Grip Inc.
Nemesis
1. Pathetic Liar
Does a trusting face, reflect its heart
Shaking hands, or breaking wrists
Life's all a lie
Stealing glory from the hearts of others
Stood facing mirrors
Reflections thrashing in disbelief
Vile, crass, gaunt, ashen-faced
Cringing, crawling, hiking in disgrace
Shredding skin, changing face
Snake-eyed, never making sense
Blinded with conceit
Lost in total paranoia
Fallacies in judgments
But no open regret
In winter winds
or summer breeze
The only truth is fear
Pitiful, dismal, spiteful, parasite scum
Vile, crass, gaunt, ashen-faced
Cringing, crawling, hiking in disgrace
Liar
2. Portrait Of Henry
Carnage, at the flick of the wrist
Oh! Mortal Spirit, disdain never discriminates
To dismember is natural
To annihilate is habitual
Every step taken
Ushers in dread
Hunger forever calling
Deeper in to ugliness
Serene in debauchery
Man's caricature is his fate
Monster within
Turns inside out
Only to face
Face itself
Face itself
Face itself
Face itself
Face itself
Primitive barbarian, reprobate, born savage
3. Empress (Of Rancor)
Driven to tears while being sucked dry
Beaten down, exploited, left in bits
No hint of self seeking, cold hard facts overlooked
While the ritual of disgust begins
Premeditation, no trace
Rigid execution
Of plans severe
Trust overlooked
While draining emotions
Avoiding with grace
Concerns unanswered
Slowly, methodically, breaking bonds of blood
Gown of tradition, splashed with crimson
Hidden deep in the belly of hate
Black widows bite dealt with precision
Trading her body in the pretense of love
Prevention of instinct
Survival never a second throught, submit
The wall to survive, buried absolute
Avoiding with unanswered
Hanesty betrayed
The struggle for breath begins
The web is spun breath begins
Never to let the children see the
Gown of tradition, splashed with crimson
Hidden deep in the belly of hate
Black widows bite, deaaalt with precision
Trading her body in the pretense of love
4. Descending Darkness
Pushed into the
Mounth of the Abyss
A world that owes nothing
Trapped in an emotionless empire
Silent are endless parades
Respect like smoke
Lost in cyclones
Breathing along the isle
of no return
The gavel crashes upon
A system built for
The substitute fix only to shatter
Crisp brittle sorrow
Smacks hard into melting faces
Friction sinks into rotting masses
Swallowed by seas of sand
Deep in the bloody soil
Buried under the sins of our fathers
Bodies splinter
From the bowels of sorrow
Escaping to twist in the wind
The scent of darkness
5. War Between One
War between one
Supporting temptation
Relentless conclusive seduction
MOving faster, fucked up tormented
Poverty bites, but comes in second
Needing now to
Taste the magic, with slave mentality
Blistering from self inflicted madness
Accusation, trusting non one
Intolerant, sick of the bullshit
Cruising disgusted
Down roads of the fallen
Vulnerable, alluring a higher plain
Wounds only heal by looking deeper
Don't yield, find yourself
Reach inside to fink the truth
At the center of this spiral sedation
Strange purity lost in real nightmares
Accepting demise with slow torture
6. Scream At The Sky
Patterns in the ground
Structures built for what
Real the premise
We are not alone
Truth kept locked away
Evidemce, records destroyed
Sightings shrouded in abscurity
Abductions, scarred remains
Comming to, returning from where
Testimony defies all reasoning
Scream
Secrets will survive
Never to melt away
Nothing disappears without a trace
Hanger 18 denied
Encounters called a hoax
All out conspiracy of silence
Skeptical attitudes
Enforced by policies
Denial of cover-up
The biggest lie of all
Scream. Scream at the sky
My body snakes in pure frustration
I feel you watching me
I feel you piercee my eyes
No mysteries closed with open minds
Scream, scream at the sky
Scream, scream at the sky
Scream
7. Silent Stranger
Cold winds blow across the desert
Which shall be crossed before morning
Moving swiftly across water and sand
Reaching the point of the return
Silent stranger, chasing dreams
Living with danger embracing the new
Days gathering, rain of shine
Living roads with ambition
Minority a wheel within a wheel
The only crime is being alive
Move from place to place
Avoiding detection
Prison without bars
Land of the free
In the New World
IN the New world
Merging culture
Escaping poverty
Morals challenged
Changing identity
Cold winds blow across the desert
Which shall be crossed before morning
Moving swiftly across water and sand
Reaching the point of the return
8. The Summoning
Still and silent in the tomb
The mystery it starts to move
Bound and wrapped golden faced
Disorder fills the sacred place
Invisible in their mindst illusive in disguise
The mind is strong, the flesh is weak
Conserved and distinct through centuries
For disturbance all shall pay
Bandage and bone turns to grey
Fractured silenced aroused from exile
Sparking resurrection of of pain
When I move nobody sees me
When I scream nobody hears me
Fill the tremble in the tomb
Wrath is unleased inside the tomb
Ambiance of revenge fills all
Intruders intertwined with the sands of time
Take cloak inside the tomb
Reform with awe did prevail
Guardian keeper did rise unknown
All is at rest calm petrified
9. Rusty Nail
Low is easy to find, justice hard to achieve
Conversations always failing
Look straight ahead, see only that is real
Stop the endless search for judgement
Circumstances revolve apportunities rap defying
Stabbing pressures of decision
Like stepping hard upon rusty nails
Disease flows without resistance
See pole skin turning red
Provocation rules throughout
Burning with desire
Watching others fall away
Concealed always to stay
Behind the eyes of insanity
No compromise the poison flows freely
Bringing naked brutality
The will to command constant everlasting
Endless battle for recognition
Clear the warnings rampant negativity
Attrition of man explodes
10. Myth Or Man
Sucked into vortex on a full moon night
Air tasted sweet speed felt right
Down winding highways following cats eyes
Glowing fierce and pines my mind runs shallow
Eyelids getting heavy the road tells me to follow
Into the desolate amongst the remains savaged isolation
Unexplained deaths in the valley
The myth of the devils lair lies deep in suspicion
And folklores for centuries
Credibility never challenged
Rumor panic smoke screen desire
To conceal reality
Nemesis or Deceiver, stench of natures dungeon
Horror upon horror, shiver as the jackal howls
Looking our from the hillside
Smoke rises from the valley below
Unearthly screams cut through the rain
Every creature dies, paper mouses burn
Tears fall at the Wall of Names
Sacrifice for freedom, punishment or reward
Take the journey of fear or hope
Nemesis or Deceiver, stench of natures dungeon
Horror upon horror, shiver as the jackal howls
Lunatic fringe, aura of the shrouded pulls
Myth or man beyond the call
11. Code Of Silence
The silence grows loud
Echoing through the halls
Abandoned by our protectors
No effort to serve, protect
Heartless tunes beat
Swirling behind badge and gun
Allegiance to enwritten low
Depravation shut away
Code of silence Code of silence
Bodies beaten and bloody
No chance of innocence
No effort to step forward
The silence grows louder
1997 Metal Blade Records
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