (1992)
1. Mouth for War
2. A New Level
3. Walk
4. Fucking Hostile
5. This Love
6. Rise
7. No Good (Attack the Radical)
8. Live in a Hole
9. Regular People (Conceit)
10. By Demons Be Driven
11. Hollow
1. 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
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
Hold your mouth for the war
Use it for what it's for
Speak the truth about me
Determined
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
2. A New Level
Now a new look in my eyes my spirit rise
Forget the past Present tense works and lasts
Got shit on Pissed on Spit on Stepped on Fucked with
Pointed at by lesser men
(Pre) New life in place of old life Unscarred by trials
(Chorus) A new level of confidence and power
Demanding plea for unity between us all
United stand Death before divided fall
In mock military order
Vulgar Power Impatient Because time is shorter
(Pre) (Chorus)
No fucking surrender Can't lose Life kills
3. 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
4. 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)
5. 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
6. Rise
We've got no time to lose
Your news is old news
Hate this, hate me, hate this
Right approach for the wrong
It's time to spread the word
Let the voice be heard
All of us, one of us, all of us Dominate
and take the motherfucking world
Mass prediction, unification Breathing life into out lungs
EVERY creed and EVERY kind To give us depth for strength
Taught when we're young to hate one another
It's time to have a new reign of power
Make pride universal so no one gives in
Turn our backs on those who oppose
Then when confronted we ask them the question
What's wrong with their mind? What's wrong with your mind?
(Chorus) It's time to RISE
We've lived with past mistakes
And we've lived with our own
Forgive, forget forgive Be a man, not a child
There are to tears for peace
Or the common sympathies
Educate, reinstate, educate
A thing of past The trouble in the states It's time to rise
7. No Good (Attack the Radical)
In the states There's a problem with race
Because of ignorant past burned fires
From evolution We've been killing each other
I figure man should have it down to a science
No chance Not for a minute
Not for a second I won't be defensive
I'm straight out in my opinion
You'd better listen to a man who knows what he is saying
I've seen your side
You run and hide for the mere fact that you feel inferior
Be superior And know your interior
(Pre) Race, pride, prejudice Black man, white man
No stand Live in the past
We make it last A hated mass
No solution Mind pollution For revolution
(Chorus) So low behold my eyes
This land of fools will rise
No good For no one
You blame oppression and play the role of criminals
To rape and burn show progress is minimal
White hoods and militants you know it's such a pity
Living, breathing Violence in your city
If one man Had one home In one world
Held live alone without variety
Full of anxiety No one to point at, question Or even talk to
in his private grave
No matter what color
He wouldn't be saved from hell
He dwells
A closed mind playing the part of prison cells
(Pre) (Chorus)
8. Live in a Hole
Full of grief I scream at the wind Thought I heard the words of others
Imprison myself and stay in a shell
I won't let you in to have a story to tell
Things tend to drag me down
Don't understand so they hate me now
(Chorus) My fear grips the will of stone My grip fears I'll die alone
I promised myself somewhere in the teenage life
I'd never submit to the ones I will not be like
Live in a hole But stay close to my kind
Cause they understand what burns in my mind
I still feel incomplete Friends are few and far between
(Chorus)
9. Regular People (Conceit)
I've trampled on that road
That you think you own You have that "smart ass" attitude
It's time to stop the fiction
I live it every day
While you're mind's far away
I'm out here putting pride on the line
And you case on me with pure respect
One chance at one thing
Hard time is coming
My time, your pain I reign on you
(Pre) You think you own
I take away
Take it with me
You think you own I took away
Made it my own
(Chorus) Most regular people would say it's hard
And any streetwise son of a bitch knows
Don't fuck with this
The so many times
You practice in your mirror
To be just like me
But you just can't see
You ain't got the balls, son
I fight for love of brother
Your friends fight one another
You can't see because your head's up your ass
And just in cast you think you're bad
I crush your rush I rule you fool
I'm immovable stone in your world of weak
I speak
(Pre) (Chorus)
10. By Demons Be Driven
Serving the faith Abduction the oath
It lie in wait for the offering
Religion is old
For drawing the young
Purity withers and dies
Never return to the ones that provided
Children draining parents of will
I hold out my hand to bloodless child
I'm taken by the one I was saving
From death
(Chorus) By demons be driven Beckon the call
With decline in mind
End not far
We're left hanging alone here
He pulls us from nails
Shatters our bones
Leaving us crippled and strewn
Boiling my corpse in the blood of his children
Praying for his god to prevail
Burying us with loved ones
To sleep with shelled children
....of the sixth dimension
(Chorus)
11. Hollow
What's left inside him?
Don't he remember us?
Can't he believe me?
We seemed like bothers
Talked for hours last month
About what we wanna be
I sit now with his hand in mine
But I know he can't feel...
No one knows what's done is done
It's as if he were dead
I'm close with his mother
And she cries endlessly
Lord how we miss him
At least what's remembered
It's so important to make best friends in life
But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expressions
No one knows what's done is done
It's as if he were dead
He as hollow as I alone now
He as hollow as I alone
A shell of my friend
Just flesh and bone
There's no soul He sees no love
I shake my fists at skies above
Mad at God
He as hollow as I converse
I wish he'd waken from this curse
Hear my words before it's through
I want to come in after you
My best friend
He as hollow as I alone
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