STAINED CLASS

Racing' cross the heavens
Straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet
Slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon
Blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us
The age of fire's at hand

Stand by for Exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for Exciter
Salvation bids to ask

Everything he touches
Fries into a crisp,
Let him get that close to you
So you're in his trip,
First you'll smoke and smoulder
Blister up and singe
When ignition hits you
the very soul of your being will cringe.

Stand by for Exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for Exciter
Here he comes now
Fall to your knees and repent if you please

SOLO (Glenn)

Who is this man?
Where is he from?
Exciter comes
For everyone.
You'll never see him,
But you will taste the fire on your tongue!

He's come to make you snap out
Of the state that you are in
Looks around and make you
See the light again
So much self-indulgence
Results in shattered eyes
Predominant complacency
Leads to beguiling lies.

Stand by for Exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for Exciter
Salvation bids to ask

When he leaps amidst us
With combustive dance
All shall bear the branding
Of his thermal lance,
Cauterizing masses
Melting into one
Only when there's order
Will his job be done.

Stand by for Exciter
Salvation is his task
Stand by for Exciter
Here he comes now
Fall to your knees and repent if you please

SOLO (both) 

Who is this man?
Where is he from?
Exciter comes
For everyone
You'll never see him
But you will taste the fire on your tongue

Racing past the heavens
Straight into the dawn
Looking like a comet
Slicing through the morn
Scorching the horizon
Blazing to the land
Now he's here amongst us
The age of fire's at hand

Stand by for Exciter!
Stand by for Exciter!
Stand by for Exciter!
Stand by for Exciter!

Who gives you the right to come here and tell me
I have to leave this place, my home?
To you it's a jungle, to me it's a kingdom
Where (my) people are free there to roam
Born with the stars we are happy and peaceful
Till now we were left undisturbed.
But you rupture the forests -- our gardens and fill them
With filth from your cities, unheard

Savage, who is savage?
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage!
Modern man can take the blame.

You poisoned my tribe with civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased
What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can't!  You can't!  I can see it in your eyes
Of us both who's the primitive man?

Savage, who is savage
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage
Modern man can take the blame

SOLO (KK/both)

You poisoned my tribe with civilized progress
Baptizing our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased
What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can't, no you can't, we can see it in your eyes!
Of us both who's the primitive man?

Savage, savage
Savage, savage
Who's the savage?
Modern man
Who's the savage?
Modern man

You could find a way to ease my passion
You listen to the blood flow in my veins
You hear the teaching of the wind
Tell her why I'm alive within
I can't find the words
My mind is dead
It's better by you better than me

Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside
Tell her now I got to go
Out in the streets and down the shore
Tell her the world's not much living for
It's better by you better than me

Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me

You can tell what I want it to be
You can say what I only can see
It's better by you better than me

Guess I'll have to change my way of living
Don't wanna really know the way I feel
Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
Tell her not to wait until
They'll find my blood upon her windowsill
It's better by you better than me

Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me

You can say what I only can see
You can tell what I want it to be

It's better by you better than me

Better by you better than me

You can tell what I want it to be
You can say way all they can see

Better by you better than me

Wild-eyed and tight-fisted, I'm fused to the bone.
I stand contemplating, reacting alone.
Impaled with betrayal (crushing on hicks eyes)
The tourniquet turns (mount-passing, god-fearing -- ?)
Society's creation (deep, all disfigure)
Pole-axed out and burnt (espying the truth).

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean -- now he's stained class.
Time has smashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king!

Transfixed at deliverance, is this all there is?
Faithless continuum -- into the abyss!
Fierce is my conviction, absolute my belief
I spit at you apathy, and seducer deceit

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean -- now he's stained class.
Time has smashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king!

Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn, and quartered
He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world
But, by doing so, smashed all his hopes and utopian dreams.
Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off, relentless and senseless
His lust snapped like vipers, whose fangs sank in deep
To infest and decay from the core!

SOLO (Glenn)

Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns
Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt!

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean -- now he's stained class.
Time has smashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king!

Stained class king!

I came across a smoking field, pulsating afterglow
I saw a seering flash of light erupt and skyward go
I staggered back in dazed surprise -- what was it I had seen?
And, as I stood there mesmerized, I heard my spirit scream

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

This is the first of more to come in carefully planned attack.
If it is so we must prepare defenses to fight back
The call is out throughout the world:  united we must stand
To build a line, strategic force!  They will not take command!

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

When they come to take control, every man must play his role!
They won't take our world away.  When the children we leave
Will have to believe in today!

