Kreator Terrible Certainty Line-Up on "Terrible Certainty": Mille - vocals, guitars Tritze - guitars Rob - bass Ventor - drums BLIND FAITH Roman Empire, Christian persecution is here Strongest desire: eradicate the new sectarians Hunting down those who pray the new words Awaiting their fall, the thumbs down for the end The arena is prepared, the crowd awaiting the spectacle "They think they're not alone - 'God is always with you'" Religious figment of your mind Pacifist you are so blind Pray to God to send you a miracle Believe the visions of your brain As we start sadistic games You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH! Feeding the lions with the meat of the christians Order of the emperor, circus of deluded minds Women and children, the young and the old All who are awaiting the new messiah Bloodlust fills the crowds minds, the massacre has begun There is no Saviour, you're alone! Why doesn't God help you now? Religious figment of your mind Pacifist you are so blind Pray to God to send you a miracle Believe the visions of your brain As we start sadistic games You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH! The Lions come storming in, the spectacle begins The crowd is as one on their feet - see Christians bleed! The emperor is standing proud, he satisfies the crowd Playing games with the damned - they die hand in hand After it's over, the massacre[Sings "slaughter"] is done Clearing the arena, the next game will soon come They sang songs of praise as they died No Pain on their Faces, only a smile Prepare the arena again! our work is not yet done So many are still free and the crowd is soon hungry again Religious figment of your mind Pacifist you are so blind Pray to God to send you a miracle Believe the visions of your brain As we start sadistic games You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH! STORMING WITH MENACE A black cloud hangs over your existence All of your thoughts dismal and gray The end of compassion lies in the distance Your future only falseness and dismay Storming with menace Falsehood rules their brains Storming with menace Lies Hate and Dismay Storming with menace Hatred grows in me Storming with menace It rules them ,you will see You are taught to storm through barricades Breaking down walls, leaving ruins behind Your victims cannot be sure of their future Confused and terrorised are their minds Storming with menace Falsehood rules their brains Storming with menace Lies Hate and Dismay Storming with menace Hatred grows in me Storming with menace It rules them ,you will see Storming with menace Falsehood rules their brains Storming with menace Lies Hate and Dismay Storming with menace Hatred grows in me Storming with menace It rules them ,you will see TERRIBLE CERTAINTY Die! Slowly you're dying From this contagious disease Once you're infected there's no hope of a cure Your passing is a sure thing Your thoughts are empty and hopeless Nothing is left for you now Having to live with this terrible certainty Praying is all you can do It's vicious and crippling and slowly your life will end But how long will it take to save us from the plague With fatal convulsions the plague is reaching for us God knows! What will it take to save us from the plague Contracted by blood The virus can be in us all You're one of it's victims, but then thousands more And they won't be the last So many civilisations before The mighty, the proud and the brave The poor, the rich - Indiscriminate Soon they'll all end in the grave AS THE WORLD BURNS The war is here The future stops Existence ends Apocalypse will take our lives One by one As cities fall As cultures die As hope for survival Turns into nothingness for us Await your fate You know there is nothing to save us now Mankind never learns Controlled by violent brains The population has to pay Doomsday has returned As the world burns Try to run, try to scream It's too late Megatons of death await to explode To clear away Fire and Pain Now the time has come to destroy the planet Earth Await your fate You know there is nothing to save us now Mankind never learns Controlled by violent brains The population has to pay Doomsday has returned As the world burns Await your fate You know there is nothing to save us now Mankind never learns Controlled by violent brains The population has to pay Doomsday has returned As the world burns TOXIC TRACE Pesticide in torrents, how fast it flows Total pollution the earth can't stand much longer Chemical industry brings new diseases The fear of self-destruction is growing stronger Nuclear waste in an uncontrolled deluge Reduces the earth to an airless planet Reformation lies far away Now is your only chance to save it Contamination in every place Condemn the human race Everything will decay Broken down by toxic trace New plagues have come and soon there'll be more Apocalypse not for the first time Suppression is alive and that's for sure Everyone will be annihilated Enforcement of the last eclipse Can't ignore predictions from the past Ignore the warnings of ancient Prophets Every minute of your life could be your last Contamination in every place Condemn the human race Everything will decay Broken down by toxic trace Metamorphoses of the earth to a lifeless desert Voracity for richness, ruin of Mankind Craving more and more, to the world's Requiem This is the earth's last century Now depravation from things that count, to make an easier life for me Total confusions for the non-believers who ignore the writings on the wall Times of suffering for everyone, no-one can hide from reality Social injustice will be no more, without exception, devastate all Times have changed from the past to now The earth is mankind's subject Perfect creation stands over all Experimenting with lethal objects Domination, submission, demand for more De-humanizes the brains of the rulers What gives them the right to menace us all This time will come but then it will be too late NO ESCAPE Treacherous without compassion You sought expression through them all Sadistic and perverted urges Dictated they had to fall Spent your youth in reformatories Where you're hate grew day by day Molested and subjugated Satisfying them in their way Victim of your drives Personification of insanity No escape [* 2] You can't control the instincts inside Never, there is no escape You feel no guilt for what you've done You never thought it was a crime Following you're nature There was never malice meant that time Can't understand the hate against you Can't they see that you were right? You must obey those powerful feelings Coming from inside Victim of your drives Personification of insanity No escape [* 2] You can't control the instincts inside Never, there is no escape Let me live my own life Leave me be, let me satisfy my drives I don't care what they feel When I was young no-one ever cared about me Treacherous without compassion You sought expression through them all Sadistic and perverted urges Dictated they had to fall It makes no difference who you... It won't change - you will see So many lives lost, psychopath Cured you'll never be ONE OF US See the sun for the last time Remember - make your will before you come to this place Choose your weapons and I'll take mine Me or you, no-one knows, we stare into death's face Hit him right between the eyes Only one of us will leave this place alone One of us! [* 2] Beg for mercy and I'll spit at you Say goodbye to everything and everyone you loved A violent death is what you have to face I'm here to terminate, your soul will rise above Hit him right between the eyes Only one of us will leave this place alone One of us! [* 2] Now take ten steps and turn Today there's no return You've got only one try Today one of us will die Sweat is running down your neck As you wait for my attack Your final minute draws near You won't feel pain as you die Hit him right between the eyes Only one of us will leave this place alone [Sings the last line instead] One of us [* 2] I'm the one who leaves this place alive [Se above...] BEHIND THE MIRROR Entering a part of your mind Where reality is lost and time stands still Dreams and nightmares are one Only hell knows if this is real No human being has been here before Not a single soul has seen this before, you are Entering a new world and you are the first The mysteries of life becoming clearer Behind the mirror [* 2] Flying through the black hole Things look strange in this new dimension You expected a brave new world But what is this - only hate and destruction No love, no hope only weakness and violence When you return reality carries on for you Nothing can help you escape from this world A place of hate and terror Behind the mirror [* 2] Born in this world of hate You try to escape through The dimensions you made, trying and trying [again] Scared of live you exist in endless fear [Last part of second verse repeated]