You think your life's so grad You don't believe a word you say Your feet aren't on the ground You let your life just slip away Just so uncertain of your body and your soul The promises you make, your mind so blank And then you lose control, then you lose control!
I never was the one, the one to say the things you say Never seem to wonder what you say You think you've got your life completely in control Yopu've got a lot to learn, the bridge you burned It's gonna take its toll!!! Pay the burnt bridge toll!!!
So practice what you preach! Practice what you preach! Preach! Practice what you preach! Practice what you preach! Preach! Practice what you preach!
You think your life's so grad You don't believe a word you say Your feet aren't on the ground You let your life just slip away Just so uncertain of your body and your soul The promises you make, your mind so blank And then you lose control, then you lose control!
Pay the burnt bridge toll, then you lose control Pay the burnt bridge toll, so practice what you preach
So practice what you preach! Preach! Practice what you preach! Practice what you preach! Preach!
2. Perilous Nation
[Testament/Skolnick]
Bold is the one who dares to say what he feels Renegation man, to one he yeilds The bleeding hearts and empty minds, hiding words they fear Blind is the one who censors what we see and hear Come into my world and take a journey with me Paint me a portait now, of the things you see
Men are poor and lost in war of ideology No solution will prevail unless we can be Free on anger, free of pain Free of hatred that we obtain Tell me what this place was meant to be
Can you see? Can you see what it does to me? Can you hear? Can you red? Can you see what it did to me!
Totalitarians in a Perilous Nation Forcing through control turns, to desolation Listen to the leader speak, he's your only friend Take a stand in the motherland, take it to the end
Say now what you will, before they make it illegal Time to draw the line, between the bad and the evil Distant times had friendly rules, became its deadliest foe We have heard it all before, the morals come and go
Men are poor and lost in war of ideology No solution will prevail unless we can be Free on anger, free of pain Free of hatred that we obtain Tell me what this place was meant to be Free on anger, free of pain Free of hatred that we obtain Tell me what this place was meant to be
Can you see? Can you see what it does to me? Can you hear? Can you red? Can you see what it did to me, can you hear? Can you read? Can you see what it did to me Can you hear? Can you read? Can you see what it did to me...
3. Envy Life
[Testament/Peterson]
In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic Spirits from te vastly deep Pespond the calls from their broken silence. Make sure you reach does not exceed your grasp All that is to be done before you act In a pact of invoking spirits from the past
Have you lost your mind The dark souls of time Ending life! Ending life!
They see you calling out their names and getting ready Cat in darkness shouding near Trough your virtued youth they'll strike a deal What's to obtain if no pain no gain But to sell your soul you must be insane Wrote your name in blood and then they came
You're as good as dead Te lost souls of time Envy life! Envy life! Life !!!
Have you lost your mind The dark souls of time Ending life! You're as good as dead Te lost souls of time Envy life! Come on down to the house of pain You ear tem calling Shouting out their names in vain. Envy life!
In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic Spirits from te vastly deep Pespond the calls from their broken silence. Make sure you reach does not exceed your grasp All that is to be done before you act In a pact of invoking spirits from the past
You're as good as dead Te lost souls of time Envy life! Envy life! Envy life! Envy life!
4. Time Is Coming
[Testament/Billy]
Yeah! The way I feel, seems to me to be so real So sick and tired you know just how I feel Cops they dress in black, they bid their lives The bribes they stack, so sick and tired Of the same old this and that The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel I dont know, that's the way that it makes me feel!
The man I most resent You might know him through the goverment He'll tax our lives the money's spent He's just the president!!! The land of liberty for all mankind and all to see What's the use, laws a conspirasy The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel I dont know, that's the way that it makes me feel!
Searching for answers to make life complete No need to searc for more questions There for you to see!
The wars that we must fight You dodge the draft before you drive So sick and tired, why can't they realise The rights they sympathise So sick and tried, why can't we live our lives The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel I dont know, that's the way that it makes me feel!
5. Blessed In Contempt
[Testament/Billy, Skolnick, Peterson]
All that can escape me, all I realise That it will come back to me the day father dies. His burning eyes would stare at you I was born a masochist I cried out in pain, as he clences up is fist
Slowly as the years go by, the darkness builds inside Trying to find a passage out, before I lost my mind Incestuous temptation but what is wrong or right Why must I fall victim of hereditary spite
Soon! We will arise, forming despise Conceptual intempt! Blessed in contempt!
Thougts have now come back to me It's time to perpetrate Take me to my sanity, before it gets too late Hear me as I call to you, right here down below Resurrect my will to live, come before I... go!
Soon! We will arise, forming despise Conceptual intempt! Blessed in contempt!
6. Greenhouse Effect
[Testament/Skolnick]
Fools the ones who stray, the raw forest burns away Know wat to believe, this is the air we breathe So te world we know is dying slow in South America Flames are burning down, all the trees to te ground
Time is running low, we can't stay no more Wealth therse people see, fight for eternity Lies they televise paid by their goverment Tere on! It's lingers on And they don't even care in they...
Seal te Planet's fate Crimes tey perpetrate Wasting precious land It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again To stop the madness closing in What will we do when all is lost Environmental holocaust.......repeat
Foes these people go, someone destroyed their home Plagued with disease, left praying on teir kness Laws protect the land, social justice in demand Smoke it fills the air into te atmosphere Now it's time to see a cycle of a tragedy On! It lingers on, and they don't even care if they
Seal te Planet's fate Crimes tey perpetrate Wasting precious land It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again To stop the madness closing in What will we do when all is lost Environmental holocaust.......repeat
7. Sins Of Omission
[Testament/Billy, Peterson, Skolnick]
The day's vanished in the night, soon the children pray Pray themselves alone, te hate build from their pride You can't take away, can't take what they own! The eyes watching from the sky, guides them throug the haze Calling far away, the rain is black as black, black as night Oh let them pray!
False sense of pride, satisfies There's no reason for suicide Use your mind, and hope to find Find the meaning of existence...
The cry's answers wonder why, why it's time to die Time to die alone, cause I'm wasting too much time Wandering down the line reason why I go my own!
False sense of pride, satisfies There's no reason for suicide Use your mind, and hope to find Find the meaning of existence...
8. The Ballad
[Testament/Skolnick,Billy]
I'm not one to say Where my feelings are going when they wither away I pray to see another day My heart's feeling like a needle lost in the hay Restrained to meet again My friend do you think that we ever will I know we are free...
The games are played with your life on the line Some lose, you win if you keep on trying I don't mind doing the time, I'm happier being alive Now I know the truth is your own most sacred lesson I've ever learned I know we are free...