1 - INTRO - COLD AND TERRIBLE

Cold and terrible
Are the winds following me
Are the feelings haunting me
And the memories I cannot erase

Cold
Is the void inside my soul
Is the lack of all control
And the solitude I seem to chase

Terrible
Is the absence of reason
Is the scar left by treason
And the peace I tried to purchase

I wish I could kill hope
The sarcastic lover of all those
Who are married with despair

Day by day I try to cope
With this lonely path I chose
And breath this cursed and damned air...



2 - DOWN THE BASTARDS

I'm tired of hearing about you
The simple mention of your name makes me sick
All you want is to be a star
No matter how, you've got to be someone

Friendship's a thing that you don't know
You think I'm here just to serve you
To satisfy all your sick desires
The word betrayal is written in your face

But this time
It's just between me and you
Nobody will help you this time
It's just between me and you
And the word of order is...

Down the bastards - stop trying to bring me down
Down the bastards - I'll be laughing when you

fall
Down the bastards - my revenge hour is now
Down the bastards - I'll show the world who you

really are

You are nothing but a worm
Just the scum, a social parasite
A garbage can, not a human being
You'll go down under my feet

If you need help, remember to call me
Just to give me the pleasure to say no
The flame of truth will burn your heart
You'll pay for all your treachery



3 - WINGS OF DOOM

Daylight's about to break, and we're already up
I couldn't sleep, fear kept me alert
The briefing room today seems so unreal
Feels like I'm part of a film

My last mission should be a piece of cake
After all we had to take
But when the next target is revealed
I know my fate is sealed

I don't get the meaning of this war
And I pray as we take off
From England we fly straight to hell
Will I die? Only time can tell

Above enemy lines we are attacked
And though it's cold I'm soaked in sweat
Bullet ridden we strive, flak damaged again
Please, God, let it come to an end

I ride a fortress high
Through a hellish sky
Clouds are painted red
20,000 pounds of death
I will throw down there
Writing History in blood
Wings of Doom

We are ravaged by swarms of fighters with guns
The smell of cordite mixed with guts
As the bomb run starts, creepy horror unfolds
Almost all our squad is gone

With bombs away we head back home
No planes left, we're all alone
Our job's been done and I just hope
Someday I'll find it's worth



4 - SOLDIERS OF THE LOUD

We've seen a bestial invasion
And we've read our horrorscope
Dressed in denim and leather
And blessed by the black rose

Lost in necropolis
We've entered a metal church
Where a prowler alone was kneeling
At the altar of rock and roll

You'd better lock up the wolves
Protectors of terror are loose
Freewheel burning your mind
You're taken by violence and force

Nobody can stop us
Not even souls of black
We'll fight tooth and nail
And won't be killed by death

Soldiers of the loud
Soldiers of the loud

We've tasted ample destruction
Black wind, fire and steel
We've seen the gates to purgatory
Where demons played their tunes of war

Nobody can stop us
We'll never pull the plug
We were forged in fire
In a black magic night

Soldiers of the loud
Soldiers of the loud



5 - I RULE THE HIGHWAY

Locked inside my cage of flesh
I feel the urge and sense the blast
Will find my freedom running down the highway

A feeling all the rebels share
A secret force hidden everywhere
It gets to me when I'm riding down the highway

I rule the highway
Eating dust and crushing limits
I rule the highway
All I need is gas and rock'n'roll

Hear the wind blowing fast
Never stop, never take a rest
Oh, I feel stronger down the highway

Grab the whell, defy every turn
Flaming heart, I was born to run
None can beat me when I'm racing down the highway

Hit the gas, pump it to the floor
Have no fear, always time for more
I'm the king when I'm cruising down the highway



6 - ANGRY ANGEL

I'm hate and I'm anger, a bringer of war
Rebellion is my middle name
Bow down and kneel before me, the cruel
I wrote the rules of the game

Fear, submission, barbaric dominion
I put you all under my feet
Tremble in pain as I crush all your bones
Making Death look sweet

Angel of violence
Angel of sorrow
God of eternal revenge

Troublemaker
Bulletproof
Filled with a hell bent rage

I'm the Angry Angel
Angry Angel
I'm the Angry Angel
My wings are painted black

Winged assassin and cold hearted thief
Armageddon in my eyes
Forces of hell are just pawns on my table
The devil's my message to Earth

Ripper of souls and destroyer of hearts
I rejoice at your shadowy fate
Spiritual butcher and slaughter messiah
Slander is all I create

Wicked, distorted, I'm blackned and mad
I represent what is bad
Sicker than the worst of the villains
On the scariest book you've read

Killer, avenger, a big bird of prey
Vindicator and judge, I am all
Made up of brimstone, a black leather hound
From the fiery depths I won't fall



