THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

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(1982)

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  Invaders  
  Children of the Damned  
  The Prisoner  
  22 Acacia Avenue  
  The Number Of The Beast  
  Run To The Hills  
  Gangland  
  Hallowed Be Thy Name  

 

INVADERS

(Harris)

Longboats have been sighted, the evidence of war has begun
Many Nordic fighting men, their swords and shields all gleam in the sun
Call to arms defend yourselves, get ready to stand and fight for your lives
Judgement day has come around, so be prepared don't run stand your ground
They're coming in from the sea
They've come the enemy
Beneath the blazing sun
The battle has to be won
Invaders...Pillaging
Invaders...Looting
Set ablaze the camp fires, alert the other men from inland
Warning must be given, there's not enough men for a stand
The Vikings are too many, too powerful to take on our own
We must have reinforcements, we cannot fight this battle alone
They're coming over the hill
They've come to attack
They're coming in for the kill
There's no turning back
Invaders...Fighting
Invaders...Marauding
Axes grind and maces clash, as wounded fighters fall to the ground

Severed limbs and fatal woundings, bloody corpses lay all around

The smell of death and burning flesh, the battle weary fight to the end
The Saxons have been overpowered, victims of the mighty Norsemen
 
You'd better scatter and run
The battle's lost and not won
You'd better get away
To fight another day
Invaders...Raping
Invaders...Plundering

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CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED

(Harris)

 

He's walking like a small child, but watch his eyes burn you away

Black holes in his golden stare, God knows he wants to go home

 

Children of the damned

Children of the damned

Children of the damned

Children of the damned
 
He's walking like a dead man, if he had lived he would have crucified us all
Now he's standing on the last step, he thought oblivion, well it beckons us all
 
Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned
 

Now it's burning his hands, he's turning to laugh

Smiles as the flames sear his flesh
Melting his face, screaming in pain
Watch him die according to plan
He's dust on the ground, what did we learn
 
You're children of the damned
Your back's against the wall
You turn into the light
You're children of the damned
Like candles watch them burn
Burning in the light
You'll burn again tonight
You're children of the damned

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THE PRISONER

(Smith/Harris)

 

On the run kill to eat, you're starving now you're dead on your feet

Going all the way nature's beast, do what I want as I please

 

Run fight to breathe it's tough

Now you see me now you don't

Break the walls I'm coming out

 
Not a prisoner I'm a free man, and my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was, I know where I'm going...out
 
If you kill me it's self defence, if I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy, you'll be afraid when I call out your name
 
I'm not a number I'm a free man, I'll live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book, cos I'll run rings around you

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22 ACACIA AVENUE

(Harris/Smith)

 

If you're feeling down depressed an lonely, I know a place where we can go

22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know

So if you're looking for a good time, and you're prepared to pay the price

Fifteen quid is all she asks for, everybody's got their vice

 

If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece

You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free
So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go
You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know
 
Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness
Can't you see it only brings you sadness
When you entertain your men don't you know the risk of getting disease
 
Someday when you're reaching the age of forty, I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying
Nobody then will want to know, You won't have any more beautiful wares to show any more
 
22, the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside, the red light's burning bright tonight
 
Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life, don't you ever think about the bad times
Why do you have to live this way, do you enjoy your lay or is the pay
 
Sometimes when you're strolling down the avenue, the way you walk it makes men think of having you
When you're walking down the street, everybody stops and turns to stare at you
 
Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please, bite her excite her make her get down on her knees
Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got, caress her molest her she always does want you want
 
You're running away don't you know what you're doing, can't you see it'll lead you to ruin
Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away
You believe that because what you're earning, your life's good don't you know that you're hurting
All the people that love you don't cast them aside
All the men that are constantly drooling, it's no life for you stop all that screwing
You're packing your bags and you're coming with me

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THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

(Harris)

 

I left alone my mind was black, I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe, that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy

 

Just what I saw in my old dreams, were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

Cos in my dreams it's always there, the evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair

 
The night was black was no use holding back, cos I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist, was this all for real or some kind of hell
 
666 the number of the beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released
 
Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised, as they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright, the ritual has begun Satan's work is done
 
666 the number of the beast

Sacrifice is going on tonight

 
This can't go on I must inform the law, can this still be real or some crazy dream
But I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes, they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
 
666 the number of the beast
666 the one for you and me
 
I'm coming back I will return, and I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn
I have the fire I have the force, I have the power to make my evil takes its course

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RUN TO THE HILLS

(Harris)

 

White man came across the sea, brought us pain and misery

Killed our tribes killed our creed, took our game for his own need

 

We fought him hard we fought him well, out on the plains we gave him hell

But many came too much for Cree, oh will we ever be set free?

 
Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes, galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes, fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back, women and children and cowards attack
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
 
Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, enslaving the young and destroying the old
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

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GANGLAND

(Smith/Burr)

 

Shadows may hide you but also may be your grave

You're running today maybe tomorrow you'll be saved

You pray for daylight to save you for a while

You wonder if your children will face the killer's smile

 

Dead men - tell no tales

In gangland - murders up for sale
Dead men - tell no tales
In gangland - where jailbirds die
 
Face at the window leers into your own
But it's only your reflection still you tremble in your bones
How long can you hide? How long till they come?
A rat in a trap but you've got to survive
 
Once you were glad to be free for a while

The air tasted good and the world was your friend

Then came the day when the hard times began
Now you're alone but alive for how long?
 
A knife at your throat another body on the pile
A contract to keep and it's service with a smile
Murder for vengeance or murder for gain
Death on the streets or a blocked out jail
 
Dead men - tell no tales
In gangland - murders up for sale
Dead men - tell no tales
In gangland - where jailbirds die

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HALLOWED BE THY NAME

(Harris)

 

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime

Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time

Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

The sands of time for me are running low

 

When the priest comes to read me the last rites

I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
 
Can it be there's been some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream
 
Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not so easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears they flow but why am I crying

After all I'm not afraid of dying
Don't I believe that there never is an end
 
As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"
If there's a God then why has he let me die?
 
As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away
 
Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth
 
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion

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