Machine Head Bloodstone & Diamonds 1. Now We Die Standing at the edge of the world Uncertainty calling as the page unfurls Fortune, Heaven or Hell Shedding my body of this mortal shell Black steel and iron A Lion Heart is forged from these bones Fear not, the discontent you hide Awake from the slumber and define this time No fear to pay the price And with this now we die Ashes to ashes The ocean crashes Louder and louder it cries Over and over The sands wash over Facing, embracing the tides And with this now we die And with this now we die (and with this now we die) Screaming violence into the void Is anyone listening or is all destroyed? Fighting heaven and earth Saving your children from their pain and hurt Bloodstone & diamonds Nothing can break the strength of these stones Cast off the shackles of the past Live in the moment nothing ever lasts Now cross the bridge of sighs And with this now we die Ashes to ashes The ocean crashes Louder and louder it cries Over and over The sands wash over Facing, embracing the tides And with this now we die And with this now we die (and with this now we die) Are you ready to die? Standing at the edge of the world [2x] The damned are we Abused and beat, We're left for dead We raise our head For we are strong, And they are wrong So scream with me, "I do believe!" I need your help, For I have knelt Held fist at skies, And cried out, "Why?" Your shoulder strength, It gives me length We lift ourselves, Together meld So take my hand, And don't look back And sing with me, "Let new life be, Old life goodbye", And now we die For we are one Forever young And with this now we die [4x] Are you ready? Standing at the edge of the world [2x] 2. Killers & Kings Dark Lady read me the future! The ancient verse hidden away I turn from the ever-gray, and... Tarot cards keep us enraptured! Open mind become the sage Let this unlock the cage! Ancient power... Darkest hour... Open your third eye and you'll see... (killers and kings!) Inheritors of Earth (killers and kings!) From death there comes rebirth And as an army we will sing A diamond bears our ring Killers and kings Look to Earth, summon the master Awake the human living inside Ecclessiasticide. The Hangman gives into Temperance The Sun shines over The Fool High Priestess, spreads her rule Death and rebirth... Decay and mirth... Open your third eye and you'll see... (killers and kings!) Inheritors of Earth (killers and kings!) From death there comes rebirth And as an army we will sing A diamond bears our ring Killers and kings The diamond bears our ring!! Yeah!! Oh! [Solo] The King of Pentacles is here Strength and Fortitude help to push away the fear. We stand atop the mountain with The Hermit and the lamp As The Lovers in the Knight of Swords give in to the damned What do The Cards say? The prophecy remains The Devil in The Emperor could keep us locked in chains And the Death card doesn't mean you die It means a change is coming that you simply can't deny Reborn! Rebirth! From death comes rebirth! (killers and kings!) Inheritors of Earth (killers and kings!) From death there comes rebirth And as an army we will sing A diamond bears our ring Killers and kings (killers and kings!) Inheritors of Earth (killers and kings!) From death there comes rebirth And as an army we will sing A diamond bears our ring Killers and kings 3. Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones Let me feel my palms around your throat Let me see the pain of lost control Let me hear your heart racing inside Let me see the darkness that you fight When the night crashes down See (No vision) Can you believe? (Derision) Will I fall? (Down so far) Into the deep (It's so dark) Ghosts will haunt my bones So just leave me alone Let me taste the salt within your tears Let me swallow hope; it disappears Let me steal the mind that makes you whole Let me peel a layer from your soul When the night crashes down (See) No vision (Can you believe?) Derision (Will I fall?) Down so far (Into the deep) It's so dark Ghosts will haunt my bones When the night crashes down (See) No vision (Can you believe?) Derision (Will I fall?) Down so far (Into the deep) It's so dark Ghosts will haunt my bones They won't leave me alone In darkest night I lay awakened with These thoughts of endless black that never quit The tortured thoughts inside my head you see They hide a mask of pain that's so ugly These ghosts come haunt my bones They won't leave me alone From my throat the agonies emit My demons wrestle and my thoughts conflict The stench of bile, as I purge this hate An inner struggle I can't separate These ghosts come haunt my bones They won't leave me alone Thunder cracks and dark furies sound When the night crashes down These ghosts come haunt my bones They won't leave me alone Thunder cracks and dark furies sound When the night crashes When the night crashes down When the night crashes down 4. Night Of Long Knives You won't see us come [4x] You won't see us come In the night With these knives And these bloodstains on our hands Paint the walls Taste the blade On the night of long knives [2x] Midnight we kill In summer of 69, there came a prophet His words were used to