life, I'm someone
Look in my eyes, I'm every man
Feel what I see inside you

A damming of the facts
A way that's negative
Inside we're all the same
We have one life to live

The virus in the heart
Enough to seal your fate
Look deep at what you are
It's time to kill the hate

A narrow mind will give
A poisoned point of view
Take care of what you saw
The next one could be you

By opening the door
The end could be so sure
A joining of the hands
To seek and find a cure

I am, I said
I am, I said
I have a dream
I am alive



Mouthpiece

(Halford/Chaussee)

When did you last look at
At where you are?
Did, did you ever think
You'd get this far?

Obsessor
Low mind
Confessor
Declined

Have, have you realized
Just where you're from?
Will the choice be, be right
By what you've done?

Transgressive
Ingrained
Submissive
Enchained

Obsessor
Low mind
Confessor
Declined

What about the point of
Of no return?
Whiling time on bridges
That, that you burned

Obsessor
Low mind
Confessor
Declined

Transgressive
Ingrained
Submissive
Enchained



Legacy of hate

(Halford/Tilse/Chaussee)

Raised by you, you made me
In your shadow, angry

Like father
Like son
Like father
Like son

Mirror of your image
Victim of your damage

Like father
Like son
Like father
Like son

Like father - you gave me nothing
Like son - but these memories are full
Like father - is the back of your hand
Like son - all that I'll pass on?

Here's what you've created
Shattered, cracked and wasted

Like father - I wanna know why
Like son
Like father - the way that you treat me
Like son

Like father - eats away at your soul
Like son - and what's left is your conscience
Like father - that's a cancerous hole
Like son

I wanna know why
What have I done?
Were you a victim?
The cycle goes on



Blowout in the radio room

(Halford/Tilse)

Tripping out, oh yeah!
I'm freaking out
This sound is bouncing me
Right on the wall

Lose myself
I can't control myself
I'm a radio head
That's in free fall

Gets me high
High
High
High

Hazy man, oh yeah!
I'm blasted man
Out there flipping
Through my paisley mind

Ride the wave
From cradle to the grave
Breathe it in
With my own kind

Gets me high
High
High
High

Boned with sound, oh yeah!
I'm stoned on sound
No one gets to me
Inside this room

Spacing out, oh yeah!
I'm racing here
This sound gets in my head
My head goes boom

Gets me high
High
High
High



Never again

(Halford/Tilse/Travis)

Mind's eye in darkness
See how they run
Fools search for nothing
Stare at the sun

See how they run, there's none for me
I stand with you
Stare at the sun, we take them in
And we turn the screw

Talk to the madmen
Fill them with lies
Now pay the piper
Honesty dies

See how they run, there's none for me
I stand with you
Stare at the sun, we take them in
And we turn the screw

Never
Never - blood on their hands
Never - into quicksand

What's left to dream for?
This endless line
Ladders to nowhere
Blind lead the blind

See how they run, there's none for me
I stand with you
Stare at the sun, we take them in
And we turn the screw

See how they run
Stare at the sun
Fill them with lies
Honesty dies

Never
Never - blood on their hands
Never - into quicksand



Small deadly space

(Halford/Chaussee/Travis)

Think I'm possessed by demons
I do their dirty work
They use me like a zombie
Headaches is all I get

Lock myself up in my own room
Ain't coming out of my cage
They're full of shit and no feeling
I'll always be in a rage

Small deadly space

Sympathy cries for the devil
I dance to the music he makes
Chemical daze, my salvation
Destroy these losers and fakes

Fist in the wall, care of family
Swallow and suck 'till I'm full
I need their love and attention
Like I need lead in my skull

Small deadly space
Small deadly space

Leave me alone to my own type
They say: Stupid is a stupid does
I ain't a part of the rat race
A numberless face, just because

I'll play along with these demons
Possessed by them every day
Don't try to reach out and console me
I'll bite at what gets in my way

Small deadly space
Small deadly space



Gretna Green

(Halford/Tilse/Chaussee)

A purple bruise, a fractured limb
All covered up with lies
A swollen face, a bloody tongue
This violence denied

Empty now and meaningless
Ridiculed in shame
Until death do us apart
Who should take the blame?

To live a lie
Forgive or die?

A stricken look, a lowered head
Reflections turning back
A trembling hand, a quickened step
The dreaded next attack

Turning from the holy ghost
Light and spirit fade
Waiting for deliverance
Everything betrayed

A vacant stare, a beat up faith
The book of truth reviled
A prayer to God, a plea for help
Held ransom with the child

Wide awake and holding tears
Fear that never sleeps
Curled up in the bed at night
The virgin gently weeps

To live a lie
Forgive or die?
To live a lie
Forgive or die?



Beneath the violence

(Halford/Tilse/Travis)

Closed into self asylum
On ice that's paper thin
Wrapped up for good protection
Keep that from getting in

The shadows bring the shelter
Some refuge from the storm
Brakes on the helter skelter
To let these nerves reform

Retreat out from the madhouse
Stop foaming at the mouth
Hang up this strange behavior
Cut through the overgrowth

Watch from a safer distance
Observe the next offense
See how the hands do murder
Then try to make some sense

Black vision
Dead body
Oppression

Shock system
Explosive
Depression

Disaster
Malignant
Infection

Inhuman
Sadistic
Rejection

These acts of tender mercies
Work on the purest soul
They tease and trap remorseless
'Till six feet in the ground

Shut down 'till all is silent
Be still, this seething blood
Turn off, release the trigger
Let numbness do some good



Human crate

(Halford/Tilse)

There's a man without a home
With a girl who has no name
There's a face in every town
Underneath we're all the same

Wonder
She has come and gone
He is always moving on

When the man felt down and low
The girl was by his side
And they walked a broken road
With a hope that never died

Wonder
She has come and gone
He is always moving on

If the man should find a home
Then the girl would take his name
But they need their open road
For their journey is the same

Wonder
She has come and gone
He is always moving on

Wonder
She has come and gone
He is always moving on



In a world of my own making

(Halford/Tilse)

If I could find a place
To leave this world behind
Somewhere in time and space
Where I could ease my mind

I'd take you there
Where we could be alone

No one can find this place
The secret will be ours
With no more pain to face
We'll live amongst the stars

In solitude and we can wonder free
Alone at last, just you and me

Our island universe
A world unto its own
Forgetting all the worst of times
They're gone

You know we are as one to make a life of peace
Escape into eternal sleep