Benediction Grind Bastard 1. Deadfall I lie screaming Remembrance of the past Emotions betray me below Adversity - My martyrdom Rancid breakdown bethothed [CHORUS:] Memories of passion overwhelming me Corrupted love is displaced The insect onset, death does not liberate Deadfall, her final embrace Forced to watch her decompose Putrefy, it fills my nose Tears in anguish I grieve Smell the scent upon her shoulder Festering, begins to moulder Maggots are conceived My delusions now torment me Agonising the misery At this point of death we do not part Visualise my partner's corpse I have but love and no remorse In the final death-throes of my heart Look her in the eye Repulsive way to thrive Death's spawn I feed Choking on the fumes In this heat infested room My heart it bleeds Lying trapped, my mind is free Hallucination, fantasies Relieve the life from when we met Now I'm in her death's restrain Horrific visions through my brain Her rigor mortis starts to set [CHORUS] With her corruption I'm paralysed Optic fluids pour from the eyes Foul stench of decay makes me retch Sweetly smiling from her jaws Death opens wide it's sharpened claws This death's erotic, how I letch I thank god I'm an atheist Prolong my anguish - subtract bliss And as she rots This nightmare never stops I long for peace In the end Death is my lonely friend I crave release I lie screaming Smothering in love Now at the Reaper's call A life that's seen Adoration Trapped in her deadfall [CHORUS] 2. Agonised Agonising road to ruin Fright filled roots of soul Iconoclasmic nightmare watching Grief now uncontrolled Uncertain loss, my pain - frustration Now to reign regret Wreaking havoc, near undoing The trauma that dejects [CHORUS:] Desolated mindful obstruct Shattered scream to loudly erupt Pierce the night, a resoundning crash Lying dormant, bleeding and gashed Agonised Innocence removed fleetingly Childhood replayed Remembering the best of times Still remain dismayed Near loss of one who's so close Loving relative Wishing I could turn the clock back Lose my will to live [CHORUS] Driven to distraction grossly Morbid mind, it roars Taken from this mortal coil? Is the Reaper at the door? Linear thinking - positive Yet defeat never stops Overriding all the senses Heart begins to drop [CHORUS] Agonised Fear the worst, irrational Wounds are unsevere Recovery is imminent Temped fate now cleared Relief bringing but emotion Tears begin to flow A life was spared from grisly ending A life still yet to grow [CHORUS] Agonised 3. West Of Hell An odd unreality Macabre life at home Dominating Father figure Sadist to the bone Ape-like looks the doting parent Prone to fits of rage Sadist and a Mother's boy Deflowers come of age [CHORUS:] They're missing Underground they dwell Mundane life with inner secret He is West of Hell Satisfaction comes through power Fuse them in their guilt Chemistry ignites the powder Homely graveyard he had built Saw-edge blade that cuts and slices Pack them in the floor All his evils have been done There's none now to explore [CHORUS] Fantasy fuelled killing spree Porno's psychopath Resenting Mother for her sins His twisted childhood trap Overcome was all to much In the prison cell We look back within disgust The creature West of Hell Killing became such a trick The only way to get a kick Violent his appetite Scrape of earth throughout the night [CHORUS] They're missing Insane life he led Our gratitude in suicide You are better dead [Dedicated to: Macabre] 4. Magnificat (Irenicon) Follow the bleeder, undamned you decry Consummate spirits ne'er follow the lie Open your heart towards that your mind feels Death is to conquer all that is surreal Fortune's enlightenment, hopeful rays of light Dramatic abundance, shattering the night Grow biting conflict, halted to an end The future is certain, the hope we defend MAGNIFICAT Up holding the righteous, onward march begun Deftly remoulding a darkened vision Strength within unity, mind linking mind Enveloping beauty, the next humankind The filth that we all have to climb through The filth we have to take Suffering it evermore Irenicon the wake "My soul doth magnify...... ......my spirit has rejoiced ......remembrance of......mercy... to his seed forever......" Yet they lead us to the slaughter Like they lead a horse to water They can't force us to drink But we do MAGNIFICAT.....Throned Persevere So teach us to number our days that we may Push hearts towards wisdom and fade out the grey Interventions looming on our dawning world Hope springs eternal, a hope now unfurled Persevere. For Julian. 