profit off the minds of the weak He spoke of holes deep within the desert His followers would convert into the belly of the beast Don't look into his eyes Burning with malice past the point of no return They're piling bodies one by one Fulfilling all their dreams to come, The prophecy of war that Charles Manson had begun in the hills Of Hollywood tonight City of the angels Sanity deprived The family fatal They bring the night of long knives Deserts and the devil Rapist of mind The family fatal Pitch black You won't see us come In the night With these knives And these bloodstains on our hands Paint the walls Taste the blade On the night of long knives Midnight we kill The hills were echoing with their laughter and happily ever after was a faded memory Rosemary and the baby of Polanski 6 people dead and bloodying the Hills of Beverly They're screaming for their lives Begging and pleading for lives of babies unborn The knives had only just stuck in The horror of the splitting skin Ropes are tied around their necks To breathe their dying breaths In the hills Of Hollywood tonight City of the angels Sanity deprived The family fatal They bring the night of long knives Deserts and the devil Rapist of mind The family fatal They bring the night of long knives We have been so wrong We will fall No tomorrow [2x] We'll fall away tonight Don't look into his eyes Burning with malice past the point of no return They're piling bodies one by one Fulfilling all their dreams to come The prophecy of war that Charles Manson had begun in the hills Of Hollywood tonight City of the angels Sanity deprived The family fatal They bring the night of long knives [2x] Deserts and the devil Rapist of mind The family fatal They bring the night of long knives In the night With these knives And these bloodstains on our hands Paint the walls Taste the blade On the night of long knives You won't see us come In the night With these knives And these bloodstains on our hands On the night of long knives 5. Sail Into The Black We sail into the black [4x] And all those secrets, lost in your eyes And all those regrets, you hold inside And all those memories, left by design And all those mysteries, lost in your eyes We sail into the black [2x] And all those footsteps, washed in the tides And all those droplets, blood into wine And all those heartaches, tears that you’ve cried And all those mistakes, washed in the tides We sail into the black [2x] I stare at the stricken The follies of man And the horror that lives in your eyes And once were forgiven The mind explodes in waves of terror Burn my eyes Tear at the skin The crawling beneath will begin Side by side Pounding the heretic drums as we rise or we fall And all these scars The nightmare it calls The fear and betrayal begin We’ve come so far The shit we ingest With a mouthful of spit and protest We sail into the black [2x] The black candle fades Go disappear lost and forever broken Shattered like glass The scars and the sex The lies and the fables we tell And all we are This fate is your choice Regrets that you’ll take to the grave These threads of silk That held this together Rotting and curdled as milk We sail into the black [6x] 6. Eyes Of The Dead I am no longer alive Somewhere along this life I have died inside My soul has been denied Rise of the black hearts We take to the skies The Ravens of omen We don't go down without a fight. Your grave we dig tonight With fury and might We're freaks and we're outcasts Unwanted and dumb We scavenge the land because we were all given to none And our blood is one Black wings spread their ebony quills Bloody nails the hand that wills The murder, murder Wind is at our backs Murder, murder Now the crows attack For once in this life You'll see through these eyes Through The Eyes Of The Dead Skies become scorched with feathers and crests Laughing like jackals and our teeth are sharpened and wet Black talons claw your chest Tear at the flesh Virtues of evil now thrown to the flood The crows of apocalypse Dragging your heart through the mud And our teeth drip blood Black wings spread their ebony quills Bloody nails the hand that wills The murder, murder Wind is at our backs Murder, murder Now the crows attack For once in this life You'll see through these eyes Through The Eyes Of The Dead When the day of reckoning comes And you cry out "Babylon's won" Eyes so dark, like ink we blacken the sun So call my name, "Raven" So fear this name, "Raven" Hold dear this You will never fucking break me I've an army that will strip you to the bone GO! We'll feast on your carrion dreams Blacken your skies Shrieking the coldest of screams Our shadows stand agleam For we are the dead and we'll rise up and say Nothing will break us Nothing will stand in our way We will seize the day Little man the worm has turned Power and respect we've earned Black wings spread their ebony quills Bloody nails the hand that wills The murder, murder Wind is at our backs Murder, murder Now the crows attack For once in this life You'll see through these eyes Bloody nails The murder, murder Murder, murder For once in this life You'll see through these eyes For these are the eyes That your god denies