1. MANOWAR

We met on English ground
in a backstage room
We heard the sound
And we all knew what we had to do

We called the high command
Requested leave to make a stand
And in the field we grew
And we all knew

Soon the time would come
For us to fight,
Destination
now in sight

Oooh, Manowar
Born to live forever more
The right to conquer every shore
Hold your ground and give no more

Our fight will never end
So we called on partisans
To raise your hands
And take our stand

Look sharp
when duty calls
Where we march
cities fall
And the strong survive
And take our side


2. METAL DAZE

I hear the sound in a metal way
I feel the power rolling on the stage
Cause only one thing really sets me free
Heavy metal, loud as it can be

Baby I was born to play music
I am a man with a screaming guitar
Theres a light in a middle of the stage
And in a minute Ill be wearing it all
I dont know another way of living
Man I couldnt really care
Give me a pair of jeans and a riff thats mean
And girls that love to share

Heavy metal, metal daze
Heavy metal, heavy metal daze
Heavy metal, heavy metal daze

Living like theres no tomorrow
Yeah currie says were on the edge
He said man youre really graffic
This bands a social wedge
Yeah we all got hearts made of metal
And our blood is hot molten rock
And if I dont hear the sound of metal
I go into shock

So mister d.j. play just one for me
You know the one with the crashin and the screams
cause only one thing really sets me free
Heavy metal loud as it can be


3. FAST TAKER

Mama is having problems
Always comes to me
Your daddys been a drinker since 1943
They tell you Im a loser
Cause I like bein free
But truth is in the mirror
Its what they never see

I sing yeah
Long time ago
You tried to tell me, son
Keep our daughter home
I said no no, no no

Now, I dont mind them saying
That you should be praying
For me, fast taker
Right heres where Im staying
Lifes a game I play
For keeps, fast taker, bed breaker, love maker
Take it away

Only sixteen
A woman not a girl
Old enough
For a trip around the world
Pick you up on friday
When daddy goes to sleep
Bring you back on sunday
When hes watching billy graham on t.v.

Oh yeah, he wont see me

Now do it right with music
Then you learn how to use it
All night, fast taker
Right heres where Im staying
Lifes a game I play
For keeps, fast taker, bed breaker, love maker
Take it away


4. BATTLE HYMN

By moonlight we ride ten thousands side by side
With swords drawn held high our whips and armour shine
Hail to thee our infantry still brave beyond the grave
All sworn the eternal vow the time to strike is now

Gone are the days when freedom shone now blood and steel meet bone
In the light of the battles way the sands of time will shake
How proud our soldiers stand with mace and chain in hand
Sound of charge into glory ride over the top of their vanguished pride

To the battle we ride we crossed a starlit sky
No space no time well catch the wind
Strange losses, men died we crossed a starlit sky
And still no space and time well catch the wind


5. ALL MEN PLAY ON TEN

I made a rocknroll sin
When I tried givin in to
Make money had to turn down low.
They said, why be proud, dont play so loud,
Be like us and get a sound thats real thin.
Wear a polyester suit, act happy look cute,
Get a haircut and buy small gear
Thats when I turned to them and said,
Hold it, right there!

Well its more to me than just a job,
And while Im playin you wont get robbed.
Nobody tells a man how to play,
It just aint that way hey, hey, hey,
Can you hear me say...

All men play on ten,
Never gonna turn down again.
All men play on ten,
Never gonna turn down.

Im jet fuel honey, plug me into 220
Step back and let my fingers fly
While Im burning up my gear
Theres a fire in your ear
That wont stop until the day you die.

I really put it to the floor when I hear the crowd roar
Oh its music to my ears when they scream
Then I run back to the power rack
And deck all of my gear.

Well its more to me than just a job,
And while Im playin you wont get robbed.
Nobody tells a man how to play,
It just aint that way hey, hey, hey,
Can you hear me say...


