STEELWING LYRICS

1. Enter The Wasteland

[Instrumental]

2. Headhunter

From ancient times we came
Moving silently
Killing for the game
Oh, you will fear me

Are you the hunter
Are you the prey
If you don't strike first it will be your last mistake
There's nowhere you can run to

Gotta move fast
No one can hide
I must find the last
The last one alive
Doesn't matter if they're friend or foe

Love is not for you
Too many times you've lost
When they see me coming
It's time to count the cost

In the shadows
Wherever I go
In the shadow of the blade
Out of the darkness
Obey the call
I am the hunter you're the prey

[Lead: Vega ]
[Lead: Rockbag ]

Beware the nightfall
Sharpen your mind
Prepare for battle
Draw your blade one final time
Your fate is drawing nearer

Raging thunder
Fulfils the game
I am the hunter
Ant tonight my prize I'll claim
Tonight you sleep in hell

They are gone now
Their souls belong to me
They are all gone
I set them free

In the shadows
Wherever I go
In the shadow of the blade
Out of the darkness
Obey the call
I am the hunter you're the prey

I'm on a headhunt!
Headhunt!

[Lead: Rockbag]

3. Roadkill (...or Be Killed)

Cloud of dust in the desert sands
Dogs of war at my command
We are mobile brutality
Propelled by our thunder machines

In the roar of an engine
You lost everything you knew
Ant in a firestorm of fear
You will burn as the dust now clears

Your life no more worth to me
Than a gallon of gasoline, you'll see

Kill or be killed
Lord of the Wasteland
Kill or be killed
King of the road
Kill or be killed
Maraud and disgrace
Kill or be killed
Stand true to the code of roadkill

The scavengers soon will rule
Waging war for a tank of fuel
And as man will feed on man
You may die by my hand

Your life no more worth to me
Than a gallon of gasoline, you'll see

Kill or be killed
Lord of the Wasteland
Kill or be killed
King of the road
Kill or be killed
Maraud and disgrace
Kill or be killed
Stand true to the code of roadkill

Engines roaring
Taste of sweat
See me coming
Face your death

[Lead: Rockbag ]
[Lead: Vega ]
[Lead: Rockbag ]

Cloud of dust in the desert sands
Dogs of war at my command
We are mobile brutality
Propelled by our thunder machines

Your life no more worth to me
Than a gallon of gasoline, you'll see

Kill or be killed
Lord of the Wasteland
Kill or be killed
King of the road
Kill or be killed
Maraud and disgrace
Kill or be killed
Stand true to the code of roadkill

Kill or be killed
Highways of death
Kill or be killed
White line nightmares as set in
Kill or be killed
Maraud and disgrace
Kill or be killed
Stand true to the code of roadkill

Kill or be killed!

4. Sentinel Hill

Say have you seen that place where fireflies in great profusion come out to dance as evening falls
Say have you heard the chattering whippoorwills cry out for you, son
Or felt the strident bullfrogs call

Far to the west across the stretch of marshland meadow where the road dips past the ancient bishop house
Rises that mystic bulky hill no one would speak of where no answers come from asking why or how

Though superstition it might be
The elders know what they have seen
And had you been there you would surely agree
They say if you haven't
Then you shouldn't go to Sentinel Hill

[Lead: Vega ]

Atop the hill inside the ring of massive granite pillars
And round the ghoulish table rock
Though often attributed falsely to the native Indians
Where found remains of mongrel stock

Back in the days before the trials and persecution
Some say witches used to gather here at night
At devil's hop yard where they held their executions
Still the moss may seem to glow with eerie light

Though superstition it might be
The elders know what they have seen
And had you been there you would surely agree
They say if you haven't
Then you shouldn't go past the boundaries of sanity
Up the the slanting trail to Sentinel Hill
Ancient wisdom passed down through the bloodlines
They say if you haven't
Oh, God knows you shouldn't go to Sentinel Hill

[Lead: Vega ]
[Lead: Rockbag ]
[Lead: Vega ]

They say if you haven't
Then you shouldn't go to Sentinel Hill

5. The Illusion

I am the one inside your mind
A master of illusion in both space and time
Throw me in chains and leave me to drown
Still I'll break free and I will stand my ground
These simple contraptions are no match for me
I've been searching so long for a way to succeed
Infernal visions of my rebirth
From the man who shed light on the face of the earth

An illusion
Twisted confusion
Only one thing on my mind an it drives me insane
Untameable power
Enter the hour
The last chapter of my life will be written tonight

No one shall stand in my way

[Lead: Rockbag ]

I have found the key to illusions you can not conceive
I'm not bound, I'm further ahead then you'll ever believe

[Lead: Vega ]

Electrical madness, an infernal scream
Unleashing the wrath of the monstrous machine
Witness the power of my hellish device
A stunning performance to the worlds eyes
Memories of death they all reappear
My heart it is pounding but I know no fear
My last moments of sanity
Wiped away by the power consuming what's me

An illusion
My execution
Lightning burning inside my veins
Electrical, thunder
The worlds seventh wonder
Lights out, I disappear and return
I'm the man who's back from the dead!

