TEMPLE OF DREAD LYRICS

1. 8.16 AM (Intro)

2. Suffocate the Fire

Respected man of wealth and taste
Dark urges from inside
Society's respect a waste
Hiding the face - a real plight
Cacoethes to kill someone
Becoming much too strong
Take the coach, the latticed one
Buy some men, do the wrong

Economic gathering, peddling of the slaves
Killing's the intent, fulfillment of desire
Cheap buying of a life, suffocate the fire

Slave brokers praise quality meat
Erotic spending spree
Victims low priced, sweat from the heat
Close inspection, buy - agree
Dirty money changing hands
A corpse on time of trade
Slaying starts on rural lands
Anyway, death was the fate

Economic gathering, peddling of the slaves
Killing's the intent, fulfillment of desire
Cheap buying of a life, suffocate the fire

A million ways to die!
Soon running out of flesh!

Next time prolong the suffering
Pleasures gone too fast
Purchase a family gathering
Rape, torture, beyond grasp
The world is gonna cut some slack
A man highly esteemed
Innocence's a money stack
And cheap blood is streamed

Economic gathering, peddling of the slaves
Killing's the intent, fulfillment of desire
Cheap buying of a life, suffocate the fire

A good buy!

3. Sentenced to Life

Pain, darkness
Every moment is overmuch
Unrest, loneliness
Living a limp without a crutch

Homicide, suicide
Many nice ways to die
Sentenced to life

Frights, isolation
Longing the easiness of the grave
Craving salvation
Praying hard to be erased

Homicide, suicide
Many nice ways to die
Existence in agony
Death's ever calling, I cannot deny

Torture, anxiety
World-worn, tormented of life
Utter solitude
Brokenhearted and left behind

Homicide, suicide
Many nice ways to die
Existence in agony
Death's ever calling, sentenced to life

4. Question of Honour

United we shall stand, united we shall fall
Band of brothers 'til the end
Side by side we trained, business of the soldier
Now the day has come to act

Companionable promise
(Claims) soldierly horror
Screaming for help
Backhanded donor
Living or dying - a question of honor

Comradery like family ties, close to me like kin
Daring fighters from the start, and always we will win
Battles were fought, shoot and kill, feasting victories
Now I see my brother lie, in gore and blood and grease

Companionable promise
(Claims) soldierly horror
Screaming for help
Backhanded donor
Living or dying - a question of honor

The pleading gets unbearable, what I'm supposed to do?
Weeping of the crippled mate, shudders through and through

Companionable promise
(Claims) soldierly horror
Screaming for help
Backhanded donor
Living or dying - a question of honor

This battle can't be won

5. Now You Will Die

Facing the end, now it's real
Your last walk, stride through this arc
Bleeding it out, stare at the wound
Closing your eyes, life not resumed

Now you will die
Life's extinction
Now you will die

Incarcerated, death agony
Run out of strength, life ectomy
Nirvana, nothing, heaven or hell
Now you will die, nothing is well

Now you will die
Darkening sky
Now you will die

Draw your last breath, wave your goodbye
Ransom, redemption, how are the odds?

Now you will die
Life's extinction
Now you will die
Darkening sky
Now you will die

6. Straying the Battlefields

I've been there for a million years
Forever and a day
I have seen oceans of tears
Everywhere I stray

Impressive bravery
Fatal poltroonery
I have seen it all
War - taking my toll

Soldiers, hosts and many armies
Downfall and demise
Combatants and fighting soldiers
Death in fire and ice

Impressive bravery
Fatal poltroonery
I have seen it all
War - taking my toll

Crying, weeping, sorrow, horrors
Blood inked and huge blasts
Beauty of malignant terror
Future like the past

Impressive bravery
Fatal poltroonery
I have seen it all
War - anywhere I roam

Anywhere I roam

7. Gone But Still Here

Times gone by and long ago, blurred sketches in my mind
Sometimes there's a humble hint of things I left behind
Celebrating days of clarity, few are they and rare
Family agnosia, not knowing who is there

Crushing diagnosis
Strangers all around
Memory corroding
I am lost - not found
Gone, but still here

Wife and children sorrowing, past anchors of my life
Photographic fading, oblivion's sharp knife
Mirrors staring back at me, faces I don't know
Friendly people, furtive weeping, welcome to the show

Crushing diagnosis
Strangers all around
Memory corroding
I am lost - not found
Gone, but still here

Taking off to Neverland, hazy slave new world
Nothing left inside of me - I am in the dark

Fast forgetting, mind diminished, everyone's farouche
Have to recall to breathe, to eat, unaware of truth
Demise of neural tissue, synaptic ricochet
She tells me she will care, who is she anyway?

Crushing diagnosis
Strangers all around
Memory corroding
I am lost - not found
Gone, but still here

Gone, but still here

Forgetting year by year

8. Cottage In the Backyard

Backyard's shameful mystery
No one must discover
Conjunction based on secrecy
Best told to no other
A burden, but a thrilling one
Desire's siren calling
Alluring beauty, overstrung
Content, but deep falling

Suffer the act in agony
Holler, cannot fight back
Bearing carnal gluttony
Used, replaced in the rack
How long can this be going on
Transgression of all brinks
Forever it seems he dwells upon
One lucky, one is jinx

Tortured moans
Hidden acts unspeakable
Naughty pleasures, squeak and clack
On all fours and bent backward
Pleasance - cottage in the backyard
Horrors - cottage in the backyard
Pleasance - cottage in the backyard
Horrors - cottage in the backyard

Tortured moans
Hidden acts unspeakable
Naughty pleasures, squeak and clack
On all fours and bent backward
Pleasance - cottage in the backyard

Pleasance - cottage in the backyard
Horrors - cottage in the backyard
Pleasance - cottage in the backyard







TEMPLE OF DREAD LYRICS