AMERICAN RIPPER I WAS BORN FEET FIRST ON A FRIDAY NIGHT A MOUTH FULL OF FILTH AND READY TO FIGHT MEANNESS COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS DRUGGED UP WITH A BROKEN BRAIN NOTHING STANDING IN MY WAY THRASHING TILL THE BREAK OF DAY RUNNING FROM THE LAW A PARTY IN FULL FLIGHT DRINKING UNTIL DAWN A NEW GIRL EVERY NIGHT METAL COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS ON THE ROAD AND TAKE THE STAGE I'M RADIOACTIVE DECAY THRASHING LIKE A BIRD OF PREY I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER BORN AND BRED AMERICAN RIPPER TILL I'M DEAD AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE AN AMERICAN RIPPER IS ALL I'LL BE I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER THOROUGHBRED AMERICAN RIPPER'S WHAT I SAID AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE THE AMERICAN RIPPER TEARS THROUGH ME I SWEAR I AM REBORN I KNOW JUST WHAT'S AT STAKE ALL THE SKIN THATS TORN WITH EVERY SONG I MAKE BODIES THRASHING ALL AROUND HEAD BANGING TO THE HEAVY SOUND THERE'S NO WAY THEY CAN CATCH ME THERE IS NO WAY THEY WILL CAGE ME HISTORY WILL TELL THE STORY WILL BE TAUGHT HOW I ROSE FROM HELL AND THE METAL THAT I BROUGHT POWER THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATES DEVOUR ALL THE FEAR AND HATE CRUSHING ALL THAT STAND BEFORE ME FLUSHING DOWN THE SHIT BENEATH ME I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER BORN AND BRED AMERICAN RIPPER TILL I'M DEAD AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE AN AMERICAN RIPPER IS ALL I'LL BE I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER THOROUGHBRED AMERICAN RIPPER'S WHAT I SAID AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE THE AMERICAN RIPPER TEARS THROUGH ME WHEN THE THRASH IS ON IS WHEN I FEEL ALIVE BORN AS SATANS SON AND IT FEELS SO RIGHT ADRENALINE RUSHING THROUGH MY VEINS STRUNGOUT WITH A BROKEN BRAIN NOTHING STANDING IN MY WAY THRASHING FOR ANOTHER DAY I WAS BORN TO ROCK I WAS BUILT FOR SPEED PUT THE WORLD IN SHOCK GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED PLAY IT FASTER PLAY IT HARD KICK YOUR ASS AND LEAVE YOU SCARRED EVERY TIME YOU HEAR MY NAME KNOW THAT HEAVY METALS IS MY GAME I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER BORN AND BRED AMERICAN RIPPER TILL I'M DEAD AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE AN AMERICAN RIPPER IS ALL I'LL BE AN AMERICAN RIPPER THOROUGHBRED AMERICAN RIPPER'S WHAT I SAID AMERICAN RIPPER CAN'T YOU SEE THE AMERICAN RIPPER TEARS THROUGH ME I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER I'M AN AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER AMERICAN RIPPER

Dissolution talks to me as if from the grave attacking me inside my world attempting to enslave Political motives religious undertones they say egotistical problems if only one way to save there only one direction for me to fly BLACK Blackness inside my dreams Blackest I've ever been Blackness is what I see Blackness is warm in side Blackness and void of life Blackness is gripping tight Dark depths are pulling me Evil screams and vile dreams All the things I love to be Black with out a tough a grey Black without a hint of day Black it is the only way The caressing hands of death Soft mothers embrace She calls back to her womb With a smile on her face The cold love is filled all with hate Engulfed in flames as she sealing my fate I smile back and love my mothers burn That bitch will take the pain when I return Confusion gripping me as if from outer space Distracting me inside my mind preempting the depraved No practical motives with the vile words they say Statistical toxins caught up in the wave There only one direction for me to dive BLACK Blackness inside and out Blackness I scream and shout In Blackness I have no doubt The Blackness it comforts me The Blackness is all I see The Blackness will set you free Blackness encompassing Blackness is summoning From the depths its rumbling Blackness no escape Black Death is here to stay Black Breaths is what we take BLACK

