Machine Head The Blackening 1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent 2. Beautiful Mourning 3. Aesthetics Of Hate 4. Now I Lay Thee Down 5. Slanderous 6. Halo 7. Wolves 8. A Farewell To Arms 1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent [Music: Flynn / McClain / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn] War! Do you hear revolution's call? It's time to fight our own denial Warmongers keep us locked in fear Invoke the past, a moment of tears An ugly truth Put forth by our youth Under the threat of patriotic brute, so Use your rage It is a weapon We now must engage Let trumpets sound our call Or by their lies we will fall Gnash down our teeth in hate and sing Sing revolution's song When they say die Die for America [Solo: Flynn, Demmel] War! They say that freedom isn't free It's paid with the lives Of sons and families Cause blood is their new currency And oil pumps the heart of money So fight as one Without a fucking gun Words are the bullets to this revolution Use your pain The battlegrounds, the streets are ablaze Excess will pave their path The winds of change, our bloodbath Gnash down our teeth in hate and sing Sing revolution's song When they say die Die for America Power and prejudice Actions they use to pit against Terror, insurgency Words uses to scare conformity It's propaganda, it's their hypocrisy Free to choose our own slavery All suffer humanity [Solo: Demmel, Flynn; Demmel, Flynn] Fight Fight -- for all that you love Scream -- choking with foot upon threat Blind -- star spangled eyes Death -- no more the truth you will hide No, more So how do they sleep? When our mothers weep They're selling our souls And our blood for oil Our generation Can be the fucking one That overcomes the greed Of corrupt nations Have no shame You're not alone in thinking This is fucking insane Rise up and take your stand And curl the fingers of your hand And I don't know what to do Cause I don't have the answers But with ever ounce of strength I'll vow to fight this cancer Didn't say I want to lead I just might let you down Didn't say believe in me Just hold this common ground I'm just as lost as you And probably more confused So fucking far from perfect My mind wrecked from abuse There's something fucking wrong When war takes sons and daughters Our lambs misled to slaughter War! Clenching the fists of dissent Lies! Clenching the fists of dissent Fear! Clenching the fists of dissent Change! Clenching to hope 2. Beautiful Mourning [Music: Flynn / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn] Fuck you all! My redemption is knowing This will be over My aggression, I fear I've lost control Who is this man I stare? Mirror reflects a stranger Fist shatters the despair Awake the pain to anger [Chorus:] How do I close thine eyes of murder? How do I close thine eyes of murder? Staring into me? My obsession is dying, sinking me deeper My depression, this world has disavowed Razor at wrist I seethe The flesh is peeled apart now Gone is my faded dream Failure, I welcome in thou [Chorus] This lifetime in sorrow, God let the angels die This is our last goodbye, In love and death we cry Our last goodbye [Solo: Flynn] No, no, no, no Spit in the face of loss Coward, my own self-hatred No more I bear this cross Struggle, and rise from the dead This lifetime in sorrow, God let the angels die This is our last goodbye, In love and death we cry Our last goodbye 3. Aesthetics Of Hate [Music: Flynn, Lyrics: Flynn / Duce] You tried to spit in the eye Of a dead man's face Attacked the ways of a man Not yet in his grave But your hate was over all too soon Because nothing is over And nothing's through, Till we bury you For the love of brother I will sing this fucking song Aesthetics of hate, I hope you burn in hell The words I read on the screen Left me fucking sick I felt the hatred rising You son of a bitch You branded us pathetic for our respect But he made us Driven, Such deep reverence, Far beyond the rest For the love of brother I will sing these fucking words Aesthetics of hate, I hope you burn in hell Yer! [Solo: Demmel, Flynn, Demmel, Flynn, Flynn & Demmel] Wow! Long live memories Live this freedom vicariously Defend tenfold His honor we'll always uphold For the love of brother I will say these fucking words No silence against ignorance Iconoclast, I hope you burn in hell May the hand of god strike them down 4. Now I Lay Thee Down [Music: Flynn / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn] I want to know How it feels When we die Can you take me under? [Chorus:] Dream over Grieve no more And breathe one last time Now I lay thee down She watched me leave Me bleeding On the floor As she takes me under [Chorus] Godless mimicry White lights cemetery Flashes of the angel's ivory wings Images so many broke dreams Of pain Terror Fear Crippling Follow the light into the tunnel Or will it end up in a black hole? Follow the light into the tunnel, Dead in its end What is love? What is murder? Within the eye of the beholder [Solo: Demmel, Flynn, Demmel, Flynn] What have I done? I've gone and killed the only one I love How could I do