Countdown to Extinction

I had wrists donning slits Flowing constantly My broken body in a wreck Wrapped around a tree A crosswalk hit-and-run The finish line for me People clutter in the gutter Take a look and see No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth

My blood flows through the streets Deluge from the wounds Empty jars of sleeping pills On the dresser in my room My wet-brained neighbor cranes His neck to see In time, the white light's, a train Bearing down on me No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth

I won't feel the hurt I'm not trash any longer That, that doesn't kill me Only makes me stronger I need a ride to the morgue That's what 9-1-1 is for So tag my toe and don't forget Ooh, to close the drawer No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth No escaping pain You belong to me Clinging on to life By the skin o' my teeth

You take a mortal man And put him in control Watch him become a god Watch people's heads a-roll A-roll, A-roll Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction Acting like a robot Its metal brain corrodes You try to take its pulse Before the head explodes Explodes, Explodes Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the Symphony

Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the Symphony Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction The earth starts to rumble World powers fall A-warring for the heavens A peaceful man stands tall A-tall, A-tall Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the Symphony Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the Symphony Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction

Born from the dark in the black cloak of night To envelop its prey below, deliver to the light To eliminate your enemy, hit them in their sleep And when all is won and lost, the spoils of wars are yours to keep Great nations built from the bones of the dead With mud and straw - blood and sweat You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression Praise your architecture of aggression Ensuing power vacuum, a toppled leader dies His body fuels the power fire and the flames rise to the sky One side of his face, a kiss - the other, genocide Time to pay with your ass, a worldwide suicide Great nations built from the bones of the dead With mud and straw - blood and sweat You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression

Born from the dark in the black cloak of night To envelop its prey below, deliver to the light To eliminate your enemy, hit them in their sleep And when all is won and lost, the spoils of wars are yours to keep Great nations built from the bones of the dead With mud and straw - blood and sweat You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression Great nations built from the bones of the dead With mud and straw - blood and sweat You know your worth when your enemies... Praise your architecture of aggression

Rise so high, yet so far to fall A plan of dignity and balance for all Political breakthrough, euphoria's high More borrowed money, more borrowed time Backed in a corner, caught up in the race Means to an end, ended in disgrace Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase Foreclosure of a dream Those visions never seen Until all is lost, personal Holocaust Foreclosure of a dream Barren land that once filled a need Are worthless now, dead without a deed Slipping away from an iron grip Nature's scales are forced to tip The heartland dies, loss of all pride To leave ain't believing, so try and be tried Insufficient funds, insanity and suicide

Foreclosure of a dream Those visions never seen Until all is lost, personal Holocaust Foreclosure of a dream "The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, read my lips... read my lips." Now with new hope, some will be proud This is no hoax, no one pushed out Receive a reprieve and be a pioneer Break new ground of a new frontier New ideas will surely get by No deed, or dividend. Some may ask "Why?" You'll find the solution, the answers in the sky Rise so high, yet so far to fall A plan of dignity and balance for all Political breakthrough, euphoria's high More borrowed money, more borrowed time

Foreclosure of a dream Those visions never seen Until all is lost, personal Holocaust Foreclosure of a dream Foreclosure of a dream Those visions never seen Until all is lost, personal Holocaust Foreclosure of a dream Holocaust

Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of life A dark, black past is my most valued possession Hindsight is always 20-20 But looking back, it's still a bit fuzzy Speak of mutually assured destruction Nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend? Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet I'm chomping at the bit and my palms are getting wet Sweating bullets Hello me, it's me again You can subdue, but never tame me It gives me a migraine headache, sinking down to your level Yeah, just keep on thinking it's my fault And stay an inch or two out of kicking distance Mankind has got to know his limitations

Feeling claustrophobic like the walls are closing in Blood stains on my hands and I don't know where I've been I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet I'm sharpening the axe and my palms are getting wet Sweating bullets I hear it in hear... Blood stains on my... hands The big axe... Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha... Sweating, sweating Sweating, sweating Sweating, sweating Well, me, it's nice talking to myself A credit to dementia Some day, you too will know my pain And smile its "black-tooth grin" If the war inside my head won't take a day off, I'll be dead My icy fingers claw your back Here I come again

Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend? Anxiety's attacking me, and my air is getting thin Feeling claustrophobic like the walls are closing in Blood stains on my hands and I don't know where I've been Once you've committed me (Committed me) Now you've acquitted me (Acquitted me) Claiming validity (Validity) For your stupidity (Stupidity) I'm chomping at the bit I'm sharpening the axe Oh, here I come again, whoa! Sweating bullets

It was just another day It was just another fight It was words strung into sentences It was doomed to not be right There is something wrong with me There is something wrong with you There is nothing left of us There is one thing I can do Lying on your bed Examining my head This is the part of me that hates Paybacks are a bitch I throw the switch Somewhere an electric chair awaits Hey! This was my life Hey! This was my fate

