Produced By Blackie Lawless. Engineered & mixed by Mikey Davis
Assistant Engineer Tom Nellen. Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc, Hollywood Ca.
Additional mastering George Marino Sterling Sound N.Y.
Additional backing vocals on "Thunderhead" performed by Lita Ford
This record is dedicated to Rebels in the Fucking Decadent Generation Worldwide
Blackie Lawless:
Lead Vocals and Guitar
Chris Holmes:
Lead Guitar
Johnny Rod:
Bass and Vocals
Frankie Banali:
Drums and Percurssion
Ken Henley:
Keyboards
THE HERETIC
(Lawless,
Holmes)
These fits of depressions are torturing me
The lives that I
seen won't breathe again
A sad child of madness, they'll never be
free
Born again to die, the agonies begin
And soldiers keep coming- like
warriors they die
But gangland's alive when mothers cry
Cause hate's blind
addictions, a killing machine
And it burns on the fuel of shattered
lives
Lost child, lost child
The seeds of all evil are sown in their
minds
And harvest the sad fields of woe
Cause dead boys are
martyrs
That live on forever
But now it's too late for their
souls
Standing on sanities too fragile edge
And worship the Lord Of The
Flies
And wade through the slaughter
You've made of thy brother
And
drown in his blood then when he dies
You see in their eyes they're the
lost child
See in their eyes
You see in their eyes they're the lost
child
See in their eyes
Don't turn out the lights
Cause there's
demons in the night
And they prey on the fears in us all
They hide inside
and wait
And they shun the light of day
The screams in their dreams fill
us all
Children of the night
Such a sad tune they rhyme
The bloody
boys that sing a wicked song
And for all of them they're just memories in the
wind
Rise and see
It's the dawn of insanity
Keeper of the gates of
fire
And the Heretic has said
You don't have to be afraid
Till I- till
I come to get you
And child in time
On the swords edge you ride
And
cast a spell of Heresy
And die in vain
Like a wild dog in chains
And no
one can save
Or set you free
THE REAL ME
(Pete Townshend)
Originally performed by The
Who
I went back to the doctor to get another shrink
I sit and tell
him about my weekend
But he never can change what he thinks
Can you see
the real me, doctor, doctor
Can you see the real me, doctor, ooh
doctor
I went back to my mother, I said I'm crazy Ma, help me
She said
"I know how it feels son, cause it runs in the family"
C'mon tell
me
Can you see the real me, mother, mother
Can you see the real me,
mother, woah mother
Can you see, can you see, can you see the real
me
Can you see, can you see the real me
The real me, the real me, the real
me
The cracks between the pavement stones
Like rivers of flowing
rain
Strange people who know me
From behind every window pane
The girl
I used to love lives in this yellow house
Yesterday she passed me by, she
don't want to know me now
Can you see the real me, can ya, can ya
Can
you see the real me, woah yea
I ended up with the preacher, full of lies
and hate
I seemed to scare him a little, ha ha
So he showed me to the
golden gate
Can you see the real me preacher, preacher
Can you see the
real me woah yea
Can you see, can you see, can you see, woah yeah
Can you
see the real me, doctor, doctor
Can you see the real me, mama
Can you see
the real me me me me
THE HEADLESS CHILDREN
(Lawless)
Father come save us from this
madness we're under
God of creation are we blind?
Cause some here are
slaves that worship guns that spit thunder
The children that you've made have
lost their minds
This monster that we call the earth is bleeding
Cause the
children have been left alone too long
This thing that we've made is fat and
feeds on the hate
Of the millions that it's taught to sing the
song
The Headless Children
The screams that fill the night, fill the
night, fill the night, fill the night
The Headless Children
The madness
steals the light, steals the light, steals the light, steals the
light
Timebombs in the hands of all the wicked war babies
Light the
fuse of temptation and we all burn
Four horsemen sit high up in the
saddle
And waiting and ride the bloody trail of no return
Sleeping in the
arms of a nightmare
And wake to find we've been away too long
This
frankenstein of flesh stitched together back from death
And preying on the
souls of everyone
The Headless Children
The screams that fill the
night, fill the night, fill the night, fill the night
The Headless
Children
The madness steals the light, steals the light, steals the light,
steals the light
THUNDERHEAD
(Lawless, Holmes)
Oh Thunderhead, you're a man with a
problem
Ah old habits too hard to break
And soon you'll be dead from that
poison you're on
Oh the venom that's worse than the snakes
And I say,
hey hey hey, oh no, hey hey hey
Oh no, hey hey hey: white thunder
Needles
and pins a dead man you're in
So deep you'll never climb out
Hey hey hey,
oh no, hey hey hey
Oh no, hey hey hey: white thunder
A gun to your dead,
the trigger you're dead
It's quicker and their ain't no doubt
Oh
thunder, tie it off, you're in heaven
Oh you'll drown in the heroin
flood
And die in your bed and sweat in detox
You're leaving this
world
Oh your epitaph's written in blood
And I said hey hey hey, oh
no, hey hey hey
Oh no, hey hey hey: white thunder
Needles and pins a dead
man you're in
So deep you'll never climb out
Hey hey hey, oh no, hey hey
hey
Oh no, hey hey hey: white thunder
