Machine Head Catharsis 1. Volatile Fuck the world! They never see me coming Their faces twisted in shock Now the fools come gunnin' To put our heads to the block Sick of the laughter, sick of the pain Sick of the feeling, this feeling of shame Sick of the white folks, privileged and vain, protesting a culture that isn't the same Don't blame the false elites when Nazi assholes march the streets So call me a hypocrite, call me a fake It's nothing compared to your pride and your hate Dead! Dead and bloated These times are volatile There's no room left for you Dead! Dead and bloated There's no room left for you These times are Volatile! (x6) This world is fuckin' volatile! Fuck the world! You'll never see me coming Sick of the racists, sick of this shit Sick of them telling me it's immigrants Sick of the phonies on my phone screen Sick of the NRA trying to scare me Stop crying innocence Stop claiming self-defense Good men won't speak 'cause they're scared of the violence, but bad men keep screaming to fill up the silence Dead! Dead and bloated These times are volatile There's no room left for you Dead! Dead and bloated There's no room left for you These times are Volatile! (x6) This world is fucking volatile! Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Dead! Dead and bloated These times are volatile There's no room left for you Dead! Dead and bloated Life can be so vol-a Volatile! (x4) Volatile! (x6) Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground 2. Catharsis I feel so empty and alone, I wonder If this is ever going to go away Cause now this changes everything Smash all your sacred cows Break all your sacred vows Never look down on me What you get, what you see I could never be another brick in the wall You’ll remember me As you break all our spirits down and push us to the ground Call me a fool with a gasoline can Burn it fucking down, start it over and over again Whenever I fall If ever at all You’re there to watch me crumble And just like a muse A drug I abuse You’re there to watch me crumble But you won’t get your chance And so I sink into the grey horizon I’m never going to let you say “I can’t” I’ll never let you beat me to the ground So can you see the hunger in my eyes? Take a look, it’s no disguise Got to crush my struggles, crush the pain and the strife Live or die, I'm gonna fight for my life tonight Whenever I fall If ever at all You’re there to watch me crumble And just like a muse A drug I abuse You’re there to watch me crumble But you won’t get your chance You’ll never get your chance The only thing keeping me sane The music in my veins And if these words are my fists Can you feel my catharsis? Can, you, feel my catharsis Can, you, feel my catharsis The only thing keeping me sane The music in my veins And if these words are my fists This is my catharsis Whenever I fall If ever at all You’re there to watch me crumble And just like a muse A drug I abuse You’re there to watch me crumble But you won’t get your chance You’ll never get your chance The only thing keeping me sane The music in my veins And if these words are my fists Can you feel my catharsis? This is my catharsis! 3. Beyond the Pale I am skin and bones, broken stones See the scars that I show I live outside the bounds, in the unknown I can't ingratiate, to the hate, ‘cause their world suffocates Carve my own path and form my destiny’s shape This storm won’t wait The rain is falling down upon me Beyond the pale I found salvation Emancipation Beyond the pale I found my heroes, the freaks and zeros I live outside the lines Got no time for the willfully blind I’ll build a world of mine Sever the ties I’ll break down every wall Fight and claw, take their punches, stand tall My middle finger raised So fuck ‘em all And let them crawl The rain is falling down upon me Beyond the pale I found salvation Emancipation Beyond the pale I found my heroes, the freaks and zeros The snakes come slithering out of their holes at night Dirty water clouds my soul, the needle lies Weather the storm, my heart is drowning The rain is falling down upon me Beyond the pale I found salvation Emancipation Beyond the pale I found my heroes, the freaks and zeros Beyond the pale! 4. California Bleeding I'm not the billionaire class From San Lorenzo with the trailer trash I can't afford a fucking thing in sight Something about this state is just so right San Francisco, give me your money Drug-crazed, road-rage, don't ya act funny I wanna smoke till I'm Oakland high And drop some acid in the Barstow night Sacramento, marching downtown Mendocino, beer me down Cut me open leave me splayed (stitch me back together) California's bleeding me (blame it on the weather) Sail me down the river Temper like a trigger Take a shot of vodka, blow out my liver California's bleeding me Don't give a fuck if I'm banned The fucking rodents down at Disneyland Highway 5 down to 99 I'm getting head near the Fresno sign Berryessa, stumbling and stammered East Bay Tramps out drinking and hammered And Hollywood's giving me the bends 'Cause in LA you ain't got no friends Fremont meth-head getting me wired Start a riot, light a fire Cut