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Leprosy
06 : 20
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Born Dead
03 : 27
3
Forgotten Past
04 : 36
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Left to Die
04 : 37
5
Pull the Plug
04 : 26
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Open Casket
04 : 55
7
Primitive Ways
04 : 33
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Choke on It
05 : 55
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Open Casket (rehearsal, 1987-09-23)
04 : 55
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Choke on It (rehearsal, 1987-09-23)
06 : 15
11
Left to Die (rehearsal, 1987-09-23)
04 : 41
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Left to Die (rehearsal take 2, 1987-9-23)
04 : 34
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Left to Die (rehearsal, 1987-12-05)
04 : 27
14
Open Casket (rehearsal, 1987-12-05)
04 : 42
15
Pull the Plug (rehearsal, 1987-12-05)
04 : 17
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Choke on It (rehearsal, 1987-12-05)
05 : 37
17
Born Dead (rehearsal, 1987-12-05)
03 : 19
18
Forgotten Past (rehearsal, 1987-09-23)
04 : 26
19
Leprosy (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
06 : 24
20
Open Casket (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 59
21
Zombie Ritual (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 41
22
Pull The Plug (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 21
23
Left To Die (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 41
24
Mutilation (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
03 : 41
25
Forgotten Past (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 36
26
Born Dead (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
03 : 24
27
Denial Of Life (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
03 : 24
28
Primitive Ways (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 22
29
Infernal Death (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA)
04 : 21
30
Leprosy (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
07 : 30
31
Pull The Plug (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
04 : 44
32
Forgotten Past (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
04 : 52
33
Primitive Ways (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
04 : 46
34
Open Casket (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
05 : 09
35
Mutilation (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
04 : 29
36
Infernal Death (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA)
03 : 31
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Track Lyrics
Left to Die Lyrics
[Intro]
No!
[Verse 1]
Put your life into their hands
Die for someone else
Now you're in the real world
Where pain and death are felt
[Pre-Chorus 1]
The first bloodshed does not seem real
Reality is what you feel
Dropping to your knees you pray
God won't make this go away
[Chorus]
You will not return alive
Left to die
Suffering until the end
Left to die
[Bridge]
Time stands still as you pass away
No more tomorrow
This is your last day
On this fucking earth
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
Eah!
Aww!
[Verse 2]
Bodies fall onto the ground
Blood flies through the air
Shredded victims lie in pain
Death is never fair
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Legs blown off, all hope is lost
A human life is what it cost
Others follow close behind
A real adventure they will find
[Chorus]
You will not return alive
Left to die
Suffering until the end
Left to die
[Guitar Solo]
Open Casket Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Approach the image filled with fear
As the image grows so clear
Future now takes full control
The one whose past you now behold
[Pre-Chorus]
Touch the flesh, it is so cold
Turn away, you now have been told
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
[Verse 2]
People come to pay respect
Taking pictures of the dead
This is what life comes to be
Once they lived, now they're deceased
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Death is oh so strange
The past no one can change
What you can't predict
Is how long you'll exist
[Bridge]
Open casket
Open casket
[Verse 3]
Life will never be the same
Death can never be explained
It's their time to go beyond
Empty feeling when they're gone
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
What cannot be real you now believe
Choke on It (rehearsal, 1987-09-23) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Freedom is just a breath away
Will you live to see the day
As the heat intensifies
You start to choke, your insides fry
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Seizure now sets in
Torture will begin
Twisted bodies lie
Waiting now to die
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
[Instrumental Break]
Aww!
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Screaming fills your frenzied mind
No way out no more time
Example made from those to see
Your freedom turned to misery
[Pre-Chorus 2]
World is all around
Of what they have found
Lesson to be learned
You will not return
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Left to Die (rehearsal take 2, 1987-9-23) Lyrics
[Intro]
No!
[Verse 1]
Put your life into their hands
Die for someone else
Now you're in the real world
Where pain and death are felt
[Pre-Chorus 1]
The first bloodshed does not seem real
Reality is what you feel
Dropping to your knees you pray
God won't make this go away
[Chorus]
You will not return alive
Left to die
Suffering until the end
Left to die
[Bridge]
Time stands still as you pass away
No more tomorrow
This is your last day
On this fucking earth
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
Eah!
Aww!
