Letras de Anthrax

[helldanger1]

Snap/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Anthrax

(Written by Brecht)
Originally performed by D.R.I.

No, there are no easy answers
To sum up the problems which we face
History's a lesson, let us learn by our mistakes
Just don't expect to make sense
Out of what you see
For I can tell you now that
Knowing is believing

So if you open your mind you might understand
You're the victim of a big time government scam
And though you may not be inclined to believe
The man behind the desk does get paid to deceive
You live in your little dream world
You're much too cool to care
I really have to warn you
I think it's only fair

They await the final hour
As happy as they are sick
Laughing so hysterically
At all those who they've tricked

Who an I to tell you who to believe in
When all the masks they seem so damn deceiving?
How can I say to you, "You be free"
That would never bring about mass anarchy
Now, would it?

From sun up to sun down
Decisions make my head spin round
Make me drunk, sick and tired
Keep me up 'til I retire
And while I could be out barhopping
Meat market, rocker chick shopping
Out there, chasing my dick
In it's never ending search for chicks

But, I'd rather be sleeping
In my bed, crashed out
A slice of death, wrapped up
All in wool, passed out
Drunk, you stupid fool

In my bed, crashed out
A slice of death, wrapped up
All in wool, passed out
Drunk, you stupid fool

No more waking hassles
Weary of the daily battles
So on my bed, I lay curled
No more waking hassles
Weary of the daily battles
So on my bed, I lay curled
A "could be" man of the world

But, I'd rather be sleeping
In my bed, crashed out
A slice of death, wrapped up
All in wool, passed out
Drunk, you stupid fool

In my bed, crashed out
A slice of death, wrapped up
All in wool, passed out
Drunk, you stupid fool

 

[helldanger1]

Snap
Anthrax

Volume 8 B-side / Inside Out Japanese single

No, there are no easy answers
To sum up the problems which we face
History's a lesson, let us learn by our mistakes
Just don't expect to make sense
Out of all you see
For I can tell you now that
Knowing is believing

So if you'd open your mind you might understand
You're the vistim of a big time government scam
And though you may not be inclined to believe
The man behind the desk does get paid to deceive

You live in your little dream world
You're much too cool to care
I really have to warn you
I think it's only fair
They await the final hour
As happy as they are sick
Laughing so hysterically
At all of those who they've tricked

But then who am I to tell you who to believe in
When all the masks they seem so damn deceiving?
How can I say to you "You be free!"
That would never bring about mass anarchy
Now, would it?!?

 

[helldanger1]

She
Anthrax

She walks by moonlight
Noone really knows
Encanted starlight
Never goin home

I know shes goin down knowin
Everybody knows
Shes so good

Doin well for others
She dosent really know
The powers are within her
As she takes off her cothes

I know shes goin down knowin
Everybody knows
Shes so good

Doin well for others
She dosent really know
The powers are within her
As she takes off her cothes

I know shes goin down knowin
Everybody knows
Shes so good

 

[helldanger1]

Sects
Anthrax

Attack of the Killer B's / Penikufesin

Acting like Mo Jo's
Acting like body bagger's
Let the bells ring
Rejoice and sing

CHORUS

Jim Jones, where did you come from
Jim Jones, was it for fun
Jim Jones, that's your name
Style of death

This sects the promised land
Are you ready to all meet God?
Bart's killers holding hands
Do not fight - the odds
Try to make'em sick - drink up
Be merry and be dead

CHORUS

Jim Jones, where did you come from
Jim Jones, Was it for fun
Jim Jones, That's your name
Jim Jones, Die for fame

Murder, Murder, Murder
The Zero
Hero

Some of them might get sex
Together with that boring joke
Mercenaries disciples with bibles and rifles
In temple of people
To the book of people
No poster hanging high

And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why

And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why
And I do, but I don't ask why

Ha,ha,ha,ha
Oh lord
You die!

 

[helldanger1]

Schism
Anthrax

Don't look at me as a white man
I'm just a man
Don't look at me as a black man
I'm just a man
It takes a man to deal with ignorance
Prove that you can
Like having to climb a barbwire fence

Can ya tell me how it feels to be hated?
Can ya tell me how it feels to be loved?
Can you show me what it
means to be respected?
Or is the answer none of the above?

It's so easy to hate your brother
It should be hard
It's so easy to hate your friends
Why ain't it hard?
Love and hate come in the deck together
Play your card
Love or hate can rule your life forever

Can ya tell me how it feels to be hated?
Can ya tell me how it feels to be loved?
Can you show me what it
means to be respected?
Or is the answer none of the above?

