Burn My Eyes

[Intro]

1994

Corruption, racism, hate

The church has failed

If Jesus came down

He'd be shot

[Verse 1]

I am the man that defends all things profane

6,000 years is the time that I shall reign

And with a grin, drank the blood of holy swine

Impurity made the blood turn into wine

[Chorus]

Old man

Dead hand

If only in their insanity

The lie feeds off their greed

Jesus wept

[Verse 2]

I am the pain that feeds off your weaknesses

A sickening born of hate, not of the blessed

And with that time, I will crush all things you prey

Destroying all from the known to the arcane

[Chorus]

Old man

Dead hand

If only in their insanity

The lie feeds off their greed

Jesus wept

[Bridge]

Burn my eyes and try to blind me

Bury me so they won't find me

Try to suck my power empty

Got no crown of thorns on me

So burn my eyes and try to blind me

Bury me so they won't find me

Try to suck my power empty

You got no crown of thorns on me

So burn my eyes and try to blind

Bury me so they won't find

Try to suck my power dry

You got no crown of thorns on me!

Me!

[Chorus]

Old man

Dead hand

If only in their insanity

The lie feeds off their greed

Jesus wept

[Verse 1]

I am only nothing, I am only this

I am just a man with these two fists

You have asked forgiveness, you have asked respect

Only something that you did forget

[Chorus 1]

All you gave, you had planned to take

Beat upon me, but I won't break

Stripping everything from me? No!

[Refrain]

Burn!

[Verse 2]

Will to me your anger, will to me your rage

Will to me your lies, your sufferings

Not a man of virtue, not even a man

Will not take the hate dealt from your hands

[Chorus 2]

Years of pain, I will take and hone

Manifest with your broken bones

My heart beats for none but my own

My own!

[Refrain]

Burn!

Burn!

[Lead - Mader]

[Lead - Flynn]

[Verse 3]

I am only nothing, I am only this

I am just a man with these two fists

You're not a man of virtue, not even a man

Will not take the hate dealt from your hands

[Chorus 2]

Years of pain, I will take and hone

Manifest with your broken bones

My heart beats for none but my own

My own!

Motherfucker!

[Refrain]

Burn!

Burn!

[Outro]

My heart beats for none but my own

My heart beats for none but my own

[Intro]

"Is it a conspiracy that the music is telling the youth to rise up against the establishment because the establishment is rapidly destroying things? Is that a conspiracy? The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. . . It is not my conspiracy. It is not my music. I hear what it relates. It says "Rise," it says "Kill." Why blame it on me? I didn't write the music. . . ."

[Verse 1]

Well, I look at justice in a different light

I've been to jail, it didn't make me right

Try and conform, but won't be deaf, blind, dumb

Been beaten down, just harder I've become

[Chorus]

Death, death church rising

Hate, hate church rising

Lost, lost church rising

Death, death church rising

[Verse 2]

Hey Jesus, can you help me with my pain?

Mainline me some religion, keep me sane

Christ suffering upon my TV screen

Send in your money to the faith obscene

[Chorus]

Death, death church rising

Hate, hate church rising

Lost, lost church rising

Death, death church rising

[Lead - Flynn]

[Lead - Mader]

[Verse 3]

Strength, truth and honor, words I strive to live

Your faith's profane, it takes, never gives

'Cause I'm gonna die standing upon my feet

You're gonna die groveling on your knees

[Chorus]

Death, death church rising

Hate, hate church rising

Lost, lost church rising

Death, death church rising

[Verse 1]

Well, I see, I feel, on my way

You close your eyes, scared to think what you might see

A world that spends more to kill than to cure

Living, writhing, diseased, so unpure

[Pre-Chorus 1]

It hardens me, the things I see

But I won't break, it gives me strength

That's right!

[Chorus]

Our suffering won't always be!

We'll dominate; this nation on fire!

[Verse 2]

The media, it blinds our eyes

A people, divided and force fed lies

The black and white societies corrode

Warring, hating, blind, a rage explodes

[Pre-Chorus 2]

So take my hand, across this land

I won't go down, stand my ground

Yeah, that's right!

[Chorus]

Our suffering won't always be!

We'll dominate; this nation on fire!

Go!

[Bridge 1]

This nation's built on fighting war after war

And for my brothers, I will fight and stand for

'Cause I won't break, your truth is fake

If blood ran red, you'd leave me for dead

[Refrain]

A nation on fire!

A nation on fire!

[Bridge 2]

You tell me peace; well, I hear gunshots all night

The scars I have I've earned, 'cause I've had to fight

An endless pain, and it won't change

We just sat by and watched this world die

[Refrain]

A nation on fire!

A nation on fire!

[Intro]

One, two, three, four, go!