this? I'm screaming at God Why do you curse me? Fuck it, load it, sever the day [Chorus] Now I lay thee down, Underground 5. Slanderous [Music: Flynn / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn] I'm Wasted and ugly, I am the underbelly A fat fuck and fairy The reject they wish to bury [Pre Chorus:] They want to Murder us, silence us Divide and conquer us As the lead, as we die Let these three words decide [Chorus:] I love you! Why do I hate my brother? I hate you! Or do I hate myself? I'm a meth head and alkie Dumb cunt been called a junkie A retard and a pussy And I embrace the names you call me [Pre Chorus] [Chorus] [Solo: Demmel, Flynn, Flynn & Demmel] I'm a redneck and faggot The asshole ignoramus A wetback and a nigga And I raise my middle fingers So those that Murder us, silence us Divide and conquer us As the lead, as we die Let these three words decide I love you Why do I hate my brother? I hate you I hate myself Love Hate [Chorus] 6. Halo [Music: Flynn / McClain / Duce / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn] This is a call to arms, Will you stand beside me? This is our time to fight No more compromising And this blackened heart will sing For sad solidarity Halo over our demise Following a god so blind Sallow in their sickening Swallow not, the shit they feed This is a right to life, Not the Religious Right's act This is abortion's knife, Aiming at the wombs of The Christian conspiracy See open thine eyes and see, the Halo over our demise Following a god so blind Sallow in their sickening Swallow not, the shit they feed Our time will come, our time will come Our time is now, our time is now [Solo: Demmel, Flynn & Demmel] And I won't pray for you Halo over our demise Following a god so blind Sallow in their sickening Swallow not, the shit they feed The words will never hold us down Prayers won't be spared on you Satisfaction denied 'Til you're dead and gone Gone Dead and gone! You're gone! 7. Wolves [Music: Flynn / Demmel / Duce, Lyrics: Flynn] Release the wolves Carnage has no rules Comparison, competition We'll bury one and all [Solo: Demmel] Look in the eyes of rage A loyalty bred of suffering The fire inside it burns eternally, victory Look in the eyes of pain The scars on our souls forever remain Calling the sheltered of the broken Wing, join the fray Bury our rivals Shotguns, knives, rifles [Pre Chorus:] A family of the unwanted Beaten, stunted, dysfunction A brotherhood that is of violence and to Tyrants bow to none [Chorus:] Release the wolves Carnage has no rules Comparison, competition We'll bury one and all Look in the eyes of hate A circle of hell they come to pray United against all that come threatening Lay to waste Look in the eyes of the free Bound to each other's longevity Guarding the back of alpha's dignity, Savagely Bury our rivals Shotguns, knives, rifles [Pre Chorus] [Chorus] [Bridge:] Come closer, walk with me in hell Dear rival, fear in you I smell A fist to face is all fair game now The pack attacking, the sacrificial Pray for the prayers Reaping the sour seeds of death's breed In tooth and claw the scent of the dead [Bridge] Spreading our population Far across the land Loving to fornicate, Respecting the command Rally the warriors and Tally the score, In every victory is solace but there's No satisfaction!! There is no satisfaction!! And there never will be! [Solo: Flynn, Demmel, Flynn, Demmel] Bury our rivals Shotguns, knives, rifles [Pre Chorus] [Chorus] Release the wolves Carnage has no rules The night will fall Beware the call Dominate ALL 8. A Farewell To Arms [Music: Flynn / Demmel, Lyrics: Flynn / Duce / Demmel] Can you hear their cries? Nowhere can the children run to hide Crimson rivers Flow down the hills Atone our ills And woe to all her songs of love A farewell to arms Mutilated lives Blackening as coffin line the sides Filled with fathers Who has won? When only sons Hold their grieving heads and mourn A farewell to arms Always our souls entwine Erase this vast divide Deaf ears our voices rest Tyrant, this is protest Who has won? Yes, who has won? [Chorus:] I'll wave this flag of white So the venged see the light We'll pay for closed eyes With our genocide Piercing the masquerade March to the death parade Trade no humanity For pearls of the slavery In the depth of mind the heart will I find The truth of our leader We'll try the facts so through the cracks May fall the lying cheater Who has won when we're all dead? [Chorus] So is this how we live? Or is this how we die? Black blood dripping from platinum fangs Rich blood flees while Our poverty hangs Shepherds they herd the mindless trance As the flock follows the puppet's dance In a fatal romance [Solo: Demmel] All that they needed was A pretext, war's next Heads to the chopping blocks And our necks are next For those we died Who fought for our rights Whose children now slaves They're turning in their graves War hawks and senators They sit tight, so trite Never their sons will know What it's like to fight But soldiers are dead And children have bled And the silence is numb What have we become? God save us A farewell to Arms