METAL ALLEGIANCE LYRICS

1. Gift Of Pain

Down on the dark streets below
Reject the phoenix and regain control
A million memories that you never had
A pathetic attempt to erase the past
My truth will burn your lies away

You gave
You gave me a gift
You gave
You gave me a gift of pain

You gave
You gave me a gift
You gave
You gave me a gift

For blessed years
I never saw your face
You disappeared
But you never changed
I’ve come to understand
Your weakness again
Dragged my name through
The mud in punishment for your sins

My truth will burn your lies away
You gave
You gave me a gift
You gave
You gave me a gift of pain

You gave
You gave me a gift
You gave
You gave me a gift of pain
Gift of pain
You gave me a gift of pain

I’ve sat alone for so long
Burning with anger,
Staring through the walls
I will rebuild
A stronger design
Regain my will
And leave you behind
Bitch

[Solos: Skolnick, Holt]

You run away as far as you can
You took the best of me
And left behind a broken man

[SOLO: Skolnick]

You keep on coming back
To drag me down
I’ll keep on fighting
Until they put me in the ground

[SOLO: Holt]

You gave
You gave me a gift
You gave
You gave me a gift of pain

[SOLO: Skolnick]

I'll give
I'll give you a gift
I'll give
I'll give you a gift of pain

Gift of pain
Gift of pain
Gift of pain

2. Let Darkness Fall

A symphony of agony
You lay your head to rest
Foam from the mouth
Like a ritual you possess.
Testify against you
Words become deceit
Stuck in here forever
You shall defeat

No way out
No one cares
Another empty soul
Another faceless stare.
Lose the chains that bind you
To free the once condemned
Control your creation
Leaves you all but dead

No way out
No one cares
Another empty soul
Another faceless stare.
Speak against your lover
Slander has begun
Silence all around you
Despising what you've done.
I will rebuke you
Accuse you to your face
No sacrifices
You fall in your disgrace.

[Solo: Skolnick]

Can you hear?
Can you hear?
To hell on this Earth
Let darkness fall
Demystified at birth
Engulf us all.
A symphony of agony
You lay your head to rest
Foam from the mouth
Like a ritual you possess.
No way out
No one cares
Another empty soul
Another faceless stare.
No way out
No one even cares
No way out
No way out.

3. Dying Song

I hear them asking
Will I play the caretaker
to your little grave?
There's no longer reasons
why, you'd be denied
The things that you've
requested bravely
And you'd be treated
with the honor
Due a conquered long-timer
In the midst

Sight...
Is a very precious sense
For those who've endured
the blind
Life...
A different form of life
Has a different form of
death not withstanding

This dying song
This dying song

They say he had no heart
Just (a big) hole in his chest
They got it wrong in part
Trust me, we knew the
blighted test
The test of tests

(It was) Fate...
The ilk have died like flies
And that fever moves with
the swiftness
(Out of) Date...
When the face does leave
the face...
It's death's clutching fingers
upon...

This dying song
This dying song
This dying song
This dying song

History tells us
It's always the same
When fire rages
On that little grave
No longer reasons
To be denied
They got it wrong
A dying song

This dying song
A dying song

[SOLO: Skolnick]

She needs a doctor
Or an undertaker
Believe the mocker
Death-tripped forsaker

Death-tripper
Forsaker
Death-tripper
Forsaker
Death-tripper
Forsaker
Death-tripper
A dying song sadly
mistaken

This dying song
This dying song

4. Can't Kill The Devil

A prison cell is now my home
trapped inside a concrete hole
No more freedom left to roam
Endless time that haunts my soul

Take the struggle day by day
Victimized by endless shame
All that's left is to hope and pray
There's nothing left for you to say

You can't kill the devil
Once evil is alive
You can't kill the devil
'Cause evil never dies

Pushing down, can't rise above
My heart turns to stone, no love
Every lie now takes its toll
Bleed me of my truth and soul

Fight and struggle, search for truth
Through my disconnected youth
Conflicted lies are what you speak
Your serpent tongue still cursing me

