Ride the lightning

 Utgiven 1984

1. Fight Fire With Fire
2. Ride The Lightning
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. Fade To Black
5. Trapped Under Ice
6. Escape
7. Creeping Death
8. The Call Of Ktulu (Instrumental)

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 FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

 Do unto others as they have done unto you
 But what in the hell is this world coming to?
 Blow the universe into nothingness
 Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
    
      Fight fire with fire
      Ending is near
      Fight fire with fire
      Bursting with fear

 We shall die
 Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
 Armageddon is here, like said in the past

      Fight fire with fire
      Ending is near
      Fight fire with fire
      Bursting with fear     

 Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
 The gods are laughing, so take your last breath

      Fight fire with fire
      Ending is near
      Fight fire with fire
      Bursting with fear

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 RIDE THE LIGHTNING

 Guilty as charged
 But damn it, it ain't right
 There is someone else controlling me
 Death in the air
 Strapped in the electric chair
 This can't be happening to me
 Who made you God to say
 I'll take your life from you!

      Flash before my eyes
      Now it's time to die
      Burning in my brain
      I can feel the flames

 Wait for the sign
 To flick the switch of death
 It's the beginning of the end
 Sweat, chilling cold
 As I watch death unfold
 Consciousness my only friend
 My fingers grip with fear
 What I am doing here?

      Flash before my eyes
      Now it's time to die
      Burning in my brain
      I can feel the flames

 Someone help me
 Oh please God help me
 They are trying to take it all away
 I don't want to die
 Time moving slowly
 The minutes seem like hours
 The final curtain call I see
 How true is this?
 Just get it over with
 If this is true, just let it be
 Wakened by the horrid cream
 Freed from the frightening dream

      Flash before my eyes
      Now it's time to die
      Burning in my brain
      I can feel the flames

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 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

 Make his fight on the hill in the early day
 Constant chill deep inside
 Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
 On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
 For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
 Suffered wounds test there their pride
 Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
 Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

      For whom the bell tolls
      Time marches on
      For whom the bell tolls

 Take a look to the sky just before you die
 It is the last time you will
 Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
 Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
 Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
 He hears the silence so loud
 Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
 Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see

      For whom the bell tolls
      Time marches on
      For whom the bell tolls

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 FADE TO BLACK

 Life it seems, will fade away
 Drifting further every day
 Getting lost within myself
 Nothing matters no one else
 I have lost the will to live
 Simply nothing more to give
 There is nothing more for me
 Need the end to set me free
 Things are not what they used to be
 Missing one inside of me
 Deathly lost, this can't be real
 Cannot stand this hell I feel
 Emptiness is filing me
 To the point of agony
 Growing darkness taking dawn
 I was me, but now He's gone

 No one but me can save myself, but it to late
 Now I can't think, think why I should even try

 Yesterday seems as though it never existed
 Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

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 TRAPPED UNDER THE ICE

 Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
 Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
 Break the ice, I can't take anymore

      Freezing
      Can't move at all
      Screaming
      Can't hear my call
      I am dying to live
      Cry out
      I'm trapped under the ice

 Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
 Eyes of glass stare directly at death
 From deep sleep I have broken away
 No one knows, no one hears what I say

      Freezing
      Can't move at all
      Screaming
      Can't hear my call
      I am dying to live
      Cry out
      I'm trapped under the ice

 Scream from my soul
 Fate, mystifiedHell, forever more
 No release from my cryonic state
 What is this? I've been stricken by fate
 Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
 Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

      Freezing
      Can't move at all
      Screaming
      Can't hear my call
      I am dying to live
      Cry out
      I'm trapped under the ice

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 ESCAPE

 Fell no pain, but my life ain't easy
 I know I'm my best friend
 No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
 I'll fight until the end
 To escape from the true false world
 Undamaged destiny
 Can't get caught in the endless circle
 Ring of stupidity

      Out of my own, out to be free
      One with my mind, they just can't see
      No need to hear things that they say
      Life is for my own to live my own way

 Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
 Don't tell my what to do
 I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
 And I can see through you
 Feed my brain with your so called standards
 Who says that I ain't right
 Break away from your common fashion
 See through your blurry sight

      Out of my own, out to be free
      One with my mind, they just can't see
      No need to hear things that they say
      Life is for my own to live my own way

 See they try to bring the hammer down
 No damn chains can hold me to the ground
 Life is for my own to live my own way

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 CREEPING DEATH

 SLAVES
 HEBREWS BORN TO SERVE, TO THE PHARAOH
 HEED
 TO HIS EVERY WORD, LIVE IN FEAR
 FAITH
 OF THE UNKNOWN ONE, THE DELIVERER
 WAIT
 SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS

      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      I'M SENT HERE BY THE CHOSEN ONE
      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      TO KILL THE FIRST BORN PHARAOH SON
      I'M CREEPING DEATH

 NOW
 LET MY PEOPLE GO, LAND OF GOSHEN
 GOI WILL BE WITH THEE, BUSH OF FIRE
 BLOOD
 RUNNING RED AND STRONG, DOWN THE NIL
 PLAGUE
 DARKNESS THREE DAYS LONG, HAIL TO FIRE

      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      I'M SENT HERE BY THE CHOSEN ONE
      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      TO KILL THE FIRST BORN PHARAOH SON
      I'M CREEPING DEATH

 DIE BY MY HAND
 I CREEP ACROSS THE LAND
 KILLING FIRST BORN MAN
 DIE BY MY HAND
 I CREEP ACROSS THE LAND
 KILLING FIRST BORN MAN
 I
 RULE THE MIDNIGHT AIR THE DESTROYER
 BORN
 I SHALL SOON BE THERE, DEADLY MASS
 I
 CREEP THE STEPS AND FLOOD FINAL DARKNESS
 BLOODLAMBS BLOOD PAINTED DOOR, I SHALL PASS

      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      I'M SENT HERE BY THE CHOSEN ONE
      SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
      SO LET IT BE DONE
      TO KILL THE FIRST BORN PHARAOH SON
      I'M CREEPING DEATH

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