The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
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1
Call to Arms
01 : 33
2
Riot Act
03 : 37
3
Funeral Hymn
08 : 37
4
Children of a Worthless God
08 : 24
5
As It Was, as It Soon Shall Be
05 : 15
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The Atrocity Exhibition
10 : 33
7
Iconoclasm
07 : 54
8
The Garden of Bleeding
05 : 49
9
Bedlam 1-2-3
07 : 59
10
Bonded by Banjo
01 : 43
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Track Lyrics
Riot Act Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Rise up and revolt, overthrow the government
Level all the temples, destroy the monuments
Return to anarchy, defy the Christian law
Prepare for mutiny, prepare for coup d'état
[Chorus]
So begins our final riot act
Now that you're in, there'll be no turning back
Smash everything, wreck it all with pride
The power of our revolution won't ever be denied
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Reduce the halls of power to ruin and to ash
An end to Christianity, an end to holy mass
The dawn of an iron age, return to pagan law
Lex Talionis, we rule by fang and claw
[Chorus]
So begins our final riot act
Now that you're in, there'll be no turning back
Smash everything, wreck it all with pride
The power of our revolution won't ever be denied
[Outro]
Won't ever be denied
Won't ever be denied
Won't ever be denied
As It Was, as It Soon Shall Be Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We didn't pay attention to lessons learned in the past
Soon the sands in the desert will melt from the atomic blast
Mesopotamia's ground zero for the coming of world war
Thousands die in the sand but I still don't understand what for
[Chorus]
As it was, as it soon shall be
We're teetering on the brink of a World War Three
A repetition of history as you soon shall see
As it was, as it soon shall be
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
War mongering leader of ours waves the flag of democracy
Sending our men out to die in the name of bureaucracy
The oil fields of Iraq are overflowing with blood
Another man dies but the lies rain down like a flood
[Chorus]
As it was, as it soon shall be
We're teetering on the brink of a World War Three
A repetition of history as you soon shall see
As it was, as it soon shall be
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
No weapons of mass destruction, no threat to me
Just one man's agenda for war, not a land of the free
I never gave a shit about the Middle East
But now we lie in the bed that we've made, start the atomic feast
[Chorus]
As it was, as it soon shall be
We're teetering on the brink of a World War Three
A repetition of history as you soon shall see
As it was, as it soon shall be
[Outro]
As it was, as it soon shall be
As it was, as it soon shall be
As it was, as it soon shall be
As it was, as it soon shall be
The Atrocity Exhibition Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The glorious frailty of the human mind
Leads us to deceive the mother of mankind
Nature is our master, we serve her through our deeds
She teaches us that only death is guaranteed
If there was a Hell, there must I ever be
Eternal life in Heaven is but a fallacy
So if death is nothing, but a path to be trod
Walk with me and let me introduce you to your God
[Chorus 1]
Come see an exhibition of atrocity
An ocean of eternity
One in which the shore you'll never see
And your God of make believe
[Verse 2]
You speak to the sky and no one answers back
And yet you wager the word of God is fact
The horrors we imagine in vivid clarity
Become a spectacle, your God's atrocities
A mirror image, reflection of your soul
Just nature's play, all her children have a role
God's an actor, the world nature's stage
Our fates are scripted like so many letters on a page
[Chorus 2]
A composition of atrocity
The story of Christianity
A fairy tale of tyranny
Recipe for catastrophe
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Man's inclination is to bend those who oppose to our will
Does your great creator think the good are better made by ills?
Dream after dream, time after time, he who conquers, endures
The grand design of the mother, we the disease and her the cure
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Unsatisfied longing for the slaughter
The mother often slays her sons and her daughters
Death is but and undress of skin and of bone
When you return to her, no sins to atone
The ending is the same for the vile and devout
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mind hatch out
[Outro]
She has predetermined our end
Nothing more she will portend