Slayer (USA) : South of Heaven

Thrash Metal / USA
(1988 - Def Jam Recordings)
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1. SOUTH OF HEAVEN

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 habitat

On and on south of heaven
On and on south of heaven
On and on south of heaven
On and on south of heaven

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
On and on south of heaven
On and on south of heaven
On and on south of heaven


2. SILENT SCREAM

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 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

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Innocence withdrawn in fear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

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

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

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

A cannibal's desire feeds the fire that burns in your head
Intense pain eats away at your brain thorazine pumping through your veins
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
Laughing as you eternally rot searching for human flesh and life's blood

Live undead


4. BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS

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
Souls drift they fill the air
Forced to fight behind the crooked cross

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

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 - suicide
Suicide - suicide

Holes burn deep in your chest
Raked by machine gun fire
Screaming soul sent out to die
Living mandatory suicide

Suicide - suicide
Suicide - suicide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


9. DISSIDENT AGRESSOR

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

Stab - fight
Hooks to my brain are well in
Stab - fight
I know what I am - I'm Berlin

Through cracked blackened
Memories of unit dispersal
I face the impregnable wall

Stab - fight
Hooks to my brain are well in
Stab - fight
I know what I am - I'm Berlin

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

Stab - fight
Hooks to my brain are well in
Stab - fight
I know what I am - I'm Berlin


10. SPILL THE BLOOD

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

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

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