Hating, fighting, lying, and I can't take...
Bitching, screwing, crying, and I just hate...
Taking, cheating, spying, and I can't take...
Hating, fighting, dissing, fighting, fighting,
Fighting...
And I can't take no...
SCHISM!
Schism, SK, SK, SK, SCHISM
A house divided can't stand
Prejudice is un-natural thought
When we were kids
It's not inherited, it's taught
When we were kids
If we were blind and had no choice
Differences hid
Would we hate each other by the
tone of our voice?

Can ya tell me how it feels to be hated?
Can ya tell me how it feels to be loved?
Can you show me what it
means to be respected?
Or is the answer none of the above?

Hating, fighting, lying, and I can't take...
Bitching, screwing, crying, and I just hate...
Taking, cheating, spying, and I can't take...
Hating, fighting, dissing, fighting, fighting,
Fighting...
And I can't take no...
SCHISM!

[CHORUS]

 

[helldanger1]

Safe Home
Anthrax

I've been down this road once or twice before
Through the open door
I come falling through it
There's a sign post up ahead
Like a watershed
And it opens my eyes
Ways, for me to begin
To be born again
And knowing for the first time
Ways, all so differently
Shine for me to see
The better man that I am

I've been places in my head
Behind me worse than what's ahead
And on my path just like a dream
Takes me from the inbetween
From out of now here you came strong as stone
And now I'll never have to be alone
What it is I know

You have always been my safe home
I walk, I run, I burn out into you
You have always been my safe home
My whole world has moved on

I know what I am and I'll always be
Your reality, is better than I could dream
All my fears turn from black to white
And I'd stand and fight
The whole world for you
Faith, and destiny
I never did believe
My only God is love and
Faith, what I see in you
And I can hold it true
Like a weight in my hand

 

[helldanger1]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Anthrax

[originally performed by black sabbath]

You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell

Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as sure as god knows
God blessed all of you
Sabbath bloody sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you

 

[helldanger1]

S.S.C./Stand or Fall
Anthrax

Fighting for existence, looking for a way
The race is getting harder, won't last another day
Try to make it happen, always on the go
Can't escape the hours, time will never know

Right now my new life has begun
I have to stand tall I can't run
They're trying to to take it away
I'm fighting the battle I...

Stand or fall, leave it to no one
Stand or fall, fight for my right
Stand or fall, they'll never break me
Stand or fall, Stand or fall

Looking deep inside myself to change
My world around
Never find an answer, but I still stand my ground
Never ending battle, my everlasting will
I'll come back when it's over, come back for the kill

Honor and loyalty so hard to find
People I've trusted they're all left behind
Truth is the virtue they no longer seek
Stand with the strongest or fall with the weak

 

[helldanger1]

Room For One More
Anthrax

Fix the mental, as if that changes anything
Your heart is cured now, you're normal once again
One confession, you thought that's all it took
But redemption, doesn't let you off the hook

One of us
Can't erase the past to change who he would be
One of us
On a whim would act, then look for sympathy
Not from me

Hear me say...

One more
Chance to believe in
That you can even the score
One more
Place at the table
Always room for one more
Room for one more

Thing evil, is that just your normal gig
Fueled by hatred, happy as a stuffed pig
You're so lonely, everyone around you reeks
Of indifference, thriving in their apathy

Your schism, my distress
Your failure is my success
Squeezed out, kept me down
What goes around comes around
I can wait you out
Patience is my virtue
Call it payback, call it proper grounds
What goes around always comes around, always comes around

 

[helldanger1]

Rip It Out
Anthrax

Now I know, you've been cheatin' and lyin' all the time
I didn't know you were gonna be so unkind
I've been trying just to find out how we went wrong
But I know that I can't trust you girl anymore

CHORUS

Rip it out, take my heart, you wanted it from the start
You got it now, so goodbye, so rip it out, watch me cry

It's so sad, I'm not glad to be with you today
And it's bad, 'cos I can't stop the pain day by day
If I knew how to stop you, I don't think I'd try
I think it's better if we just part and don't say goodbye

CHORUS

I hope you suffer!