me open leave me splayed (stitch me back together) California's bleeding me (blame it on the weather) Sail me down the river Temper like a trigger Watch your back, here come the gold diggers California's bleeding me, and I don't care tonight We're going west Like rats we come to infest We never rest Feed on the fucking stress Cut me open leave me splayed... stitch me back together California's bleeding me (blame it on the weather) Sail me down the river Temper like a trigger Take some shots and blow out my liver California's bleeding me, and I don't care tonight And you won't go home 'Cause we welcome all Golden State brings home the gold 5. Triple Beam And there's no moral to the story Read the lines in between 'Cause that's what happens When you balance life on a triple beam When you balance life on a triple beam I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick The violence in my life was a measuring stick And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between 'Cause that's what happens When you balance life on a triple beam I used to dream about the end And when it would come Drug dealers die young at the end of a gun Powders on the triple beam Girls around my neck No money? Well... she could always pay with sex Bikers tried to front me 30 grand worth of shit Knew that if I took it, I'd never get out of this What the fuck am I doing with amphetamines? But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam When you balance life on a triple beam My dealer trusted nobody Make you take a test See if you would rat him out or stab him in the chest He'd make you suck the Glass-Dick, called it "dragon's breath" Smoke a giant hit of speed, prove you weren't the feds Your heart would beat so fast Before your eyes life flashed Ain't easy to make cash Living off of meth It's a paranoid world Violent and mean But that's what happens When you balance life on a triple beam Paranoid, the gun is loaded Nose destroyed and mind corroded Rival dealers want me broken If I sleep, it's with one eye open They call it crank, speed, rosebud, methamphetamine They call it crank, ice, bathtub, methamphetamine At the AM/PM Shattuck and 51st 1:30 in the morning, streets at their worst My buddy started a fight, some dude by the pumps These black girls strolled up to watch 'em take their lumps Three cars rolled up, 15 dudes rolled out "You fuckin' with our girls?" (mouth running like a spout) I threw the first punch, nose broke on my rings Now I'm fighting 4 dudes and my heads starting to ring Somebody screamed "Stop, he's got a knife, run" Not everybody listened, all of us were drunk As I turned my head I saw my friend's knife blade Murder in his eyes, the devil in his veins He swung at the first, but then he missed 2nd one got lucky, 3rd one took a hit The 4th got caught and this time he wasn't missing Teeth grit down, survival of the fittest And he stabbed him, and he stabbed him, And he stabbed him again Kill that motherfucker, let him never breathe again And there's no moral to the story Read the lines in between 'Cause that's what happens When you balance life on a triple beam 6. Kaleidoscope We rise We fall And then we come together and Despise this all So get your middle fingers in the air And sing They can't ignore us anymore It’s up to us So hear me out cause I don’t give a fuck I’m stuck I’m heading off the deep end like a truck No brakes I grip the wheel and start to shake I beat my chest to feel alive Not part of the hive Comatose America, the zombies are in charge Watch out for your brothers man, it really isn’t that hard Have our souls turned cold? The path I walk is only for the strong and the bold I walk along a lonely road It’s all I know This hole in my soul Songs fill what religion won’t No hope, I can’t cope Music plays in kaleidoscope And if I’m lost I don’t want to be found Haunted by sound Open up the floor and start a pit This shit Is building up inside of me I can't pretend, that I wont fuckin’ snap tonight You’ll find me nine feet in the grave Before I’m a slave Catatonic ignorance, the cronies run the show Preying on our differences, divide and conquer the low While I may be old The world I see is only for the strong and the bold I walk along a lonely road It’s all I know This hole in my soul Songs fill what religion won’t No hope, I can’t cope Music plays in kaleidoscope And if I’m lost I don’t want to be found Haunted by sound Because we rise We fall And then we come together and despise Them all So get your middle fingers in the air And bleed They can’t ignore us anymore cause I don’t give a fuck We rise We fall And then we come together and despise This all So get your middle fingers in the air And bleed They can’t ignore us anymore cause I don’t give a fuck This hole in my soul Songs fill what religion won’t No hope, I can’t cope Music plays in kaleidoscope No hope I can’t cope Songs in kaleidoscope And if I’m lost I don’t want to be found Haunted by sound 7. Bastards Yesterday I told my sons "sometimes the bad guys win" And that it made me scared about the world that we live in But I had to reassure them that it wouldn’t be for long Sons we