Benediction The Dreams You Dread 1. Down On Whores (Leave Them All For Dead) "What they have in store for them... ... do I desire..." "They will suffer just as I... ... revenge on the whore." [Chorus :] Take the eyes, take the head leave them all for dead." "My hands are cold... ... my heart... is colder still" "I will take the bitch tonight... The children are well." [Chorus] "The gentle man... the whore in in debt... They are blind as they say" "Turn round three times and catch whom you may." "May comes and goes in the dark of the night. He kisses and whores and gives them a fright. ... and the Doctors will get all the blame but it's only May playing his dirty game." "... ha ha..." "Rip the bitch wide... ... left my mark... ... had a got at her eyes." "The pain that night... ... burnt into my mind. ... recall ... to stop my cries." "... ha ha ..." "... when I cut her... kissed... for a while. ... shale I write and tell them... ... peace of mind." "Left her for dead... there was thrill. All whores... feel the ... shining knife Sir Jim with the shining knife." "I give my name that all know of me, so history do tell... ... a gentle man born..." [Chorus] 2. Certified... ? Release me Erupting Break out from the Bleakhouse Fractured mind Four in one, my storm Escape my fantasies Hollow hear of my disease Angered psychopath unbound Control my mind's common ground I'm avenging a hurt Damn the worms within my brain Causing me to suffer pain Mental imagery imposed My psyche's falling... down I'm avenging a hurt Pulsing along channels Alive with phantom humming Sweting like a rapist I cannot avoid becoming Too much reality in my make believe mind I am dead, but the four live... on See blood everywhere Can't control our vision Forever we're the Ghoul Eternal mental prison 3. Soulstream In oceans of light Haunts the bleak river Mindless spectre Summons malice without thought [Chorus :] Insane paradox of dreams gone awry Stalked and thrown onto funeral pyres Yeah, The wrathful one A screaming sea, fould shore [Chorus] Sound without substance Whispers softly and low The waters speak and roar Echoes in the skull Each drop a human soul Born from tragedy Drowning victims amplify It's desire to conceive [Chorus] Seek the lake of voices Fluid chorus of loss Destroyed in order Created in chaos Smothered ! Identity cast to the flow Slave ! To water's illusion Your body dissolves Fettered ! Existance to the whole Never break ! The walls between the realms Flesh wound never bleed But yearn for the depths Agony, there's no peace Even in death Dark wisdom brings power An illusion deceived Union of fellow souls I wept as it entered me Insane paradox of dreams gone awry Stalked and thrown onto funeral pyres 4. Where Flies Are Born Our unity of war and art Lost the human creed Here you're no more than a shade Of blood that never bleeds The silence breaks, the die is cast Ignore our final pleas Engage insanity World falls to it's knees Sound the knell of jealousy Unheard dying's scron Genocide prodigiously Where flies are born Warhorse died on this impure realm Defiant in it's death Smelled the fragrant bitter blood And draws it's final breath Begin the crimson dust decay Commence the fall of light Atavistic human trait Born of chaotic night Blood pain [x2] Tranquill peace attained by strife Now all is lost Season of the ice arrives The killing frost Blood pain [x2] 5. Answer To Me Such a gruesome bleeding heart Stabbing against the thrust Those vicous memories Of broken trust The bitter food of hatred I will force feed You'll suffer my indifferrence Answer to me My faith in you destroyed By hypocrisy It retards your thinking Answer to me Retard your thinking Answer to me Broken chains of honesty Fallen without grace I return the favour On your second face I am not the reason Deceit reigned within Since you cast the first stone Are you without sin ? Scutinize - NO ! Retard your thinking Carrion ways, no power to judge Brimmed with aggressive scorn Damn your name, forever wish You were never born Tragedy - Your obsession Retard your thinking - My oppression Sympathize - NO ! Retard your thinking The final remnants erased Your identity Retard your thinking Answer to me 6. Griefgiver Writhing in pain Your third eye blinks, untamed We were one to live Now there's but grief you give Griefgiver Dread the hurt Crush me in the dirt Panic, extol Angers my mind and soul Evolve, inherent living hate We divide as you subjugate Disreguard, pre-empt the deed To avenge I'll not concede Griefgiver Evolve, inherent living hate We divide as you subjugate You proclaim grief to me My existance, your disease Evolve, inherent living hate To amend is far too late Enraged inside your grip Now alone, your power trip Griefgiver 7. Denial You guard your mind, your thoughts must not devour Your soul at crux will cower And the image is