Coroner Mental Vortex Keyboards by Kent Smith Background Vocals by Janelle Sadler and Steve Gruden Cover Concept and design by Marquis Marky Recorded at Sky Trak Studio, Berlin (April and June 1991) Mixed at Morrisound, Tampa (Florida) Produced, Mixed, and Engineered by Tom Morris Second Engineer: Sven Conquest Executive Producer: Karl-U. Walterbach Available on NOISE INTL. - 0-3612-44836 Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis) (6:22) This is the last hit Your heart will beat Into this world... This is the first step Your soul will take Up to the sky... No time to pray 'cos you Can't stay where words Like that would count... Face the moment That you feared and Glide outside your brain... Golden wings Drawn in blood What is sin? And who is God? This time it's real And not a game Now cross the edge of time... The circle's closed So enter now The land of unborn life... Golden wings Drawn in blood What is sin? And who is God? You will find out If your heaven is colored black And you will find out If your suffering will find an end Son Of Lilith (6:53) I'm coming out of the void Along a spiral trace Escorted by a thousand souls Remembered but still unknown... I don't need wings To reach the sky And I don't need hands To hold you tight... My youth's my defense And pureness my weapon I'm Lilith's son I've got the moon in my veins... Son of Lilith Son of Lilith You don't have to listen To understand And you won't find words If you want to explain... Semtex Revolution (5:30) They tore me down They threw me out They shut my mouth They enslaved my mind They blocked my way Holding me back with Their stupid game... Hand on trigger Phantom face Don't trust no one Always on the run Eyes all over Never safe Virus like Merciless I left the row Erased myself Designed my plan Now I revolt I just say no I do reject And don't let it go... I serve the revolution In a different way My thoughts are radical And I don't hesitate to slay My way is fast I hit and run Won't leave no trace I'm a sniper The signs I set Are painted In deepest red... Sirens (5:35) Oh how I loved the game When we were dancin' on bridges High above rivers of tears and The lightness of innocence gave us wings We were sleepin' covered By darkness' black velvet So far from coldness So far from light... Where is the place I used to hide Where are the hearts Once given to me And I can feel it now The white cold hand For the first time I'm getting hurt By the thorns of the roses in my hand Time is returning to its realm And it's slowly melting away Like deep red wax Leaving pools of blood... Where is the place I used to hide Where are the hearts Once given to me And sweet voices...turn into sirens... Foretelling...the presence of death... Metamorphosis (5:32) See me become a snake Wrapped around your neck... See me become a spike Pushed deep in your flesh... Feel me become a tongue Gliding softly down your spine... Feel me become the essence That makes you cry... But there's one thing You have to know When you awake Don't be surprised 'Cos you won't be alive Watch me become that moment That really matters in your life... Watch me become the relic That means so much to you... But there's one thing You have to know When you awake Don't be surprised 'Cos you won't be alive Hear me become a cry That means a thousand words in one... And hear me as I whisper so low That you won't dare to breathe... See me become a snake Wrapped around your neck... See me become a spike Pushed deep in your flesh... See me become the one Who sees behind your eyes... And see me become the night From where you will never return... Pale Sister (4:55) With wounded knees And the musty scent Of incense in her hair Captured by the barbed hook Of eternal devotion Stigma bleeds In the book that leads To her final end Civitas Dei She lives on your planet But not in your world She speaks the same language But you can't understand The weight of chastity Makes her eyes cast down And the skin of humility Is white as snow Stigma bleeds In the book that leads To her final end Civitas Dei She lives on your planet But not in your world She speaks the same language But you can't understand Paralyzed she's followin' The ancient message It's more much more Than just belief About Life (5:18) In a world Where we think That we've seen Everything In a world Where we think That we rise above All things In a time That is so fast You have to run So you won't get lost In a time That is so loud You have to scream To get recognized... In a land Where you must fight For a little fragment Of human rights In a system That uses war To spread its spirit Around the globe A religion That uses hate To plug its message Into your brain A revolution That turns back time Forgets what we have Learned to be... I'd like to say I have to say You...don't know nothin' You...don't know nothin' about You...don't know nothin' You...don't know nothin' at all A public Where shoes do shine And money beats Respect for life In a world That is cleaned Of all secrets That nature kept A public Where death's reduced To be excitement In late night news In a time Where children learn To ignore the world Around them... I Want You (She's So Heavy) (7:14) I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad it's drivin' me mad She's so heavy