5. Nervebomb Fear is the mind killer, fear will infest Gratify the nihilist, begin brain arrest Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract Nervebomb - to this torture I react Panic inside cracking skull Abrasive aggravate Forcing through the mental path Mind exacerbate Multiplying psychosis Terrifying rate Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract Nervebomb - to this torture I react Alienation - Neuropathy Terminal chaos killing apathy Neurons converge all as one Detonation of nervebomb Fit to burst the pressure mounts Culmination brain Overloading neural points Crucifying pain Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract Nervebomb - to this torture I react Alienation - Neuropathy Terminal chaos killing apathy Neurons converge all as one Detonation of nervebomb Neurons conveying impulses Sensory operate A morbid thirst they rupture forth Violence separates Extreme emotion, suicide Counting down the ticking time Repent my florid state My mental high Nerve distortion, a massive scale Mental holocaust Explosive thoughtless terrorist Insanity enforced Storm that raged the human soul Won over flesh and bone Trapped forever, caged within Mental post-war fall-out zone Nervebomb. 6. Electric Eye [Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing] Up here in space I'm looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape I'm watching all the time I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye Always in focus You can't feel my stare I zoom into you You don't know I'm there I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there There's nothing you can do about it Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye Protected. Detective. Electric eye 7. Grind Bastard Grind Bastard - return of the weapon of war Discharge my stigma Now I'm back to even the score Bastard - was condemned through dignity Mark my soul eternal Abasing physically Reduce your will coz I am the Grind Bastard Fight the world with the strength within Arise - I am the bastard, I shall win Debased - revenge on those two faced Derise - censure guilty I decry.....Opress Consume - eat your words and siffer Degrade - humiliate no other Erode away your futile will Harass you with exaction Memorise my calling I am the bastard, I am the bastard Though the mills of god grind on.... ....they grind so small A lesson never learned The bastards never fall Grind bastard - Rage away 'til teh battle is won Vex you in your torment No remorse, grinding on Bastard - Understand now your life is mine Dispensing my anger Flesh is meat, blood is wine In pain - A world to bthe in sorrow Grimace - At the Inquisition's horror.....Confess Intrude - Break the train of your thought Enrage - Butchered now lie war torn My principles are to die for Your end arriving faster Demonize I am the bastard, I am the end Never find distraction Grinding on reaction Pain in vain - to retain The bittersweet one Rage away in torment The old ways lie dormant Your life's mind - Yet sublime This terror brought from.....Bastard My needful lust is to direct your fate Spiteful anger to reciprocate Obsolete and yet I'm breathing still Longevity my burden - Immortal kill Gratitude in my revenge Accept the fact Your suffering is all My vengeance never lacked What my vengeance never lacked Share my pleasure - feel my pain Rational thoughts of a man insane Septic ways to get me high Jacking up to watch you die I'm jacking up to watch you die I see your torment and anxiety Recognition of my dignity There's no survivors There's no regrets Nothing more for you to beg... ...except a painless death Betrayers fear my name Bastard prophecy Immortal, I am bound My eternity 8. Shadow World Off the beaten track here lies this Earth Forgotten in the battle between death & birth Other self ignite, ignore the fremesence Look towards the inner sun and dread suspence [CHORUS:] DIstortion - Control Our Shadow World [Repeat] At the darkest hour They gain control Marring our judgement Slaving our souls [CHORUS] No more conquest, no regret Man's inhumanity - our inner destiny Bring forth our filth and evolves Eaten away as we decay - our world is dark Suffering the wrath of aeons Harmony cries - Take control! Take control! But slowly our vision dies - shadow hood the foe Debased to Anarchy, open up the pit Spilling a deluge of black Swallowing the light, crushing all heart Shadows arise and attack Violent descendance, regress unto war Drowning in a stenchland of the shadow law Succumb to death so slowly find no end to see Shadow World evolving for eternity [CHORUS] No more conquest, no regrets 9. The Bodiless Final state, rejuvenate - Acquiring the world... ...of mind without a host - Dreams unfulfilled Ominous mental man - Leave me bodiless Percept disincarnate - Physical regress [CHORUS:] The Bodiless - Mindforce progress This scattered Ash - Our Epitaph The Bodiless - Mentiferous Tumourous son - Our paragon Regrowth in wisdom, regrowth in grace Yet fading flesh Incongruous to our humanity Devout and pious [CHORUS] "god writes straight with crooked lines..... .....jesus please us never feed us, god" Intervenes in our sufferance Regard without contempt Deformed, reform the human race Evolve experiment - Resculpture genetic art