Benediction
Grind Bastard
1. Deadfall
I lie screaming
Remembrance of the past
Emotions betray me below
Adversity - My martyrdom
Rancid breakdown bethothed
[CHORUS:]
Memories of passion overwhelming me
Corrupted love is displaced
The insect onset, death does not liberate
Deadfall, her final embrace
Forced to watch her decompose
Putrefy, it fills my nose
Tears in anguish I grieve
Smell the scent upon her shoulder
Festering, begins to moulder
Maggots are conceived
My delusions now torment me
Agonising the misery
At this point of death we do not part
Visualise my partner's corpse
I have but love and no remorse
In the final death-throes of my heart
Look her in the eye
Repulsive way to thrive
Death's spawn I feed
Choking on the fumes
In this heat infested room
My heart it bleeds
Lying trapped, my mind is free
Hallucination, fantasies
Relieve the life from when we met
Now I'm in her death's restrain
Horrific visions through my brain
Her rigor mortis starts to set
[CHORUS]
With her corruption I'm paralysed
Optic fluids pour from the eyes
Foul stench of decay makes me retch
Sweetly smiling from her jaws
Death opens wide it's sharpened claws
This death's erotic, how I letch
I thank god I'm an atheist
Prolong my anguish - subtract bliss
And as she rots
This nightmare never stops
I long for peace
In the end
Death is my lonely friend
I crave release
I lie screaming
Smothering in love
Now at the Reaper's call
A life that's seen
Adoration
Trapped in her deadfall
[CHORUS]
2. Agonised
Agonising road to ruin
Fright filled roots of soul
Iconoclasmic nightmare watching
Grief now uncontrolled
Uncertain loss, my pain - frustration
Now to reign regret
Wreaking havoc, near undoing
The trauma that dejects
[CHORUS:]
Desolated mindful obstruct
Shattered scream to loudly erupt
Pierce the night, a resoundning crash
Lying dormant, bleeding and gashed
Agonised
Innocence removed fleetingly
Childhood replayed
Remembering the best of times
Still remain dismayed
Near loss of one who's so close
Loving relative
Wishing I could turn the clock back
Lose my will to live
[CHORUS]
Driven to distraction grossly
Morbid mind, it roars
Taken from this mortal coil?
Is the Reaper at the door?
Linear thinking - positive
Yet defeat never stops
Overriding all the senses
Heart begins to drop
[CHORUS]
Agonised
Fear the worst, irrational
Wounds are unsevere
Recovery is imminent
Temped fate now cleared
Relief bringing but emotion
Tears begin to flow
A life was spared from grisly ending
A life still yet to grow
[CHORUS]
Agonised
3. West Of Hell
An odd unreality
Macabre life at home
Dominating Father figure
Sadist to the bone
Ape-like looks the doting parent
Prone to fits of rage
Sadist and a Mother's boy
Deflowers come of age
[CHORUS:]
They're missing
Underground they dwell
Mundane life with inner secret
He is West of Hell
Satisfaction comes through power
Fuse them in their guilt
Chemistry ignites the powder
Homely graveyard he had built
Saw-edge blade that cuts and slices
Pack them in the floor
All his evils have been done
There's none now to explore
[CHORUS]
Fantasy fuelled killing spree
Porno's psychopath
Resenting Mother for her sins
His twisted childhood trap
Overcome was all to much
In the prison cell
We look back within disgust
The creature West of Hell
Killing became such a trick
The only way to get a kick
Violent his appetite
Scrape of earth throughout the night
[CHORUS]
They're missing
Insane life he led
Our gratitude in suicide
You are better dead
[Dedicated to: Macabre]
4. Magnificat (Irenicon)
Follow the bleeder, undamned you decry
Consummate spirits ne'er follow the lie
Open your heart towards that your mind feels
Death is to conquer all that is surreal
Fortune's enlightenment, hopeful rays of light
Dramatic abundance, shattering the night
Grow biting conflict, halted to an end
The future is certain, the hope we defend
MAGNIFICAT
Up holding the righteous, onward march begun
Deftly remoulding a darkened vision
Strength within unity, mind linking mind
Enveloping beauty, the next humankind
The filth that we all have to climb through
The filth we have to take
Suffering it evermore
Irenicon the wake
"My soul doth magnify......
......my spirit has rejoiced
......remembrance of......mercy...
to his seed forever......"
Yet they lead us to the slaughter
Like they lead a horse to water
They can't force us to drink
But we do
MAGNIFICAT.....Throned
Persevere
So teach us to number our days that we may
Push hearts towards wisdom and fade out the grey
Interventions looming on our dawning world
Hope springs eternal, a hope now unfurled
Persevere.
For Julian.
