TESTAMENT - "Souls Of Black" (p)1990

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Beginning Of The End 00:36
Face In The Sky 03:53
Falling Fast 04:05
Souls Of Black 03:22
Absence Of Light 03:55
Love To Hate 03:40
Malpractice 04:43
One Man's Fate 04:49
The Legacy 05:30
Seven Days Of May 04:41

ERIC PETERSON - rhythm & lead guitars
CHUCK BILLY - vocals
GREG CHRISTIAN - bass
ALEX SKOLNICK - rhythm & lead guitars
LOUIE CLEMENTE - drums

Produced by Michael Rosen and TESTAMENT
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Beginning of the End

Instrumental
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Face In The Sky

Lyrics: Billy
Shadows glow from the full moonlight Hear clouds cry, it's so insane Souls hold on to the key of life See how it's bleeding from the pain When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face In The Sky Walk with me, my friend to a darkened place Welcome down to the abyss Caught between two worlds with no advocate The legions' army Holds on to your fate When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face In The Sky Screams from the night seems to intensify as the air shifts silent through ghouls crowded in the clouds on a misty night guarding secrets man has brought to you When will they open their eyes Stop to face our demise It's live or die Who am I? Face In The Sky
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Falling Fast

Lyrics: Billy
Locked in a darkened world Made to never last That's where the dreams you seek are like stories from the past Sweet infant child's born Sweet mother of the womb Hope it is over soon Not to much more can I take Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back Nerves slip away from within your conscious mind Translucent hopes are now nothing but dismal lies You lived your life so down to the bitter end Better think it over now Your life has just begun Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back from suicide Just show me life is how and not a bitter war The odds in favor now It's hard to live and learn Silence the sorrow and don't let it slip away Think of tomorrow as the future of today Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back from suicide I'm falling fast Locked in a darkened world Made to never last That's where the dreams you seek are like stories from the past Sweet infant child's born to the mother of the womb Hope it is over soon Not to much more can I take Help me lord I'm falling fast Bring me back from suicide I'm falling fast
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Souls Of Black

Lyrics: Billy
Can't you see that in the world we live in political lies are just corporate decisions They`ll take away all the hopes, not their promises They'll put an end to this land of the livin Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black They got control of the heart of a nation Their social bribes seem so graciously as time goes by 'Cause time as you can see will slowly die for you and me Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black So put an end to this idolization Antagonizing so commonly Open your eyes 'Cause the lie's there so plain to see Life goes on There's no guarentees Look at the lost souls They seem so black Look at the lost souls Souls of black They're bleeding so black
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Absence Of Light

Lyrics: Billy, Skolnick
Life, as we know Is full of gloom Oppress the masses We'll lead to our doom We want the right to live or die Can't take away what we feel inside Like empty shadows afflict our brains Envision dreams just to ease the pain There's more to life than to satisfy I ask myself for the reason why If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way If ever there comes a day Renovations blown away Is there no end to this endless war The fear of man is now what's in store We look at life as a memory Long live the dreams that they took from me If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way
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Love To Hate

Lyrics: Peterson, Clemente, Billy
Hail to the new leader now Ruler of this land with plans that follow to demonstrate Fear the blackened band So horrid and deathly true Dishonest and powermad Unspoken, sealed fate Bursting to desolate His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But a long the way He'll have to dwell in his own hell Clear the streets See them marching while columns take a stand Time provoked, their mirror of hatred with dark uncanny plans to take out and follow through Just following their orders with death rates and death's toll Those unfortunate souls His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But a long the way He'll have to dwell in his own hell Twisting and turning through the mazes in your head But in a time like this you're better off dead The time has come now Put up or shut down The feeling that you have were lost and never found His love to hate He'll murder souls like me and you But a long the way He'll have to dwell in his own hell
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Malpractice

Lyrics: Skolnick, Billy
We all will go and stay sometime Soon to be a victim of a crime Loss of blood and death is near Take a number, can you you wait right here Check in-to the place Reduce your life into disgrace Isn't there some kind of better way When it's time to operate fatalistic figures hold on to your fate just relax you'll feel no pain Hope they put you in the right domain Patients helpless to defy Negligence is why Within the laws they'll rip you off then write you off Malpractice! And in the end they'll let you in Please come again Malpractice! Suffer until you get well Bleak existence like a prision cell If you find your life is lost Dedicate the world to pay the cost Patients helpless defy Negligence is why Within the laws they'll rip you off then write you off Malpractice! And in the end they'll let you in Please come again Malpractice!
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One Man's Fate

Lyrics: Billy
Time is nothing but life's decay Pitch your reverend path This is the path you paved What you will find is life's only way There's no looking back There must be a better way Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day Black skies fade to a shadow grey The darkness is so deep Prayers for the light of the day What you will find is life's only way There's no looking back back to a better way Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day that leads to one man's fate There ain't no better way to die Fate, there's no compromise Hate leads to suicide Trapped in a crystal haze Hail to a dead man's day Time is but a passageway trying to believe your life was sanity A matter of time is all that you need Life's not coming back back to those better days Lightning skies Prayers from an open grave A dead man's eyes Must be a dead man's day
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The Legacy

Lyrics: Skolnick, Billy, Peterson
We're gonna take you back through the pages of the past Just another lonely boy I could laugh and play and live in any other way Then the devil took my soul The fortune and the fame I knew I was not the same and I know I'd never return Looking at the sky I know I would never die And forever shining through Wish the sky would say that blue would turn to grey and I know I'd be there Life was like a fantasy taken by reality Does anyone remember me You once knew me Flashes of the day I knew I was here to stay But no one stays the same Turn the pages back in time through the chapters in my mind Life's too short to leave behind It's to late know Life was like a fantasy taken by reality Does anyone remember me You once knew me Flashes of the day I knew I was here to stay But no one knows my name
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Seven Days Of May

Lyrics: Skolnick, Billy
Put your life on the line To hesitate is a waste of time No giving in to repent unto the system of the government It's called the People's Republic here The propaganda so sincere Oh, what a joke and a blatant lie from criminals ranking high Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting until I die for the cause Put an end to hypocrisy Lead the way to Democracy No longer will we play the fool to brutalized military rule They started forty years ago We never could say yes or no Millions souls make your voice We want the right to make a choice Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting until I die for the cause Freedom, freedom calling out from the pain Freedom, freedom calling seven days of May They tried to show a peaceful path then it turned into a blood bath In the Square they plan the game That's when the tanks of the army came They called the murders minimal Descibed their victims as criminals Dead souls like you and me who only wanted free society Born a political prisoner Raised outside of the law I'm gonna keep on fighting until I die for the cause Freedom, freedom calling out from the pain Freedom, freedom calling seven days of May
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