Master of puppets  

 Utgiven 1986

1. Battery
2. Master Of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion (Instrumental)
8. Damage Inc

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 BATTERY

 Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
 Weak are ripped and torn away
 Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
 Battery is here to stay

      Smashing through the boundaries
      lunacy has found me
      cannot stop the Battery
      Pounding out aggression
      turns into obsession
      cannot kill the Battery
      Cannot kill the family
      Battery is found in me
      Battery
 
 Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
 never ending potency
 Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
 Breeding on insanity

      Smashing through the boundaries
      lunacy has found me
      cannot stop the Battery
      Pounding out aggression
      turns into obsession
      cannot kill the Battery
      Cannot kill the family
      Battery is found in me
      Battery

 Circle of Destruction, Hammer comes crushing
 Powerhouse of energy
 Whipping up a fury, Dominating flurry
 We create the Battery

      Smashing through the boundaries
      lunacy has found me
      cannot stop the Battery
      Pounding out aggression
      turns into obsession
      cannot kill the Battery
      Cannot kill the family
      Battery is found in me
      Battery

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 MASTER OF PUPPETS

 End of passion play, crumbling away
 I'm your source of self-destruction
 Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
 Leading on your deaths construction

      Taste me you will see
      more is all you need
      you're dedicated to
      how I'm killing you

      Come crawling faster
      obey your Master
      your life burns faster
      obey your Master
      Master

      Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
      twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
      Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master
 
 Needlework the way, never you betray
 life of death becoming clearer
 Pain monopoly, ritual misery
 chop your breakfast on a mirror


      Taste me you will see
      more is all you need
      you're dedicated to
      how I'm killing you

      Come crawling faster
      obey your Master
      your life burns faster
      obey your Master
      Master

      Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
      twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
      Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master

 Master, Master, Where's the dreams that I've been after?
 Master, Master, You promised only lies
 Laughter, Laughter, All I hear and see is laughter
 Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries

 Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
 just a rhyme without a reason
 Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
 now your life is out of season


      Taste me you will see
      more is all you need
      you're dedicated to
      how I'm killing you

      Come crawling faster
      obey your Master
      your life burns faster
      obey your Master
      Master

      Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
      twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
      Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master
      Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
      Master
      Master

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 THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE

 Messenger of Fear in sight
 Dark deception kills the light

 Hybrid children watch the sea
 Pray for Father, roaming free

      fearless Wretch
      insanity
      He watches
      lurking beneath the sea
      great Old One
      forbidden site
      He searches
      Hunter of the Shadows is rising
      immortal
      in madness You dwell

 Crawling Chaos, underground
 cult has summoned, twisted sound

 Out from ruins once possessed
 fallen city, living death

      fearless Wretch
      insanity
      He watches
      lurking beneath the sea
      timeless sleep
      has been upset
      He awakens
      Hunter of the Shadows is rising
      immortal
      in madness You dwell

 Not dead which eternal lie
 stranger eons Death may die

 drain you of your sanity
 face The Thing That Should Not Be

      fearless Wretch
      insanity
      He watches
      lurking beneath the sea
      great Old One
      forbidden site
      He searches
      Hunter of the Shadows is rising
      immortal
      in madness You dwell

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 WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM)

 Welcome to where time stands still
 no one leaves and no one will
 Moon is full, never seems to change
 just labeled mentally deranged
 Dream the same thing every night
 I see our freedom in my sight
 No locked doors, No windows barred
 No things to make my brain seem scarred

 Sleep my friend and you will see
 that dream is my reality
 They keep me locked up in this cage
 can't they see it's why my brain says Rage

      Sanitarium, leave me be
      Sanitarium, just leave me alone

 Build my fear of what's out there
 and cannot breathe the open air
 Whisper things into my brain
 assuring me that I'm insane
 They think our heads are in their hands
 but violent use brings violent plans
 Keep him tied, it makes him well
 he's getting better, can't you tell?

