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Victim of changes

(Downing/Halford/Tipton/Atkins)

Whiskey woman, don't you know
That you are driving me insane?
The liquor you give stems your will to live
And gets right to my brain

Don't you know you're driving me insane?

You're trying to find your way through life
You're trying toget some new direction
Another woman's got her man
But she won't find a new connection

Takes another drink or two
Things look better when she's through

Take another look around
You're not going anywhere
You've realized you're getting old
And no one seems to care

You're trying to find your way again
You're trying to get some new
Another woman's got her man
But she won't get a new

Takes another drink or two
Things look better when she's through

You've been fooling with some hot guy
I want to know - why is it, why?
Get up! Get out! You know you really blew it
I've had enough, I've had enough, good God, pluck me!

Once she was wonderful
Once she was fine
Once she was beautiful
Once she was mine, oh, she was mine

Now changes come over her body
She doesn't see me anymore
Now changes come over her body
She doesn't see me anymore

Changes
Changes
Changes
Changes

Victim of changes



The ripper

(Tipton)

You're in for surprise
You're in for a shock
In London town streets
When there's darkness and fog

When you least expect me
And you turn your back, I'll attack

I smile when I'm sneaking
Through shadows by the wall
I laugh when I'm creeping
But you won't hear me at all

All hear my warning
Never turn your back on the ripper

You'll soon shake with fear
Never knowing if I'm near
I'm sly and I'm shameless
Nocturnal and nameless

Except for the ripper
Or if you like Jack The Knife

Any back alley street
Is where we'll probably meet
Underneath a gas lamp
Where the air's cold and damp

I'm a nasty surprise
I'm a devil in disguise
I'm a footstep at night
I'm a scream of the fright

All hear my warning
Never turn your back on the ripper
The ripper
The ripper



Dreamer

(Downing/Halford/Tipton)

Standing by my window, breathing summer breeze
Saw a figure floating 'neath the willow trees
Asked us if we were happy, we said: We didn't know
Took us by the hands and up we go

We followed the dreamer through the purple hazy clouds
He could control our sense of time
We thought we were lost but no matter how we tried
Everyone was in peace of mind

We felt the sensations drift inside our frames
Finding complete contentment there
And all the tensions that hurt us in the past
Just seemed to vanish in thin air

He said in the cosmos is a single sonic sound
That is vibrating constantly
And if we could grip and hold on to the note
We would see our minds were free

Oh, they're free

Oh, we are lost above
A floating way up high
If you think you can find a way
You can surely try



Deceiver

(Downing/Halford/Tipton)

Solar winds are blowing
Neutron star controlling
All is lost, doomed and tossed
At what cost forever

Meteors fly around me
Comets die and then they
And then they, you wanna see
How they try to surround me?

I can say, here today
We shall stay forever

If you want to find us in a hurry
Oh, let me tell you, don't you worry
I can say, here today
We shall stay forever



Prelude

(Tipton)

Instrumental track



Tyrant

(Tipton/Halford)

Behold 'tis I, the commander
Whose grip controls you all
Resist me, not surrender
I'll no compassion call

Tyrant - capture of humanity
Tyrant - conqueror of all
Tyrant - hideous destructor
Tyrant - every man shall fall

Your very lives are held within my fingers
I snap them and you cower down in fear
You spineless things who belly down to slither
To the end of the world you follow to be near

Tyrant - capture of humanity
Tyrant - conqueror of all
Tyrant - hideous destructor
Tyrant - every man shall fall

Mourn for us, oppressed in fear
Chained and shackled, we are bound
Freedom choked, in dread we live
Since tyrant was enthroned

I listen not to sympathy
Whilst ruler of this land
Withdraw your feeble aches and moans
Or suffer smite from this my hand

Tyrant - capture of humanity
Tyrant - conqueror of all
Tyrant - hideous destructor
Tyrant - every man shall fall

Mourn for us, oppressed in fear
Chained and shackled, we are bound
Freedom choked, in dread we live
Since tyrant was enthroned

My legions faithful unto death
I'll summon to my court
And as you perish, each of you
Shall scream as you are sought

Tyrant - capture of humanity
Tyrant - conqueror of all
Tyrant - hideous destructor
Tyrant - every man shall fall



Genocide

(Tipton/Halford/Downing)

Mercenary batalions
Are poised to strike us down
Terminations conquest
Upon us now full grown

Save me! My heart's open wide
Help me! No question of pride
Save me! My people have died
Total genocide

Devastation hungers
She waits to leap to earth
Imminent liquidation
Before the grand rebirth

Save me! My heart's open wide
Help me! No question of pride
Save me! My people have died
Total genocide

"Sin after sin I have endured
Yet the wounds I bear are the wounds of love"

Frantic mindless zombies grab at fleeting time
Lost in cold perplexion, waiting for the sign
Generations tremble, clinging face to face
Helpless situation to end the perfect race

Flashing senseless sabers
Cut us to the ground
Eager for the life blood
Of all who can be found

Save me! My heart's open wide
Help me! No question of pride
Save me! My people have died
Total genocide

Slice to the left, slice to the right
None to retaliate, none will fight
Chopping at the hearts, snuffing out the lives
This race departs, no one will survive

Heads to the feet, feet to the air
Souls in the soil, heavy in despair
End of all ends, body into dust
To greet death friends, extinction is a must



Epitaph

(Tipton)

The old man's sitting there, his head bowed down
Every now and then he'll take a look around
And his eyes reflect the memory
Pain of years gone by

He can't regain nostalgic dreams
He'll never see again

With trembling hands he wipes a tear
Many fall like rain, there's one for every year
And his life laid out so clearly now
Life that's brought death

So nearly now life once
He clung to dearly now lets go

But spare a thought as you pass him by
Take a closer look and you'll say
He's our tomorrow
Just as much as we are his yesterday

A lonely grave and soon forgot
Only wind and leaves lament his mournful song
Yet they shout his epitaph out clear

For anyone who's passing near
It names the person lying here as you

And you
And you
And you



Island of domination

(Downing/Halford/Tipton)

Beware of their coming
Take heed, our time is near
Fatality relinguish not
Brutality in arms doth seek to destroy

They smashed through the clouds
Into the light of the moon
Their steeds were full charging
Called destruction and doom

Twas as if all hell
Had broke loose on this night
And all in all
It was a terrible sight

Now we are taken
Unto the island of domination

We gotta get, we gotta get
We gotta get out of this place
There's a man with a needle
Who's pleading to get to my face

Hide me and hold me
Control free as best as you can
It's all becoming too much
I can't cope for one man

Now we are taken
Unto the island of domination

Skyrider, supersonic flyer
Nightdriver, a demon of desire
Spinesnapper, you tried your best to break us
Throatchoker, you thought that you could take us

The fright of your life, the fright of your life
The fright of your life is here guaranteed
This is no illusion
Confessing confusion, you're freed

Lashings of strappings
With beatings competing to win
Oh, what a mess! I am blessed
Dominations set in

Now we are taken
Unto the island of domination