SLAYER
1. SOUTH OF HEAVEN
2. SILENT SCREAM
3. LIVE UNDEAD
4. BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS
5. MANDATORY SUICIDE
6. GHOSTS OF WAR
7. READ BETWEEN THE LIES
8. CLEANSE THE SOUL
9. DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR
10. SPILL THE BLOOD
South of Heaven
(Lyrics: Araya / Music: Hanneman)
An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time
Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs
Judgment day the second coming arrives
Before you see the light you must die
Forgotten children, conform a new faith
Avidity and lust controlled by hate
The never ending search for your shattered sanity
Souls of Damnation in their own reality
Chaos rampant
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive habitat
Bastard sons beget your cunting daughters
Promiscuous mothers with your incestuous fathers
Engreat souls condemned for all eternity
Sustained by immoral observance a domineering deity
Chaos rampant
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive sabbath
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
(Solo: King)
The root of all evil is the heart of a black soul
A force that has lived all eternity
The never ending search for a truth never told
The loss of all hope and your dignity
Chaos rampant
An age of distrust
Confrontations
Impulsive habitat
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
(Solo: Hanneman)
Silent Scream
(Lyrics: Araya / Music: Hanneman, King)
Nightmare
The persecution
A child's dream of death
Torment
Ill forgotten
A soul that will never rest
Guidance
It means nothing
In a world of brutal time
Electric
Circus, wild
Deep in the infants mind
Silent Scream
Bury the unwanted child
Beaten and torn
Sacrifice the unborn
Shattered
Another child
Bearer of no name
Restrained
Insane games
Suffer the children condemned
Scattered
Remnants of life
Murder a time to die
Pain
Sufferaged toyed
Life's little fragments destroyed
Silent Scream
Crucify the bastard son
Beaten and torn
Sanctify lives of scorn
(Solos: King, Hanneman)
Life preordained
Humanity maintained
Extraction, termination
Pain's agonizing stain
Embryonic death
Embedded in your brain
Suffocation, strangulation
Death is fucking you insane
Nightmare
The persecution
A child's dream of death
Torment
Ill forgotten
A soul that will never rest
Innocence
Withdrawn in fear
Fires burning
Can you hear cries
In the night
Live Undead
(Lyrics: Araya, King / Music: Hanneman)
Cascaded darkness walls close in on me
Nailed shut but my eyes still see
Severe anguish as my body evolves
The pain of life after death it resolves
(Solo: Hanneman)
Emptiness in twilight's rebirth
The faint sounds of shoveled earth
Madness growing as your mind dissolves
Merely secret in my dreams
(Solo: King)
Night grows cold
Twilight's near
On the edge of madness the wounds are sheared
Forms of hanging, flesh
Shredded carcass, no spared breath
Imprisoned in a shell
Ready to explode
Dead soul, stone cold
Out into the night
Voices inside my head hold me under
Voices oppress like roaring thunder
An echo bouncing inside my brain
How much can I take of the pain
The pain!
A war raging deep inside my head
A split decision that will end with me dead
You see the agony in my eyes
Protruding aimless, I think it's time to
Die
(Solo: King)
A cannibal's desire
Feeds the fire
That burns in your head
(Solo: Hanneman)
Intense pain
Eats away at your brain
Thorazine
Pumping through your veins
(Solo: King)
Death walks inside you
Smell death around you
Hell's evil spell takes a soul
Hear the sound of the bell
Counting off death tolls
(Solo: King)
Laughing as you eternally rot
Searching for human flesh
And life's blood
(Solo: Hanneman)
Live Undead
Behind the Crooked Cross
(Lyrics & Music: Hanneman)
Time melts away in this living inferno
Trapped by a cause that I once understood
Feeling a sickness building inside of me
Who will I really have to answer to
March on through the rivers of red
Souls drift, they fill the air
Forced to fight, behind
The crooked cross
Do only what is expected of me
With no emotions my feelings suppressed
Blind obedience carries me through it all
Conscience a word I learned to forget
March on through the rivers of red
Souls drift, they fill the air
Forced to fight, behind
The crooked cross
(Solos: Hanneman, King, King, Hanneman)
Time melts away in this living inferno
Trapped by a cause that I once understood
Blind obedience carries me through it all
Do only what is expected of me
March on through the rivers of red
Souls drift, they fill the air
Forced to fight, behind
The crooked cross
Mandatory Suicide
(Lyrics: Araya / Music: Hanneman, King)
Murder at your every foot step
A child's toy sudden death
Sniper blazes you thru your knees
Falling down can you feel the heat
Burn!