5. Nervebomb
Fear is the mind killer, fear will infest
Gratify the nihilist, begin brain arrest
Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract
Nervebomb - to this torture I react
Panic inside cracking skull
Abrasive aggravate
Forcing through the mental path
Mind exacerbate
Multiplying psychosis
Terrifying rate
Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract
Nervebomb - to this torture I react
Alienation - Neuropathy
Terminal chaos killing apathy
Neurons converge all as one
Detonation of nervebomb
Fit to burst the pressure mounts
Culmination brain
Overloading neural points
Crucifying pain
Nervebomb - emaciated nervous tract
Nervebomb - to this torture I react
Alienation - Neuropathy
Terminal chaos killing apathy
Neurons converge all as one
Detonation of nervebomb
Neurons conveying impulses
Sensory operate
A morbid thirst they rupture forth
Violence separates
Extreme emotion, suicide
Counting down the ticking time
Repent my florid state
My mental high
Nerve distortion, a massive scale
Mental holocaust
Explosive thoughtless terrorist
Insanity enforced
Storm that raged the human soul
Won over flesh and bone
Trapped forever, caged within
Mental post-war fall-out zone
Nervebomb.
6. Electric Eye
[Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing]
Up here in space
I'm looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There's nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye
Protected. Detective. Electric eye
7. Grind Bastard
Grind Bastard - return of the weapon of war
Discharge my stigma
Now I'm back to even the score
Bastard - was condemned through dignity
Mark my soul eternal
Abasing physically
Reduce your will coz I am the Grind Bastard
Fight the world with the strength within
Arise - I am the bastard, I shall win
Debased - revenge on those two faced
Derise - censure guilty I decry.....Opress
Consume - eat your words and siffer
Degrade - humiliate no other
Erode away your futile will
Harass you with exaction
Memorise my calling
I am the bastard, I am the bastard
Though the mills of god grind on....
....they grind so small
A lesson never learned
The bastards never fall
Grind bastard - Rage away 'til teh battle is won
Vex you in your torment
No remorse, grinding on
Bastard - Understand now your life is mine
Dispensing my anger
Flesh is meat, blood is wine
In pain - A world to bthe in sorrow
Grimace - At the Inquisition's horror.....Confess
Intrude - Break the train of your thought
Enrage - Butchered now lie war torn
My principles are to die for
Your end arriving faster
Demonize
I am the bastard, I am the end
Never find distraction
Grinding on reaction
Pain in vain - to retain
The bittersweet one
Rage away in torment
The old ways lie dormant
Your life's mind - Yet sublime
This terror brought from.....Bastard
My needful lust is to direct your fate
Spiteful anger to reciprocate
Obsolete and yet I'm breathing still
Longevity my burden - Immortal kill
Gratitude in my revenge
Accept the fact
Your suffering is all
My vengeance never lacked
What my vengeance never lacked
Share my pleasure - feel my pain
Rational thoughts of a man insane
Septic ways to get me high
Jacking up to watch you die
I'm jacking up to watch you die
I see your torment and anxiety
Recognition of my dignity
There's no survivors
There's no regrets
Nothing more for you to beg...
...except a painless death
Betrayers fear my name
Bastard prophecy
Immortal, I am bound
My eternity
8. Shadow World
Off the beaten track here lies this Earth
Forgotten in the battle between death & birth
Other self ignite, ignore the fremesence
Look towards the inner sun and dread suspence
[CHORUS:]
DIstortion - Control
Our Shadow World
[Repeat]
At the darkest hour
They gain control
Marring our judgement
Slaving our souls
[CHORUS]
No more conquest, no regret
Man's inhumanity - our inner destiny
Bring forth our filth and evolves
Eaten away as we decay - our world is dark
Suffering the wrath of aeons
Harmony cries - Take control! Take control!
But slowly our vision dies - shadow hood the foe
Debased to Anarchy, open up the pit
Spilling a deluge of black
Swallowing the light, crushing all heart
Shadows arise and attack
Violent descendance, regress unto war
Drowning in a stenchland of the shadow law
Succumb to death so slowly find no end to see
Shadow World evolving for eternity
[CHORUS]
No more conquest, no regrets
9. The Bodiless
Final state, rejuvenate - Acquiring the world...
...of mind without a host - Dreams unfulfilled
Ominous mental man - Leave me bodiless
Percept disincarnate - Physical regress
[CHORUS:]
The Bodiless - Mindforce progress
This scattered Ash - Our Epitaph
The Bodiless - Mentiferous
Tumourous son - Our paragon
Regrowth in wisdom, regrowth in grace
Yet fading flesh
Incongruous to our humanity
Devout and pious
[CHORUS]
"god writes straight with crooked lines.....