mine Taunting you, unleash eternal time Am I what you see ? Rising doubts will forever be set free Torment, I return From thoughts you've had and are now left to burn The degree of heat Denial of lies, the words are incomplete Yet what is said is true All you fear cannot be miscontrued Bizarre made flesh - The heart arrest What you fear most - Will haunt the host I'm whole, I become as one Evil thoughts extinguishing the sun And in the void I thrive Fear / strength, it procreates the hive And the tears burn Forced desires you are soon to learn Bizarre made flesh - The heart arrest What you fear most - Will haunt the host Guard your minds, your thoughts have all devoured Your soul at crux it cowered And the image was mine Taunted you, unseashed eternal time I am what you see Rising doubts, forever you're set free 8. Negative Growth Benign, the human form Malignancy disease Metastasis major cause Migration of the beast Tumour Invasion Into the strem Disturbed balance of life Trigger wound response And await to die Outright attack Prognosis made And the growth will spread As cells break away Blistering assault on pure Gnawing into cells Slow disease, yet so demure Struggling you ail Insidious disease Evicts me from my life Disfiguring, absurd The inner parasite Soul destroying, my skin crawls Unseen, my body fights a war Dig deep the healthy flesh My miserable remnant Ruined by this ruthless waste Paying my penance Reproduce so disorderly Through bloodstream malignance flows Detected early, a surgical cure Perchance a growth in the bones Blistering assault on pure Gnawing into cells Slow demise, and so demure Listen, funeral bells 9. Path Of The Serpent No gods or masters, where destiny lies Underworld of Elysium exempt on my demise Father leaders leech to your mind In growling hunger repent Obituary, engraved tombstone Fiercely branded on the soul [Chorus :] Truth stands as one Monolith stands alone Roots in the path of the serpent Lies a worthless throne Gross theology twisted inside Enthroning dark here instead Stream of consciousness flowing out Beget all faiths my crying doubt [Chorus] Inside intriges me for your vision's veiled Monolith cracks, light has flown... ha ! Your faith will fail ! Broken faiths - fade away Twisted war - feeding on it's twisted hate Reach the end of the labyrinth Where the nightmare's sin Start from this waking dream Screaming in the wind Never find eternity Denied divinity... The Path of the Serpent ! Never violate paradise Or walk the darkened trail Idolatry your misjudgement Never ending tale A never ending tale. SO BE IT !!! 10. Saneless Theory Obscure opression, from within Controlled behavious Mass suppression in complex systems Dictate before the birth [Chorus :] Underlying confusion Life breaks free A mournful expansion Saneless Theory Those detractors unnatural order Erratic recursion of thought Irrational change, the aspect of life Chaotic order sought [Chorus] Regularity / Random Fractal complexity Witness sterile fluctuation Saneless Theory Ruling powers assimilate Overshadow, subjugate No predictions an unfound dream Egress reality Yet deviations are amplified Into chaotic theme Enter Chaos ! Their passionate numbness Ascetic credibly Hidden in the emerging field of Saneless Theory. 11. The Dreams You Dread Gross abominations Dreams that haunt your sleep Dying to awaken Unheard cries you weep Inner vision drowning Shredding terrors nears Clogging lungs you're choking on Hallucinogenic fears [Chorus :] Incubus, disturbing nightmare Locked inside your head Assassinating rational thought The dreams you dread Oppose the phobid landscape or you'll Suffer anxiety Self witch - hunting pretrifies Aghast reality [Chorus] Your own agression Generates the dreams you dread [Chorus] Benediction are : Peter Rew Darren Brookes Dave Ingram Frank Healy Neil Hutton Production team by Crazy Al King & Paul Johnston Technicians : Lee "Fat Bloke" Smith & The Colonel Management by Craig Fenney for Rubicon Management Paperwork by John, Seeley & Jeene Jones For booking contact : Craig Fenney P.O. Box 2653 Northfield Birmingham B31-5NZ England "The Dreams You Dread" was recorded at Rhythm Studios during February 1995. It was produced by Benediction, Paul Johnston & Markus Staiger Cover art by David Palsar Anything to say ? Contact the only official Benediction address : P.O. Box 2653 Northfield Birmingham B31-5NZ England Due to the increased amount of mail we receive, we ask you to include two international reply coupons (2 IRC's) or a self addressed envelope (English stamps only) for a definite reply and to be patient As always Benediction would like to take this opportunity to thank you for buying this album & for all your support over the last 7 years you never let us down. The scene is stronger than ever thanx to you... The true metalheads. 1995 Nuclear Blast