South of Heaven Album Lyrics

1. South of Heaven

[Lyrics: Araya; Music: Hanneman]

An unforseen future nestled somewhere in time
Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs
Judgment day the second coming arrives
Before you see the light you must die

Forgotten children, conform a new faith,
Avidity and lust controlled by hate
(The) Never ending search for your shattered sanity,
Souls of Damnation in their own reality

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive habitat

Bastard sons bagat your cunting daughters,
Promiscuous mothers with your incestuous fathers
Engreat souls condemned for eternity,
Sustained by immoral observance a domineering deity

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive sabbath

On and on, south of heaven [x 4]

[LEAD: KING]

The root of all evil is the heart of a black soul
A force that has lived all eternity
A never ending search for a truth never told
The loss of all hope and your dignity

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive habitat

On and on, south of heaven [x 4]

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

2. Silent Scream

[Lyrics: Araya; Music: Hanneman, King]

Nightmare, the persecution
A child's dream of death

Torment, ill forgotten
A soul that will never rest

Guidance, it means nothing
In a world of brutal time

Electric, circus, wild,
Deep in the infants mind

Silent Scream
Bury the unwanted child
Beaten and torn
Sacrifice the unborn

Shattered, adolescent [sings: another child]
Bearer of no name

Restrained, insane games
Suffer the children condemned

Scattered, remnants of life,
Murder a time to die

Pain, sufferaged toyed,
Life's little fragments destroyed

Silent Scream
Crucify the bastard son
Beaten and torn
Sanctify lives of scorn

[LEAD: KING , HANNEMAN]

Life preordained
Humanity maintained
Extraction termination
Pain's agonizing stain

Embryonic death,
Embedded in your brain
Suffocation, strangulation,
Death is fucking you insane

Nightmare, the persecution
A child's dream of death

Torment, ill forgotten
A soul that will never rest
Innocence withdrawn in fear
Fires burning can you hear
Cries in the night<

3. Live Undead

[Lyrics: Araya, King; Music: Hanneman]

Cascaded darkness
Walls close in on me
Nailed shut but my eyes still see
Severe anguish as my body evolves
The pain of life after death it resolves

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Emptiness in twilight's rebirth,
The faint sounds of shoveled earth
Madness growing as your mind dissolves
Merely secret in my dreams

[LEAD: KING]

Night grows cold, twilight's near,
On the edge of madness the wounds are sheared
Forms of hanging, flesh shredded carcass
No spared breath
Imprisoned in a shell, ready to explode
Dead soul,
Stone cold,
Out into the night

Voices inside my head
Hold me under
Voices oppress
Like roaring thunder
An echo bouncing inside my brain
How much can I take of the pain,
The pain!

A war raging deep inside my head,
A split decision that will end with me dead

You see the agony in my eyes,
Protruding aimless,
I think it's time to die

[LEAD: KING]

A cannibal's desire feeds the fire
that burns in your head

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Intense pain eats away at your brain,
Thorazine pumping through your veins

[LEAD: KING]

Death walks inside you,
Smell death around you,
Hell's evil spell takes a soul,
Hear the sound of the bell
Counting off death tolls

[LEAD: KING]

Laughing as you eternally rot,
Searching for human flesh
And life's blood

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Live Undead

4. Behind the Crooked Cross

[Lyrics: Hanneman; Music: Hanneman]

Time melts away in this living inferno,
Trapped by a cause that I once understood
Feeling a sickness building inside of me,
Who will I really have to answer to

March on through the rivers of red
Souls drift, they fill the air
Forced to fight, behind,
The crooked cross

Do only what is expected of me,
With no emotions my feelings suppressed
Blind obedience carries me through it all
Conscience a word I learned to forget

March on through the rivers of red
Flesh burns, it fills the air (Souls drift, they fill)
Forced to fight, behind,
The crooked cross

[LEAD: HANNEMAN, KING, KING, HANNEMAN]

Time melts away in this living inferno,
Trapped by a cause that I once understood
Blind obedience carries me through it all,
Do only what is expected of me

March on through the rivers of red
Souls drift, they fill the air
Forced to fight, behind,
The crooked cross

5. Mandatory Suicide

[Lyrics: Araya; Music: Hanneman, King]

Murder at your every foot step
A child's toy sudden death
Sniper blazes you thru your knees
Falling down can you feel the heat,
Burn!

