- Flesh and the Power It Holds
I told you once but I will say it again
When you live the flesh it is the beginning
Of the end
It will take you in
It will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds
Passion is a poison laced with pleasure bitter sweet
One of many faces that hide deep beneath
- Scavenger of Human Sorrow
What pain will it take
To satisfy your sick appetite
Go in for the kill
Always in sight-prey
The time always right-feast
Feed on the pain-taste
Sorrow made flesh-sweet
Live how you want
- 1,000 Eyes
Crossing the line into the other side
Emerging as prisoners
To the emptiness of time
To the left and to the right
From behind - they're out of sight
Plunging into a new found
Age of advanced observeillance
- A Moment Of Clarity
I would describe it as
A invisible darkness
Casting, a shadow
A blinding black
Guarded, by hope
My soul is kept safe from
The bloody claws
- Altering The Future
Creating a life only to destroy?
Save from a life of the unemployed
Where crime is the only way to survive
Which is the best, to be dead or alive?
Maybe a chance, but maybe not
Born to be thrown in the trash to rot
To exist in this world might be a mistake
The one who is with child, it's their choice to make
- Baptized In Blood
Under command a new-born child
Submerged in blood, the dead they smile
Growing possessed, burning inside
A bloody feast for us tonight
The way of death
Is growing hear just take my hand
Skies grow black
- Beyond The Unholy Grave
Messenger of evil
Haunting your soul
Laying in peace
Taking my corpse
The meeting it was held
Graveyard of death
Trying to resist
- Bite The Pain
Look down at the body
You may see no trace of wounds
But in the eye
The eye of the beholder
One cannot assume
Not a drop of blood is drawn
But you know how it bleeds
- Born Dead
Brought to this world to wither again
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
- Choke On It
Freedom just is 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
- Crystal Mountain
Built from blind faith
Passed down from self-induced fantasy
Turn a page to justify
Conjuring power - It opens wide
On your seventh day
Is that how it's done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
All that you want
- Defensive Personalities
One mind divided into three, for every problem a personality
Each one trying to protect, for the crisis a person they'll select
With sorrow comes reassurance, with confusion there's ignorance
Deny who they are, a fantasy gone too far
Protecting the weak points of the mind
Defensive personalities
- Denial Of Life
In your dreams
The pain so real
Before the dead
You'll have to kneel
Hear your future screams
See your epitaph
As you scream
The dead they laugh
- Empty Words
Ashes and promises share a bond
Through the winds of change
Words are blown away
When visions that should be
Are tattooed in your mind
The power to let go
Is sometimes hard to find
- Evil Dead
Trapped inside a life which is not yours
Spirits within causing terror, fear and darkness
Evil dead!
Evil dead!
Voice speaks out, all will die tonight
Insanity fills your mind, you hear them calling
- Flattening Of Emotions
Where is the person that could have been
Who, what took over, when did the end begin
Should we not prepare for the uncertain
Mysteries of our life, of our destiny
See things that are not there
Intruding voices
What went wrong to their picture perfect life
They once knew - Flattening of emotions
- Flesh And The Power It Holds
I told you once but I will say it again
when you live the flesh it is the beginning
of the end
it will take you in
it will spit you out
behold the flesh and the power it holds
passion is a poison laced with pleasure bitter sweet
one of many faces that hide deep beneath
- Forgotten Past
Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth one that 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
- Freakin' Out
There's a scheme
There's a theme
Why is my head spinning 'round in my dreams
It'ss a time, it's a place
Why are these lights poppin' up in my face
[Chorus]
Or am I
- Genetic Reconstruction
Extending a life with total resistance
To fatal disease, future methods of science
Replacing what is real by using technology
Population control, selecting those who will breed
A specific type of form chosen for the unborn
A mind without emotion
Progressive anatomy
- Gloomy Salad Days
花開在那片荒蕪頹廢沒有顧忌的海上
你說 如果我們都不再呼吸也沒有關係
Oh my Gloomy Salad days
結果日出後她碎成泡沫
漩渦盡頭沒有你沒有我
長大以後無聊的某一天
我們擦肩而過沒有想念
- Human
Human (рус. Человек) — четвёртый студийный альбом американской дэт-метал-группы Death, вышедший в октябре 1991 года на лейбле звукозаписи Relativity Records.