[Verse 2]
Bodies fall onto the ground
Blood flies through the air
Shredded victims lie in pain
Death is never fair
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Legs blown off, all hope is lost
A human life is what it cost
Others follow close behind
A real adventure they will find
[Chorus]
You will not return alive
Left to die
Suffering until the end
Left to die
[Guitar Solo]
Pull the Plug (rehearsal, 1987-12-05) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Memory is all that's left behind
As I lay and wait to die
Little do they know
That I hear their choice of life
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
[Bridge]
Once I had full control of my life
I now behold a machine decides my fate
End it now it's all too late
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
What has now been days, it seems like years
To stay like this is what I fear
Life ends so fast, so take your chance
And make it last
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
Choke on It (rehearsal, 1987-12-05) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Freedom is just a breath away
Will you live to see the day
As the heat intensifies
You start to choke, your insides fry
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Seizure now sets in
Torture will begin
Twisted bodies lie
Waiting now to die
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
[Instrumental Break]
Aww!
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Screaming fills your frenzied mind
No way out no more time
Example made from those to see
Your freedom turned to misery
[Pre-Chorus 2]
World is all around
Of what they have found
Lesson to be learned
You will not return
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Forgotten Past (rehearsal, 1987-09-23) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth, one that cannot hide
Unimaginable gore was your past time high
To hear people scream, to watch them die
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
A place you feel you've been to before
Where life would turn right into gore
You dig deep down through the years of decay
The truth is revealed, you found your way
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
Leprosy (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Intro]
Wahh!
[Verse 1]
Bodies deformed way beyond belief
Cast out from their concerned society
Flesh contorting day after day
Freak of the dark world is what the people say
[Pre-Chorus]
Their lives decay before their eyes
There is no hope of cure
Among their own kind they live
A life that's so obscure
First an arm and then a leg
Deterioration grows
Rotting while they breathe
Death comes slow
[Chorus]
Leprosy will take control
And bring you to your death
No chance of a normal life
To live just like the rest
Leprosy will spread with time
Your body soon to change
Appearance becomes hideous
A sight too much to take
[Bridge]
Tuberculoid the most severe
Decay of the nerves comes fast
Sense of feeling soon to be gone
Life will never last
[Guitar Solo - Rick Rozz]
[Guitar Solo - Chuck Schuldiner]
[Verse 2]
No hope of recovery after the nerves are eaten away
Damage is done you feel no more pain
Bones decay deterioration grows
Origin of this horrid disease nobody knows
[Pre-Chorus]
Their lives decay before their eyes
There is no hope of cure
Among their own kind they live
A life that's so obscure
First an arm and then a leg
Deterioration grows
Rotting while they breathe
Death comes slow
[Chorus]
Leprosy will take control
And bring you to your death
No chance of a normal life
To live just like the rest
Leprosy will spread with time
Your body soon to change
Appearance becomes hideous
A sight too much to take
Open Casket (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Approach the image filled with fear
As the image grows so clear
Future now takes full control
The one whose past you now behold
[Pre-Chorus]
Touch the flesh, it is so cold
Turn away, you now have been told
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
[Verse 2]
People come to pay respect
Taking pictures of the dead
This is what life comes to be
Once they lived, now they're deceased
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Death is oh so strange
The past no one can change
What you can't predict
Is how long you'll exist
[Bridge]
Open casket
Open casket
[Verse 3]
Life will never be the same
Death can never be explained
It's their time to go beyond
Empty feeling when they're gone
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
What cannot be real you now believe
Zombie Ritual (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
[Refrain]
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
[Bridge]
Drink from the goblet
The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug
Now you want more
[Pre-Chorus]
Drifting from the living
Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots
Now infest your head
[Chorus]
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
[Verse 2]
Ceremony now complete
Chosen one is now deceased
Fucking, raping zombie whores
Killing, feasting no remorse
[Refrain]
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
[Bridge]
Drink from the goblet
The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug
Now you want more
[Pre-Chorus]
Drifting from the living
Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots
Now infest your head
[Chorus]
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Pull The Plug (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Memory is all that's left behind
As I lay and wait to die
Little do they know
That I hear their choice of life
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
[Bridge]
Once I had full control of my life
I now behold a machine decides my fate
End it now it's all too late
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
What has now been days, it seems like years
To stay like this is what I fear
Life ends so fast, so take your chance
And make it last
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
Forgotten Past (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth, one that cannot hide
Unimaginable gore was your past time high
To hear people scream, to watch them die
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
A place you feel you've been to before
Where life would turn right into gore
You dig deep down through the years of decay
The truth is revealed, you found your way
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
Born Dead (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Brought to this world to wither away
Naive about the ways of life is what they say
Millions live millions die, more are yet to come
Living skeletons find where they come from
[Chorus]
Born dead into this world
To starve and rot in agony
Born dead into this world
It's their choice, why can't you see
[Post-Chorus]
Wahh!