REPEAT CHORUS x 2

Rip it out (repeats out)

 

[helldanger1]

Riding Shotgun
Anthrax

Do it, drive it, drink it, smoke it,
Choke it

Two steps forward
One hundred steps back
We¹re going the wrong way
It¹s backwards, it¹s backwards
Cuffed and branded
I can¹t stand it

Give me the lane I¹m gonna play it my way
when I want to
Charged by the pain
I¹m gonna scream out my name if I want to

Live, it, be it, hold it, touch it
Kick it, beat it, love it, suck it

Two steps forward
One hundred steps back
We¹re going the wrong way
It¹s backwards, it¹s backwards
Cuffed and branded
I can¹t stand it

Give me the lane I¹m gonna play it my way
when I want to
Charged by the pain
I¹m gonna scream out my name if I want to

I feel like I¹m riding shotgun
Not a roll I can play
I would never get on my knees
And walk the walk of the dead

I won¹t take a back up,
I¹m gonna get my back up
I won¹t take a back up,
charged by life and nothing more

Do it, drive it, drink it, smoke it
Live it, be it, hold it, touch it
Kick it, beat it, love it, suck it !

Give me the lane I¹m gonna play it my way
when I want to
Charged by the pain
I¹m gonna scream out my name if I want to

I¹m riding shotgun

 

[helldanger1]

Revolution Screams
Anthrax

The ship is
Sinking the rats start to drown
Stunning
Such beautiful violence abounds

Questions come
Easily, you got to
A world filled with chaos and rape, you got to
Hope springs
Eternally, you got to
Not from blind faith
The guilty will pay

Yeah, to the wall
Revolution calls and empires fall
Yeah, by any means
Revolution screams

Justice
Finding the truth that will out
An assassin
Comes from within
Or without

Questions come
Easily, you got to
A world filled with chaos and rape, you got to
Hope springs
Eternally, you got to
Not from blind faith The guilty will pay

Yeah, to the wall
Revolution calls and empires fall
Yeah, by any means
Revolution screams
I had a dream, by any means
Revolution screams
Yeah, by any means
Revolution screams

A sense of apathy
Crushed with the smallest resolve
This beautiful violence
As the powers come crumbling down

Revolution, who's side are you on?

 

[helldanger1]

Remember Tomorrow
Anthrax

[originally performed by iron maiden]

Unchain the colours before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows
Tomorrow's white lies
Scan the horizon
The clouds take me higher
I shall return from out the hole

Tears for remembrance
And tears for joy
Tears for somebody
For this lonely boy

Out in the madness the all sleeping eye
Flickers above us to light up the sky

Unchain the colours before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows
Tomorrow's white lies
Scan the horizon
The clouds take me higher
I shall return from out the hole

 

[helldanger1]

Refuse to Be Denied
Anthrax

Proud and free that's American to me
Symptomatically, and so basically
it's so definite , freedom is all of it
no humaity without restraint
refuse to be denied refuse to compromise
your ideology always a lie
it's jigoistic or nationalistic
or whatever the hell you want to call it
with my raised fist
never to be denied
I stand and resist again
proud and free that's a human thing to me
burning at the core and i'd go to war
ain't gonna change my way of life
twisted rhetoric, I won't subscrive
refuse to be denied refuse to compromise
your ideology always a like
imperialistic colonialistic
bandwagon patriot wake up to this
with my raised fist
never to be denied
I stand and resist again

 

[helldanger1]

Random Acts Of Senseless Violence
Anthrax

Shut up, don¹t pass the blame
The same god-damn thing just the name¹s have changed
On the day you were busted your forgot the line
Don¹t do the crime if you can¹t do the time
An animal¹s acting instinctively
Glorified murderer, insanity
Do you think I¹d kill you just count to one
You¹re the coward, with the gun

Yeah, you thought you knew me
Yeah, you hardly knew me
You don¹t know me
I know I shouldn¹t care
My crazy senses of right and wrong that can¹t be made to break this,
break this, break this

I see something wrong and fix it with my hands
I walk a thin blue line, this cross I came to bear

So now you¹re dead well wha¹ dya know
And am I sorry no, I don¹t think so
They wanted sympathy now that¹s a bit much
How much did you show, how much
Take the value for one human life
And place it all right down on a roll of the dice
And a one, two, three for the pain you bring
I¹m the bird without the left wing

Yeah, you thought you knew me
Yeah, you hardly knew me
You don¹t know me
I know I shouldn¹t care
My crazy sense of right and wrong that can¹t be made to break this,
break this, break this

I see something wrong and fix it with my hands
I walk a thing blue line, this cross I came to bear

Random acts of senseless, random acts of senseless
Random acts of senseless, random acts of senseless
Violence

I see something wrong and I fix it with my hands
I walk a thin blue line, this cross I came to bear
I see something wrong and I fix it with my hands
I walk a thin blue line and I¹ll be the one who laughs when,
You die

