Cannibal Corpse
Red Before Black
1. Only One Will Die
A violent conflict
Between two foes
At close quarters
Pound and slash, the blood will flow
Barbaric melee
A hateful duel
Shared abhorrence gives the conflict
Fuel
Add to the fire
Lies
Resentment built
For years
Now
It's time to end this
Fight
Until the death
Striking to kill
Only one
Only one will die
The cracking bones
And shattered teeth
Wounds are swelling
Lacerations running deep
Losing blood
But still we fight
Both resolved to end the other's
Life
The only answer
Hate
Can only end
With death
Now
It's time to end this
Fight
Until the death
Striking to kill
Only one
Only one will die
Both of us are killers
Both of us are evil men
Unforgiving murderers today may kill again
Both of us will throttle
Strangling with rage
Both consumed by madness, revenge has us enslaved
Both are badly wounded
And struggle to survive
Both are fighting to the death but only one will die
Both of us will bludgeon
Both of us will pound
Facial bones will splinter soon, the blood will drench the ground
Both are rending flesh
Both are gouging eyes
Escalating violence, the brawl intensifies
Both of us will throttle
Strangling with rage
Both consumed by madness, revenge has us enslaved
Both are badly wounded
And struggle to survive
Both are fighting to the death but only one will die
Kill
The only answer
Hate
Can only end
With death
Now
It's time to end this
Fight
Until the death
Striking to kill
Only one
Only one will die
2. Red Before Black
Knives brought the blood
That's on the ground
Blood will paint the sky
Into darkness
Overtorture lacerated sacrificial decimation
Overviolent mutilation brutally eviscerated
Dead beyond dead
Red before black
Made to suffer through the torture
Red then black into the unknown
With no coming back
Red before black
Disemboweling frantically
Pure ecstasy pure misery
Blood flows from the attack
Cut for the blood
Dried on the ground
Blood painted the sky
Through the darkness
Overviolent mutilation brutally eviscerated
Overkilling eradicated monumental crimson staining
Dead beyond dead
Red before black
Made to suffer through the torture
Red then black into the unknown
With no coming back
Red before black
Disemboweling frantically
Pure ecstasy pure misery
Blood flows from the attack
Bleed before death bleed during death bleed after death
Perpetual bloodshed onslaught through hatred
Solo – O'Brien
Overtorture lacerated sacrificial decimation
Overviolent mutilation brutally eviscerated
Dead beyond dead
Red before black
Made to suffer through the torture
Red then black into the unknown
With no coming back
Red before black
Disemboweling frantically
Pure ecstasy pure misery
Blood flows from the attack
3. Code Of The Slashers
Systematic in our ways of attack
Deviant by nature this is our habitat
Once you've entered there's no chance of escape
Next thing you know cold steel in your face
Your predetermined fate is in our hands
Deliverance of pain upon the stroke of our knives
Predatory impulses controlling our minds
You make a sound we'll end your fucking life
Gripping you right by the throat no chance to run
Horror unfolds
Ripping apart the souls of the ones we hunt
The slashers code
Extremely rapacious
Insatiable bloodlust
We'll kill anyone who comes at us
Jagged are the knives we wield
You know you're gonna lose this fight
Your hands a useless shield
Blood is gonna spray tonight
Provided by our steel
Accept the violence
Gripping you right by the throat no chance to run
Ripping apart the souls of the ones we hunt
Jagged are the knives we wield
You know you're gonna lose this fight
Your hands a useless shield
Blood is gonna spray tonight
Provided by our steel
Accept the violence
[Solo: O'Brien]
[Solo: Barrett]
Jagged are the knives we wield
You know you're gonna lose this fight
Your hands a useless shield
Blood is gonna spray tonight
Provided by our steel
Accept the violence
Systematic in our ways of attack
Deviant by nature this is our habitat
Once you've entered there's no chance of escape
Next thing you know cold steel in your face
Your predetermined fate is in our hands
Deliverance of pain upon the stroke of our knives
Predatory impulses controlling our minds
You make a sound we'll end your fucking life
We'll end your fucking life
We'll end your fucking life
4. Shedding My Human Skin
Up from the depths of creation
To dwell among a world for the weak
Confined to this creature of foreign flesh substance
Reformed from within
A savage conclusion impending
Demonic invasion of a dominant hierarchy
Alternate paths of temptation
In tongues an evil purity will speak
Symbolic redemption through an imminent transformation
Human in form but not of this earth, species reborn
Blood uniform is worn in disgust, will violently be shredded and torn