Life of misery
Soon a corpse you be
As bones show through
Nothing you can do
Ooh-wahh!
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Relief does not exist
When you are born to die
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Disease spreads fast across their dying world
Many cemeteries they will have to build
As process goes on for many years to come
A human waste land created when they are done
[Chorus]
Born dead into this world
To starve and rot in agony
Born dead into this world
It's their choice, why can't you see
Primitive Ways (live, 1988-12-13: Backstreets, Rochester, NY, USA) Lyrics
[Intro]
Oohh
[Verse 1]
Go against the ways and experience pain
Leading a life which one might call insane
Bathe in the blood of the one you killed
Slaughter to survive, your needs are fulfilled
[Pre-Chorus]
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
[Chorus]
Cannibals practicing
The art of butchery
Emotions don't exist
Pain you can't resist
[Post-Chorus]
Primitive ways
[Verse 2]
Conducting ceremonies to meet the ancient ones
While having an outer body experience
Celebrate the kill of the day
Then walk among the guts of the fallen prey
[Pre-Chorus]
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
[Chorus]
Cannibals practicing
The art of butchery
Emotions don't exist
Pain you can't resist
[Guitar Solo]
Pull The Plug (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Memory is all that's left behind
As I lay and wait to die
Little do they know
That I hear their choice of life
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
[Bridge]
Once I had full control of my life
I now behold a machine decides my fate
End it now it's all too late
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
What has now been days, it seems like years
To stay like this is what I fear
Life ends so fast, so take your chance
And make it last
[Pre-Chorus]
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope, why don't you
[Chorus]
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
Forgotten Past (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth, one that cannot hide
Unimaginable gore was your past time high
To hear people scream, to watch them die
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
A place you feel you've been to before
Where life would turn right into gore
You dig deep down through the years of decay
The truth is revealed, you found your way
[Pre-Chorus]
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
[Chorus]
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
Primitive Ways (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Intro]
Oohh
[Verse 1]
Go against the ways and experience pain
Leading a life which one might call insane
Bathe in the blood of the one you killed
Slaughter to survive, your needs are fulfilled
[Pre-Chorus]
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
[Chorus]
Cannibals practicing
The art of butchery
Emotions don't exist
Pain you can't resist
[Post-Chorus]
Primitive ways
[Verse 2]
Conducting ceremonies to meet the ancient ones
While having an outer body experience
Celebrate the kill of the day
Then walk among the guts of the fallen prey
[Pre-Chorus]
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
[Chorus]
Cannibals practicing
The art of butchery
Emotions don't exist
Pain you can't resist
[Guitar Solo]
Open Casket (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Approach the image filled with fear
As the image grows so clear
Future now takes full control
The one whose past you now behold
[Pre-Chorus]
Touch the flesh, it is so cold
Turn away, you now have been told
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
[Verse 2]
People come to pay respect
Taking pictures of the dead
This is what life comes to be
Once they lived, now they're deceased
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Death is oh so strange
The past no one can change
What you can't predict
Is how long you'll exist
[Bridge]
Open casket
Open casket
[Verse 3]
Life will never be the same
Death can never be explained
It's their time to go beyond
Empty feeling when they're gone
[Chorus]
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget what you have seen
What cannot be real you now believe
Mutilation (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Massacred, hacked to death, my revenge
Slicing deep, into your flesh, the pain intense
Dreams of hate, misery, fill my mind
Puke in your face in disgust, it's time to die
[Pre-Chorus]
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
[Chorus]
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation, mutilation, mutilation
[Verse 2]
Staring your severed head in the face
I celebrate a faggot's death, Human disgrace
Hanging your mangled corpse for display
My revenge was fulfilled upon this day
[Pre-Chorus]
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
[Chorus]
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation, mutilation, mutilation
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Interlude]
Whoa!
[Pre-Chorus]
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
[Chorus]
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation, mutilation, mutilation
Infernal Death (live, 1988-12-11: The Dirt Club, Bloomfield, NJ, USA) Lyrics
[Intro]
Die, die, die
[Verse 1]
Piling the bodies
Burn them in the night
Skin grows black and withered
Decayed smell will rise
[Chorus]
Existence fading
Into ashes
Burn those bodies
To Infernal death
[Verse 2]
Human coals are burning
Repulsive yet so true
Open graves are scattered
When the work is through
[Chorus]
Existence fading
Into ashes
Burn those bodies
To Infernal death
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Existence fading
Into ashes
Burn those bodies
To Infernal death