Salem Playing God And Other Short Stories 1. Drums Of The Dead Part 1 2. Drums Of The Dead Part 2 3. The Privileged Dead 4. Exodus 5. Downfall Of Paris Part 1 6. Downfall Of Paris Part 2 7. The Mark Of The Beast Part 1 8. Beast Lullaby 9. The Mark Of The Beast Part 2 10. The Mark Of The Beast Part 3 11. I Hate Pigs! 12. Playing God 1. Drums Of The Dead Part 1 When our voice has been muted And our flesh is met with steel... See More When a quick end seems like an option Our trampled dignity takes with bliss The contemptible, the dispirited Prayed for years, something answered The dejected, the faltered, Say it's time to Dance to the beat of a different drum Dance to the beat of the drums of the dead In trance pounding your life away The long forgotten dead are longing for home Drums of the dead, the beat's in your head If you survive the middle passage Loss of Freedom will be your gain Loss of family, your own humanity From now on you'll pray for death The contemptible, the dispirited Prayed for years, something answered The dejected, the faltered, Say it's time to Dance to the beat of a different drum Dance to the beat of the drums of the dead In trance pounding your life away The long forgotten dead are longing for home Drums of the dead, the beat's in your head 2. Drums Of The Dead Part 2 Scurvy, smallpox, syphilis, typhoid Starvation, laceration, mutilation, rape Drums of the dead The beat's in your head Born of prayers of a thousand dead souls Chained by fate down the abyss God in drum, protector of spirits Yearning for home so their bones rest in peace Sorrow, anger, confusion, fear Branding, clubbing, drowning, death Slave traders, death dealers Misinterpreters of right and wrong Vengeance from beyond the grave Will make you pray for death Ancestors, forefathers Avengers of helpless souls Pound your justice upon our own Who sold their blood, make them wish and pray for death 3. The Privileged Dead The end of the world, at least as we know it This is the mantra of those not earth bound They are the chosen, they are the martyrs The ones who deciphered the meaning of life The privileged dead Are you privileged? The world's at its end and we don't even know it This is a mantra for those left behind Alive and still breathing, hurting while dreaming Unlike the ones who are not still around The privileged dead Are you privileged? The more I dig into it Questions are raised Life should be cursed Death to be praised 4. Exodus [Bob Marley cover] Men and people will fight you down When you see Jah light Let me tell you if you're not wrong Everything is all right So we gonna walk through the roads of creation We the generation Trod through great tribulation Exodus Movement of Jah people Open your eyes and look within Are you satisfied with the life you're living? We know where we're going We know where we're from We're leaving Babylon We're going to our Father land Exodus Movement of Jah people Send us another Moses From across the Red Sea Jah come break downpression Rule equality Wipe away transgression Set the captives free 5. Downfall Of Paris Part 1 6. Downfall Of Paris Part 2 It will succeed Let's lynch the rich This is the downfall of your kind Sodom, Gomorrah Idol worship in Babylon Eve, Pandora This battle will be won Shortage, plethora Our hatred rages on And so we march A Morning's stride to the gallows tends to sharpen the mind Knowing there will be no tomorrow makes you enjoy today's ride Day is done. Gone the Sun. From the lake, From the sky. Fading light. Dims the sight. Drawing nigh, Falls the night Do you believe that what you see Through the dust and the debris Must be in truth the only key To make us all completely free History is heresy The story and the prophecy Are simply what you make them be A lie transformed into a decree 7. The Mark Of The Beast Part 1 Prince of the power of the air... Then the angel took the censer Filled it with fire from the altar and threw it to the earth Five Calamities Five Disasters Let the Earth Shake Intergalactic collisions Darken the sun Wipe out life The Beast has come Twelve Demons Disciples of the Star Twelve Demons Forcing the mark upon you Twelve Demons Servants of the King of Babylon Twelve Demons Prince of the power of the air Forty-Two months to go The Beast will rule the world below Receive his mark or face your death Believe that God will revive your breath 8. Beast Lullaby 9. The Mark Of The Beast Part 2 One demon calling fire down from the sky Are you Elijah? One demon working miracles to prove he's God You are not prophet Moses The mark of the beast R F I D And that no man might buy Or sell but he that hath The character or the name Of the beast or the number of his name Prophecies for an oblivious world History written in advance You shall have no other gods before Me 10. The Mark Of The Beast Part 3 Ten Nine You have no spine Eight Seven Lost your way to heaven Six Five Die each day yet stay alive Four Three Two One The beast has won This is the sound of perdition It's second coming your way Smoke of their tormented souls Ascends forever and ever They have no rest day or night Drink of the wine of the wrath of God This is the sound of perdition It's second coming your way Ten Nine You have no spine Eight Seven Lost your way to heaven Six Five Die each day yet stay alive Four Three Two One The beast has won 11. I Hate Pigs! 12. Playing God It's fact we can not, can not be immortals. Not all is science, yet. Rumors of resurrected individuals, Remain just rumors. Science on a spree Cracking secrets of our troubled evolution. In the longest running play To beat death We stand in for God. God less, God like, God bless, God Damn, God sent, Tree of knowledge. Play mate, Play ground, Play dead, Play God, Until the end. shervey lenv, mhevl lenv, mevter lenv, mepy beyt deyn shel m'elh. Science can not answer for all that is out there. A temporary state... Perpetual debate. Man made men march towards obscurity, Numbered binary flesh. On a control freak on a leash's demand list; A slave free world. l'evelm adevney debrek neytesb beshemyem. shervey lenv velkem vemhevl lenv velkem vemvetr lenv velkem. shervey lenv, mhevl lenv, mevter lenv, mepy beyt deyn shel m'elh.