SOLO (both)

We warn you now you things out there, whatever you may send
We won't give in without a fight, a fight until the end!
With vigilance by day and night, our scanners trace the sky!
A shield is sealed upon this earth, a shield you won't get by!

Invader, invader nearby
Invader, invader is nigh

They laughed at their god
And fought him in vain
So he turned his back on them
And left them in pain
Now here come the saints
With their banners held high
Each one of them martyrs
Quite willing to die

Wake the dead, the saints are in Hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell

Cover your fists
Razor your spears
It's been our possession
For eight thousand years
Fetch the scream eagles
Unleash the wild cats
Set loose the king cobras
And blood sucking bats

Wake the dead, the saints are in hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell

We are saints
In hell
We are saints
In hell
We're going down
Into the fire
We're going down
Into the fire

The streets run with blood from the mass mutilation
As carnage took toll for the bell

Abattoir, abattoir, mon Dieu quelle horreur
For a time is was like second hell

Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell

The battle is over, the saints are alive
How can we all thank you, we felt so despised

Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
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The father's son, thy kingdom come!  Electric ecstasy,!
Deliver us from all the fuss and give us sanctuary!
Lead us all into arena, magnificent in death!
Well let us serenade the sinner, we'll follow in his step...

White Heat Red Hot!  Burns deep!  White heat, hot!

The fury songs, venomous wrongs, so rich in tragedy!
An overture, forevermore, to senseless victories!
Give to us this day of glory, the power and the kill!
So we avoid the wrath and all the almighty fire of...

White Heat Red Hot!  Burns deep!  White heat, hot burns a lot! 
Who are not cut out to fight this day will surely fall!
The few who stand to take command forever and ever are men!

SOLO (Glenn)

Prepare to fight!  Unsheathe your scythe!  A ghastly beam of ill!
To slice the life with blinding light and seventh dimensional skill.
The centuries of dedication inherited at last! 
From years of solar gladiation can only end in...

White Heat Red Hot!  Burns deep!  White heat hot burns a lot! 
Who are not cut out to fight this day will surely fall!
The few who stand to take command forever and ever are men!

White Heat Red Hot
White Heat Red Hot

He had enough
He couldn't take anymore
He'd found a place
In his mind and slammed the door.
No matter how they tried,
They couldn't understand.
They washed and dressed him,
Fed him by hand.

Yeah!  I've left the world behind!
I'm safe here in my mind.
Free to speak with my own kind
This is my life, this is my life,
I'll decide not you!

Withdrawn, he'd sit there,
Stare blank into space,
No sign of life
Did flicker on his face
Until one day he smiled,
It seemed as though with pride
The wind kissed him
Goodbye - and then he died!

Yeah!  I've left the world behind
I'm safe here in my mind.
Free to speak with my own kind.
This is my life, this is my life.
I'll decide not you!

Keep the world with all its sin:
It's not fit for livin' in
Yeah!  I will start again
It can take forever, and ever, and ever
And ever, but I'll still win.

SOLO (Glenn)

How many like him, are there still
But to us, all, seem to have lost the will
They lie in thousands, lank and lost...
Is nothing worth this bitter cost?

Yeah!  I've left the world behind!
I'm safe here in my mind.
Free to speak with my own kind.
This is my life, this is my life.
I'll decide not you!

Keep the world with all its sin:
It's not fit for livin' in!

SOLO (KK)

Beyond the realms of death...

I heard a human voice who sang like no one else
I heard a proud lady singing loud
Lived her life as she liked, didn't give a damn
But soon she found she was underground and wasted

I watched her hitting notes as she strutted stage
Her body shook oh, she did her stuff
She screamed and quake, give and take, maybe took too much
If you take the smooth you gotta take the rough

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to say unsaid

I heard a man's guitar electrify a crowd
I felt the sound shower 'round
And he would take you with him where no music's been before
As you merged the power surge together

His music knew no limits if you were in it's wake.
You had no choice, no, but hear its voice,
And you would listen hypnotized, and in a dream
But once so strong -- so long -- becomes weak

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to say unsaid

SOLO (Glenn)

If you gaze across timeless years, you'll find them always there
And many gods will join the list compiled with dying care
Hungry mouths are waiting to bite the hand that feeds
And so the living dead carry on immortal deeds

I saw on silver screen an actor's rise to fame
But fast car users lose
That legend's born from death, and that is such a shame
'Cuz every year new ones appear

Why do you have to die to be a hero?
It's a shame a legend begins at its end
Why do you have to die if you're a hero?
When there's still so many things to say unsaid.

SOLO (Glenn)