Machine Head

Burn My Eyes - 1994

1. Davidian
2. Old
3. A thousand lies
4. None but my own
5. The rage to overcome
6. Death church
7. A nation on fire
8. Blood for blood
9. Iīm your God now
10. -unbekannt-
11. Block



1. Davidian




Blind man ask me forgiveness
I wonīt deny myself
Disrespect you have given
Your sufferingīs my wealth
I feed off pain, force fed to love it
And now I swallow whole
Iīll never live in the past
Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast

Burn my fist to the concrete
My fear is my strength
Power, rage unbound because
Been pounded by the streets
Cyanide blood burns down the skyline
Hatred is purity
The bullet connects at last
Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast

Scarred
Pour the salt in the wound
Unscarred



2. Old




I am the man that defends all things profane
6000 years is the time that I shall reign
And with a grin drank the blood of holy swine
Impurity made the blood turn into wine

Chorus:
Old man, dead hand
If only their insanity
The lie feeds off their greed
Jesus wept

I am the pain that feeds off your weakness
A sickening born of hate, not of the blessed
And with the time I will crush all things you prey
Destroying all from the known to the arcane

Burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they wonīt find me
Try to suck my power empty
Got no crown of thorns on me

So burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they wonīt find
Try to suck my power dry
You got no crown of thorns on me



3. A thousand lies




What is a man that stays true to the game
But has to cheat a little to get by
Well that is a person that I know to well
Donīt want to know, but I donīt have to ask why
Everyone like a loaded gun
You want some shit, Iīll fuckinī pound you, son
Donīt need a reason, pain Iīm feelinī
I gotta vent or else I blow inside

Pre-chorus:
Introspection, termination
Canīt tell right from wrong
Fed up with this whole system
Itīs gone on far too long

You tell a thousand lies, been told a thousand times
Your words we hear, but we cannot sympathize
Thousand lies been told a thousand times
Hard as nails, the power to survive

What is a man that stays true to the game
But canīt believe some of the things he sees
Angerīs a gift and I wonīt be kept down
In poverty there is no democracy
Used needle and a crack vile
A broken bottle and a bullet shell
This urban life is so volatile
An inner city or a concrete hell

What is a man donīt stay true to the game
Donīt care for no one, only cares for his greed
Heīs playinī God killinī thousands of people
īCause the power is the fix that he needs
Racist goal of the white devil
I watched our souls burninī over oil
A politician got no feelinī
It makes my motherfuckinī cold blood boil



4. None but my own




I am only nothing, I am only this
I am just a man with these two fists
You have asked forgiveness
You have asked respect
Only something that you did forget

All you gave you had planned to take
Beat upon me but I wonīt break
Stripping everything from me? No!

Will to me your anger, will to me your rage
Will to me your lies, your sufferings
Not a man of virtue, not even a man
Will not take the hate dealt from your hands

Years of pain I will take and hone
Manifest with your broken bones
My heart bleeds for none but my own
My own

Burn
Burn

I am only nothing, I am only this
I am just a man with these two fists
Not a man of virtue, not even a man
Will not take the hate dealt from your hands

Years of pain I will take and hone
Manifest with your broken bones
My heart bleeds for none but my own
My own

Burn
Burn

My heart bleeds for none but my own...



5. The rage to overcome




This world does not want me
This world does not care
And I am a product of this world
Confused, Iīd say thatīs fair
This pain will never leave me
Itīs scared upon my brain
Destroying everything that brought this
Just to keep me, just to keep me sane

A hatred burns inside me
Emotion out of hand
But Iīve the will to focus this
Survive, contrive, command
From pain come a courage
The strength from injustice
The rage to overcome it all
An open mind
With a closed fist



6. Death church




Well I look at justice in a different light
I been to jail, it didnīt make me right
Try and conform, but wonīt be deaf, blind, dumb
Been beaten down, just harder Iīve become

Death church rising
Hate church rising
Lost church rising
Death church rising

Hey Jesus canīt you help me with my pain
Mainline me some religion, keep me sane
Christ suffering upon my TV screen
Send in your money to the faith obscene

Strength, truth and honor, words I strive to live
Your faithīs profane, it takes, never gives
īCause Iīm gonna die standing upon my feet
Youīre gonna die groveling on your knees



7. A nation on fire




Well I see, I feel
On my way
You close your eyes, scared to think
You might see
A world that spends more to kill than to cure
Living, writhing, diseased, so unpure

It hardens me, the things I see
But I wonīt break, it gives me strength

Our suffering, wonīt always be
Weīll dominate, this nation on fire

The media it
Blinds our eyes
A people divided
And force feds lies
The black and white societies corrode
Warring, hating, blind, a rage explodes

So take my hand across this land
I wonīt go down, stand my ground

This nationīs built on fighting war after war
And for my brothers, I will fight and stand for
īCause I wonīt break, Your truth is fake
If blood ran red, Youīs leave me for dead
A nation on fire
A nation on fire

You tell me peace, Well I hear gunshots all night
The scars I have, Iīve earned īcause Iīve had to fight
An endless pain, and it wonīt change
We just sat by, and watched this world die
A nation on fire
A nation on fire



8. Blood for blood




I bite the hand īcause this hand feeds off me
Devoid of emotion, it lives to cheat
Ignorance is bliss, and respect I gave you
Friend you did claim this
Too bad you canīt speak the truth

Give respect
īCause the rule is blood for blood

Beatings is what youīll inherit this time
Fast bait, your new name
Your pain is my shine
Pulverize and break
Determination
Pleasure I negate
Your pain brings me salvation

I was born of tension
Anger came from frustration
I canīt back down from aggression
Some hard knocks taught me this lesson



9. Iīm your God now




So pain told you to take her
Well I learned to accept that feeling
īCause I found how to numb it
If only for just a short while
Iīd get so high, Iīd forget my own name
I scarred my fist, I scarred my brain
I think that iīm going insane
I think that Iīm going insane

So Drink up, so shoot in
Why must this feeling end
I crawled in my narcotic shell
Was crucified in my own hell
A gutterīs where I found myself
Among the waste I chose to dwell
I chose to dwell

So now Iīm in your system
And Iīm what helps you numb your pain
With time you will confide in me
So lonely my friend, Iīve made you lose control
Youīll use me more and more with time
Our friendship grows with each mainline
So glad that you could be so blind
So glad that you could be so blind

So drink up, so shoot in
īCause Iīll make this feeling end
I built you this narcotic shell
I crucifies you in your hell
Your life not yours, youīre just my slave
I am your messiah of pain
And time has come to
Time has come to, time has come to
There is no time to pray

īCause Iīm your God now



10. -unbekannt-


- unbekannt



11. Block




Hate breeds hate my eyes they have seen
the decimation of all that is pure pure
A system that feeds the machine with
the blood, sweat and money of the poor poor
Corruption gets rich, honesty just exists
īcause nobody cares anymore anymore

Fuck it all
Fuck it all

White attack black, black attack back
the fuckinī media keeps us all blind blind
Children on crack, junkies on smack
you wanna close your eyes to hide hide
Pollution so dense, sickening existence
new world order, new world decline

Fuck it all
Fuck it all

The more the sense of ignorance
The more intense is the pain

Hate breeds hate my eyes they have seen
the decimation of all that is pure pure
A system that feeds the machine with
the blood, sweat and money of the poor poor
Believe in something if it stops your suffering
īcause all we have is nothing nothing

Fuck it all


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