.....jesus please us never feed us, god"
Intervenes in our sufferance
Regard without contempt
Deformed, reform the human race
Evolve experiment - Resculpture genetic art
Cauterise an answer - Mutation for amputation
Neoplasm, Cancer - Mnemonic mitigator
Existing without form
A growth of mind darkly saritical
Seraph - The immortal is born
10. Carcinoma Angel
A stark contrast to bleakly view
Monochromic ways
Fecund creeping ulcerate
Cancer feeds on me
Begin my solstice, forth of twelve
Terminal complaint
Footprints in the sands of time
Now slowly blown away
Divine message time has come
Lesser men are crushed
To die an ordered death I'll not
In god I have no trust
Pure of mind the body rots
Internal self decay
Carcinoma Angel smiles
A vision that which slays
No new worlds to conquer - now I am enslaved
My inner conflict - to break from these chains
Break the chains - Break the chains
Spread your wings and fly.........
In a thousand shapes and guises
Carcinoma Angels all
Through a self-induced remission
Carcinoma Angels fall
In sanatorium hear me shout
Inside my body, I cannot get out
11. We, The Freed
Harvest growth to captivate
Liberate your mind
Seek the truth, co-operate
Removal of the grind
Supposition, theorise
Germinate and seed
Draw into aseity
Roaring "We, the freed"
Corpulent authority
Extirpate with law
Given enough rope to hang them
Rutting with their whores
Intersocial involition
Hypocrisy to breed
Power-hungry carry on
Muting we...the...freed
The Hallucination Contradicts
This Hidden Conspiracy
Trance-like Heresy Commence.....
.....start drawing towards the free
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will............
If their heresy is such an illegal offence
Then we'll all be getting stoned in the biblical sense
The process of weeding out has begun
Yet drawing it in is much more fun
Stoned-head at six feet deep
If a joint is not a joint, it's a piece of meat
Or a hinge that could open your mind to see
What we desire, released, be free
We, the freed - Duplicity in mortal world
Decadence to rage - Jocular our moral standarts
Return to stone age - Manifest my definition?
Interpretation keyed? - Sequential our persecution
Sanction we, the freed
[Dedicated to: Ed & Impaler, Bill & Exit-13, Dan & Brutal Truth]
12. Destroyer
[Twisted Sister cover]
13. I
I am the wind that tears your sails
The broken cross rejecting nails
I am the holy crucified
Yet sinful are my lusts and pride - I
I am ashes I am dust
I'm always held within disgust
Don't follow me for I mislead
Yet all these words you never heed - I
I'm the junkie with a gun
Pushing people's opium
Floating round the universe
I'm driving in my cosmic hearse
I'm intrusion I defy
I am immortal, never die
I am to take you hell and back
The one to break you on the rack
Suffer torment anguish pain
I'll violate all your domains
I am lies and I am truth
I am the portent, I am youth - I
I am the future and the past
Except the now which cannot last
I am Death Church, I am peace
Yet never granting sweet release
My betrayal burns your pain
For I beget you, you become me
You are, betrayed
Yet you still want to play the game
You're victim, you'll expire
Feeding life and all desire
Your life, your pain
Searching for your eternal gain
Flesh is weak, but still it calls
You who makes your own flesh crawl
Covet, your soul
You will never have your own
Thoughts betray and falsify
Now You see that I am I
14. We Are The League
[bonus track]
[Anti-Nowhere League cover]
BENEDICTION ARE:
VOCALS: Dave Ingram
GUITAR: Darren Brookes
GUITAR: Peter Rew
BASS: Frank Healy
DRUMS: Neil Hutton
LYRICS:
Lots of people ask me questions on the subject matter of Benediction's lyrics,
so for this LP here's a brief explanation to what they're about:
Shadow World - The dark side of Humanity. Based loosely on "Shadow World" by
Clifford D. Simak.
I - The inherant illjudgement within us all, that sometimes causes our
greatest mistakes.
Carcinoma Angel - An internal battle against Cancer. Based on "Carcinoma
Angels" by Norman Spinrad.
Agonised - My brother was involved in a car crash and this was written around
the feelings I suffered that day.
Deadfall - A man lies trapped under the weight of his wife's dead body in the
summer heat.
Grind Bastard - A song of hatred, revilement and revenge.
The Bodiless - Based on "Jack The Bodiless" by Julian May.
We, The Freed - In an ignorant world this is just one voice amongst many,
against the hypocritical society we live in.
West Of Hell - Written about England's notorious mass murderer, Fred West.
Magnificat (Irenicon) - A song of hope for our future. Based on "Magnificat"
by Julian May.
Nervebomb - The suffering of full mental dysfunction , and
eventual breakdown.
Acknowledgements to: The Baron, Nick Blinko, Steve Ignorant and Ian Anderson.
Dave Ingram
BENEDICTION CONTACT:
P.O.Box 2653 / Northfield / Birmingham B31 5NZ / ENGLAND
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