Cauterise an answer - Mutation for amputation Neoplasm, Cancer - Mnemonic mitigator Existing without form A growth of mind darkly saritical Seraph - The immortal is born 10. Carcinoma Angel A stark contrast to bleakly view Monochromic ways Fecund creeping ulcerate Cancer feeds on me Begin my solstice, forth of twelve Terminal complaint Footprints in the sands of time Now slowly blown away Divine message time has come Lesser men are crushed To die an ordered death I'll not In god I have no trust Pure of mind the body rots Internal self decay Carcinoma Angel smiles A vision that which slays No new worlds to conquer - now I am enslaved My inner conflict - to break from these chains Break the chains - Break the chains Spread your wings and fly......... In a thousand shapes and guises Carcinoma Angels all Through a self-induced remission Carcinoma Angels fall In sanatorium hear me shout Inside my body, I cannot get out 11. We, The Freed Harvest growth to captivate Liberate your mind Seek the truth, co-operate Removal of the grind Supposition, theorise Germinate and seed Draw into aseity Roaring "We, the freed" Corpulent authority Extirpate with law Given enough rope to hang them Rutting with their whores Intersocial involition Hypocrisy to breed Power-hungry carry on Muting we...the...freed The Hallucination Contradicts This Hidden Conspiracy Trance-like Heresy Commence..... .....start drawing towards the free Exercise the will - We, the freed Exercise the will - We, the freed Exercise the will - We, the freed Exercise the will............ If their heresy is such an illegal offence Then we'll all be getting stoned in the biblical sense The process of weeding out has begun Yet drawing it in is much more fun Stoned-head at six feet deep If a joint is not a joint, it's a piece of meat Or a hinge that could open your mind to see What we desire, released, be free We, the freed - Duplicity in mortal world Decadence to rage - Jocular our moral standarts Return to stone age - Manifest my definition? Interpretation keyed? - Sequential our persecution Sanction we, the freed [Dedicated to: Ed & Impaler, Bill & Exit-13, Dan & Brutal Truth] 12. Destroyer [Twisted Sister cover] 13. I I am the wind that tears your sails The broken cross rejecting nails I am the holy crucified Yet sinful are my lusts and pride - I I am ashes I am dust I'm always held within disgust Don't follow me for I mislead Yet all these words you never heed - I I'm the junkie with a gun Pushing people's opium Floating round the universe I'm driving in my cosmic hearse I'm intrusion I defy I am immortal, never die I am to take you hell and back The one to break you on the rack Suffer torment anguish pain I'll violate all your domains I am lies and I am truth I am the portent, I am youth - I I am the future and the past Except the now which cannot last I am Death Church, I am peace Yet never granting sweet release My betrayal burns your pain For I beget you, you become me You are, betrayed Yet you still want to play the game You're victim, you'll expire Feeding life and all desire Your life, your pain Searching for your eternal gain Flesh is weak, but still it calls You who makes your own flesh crawl Covet, your soul You will never have your own Thoughts betray and falsify Now You see that I am I 14. We Are The League [bonus track] [Anti-Nowhere League cover] BENEDICTION ARE: VOCALS: Dave Ingram GUITAR: Darren Brookes GUITAR: Peter Rew BASS: Frank Healy DRUMS: Neil Hutton LYRICS: Lots of people ask me questions on the subject matter of Benediction's lyrics, so for this LP here's a brief explanation to what they're about: Shadow World - The dark side of Humanity. Based loosely on "Shadow World" by Clifford D. Simak. I - The inherant illjudgement within us all, that sometimes causes our greatest mistakes. Carcinoma Angel - An internal battle against Cancer. Based on "Carcinoma Angels" by Norman Spinrad. Agonised - My brother was involved in a car crash and this was written around the feelings I suffered that day. Deadfall - A man lies trapped under the weight of his wife's dead body in the summer heat. Grind Bastard - A song of hatred, revilement and revenge. The Bodiless - Based on "Jack The Bodiless" by Julian May. We, The Freed - In an ignorant world this is just one voice amongst many, against the hypocritical society we live in. West Of Hell - Written about England's notorious mass murderer, Fred West. Magnificat (Irenicon) - A song of hope for our future. Based on "Magnificat" by Julian May. Nervebomb - The suffering of full mental dysfunction , and eventual breakdown. Acknowledgements to: The Baron, Nick Blinko, Steve Ignorant and Ian Anderson. Dave Ingram BENEDICTION CONTACT: P.O.Box 2653 / Northfield / Birmingham B31 5NZ / ENGLAND (Enclose 2 I.R.C.'s for reply) OFFICIAL BENEDICTION WEB SITE: http://cal011111.student.utwente.nl/lsd/benedict (Site maintained and updated by: Johan "Zenial" Bremer)