6. SIGN OF THE HAMMER

The spell has been broken,
The curse has been lifted
Black is the wind on the heels
Of the gifted
Four sworn to vengeance,
See the hate in our eyes
Called by the gods, and given a sign

Onward pounding into glory ride
Sign of the hammer be my guide
Final warning all stand aside
Sign of the hammer its my time

Pounding, pounding, we are back from the dead
Those who denied us are delivered instead
Into the hands of four sworn to ride
Now the people will triumph and live by the sign!


7. FIGHTING THE WORLD

Fight, fight, fight
Fighting the world every single day
Fighting the world for the right to play
Heavy metal in my brain
Im fighting for metal 'cause its here to stay

Fighting, fighting, fighting the world
I been fighting the world
Fighting, fighting, fighting the world
I been figthing
Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight

Now people keep asking if were going to change
I look'em in the eye
Tellem no way
Strips on a tiger dont wash away
Manowars made of steel not clay

Fighting,fighting,fighting the world
I been figthing the world
Fighting,fighting,fighting the world
I been figthing

Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight for a living-fighting the world
Fight yeah!
See my brother standing by my side
Only got one thing in our mind
Radio playing this nation wide
Turn it up loudertil we all get fried

Fighting,fighting,fighting the world
I been figthing the world
Fighting,fighting,fighting the world
I been figthing
Fight-fighting the world
Fight-fighting the world
Fight-fighting the world
Fight-fighting the world
Fight for a living-fighting the world


8. BLOW YOUR SPEAKERS

Wrote a letter to the m.t.v.
Whats goin on now
Dont ya care about me
Sent the same letter to the radio,
But my party went dead
Like a shot in the head
We all like it-rock and roll
We all want it-on your show
Play it loud,dont play it low
Blow your speakers with rock and roll

We got lots of stations
Around the nation
And the stuff theyre playing
It just aint worth my sayin
People want music to getem movin
We dont want labels
We want music on the table

We all like it-rock and roll
We all want it-on your show
Play it loud,dont play it low
Blow your speakers with rock and roll

We all like it-rock and roll
We all want it-on your show
Play it loud,dont play it low
Blow your speakers with rock and roll

We got lots of stations
Around the nation
And the stuff theyre playing
It just aint worth my sayin

We all like it-rock and roll
We all want it-on your show
Play it loud,dont play it low
Blow your speakers with rock and roll


9. HEART OF STEEL

Build a fire a thousand miles away
To light my long way home
I ride a comet
My trail is long to stay
Silence is a heavy stone
I fight the world and take all they can give
There are times my heart hangs low
Born to walk against the wind
Born to hear my name
No matter where I stand Im alone

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
Im not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel

Burn the bridge behind you
Leave no retreat
Theres only one way home
Those who laugh and crowd the path
And cut each others throats
Will fall like melting snow
Theyll watch us rise with fire in our eyes
Theyll bow their heads
Their hearts will hang low
Then well laugh and they will kneel
And know this heart of steel was
Too hard to break
Too hard to hold

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
Im not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel


10. BLOOD OF THE KINGS

Brothers the battle is raging
Choose your side
Sing with us the batle hyms
Into glory ride
Hail to england
The sign of the hammers our gide
Forever were fighting the world
Side by side

On a crusade
The world we bring
Four kings of metal
Four metal kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king

Our armies in england, scotland, and wales
Our brothers in belgium, holland and france will not
Fail
Denmark, sweden, norway, finland, italy
Switzerland, austria
Back to the glory of germany

On a crusade
The world we bring
Four kings of metal
Four metal kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king

Sound the death tone
On our march for revenge
Spill the blood of my enemies
The oath of a friend
Fight the holy war for the crown and the ring
Six magic circles made by the blood of the kings

Wherever we ride, its metal we bring
Four kings of metal
Four metal kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
till the blood on your sword is the bloof of a king
Blood of a king


11. VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED

Civilization crumblin fast
End the world with a blast
People afraid walking the streets
Scums have their day
til they run into me

Are you ready?