Ambushed by the spray of lead
Count the bullet holes in your head
Offspring sent out to cry,
Living mandatory suicide
Suicide [x 4]

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Holes burn deep in your chest,
Raked by machine gun fire
Screaming soul sent out to die,
Living mandatory suicide
Suicide [x 4]

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

[Spoken:]
Lying, dying, screaming in pain
Begging, pleading, bullets drop like rain
Mines explode, pain sheers through your brain,
Radical amputation, this is insane

Fly swatter stakes drive through your chest
Spikes impale you as you're forced off the crest
Soldier of misfortune
Hunting with bated breath

A vile smell, like tasting death
Dead bodies, dying and wounded
Litter the city streets
Shattered glass, bits of clothing and human deceit
Dying [in] terror,
Blood's cheap, it's everywhere
Mandatory suicide, massacre on the front line

6. Ghosts of War

[Lyrics: King; Music: Hanneman, King]

Fate silent warriors sleeping souls will arise
Once forgotten soldiers come to life
Fallen mercenary, dormancy is done,
Not content with wars we never won

Memories can't ignore
Anguish of before
Satisfy the scorn
Rise ghosts of war

Target assassinate, time of your life has expired
Hatred victimize, gaze in their eyes as they die
Violence inflicting of pain, savage morticians deny
Drive the salt in the wound, arouse the subconscious to lie

(Memories can't ignore
Anguish of before
Satisfy the scorn
Rise ghosts of war)

[LEADS: HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN]

I deal in pain
All life I drain
I dominate
I seal your fate
I deal in pain
All life I drain
Memories can't ignore,
Rise ghost of war

7. Read Between the Lies

[Lyrics: Araya, King; Music: Hanneman]

Evangelist you claim God speaks through you,
Your restless mouth full of lies gains popularity
You care not for the old that suffer,
When empty pockets cry from hunger

Penniless from their generosity,
Sharing their money to quench your greed
Searching for the answer to their prayers
They cry their last wish of need
Save me

His spirit lives and breathes in me
The almighty transformed to your screen
The meanings lost in its translation,
No holy words, describe his deception

You say you'll help us find the lord,
Tell me preacher how do you know
A simple quest for a visible savior,
To lead us through our final prayer
Save me

Send your donations,
Contribute to the cause
Luxuries,
Your righteous reward?

Praise the lord, praise god,
Is what you wish to sell
There is no heaven without a hell

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

In your mind's eye could you truly believe,
That by giving you can save your soul,
Could you be so naive!
You heal the sick,[you] raise the dead,
You blind the congregation
With the things you say

Religious blackmail a deceit of trust,
That death will come and all will be lost

Can you hear the serpents call,
Look deep in those deceiving eyes
Ignore the writing on the wall,
You should read between the lies

When doubt subsides his honesty,
An inquiry, is it blasphemy?
Impure the soul, that's made to suffer,
No sermons left to hide or cover,
An empty promise, lie unfulfilled,
To steal a dream or get it killed
They claim your trip to heavens nearby,
You may believe it but satan wouldn't lie

8. Cleanse the Soul

[Lyrics: Araya, King; Music: Hanneman]

Body that rests before me,
With every dying breath,
Spellbound and gagged,
I commence your flesh to dirt

Body that lay before me,
In everlasting death
Entombed in abscess,
To rot and lie stinking in the earth

[LEAD: KING]

Empty altar awaits its victim
Stained glass windows black
Candles burn the midnight oil,
Incense fills the night

Observing trance awaking state
Lying still unknowing
Reciting the passages of time
Prepare for the impaling

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Death's an art, flesh and earth never part,
A power of the mind
Death shines on the air of silence,
A ritual of endless time

Purged of your dead body,
Sacrificed of your life
Unearthly ritual sealed in fire
Enter the kingdom of desire

[LEAD: KING]

9. Dissident Aggressor

[Tipton/Halford/Downing]

Grand canyons of space and time universal
My mind is subjected to all

Stab! Bawl! Punch! Crawl!
Hooks to my brain are well in
Stab! Bawl! Punch! Crawl!
I know what I am, I'm Berlin

Through cracked, blackened memories of unit dispersal
I face the impregnable wall

Stab! Bawl! Punch! Crawl!
Hooks to my brain are well in
Stab! Bawl! Punch! Crawl!
I know what I am, I'm Berlin

Exploding, reloading, this quest never ending
Until I give out my last breath

I'm stabbing and bawling, I'm punching and crawling
Hooks to my brain are well in
I'm stabbing and bawling, I'm punching and crawling
I know what I am, I'm Berlin

10. Spill the Blood

[Lyrics: Hanneman; Music: Hanneman]

Come walk with me through endless time
See what has been and what the future sees
Share the wisdom of the old world that has passed,
Step in a life that's yet to be born

You spill the blood,
Eternal soul

I'll show you sights that you would not believe
Experience pleasures thought unobtained
At one with evil that has ruled before
Now smell the stench of immortality

You spill the blood,
Eternal soul

[LEAD: HANNEMAN]

Spill your blood, let it run on to me,
Take my hand and let go of your life
Close your eyes and see what is me,
Raise the chalice, embrace for evermore

You've spilt the blood
I have your soul