Энциклопедия

Exciter

(Tipton/Halford)

Racing 'cross the heavens, straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet, slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon, blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us, the age of fire's at hand

Stand by for exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for exciter
Salvation bids to ask

Everything he touches fries into a crisp
Let him get that close to you so you're in his trip
First you'll smoke and smoulder, blister up and singe
When ignition hits you the very soul of your being will cringe

Stand by for exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for exciter

Here he comes now!
Fall to your knees and repent if you please

Who is this man? Where is he from?
Exciter comes for everyone
You'll never see him
But you will taste the fire upon your tongue

He's come to make you snap out of the state that you are in
Look around and make you see the light again
So much self indulgence results in shattered eyes
Predominant complacency leads to beguiling lies

Stand by for exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for exciter
Salvation bids to ask

When he leaps amidst us with combustive dance
All shall bear the branding of his thermal lance
Cauterizing masses melting into one
Only when there's order will his job be done

Stand by for exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for exciter

Here he comes now!
Fall to your knees and repent if you please

Who is this man? Where is he from?
Exciter comes for everyone
You'll never see him
But you will taste the fire upon your tongue

Racing past the heavens, straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet, slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon, blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us, the age of fire's at hand

Stand by for exciter
Stand by for exciter
Stand by for exciter
Stand by for exciter



White geat, red hot

(Tipton)

The father's son, thy kingdom come
Electric ecstasy
Deliver us from all the fuss
And give us sanctuary

Lead us all into arena
Magnificent in death
Well, let us serenade the sinner
We'll follow in his step

White heat, red hot
Burns deep, white heat, hot!

The fury songs, venomous wrongs
So rich in tragedy
An overture forevermore
To senseless victories

Give to us this day of glory
The power and the kill
So we avoid the wrath
And all the almighty fire of

White heat, red hot
Burns deep, white heat, hot, burns a lot!

Who are not cut out to fight
This day will surely fall
The few who stand to take command
Forever and ever are men

Prepare to fight, unsheathe your scythe
A ghastly beam of ill
To slice the life with blinding light
And seventh dimensional skill

The centuries of dedication
Inherited at last
From years of solar gladiation
Can only end in

White heat, red hot
Burns deep, white heat, hot, burns a lot!

Who are not cut out to fight
This day will surely fall
The few who stand to take command
Forever and ever are men

White heat, red hot
White heat, red hot



Better by you better than me

(Wright)

You could find a way to ease my passion
You listen to the blood flow in my veins

You hear the teaching of the wind
Tell her why I'm alive within
I can't find the words, my mind is dead
It's better by you better than me

Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside

Tell her now I got to go
Out in the streets and down the shore
Tell her the world's not much living for
It's better by you better than me

Everybody, everybody knows
Everybody, everybody knows

Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say what I only can see
It's better by you better than me

Guess I'll have to change my way of living
Don't wanna really know the way I feel

Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
Tell her not to wait until
They'll find my blood upon her windowsill
It's better by you better than me

Everybody, everybody knows
Everybody, everybody knows

It's better by you better than me
You can say what I only can see
You can tell what I want it to be
It's better by you better than me

Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say way all they can see
Better by you better than me



Stained class

(Tipton/Halford)

Wild eyed and tight fisted
I'm fused to the bone
I stand contemplating
Reacting alone

Impaled with betrayal, crushing on hicks eyes
The tourniquet turns, mount passing, God fearing
Society's creation, deep, all disfigure
Pole axed out and burnt, espying the truth

Long ago when man was king
His heart was clean, now he's stained class
Time has smashed each untouched thing
So now he's just a stained class king

Transfixed at deliverance
Is this all there is?
Faithless continuum
Into the abyss

Fierce is my conviction
Absolute my belief
I spit at you apathy
And seducer deceit

Long ago when man was king
His heart was clean, now he's stained class
Time has smashed each untouched thing
So now he's just a stained class king

Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered
He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world
But by doing so smashed all his hopes
And utopian dreams

Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off
Relentless and senseless
His lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep
To infest and decay from the core

Impaled with betrayal
The tourniquet turns
Society's creation
Pole axed out and burnt

Long ago when man was king
His heart was clean, now he's stained class
Time has smashed each untouched thing
So now he's just a stained class king

Stained class king



Invader

(Tipton/Halford/Hill)

I came across a smoking field
Pulsating afterglow
I saw a seering flash of light
Erupt and skyward go

I staggered back in dazed surprise
What was it I had seen?
And as I stood there mesmerized
I heard my spirit scream

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

This is the first of more to come
In carefully planned attack
If it is so we must prepare
Defenses to fight back

