MACHINE HEAD LYRICS

1. Slaughter The Martyr

Broken down, on my knees
Only sound, ears that ring
The silence is so loud
I scream into the void
So hold my hand, walk into oblivion
Go to the cocoon, transformation

The pain emporium
Stripped down and bleeding
Broken of everything but pride
These mental scars I try to hide
My head held in my hands

Scars of sanctity, hatred's purity
Loss of my equilibrium
My soul is turning to ash
This faithless sanitarium

So wave goodbye
Save a prayer
Don't you cry
Don't be scared
For I have thrived
With no fear
Let me die
I'll be there

Slaughter the martyr
Slaughter the martyr

Dawn of the desolate
Prayers to pestilence
Deeper I fall in this descent to madness
Nightfall my nemesis
Dreams drip with violence
Orgies of murder, vicious acts so senseless

Piece by piece the kingdom shatters
Reality in tatters
The curse of chaos slowly consumes
Bruised
Scarred and abused
Suffer my vengeance, paint the world in crimson hues
Paint the world in crimson hues

Time won't heal
This hate I feel
Can't close my eyes
Nightmares that terrorize

I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage
The anger driving me insane

Slaughter the martyr

Brutal and barbarous
Murder so merciless
This blood will quench the thirst for retribution
Heartless, this homicide
Justice so justified
Never last rites, there's only execution

Limb from limb, I tear his body
And leave the carcass rotting
The stench of death is all that atones
Stone
I stand alone
Upon the piles of my enemies' broken bones
Of my enemies' broken bones

Time won't heal
This hate I feel
Can't close my eyes
Nightmares that terrorize

I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage
The anger driving me insane

I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage
The anger driving me insane

Heartbreak, the cross I bare
Endless sorrow fills the blackened air
These pyres where love has died
A fire smothered, emptiness inside
Angel adorned, halo of bullet shells
Into the darkest depths, I cast them to rot in hell
The executioner, no judge, no trial
Killing the killers that perpetuate this act so vile

I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage (Homicidal rage)
The anger driving me insane

I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage (Homicidal rage)
The anger driving me insane, -sane

So wave goodbye
Save a prayer
Don't you cry
Don't be scared
For I have thrived
With no fear
Let me die
I'll be there

2. Choke On The Ashes Of Your Hate

Faithless weaponize, mass corrupted lies, poison everything
False conspiracy, soulless enemy, dead for all to see
Look around and see the great decay
Violence turns the fearful into slaves

Choke
On the ashes of your
Hate
And it's far too late
Look around and see, the great hypocrisy
Glittering inside its rotting cage

Sick society, lost in vanity, paid to slowly die
Lifeless reprobate, soul incarcerate, cutting like a knife
Shoving their vile venom down our throats like Klonopin
Force feed their lies back like medicine

Choke
On the ashes of your
Hate
And it's far too late
Look around and see, the great hypocrisy
Glittering inside its rotting cage

Chaos cratering
Riots, anarchy
Lawlessness abounds
All of us hell-bound
We're the damaged ones
Left with the damage done
We don't care no more
This is fucking war

Chaos cratering
Riots, anarchy
Lawlessness abounds
All of us hell-bound
We're the damaged ones
Left with the damage done
We don't care no more
This is fucking war

Mutator bastard
Bow to your master
Dead men, no worry
Welcome hell's fury

Mock and penalize, vex and victimize, starving refugee
Race identity, burning you and me, cinders char the free
Lowing like a shackled animal
Day of slaughter only time will tell

Choke
On the ashes of your
Hate
And it's far too late
Look around and see, the great hypocrisy
Glittering inside its rotting cage

Choke
On the ashes of your
Hate
And it's far too late
Look around and see, the great hypocrisy
Glittering inside its rotting cage

3. Become The Firestorm

Now become
Kill the pain
I'm breaking the shackles
Endless, let my spirit rise
I will not be denied
Rage against the dying light
Fearless, so vicious and violent
I'll fight this struggle to the death
Until nothing is left
Pounding fists on beaten chest
Scream this 'til my dying breath

Stand strong and fight through the scorn
Become the firestorm
Become the firestorm
Distended, twisted and torn
Become the firestorm
Become the firestorm

Watch me burn
The fury is frightening
Deathless, smash and conquer all
Time to beckon the call
Stand with me and never fall
Toxic, the pious and poisoned
Heartless, trust there's no love lost
And no matter the cost
Don't believe that all is lost
Kill this mental holocaust

Stand strong and fight through the scorn
Become the firestorm (the firestorm),
Become the firestorm (the firestorm)
Distended, twisted and torn
Become the firestorm (the firestorm),
Become the firestorm (the firestorm)

Honor, valor, I have shone
Courage, respect carved in stone
Killers, sinners are my flock
Slaughter, carnage, butcher's block

If there was ever a time in my life
That time is now
Take this weakness that cuts like a knife
And smash it down

Come on

If there was ever a time in my life
That time is now
Take this weakness that cuts like a knife
And smash it down

Stand strong and fight through the scorn
Become the firestorm
Become the firestorm
Distended, twisted and torn
Become the firestorm
Become the firestorm

Stand strong and fight through the scorn
Become the firestorm
Become the firestorm
Distended, twisted and torn
Become the firestorm
Become the fire

Become the firestorm

4. Overdose

I'm sorry, the overdose was too strong, we lost her...

