At The Gates - 1995
"Slaughter Of The Soul"
Track List:
 1. Blinded By Fear
 2. Slaughter Of The Soul
 3. Cold
 4. Under A Serpent Sun
 5. Into The Dead Sky
 6. Suicide Nation  
 7. World Of Lies
 8. Unto Others
 9. Nausea 
10. Need 
11. The Flames Of The End       


1. Blinded By Fear 
++++++++++++++++++
We are blind to the 
worlds within us,
waiting to be born

I cast aside my chains 
Fall from reality
Purgatory unleashed 
Now burn the face of the earth
Purgatory unleashed 
Now burn the face of the earth

The face of all your fears
All of your dreams unleashed
The face of all your fears

Born of the demon sky
Twisting reality
Sweet nauseating pain
Is death the only release?
Nauseating pain
Is death the only release?

The face of all your fears
All of your dreams unleashed
The face of all your fears

I cast aside my chains
Fall from reality
Suicidal diseases
The face of all your fears
Now covered with scars
Humanity exiled
Purgatory unleashed
Now burn the face of the earth
Purgatory unleashed 
Now burn the face of the earth

The face of all your fears
All of your dreams unleashed
The face of all your fears


2. Slaughter Of The Soul
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Never again
On your forcefed illusions to choke
You feed off my pain
Fee off my life

There won't be another dawn 
We will reap as we have sown

Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind

There won't be another dawn
We will read as we have sewn
 
Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart

Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind

There won't be another dawn
We will read as we have sewn

Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart

"Men must attempt to develop
in themselves and their children
liberation from the sense of self
...men must be free from
boundries, patterns and 
consistences in order to be free
to think, feel and create in new ways"

 - Luke Rhinehart, "The Diceman"
   1971


3. Cold
+++++++
To rid the earth of the filth
To rid the earth of the lies
To will the rise above 
Tearing my insides out

I feel my soul go cold
Only the dead are smiling

To rid your heart of all lies
Their poison tongues, poison hearts
Burning cold...

Now let the final darkness fall

I feel my soul go cold
Only the dead are smiling

"...The dream of the new disease
On wings of euphoria..
Sucking terror from the needle scars..."

22 years of pain 
And I can feel it closing in
The will to rise above
Tearing my insides out

I feel my soul go cold
Only the dead are smiling


4. Under A Serpent Sun
++++++++++++++++++++++
Web of corruption thick with deceit
The language of destruction, the slughter of the meek

Under a serpent sun - we shall all live as one

No rest for the wicked, the children of god
The final retribution, the final curtain torn
Within us - the falmes of the end
Survival of the fittest, the hunt for the sacred game

Under a serpent sun - we shall all live as one

Children of chaos - born of the holocaust seed
Inherit the addiction, angels of genocide breed
Within us - the falmes of the end
Survival of the fittest, the hunt for the sacred game

Under a serpent sun - we shall all live as one

Sweetfleshed, hellbent creature
Artist of the fevered soul
Heavenly venomous rapture
Stricken numb by fear I fall


5. Into The Dead Sky
++++++++++++++++++++
"Recently it has become possible for man to 
chemically alter his mental state and thus alter
his point of view. He can then restructure
his thinking and change his language so that his thoughts
bear more relation to his life and his problems
therefore approaching them more sanely..."
  - The 13th Floor Elevators


6. Suicide Nation
+++++++++++++++++
Utopia - lost in chaos
As the sky turns black
Suicidal legacy
There is no turning back

Retribution answers cold
Moving in for the kill
Deep hideous festering
Bestial epidemic, repulsive need

Control, control

Suicide nation
Mass-appeal, death-addiction
Dead but dreaming
Restrained by phobia, brainwashed into submission
Control, control

Suicide -jaws locked around your spine

"The face of evil is always the face of total need.."
  -W.S. Burroughs, "Deposition"
  Testimony Concerning A Sickness

Retribution answers cold
Moving in for the kill
Deep hideous festering
Bestial epidemic, repulsive need

Control, control

Suicide - jaws locked around your spine


7. World Of Lies
++++++++++++++++
Degeneration tears your blackened eyes
The final descent for the last in life
No joy in our tired lives - the torment builds inside
The sun sets forever on a world of lies

World of lies
World of lies
Non-divine
Release me

Demonic vultures feed on your mind
Disarmed of all your pride you die
No life in our alien eyes - the blind lead the blind
The sun sets forever on the non-divine

World of lies
World of lies
Non-divine
Release me

Final psychotic eclipse
Painted in the colours of war
Final psychotic eclipse
A world drenched in blood

Degeneration tears your blackened eyes
The final descent for the last in life
No joy in our tired lives - the torment builds inside
The sun sets forever on a world of lies

World of lies
World of lies
Non-divine
Release me

"And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are
inhibiting him...
His reality, his reason, his society
...these are what must be destroyed"
  -Luke Rhinehart, "The Dice Man"

Final psychotic eclipse
Painted in the colours of war
Final psychotic eclipse
A world drenched in blood


8. Unto Others
++++++++++++++
You hold high the banner of self-deceit
Encaged in the dogmas of life, you join the elite

My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more
My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more

You mock the weak for not giving you their trust
In your world of make beleive, where statues turn to dust

My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more
My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more

You walk though what is me 
Stare blind - cannot see
Your thoughts flee to a different land
They are free, but but you are bound.

Silenced forever, the walls are closing in 
The keys to our damnation - burial within

My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more
My Judas-windows stay shut - shut forever more


9. Nausea
+++++++++
Release me from your world of lies 
I cannot bear this pain
Degenerate machinery
The monster we create

Nausea, oh sweet nausea

Genetic barcode hell
Mental genocide
Repulsive human shells
Choke on the fruits of out life

Nausea, oh sweet nausea

Cold stare, starving eyes
Blinded, tired lives
Release me from this pain
Unknown to man

Nausea, oh sweet nausea

Cold stare, starving eyes
Blinded, tired lives
Release me from this pain
Unknown to man

"The family structure
victory over adversity
though the family.
Mix within god and country,
add the ten hour day
and you had what was needed..."
 -C. Bukowski, "Ham On Rye"


10. Need
++++++++
"...Because of my love for all living things
...I choose to die..."

Open me, with your kiss of steel 
End my pain - set me free

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Open me, with your kiss of steel 
End my pain - set me free
Live only to die some more 
Need - killing yourslef to live

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Lay your fears to rest, let your dreams awake

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Lay your hate to rest - open me...


11. The Flames Of The End
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Humanity - the living end, a wlaking disease
Beyond good and evil, the flesh that never rest

The flames of the end inside us rest"