The call is out throughout the world
United we must stand
To build a line, strategic force
They will not take a man

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

When they come to take control
Every man must play his role
They won't take our world away
When the children we leave will have to believe in today

We warn you now, you things out there
Whatever you may send
We won't give in without a fight
A fight until the end

With vigilance by day and night
Our scanners trace the sky
A shield is sealed upon this earth
A shield you won't get by

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh
Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh
Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh



Saints in hell

(Tipton/Halford/Downing)

They laughed at their god and fought him in vain
So he turned his back on them and left them in pain
Now here come the saints with their banners held high
Each one of them martyrs quite willing to die

Wake the dead
The saints are in hell
Wake the dead
They've come for the bell

Cover your fists, razor your spears
It's been our possession for eight thousand years
Fetch the scream eagles, unleash the wild cats
Set loose the king cobras and blood sucking bats

Wake the dead
The saints are in hell
Wake the dead
They've come for the bell

We are saints in hell
We are saints in hell
We're going down into the fire
We're going down into the fire

The streets run with blood from the mass mutilation
As carnage took toll for the bell
Abattoir, abattoir, mon dieu quelle horreur
For a time is was like second hell

Saints in hell
Saints in hell

The battle is over, the saints are alive
How can we all thank you? We felt so despised

Saints in hell
Saints in hell
Saints in hell
Saints in hell

Saints in hell
Saints in hell
Saints in hell
Saints in hell



Savage

(Downing/Halford)

Who gives you the right to come here and tell me?
I have to leave this place, my home
To you it's a jungle, to me it's a kingdom
Where my people are free there to roam

Born with the stars, we are happy and peaceful
'Till now we were left undisturbed
But you rupture the forests, our gardens and fill them
With filth from your cities unheard

Savage, who is savage?
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage
Modern man can take the blame

You poisoned my tribe with civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well pleased

What have we done to deserve such injustice?
Explain to us, please, if you can
But you can't, you can't, I can see it in your eyes
Of us both, who's the primitive man?

Savage, who is savage?
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage
Modern man can take the blame

You poisoned my tribe with civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well pleased

What have we done to deserve such injustice?
Explain to us, please, if you can
But you can't, no, you can't, we can see it in your eyes
Of us both, who's the primitive man?

Savage, savage
Savage, savage
Who's the savage? Modern man
Who's the savage? Modern man



Beyond the realms of death

(Binks/Halford)

He had enough, he couldn't take anymore
He'd found a place in his mind and slammed the door
No matter how they tried, they couldn't understand
They washed and dressed him, fed him by hand

Yeah! I've left the world behind
I am safe here in my mind
I'm free to speak with my own kind
This is my life, this is my life, I'll decide, not you

Withdrawn he'd sit there, stare blank into space
No sign of life did flicker on his face
Until one day he smiled, it seemed as though with pride
The wind kissed him goodbye and then he died

Yeah! I've left the world behind
I am safe here in my mind
Free to speak with my own kind
This is my life, this is my life, I'll decide, not you

Keep the world with all its sin
It's not fit for living in

Yeah! I will start again
It can take forever
And ever and ever and ever
But I'll still win

How many like him? Are there still?
But to us all, seem to have lost the will
They lie in thousands, lank and lost
Is nothing worth this bitter cost?

Yeah! I've left the world behind
I am safe here in my mind
Free to speak with my own kind
This is my life, this is my life, I'll decide, not you

Keep the world with all its sin
It's not fit for living in

Beyond the realms of death



Heroes end

(Tipton)

I heard a human voice who sang like no one else
I heard a proud lady singing loud
Lived her life as she liked, didn't give a damn
But soon she found she was underground and wasted

I watched her hitting notes as she strutted stage
Her body shook, oh, she did her stuff
She screamed and quake, give and take, maybe took too much
If you take the smooth you gotta take the rough

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame, a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to stay unsaid

I heard a man's guitar electrify a crowd
I felt the sound shower 'round
And he would take you with him where no music's been before
As you merged the power surge together

His music knew no limits if you were in its wake
You had no choice, no, but hear its voice
And you would listen hypnotized and in a dream
But once so strong, so long, becomes weak

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame, a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to stay unsaid

If you gaze across timeless years
You'll find them always there
And many gods will join the list
Compiled with dying care

Hungry mouths are waiting
To bite the hand that feeds
And so the living dead
Carry on immortal deeds

I saw on silver screen an actor's rise to fame
But fast car users lose
A legend's born from death and that is such a shame
'Cause every year new ones appear

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame, a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to stay unsaid