PANTERA
" VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER "
1992
MOUTH
FOR WAR
Revenge.I'm screaming revenge again
wrong.I've been wrong for far too long
been constantly so frustrated,I've moved
mountains with less.When I channel my
hate to productive,I don't find it hard
to impress
Bones in traction
hands break to hone raw energy
bold and disastrous,my ears can't
hear what you say to me
Hold your mouth for the war
use it for what it's for
speak the truth about me
determined.
Possessed.I feel a conquering will down
inside me
Strength.The strength of many to crush
who might stop me
My strength is in number,and my soul
lies in every one.The releasing of anger
can better any medicine under the sun
There comes a time within everyone to close
your eyes to what's real
No comprehension to fail.I vacuum the wind
for my sail can't be the rest,let others waste
my time,owning success is the bottom line.
Like a knife into flesh.After life is to death
Pulling and punching the rest of duration
no one can piss on this determination.
A NEW
LEVEL
Now a new look in my eyes my spirit rise,
forget the past,present tense works and lasts
got shit on,pissed on,spit on,stepped on,fucked
with,pointed at by lesser men
New life in place of old life,unscarred
by trials
A new level of confidence and power
Demanding plea for unity between us all-
united stand,death before divided fall
in mock military order,vulgar,power,I'm patient
because time is shorter
No fucking surrender.
Can't lose.
Life kills.
WALK
Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistance
one step from lashing out at you...
You want in to get under my skin and call your-
self a friend.I've got more friends like you
what do I do ?
(PRE) Is there no standard any more ?
What it takes,who I am,where I've been,belong.
You can't be somthing you're not.
Be yourself,by yourself,stay away from me.
A lesson learned in life,known from
the dawn of time
Respect,walk.
Run your mouth when I'm not around,it's easy
to achieve.You cry to weak friends that
sympathize.Can you hear the violins playing
your song ? Those same friends tell me
your every word
Are you talking to me ?
No way punk.
FUCKING
HOSTILE
Almost every day,I see the same face on
broken picture tube it fits the attitude
If you could see yourself,you put you on a
shelf,you verbal masturbate,promise to nausiate
Today I'll play the part of non-parent,not make
a hundred rules for you to know about yourself
Not lie and make you believe what's evil is
making love,and making friends,and meeting god
your own way,the right way.
To see,to bleed,cannot be taught
In turn,you're making us fucking hostile
We stand alone
The truth in right and wrong,the boundaries of
the law,you seem to miss the point,arresting for
a joint ?!
You seem to wonder why hundreds of people die,
you're writing tickets man,my mom got jumped,
they ran !
Now I'll play the public servant,to serve and
protect by the law and the state
I'd bust the punks that rape,steal,and murder,
and leave you be,if you crossed me,I'd shake
your hand
like a man,not a god
Come meet you maker boy,some things you can't
enjoy,because of heaven/hell,a fucking wives tale
they put it in your head,then put you in your bed
he's watching say your prayers,cause' god is
everywhere
Now I'll play a man learning priesthood,who's
about to take the ultimate test in life,I'd
question things because I am human,and call no one
my father who's no closer than a stranger
I won't listen
THIS
LOVE
If ever words were spoke,painful and untrue
I said I loved but I lied
In my life,all I wanted was the keeping of
someone like you
As it turns out,deeper within me,love was
twisted and pointed at you
- never ending pain,quickly ending life -
You keep this love,thing,child,toy
You keep this love,fist,scar,break
You keep this love
I'd been the tempting one,stole her from herself
this gift in pain,her pain was life
And sometimes,I feel so sorry,I regret this the
hurting of you
but you make me so unhappy,I'd take my life and
leave love with you
- I'd kill myself for you,I'd kill you for myself-
No more head trips
RISE
We've got no time to lose,your news is old news
hate this,hate me,hate this,right approach for
the wrong.It's time to spread the word.Let the
voice be heard.All of us,one of us,all of us,
dominate and take the mother fucking world.
Mass prediction,unification,breathing life into
our lungs.Every creed and every kind to give us
depth for strength.