Livin in fear aint livin to me
Iam armed with a gun defending the free
They blew it in nam shot up my friends
Im back in the streets the fight never ends

I was born with a gun in my hand
Ill die for my country
But Ill die like a man
Violence and bloodsheed
Violence and bloodsheed
Violence and bloodsheed

Now were back to animal law
The paybacks a bitch and Im paying all
All my life I been waitinto see
Whos gonna win crumbs or me

Are you ready

My brothers still in da-nang
Puttinan ad in the back of kerrang
Im looking for people who just wanna kill
Well go back the nam cause no one else will

Land of the free
Home of the brave
Now thats how it is
And thats how it stays

Violence and bloodsheed
Violence and bloodsheed
Violence and bloodsheed


12. WHEELS OF FIRE

Since the dawn of time
I've rolled across the earth
Spinning in the dust
Long before your birth
Eating tar and gasoline
Every light i see is green
Open pipes, my machine's triple-plated chrome

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Motors running
Now you're gonna learn
Waiting on the line
Make your tires burn
Fast, faster, faster, faster
Speeding always kills
Nothing else takes us to get these thrills

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Blood and thunder on the road
My heart is pounding
My blood is nitroglycerine
I'm fire
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Ready to explode
Don't want nothing left of me to scrape off the road

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Clouds of smoke
Tires screaming
Fire in my hair
Blown into a thousand pieces
Scattered everywhere
Fast, burn, burning, faster
Wanna take a ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire ride

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride


13. METAL WARRIORS

Every one of us has heard the call
Brothers of True Metal proud and standing tall
We know the power within us has brought us to this hall
there's magic in the metal there's magic is us all

Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall
Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers go on get out
Leave the hall

Now the world must listen to our decree
We don't turn down for anyone we do just what we please
got to make it louder, all men play on ten
If you're not into metal, you are not my friend

Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall
Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers I said
Leave the hall

Now the world must listen to our decree
We don't turn down for anyone we do just what we please
Got to make it louder, all men play on ten
If you're not into metal, you are not my friend

There's metal in the air tonite, can you hear it call
If you ain't got the balls, to take it you can
Leave the hall

Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall
Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall


14. THE DEMON'S WHIP

Black candles slowly burning, white fangs and flashing eyes
Hell's wind and incantations summon living fire,
Darkest forces and your demon's black order, black king
The cult that serves the living, accept this offering

Black candles slowly burning, white fangs and flashing eyes
Hell's wind and incantations summon living fire,
As the seven steps await, hear the great bell toll
With a dead man's bones conjure, the enemy of the soul

From the misery and sadness, of the molten seas of hell
Mystic love and mystic symbols in evil dreams there dwell
Darkest forces and your demon's black order, black king
The cult that serves the living, accept this offering

A deadly drink, a meal of hearts, now sacrifice and die
In darkness and destruction, behold the evil eye
And the Demon's whip

Armies of the gods of hell ride across the astral plane
Bearing curses of destruction, sworn beyond the grave
Children of the darkness, all born but to deceive
By the ancient code of evil grant not one reprieve

In the place where evil dwells death can live when all life dies
Wage eternal war on heaven immortal hate below the sky
Your scripture and your sermons, are leaves born on the wind
To heal the unrepentant one needs a greater sin

Night winds, Oblivion see my dark desire
Come forth, appear he is living fire
Feel the Demon's whip

Armies of the gods of hell ride across the astral plane
Bearing curses of destruction, sworn beyond the grave
Children of the darkness, all born but to deceive
By the ancient code of evil grant not one reprieve

In the place where evil dwells death can live when all life dies
Wage eternal war on heaven immortal hate below the sky
Your scripture and your sermons, are leaves borne on the wind
To heal the unrepentant one needs a greater sin
Feel the Demon's whip