You can't kill the devil
Once evil is alive
You can't kill the devil
'Cause evil never dies
You can't kill the devil
Staring me in the eyes
You can't kill the devil
'Cause evil always lies

[Solos: Skolnick, Demmel, Kisser]

Money greed, stories you make
Every dime for a selfish take
Creating myths to hide your tracks
As you stab me in my back

New lies told, old lies dead
Thought of you stuck in my head
As I mourn you laugh at me
You evil bitch just set me free

You can't kill the devil
Once evil is alive
You can't kill the devil
'Cause evil never dies
You can't kill the devil
Staring me in the eyes
You can't kill the devil
'Cause evil always lies

Strength
Determination
Finding freedom in my children's soul
My time has come
My time is now
Justice served on fictitious vows

Kill [5x]

[Solo: Kisser]

5. Scars

Scars from all my lessons learned
Theft of my possessions earned
Cautionary tale of woe
You reap what you sew

Fallen in the land I call home
I look into a future unknown
Lost is the race we've become
There's nowhere left to run

From massive repression
And passive aggression

The world spins on
Mother earth has cried
Our hope is gone
The innocence has died

You'll stand, you'll fall
Only the strong survive
Convicted prisoner
Sentenced to this life

Winter of my discontent
Broken promise never meant
Once was blind but now I see
I've got to be free

Hounds, they won't leave me alone
Gnaw my spirit of flesh to the bone
Howling away as they go
And the blood starts to flow

No pacification
From this indignation

The world spins on
Mother earth has cried
Our hope is gone
The innocence has died

You'll stand, you'll fall
Only the strong survive
Convicted prisoner
Sentenced to this life

Consolation is bitter
Pill to swallow
Pearls of wisdom fall
With nothing left to lose
You've got to listen to
The voices deep inside you
Your path is written by
The methods that you choose

[Solo: Skolnick]

The world spins on
Mother earth has cried
Our hope is gone
The innocence has died

You'll stand, you'll fall
Only the strong survive
Convicted prisoner
Sentenced to this life

Massive repression
[SPOKEN:] The world spins on

Passive aggression
[SPOKEN:] When Mother Earth
Has cried

No pacification
[SPOKEN:] All hope is gone

From this indignation
[SPOKEN:] The innocence has died

6. Destination: Nowhere

Trapped in a world of hypocrisy
Follow my own philosophy
Another day and the memories fade
I'll walk for miles just to drift away

Too little fortune
Too many lies
Trying to get over to the other side

So here I travel on the road that leads to nowhere
Familiar places are the ones I'll never know
Life's river passing by, deep and wide, a stitch in time
Forever searching for the one to bring me home

Hopeless, I wander eternally
Under cloak of anonymity
Suspicious faces wherever I go
This is the only life I know

Footsteps approaching
Within my eye
The final moment to say my last goodbye

So here I travel on the road that leads to nowhere
Familiar places are the ones I'll never know
Life's river passing by, deep and wide, a stitch in time
Forever searching for the one to bring me home
Destination nowhere

[Solo: Skolnick]

So here I travel on the road that leads to nowhere
Familiar places are the ones I'll never know
Life's river passes by, deep and wide, a stitch in time
Forever searching for the one to bring me home

So here I travel on the road that leads to nowhere
Familiar faces are the ones I long to know
Life's river passes by, deep and wide, a stitch in time
Forever searching for the one to bring me home
Destination: Nowhere

[Dual solos: Skolnick & Heafy]

7. Wait Until Tomorrow

I feel the heat shine down on me
I feel it burn inside of me
I need your help to show the way
I know I must leave here today

No time to beg or borrow
No time for sorrow
Gonna seize the moment of the day now
Never say that I betray

Been down so long you won't even know
Life at the bottom
Gonna seize the moment of the day now
And never ever walk away

I can't wait, wait until tomorrow
I can't put off what can be done today
I can't stay, stay until tomorrow
I must say all the things I need to say

I feel betrayed and beat again
I know this feeling and the pain

No time to beg or borrow
No time for sorrow
Gonna seize the moment of the day now
Never say that I betray