5. My Hands Are Empty

Misery, cover me in waves
This heartache is slowly
Withering, I become her slave
Succumb to the darkness

Suffocating like I'm drowning in sand
Depression's got me by her cold dead hands
Treachery, the choices you made
Cut my heart open with this golden blade

My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently

Medicate, I watched you slowly die
The powders and pills
Disintegrate, you right before my eyes
The emptiness haunts me

Glass reflections of a cold dead stare
Ingesting chemicals of death with no care
Memories, they haunt me they stain
Of what you once meant to me before this pain

My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently

I, I will not hide these scars of mine
(Take away the shame)
I, I will not be what's left behind
(Find someone else to blame)
Forgiveness, constricted
No longer human
A ghost in time

I, I will not hide these scars of mine
(Take away the shame)
I, I will not be what's left behind
(Find someone else to blame)
Forgiveness, constricted
No longer human
A ghost in time

My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently
My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently

6. Unhallowed

I feel no one will ever listen
The remnants of an empty soul
The ghost of monumental failure
Unhallowed

I feel no one will ever listen
The remnants of an empty soul
The ghost of monumental failure
Unhallowed

I lay in bed awake, the anguish slowly aches
I'm starring at a dark abyss and wondering why...
Crawling back to the womb, my depression a tomb, there's a fog inside my mind
So much hatred and doom, when the dead roses bloom, as I sabotage my pride

Mind is fading
Going crazy (Now)

I feel dead inside
An empty soul
And what was once my life
Is unhallowed

I feel no one will ever listen
The remnants of an empty soul
The ghost of monumental failure
Unhallowed

Time slipping through my hands, like granules of sand
This rusted razor blade is looking all too kind
When I close my eyes, thoughts of suicide, there's an ache inside my soul
Just a shell of a man, in these hopeless hands, blackened heart is stitched and sewn

Mind is fading
Going crazy now

I feel dead inside
An empty soul
And what was once my life
Is unhallowed

I will not collapse, strong against the pressure
This final relapse, defiant gesture
Headstrong I overcome, lion's den of enemies
Tight lips, play dumb, in the belly of the beast

Unbound rage, the punishment of concrete
Pure in hate, malevolence I will defeat
From crimson sky, I am this dark eternity

New life begins
When darkness dies, I'm born again
These frozen bones remind me I'm so

Cold and alone
For the shame I've caused this throne
Broken crown, weighs me down
But my demons I can't drown

I feel no one will ever listen
The remnants of an empty soul
The ghost of monumental failure
Unhallowed

I feel no one will ever listen
The remnants of an empty soul
The ghost of monumental failure
Unhallowed

7. Assimilate

We must fight for what we believe in
No one is going to do it for us
We must do this ourselves
When we are hungry, we must be the hunters
When we are thirsty, we must drink their blood
We will either be killed by those who ask us to bow to them
Or we will be the ones who kill
We will kill the enemy

8. Kill Thy Enemies

Kill thy enemies
Forge your destiny
Love will set you free
Rise this dynasty

Bloody and belligerent, delusions made of their foment
Agonizing arrogance, white privilege and the folly of pride
These are the battles of time
Death cult, tired and blind
There is no comprise with their kind
This nation's vast divide

Kill thy enemies
Forge your destiny
Love will set you free
Rise this dynasty

Traitors and seditionists, betray our country to cultists
Hatred and maliciousness, Jim Crow and a Bible of lies
My heart is turning to stone
Blood oath, iron, and bone
Remembering the wolves are at the gates
These fascists lie in wait
I'm asking you to heed the call

Kill thy enemies
Forge your destiny
Love will set you free
Rise this dynasty
Our hearts will never bleed
Our strength will never cede
Iron and dignity
Manifest destiny

Our hearts will never bleed
Our strength will never cede
Iron and dignity
Manifest destiny

Kill thy enemies
Forge your destiny
Love will set you free
Rise this dynasty

Our hearts will never bleed
Our strength will never cede
Our hearts will never bleed
Our strength will never cede
Our hearts will never bleed
Our strength will never cede

9. No Gods, No Masters

The helm of awe and terror
Protector of the realm
Savior of all its bearer
In battles never fell
Behold the eye of conjuring
The demon's hell unleashed
Ascension lost in wandering
Our spirits facing East

Gomorrah's decadence
A feast of pain
Sodom a sanctuary
Across the plains
The common knowledge burned
To hell we're sent
Dying for dissidence
The punishment