7 - THE WATCHER

Walking down the streets alone
Watching people come and go
It seems so strange to me they are
Just things

Pieces of meat that smile and cry
Emptiness behind their eyes
Millions of talking puppets
All alike

Oh, I feel so lonely
Yet stronger than I've ever been
It's a privilege to be watching
From outside

The world's a song and I'm a note
That really doesn't fit
Though I'm right here I don't belong
And I can't stand deceit

Personality
A bag of bricks I learned to carry
Ironic as it is
I feed from what I despise

I observe a symphony
That's wrecked and out of tune
Conducted by some entity
Of chaos, pure and true

I'm a watcher
Watcher
Watcher
And I'm watching you

Watcher
Watcher
Watcher
Forever

People tend to try and find
An order to live by
Each one with a function, attribution
Led by lies

Personality
A bag that keeps on getting heavier
The irony remains
I'm looking from outside



8 - ROCK'N ROLL (WILL NEVER LEAVE ME)

When my heart is bleeding
And quiet is the air
I see no friends beside me
No one seems to care

A riff and a scream
Are all that I need
Rocking and rolling
I will never fall apart

Rock'n'Roll will never leave me
Rock'n'Roll will never lie
Rock'n'Roll will walk beside me
Until the day I die

Stronger than any religion
And better than any drug
Unlike promises made to be broken
It's worthy of my trust

Eternal friend, immortal brother
Guiding me through bitter times
When it seems that I have nothing
It's always there



9 - SLAVE TO EMPTINESS

In a time of fake breasts
Superficiality
You worry about the way you look
And not the way you think

Feelings made of plastic
And shallow points of view
Frustrated digestion
Of the ignorance you chew

Poets often quoted
But never really read
Artificial laughter
When everyone is sad

Drowning pain with liquor
And hiding up the shame
Beneath make-up and costumes
That are fit to play the game

Slave to emptiness - afraid to be yourself
Slave to emptiness - captive of the void
Slave to emptiness - speaking words of others
Slave to emptiness - get out of my sight

It's a social war you're fighting
And the enemy is your self
Dressed to kill the fear
Of becoming an outcast

Posing and behaving
Like someone you are not
Lacking personality
You glitter while you rot

Spend more time creating
A false identity
Than you do evolving
Individuality

And that's the life you're living
Losing friends along the way
Filling the abyss inside you
With nothing, you're enslaved



10 - MAD LAWYER

If you commited murder and were
Caught by the police
Don't you worry, here's my card
I'll keep you on the streets

I never lose a single case
You can be guilty as hell
Some call me devil's advocate
But why I cannot tell

I'm the mad
Mad lawyer
Actor on a stage of hypocrites

I twist the facts and manipulate
All witnesses with words
And the jury seems so entertained
Turn a trial into a show

Expensive suit and empty speech
Am I a politician?
I guess I could convince the pope
That Osama is a christian

As soon as you walk freely
I'll send to you my bill with
A price that I'll collect in blood

You may have escaped conviction
But you'll face deletion
And taste the anger of my gun

The only reason that I have to
Represent those beasts
Is to earn their trust, and clear the way
So justice can be reached

Lex Talionis, tha's the code
The judges should apply
But since they only fill up jail cells
Themis' sword is now mine



11 - ANIMUS NECANDI

Cold and terrible winds follow me as I search
For another soul to satisfy my blood thirst
Why I do this is yet to be explained
The fact is that killing makes my sorrow go away

Maybe I'm a beast, heartless killer, cold as ice
Perpetrator of slaughter acting late at night
Or perhaps a sentinal prepared for sacrifice
Justice to me means eye for an eye

I kill the scum
Wipe off the rotten part of society
At least that's what I put inside my head
So I can sleep

The outskirts of town are the stage of my plan
Unholy altar of a blood stained mind
I leave a trail of bleeding corpses behind
And then go back to my so called normal life

You don't have a clue about what I do
I may work or even live beside you
The neighbor in front of your house can be me
The stranger you married and go to bed with

Desire, hunger, I need to hunt
I need to go out and slay
With bullets and knives
Or just my bare hands
I will fulfill my fate
Animus Necandi

Lombroso was wrong, I don't look like a criminal
To everyone I'm just a regular fellow
I pay my taxes and I go to church
And I look shocked every time I see blood

Calm and methodic I don't leave a trace
I know forensics so I keep my pace
Slowly I wait for my victim to appear
Then send him to hell to meet with his peers

Cold and terrible agony embraces my heart
Emptiness inside a regretful soul
But all that conflict remains concealed
Behind a fake smile that works as a shield

Sometimes I wake up thinking of all
The faces of those that met my rage
That is my burden and that is my fate
The price that I pay for acting insane