Human in form, a vicious rebirth from not of this earth, species reborn
Blood uniform is worn in disgust, will violently be shredded and torn
Slow slicing
Mutating through the blood
Self carving
Erupting from within
Shedding my human skin
Human in form but not of this earth, species reborn
Blood uniform is worn in disgust, will violently be shredded and torn
Human in form, a vicious rebirth from not of this earth, species reborn
Blood uniform is worn in disgust, will violently be shredded and torn
Savage conclusion impending
In tongues an evil purity will speak
Demonic invasion of a dominant hierarchy
5. Remaimed
All that remains
Are those that were remaimed
Crush the village and plunder
Like many times before
Rape the women and slaughter all the children
Everyone is mangled and deformed
They all have lost a limb or two
With another one to follow
Decaying torn off penises
Which the men were made to chew and swallow
Subjected to these atrocities
Like many times before
The women bore bastard children who were mangled and deformed
Born without a limb or two
Like it fucking matters
At most they'll live for several years until the next raid occurs
The first time they came
All were horribly maimed
And every time after
Remaimed through sick laughter
Remaimed
Remaimed until they die
Die from being maimed again
Remaimed
The first time they came
All were horribly maimed
And every time after
Remaimed through sick laughter
Remaimed
Remaimed until they die
Die from being maimed again
Remaimed
6. Firestorm Vengeance
Venomous blood courses through our veins
Poisoned by indignation
So much blood on their callous hands
Cruelty their ruination
Firestorm vengeance
Firestorm vengeance
They sought to oppress
Under duress
Never thinking of this day
No cheeks were turned
Now the bodies burn
And the tyrants writhe in pain
No mercy for the merciless
The time for that has passed
Flagellate before they burn
They scream with every lash
Ravaging their halls of torture and death
Craving retribution
Winds of hatred fan the flames
Reprisal's conflagration
Firestorm vengeance
Firestorm vengeance
Firestorm vengeance
Searing heat chars their flesh
Burning judgment
Punish them
Furious inferno
They cry in pain
No mercy
Firestorm
Payback for their crimes
No escape from this hell
They will burn here
Flames consume
Bodies burnt to the bone
Reduced to coals
The oppressors pay
Firestorm
Persecution ends
Firestorm
Despot burn in hell
Firestorm vengeance
Firestorm vengeance
Firestorm vengeance
7. Heads Shoveled Off
Back in Nam he killed a man
A shovel was used to cut his head off
Now forever changed lust to decapitate
Chop at the neck to keep the skull intact
Going insane
Come back deranged
He buries his victims
Only the heads exposed
The screams don't bother him
But he likes to make them stop
Eyes wide open
As they see the shovel
Coming at them slowly
Blood spurts through the air
Head detaches from the body
The eyes can still see but
The brain starts to die rapidly
Back in Nam he killed a man
Many more would die
Shovels used to cut their heads off
Now forever changed lust to decapitate
Chop at the neck to keep the skull intact
Going insane
Come back deranged
The open neck holes fester
Ravaged by the vultures
Bodies for the insects and
The skulls are for the collection
Brains and eyes are eaten
Gnaw the skin though rotten
Only bones will remain but
The skulls are for the collection
Killings confirmed by the hundreds
Were carried out after the war in due time
Killings confirmed by the thousands
Were carried out after the war with his mind
Heads shoveled off
8. Corpus Delicti
Enter the scene, horrific violence, deceptive pretense
Feeble attempt to mislead with false evidence, corpus delicti
Luminol reveals the truth
Blood spatter throughout the entire room
Virtue is choked out by foul ambition
Welcome to the killing room
Capricious malevolence
No body, no homicide
Imaginary intruder
Contributing blood continuously
Bleach the stains
Forward to entropy
Luminol reveals the truth
Blood spatter throughout the entire room
Virtue is choked out by foul ambition
Welcome to the killing room
Enter the scene, horrific violence, deceptive pretense
Feeble attempt to mislead with false evidence, corpus delicti
Capricious malevolence
No body, no homicide
Imaginary intruder
Contributing blood continuously
Bleach the stains
Forward to entropy
9. Scavenger Consuming Death
[Music and lyrics by Alex Webster]
Hammers swing, cracking their skulls
Blades slash, spraying their blood
He waits, watching them kill
When they're done, he will feed
Scavenger consuming death
Yield of violence gives him life
Scavenger consuming death
Parasite awaits your demise
[Solo - O'Brien]
Viscera, torsos torn
