You can't see what you mean to me I just can't get you out of my head You move me more than I've ever been Like a wild supersonic jet But I can't see your love Drifting away And I don't want your love D-d-d-drifting away I got told by a friend of mine That you don't want me anymore Now my friend's got a broken nose Sure, and I got a broken jaw So don't push me around I'm coming your way And I don't want your love D-d-d-drifting away Don't you know what I'm living for? But you know what I'm trying to say Don't try to shove me outta that door 'Cause you're mine and it's staying that way I'm giving you my love Don't throw it away But I can see your love D-d-d-drifting away Oh, drifting away You got me drifting away Oh, away
Every good boy deserves fudge, 1991
You're messing, baby, messing hard
Messing all the time
Messing, sugar, messing busy
You're messing in my mind
Well, I don't got what you want
And I don't care what you think
Better back off, back off, back off, baby
You'll get dumped into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
I don't need your judgment
And I don't believe your lies
I don't feel your lousy love
I got rights to exercise
But I don't got what you want
And I don't care what you think
Better back off, back off, back off, baby
You'll get dumped into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
Your useless piece of weaponry
Will never shoot me down
If I didn't do it, no one could
So waste another round
Well, I don't got what you want
And I don't care what you think
Better back off, back off, back off, baby
If you don't, into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
Into the drink
Machine head, 1972
Somebody's shouting
Up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody's out there
It's a deception
When will I ever learn?
I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home
Wondering blindly
How can they find me
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow...
I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And taunting with pictures of home
Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there's no worship
Where have they hidden my throne?
I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And screaming out pictures of home
Born Dead, 1994
Necessary evil
Look outside my window,
I still see a fucked up world
Waking up to helicopter and car alarams,
Does this happen where you live?
Gunshots sound in my my mind
I don't flinch anymore
When I see niggas in my hood,
They're holdin' their dicks tight
Yo, fuck my landlord
I'm a step away from clearing this shotgun
To erase the problem
Does this happen where you live?
Just had steak and lobster last night
Now I gotta rob a liquor store
But it seems so normal
Because it's necessary evil
[Chorus]
Car hit my dog, babies die, raped in a
Stairwell, cop killed a little girl,
Armed robbery, shooter of a drive-by,
Smokin' cain, sellin' joints in jr High
Head from a minor, sex with animals,
Butthole surfers, a fucked up rehearsal,
Lost pawn ticket, wrecked my father's car
Can't pay my school loan, major jack move,
Holy underwear
Stuck in the pen, forced in a gang, plain
Wrapped food,
Fucked up presidents, sleepin' through trash day
Hit a police car, gettin' laid off, gotta pay
Taxes, gridlock traffic,
Jealous muthafuckas, bitch tried to do me,
Hit and run,
I got a fat bitch pregnant
Necessary evil
Little white kid with a kool-aid smile
Training wheels on his bike thought the
Called me a nigga
Pushed that little bastard in traffic so graphic,
He was holdin' his bike tight
He was a victim of fucked up explaining
An american example of fucked training
When the fuckin' bus connected, he flew like knievel
I was just necessary evil
[Chorus]
Necessary evil
Alice in Chains, 1995
Be what you wanna be
See what you came to see
Been what you wanna be
I don't like what I see
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you, hell within
And you think you have it still
Heaven inside you
So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up, and I'm not blind
I'm just see through faded, super jaded
And out of my mind
Do what you wanna do
Go out and seek your truth
When I'm down and blue
Rather be me than you
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you, hell within
And you wish you had it still
Heaven inside you
So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up, and I'm fine
I'm just see through faded, super jaded
Out of my mind
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you, hell within
And you know you have it still
Heaven inside you
So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up, but you're not blind
You're just see through faded, overrated
And out of your mind
Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne, 1995
Bury me deep in the blackest earth
drunken on maggots, home of thousand worms.
Nail me up into the blackest coffin
and bed me down into the deepest pit.
Shrouded I am waiting for me cold friends -
the final beasts.
You living off the lonely dead,
the moist and voluntary feast.
Sweet death, come kiss me softly
and please, please open the door for me.
It's just another grateful dead,
so please, let me enter and stay.
Forever...
Pain and torment, do what you want with me,
oh, I don't care, I don't care.
I do no longer care...
Like ancient wraiths they seem to be,
the others come to welcome me.
"Receive the new desciple in the dance of dread!"
Soulless figures swaying to the beautiful
Sounds of Death...
Forever...
The saga of the horned king, 1995
I wander
With my mind
My true strength
My free hand
Find the Way...
Reach the Pain...
Then a day
I realise
Where to dig
Where to find It
"Beyond the Pain I pass, senseless to this body,
my Soul is free to wander in the Realm of Nothingness,
and here I find the Essence, banished in a Rubin Tower,
Yes, I find It, but I cannot catch It, 'cause my Body is calling me,
More Pain I need to go beyond the Wall of Flesh,
the Gate to a greater Knowledge is not open yet".
Those once loyal, 2005
Scattered on foreign fields
Lie the burnt out hulls of our dead armour
Old landscape wreckage
And this earth now scorched
Selfless acts of bravery
In the face of overwhelming force
Hold position - position held
Retained new glory sought
Shattered defences now alone
Cover the tactical withdrawal
Outgunned, outnumbered
Though never outclassed
Spent the ammunition of faith
Weaponry exhausted
Now reduced in numbers
Numbers reduced
To the Last
Face to face with cold dead eyes
The final register of death
Crushed are the adversaries
The kill rate ratio rising
One hundred to one
Honours withheld in travesty
Presented falsely to another
With courage unspoken
All heroes die
A time of changes, 1985
The man in the Shroud, spoke to the crowd,
And His name was hallowed... Believer!
But now He is gone, no one to right our wrongs,
And He ain't coming back... Deceiver!
Open your eyes, look up to the skies,
But He won't rescue us... Dreamers!
Long ago, or so we are told,
We were subject to a visit,
From the stars, from afar,
Came our Fathers,
And in our dawn, it didn't take long,
Here they spawned... US!
The Man in the Black, is on the attack,
Claws flash in the night... Devil!
To buy our souls, needs a little gold,
But we are still paying... Sinners!
To save our bodies, we cry to God,
Is He really up in Heaven... Watcher!
Lemuria, 2004
Jordanes told us the story
Yes, of Berik
Gather all the Ostrogoths
And Visigoth
Ride like an arctic storm
Across the world
Gather all the Gothic tribes, all the sons of Berik
On three ships you sail away on a pagan crusade
Tyrants of the Christian world fear you more than their God
Theodoric, Gothic king, Gog iste Gothus est
The flashing spear of the sublime
Is flying in the air
Like the fear of the divine
The Goths are everywhere