So just one last time, see through these eyes Through The Eyes Of The Dead Through The Eyes Of The Dead Through The Eyes Of The Dead Through The Eyes Of The Dead The Eyes Of The Dead 7. Beneath The Silt Sailing under sheets of rain The waves crashing inside my brain A gray horizon lies below The oceans pulling undertow Swallowed by the silence of this watery abyss Save me I'm drowning Beneath the silt I'm sinking Beneath the silt Clouds of ashen paint the sky A black fog forces down the eyes A casket floating out from shore Depression closer evermore Swallowed by the silence of a watery abyss Save me I'm drowning Beneath the silt I'm sinking Beneath Climbing the walls Climbing the walls Climbing the walls Climbing the walls Beneath the silt Beneath the silt Beneath the silt Beneath the silt Swallowed by the silence of the watery abyss Swallowed by the silence of Grasping at the skies above I'm drowning Beneath the silt I'm sinking Beneath the silt I'm drowning Beneath the silt I'm sinking Beneath the Beneath the silt 8. In Comes The Flood All hail Praises be to thee Oh ye paper deity As we hail our sacred cow To the bankers we will bow Endless profit from their wars Making slaves of all the poor Our new god is on the hill "The Almighty" Dollar Bill I want to burn down Wall Street, baby And fan the flames of discontent like Hades Saints of Red, White, and Blue Pass bonds of junk to you Our flag has all but bled to green In comes the flood Wake up America In comes the flood Wake up America Live to buy or time to die It's all for sale on credit lines Until the fucking end of time Shackled to the dotted line Oh the market may be free But not for you and me Succumb as we forget To the Angel Of Debt I don't give a fuck if I'm rich, motherfucker We bought that line 'cause we're a bunch of suckers We're fighting for the scraps We've let our conscience lapse By turning cash into a god In comes the flood Wake up America In comes the flood Wake up America Moneytheistic religion Saints of the red, white, blue, and green Who dare to inflate my life's interest rate 'Til their rich bellies burst at the seams Our lives nothing more to them Than a snap of financial decision Blinded by a TV screen All hail the American Dream And woe to thee Our life empty If we hold this dear Then lose our fear America Wake up In comes the flood Wake up America In comes the flood Wake up America In comes the flood Wake up America In comes the flood Wake up America 9. Damage Inside The bell tolls on as the rain comes down On my face, the drops, they sound I slowly melt into grey abyss Depression and her endless kiss I hope to feel the life again End the numbness, living in I sit in silence, deaf to all And I can't look you in the eye I don't want you to see the damage inside I've been gone for so long My demons pull me into the hole To dance with leaches that drink my soul The violins play the endless song From hearts broken everlong I can't look you in the eye I don't want you to see the damage inside I've been gone for so long and I can't look you in the eye I don't want you to see the damage inside I've been gone for so long 10. Game Over Oh your sweet little lies Oh your sweet little lies I can hear when I hold you close to me When I look in your eyes I see through your disguise What I see is an only lonely void And I can see hell in your eyes Cause you're drowning inside Those fake tears that you cried As I claw my way from your tragedy Emptiness is your bride Arrogance is your pride I won't drown in another's misery And you won't pull me down to die No! Stuck in this prison with a brother I loved Stuck in this prison with the memories of... Another time, when music's all that we had Bonded by anger and addictions, so glad Always together but no words are spoken This is the sound of a friendship broken Trapped and climbing up the walls How the fuck do I get out of these pitfalls? And you say that life is just a game and Everyone who plays is just a pawn And shame on me it went so long How could I've been so wrong? I've forever gone, colder If life is just a game then Game over Dreaming of choking someone I used to know Strangling the negativity that they sow Resent has now become the face in the mask That plays upon a bitter two-man cast Go find somebody else to blame your problems Trying to fuck me, because you can't solve them Stop! You never gave a shit We almost fucking quit, because how much you hated it And you say that life is just a game and Everyone who plays is just a pawn And shame on me it went so long How could I've been so wrong? I've forever gone, colder If life is just a game then Game over For as long as you're alive I'll curse your worthless name On the day On the day of your demise Unburied and left for the flies Believe me that I will piss upon your grave Forgiveness may greet me on someday But I'll never forget all this pain Let there be no mistake This is not a game! Oh your sweet little lies Oh your sweet little lies I can hear when I hold you close to me When I look in your eyes I see through your disguise What I see is an only lonely void Cause you're drowning inside Those fake tears that you cried As I claw