В ходе европейского турне в поддержку второго альбома Death «Spiritual Healing», фронтмен группы Чак Шульдинер, остался недоволен организацией гастролей и после ряда концертов улетел обратно в США, в то время как оставшиеся без лидера музыканты продолжали гастроли. Узнав о таком вероломстве, Чак отказался от услуг всех музыкантов и набрал новый состав группы. Он пригласил басиста Стива ДиДжорджио, гитариста Пола Масвидала вместе с барабанщиком Шоном Райнертом и в этом составе записал Human. Два последних музыканта также входили в группу Cynic, ставшую, наряду с Death и некоторыми другими коллективами, одной из основоположниц тесно связанных между собой стилей, таких как техничный дэт-метал и прогрессивный дэт-метал. Стив Диджорджио уходит после записи этого альбома (хотя в 1993 году возвращается к записи следующего альбома Individual Thought Patterns) и его заменяет музыкант Скотт Карино, который записывает первую часть бас-партии в композиции "Cosmic Sea", а также гастролирует с Death в период между 1991-1992-м годами. В 2011 году, Relapse Records и Perseverance Holdings Ltd. переиздают Human в честь 20-летней годовщины альбома. Кавер-версия песни «God of Thunder» группы Kiss, которая первоначально существовала только на японской версии альбома, была также включена в новое переиздание.
Этот переломный альбом представляет собой один из первых и ключевых альбомов в техничном/прогрессивном дэт-метале, ознаменовав начало значительных изменений в стиле группы, будучи более сложным, чем их предыдущие работы. Чак Шульдинер сумел преодолеть границы бескомпромиссной скорости и виртуозности, смешивая техничную и замысловатую игру на ритм-гитаре со сложными аранжировками и эмоциональными соло-партиями. Тексты песен стали значительно более вдумчивыми, по сравнению с кровавой тематикой «Scream Bloody Gore», «Leprosy» и даже остро социально-ориентированным альбомом «Spiritual Healing».
«Human» был назван классическим альбомом и признан как авторитетное творение во всем экстремальном метале, оказавшее значительное влияние на более поздние группы техничного/прогрессивного дэт-метала 1990-х. Он стал самым продаваемым альбомом Death, к 1995 году было продано 100,000 копий только в США[6]. Диск занял 82-ю позицию в списке 100 величайших альбомов всех времен, согласно журналу Guitar World. На момент 2008-го года, было продано уже более 600 000 копий по всему миру. С этого диска группа снимает своё первое видео на песню «Lack of Comprehension», которое попадает на музыкальные телевизионные каналы.
«Flattening of Emotions» (рус. Уплощение эмоций) — 4:28
«Suicide Machine» (рус. Машина самоубийства) — 4:19
«Together as One» (рус. Вместе как единое целое) — 4:06
- In Human Form
People of the earth beware,
It is here in human form
An atrocity laced with greed.
Filled with evil intentions.
Ready to attack
Look to the air for stories to choose,
Who will be your next victim
- Individual Thought Patterns
So quick to judge, so easily we forget,
What it's like to be dissected
Where feelings are tossed aside
Like a drug it feeds the imagination of minds that go unanalyzed
Followers to the leaders of mass hypnotic corruption
That live their lives only to criticize
- Infernal Death
Piling the bodies
Burn them in the night
Skin grows black and withered
Decayed smell will rise
Existence fading
Into ashes
Burn those bodies
- Jealousy
What do you want from me,
what is it you expect.
I have spoken my mind from
deep inside my soul.
Behind the eyes is a place no
one will be able to touch.
Containing thoughts that
cannot be taken away or
- Keep On Knocking
If I can remember, it was you (who) didn't wanna see my face
If I can remember, it was you (who) put me in my place
You get down, and I, I wanna play play play
Well I got news for you, that ain't the way it's gonna be
You thought that me and you, were just fair game
But now you're back for more, and I forgot your name
I'm sorry baby, it had to end like this
- Killing Spree
To the world around he was the perfect person
Planning for an alibi he then starts rehearsing
A human bomb just waiting to explode
This secret rage can't be controlled
Slaughtered the dreams of others
One left to recover
Self-inflicted wounds
- Lack Of Comprehension
Lack Of Comprehension
A condeming fear strikes down
Things they cannot understand
An excuse to cover up weaknesses that lie within
Lies
Laying your guilt and pain
On people that had no part in the molding of a life
- Land of No Return
Mangled bodies falling from the sky
Grotesque mutation ripping out your eyes
Now a corpses slave you'll learn to rot
A life of endless gore is what you've got
[Chorus]
Rotting till the end of time
In the land of no return
- Living Monstrosity
Every day blows by in a world of corrupt addiction
With life comes pain withdrawals and deformation
Breaking the mould human appearance
Contorting bodies with chamical interference
The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands, and a half a brain
- Low Life
Those who are a waste of life
Use up air that others could breathe
Human leaches all around
Looking superior is what they believe
Fake is a word you represent
Your existence on earth I resent
At the cost of others you get by
- Mentally Blind
You see your vision and no one else's
Your every word filled with sarcasm
Crucify people with invisible knowledge
Verbal destruction with each compulsion
We will see where you go
The future for you is nowhere
Every minute a cliche of your kind
Too much to say from a person with no respect
- Misanthrope
From above and around,
observations are collected
Knowledge is taken in by curious life forms
That may bring hope from beyond
Beneath the giver of life, our sun
An examination of another kind is done
A view from those who stood high
- Open Casket
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
- Out of Touch
Trapped in a lost world of brutality
So weak are the ones that must rely on shock
to push this so called force that inspires their call
to be extreme so it seems is a mental crutch
To cover up for those that are completely out of touch
Say what you want, I know the truth when it comes to your kind
In time we'll see who lasts
- Overactive Imagination
Your existence is a script,
life for you is a performance,
play out the leading role.