Chopping off legs and arms
Sounds of violence draw him near
Soon he'll feed, soon he'll feed
Scavenger consuming death
Yield of violence gives him life
Scavenger consuming death
Parasite awaits your demise
Scavenger consuming death
Body parts and severed heads
Scavenger consuming death
Human vulture seeks your end
Scavenger
Gruesome forager
Tracking murderers
What they leave behind will feed this ghoulish fiend
Cannibal
Waits for you to fall
Insatiable
Your mangled corpse will soon become his latest meal
They have died
Eat their flesh
Before they rot
Gnaw and tear
The fresh meat
Leave only bones
A morbid harvest, once alive
Murdered, butchered, eaten, they're gone
Exploit the carnage, he survives
Hunting, waiting, reaping, death's spawn
Eat them all
[Solo - Barrett]
Scavenger consuming death
Yield of violence gives him life
Scavenger consuming death
Parasite awaits your demise
Scavenger consuming death
Body parts and severed heads
Scavenger consuming death
Human vulture seeks your end
10. In The Midst Of Ruin
The present has become the past
Mayhem and chaos foreboding
Brought back to the dark ages
Modern technology wiped from the earth
A world darkened once again
In the midst of ruin we will be
Anarchy
Malicious indifference ruling the land
You'd better be ready to die
It's kill or be killed
Barely surviving through primitive warfare
Only the strongest will thrive
I will not be killed
Every man for himself
Most of them turn to suicide
The populace forced to revert
Lacking in normalcy
Anarchy
In the midst of ruin
Most life will cease to exist
Malicious indifference ruling the land
You'd better be ready to die
It's kill or be killed
Barely surviving through primitive warfare
Only the strongest will thrive
I will not be killed
The present has become the past
Mayhem and chaos foreboding
Brought back to the dark ages
Modern technology wiped from the earth
A world darkened once again
In the midst of ruin we will be
Anarchy
11. Destroyed Without A Trace
Festering morbid decay
Saturates the air again
Stenches of a different pleasure
Boiling blood hole deepens
Filled with remains, once pitiful lives
Slaughtered day by day
Die without a face
Destroyed without a trace
Vanished when unfit for life
Betrayal not uncommon
Severed for the sacrifice
Appease the inner demon
Filled with remains, once pitiful lives
Boiling blood hole deepens
Die without a face
Destroyed without a trace
Given away
Life is taken away
Coordinate the mutilations
Simplify the deviance
Rectify the situation
Bodies chopped with diligence
Discarded humans melting fast
Enveloped in putrid vapor
Slaughtered day by day
Destroyed without a trace
Given away
Life is taken away
Morbid decay
In vain they have suffered and died
Gathered for the execution, brutal murders one by one begin
They will die, they will die, they will die, they will die
Dissected for incineration, chosen for annihilation
They will die, they will die, they will die, they will die
Never to be seen or heard
Now just a memory gone for all eternity
Cast into non-existence
Given away
Life is taken away
Festering morbid decay
Saturates the air again
Stenches of a different pleasure
Boiling blood hole deepens
Filled with remains, once pitiful lives
Slaughtered day by day
Die without a face
Destroyed without a trace
Gathered for the execution
Brutal murders one by one begin
Dissected for incineration
Chosen for annihilation
Never to be seen or heard
Now just a memory gone for all eternity
Burnt into non-existence
Given away
Life is taken away
Morbid decay
In vain they have suffered and died
12. Hideous Ichor
Decay, distinct and putrid
Moldering remnants compel
Fetor, the stench entices me
Singular insanity guiding me, driving me
Consume the putrefied rot
Bodies of the dead
Nourish me
Madness, obsessive hunger
Sickening urges demand
Offal, I crave voraciously
Cadaver in the cemetery beckoning, summoning
Ghastly fumes diffuse retch
Flowing from within
I must drink
Hideous ichor drips from the coffin
Inside the corpse has stirred
Horrors within my sustenance
But is is truly dead?
Hideous ichor exudes from the crypt
Necrotic but somehow alive
The eyes of the dead blankly stare
But did it truly die?
Siphoning of the blood
Plunging my hands in rot
Macabre desire, death
Macabre desire, death
Feeding this ghoulish urge
To give me strength this way
Macabre desire, death
Macabre desire, death
Was I hunting it
Or was it luring me
Macabre desire, death
Macabre desire, death
Hideous ichor drips from the coffin
Inside the corpse has stirred
Horrors within my sustenance
But is is truly dead?
Hideous ichor exudes from the crypt
Necrotic but somehow alive
The eyes of the dead blankly stare
But did it truly die?
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