July 1984 Ride The Lightning

Fight fire with fire
Do unto others as they have done unto you
But what in the hell is this world coming to?
 
Blow the universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
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Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
 
We shall die
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past
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Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last breath
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Ride the Lightning
Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me
 
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
 
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"
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Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames
 
Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
 
Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend
 
My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?
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Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die
 
Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
 
How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be
 
Wakened by the horrid cream
Freed from the frightening dream
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
 
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
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For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
 
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
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Fade to Black
Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
 
Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone
 
No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
 
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye
 
Trapped under the ice
I don't know how to live trough this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore
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Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under the ice
 
Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say
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Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more
 
No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me
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Escape

Fell no pain, but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
To escape from the true false world
Undamaged destiny
Can't get caught in the endless circle
Ring of stupidity
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Out of my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear things that they say
Life is for my own to live my own way
 
Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
Don't tell my what to do
I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
And I can see through you
Feed my brain with your so called standards
Who says that I ain't right
Break away from your common fashion
See through your blurry sight
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See they try to bring the hammer down
No damn chains can hold me to the ground
Life is for my own to live my own way
 
Creeping Death
Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years
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So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
 
Now
Let my people go, land of goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down the nil
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire
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Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
I
Rule the midnight air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and flood final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass
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The Call of Ktulu
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