STAINED CLASS

JUDAS PRIEST
 
 

1. EXCITER
2. WHITE HEAT, RED HOT
3. BETTER BY YOU, BETTER THAN ME
4. STAINED CLASS
5. INVADER
6. SAINTS IN HELL
7. SAVAGE
8. BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH
9. HEROES END
 
 
 
Exciter
(Tipton / Halford)

Racing' cross the heavens
Straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet
Slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon
Blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us
The age of fire's at hand

   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation is his task
   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation bids to ask

Everything he touches
Fries into a crisp
Let him get close to you
So you're in his trip
First you'll smoke and smoulder
Blister up and singe
When ignition hits you
the very soul of your being will cringe

   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation is his task
   Stand by for Exciter
   Here he comes now
   Fall to your knees and repent if you please
 

Who is this man?
Where is he from?
Exciter comes
For everyone
You'll never see him
But you will taste the fire upon your tongue

He's come to make you snap out
Of the state that you are in
Looks around and make you
See the light again
So much self-indulgence
Results in shattered eyes
Predominant complacency
Leads to beguiling lies

   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation is his task
   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation bids to ask

When he leaps amidst us
With combustive dance
All shall bear the branding
Of his thermal lance
Cauterizing masses
Melting into one
Only when there's order
Will his job be done

   Stand by for Exciter
   Salvation is his task
   Stand by for Exciter
   Here he comes now
   Fall to your knees and repent if you please
 

Who is this man?
Where is he from?
Exciter comes
For everyone
You'll never see him
But you will taste the fire upon your tongue

Racing past the heavens
Straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet
Slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon
Blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us
The age of fire's at hand

   Stand by for Exciter
   Stand by for Exciter
   Stand by for Exciter
   Stand by for Exciter
 
 
 
White Heat, Red Hot
(Tipton)

The father's son
Thy kingdom come
Electric ecstasy
Deliver us
From all the fuss
And give us sanctuary
Lead us all into arena
Magnificent in death
Well let us serenade the sinner
We'll follow in his step

   White
   Heat
   Red
   Hot
   Burns
   Deep
   White heat's hot

The fury songs
Venomous wrongs
So rich in tragedy
An overture
Forever more
To senseless victories
Give to us this day of glory
The power and the kill
So we avoid the wrath and all the
Almighty fire of

   White
   Heat
   Red
   Hot
   Burns
   Deep
   White heat's hot

      Burns a lot
      Who are not
      Cut out
      To fight
      This day
      Will surely fall

      The few
      Who stand
      To take
      Command
      Forever and ever are men
 

Prepare to fight
Unsheathe your scythe
A ghastly beam of ill
To slice the life
With blinding light
And seventh dimensional skill
The centuries of dedication
Inherited till at last
From years of solar gladiation
Can only end in

   White
   Heat
   Red
   Hot
   Burns
   Deep
   White heat's hot

      Burns a lot
      Who are not
      Cut out
      To fight
      This day
      Will surely fall

      The few
      Who stand
      To take
      Command
      Forever and ever are men

White heat
Red hot
White heat
Red hot
 
 
 
Better by You, Better Than Me
(Gary Wright)

You could find a way to ease my passion
You listen to the blood flow in my veins
You hear the teaching of the wind
Tell her why I'm alive within
I can't find the words, my mind is dead
It's better by you better than me

Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside
Tell her now I got to go
Out in the streets and down the shore
Tell her the world's not much for living for
It's better by you better than me

   Everybody
   Everybody knows
   Everybody
   Everybody knows

      Better by you better than me
      You can tell what I want it to be
      You can say what I only can see
      It's better by you better than me

Guess I'll have to change my way of living
Don't wanna really know the way I feel
Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
Tell her not to wait until
They'll find my blood upon her windowsill
It's better by you better than me

   Everybody
   Everybody knows
   Everybody
   Everybody knows

      Better by you better than me
      You can say what I only can see
      You can tell what I want it to be
      It's better by you better than me
      Better by you better than me
      You can tell what I want it to be
      You can say way all they can see
      Better by you better than me
      Better by you better than me
      You can say way all they can see
      You can tell what I want it what I want it what I want it to be
      Better by you better than me
 
 
 
Stained Class
(Tipton / Halford)

Wild-eyed and tight fisted I stand contemplating
Reacting alone
Impaled with betrayal         
The tourniquet turns         
Society's creation         
Pole-axed out and burnt         

   Long ago
   When man was king
   His heart was clean
   Now he's stained class
   Time has slashed
   Each untouched thing
   So now he's just
   A stained class king

Transfixed at deliverance
Is this all there is
Faithless continuum
Into the abyss
Fierce is my conviction
Absolute my belief
I spit at you apathy
And seducer deceit

   Long ago
   When man was king
   His heart was clean
   Now he's stained class
   Time has slashed
   Each untouched thing
   So now he's just
   A stained class king

Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered
He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world but by doing so smashed all his hopes and utopian dreams
Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off
Relentless and senseless his lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep to infest and decay from the core
 

Impaled with betrayal
The tourniquet turns
Society's creation
Pole-axed out and burnt

   Long ago
   When man was king
   His heart was clean
   Now he's stained class
   Time has slashed
   Each untouched thing
   So now he's just
   A stained class king
 

Stained class king
 
 
 
Invader
(Tipton / Halford / Hill)

I came across a smoking field, pulsating afterglow
I saw a seering flash of light erupt and skyward go
I staggered back in dazed surprise, What was it I had seen?
And as I stood there mesmerized I heard my spirit scream

   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh

This is the first of more to come in carefully planned attacks
If it is so we must prepare defenses to fight back
The call is out throughout the world, united we must stand
To build a line, strategic force, they will not take a man

   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh

When they come to take control
Every man must play his role
They won't take our world away
When the children we leave will have to believe in today
 

We warn you now you things out there, whatever you may send
We won't give in without a fight, a fight until the end
With vigilance by day and night our scanners trace the sky
A shield is sealed upon this earth, a shield you won't get by

   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh
   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh
   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh
   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader
   Invader is nigh
   Invader
   Invader nearby
   Invader...
 
