Grip Inc. Solidify 1. Isolation Release Thirty years of nothing Macabre chilling scene Heinous is the rescue of the infants soulless screams Raking up the past Opposites attack Adjustment brings me danger Let sleeping dogs lay Confronting guilt strange faces appear Allies are Foreign conscience of blood Taken at birth happiness abused History is hanging for the ten score and three Thirty long years of nothing In exile stripped away all is lost Sterile life static law Sterile life static law Thirty years of nothing Surviving the test of time Fermented controlled chaos Left in a dirty malingering lie Tested is my courage skeletons appear Adjustment brings me danger Let sleeping dogs lay Retracing steps faking ties Running hard saved my life Emotional blackmail The well of forgiveness has run dry Sterile life static law Sterile life static law Thirty years of nothing Thirty years of nothing Thirty years of nothing Thirty years of nothing 2. Amped Scored primed and packed geared up Rules are none move with the pack Chopped and spread lines reflect white Reasoning fades into the second day Searching for something more Endless are the window patrols Time wags its accusing finger Time will cut you without distinction In the eleventh hour Cranked up high Cranked up high Tight chewing skin until it bleeds Ringed by broken cars and guns Nocturnal hiding from the sun Teeth turn black and rot You don't want it you just need it You gotta get it cranked up really high Into the third day Meth leper disorientated Fighting hard to feed Retracing steps of lost weekends Habit feeding habit Without distinction Of the eleventh hour Cranked up high Cranked up high Amped and cranked up really high Lost engorging show no mercy Move speed demon catch that moving train Fall into the affray You don't want it you just need it You gotta get it cranked up really high 3. Lockdown Waste Life life inside Anguish true wounds open raw Sounds sliding steel Sermons known to shackled nation Man human meat Senses starved left naked World in a world Condemned fused in wuth the underworld Formed pressed boxed caged Must escape into oneself Convicted and thrown away Undesired sub culture Pain does not define suffering Formed pressed boxed caged 4. Griefless Cashing in exploit the misfortune Of some poor bastard that eats shit unwillingly Millions descend on morbid momentos Outpouring of grief means outpouring of cash Parade of pestilence Parade of pestilence Making profits from unfocused affection Feeding parasites with wanton delight Snapping grabbing all haunting collectables Top prices paid for the memories of the dead Rest forever fear feeds fear Rest forever fear feeds fear Rest forever fear feeds fear Rest forever fear feeds fear 5. Foresight Internet fraud information download Current techno scams electronic theft Hardware software available to all No federal guidelines for counterfeit ID's bank cheques Fifty different states no unified design No one to turn to no response no help Falling through the cracks Internet global fraud Transmissions fly through the bloodless eyes Different age Blackened skies Closing in Risks run high Dangerous world we live in a dangerous world No backup against unusual activity red flags never shown Accounts being raped identities being taken advantage of Intrusion of privacy credit cards drivers' licenses Food stamps banking machines bullshit motives clear Boundaries crashing down Merger of conglomerates less choice more profit Transmissions fly through bloodless eyes Different age Blackened skies Closing in Risks run high Dangerous world we live in a dangerous world Names are endless but faceless Dangerous world we live in a dangerous world 6. Human! Tears like dirty water stain Crass is a union a struggle to maintain Only frozen dogs have spent nights cold as mine Hiding the shame godless and still To reap the good first feel the pain Am I human answer me Take me as I am And feel how I feel Am I human answer me Can you live with less Please answer me Judge me come close Hexed by Mother Nature's breath Raised flags of chaos take burden away from me Only frozen dogs have spent nights cold as mine Hiding the shame godless and still To reap the good first feel the pain Am I human answer me Take me as I am And feel how I feel Am I human answer me Can you live with less Please answer me 7. Vindicate Step from my shadow Rejoin your past communion Melt with empty dominions Angels carrying weapons Crying insanity left on the threshold Frozen shaking dysfunction's not the way Pressures building break out move away Shed the old shake loose the unclean Ignite the past time has come to Grant admittance Something deep inside me has died Smashed down hopelessly defiled Something inside me has died Smashed down criminally denied Jungles breathing cyclones of hatred Escaping with no significance Stand by your killing whores Mentor filled with bitterness Watch your back Misleading angel spew out metaphors Sickening beauty mystic island charms Pointless affection to cover the real Truth kept hidden time has come to Grant admittance Something deep inside me has died Smashed down hopelessly defiled Something inside me has died Smashed down criminally denied 8. Stresscase Crash Crash Crash Crash Duel for control blood On the highways of extremes Real life drama vile vengeance Extremities ripped Bodies smashed in head on Major injuries Creating havoc danger Pure aggression ejaculates Rage first blood drawn Crash Crash Crash Crash Irritation escalation domination termination Dr. Jeckyll turns erase the rush hour drag Fear the calling card die all are enemy Cutting in dispute turns ugly paybacks Gender not an issue shove turns to shoot Crash Crash Crash Crash Irritation escalation domination termination 9. Challenge Lungs breathing foulness Anal intellect fills rooms Cigar smoke and the stench of cheap wine Smothers my children's innocence The blind and boiled misery sets sail Ship wrecked souls don't buckle up You won't survive From the ashes of nothing Rises something Never to Forget forget forget forget So if you offer this challenge Oh yes my blood will rise Attitude is the engine that drives The force through hollow eyes The blind and boiled misery sets sail Ship wrecked souls don't buckle up You won't survive This stab skin stabbing your god's Messenger I will skin you just a little Stab skin stab skin over and over Again again again again So I accept your challenge Tear down your thin disguise Kamikaze your conceited ass With no compromise I fight your power with raw power I fight your power with raw power I fight your power with raw power I fight your power with raw power 10. Verrater (Betrayer) Take the mask off show the fiend Take the mask off show the fiend Vows of loyalty fertile the promise Catch the glimmer follow spinning wheels Quick easy painless tongues split in two Beware of wolf hiding under Golden Fleece Do what you say say what you mean All for one the rest for me Take the mask off show the fiend Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf Power of image consider all your ways Thin laurels standing with draconian smile Lies hibernate Hank eyes roll back Feeding frenzies expose wolf in sheep's clothing Do what you say say what you mean All for one the rest for me Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf Don't cry wolf 11. Bug Juice Dave Lombardo - drums, percussions Gus Chambers - vocals Stuart Carruthers - bass Waldemar Sorychta - guitars, keyboards Produced by: Waldemar Sorychta and Grip Inc. Recorded, mastered & mixed at Woodhouse studio, Hagen, Germany (July/August 1998). Engineered by: Siggi Biemm, Matthias Klinkmann & Waldemar Sorychta Mixed by: Dan Diamond