Pantera

Cowboys from Hell - 1990

1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Primal Concrete Sledge
3. Psycho Holiday
4. Heresy
5. Cemetery Gates
6. Domination
7. Shattered
8. Clash With Reality
9. Medicine Man
10. Message In Blood
11. The Sleep
12. The Art of Shredding



1. Cowboys From Hell


Under the lights where we stand tall
Nobody touches us at all
Showdown, shootout, spread fear within, without
Weīre gonna take whatīs ours to have
Spread the word throughout the land
They say the bad guys wear black
Weīre tagged and canīt turn back

You see us cominī
And you all together run for cover
Weīre takin over this town

Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen my friend, you see
Itīs been slow down below,
Aimed at you weīre the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, weīve won
Ainīt talking no tall tales friend
īCause high noon, your doom
Cominī for you weīre the cowboys from hell

Pillage the village, trash the scene
But better not take it out on me
īCause a ghost town is found
Where your city used to be
So out of the darkness and into the light
Sparks fly everywhere in sight
From my double barrel, 12 gauge,
Canīt lock me in your cage

You see us cominī
And you all together run for cover
Weīre takin over this town

Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen my friend, you see
Itīs been slow down below,
Aimed at you weīre the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, weīve won
Ainīt talking no tall tales friend
īCause high noon, your doom
Cominī for you weīre the cowboys from hell



2. Primal Concrete Sledge


Thereīs a double standard for the way we live
If thereīs nothing to have, well then thereīs nothing to save
Iīll break a sweat and I donīt regret
What youīd kill to see brings out the god in me.

Come and be with me
Live my twisted dream
Pro devoted sledge
Time for primal concrete sledge

The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I wonīt take stock in a withered man
Iīm reaching into you, Iīll make you understand

Come and be with me
Live my twisted dream
Pro devoted sledge
Time for primal concrete sledge



3. Psycho Holiday


Empty and sweating
Head lying in your hands
Shaking in the corner
Done too much alcohol
Gotta get away from it all
īCause it feels my blood is freezing
My self insanity has taken its toll
Frustration has taken its control

Now Iīm far from home
Spending time alone
Itīs time to set my demons free
Been put to the test
My mind laid to rest
Iīm on a psycho holiday

Shot down on sight
You are the target of attention
One woman here another there
You canīt please all the people all the time
Canīt tell the strangers
From the friends you know
Frustration has taken itīs control

Now youīre far from home
Spending time alone
Itīs time to set your demons free
Been put through the test
Your mind laid to rest
Youīre on a psycho holiday

Iīm strapped in for life
Is this where I lived
Or where I died
You want my money
You take my space
My mind is telling me
To leave this place
My self insanity has taken its toll
Frustration has taken its control

Now youīre far from home
Spending time alone
Itīs time to set your demons free
Been put through the test
Your mind laid to rest
Youīre on a psycho holiday



4. Heresy


Here we are
In a world of corruption
Human nature is
Of violent Breed
Who cares if there;s no tomorrow
When I die for my futureīs
Laid out for me
Canīt you see?
Rise above the lies
Morals on a backwards globe
A sin to you
For me itīs hope.

Itīs my life and provision
Black or white
Some pay to pray
You question why they
Act this way
Itīs their fucking decision

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy

I know whatīs right or wrong
And my belief is stronger
Than your advice
People, they go to war
Because religion gives them
Reason to fight
Sacrifice, die for pride
A group that caters
No oneīs fees
Or synthetic deities
Is where I belong
My stand is the human race
Without a label or a face
So they can lick my sack

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy



5. Cemetery Gates


The reverend he turned to me
Without a tear in his eyes
Itīs nothing new for him to see
I didnīt ask him why
I will remember
The love our souls had
Sworn to make
Now I watch the falling rain
All my mind can see
Now is your (face)

Well I guess
You took my mouth
I gave it all away
Like the birth of a
New-found joy
This love would end in rage
And when she died
I couldnīt cry
The pride within my soul
You left me incomplete
Memories now unfold.

Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the
Cemetery gates

Sometimes when Iīm alone
I wonder aloud
If youīre watching over me
Some place far abound
I must reverse my life
I canīt live in the past
Then set my soul free

Belong to me at last
Through all those
Complex years
I thought I was alone

I didnīt care to look around
And make this world my own
And when she died
I shouldīve cried and spared myself some pain...
Left me incomplete
All alone as the memories still remain

The way we were
The chance to save my soul
And my concern is now in vain
Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the cemetery gates



6. Domination


Agony is the price
That youīll pay in the end
Domination consumes you
Then calls you a friend
Itīs a twisted fall
Binds are like steel
And manipulates the will to be
And itīs hard to see
How soon we forget
When thereīs nothing else
Left to destroy
Itīs a useless ploy

Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall

Itīs domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails itīs a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend

Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall

Itīs domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails itīs a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend



7. Shattered


Itīs storming broken glass, corpses left in piles
Ungracious bludgeonmnet that breaks the earth for miles
Nothing can stop it, the day has come, from below itīs cata-
strophic

Freezing, thereīs no healing families are dying

This world is shattered... all shattered

Life crushing turbulence, this wrath canīt be denied
Wishing you could help your friends, standing where they died
Echoes haunting, a hollow planet, lacerations, dissected nati-
on

Freezing, thereīs no healing families are dying

This world is shattered... all shattered



8. Clash With Reality


Sometimes I know
I feel untouchable
Drowning in life
Caught up in the accessible
Back down the ground
I hear the sound
thereīs no escape
The concrete cloud
Spilling on me
Drenching me with
Laymenīs sins
I hear the sirens
From the back of me
Iīm crashing face first
Into the glass eye

Clash with reality
It rears itīs ugly head
Clash with reality
The indescribable
Let the dogs lie
Where we sleep
Irrelevant theme

A situation and thereīs
Nothing but right
In kicks the door
Nobody moves
īCause in walks the problem
Dictates your fate
Evicts, convicts
Whoīll sign the writ of life?
This now becomes
Their morbid game
Whoīs piss poor excuse
Is this for a world?
It swells my hatred
Day by day

Clash with reality
It rears itīs ugly head
Clash with reality
The indescribable
Let the dogs lie
Where we sleep
Irrelevant theme



9. Medicine Man


Many distant miles away
Past the shores of ever dark
There stays a magic man
Who bears an evil mark
He helps all concerned
Those who come again return
Injecting lies while fires burn
The devilīs heart
With angelīs words
Have you wondered
What heavenīs like?
He can show you in one night
Overwhelming with euphoric lift
To lure you to steal your gift

Intoxication
Seeping down to the bone
And thereīs no question
Where you have to go

Understand just take his hand
Heīs the medicine man

Once proud and fearless men
With desire in their eyes
Lost strong and fruitful lives
To self-indulgent ties
Their souls were dipped in venom
And put into a box
Then placed upon a crowded shelf
Where countless souls now rot
Have you ever wondered what hellīs like?
He can take you there
Just one taste and youīll be back
And by the high youīll swear

Intoxication
Seeping down to the bone
And thereīs no question
Where you have to go

Understand just take his hand
Heīs the medicine man



10. Message In Blood


Thereīs a place that I keep deep inside me
It can trigger my mind
All along I knew it has been with me
Since I was just a child

I just summon power within my soul
It has given me life, beyond life I take
Blame for my murderous problem my signature
Always reminds

Itīs a message in blood
Itīs your cryptic warning
Within the message in blood
Marks the years of pain,
And your godforsaken ending to life

Iīm provoked into sick confrontations, brutal
Time after time, bed of nails, suffocation,
lifeīs ending, slay in different designs
One mans misery is another mans mystery
No one cares to understand my
Demented means
Sticks and stones can break all your
brittle bones, epitaph written at your feet

Itīs a message in blood
Itīs your cryptic warning
Within the message in blood
Marks the years of pain,
And your godforsaken ending to life



11. The Sleep


Understanding what has
Happened before us
We are confined to a
Darkened hidden tomb
The conquering of our world
As we knew it
Rise above this pit
Of sorrow and pain
Among the few
We are the avant leaders
Weīve got to live
Through this trouble and decay

This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
Weīre harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?

Unsure and scared
We are planning our reprise
Revolves around this world
We donīt know anymore
The odds against us
Yet weīre stronger and prevailing
Learn from mistakes
Counting souls for sale

This question haunts my mind
Will we survive this night?
Weīre harboring the meek
Will we survive the sleep?



12. The Art of Shredding


Unity is a rare thing
Blind eyes of society bring
The category of minority
Now what are we supposed to be?
Born free to be
Powerless to change the world
With our lives in the hands of madmen

Now in times when society needs us
This is where the sin begins
Weīre aware theyīre going to free us
Rage from our hearts within
Born of this world
Which is a living hell
But weīll be closer to heaven

So now, this is the art
To shred... its only emotion

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