The Blackening
Machine Head
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1
Clenching the Fists of Dissent
10 : 36
2
Beautiful Mourning
04 : 46
3
Aesthetics of Hate
06 : 30
4
Now I Lay Thee Down
05 : 34
5
Slanderous
05 : 16
6
Halo
09 : 03
7
Wolves
09 : 01
8
A Farewell to Arms
10 : 12
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Track Lyrics
Clenching the Fists of Dissent Lyrics
[Intro]
Behold, I
Crawl!
War!
[Verse 1]
Do you hear revolution's call?
Time to fight our own denial
Warmongers keep us locked in fear
Invoke the past, a moment of tears
An ugly truth, put forth by our youth
Under the threat of patriotic brute
So use your rage!
It is a weapon, we now must engage
Let trumpets sound our call!
Or by their lies we will fall
[Pre-Chorus]
Gnash down our teeth in hate and sing!
[Chorus]
Sing revolution's song (When they say die!)
Die for America!
[Lead - Flynn]
[Lead - Demmel]
[Refrain 1]
War!
[Verse 2]
They say that freedom isn't free
It's paid with the lives of sons and families
'Cause blood is their new currency
And oil pumps the heart of money
So fight as one, without a fucking gun
Words are the bullets to this revolution
Use your pain!
The battlegrounds, the streets are ablaze
Excess will pave their path!
The winds of change, our bloodbath
[Pre-Chorus]
Gnash down our teeth in hate and sing!
[Chorus]
Sing revolution's song (When they say die!)
Die for America!
[Interlude]
{Spoken lines that are too quiet to make out}
Today, we build this future
[Bridge 1]
Power and prejudice
Actions they use to pit against
Terror, insurgency
Words uses to scare conformity
It's propaganda, it's their hypocrisy
Free to choose our own slavery
All suffer humanity
Fall!
[Lead - Demmel]
[Lead - Flynn]
[Lead - Demmel]
[Lead - Flynn]
[Refrain 2]
Raise your hands
Raise your fists and...
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
[Bridge 2]
So fight for all that you love
Scream, choking with foot upon throat
Blind, scar spangled eyes
Death, no more the truth you will hide
No, no!
[Bridge 3]
So how do they sleep?
While our mothers weep
They're selling our souls
And our blood for oil
[Verse 3]
Our generation can be the fucking one
That overcomes the greed of corrupt nations
Have no shame!
You're not alone in thinking this is fucking insane
Rise up and take your stand!
And curl the fingers of your hand
[Verse 4]
And I don't know what to do
'Cause I don't have the answers
But with every ounce of strength
I'll vow to fight this cancer
Didn't say I want to lead
I just might let you down
Didn't say believe in me
Just hold this common ground
I'm just as lost as you
And probably more confused
So fucking far from perfect
My mind wrecked from abuse
There's something fucking wrong
When war takes sons and daughters
Our lambs misled to slaughter!
[Outro]
War!
Clenching the fists of dissent
Lies!
Clenching the fists of dissent
Fear!
Clenching the fists of dissent
Change!
Clenching to hope!
Wolves Lyrics
[Chorus]
Unleash the wolves
Carnage has no rules
Comparison, competition
We'll bury one and all
[Lead - Demmel]
[Verse 1]
Look in the eyes of rage
A loyalty bred of suffering
The fire inside, it burns eternally; victory!
Look in the eyes of pain
The scars on our souls forever remain
Calling the sheltered of the broken wing; join the fray!
[Pre-Chorus]
Bury our rivals
Shotguns, knives, rifles
A family of the unwanted
Beaten, stunted, dysfunction
A brotherhood that is of violence
And to tyrants, bow to none
[Chorus]
Unleash the wolves
Carnage has no rules
Comparison, competition
We'll bury one and all
[Verse 2]
Look in the eyes of hate
A circle of hell, they come to pray
United against all that come threatening, lay to waste!
Look in the eyes of the free
Bound to each other's longevity
Guarding the back of alpha's dignity, savagely!
[Pre-Chorus]
Bury our rivals
Shotguns, knives, rifles
A family of the unwanted
Beaten, stunted, dysfunction
A brotherhood that is of violence
And to tyrants, bow to none
[Chorus]
Unleash the wolves
Carnage has no rules
Comparison, competition
We'll bury one and all
[Bridge 1]
Come closer, walk with me in hell
Dear rival, fear in you I smell
A fist to face is all fair game now
The pack attacking, the sacrificial
Pray for the prayers
[Interlude]
Reaping the sour seeds of death's bread
In teeth and claw, the scent of the dead
[Bridge 1]
Come closer, walk with me in hell
Dear rival, fear in you I smell
A fist to face is all fair game now
The pack attacking, the sacrificial
Pray for the prayers
[Verse 3]
Spreading our population far across the land
Loving to fornicate, respecting the command
Rally the warriors and tally the score
In every victory is solace, but there's...
[Bridge 2]
No satisfaction!
No satisfaction!
There is no satisfaction!
There is no satisfaction!
And there never will be!
[Lead - Flynn]
[Lead - Demmel]
[Lead - Flynn]
[Lead - Demmel]
[Pre-Chorus]
Bury our rivals
Shotguns, knives, rifles
A family of the unwanted
Beaten, stunted, dysfunction
A brotherhood that is of violence
And to tyrants, bow to none
A family of the unwanted
Beaten, stunted, dysfunction
A brotherhood that is of violence
And to tyrants, bow to none
[Chorus]
Unleash the wolves
Carnage has no rules
Comparison, competition
We'll bury one and all
[Outro]
Unleash the wolves
Carnage has no rules now
The night will fall!
Beware the call!
Dominate all!
A Farewell to Arms Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Can you hear their cries?
Nowhere can the children run to hide
Crimson rivers
Flow down hills
Atone our ills
And woe to all her songs of love
[Refrain]
A farewell to arms
[Verse 2]
Mutilated lives
Blackening as coffin line the sides
Filled with fathers
Who has won?
When only sons
Hold their grieving heads and mourn
[Refrain]
A farewell to arms
[Verse 3]
Always our souls entwine
Erase this vast divide
Deaf ears, our voices rest
Tyrant, this is protest
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Who has won?
Yes, who has won?
[Chorus]
I'll wave this flag of white
So the venged see the light
We'll pay for closed eyes
With our genocide
[Verse 4]
Piercing the masquerade
March to the death parade
Trade not humanity
For pearls of our slavery
[Bridge 1]
In the depth of mind
The heart will find
The truth of our leader
We'll try the facts
So through the cracks
May fall the lying cheater
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Who has won when
We're all dead?
[Chorus]
I'll wave this flag of white
So the venged see the light
We'll pay for closed eyes
With our genocide
[Bridge 2]
So is this how we live?
Or is this how we die?
[Verse 5]
Black blood dripping from platinum fangs
Rich blood flees while our poverty hangs
[Verse 6]
Shepherds, they herd the mindless trance
As the flock follows the puppet's dance
In a fatal romance!
[Lead - Demmel]
[Verse 7]
All that they needed was a pretext, war's next
Heads to the chopping blocks and our necks are next
For those who died, who fought for our rights
Whose children now slaves, they're turning in their graves
[Verse 8]
War hawks and senators, they sit tight, so trite
Never their sons will know what it's like to fight
Soldiers are dead, and children have bled
And the silence is numb, what have we become?
[Bridge 3]
What have we become?!
What have we become?!
What have we become?!
God save us!
[Outro]
A farewell to arms