have to be ourselves We have to be strong I said “boys you are the future, so let this be a lesson There may come a day you have to fight off their aggression” Cause fear and hatred won today, the darkness ate the light But both you look in my eyes, it’ll be alright In every step you take I'm with you all the way Cause I would die for you To do what’s right for you In hopes that when I’m gone You’ll carry on these words I wrote for you Till then… I’ll sing Stand your ground Don’t let the bastards grind you down Be bold, be strange Don’t let their fears make you afraid There’s hope, they’ll change Well I looked out to the world today, thought "what a bloody mess!” They stripped our morals from us, put 'em under house arrest And "liberty" and "country" are the words they need to speak A little “god,” a little “freedom,” if we don’t agree, we're weak And every politician stood there idle and so smug Empowering the racists and 2nd Amendment thugs Wall St. and the billionaires, convinced us they’re so smart Saying “vote with your wallet, instead of with your hearts!” But we won’t go away! You won’t forget our name! The pussy generation, the PC and the brave The protesters that slink along the streets of misery And so… I’ll sing Stand your ground Don’t let the bastards grind you down Be bold, be strange Don’t let their fears make you afraid There’s hope, they’ll change We’ll change Change No, no, no, no, no (FUCK NO!) No, no, no, no, no (FUCK NO!) No, no, no, no, no (FUCK NO!) So give us all your faggots, all your niggas, and your spics Give us all your Muslims, your so-called terrorists We’ll welcome them with open arms, and put ‘em in our mix We’re better off together now, embrace our difference Remember there is love! Our words can stop their guns Forget the rednecks Living in the past We’re never going back now, we've reached critical mass And so… I’ll sing Stand my ground Won’t let the bastards grind me down I’m bold, I’m strange Won’t let their fears make me afraid There’s hope, they’ll change 8. Hope Begets Hope My eyes see through the lies And I see the wolves among the sheep I smell the fear inside And the odor brings me to my knees I'm at the end of my rope hanging on These scars are dragging on my soul And we won't let go We could live forever if we just let go now Hope begets hope Stand strong to the winds of adversity Hope begets hope Stand your ground And no, we won't go No marching orders, get up off of your knees now Hope begets hope Stand your ground I crawl on to the pyre And the flames they purify my pain I'm writhing in desire All this hatred has been all in vain Have you ever been the hated one Face to face with the flaws upon your soul Let the truth unfold We could live forever if we just let go now Hope begets hope Stand strong to the winds of adversity Hope begets hope Stand your ground And no, we won't go No marching orders, get up off of your knees now Hope begets hope Stand your ground I will prevail And I've been running from the long arm of the law I've got to live for better days This depression that's inside of me It eats away at the bones that are supporting me I have to fight back or get knocked down Take my hand and never let me drown So tell me have you ever been the hated one Face to face with the flaws upon your soul Let the truth unfold We could live forever if we just let go now Hope begets hope Stand strong to the winds of adversity Hope begets hope Stand your ground And no, we won't go Fuck their orders, get up off your knees now Hope begets hope Stand your ground Face, the flaws on your soul Let, the truth unfold We're gonna live forever 9. Screaming at the Sun You'll find me screaming at the sun It singes my eyes The plan I devise, in this chess game to shatter the crook And now the queen takes the rook You think that you can read me like a book But you mistook the pushback, skull crack, now I take the pawn The pattern's sliding off and now the bishop's gone Woe this land It bares my hand Of the final command They see you blinded us, reminded us of all that's ugly And if you let it in, the predator will leave you bloody So take a look into my eyes And sharpen your gaze Sharpen the blades 'cause the stakes have been raised Kiss the ring And now the knight takes the king Now the rank and file is to bring The sacrificing, upside, downside, give me all your guns I'm fucking crazy, oh my mind is lost or won? Hold your breath These wounds are fresh Of this mate that I check They see you blinded us, reminded us of all that's ugly And if you let it in, the predator will leave you bloody So we close Off the din outside the window No we won't Normalize the tyrannizing You'll find me screaming at the sun Until my soul dies You'll find me screaming now And if you let it in, the predator will leave you bloody 10. Behind a Mask The grieving widow's pose, she stands with head held high Never to re-marry, never gonna try 'Cause that would end the symphony of sadness that we play And end the songs of wanderlust that she commiserates So she takes another shot of crown, in hopes to ease the pain In hopes to ease the void inside, yet somehow it's in