Ambushed by the spray of lead
Count the bullet holes in your head
Offspring sent out to cry
Living mandatory suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide
(Solo: Hanneman)
Holes burn deep in your chest
Raked by machine gun fire
Screaming soul sent out to die
Living mandatory suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Lying, dying, screaming in pain
Begging, pleading, bullets drop like rain
Mines explode, pain sheers through your brain
Radical amputation, this is insane
Fly swatter stakes drive through your chest
Spikes impale you as you're forced off the crest
Soldier of misfortune
Hunting with bated breath
A vile smell, like tasting death
Dead bodies, dying and wounded
Litter the city streets
Shattered glass
Bits of clothing and human deceit
Dying in terror
Blood's cheap, it's everywhere
Mandatory suicide
Massacre on the front line
Ghosts of War
(Lyrics: King / Music: Hanneman, King)
Fate silent warriors
Sleeping souls will arise
Once forgotten soldiers
Come to life
Fallen mercenary
Dormancy is done
Not content
With wars we never won
Memories can't ignore
Anguish of before
Satisfy the scorn
Rise ghosts of war
Target assassinate
Time of your life has expired
Hatred victimize
Gaze in their eyes as they die
Violence inflicting of pain
Savage morticians deny
Drive the salt in the wound
Arouse the subconscious to lie
Memories can't ignore
Anguish of before
Satisfy the scorn
Rise ghosts of war
(Solos: Hanneman, King, Hanneman)
I deal in pain
All life I drain
I dominate
I seal your fate
I deal in pain
All life I drain
Memories can't ignore
Rise ghost of war
Read Between the Lies
(Lyrics: Araya, King / Music: Hanneman)
Evangelist you claim God speaks through you
Your restless mouth full of lies gains popularity
You care not for the old that suffer
When empty pockets cry from hunger
Penniless from their generosity
Sharing their money to quench your greed
Searching for the answer to their prayers
They cry their last wish of need
Save me!
His spirit lives and breathes in me
The almighty transformed to your screen
The meanings lost in its translation
No holy words, describe his deception
You say you'll help us find the lord
Tell me preacher how do you know
A simple quest for a visible savior
To lead us through our final prayer
Save me!
Send your donations, contribute to the cause
Luxuries, your righteous reward?
Praise the lord, praise god
Is what you wish to sell
There is no heaven
Without a hell
(Solo: Hanneman)
In your mind's eye
Could you truly believe
That by giving you can save your soul
Could you be so naive!
You heal the sick
You raise the dead
You blind the congregation
With the things you say
Religious blackmail a deceit of trust
That death will come and all will be lost
Can you hear the serpents call
Look deep in those deceiving eyes
Ignore the writing on the wall
You should read between the lies
When doubt subsides his honesty
An inquiry, is it blasphemy?
Impure the soul, that's made to suffer
No sermons left to hide or cover
An empty promise, lie unfulfilled
To steal a dream or get it killed
They claim your trip to heavens nearby
You may believe it but satan wouldn't lie
Cleanse the Soul
(Lyrics: Araya, King / Music: Hanneman)
Body that rests before me
With every dying breath
Spellbound and gagged
I commence your flesh to dirt
Body that lay before me
In everlasting death
Entombed in abscess
To rot and lie stinking in the earth
(Solo: King)
Empty altar awaits its victim
Stained glass windows black
Candles burn the midnight oil
Incense fills the night
Observing trance awaking state
Lying still unknowing
Reciting the passages of time
Prepare for the impaling
(Solo: Hanneman)
Death's an art, flesh and earth never part
A power of the mind
Death shines on the air of silence
A ritual of endless time
Purged of your dead body
Sacrificed of your life
Unearthly ritual sealed in fire
Enter the kingdom of desire
(Solo: King)
Dissident Aggressor
(original by Judas Priest (Tipton, Halford, Downing))
Grand canyons
Of space and time universal
My mind is subjected
To all
Stab! Fight!
The hooks to my brain are well in
Stab! Fight!
I know what I am, I'm Berlin
Through cracked, blackened memories
Of unit dispersal
I face the impregnable wall
Stab! Fight!
The hooks to my brain are well in
Stab! Fight!
I know what I am, I'm Berlin
Exploding, reloading
This quest never ending
Until I give out
My last breath
Stab! Fight!
The hooks to my brain are well in
Stab! Fight!
I know what I am, I'm Berlin
Spill the Blood
(Lyrics & Music: Hanneman)
Come walk with me through endless time
See what has been and what the future sees
Share the wisdom of the old world that has passed
Step in a life that's yet to be born
You spill the blood
Eternal soul
I'll show you sights that you would not believe
Experience pleasures thought unobtained
At one with evil that has ruled before
Now smell the stench of immortality
You spill the blood
Eternal soul
(Solo: Hanneman)
Spill your blood, let it run on to me
Take my hand and let go of your life
Close your eyes and see what is me
Raise the chalice, embrace for evermore
You've spilt the blood
I have your soul
South of Heaven
Slayer
1988 American Recordings
Tom Araya - Vocals and bass
Kerry King - Guitars
Jeff Hanneman - Guitars
Dave Lombardo - Drums