 

[helldanger1]

Raise Hell
Anthrax

I'm running
I'm trying to break away
It's getting heavy
There's no way I can stay
I'm going under
It's burning up my mind
Release the feeling
I'm running out of time

Raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
I'm on fire
raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
Can't hold back desire
Only desire

I'm on the outside
Always looking in
You know the heats on
Ready to begin
And when I'm inside
You stare into my eyes
When it's over
You see through my disguise

Raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
I'm on fire
Raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
Can't hold back desire
Only desire

Raise hell, raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
Raise hell, raise hell, raise hell
Can't hold back desire
Only desire
Raise hell

 

[helldanger1]

Protest And Survive
Anthrax

(morris/wainwright/maloney/roberts)
Verse 1
The savage mutilation of the human race
Is set on course
Chorus
Protest and survive, protect and survive
Verse 2
It's up to us, to change the course
Chorus (twice)
Repeat verse 1
Chorus
Repeat verse 2
Chorus

 

[helldanger1]

Potters Field
Anthrax

I was told to love you
I was told to try
I was born to save you
I was born to die
I'll always be your scapegoat
You'll never take the blame
You never had a chance
It was your soul to save
I am your one night nightmare
Pain is all you see
The blood is on your hands
I hope you're proud of me

I was told to love you
I learned how to hate
I was born to save you
Your choice became your fate
You can't take care of yourself
How could you care for me?
I am your retribution
When is my soul free?
I never asked for mercy
You told me to forgive
The blood is on your hands
I hope your proud of me
And what I've done to set you free
I can barely hold myself

Fascination, stimulation, stronger as I learn
By his hand, I understand
I was told to burn

Bastard son, your saving grace
Left alone I found my place
I find love in what I steal
You should of left me rest in Potters Field
I was told to.I was told to...

Your beliefs turned me into this
Bite the hand that feeds, you're so selfish
Thank you mother for giving me this life
I'll bring down the rapture
Then we'll see who lies

 

[helldanger1]

Poison My Eyes
Anthrax

I always knew I had what it took
To jump over any obstacle
Together or separate we've been through
Fight for me and I'd kill for you
I always knew things were the same
But there's a caution light in your brain
I won't help with your cement shoes
If bailing out is what you choose

You've been spending years and years
Carrying your biggest fears
Too long, too long
You've been sucked in through a hole
With your vision of control
So wrong, so wrong
If you leave your defenses down
Who will chew you up and spit you out
If you leave your defenses down
Who will pick you up

Poison my eyes
Better men have tried
Tried to take me down
A man is a man is a
Man you can't see clear
Now your forced to hear
All that you dread
Better to keep it hidden
Believing it's what you deserve

You make me feel everything I do
Betters me and sabotages you
But all it does is leave you behind
As you disconnect from the grind
Drowning in your own denial
Is as simple as a smile
One is strong one insecure
Who dies first in our private war

You've been wasting years and years
Running from your darkest fears
Too long, too long
You've been falling through the holes
Now your vision of control
Is gone, is gone
If you leave your defenses down
Who will chew you up and spit you out
If you leave your defenses down
Who will pick you up

Poison my eyes
Better men have tried
Tried to take me down
A man is a man is a
Man you can't see clear
Now your forced to hear
All that you dread
Better to keep it hidden
Believing it's what you deserve

Be dangerous and unpredictable and make a lot of noise
Be dangerous and unpredictable and make a lot of noise
Be dangerous and unpredictable and make a lot of noise
Be dangerous and unpredictable and make a lot of noise...

 

[helldanger1]

Piss N Vinegar
Anthrax

It was a day to remember, twice as hard as long
That was the day that I convinced myself
That I found my God

I tip my cap and I step up
I fix myself to the right
I move right into the firing zone
And scream drink, fuck or fight
It's just a matter of respect
or is that something I missed
This ain't no peace train that you're jumping on
So shake my hand and shake it strong
And everybody come along

Long, strong (am I)

Sometimes I can't stop the shaking
At least I know I'm not dead
I don't remember whose blood this is
I've got a hammer inside my head

I get put up, I get put down
And I don't even try
I've burned a bridge, I've burned a whole town
'Cause I'm motherfucking fortified
I tell the truth or just a gilded lie
And then I charge like a bull with his balls tied

A heavy dose of reality
With a side of piss and vinegar
A free drink at the bar and you'll take it

A swift kick in the ass and you'll take it