Cinema Strange, 2000
I love to hate you, I am in winter
Frostbite hath claimed me, I succumb to numbness
Freezing men don't laugh at murder
...Bleeding naked in the bathtub
Open windows tempt the savory
Women's heads float just as easily
Within the confines of crystal, reflected is my loathing
Under ice and still, chill waters fish bite stiff men and children
In the fog, in the woods, at midnight
In a land where it's always winter, I cut the thin skin of my ankles
And the wind follows me like army
Lashing like a bullwhip in the arctic, I fling icicles like bee-sting
Stuck under glass, in the sphere, in the snowstorm
I shut my eyes and sleep in sleet
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995
My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm the face in your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we're really gonna need them
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?
She's the one for me
She's all I really need, oh yeah
She's the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty
Just like me
Intoxicated with the madness
I'm in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on
That I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself
For what you can't ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She's the one for me
She's all I really need, oh yeah
She's the one for me
She's my one and only
Fistful of metal, 1984
Like the screaming eagle
I'm on the run
I blaze through the sky
I kill for the fun
No reason, no warning
Nor shadow be found
Got you in my sights
And I'll shoot you down
Jet fighter, jet fighter
Turbo jet engines ignite
Jet fighter, jet fighter
Death will filling the sky
Jet fighter, jet fighter
An airborne assault and attack
Jet fighter, jet fighter
A cold blooded stab in the back
Vengeance is calling on you
And there's nothing that you can do
Brings you the thing you deserve
Death from above!
Antichrist Superstar, 1996
There's not much left to love
Too tired today to hate
I feel the empty
I feel the minute of decay
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
The minute that it's born
It begins to die
I'd love to just give in
I'd love to live this lie
I've been to black and back
I've whited out my name
A lack of pain a lack of hope
A lack of anything to say
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down, I'm on my way down
The minute that it's born
It begins to die
I'd love to just give in
I'd love to live this lie
I'd love to live this lie
Until you see it
Until you know
Until you see it
I went to Heaven, everything was dead
Until you know
I guess that I am too
(Until you see)
I went to Heaven, everything was dead
(Until you know)
I guess that I am
I guess that I am too
The minute that it's born
It begins to die
I'd love to just give in
I'd love to live this lie
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
Requiem, 2000
Confutatis maledictis
Flammis acribus
Addictis
Voca me cum benedictis
Ora supplex et acclinis
Cor contritum
Quasi cinis:
Gere curam mei finis
B-Seiten 1997,
Umringt, nicht halb so schön
Wie der Mensch auf der Kugel
Am Äußersten befestigt
So will ich ruhen, will meine Augen schließen
Und nicht mehr ausgeliefert sein
Wenn ich träume
Schweigend will ich warten
Hab' alles dies schon jetzt erwähnt
Dämon des Hasses schon erweckt
Durch meine Stimme, meine Worte
Und so lange ich verharre
So lange steht die Erde still
Der Dunkelheit machtlos ergeben
So lange schweigt mein Universum
Ich bin der brennende Komet
Der auf die Erde stößt
Der sich blutend seine Opfer sucht
Ich bin der lachende Prophet
Der eine Maske trägt
Und dahinter seine Tränen zählt
Wenn müde Zungen sich verknoten
Und die Dummheit wieder zirkuliert
Siegt in jedem schwachen Herz die Intoleranz
Ein Angriff als Verteidigung
Und die Schlacht beginnt
Ich, Mensch, betrete diese Erde, eine Kugel
Auf dieser steht ein jeder auf der Spitze
Vereinigung heißt gleiches Recht für Gleiche
Sie ist kein Band zwischen Wort und Tat
Kein fremdes Herz hab' ich mehr berührt
Kein fremdes Lächeln hab' ich mir erhofft
Und zuletzt bleibt nur die Frage
Neubeginn?
Ich bin der brennende Komet
Der auf die Erde stößt
Der sich blutend seine Opfer sucht und ich bin
Ich bin der lachende Prophet
Der eine Maske trägt
Und dahinter seine Tränen zählt
Ich bin der brennende Komet
Ich bin der stumme Laut
Ich bin die Träne und das lachende Gesicht
Rust in peace, 1990
Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion, something I don't understand
Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep for their beliefs, "Do you kill on God's command?"
A country that's divided, surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace, no foolish naïve stand
The end is near, it's crystal clear, part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel, it might be your homeland
Holy wars
Upon my podium as the "know-it-all" scholar
Down in my seat of judgement, gavel's bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the "holier-than-thou-could-be-messenger" of God
Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks, rappel down the rocks behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me, some people live to destroy me
Either way they die, they die
They killed my wife and my baby, with hopes to enslave me
First mistake, last mistake
Paid by the alliance to slay all the giants
Next mistake, no more mistakes
Fill the cracks in with judicial granite
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't thinking it
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings
Mercy killings, mercy killings, killings, killings, killings
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
Eternal Decision, 1997
The day of atonement has come and gone.
Christ sacrifice sufficient for all.
The only Son of my God above is my scapegoat.
His love for us it overflows
Overflow, God fills me
When I was in a pit God lift me up.
When I'm least deserving He shows His love.
Jesus took my place on the cross.
He came looking for me when I was lost
Overflow, God fills me
Reinventing the Steel, 2000
There's nothing special about it
It's either there when you're born or not
Gifted with talent, no big deal
Welcome to the death of a century
'Cause yesterday don't mean shit
What's over is over and nothing between
Yesterday don't mean shit
Because tomorrow's the day you have to face
No rewinding time
Yesterday don't mean shit
Yesterday don't mean shit
Reliving old reviews
Is a useless tool of confusion
Don't hold your breath for the turn around
Come into the world of endless odds
'Cause yesterday don't mean shit
What's over is over and nothing between
Yesterday don't mean shit
Because tomorrow's the day you have to face
No rewinding time
Yesterday don't mean shit
Yesterday don't mean shit
They will tell you about guilt
And in time you'll face the darkness
But darkness is a friend to you
Embrace and fly through the madness
Flying past God and wars and conflict
Oppressor in you, oppressor in you
Plowing through minds and paranoia
Oppressor in you, the oppressor's in you
'Cause yesterday don't mean shit
What's over is over and nothing between
Yesterday don't mean shit
Because tomorrow's the day you have to face
No rewinding time
Yesterday don't mean shit
Yesterday don't mean shit
Yesterday don't mean Jack shit
Oh, ah-ah-ah
You protect you, and I'll keep to myself
It can only be that way, yeah!