Taught when we're young to hate one another
It's time to have a new reign of power.Make
pride universal so no one gives in,turn our
backs on those who oppose.Then when confronted
we ask them the question,what's wrong with their
mind ? What's wrong with your mind ?
It's time to rise
We've lived with past mistakes,and we've lived
with our own.Forgive,forget,forgive,be a man
not a child.There are no tears for peace,or the
common sympathies,educate,reinstate,educate,a
thing of past,the trouble in the states.
It's time to rise
NO
GOOD (ATTACK THE RADICAL)
In the states there's a problem with race
because of ignorant past burned fires.
From evolution we've been killing each other
I figure man should have it down to a science
No chance,not for a minute,not for a second I
won't be defensive,I'm straight out in my
opinion,you'd better listen to a man who knows
what he's saying.I've seen your side,you run
and hide for the mere fact that you feel
inferior.Be superior,and know your interior
Race,pride,prejudice
Blackman,whiteman,no stand
Live in the past,we make it last,a hated mass
No solution,mind pollution,for revolution
So low behold my eyes,this land of
fools will rise
No good,for no one
You blame oppression and play the role of
criminals,to rape and burn show progress is
minimal
White hoods and militants you know it's such
a pity,living,breathing,violence in your city
If one man,had one home,in one world,he'd live
alone without variety,full of anxiety,no one
to point at,question,or even talk to - in his
private grave.No matter what color,he wouldn't
be saved from hell,he dwells,a closed mind
playing the part of prison cells
LIVE
IN A HOLE
Full of grief I scream at the wind,thought
I heard the words of others
Imprison myself,and stay in shell.I won't
let you in to have a story to tell
Things tend to drag me down,don't understand
so they hate me now
My fear grips the will of stone
My grip fears I'll die alone
I promised myself somewhere in teenage life
I'd never submit to the ones I will not be like
live in a hole,but stay close to my kind,cause
they understand what burns in my mind
I still feel incomplete,friends are few and
far between
REGULAR
PEOPLE (CONCEIT)
I've trampled on that road,that you think you
own.You have that 'smart ass' attitude,it's time
to stop the fiction
I live it every day,while your mind's far away.
I'm out here putting pride on the line,and you
case on me with pure respect.One chance at one
thing,hard time is coming.
My time,your pain,I reign on you
You think you own,I take away
Take it with me
You think you own,I took away
Make it my own
Most regular people would say it's hard
and any streetwise son of a bitch knows,
don't fuck with this.
Then so many time,you practice in your mirror,
to be just like me,but you just can't see,you
ain't got the balls son
I fight for love of brother,you're friends fight
one another.You can't see because your head's up
your ass,and just in case you think your bad,I
crush your rush,I rule you fool,I'm immovable
stone in your world of weak - I speak
BY
DEMONS BE DRIVEN
Serving the faith,abduction the oath
it lie in wait for the offering.Religion
is old,for drawing the young,purity
withers and dies.Never return to the
ones that provided,children draining
parents of will.I hold out my hand to
bloodless child,I'm taken by the one I
was saving,from death.
By demons be driven
Beckon the call
With decline in mind,end not far,we're
left hanging alone here.He pulls us from
nails,shatters our bones,leaving us crip,
pled and strewn.Boiling my corpse in
the blood of his children,praying for
his god to prevail.Burying us with
loved ones,to sleep with shelled children
of the sixth dimension.
HOLLOW
What's left inside him ? Don't he remember us ?
Can't he believe me ? We seemed like brothers.
Talked for hours last month,about what we
wanna be.I sit now with his hand in mine,
but I know he can't feel...
No one knows,what's done is done,it's
as if he were dead.
I'm close with his mother,and she cries end-
lessly.Lord how we miss him,at least what's
remembered.It's so important to make best
friends in life,but it's hard when my friend
sits with blank expressions
No one knows,what's done is done,it's
as if he were dead.
He as hollow as I alone,now.
He as hollow as I alone,a shell of my friend
just flesh and bone,there's no soul,he sees
no love.I shake my fists at skys above.
Mad at God.
He as hollow as I converse,I wish he'd
waken from this curse,hear my words
before it's through.I want to come in
after you
My best friend
He as hollow as I alone.
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