This was the wrong thing to do This was the wrong one to be doing This was the road to destiny This was the road to my ruin Now there's motives for the suspect Now there's nothing left to say Now there's method to the madness Now there's society to pay Lying on your bed Examining my head This is the part of me that hates Paybacks are a bitch I throw the switch Somewhere an electric chair awaits Hey! This was my life Hey! This was my fate

In our life there is "if" In our beliefs there is "lie" In our business there is "sin" In our bodies there is "die" This was my life This was my fate This was my life This was my fate

Endangered species, caged in fright Shot in cold blood, no chance to fight The stage is set, now pay the price An ego boost, don't think twice Technology, the battle's unfair You pull the hammer without a care Squeeze the trigger that makes you man Pseudo-safari, the hunt is canned The hunt is canned... All are gone, all but one No contest, nowhere to run No more left, only one This is it, this is the countdown to extinction Tell the truth, you wouldn't dare The skin and trophy, oh so rare Silence speaks louder than words Ignore the guilt, and take your turn Liars' anagram is "lairs" Man, you were never even there Killed a few feet from the cages Point blank, you're so courageous So courageous...

All are gone, all but one No contest, nowhere to run No more left, only one This is it, this is the countdown to extinction "One hour from now, another species of life form will disappear off the face of the planet... forever, and the rate is accelerating" All are gone, all but one No contest, nowhere to run No more left, only one This is it, this is the countdown to extinction

Do it if you dare, leaping from the sky Hurling through the air, exhilarating high See the Earth below, soon to make a crater Blue sky, black death, I'm off to meet my maker Energy of the gods, adrenaline surge Won't stop 'til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure Up here in the air, this will never hurt I'm on my way to impact, taste the high-speed dirt Paralyzed with fear, feel velocity gain Entering a near catatonic state Pressure of the sound roaring through my head Crash into the ground, damned if I'll be dead Energy of the gods, adrenaline surge Won't stop 'til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure Up here in the air, this will never hurt I'm on my way to impact, taste the high-speed dirt Jump or die! Dropping all my weight, going down full throttle The pale horse awaits like a genie in a bottle Fire in my veins, faster as I go I forgot my name, I'm a dirt torpedo

High-speed dirt, high-speed dirt High-speed dirt, high-speed dirt High-speed dirt, high-speed dirt High-speed dirt, high-speed dirt

Psychotron... Assassin in stealth, assailant from Hell Impervious to damage Computer on-board, engaged in a war Non-stop combatant Maybe not a mutant, maybe a man? Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg, call him Psychotron Burning inside, godspeed in glide Battle plan running A killing machine, just downright mean And forever cunning Maybe not a mutant, maybe a man?

Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg, call him Psychotron Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg, call him Psychotron Target to destroy, arms in employ Full assault fire threat Sensors indicate you will terminate Life systems disconnect Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg, call him Psychotron Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg Part bionic and organic Not a cyborg, call him Psychotron Psychotron Psychotron Psychotron Psychotron...

Madness comes and madness goes An insane place with insane moves Battles without, for battles within Where evil lives and evil rules Breaking them up, just breaking them in Quickest way out, quickest relief wins Never disclose, never betray Cease to speak or cease to breathe And when you kill a man, you're a murderer Kill many, and you're a conqueror Kill them all... ooh, oh, you're a God! "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury; have you reached a verdict?" "Yes, we have, your honour. We find the defendant guilty, on all counts, for crimes against all humanity." "By virtue of the jury's decision and the power vested in me by the state, I hereby sentence you to be incarcerated with no possibility of parole... for life." "Life?! What do you mean life?! I ain't got a life!" "Boy, your soul better belong to Jesus. Mhmm, 'cause your ass belongs to me...[*laughing*]" Captive honour, ain't no honour Captive honour, ain't no honour

No time for questions, no time for games Start kicking ass and taking down the names A long shit list, a shorter fuse He is untouchable, and guarantees you'll lose Captive honour, ain't no honour Captive honour, ain't no honour Inside the big house, his nightmare unfolds Before he got there, his manpussy was sold Black blanket welcome, this tough guy's now a bitch Praying for death, it can't be worse than this! Captive honour, ain't no honour Captive honour, ain't no honour Captive honour, ain't no honour

People have round shoulders from bearing heavy loads And the soldiers liberate them, laying mines along their roads Sorrow paid for valor is too much to recall Of the countless corpses piled up along the wailing wall Melting down all metals, turning plows and shears to swords Shun words of the Bible, we need implements of war Chalklines and red puddles of those who have been slain Destiny, that crooked schemer, says the dead shall rise again Where do we go from here? And should we really care? The end is finally here God have mercy! Now we've rewritten history The one thing we've found out Sweet taste of vindication It turns to ashes in your mouth Where do we go from here? And should we really care? The end is finally here God have mercy!

If you're fighting to live It's okay to die The answer to your question is: "Welcome to tomorrow." Where do we go from here? God have mercy! Where do we go from here? And should we really care? The end is finally here God have mercy! Where do we go from here? And should we really care? The end is finally here God have mercy! Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy