Death
Leprosy
Chuck Schuldiner Guitar, Vocals
Rick Rozz Guitar
Terry Butler Bass
Bill Andrews Drums
- Leprosy 6:20
- Born dead 3:27
- Forgotten past 4:36
- Left to die 4:38
- Pull the plug 4:27
- Open casket 4:56
- Primitive ways 4:33
- Choke on it 5:54
SONG: LEPROSY (words and music: Schuldiner)
Bodies deformed way beyond belief
Cast out from their concerned society
Flesh contorting day after day
Freak of the dark world is what the people say
Their lives decay before their eyes
There is no hope of cure
Among their own kind they live
A life that's so obscure
First an arm and then a leg
Deterioration grows
Rotting while they breathe - death comes slow
Leprosy will take control and bring you to your death
No chance of a normal life to live just like the rest
Leprosy will spread with time, your body soon to change
Appearance becomes hideous a sight too much to take
Tuberculoid the most severe
Decay of the nerves comes fast
Sense of feeling soon to be gone
Life will never last
No hope of recovery after the nerves are eaten away
Damage is done you feel no more pain
Bones decay deterioration grows
Origin of this horrid disease nobody knows
Their lives decay before their eyes
There is no hope of cure
Among their own kind they live
A life that's so obscure
First an arm and then a leg
Deterioration grows
Rotting while they breathe - death comes slow
Leprosy will take control and bring you to your death
No chance of a normal life to live just like the rest
Leprosy will spread with time, your body soon to change
Appearance becomes hideous a sight too much to take
SONG: BORN DEAD (words: Shuldiner; music: Shuldiner/Rozz)
Brought to this world to wither away
Naive about the ways of life is what they say
Millions live millions die, more are yet to come
Living skeletons - where they come from
Born dead into this world
To starve and rot in agony
Born dead into this world
It's their choice, why can't you see
Life of misery, soon a corpse you be
As bones show through, nothing you can do
Relief does not exist
When you are born to die
Disease spreads fast across their dying world
Many cemeteries they will have to build
As process goes on for many years to come
A human waste land created when they are done
Born dead into this world
To starve and rot in agony
Born dead into this world
It's their choice, why can't you see
SONG: FORGOTTEN PAST (words: Shuldiner; music: Shuldi-
ner/Rozz)
Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth one cannot hide
Unimaginable gore was your past time high
To hear people scream, to watch them die
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Severed limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
A place you feel you've been to before
Where life would turn right into gore
You dig deep down through the years of decay
The truth is revealed, you found you way
Return back to the burial site
Face your dreams upon this night
Several limbs not far away
Spirit past you now obey
Images of the forgotten past
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind
SONG: LEFT TO DIE (words: Shuldiner; music: Shuldi-
ner/Rozz)
Put your life into their hands
Die for someone else
Now you're in the real world
Where pain and death are felt
The first blood shed does not seem real
Reality is what you feel
Dropping to your knees you pray
God won't make this go away
You will not return alive - left to die
Suffering until the end - left to die
Time stands still as you pass away
No more tomorrow this is you last day
On this [fucking] earth
Bodies fall onto the ground
Blood flies through the air
Shedded victims lie in pain
Death is never fair
Legs blown off, all hope is lost
A human life is what it cost
Others follow close behind
A real adventure they will find
You will not return alive - left to die
Suffering until the end - left to die
SONG: PULL THE PLUG (words and music: Schuldiner)
Memories is all that's left behind
As I lay and wait to die
Little do they know
That i hear their choice of life
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope - why don't you
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't wanna live this way
Once I had full control of my life
I now behold a machine decides my fate
End it now it's all too late
What has now been days, it seems like years
To stay like this is what i fear
Life ends so fast, so take your chance
And make it last
End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope - why don't you
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't wanna live this way
SONG: OPEN CASKET (words: Schuldiner; music: Schuld-
iner/Rozz)
Approach the image filled with fear
As the image grows so clear
Future now takes full control
The one whose past you now behold
Touch - the flesh it is so cold
Turn away - you now have been told
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget, what you have seen
People come to pay respect
Taking pictures of the dead
That is what life comes to be
Once they lived, now they're deceased
Death is oh so strange
The past no one can change
What you can't predict
Is how long you'll exist
Open casket - open casket
Life will never be the same
Death can never be explained
It's their time to go beyond
Empty feeling when they're gone
Never to return, memories will last
In the future, you'll think about the past
Never to forget, what you have seen
What can not be real you now believe
SONG: PRIMITIVE WAYS (words: Schuldiner; music: Rozz)
Go against the ways and experience pain
Leading a life which one might call insane
Bathe in blood of the one you killed
Slaughter to survive, your needs are fulfilled
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
Cannibals practicing the art of butchery
Emotions don't exist, pain you can't resist
Primitive ways
Conducting ceremonies to meet the ancient ones
While having an outer body experience
Celebrate the kill of the day
Then walk among the guts of the fallen prey
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
With such primitive ease
Cannibals practicing the art of butchery
Emotions don't exist, pain you can't resist
SONG: CHOKE ON IT (words: Schuldiner; music: Schuld-
iner/Rozz)
Freedom is just a breath away
Will you live to see the day
As the heat intensifies
You start to choke, your insides fry
Seizure now sets in
Torture will begin
Twisted bodies lie
Waiting now to die
Choke on it - as your tongue goes down
Choke on it - death is all around
Screaming fills your frenzied mind
No way out no more time
Example made for those to see
Your freedom turned to misery
Word is all around
Of what they have found
Lesson to be learned
You will not return
Choke on it - as your tongue goes down
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