A gun to your dead, the trigger
you're dead
It's quicker and their ain't no doubt
Killer- you sceam
and you bleed
Thriller- you spread your disease
Watch out, watch
out
Thunder head- yes I'm your master
Will you steal for me- yes
Will
you ruin yourself and give everything unto me- yes
Will you lie, cheat,
deceive, dishonor everything
And even kill thy brother for me- yes,
yes
Will you worship only me as your true master- yes
Thunderhead, will
you die for me- yes, master
MEAN MAN
(Lawless)
A tatooed madman, I am hell on wheels
Born a
wicked child left alone in the fields
My father was the wind, my mother was
fire
Raised by the wolves and I grew up wild
A kamikaze man, a hollering
banzai
Never crash and burn, never gonna die
Cannibal it's me, you squeal
and shout
I chew you up and spit you out
Storms a c-c-coming and it's
gonna be me
Here comes Trouble with a capital "T"
Cause I'm
a mean motherfucking man,
I gotta scream, that's what I am
All the way,
all the way
Cause I'm a mean motherfucking man,
Riding the wind and know
I'll be damned
All they way, all the way, all the way
Chewbacca in the
rye, the water of fire
A terror in the flesh, a killer for hire
California
man I'm white line, "Homer"
The unruly one they call the
"Blonde Bomber"
Scooter gypsy, I'm a renegade
An orphan of the
road, a live hand greande
Never gonna quit before my time
When the moon
gets high then I'll be blind
Mad dog 20-20's king
I drink that stuff and
start getting obscene
I'm a motorcycle man don't never give a damn
I
lie when the truth serves better
The Marquee de Sade, I cheat and steal and
rob
A heavy metal creature
All the way, all the way, all the way
THE NEUTRON BOMBER
(Lawless)
He came from the east, they called
him a beast
This king of terror insane
Neutron Ronnie, the people would
whisper his name
Dangerous and man, a torch in his hand
Spreading fire by
the light of the moon
Ooh, pyrotechnical wizard of doom
Oh no, here
comes Ronnie
Ah the boy with the flame
All his life has been burning
inside
Oh no no, here comes Ronnie
Ah the bomber's insane
Ah till he
dies it'll burn in his eyes
A phantom so cool all midnight would
rule
A molotov cocktail would reign
Babies screaming and house would go up
in flames
When next goes Ronnie nobody knows
But inside him's where
Lucifer hides
Ooh, he's the boy with the bombs at his side
Ooh no,
here comes Ronnie
Ah the boy with the flame
All his life has been burning
inside
Oh no no, here comes Ronnie
Ah the bomber's insane
MEPHISTO WALTZ
(Lawless)
Instrumental
FOREVER FREE
(Lawless)
I ride all alone and can't see The road to
nowhere anymore
And shadows whispers are calling me
To forbidden forrests
by the shore
And there she fell deep in the night
One breath away from
heaven's light
And she said- don't cry for me, I'm leaving you
The
wind cries her name in the breeze But I can't hold her anymore
Some fallen
angel had come to me
And fell to heavy on my soul
And stole from me the
love that I heard
Lords of time say never die
And said- don't cry for me,
cause I'll be
Riding the wind forever free
High in the wind forever
free
I'll ride the wind forever free
High in the wind forever
free
Forever free
Forever in my hearts afire, a fire burning
I wake
up nights and hear her crying, crying my name
Riding the wind forever
free
High in the wind forever free
I ride the wind forever free
High in
the wind forever free
Forever free
MANEATER
(Lawless)
Turn loose the lightning metal hawgs and set me
free
Turn loose my crying metal hearts, 1200 cc's
Cold steel forever I'm
gonna ride and burn the flame
That breathes the fire- breathes the
fire
And can't be tamed
Thunder rolling down the highway
These
wheels of fire eat you alive
Them outlaw riders going my way
A Harley
child until I die
Run to the scorching desert sun, V twins will
scream
Into the blackness of the night at twisting speed
High on the hawg
I'm riding on engines explode
It feels like thunder, it's breathing fire, it
rules the road
Milwaukee metal on the highway
These wheels of fire eat
you alive
Them outlaw riders going my way
Only the strong here will
survive
Maneater- born free I ride
Maneater- wings of freedom burn the
line
For metal minds
Them bad boys riding on forever
When they die
they ride in Harley heaven
REBEL IN THE F.D.G.
(Lawless)
I live my life like a shot in the
wind
If tomorrow don't come I know
I stole my share of fun for me
Cause
I'm too fast, too rad
I'm going wasted when I go
The cost of freedom's
never free
It's the deep six, it's my fix
It's my best friend, cause it's
my way or the highway
I'll tell you it's the living end
I'm a rebel in
the FDG
And I say only God in heaven knows
I'm a bad child, come and love
me
And I say, oh yeah
If you're fast you might last
Slow you gotta
go
A wild one in the decadent zoo
Ooh, I lick up all my seven deadly
sins
Cause I'm too hot, too cool
Oh I've been playing in the fire of fools
I might burn but I'll burn in the wind
It's the deep six, it's my
fix
It's the big jam, cause it's my way or the highway
I'll tell you what
I am
Oh I, I feel the heat and I, I touch the flesh and bone
And I
feel the kiss of fire
Too fast to live, too fast to die
Mom and daddy
say, "I'm dancing in the fire"
Sometimes I feel like an animal
in a cage
I pace back and forth and look around
For something to sink my
teeth into
But nobody knows what's going on inside
me