[Verse 1]

I bite the hand 'cause this hand feeds off me

Devoid of emotion, it lives to cheat

Ignorance is bliss, and respect I gave you

Friend, you did claim this; too bad you can't speak the truth

[Refrain]

(Give respect!)

'Cause the rule is

(Blood for blood!)

[Verse 2]

Beatings are what you'll inherit this time

Fist bait, your new name, your pain is my shrine

Pulverize and break, determination

Pleasure I negate, your pain brings me salvation

[Refrain]

(Give respect!)

'Cause the rule is

(Blood for blood!)

[Bridge]

I was born of tension

Anger came from frustration

I can't back down from aggression

Some hard knocks taught me this lesson

[Lead - Mader]

[Lead - Flynn]

[Refrain]

(Give respect!)

'Cause the rule is

(Blood for blood!)

(Give respect!)

'Cause the rule is

(Blood for blood!)

[Verse 1]

So pain told you to take her

Well, I learned to accept that feeling

'Cause I found how to numb it

If only for just a short while

I'd get so high, I'd forget my name

I scarred my fists, I scarred my brain

I think that I'm going insane

I think that I'm going insane

[Chorus 1]

So drink up, so shoot in

Why must this feeling end?

I crawled in my narcotic shell

Was crucified in my own hell

A gutter's where I found myself

Amongst the waste I chose to dwell

I chose to dwell

[Lead - Flynn]

[Verse 2]

So now I'm in your system

And I'm what helps you numb your pain

With time you will confide in me

So lonely, my friend, I've made you lose control

You'll use me more and more with time

Our friendship grows with each mainline

So glad that you could be so blind

So glad that you could be so blind

[Chorus 2]

So drink up, so shoot in

'Cause I'll make this feeling end

I built you this narcotic shell

I crucified you in your hell

Your life not yours, you're just my slave

I am your messiah of pain

And time has come to

Time has come to, time has come to

There's no time to

Pray!

Pray!

[Lead - Mader]

[Lead - Flynn]

[Outro]

'Cause I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

'Cause I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

'Cause I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

I'm your God now (I'm your God now)

I'm your God now!

Now

[Various Samples and Instrumental Music]

"The largest ever uprising in recent U.S. history"

(Inaudible)

"Police stand by as looters take what they want"

"Police brutality is on the rise"

(Inaudible)

"The national guard has been employed to establish control throughout L.A. as looting and mayhem continues"

"I support an initiative that will put 100,000 police officers on the streets of America"

"America has to go through some kind of radical change"

(Inaudible)

"He is the devil, a Caucasian white man"

(Inaudible)

"Our own nation where we can promote white culture, white ideals, white attitudes and now we're gonna take it"

"What I wanna see is the destruction of the whole white race"

"You got scum, you got white scum, you also got Spanish scum too, but most of all, you got nigga scum"

"Then why do you have to go after them or why do they have to go after you?"

"Because we're different gangs we don't like each other"

(Inaudible)

"How they gonna put the gun away if our brother got shot, you know?"

"America has to go through some kind of radical change"

[Verse]

Why!

Real eyes!

Realize!

Real lies!

Lies!

[Various Samples and Instrumental Music]

"Some black people being robbed, not every black robs and steals"

(Inaudible)

"Doesn't matter, spic, black, white or anything"

"There's a new uprising in police brutality"

(Inaudible)

"I'm trying to get mine"

"You gotta know yourself, and you gotta know the image"

(Inaudible)

"America has to go through some kind of radical change"

[Refrain 1]

Block!

Block!

Block!

[Verse 1]

Hate breeds hate, my eyes they have seen

The decimation of all that is pure, pure

A system that feeds their machine with

The blood, sweat and money of the poor, poor

Corruption gets rich, honesty just exists

'Cause nobody cares anymore, anymore

[Refrain 2]

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!

[Refrain 1]

Block!

Block!

Block!

[Verse 2]

White attack black, black attack back

The fucking media keeps us all blind, blind

Children on crack, junkies on smack

You wanna close your eyes to hide, hide

Pollution so dense, sickening existence

New world order, new world decline, decline

[Refrain 2]

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!

[Refrain 3]

The more intense the sense of ignorance

The more intense then is the pain

The more intense the sense of ignorance

The more intense then is the pain

The more intense the sense of ignorance

The more intense then is the pain

[Refrain 1]

Block!

Block!

Block!

[Verse 3]

Hate breeds hate, my eyes they have seen

The decimation of all that is pure, pure

A system that feeds their machine with

The blood, sweat and money of the poor, poor

Believe in something if it stops your suffering

'Cause all we have is nothing, nothing

[Refrain 2]

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!

[Refrain 3]

The more intense the sense of ignorance

The more intense then is the pain

The more intense the sense of ignorance

The more intense then is the pain

[Refrain 2]

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!

Fuck it all!