Been down so long you won't even know
Life at the bottom
Gonna seize the moment of the day now
And never ever walk away

I can't wait, wait until tomorrow
I can't put off what can be done today
I can't stay, stay until tomorrow
I must say all the things I need to say

Losing my direction
Drowning in despair
No one here to save me
I drift to nowhere

Never will surrender
To voices from above
Losing all my senses
I'm all out of love

Selling out my soul
Changing all the rules
Lonely, angry, tired
But still nobody's fool

[Solo: Skolnick]

I can't wait, wait until tomorrow
I can't put off what can be done today
I can't stay, stay until tomorrow
I must say all the things I need to say

8. Triangulum (I. Creation, II. Evolution, III. Destruction)

9. Pledge Of Allegiance

All eyes watching you
See your every move
The good and the bad
And everything you do

Sell another fib
Another bill of goods
Nothing ever changes
And nothing ever should

Nothing ever should

Guilty of humanity
Watching what you do
More than your fair share
Life has given you

You take what isn't yours
'Cause never is enough
Fill the empty void
I call your sinful bluff

Call your sinful bluff

Drowning in your fear

Say your pledge
Nothing you can do
Pledge your allegiance
Hiding is all you

[Solo: Benante]

Believe your deception
Watch the falling reign
Defaming supreme lies
Driving me insane

Crucify your motion
Running from your life
Hiding your false hope
Searching for the knife

Searching for the knife

Pledging your allegiance
Look me in the face
Walking through flooded gates
Show your true disgrace

Flash a tearless smile
Going to great lengths
Covering that broken fear
I keep gaining strength

I keep gaining strength

Drowning in your fear

Say your pledge
Nothing you can do
Pledge your allegiance
Hiding is all you
Say your pledge
Nothing you can see
Pledge your allegiance
Running sets you free

Broken state of mind,
demons all around
No one - left on your own
as you're falling down
Crumbling house of cards,
life is caving in
Praying now to a god,
you will never win

[Solo: Skolnick]

Say your pledge
Nothing you can do
Pledge your allegiance
Hiding is all you

Say your pledge
Nothing you can see
Pledge your allegiance
Running sets you free

[Solo: Holt]

Broken state of your mind
Emptiness all you find
Falling down on your own
No one left, all alone

[Solo: Kisser]

Crumbling house of cards
Life caves in -
twisted shards
Praying now, full of sin
To a god, you'll never win

[Solo: Holt]

Say your pledge:
"Allegiance"
Say your pledge:
"Pledge of Allegiance"

[Solo: Kisser, Holt]

Say your pledge:
"Allegiance"
Say your pledge:
"Pledge of Allegiance”

[Solo: Holt]

Pledge of Allegiance

10. We Rock

[Deluxe Edition Track]
[feat. Mark Osegueda, Chris Jericho, Tim "Ripper" Owens, Alissa White-Gluz, Chuck Billy & Steve Souza]

You watch their faces
You'll see the traces
Of the things they want to be
But only we can see

They come for killing
They leave and still it seems
The cloud that's left behind
Oh, can penetrate your mind

But sail on, sing a song, carry on
'Cause we rock, we rock, we rock, we rock

We pray to someone
But when it's said and done
It's really all the same
With just a different name

So many voices
All giving choices
If we listen they will say
Oh, we can find the way

But we'll sail on, sing a song, carry on
'Cause we rock, we rock, we rock, we rock
We rock, we rock, we rock, we rock
We rock!

We rock
You watch their faces
You'll see the traces
Of the things they want to be
But only we can see

They come for killing
They leave and still it seems
The cloud that's left behind
Can penetrate your mind

Sail on, sing a song, carry on
'Cause we rock, we rock, we rock, we rock
We rock, we rock, we rock, we rock

Ride out - stand and shout - carry on
Sail on - sing your song - carry on

'Cause we rock, we rock, see how we rock
We rock
That's rock
We rock
We rock







METAL ALLEGIANCE LYRICS