the number of the beast

 INVADERS (Harris)

 Longboats have been sighted the evidence of war has begun

 Many Nordic fighting men their swords and shields all gleam in the sun

 Call to arms defend yourselves get ready to stand and fight for your lives

 Judgement day has come around so be prepared don't run stand your ground

 They're coming in from the sea

 they've come the enemy

 beneath the blazing sun

 the battle has to be won

 Invaders ... Pillaging

 Invaders ... Looting

 Set ablaze the campfires alert the other men from inland

 Warning must be given there's not enough men here for a stand

 The Vikings are too many too powerful to take on our own

 We must have reinforcements we cannot fight this battle alone

 They're coming over the hill

 they've come to attack

 they're coming in for the kill

 there's no turning back

 Invaders ... Fighting

 Invaders ... Marauding

 Axes grind and maces clash as wounded fighters fall to the ground

 Severed limbs and fatal woundings bloody corpses lay all around

 The smell of death and burning flesh the battle weary fight to the end

 The Saxons have been overpowered victims of the mighty Norsemen

 You'd better scatter and run

 the battle's lost and not won

 you'd better get away

 Invaders ... Raping

 Invaders ... Plundering

CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (Harris)

 He's walking like a small child

 But watch his eyes burn you away

 Black holes in his golden stare

 God knows he wants to go home

 Children of The Damned

 (repeat another 3 times)

 He's walking like a dead man

 If he had lived he would have crucified us all

 Now he's standing on the last step

 He thought oblivion well it beckons us all

 Children of The Damned

 (repeat another 3 times)

 Now it burns his hand he's turning to laugh

 Smiles as the flame sears his flesh

 Melting his face screaming in pain

 Peeling the skin from his eyes

 Watch him die according to plan

 He's dust on the ground what did we learn

 You're Children of The Damned

 Your back's against the wall

 You turn into the light

 You're Children of The Damned

 Like candles watch them burn

 Burning in the light

 You'll burn again tonight

 You're Children of The Damned

THE PRISONER (Harris/Smith)

 On the run kill to eat

 You're starving now you're dead on your feet

 Going all the way nature's beast

 Do what I want as I please

 Run fight to breathe it's tough

 Now you see me now you don't

 Break the walls I'm coming out

 Not a prisoner I'm a free man

 And my blood is my own now

 Don't care where the past was

 I know where I'm going ... out

 If you kill me it's self defence

 If I kill you then I call it vengeance

 Spit in your eye I will defy

 You'll be afraid when I call out your name

 I'm not a number I'm a free man

 I'll live my life how I want to

 You'd better scratch me from your black book

 Cos I'll run rings round you

 22 ACACIA AVENUE (Harris/Smith)

 If you're feeling down depressed and lonely

 I know a place where we can go

 22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know

 So if you're looking for a good time

 And you're prepared to pay the price

 Fifteen quid is all she asks for

 Everybody's got their vice

If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece

 You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free

 So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go

 You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know

 Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness

 Can't you see it only brings you sadness

 When you entertain your men don't know the risk of getting disease

 Some day when you're reaching the age of forty

 I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying

 Nobody then will want to know

 You won't have any beautiful wares to show any more

 22, the avenue that's the place where we all go

 You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight

 Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life

 Don't you ever think about the bad times

 Why do you have to live this way

 Do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay

 Sometimes when your strolling down the avenue

 The way you walk it make men think of having you

 When you're walking down the street

 Everybody stops and turns to stare at you

 Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please

 Bite her excite her make her get down on her knees

 Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got

 Caress her molest her she always does what you want

 You're running away don't you know what you're doing

 Can't you see it'll lead you to ruin

 Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away

 You believe that because what you're earning

 Your life's good don't you know that you're hurting

 All the people that love you don't cast them aside

 All the men that are constantly drooling

 It's no life for you stop all that screwing

 You're packing your bags and you're coming with me

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (Harris)

 "Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast

 with wrath, because he knows the time is short...

 Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast

 for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty six."

 (Revelations ch. xiii v. 18)

 I left alone my mind was blank

 I needed time to get the memories from my mind

 What did I see can I believe that what I saw

 that night was real and not just fantasy

 Just what I saw in my old dreams were they

 reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

 Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind

 and brings me to despair

 The night was black was no use holding back

 Cos I just had to see was someone watching me

 In the mist dark figures move and twist

 was all this for real or some kind of hell

 666 the Number of the Beast

 Hell and fire was spawned to be released

 Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised

 as they start to cry hands held to the sky

 In the night the fires burning bright

 the ritual has begun Satan's work is done

 666 the Number of the Beast

 Sacrifice is going on tonight

 This can't go on I must inform the law

 Can this still be real or some crazy dream

 but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes

 they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes

 666 the Number of the Beast

 666 the one for you and me

 I'm coming back I will return

 And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn

 I have the fire I have the force

 I have the power to make my evil take its course

RUN TO THE HILLS (Harris)

 White man came across the sea

 Brought us pain and misery

 Killed our tribes killed our creed

 Took our game for his own need

 We fought him hard we fought him well

 Out on the plains we gave him hell

 But many came too much for Cree

 Oh will we ever be set free?

 Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes

 Galloping hard on the plains

 Chasing the redskins back to their holes

 Fighting them at their own game

 Murder for freedom a stab in the back

 Women and children and cowards attack

 Run to the hills run for your lives

 Run to the hills run for your lives

 Soldier blue on the barren wastes

 Hunting and killing their game

 Raping the women and wasting the men

 The only good Indians are tame

 Selling them whisky and taking their gold

 Enslaving the young and destroying the old

 Run to the hills run for your lives

 ( Repeat to end)

GANGLAND (Smith/Burr)

 Shadows may hide you but also may be your grave

 You're running today maybe tomorrow you'll be saved

 You pray for daylight to save you for a while

 You wonder if your children will face the killer's smile

 Dead men -- tell no tales

 In Gangland -- murder's up for sale

 Dead men -- tell no tales

 In Gangland -- where jail birds die

 Face at the window leers into your own

 But it's only your reflection still you tremble in your bones

 How long can you hide? How long till they come?

 A rat in a trap but you've got to survive

 Once you were glad to be free for a while

 The air tasted good and the world was your friend

 Then came the day when the hard times began

 Now your alone but alive for how long?

 A knife at your throat another body on the pile

 A contract to keep and it's service with a smile

 Murder for vengeance or murder for gain

 Death on the streets or a blackened out jail

 Dead men -- tell no tales

 In Gangland -- murder's up for sale

 Dead men -- tell no tales

 In Gangland -- where jail birds die

In Gangland you tell no tales

HALLOWED BE THY NAME (Harris)

 I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime

 Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time

 Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

 The sands of time for me are running low

 When the priest comes to read me the last rites

 I take a look through the bars at the last sights

 Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

 Can it be there's some sort of error

 Hard to stop the surmounting terror

 Is it really the end not some crazy dream

 Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming

 It's not so easy to stop from screaming

 But words escape me when I try to speak

 Tears they flow but why am I crying

 After all I am not afraid of dying

 Don't believe that there is never an end

 As the guards march me out to the courtyard

 omeone calls from a cell "God be with you"

 If there's a God then why has he let me die?

 As I walk all my life drifts before me

 And though the end is near I'm not sorry

 Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

 Mark my words please believe my soul lives on

 Please don't worry now that I have gone

 I've gone beyond to see the truth

 When you know that your time is close at hand

 maybe then you'll begin to understand

 Life down there is just a strange illusion.

TOTAL ECLIPSE (Harris)

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