UP FROM THE ASHES WILL RISE THE PHOENIX STRAIGHT FROM THE PSYCHO DOES COME THE GENIUS OUT OF THE DARKNESS HAS COME THE MEANNESS FOLLOW THE MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT THE TRUTH IS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS DOWN TO THE OCEAN OUT PAST THE TEMPLE CRUZ WITH THE MOTION FLY WITH THE DEMONS LOOSE ALL THE NOTIONS TRIP WITH DISASTER YOU ARE THE CHOSEN WE ALL HAVE OUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD WE ALL HAVE TO SCREAM TO BE HEARD SOME HAVE TO KILL TO BREAK THOUGH THE SILENCE GONNA TEACH YOU WITH SWIFT AND BLINDING VIOLENCE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SHUT YOU UP AND THIS IS THE WAY WE FUCK SHIT UP! RIPP THROUGH THE CONSCIOUS UNMASK THE NIGHTMARE STRAIGHT THROUGH THE TURNSTYLE UNLOCK THE BLIND STARE PURCHASE THE TICKET BREATH IN THE NIGHT AIR PLAY WITH THE MADMAN TAKE ON THE BIG DARE LOOSE IN THE CITY WILD LIKE THE BANSHEE FREE ALL THE DEMONS KILL ALL THAT YOU SEE FALL THROUGH THE TRAPDOOR USE UP THE PASS KEY I WILL REPLACE YOU, YOU WILL BECOME ME WE ALL HAVE OUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD WE ALL HAVE TO SCREAM TO BE HEARD SOME HAVE TO KILL TO BREAK THOUGH THE SILENCE GONNA TEACH YOU WITH SWIFT AND BLINDING VIOLENCE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SHUT YOU UP AND THIS IS THE WAY WE FUCK SHIT UP! LIST YOUR DESIRES SHOW ME THE MEANING FIST FULL OF LIARS ALL SO DECEIVING MIST FROM THE FIRE YOU THINK YOUR DREAMING BEAST OF THE HIGHER UNMASK THE FEELING INDUSTRIAL JUNKY FUCKED FROM THE FACTORY DRIFTER FROM NOWHERE NEW TO THE COUNTRY HIGH POWER CLOCK TOWER POSTAL PROFICY DRUNK TO THE LIMIT FULL FILL THE FANTASY WE ALL HAVE OUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD WE ALL HAVE TO SCREAM TO BE HEARD SOME HAVE TO KILL TO BREAK THROUGH THE SILENCE GONNA TEACH YOU WITH SWIFT AND BLINDING VIOLENCE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SHUT YOU UP AND THIS IS THE WAY WE FUCK SHIT UP!

Lets Go! There is nothing left to follow nothing left but screams packed in amongst all the pollution stripped of all their* dreams cast aside is the population masses dirty starved and beat Mcdonald's Feeds them, Walmart clothes them they shuffle through the streets marketing teams focus their targets with bullseyes on their heads television always feeding the next thing they will dread an empty wallet motivates they are the working dead stand in line you aren't going anywhere dead in time in debt in death everywhere the last in line for life for sure any one a slave refined today right now every one leaving all the thinking in the corporations hands its money you are bleeding don't you understand apple sales sky rocket on the latest trends you can't pay your credit cards and still you've got to have living life on facebook all false friends you have an empty life your living and I just think it's sad we are all disconnected while at nature we all stab there is no way to escape some just take their lives crushing underneath the weight seems theres no way to survive families blown into pieces drowning in their debt we're all trying to escape but no ones found it yet the systems being manipulated finessed for the winning side as long as the money's flowing they don't care if you all die you can keep on fighting about red blue black or white i promise the corporate leaders will all sleep good tonight