 
 
Saints in Hell
(Tipton / Halford / Downing)

They laughed at their gods
And fought them in vain
So he turned his back on them
And left them in pain
Now here come the saints
With their banners held high
Each one of them martyrs
Quite willing to die

   Wake the dead
   The saints are in Hell
   Wake the dead
   They've come for the bell

Cover your fists
Razor your spears
It's been our possession
For 8,000 years
Fetch the scream eagles
Unleash the wild cats
Set loose the king cobras
And blood sucking bats

   Wake the dead
   The saints are in hell
   Wake the dead
   They've come for the bell

We are saints (saints saints saints saints...)
In hell (hell hell hell hell hell...)
We are saints (saints saints saints saints...)
In hell (hell hell hell hell hell...)
We're going down (down down down down down...)
Into the fire (fire fire fire fire fire...)
We're going down
Into the fire (fire fire fire fire fire...)

The streets run with blood from the mass mutilation
As carnage took toll for the bell
Abattoir, abattoir, mon Dieu quelle horreur
For a time is was like second hell

Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell

The battle is over
The saints are alive
How can we all thank you
We felt so despised

Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
 
 
 
Savage
(Downing / Halford)

Who gives you the right
To come here and tell me
I have to leave this place my home
To you it's a jungle
To me it's a kingdom
Where my people are free there to roam

Born with the stars we are happy and peaceful
'Til now we were left undisturbed
But you rupture the forests
Our gardens and fill them
With filth from your cities unheard

   Savage, who is savage
   Leave your morals, stake your claim
   Savage, you are savage
   Modern man can take the blame

You poisoned my tribe
With civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies
With sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased

What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can't, no you can't, we can see it in your eyes
Of us both who's the primitive man

   Savage, who is savage
   Leave your morals, stake your claim
   Savage, you are savage
   Modern man can take the blame
 

You poisoned my tribe
With civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies
With sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased

What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can't, no you can't, we can see it in your eyes
Of us both who's the primitive man

Savage, savage
Savage, savage
Who's the savage
Modern man
Who's the savage
Modern man
 
 
 
Beyond the Realms of Death
(Binks / Halford)

He had enough
He couldn't take anymore
He'd found a place
In his mind
And slammed the door
No matter how they tried
They couldn't understand
They washed and dressed him
Fed him by hand

   Yeah!
   I've left the world behind
   I'm safe here
   In my mind
   I'm free to speak
   With my own kind
   This is my life, this is my life
   I'll decide not you

Withdrawn he'd sit there
Stare blank into space
No sign of life
Would flicker
On his face
Until one day he smiled
It seemed
As though with pride
The wind kissed him
Goodbye
And then he died

   Yeah!
   I've left the world behind
   I'm safe here
   In my mind
   Free to speak
   With my own kind
   This is my life, this is my life
   I'll decide not you

      Keep the world
      With all its sin
      It's not fit
      For livin' in
      Yeah! I will start again
      It can take forever, and ever, and ever and ever, but I'll still win
 

How many like him
Are there still
But to us all
Seem
To have lost the will
They lie in thousands
Plagued and lost
Is nothing worth
This bitter cost

   Yeah!
   I've left the world behind
   I'm safe here
   In my mind
   Free to speak
   With my own kind
   This is my life, this is my life
   I'll decide not you

      Keep the world
      With all its sin
      It's not fit
      For livin' in
 

Beyond the realms of death
 
 
 
Heroes End
(Tipton)

I heard a human voice who sang like no one else
I heard a proud lady singing loud
Lived her life as she liked, didn't give a damn
But soon she found she was underground and wasted

I watched her hitting notes as she strutted stage
Her body shook oh, she did her stuff
She screamed and quake, give and take, maybe took too much
If you take the smooth you gotta take the rough

   Why do you have to die to be a hero
   It's a shame a legend begins at its end
   Why do you have to die if you're a hero
   When there's still so many things to say unsaid

I heard a man's guitar electrify a crowd
I felt the sound shower 'round
And he would take you with him where no music's been before
As you merged the power surge together

His music knew no limits if you were in it's wake
You had no choice, no, but hear its voice
And you would listen hypnotized, and in a dream
But once so strong survive or become weak

   Why do you have to die to be a hero
   It's a shame a legend begins at its end
   Why do you have to die if you're a hero
   When there's still so many things to say unsaid
 

If you gaze across timeless years
You'll find them always there

And many gods will join the list
Compiled with dying care

Hungry mouths are waiting
To bite the hand that feeds

And so the living dead
Carry on immortal deeds

I saw on silver screen an actor's rise to fame
But fast car user lose
That legend's born from death and that is such a shame
'Cos ev'ry year new ones appear

   Why do you have to die to be a hero
   It's a shame a legend begins at its end
   Why do you have to die if you're a hero
   When there's still so many things to say unsaid