vain 'Cause vanity has come along and filled her perfume vile And every day she dabs a little on her neck and smiles Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Open your eyes, let us see the void inside Open your eyes, let us see The old man sits alone staring at the screen And contemplates the failures, done to his family 'Cause depression's bottles come along and filled his whiskey glass With every sip put to his lips, erases all the past So he tells another little lie and tells another tale In hopes to spare the family and hide his private hell But the more the words come out of him, like little cuts and scabs Tearing at the tender hearts who gaze upon a mask Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Open your eyes, let us see the void inside She puts her feet in well-worn shoes Walks toward the past Of the character Behind the mask Slowly climb out of your shell Start to believe Every now and then those demons Will come to feast On your flesh and bones Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Behind a mask (so we hide, so we hide) Open your eyes, let us see the void inside Open your eyes Let us see 11. Heavy Lies the Crown Call me the spider king, I creep along the night I weave a web so dense, once caught there is no flight So delicate the strands I weave around my victims taut The terror suffocates their shattered afterthoughts I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown Call me the spider king, men sharpen blades behing Caught in the light of greed, the prize infects their minds They fly too close to flames of fame and withered vanity Like moths they're drawn towards the inhumanity I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown And so I send my spies to watch the guilty seethe Devise a twisted plot and gently pull the strings I slink along the boulevards, listen to the streets The avenues and gutters give me truth to speak I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown Call me the spider king, these fiends show no respect Their blinded loyalties, the balance that I check I hear them sharpen knives behind my back A moment frozen, let them open fire See the hatred that burns through my eyes And remember the pain I’ll inflict on you Before the dawn Suffer my vengeance Suffer my vengeance So many cannons have been aimed at me They raise the guillotine at full speed The bayonets of men they clash and ring The battle’s ashen sting, it recedes The bodies burning in a blaze of heat, The screams of agony and lost pride These men go off to die, for war and countryside The revving engine of the war machine, Draining it as it feeds on the weak They try to resurrect the violent seed Into a hangman’s tree of deceit The choice made out on the battleground Through history resound The weight would crush you down 'Cause heavy lies the crown Heavy lies the crown I smell the fear these men disguise as their love The hints of their betrayal, it fires my blood So many knives have missed my back to put me down The weight would crush you down, 'Cause heavy lies the crown Don’t put me on a pedestal I lay there for you all to see I never wanted any war Save me from the hate below Envy seeps from every pore Jealousy is your just reward This is a warning to you all Don’t ever try to plot my fall I’ll put you six feet in the ground Heavy lies the crown 12. Psychotic I'm at the end of my rope And I'm starting to choke The noose is tightening around my throat It's strangling the hope That's hiding in my soul I argue with myself 'cause I can't take control So drag me through the trough With my Vietnam cough And take this straitjacket off I'm powerless and down And cracking from the stress Constricting like a python as it tightens 'round my chest I gotta fucking death wish Fighting all my enemies Wrecking all their fucking dreams My hands they bleed from the nails Fingers make a fist Don't tell me I'm a fatalist Dancing 'round so frantically Laughing so maniacally I can't escape insanity Trapped in my pain Fight to keep myself sane Silent I scream Tortured by these dark dreams So get the fuck away from me and hide knives 'Cause I can't trust myself tonight I'll straight up lie and say Anything to make it alright You said you'd love me till the end Now you want to end? It's not the end till I say so! Take your little razor blades Cut me up and shed the pain Let them stitch my heart out, black it out Hand print on the wall Blood holds me in thrall Castrated by the butcher's blade that severs all Trapped in my pain Fight to keep myself sane Silent I scream Tortured by these dark dreams Nails rake the skin in perfect rows Spine shivers down from head to toe Feeling sicker every second that passes I vomit the pain as I pike till I gasp My breathing quickens, heart starts to race The lines sink deeper into my face Peel the filth away, a sick bloody habit Pick through the scabs as I sift through the maggots Tobacco stains and tar Fingernails burnt and charred The smell of piss and rain The odor haunts my brain Psychotic Thoughts from hell arise Do I wanna let silence die? Kill myself to survive Needle in my arm and the damage is done 