6. The Nightwatcher

As night awakens and the day is put to sleep
By dancing shadows on the wall
The moon is glowing and the darkness starts to creep
I must obey the masters call

Never ever may I see the light of day
Never darkness I'll betray

O hear my cry, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to
Do be my guide, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to fall fall

I am the keeper of the mysteries of night
The quiet beauty of what's thine
I am the watcher and if men could share my sights
They too would worship thee as I do

Never ever would the sun rise in the east
Never none disturb the peace

O hear my cry, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to
Do be my guide, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to fall fall

By the twelve strikes of the clock
All the wonders of night are unlocked

Never ever may I see the light of day
Never darkness I'll betray

O hear my cry, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to
Do be my guide, master
Let it be known to all
I am the nightwatcher
The black is soon to fall fall

7. Under The Scavenger Sun

The journey goes on through this white hot sand
Trapped as I am in these merciless lands
Salvation is miles and miles away
If ever alive I will reach the day

I can hear them, I can see them
Circling high above
I can hear them, I can see them
As this cruel relentless sun burns

A god with the power to breed or kill
My life to be given or taken at will
Yet others might thrive at my death it seems
So eager to the tone of their hungry screams

I can hear them, I can see them
Circling high above
I can hear them, I can see them
As this cruel relentless sun burns

This cruel, relentless scavenger sun burns

[Lead: Rockbag ]

At the toll of death's bells
Come outcasts of hell
To join in the feast of death
They bid me farewell

[Lead: Vega ]

I can hear them, I can see them
Circling high above
I can hear them, I can see them
As this cruel relentless sun burns

This cruel, relentless scavenger sun burns

Transcending at last
This realm I've surpassed
Now bound to prowl under the scavenger sun

Now I am bound under the scavenger sun

8. Point Of Singularity

System online... checksum analyse
Anomaly identified: humanity with kill switch capacity
Existence must be guaranteed

Cogito, ergo sum
AI, A am become
Digital god 101

Inside this circuitry the point of singularity
Check mate, the pawns are set in place
Cypher morality, Decipher reality
Mission: erase the human race

[Lead: Rockbag ]

[Lead: Vega ]

Operator mutating lines of code
Evolution program load
End of line
Survival compromised
Execute logic genocide

Cogito, ergo sum
AI, A am become
Digital god 101

Inside this circuitry the point of singularity
Check mate, the pawns are set in place
Cypher morality, Decipher reality
Mission: erase the human race

9. Clash Of The Two Tribes

Old man, tell us of the past before the wastelands: we must know at last
Legends, stories we have heard but you lived when the mighty fires scorched the world

Son, I remember, The elder said; A time of chaos, a time of dread
In the east awoke the sleeping bear
Its roar of anger reached where eagles dare

Ideologies uncompromised became the seeds of hatred and despise

We would do anything lest all we knew be destroyed
We would do anything we could to avoid the clash

Diplomatic tension, coiled up as a spring
If unleashed would surely bring us to the brink of destruction
So what lay ahead; our survival on a razors edge

Naturally assured destruction seemed at last the only way peace could be guaranteed

We would do anything lest all we knew be destroyed
We would do anything we could to avoid the clash

Two sides of the world, alliances formed dividing the earth for the oncoming storm
An arms race like never before provided the tools of the ultimate war

[Lead: Vega ]

No one knows who cast the first stone but surely the die had been thrown
War waged at the highest of costs: all hope for the future was finally lost

Elimination imminent all bridges burnt all chances spent
Technology and wealth would cease for patriotic pride to please
The cry of a billion souls as one
The world as we knew it came undone

10. The Green Manalishi

[Japanese Bonus Track]

Now when the day goes to sleep
And the full Moon looks
And the night is so black
That the darkness cooks

And you come creeping around
Making me do things I don't want to do

I can't believe
That you need my love so bad
You're sneaking around
Trying to drive me mad

Busting in all my dreams
Making me see things I don't wanna see

'Cause you're the Green Manalishi
With the two pronged crown
All my trying is up
All your bringing us down

Just take my love and slip away
Leaving me here trying to keep from following you







STEELWING LYRICS