No gods, no masters
No lords above

Psalms to a broken idol
The elegies we sing
Praying to lust so carnal
Pleasure temptations bring
Silent and stoic faces
We curse the crimson sky
Our blood is slowly boiling
Knowing that we may die

Fractured and battered lives
We fed the curse
This chaos cavernous
Deep in the earth

The books of nevermore
They are the past
Crossing the Rubicon
The die is cast

No gods, no masters
No lords above
No gods, no masters
No lords above

We're past the point of no return
Religion's flame, watches the world burn
Unchain your life from Christianity
Unleash thy destiny

No gods
No masters
Shall tell me how to live
No gods
No masters
Shall tell me how to live

No gods, no masters
No lords above
No gods, no masters
No lords above

10. Bloodshot

Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow
Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow

Acid rain, a nuclear fog
Inhumane, a crack in the cog
The wheels of my mind spinning, trapped in these hallucinations
Arteries bursting with hatred
Capillaries sickened by blood
Synapses spin a sonic vortex of our devastation

Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow
Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow

Chemicals burning the ocean
Tentacles, strangling motion
Constricting around the neck, like fingers of a shattered soul
Fractal image splitting in horror
Fracking ripping holes in the soil
Fossils of centuries, spill our mother's sacred oil

Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow
Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow

Corrupting, disgusting
So vile and inhumane
Your profit and power
It's burning all the same

A storm is raging in a severed sky
The ice will melt and the seas will rise
Nowhere to run from the violent rage
Accept your wretched fate

Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow
Bloodshot, bloodshot
My eyes are bleeding carnage
Bloodshot, bloodshot
Curse them all and make them bow

Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Curse them all and make them bow
Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Bloodshot (Bloodshot)
Curse them all and make them bow

11. Rotten

My mouth is cracked and dry
The words are choking by
My teeth are gritting at the rage I'm feeling
My stomach tied in knots
Jaw clenched and muscles taut
About to explode inside the anger building

I've sat with gun in hand
Barrel to temple, can't understand
Bleeding an open sore
These wounds I can't ignore
I am the misbegotten
Lest this horror be forgotten
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the

Black blood red pill
Razor and scar
Love cut hate kill
This is a war

I stare into the black
Anxiety attack
My heart is racing as my throat's constricting
With every cut and scrape
My skin it palpitates
Lying awake I feel the terror grip me

This nightmare never ends
Suffer my demons
Weather the bends
Drowning in misery
And negativity
Walk shores of the downtrodden
Anthems to the misbegotten
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the

Black blood red pill
Razor and scar
Love cut hate kill
This is a war
War

Powerless
Life endless
Infected
Dejected

The lying liars say their spineless vile hypocrisies
The burning pyres blaze their timeless animosity
Will you stand beside me
And fight to change the world

Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten
Anthems to the misbegotten
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten to the core
Everything is rotten

(Powerless)
Everything is rotten to the core
(Life endless)
Everything is rotten to the core
(Infected)
Everything is rotten to the core
(Dejected)
Everything is rotten to the core
(Life endless)
Everything is rotten to the core
(Infected)

12. Terminus

- What I've become?

- You have created the world in which you live

- How could I have done this?

- You were only doing what you believed was right

- How could I forgive myself?

- The truth will set you free

- I accept my fate. Our souls must be set free

13. Arrows In Words From The Sky

Break the silence
The clouds lift in the dawn inside my mind
Is the darkness casting a reflection?
Staring at a broken mirror wanting
Can't ever realize
You say that you believe
But do you know the reason why?
Centuries of pain, under a paper sword
Arrows in words from the sky

Breaking dawn
(I am reborn)
Right the wrong
(The ark of justice)
Holding on
(By a thread I'll)
Carry on
And rise above this

Pain
How you gently strip my confidence
Away
How your sweet caress is black and blue and
Gray
Archers at the ready, bows drawn aiming high
Arrows in words from the sky

Buried songs
(Anthems to a)
Frozen sun
(Her cold will strengthen)
Fighting on (This war, no more)
(Lift up your brother)
Night is long (My heart, so dark)
Keep pushing through this

Pain
How you gently strip my confidence
Away
How your sweet caress is black and blue and
Gray
Archers at the ready, bows drawn aiming high
Arrows in words from the sky

The sky is darkest just before the dawn so keep the faith
And wipe away your tears and wipe the spit off of your face
A spirit's buried inside, you were meant to shine a light
Glow incandescent, let them fear the fire burning bright

Shine
Burn your fire
Bright
Burn away the

Pain
How you gently strip my confidence
Away
How your sweet caress is black and blue and
Gray
Archers at the ready, bows drawn aiming high
Arrows

Pain
How you gently strip my confidence
Away
How your sweet caress is black and blue and
Gray
Archers at the ready, bows drawn aiming high
Arrows in words from the sky

14. Exteroception

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MACHINE HEAD LYRICS