'cause I'm Psychotic Thoughts below arise Do I wanna let silence die? Kill myself to survive Needle in my arm and the damage is done and I'm Trapped in my pain Fight to keep myself sane Silent I scream Tortured by these dark dreams 13. Grind You Down The ashes chaff between my fingernails The cigarettes have stained my skin My lungs are sore from breathing in these chemicals I thrive inside this life of sin My bones are rotten to the marrow inside My veins are coursing only ice A heart of steel beats inside my chest Temptation is my only vice Grind you down and grind you down Grind you down and grind you down (Gonna grind you down) Grind you body down I can remember the last time December The snow that comes falling it washes away I'll live forever the wings of a feather Will carry me on to the next victory The smell of death fills up my nostrils like wine My eyes have slowly turned to stone My jackals terrorize the enemy lines Chewing on their muscle and bone Exact a pound of flesh to bring some justice My other generals start to cheer 'Cause victory has shined a light upon us Death is in the rear view mirror Grind you down and grind you down and Grind you down and grind you down (Gonna grind you down) Grind you body down I can remember the last time December The snow that comes falling it washes away I'll live forever the wings of a feather Will carry us off to this our victory The burning feeling in my stomach starts to ache The sweat begins to bead uncertainties awake My body's holding and it's folding to the floor Fight back alpha evermore 'Cause something's wrong Cause for alarm Authorities are here to harm Carve your path Not one step fucking back Stand your ground Don't let them grind you down Say "no more". Ring out our righteous roar Stand your ground Don't let them grind you down Grind you down and Grind you down and grind you down (Gonna grind you down) Grind you body down I can remember the last time December The snow that comes falling it washes away I'll live forever the wings of a feather Will carry me unto the next victory 'Cause something's wrong It's now cause for our alarm Carve your path Not one step fucking back Stand your ground Don't let them grind you down 14. Razorblade Smile Call me the billionaire breaker, turn 'em into my bitch I'm the king of the freaks a' down here diggin' a ditch I'm at a weed cafe on a Netherlands street Riding a caffeine buzz and I'm starting to peak Mescaline pile, gettin' me high Laser beam eyes, puncture the sky I'm catching lightning in a bottle and I'm hitting it hard I got no time for your bullshit so don't even start Freak magnet Pushin' back at you Straitjacket I'm a rock star in the gutter and I love it down here I'll take a shit on Mar-a-lago while I'm drinkin' a beer Fuck your champagne wishes and your caviar dreams I'll throw a brick through your window And I'll kick in your teeth I got a methadone twitch with a Vicodin itch I'm smoking crank on a foil like a son of a bitch Gonna fuck your borders, barbed wire dick Gorge on bullshit , #1 spic This is an all-black Russian hack, go USA Trump's in bed with North Korea And that just might be gay, come on Straitjacket Buckle up now quick Freak magnet I got a .357 and it's loaded and locked Pullin' a hair-brain trigger 'cause the hammer is cocked I got a razor blade smile and a cocaine tongue I got a boner for miles, I'm slinging loads for fun Carry a whiskey brown suitcase loaded with hash I'm eatin' pussy by a dumpster Beard stinking like snatch I'll drink you... Under the table with a gasoline smile Honey you're my fire, let's get lost for a while Blotto all our memories in bottles of wine Got a snake charmer's eyes, now you're caught on my line I'm chopping rails on a toilet, blazin' up in the stall Chuggin' Jack in the food court, throwing up in the mall I'm a psychoactive child in a rich man's game I bet my future on a bar fight, kickin' ass, takin' names I'm a Freak magnet Pushin' back at you Straitjacket Buckle up now Black casket I'm in a polka-dot hearse headed straight for the grave No class, fast track, I can't be saved 15. Eulogy The strands of memories spread like webs of cold Along my skin I feel the frost taking its hold Burning up, my insides start to freeze Cannibalistic past, thoughts rife with disease Come and set me free Stand my ground Won't let the bastards grind me down I'm bold, I'm strange Won't let their fears make me afraid There's hope, we'll change Spiders crawl across my scars at night Picking at the scabs of regrets in my life The darkness whispers madness as she calls my name Murky faded like a fog of acid rain Wash away the pain I'll stand my ground Won't let the bastards grind me down I'm bold, I'm strange Won't let their fears make me afraid There's hope, we'll change The pain goes on and on Under a crushing weight Sweating and paralyzed Upon the bed of my own hate The night is never ending As I struggle for control Where will I find the peace of sleep inside this hole? I'll stand my ground Won't let the bastards grind me down I'm bold, I'm strange Won't let their fears make me afraid There's hope, we'll change We'll change