 No more can they keep us in
 Listen, damn it, we will win
 They see it right, they see it well
 but they think this saves us from our Hell

      Sanitarium, leave me be
      Sanitarium, just leave me alone
      Sanitarium, just leave me alone

 Fear of living on
 natives getting restless now
 Mutiny in the air
 got some death to do
 Mirror stares back hard
 Kill, it's such a friendly word
 seems the only way
 for reaching out again

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 DISPOSABLE HEROES

 Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
 No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
 running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
 Victim of what said should be
 a servant `til I fall

      Soldier boy, made of clay
      now an empty shell
      twenty one, only son
      but he served us well
      Bred to kill, not to care
      just do as we say
      finished here, Greeting Death
      he's yours to take away

      Back to the front
      you will do what I say, when I say
      Back to the front
      you will die when I say, you must die
      Back to the front
      you coward
      you servant
      you blindman

 Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
 sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
 More a man, more stripes you bare, glory seeker trends
 bodies fill the fields I see
 the slaughter never ends

      Soldier boy, made of clay
      now an empty shell
      twenty one, only son
      but he served us well
      Bred to kill, not to care
      just do as we say
      finished here, Greeting Death
      he's yours to take away

      Back to the front
      you will do what I say, when I say
      Back to the front
      you will die when I say, you must die
      Back to the front
      you coward
      you servant
      you blindman

 Why, Am I dying?
 Kill, have no fear
 Lie, live off lying
 Hell, Hell is here

 I was born for dying

 Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
 had no chance to see myself, molded day by day
 Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
 left to die with only friend
 Alone I clench my gun

      Soldier boy, made of clay
      now an empty shell
      twenty one, only son
      but he served us well
      Bred to kill, not to care
      just do as we say
      finished here, Greeting Death
      he's yours to take away

      Back to the front
      you will do what I say, when I say
      Back to the front
      you will die when I say, you must die
      Back to the front
      you coward
      you servant
      you blindman

 Back to the front

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 LEPER MESSIAH

 Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
 circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
 Please, please
 spreading his disease, living by his story
 Knees, knees
 falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
 You will

      Time for lust, time for lie
      time to kiss your life goodbye
      Send me money, send me green
      Heaven you will meet
      Make a contribution
      and you'll get a better seat

      Bow to Leper Messiah

 Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
 blind devotion came, rotting your brain
 Chain, chain
 Join the endless chain
 Fame, Fame
 Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
 We see

      Time for lust, time for lie
      time to kiss your life goodbye
      Send me money, send me green
      Heaven you will meet
      Make a contribution
      and you'll get a better seat

      Bow to Leper Messiah
 
 Witchery, weakening
 Sees the sheep are gathering
 set the trap, hypnotize
 now you follow

      Time for lust, time for lie
      time to kiss your life goodbye
      Send me money, send me green
      Heaven you will meet
      Make a contribution
      and you'll get a better seat

      Lie.

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 DAMAGE INC

 Dealing out the agony within
 charging hard and no one's gonna give in
 Living on your knees, conformity
 or dying on your feet for honesty
 Inbred, our bodies work as one
 bloody, but never cry submission
 Following our instinct not a trend
 go against the grain until the end

      Blood will follow blood
      Dying time is here
      Damage Incorporated
 
 Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
 stepping out?  You'll feel our hell on your back
 Blood follows blood and we make sure
 life ain't for you and we're the cure
 Honesty is my only excuse
 Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
 Steamroller action crushing all
 Victim is your name and you shall fall

      Blood will follow blood
      Dying time is here
      Damage Incorporated

 We chew and spit you out
 we laugh, you scream and shout
 All flee, with fear you run
 You'll know just where we come from
  
      Damage Incorporated

 Damage jackals ripping right through you
 sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
 Know just how to get just what we want
 tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
 Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
 Never happy ending on these dark sets
 All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
 step a little closer if you please

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