my way from your tragedy Emptiness is your bride Arrogance is your pride I won't drown in another's misery Forever this friendship has died No! And you say that life is just a game and Everyone who plays is just a pawn And shame on me it went so long How could I've been so wrong? I've forever gone, colder If life is just a game then Game over Game over (Game over) 11. Imaginal Cells [Instrumental][Voiceover:] We’re in a critical phase of human civilization that our survival is really in question There is generally a feeling that something that there’s something happening People have been exposed of course to the whole concept of peak oil, to climate change, to population explosion The doomsday clock keeps moving closer Religious people are talking about the End Times Present state of disorganization What seems to be happening is that people are beginning to realise How many of these are real crises or how many of these are crises as a result of limitations of our belief system? Where civilization’s structures become so rigid and it can no longer adapt to the changing situations There’s a great increase in mental illness There are signs of when these civilizations come to an end There’s a sense of alienation within the population A very large increase in violent crime, social disruption Some of the beliefs that we have bought into affect the entire population so And surprisingly an interest in religious cultism As societies start to begin to disintegrate These weapons of mass distraction which are now falling apart as we’re seeing life being exposed time and time again, every day, every week What they’ve been distracting us from is our true power, the true nature of human nature Our power to evolve, our power to become cells in the organism called humanity And it’s an exciting story of our own power to evolve our own true nature and our own evolutionary destiny Medicine started out as a healing art to help others but over time and in our materialistic world and a world based on corporations, industries that thrive by making money off of sick people But the environment’s changing We are at this very moment in a stage where corporations are teeter-tottering because they can’t maintain themselves anymore They’ve grown too big and they have too little awareness to maintain this world And while they’re doing their destruction of the planet, a new series People are coming out of the old just like we talked about The imaginal cells But imaginal cells have a different vision of the world And why this is important for us is because it is a world of relationship Nobody can get off the bus, we’re all in this together We see that we are indeed really approaching a change of civilization It really is a lesson for us We’re in the throes of a new evolution, a new civilization is manifesting Creative minorities arise The imaginal cells are people that are saying “there’s another way to do this” There’s a better brighter image that’s much more successful than the one we’re doing They’re precursors of the next level of our evolution The fractal image will repeat itself, it’s not a coincidence We know where we’ve been, we know we’re going And all I have to say is just stay out of the way of the dinosaurs as they crash And allow us to take over this planet and bring in the new ideas that the imaginal cells will offer To support and encourage our survival as a civilization on this planet 12. Take Me Through The Fire The drum beats on as I fall in trance Stepping away from the endless dance My enemies in the endless abyss The snakes slithering out of the mist No subtleties truth is all that I ask No pleasantries you can take off that mask This world has left me bruised and callous Empty heart is filled with malice Cold A blackened hole where there was once a soul No tender mercies here Endure and persevere Erase the obstacles that try to find me Fighting my ignorance Suffer my persistence Eclipse the light that will try to blind me Take me through the fire And if you lift me up then I will follow Take me through the fire So take me through the fire Too many voices fill the empty void Too many choices and were left devoid The killing fields fill with bodies dead The sun goes down and last rites are read Cause even now I keep my ear to the streets And they whisper to me your deceits You better sleep with one eye open Never let my name be spoken ill Don't make me send the lions out to kill No tender mercies here Endure and persevere Erase the obstacles that try to find me Fighting my ignorance Suffer my persistence Eclipse the light that will try to blind me Take me through the fire And if you lift me up then I will follow Take me through the fire So take me through the fire I will prevail I'm stone and shale Obsidian Your oblivion Becomes No tender mercies here Endure and persevere Erase the obstacles that try to find me Fighting my ignorance Suffer my persistence Eclipse the light that will try to blind me Take me through the fire And if you lift me up then I will follow Take me through the fire So take me through the fire And as I fight on through weary eyes I take your head as we walk through Fire Take me through the fire