Directing and premeditating
every move.
That creates the act of
manipulation.
Mastering the art of deception.
- Politicians In My Eyes
[Intro]
1, 2, 3, now
The number one biggest game
It's when they gain the most fame
It's like a race to the top
Because they wanna be boss
They don't care who they step on
- Primitive Ways
Go against the ways and experience pain
Leading a life which one might call insane
Bathe in the blood of the one you killed
Slaughter to survive, your needs are fulfulled
Using horrid waste
Some of them will taste
Removing deadly disease
- Pull The Plug
Memories is all thats 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
- Regurgitated Guts
Suicidal preacher hangs himself
Unfaithful servant goes straight to hell
When he returns your life will end
Down from the skies maggot's descend
Least expecting his horrible face
Your decayed guts you soon will taste
Unholy feeling grows deep inside
Choking on your guts you open wide
- Sacred Serenity
Wherever we go, whatever we do
Your shadow is not far behind our steps
And our breath
Protecting and watching all...
Observing spirits on the wall
What are they telling you?
Following all instincts that are pure
- Sacrificial
With chainsaw in hand
Your death I demand
Slicing through your fat
My awaited gore attack
Manipulating lies
Is your way of life
Riding on cheap glory
- Scavenger Of Human Sorrow
What pain will it take
to satisfy your sick appetite
go in for the kill
always in sight-prey
the time always right-feast
feed on the pain-taste
sorrow made flesh-sweet
live how you want
- Scream Bloody Gore
Decapitated head licking your cunt
Sucking all the blood from your stump
Intestinal guts taking their hold
Leaving you dead, stiff and cold
Controlling the minds of the bloodthirsty dead
Unholy seizure slicing through your head
Who will survive only time will tell
- See Through Dreams
See Through Dreams
Born into darkness
Where sounds portray the images that are out
Out of reach from my sight
Which has been denied
Hands change into my eyes
Body sensies intensified
- Spirit Crusher
It comes from the depths
of a place unknown to the
keeper of dreams
if it could then it would steal
the sun and the moon from the sky
beware
Human at sight, monster at heart
- Spirit Crusher - No Bass
It comes from the depths
Of a place unknown to the
Keeper of dreams
If it could then it would steal
The sun and the moon from the sky
Beware
Human at sight, monster at heart
- Spiritual Healing
Always locking the doors to your mind
Escaping the reality that surrounds you
Using faith as an excuse to kill
A sick way of life is now revealed
All the prayers in the world can't help you now
A killer, a taker of life is what you are
- Story To Tell
Drifting into the lives
seep into the soul where emotions hide
dark skies were beating me down
with shadows of deceit slashing at
trust till it forever bleeds
with doubt, with pain, with trust
is pain.
- Suicide Machine
Suicide Machine
Controlling their lives
Deciding when and how they will die
A victim of some one else's choice
The ones who suffer have no voice
Manipulating destiny
When it comes to living, no one seems to care
- Summoned to Die
Ways to the grave,
the corpses of hate
Summoning the trail you'll go
Slowly dying in the fires of hell
The soldiers they march on unholy ground
Chorus:
Black of night
- Symbolic
I don't mean to dwell
But I can't help myself
When I feel the vibe
And taste a memory
Of a time in life
When years seemed to stand still
I close my eyes
- The Flesh And The Power It Holds
I told you once but I will say it again
When you live the flesh it’s the beginning of the end
It will take you in, it will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds
Passion is a poison laced with pleasure bitter sweet
One of many faces that hides deep beneath
It will take you in, it will spit you out
Behold the flesh and the power it holds
- The Philosopher
Do you feel what I feel, see what I see, hear what I hear
There is a line you must draw between your dream world and reality
Do you live my life or share the breath I breathe
Lies feed your judgement of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
- To Forgive Is To Suffer
Throughout our time a thought
Escapes us to enforce a word, no
Holding on to pain it may seem to some
The easy way to say o.k., twist your
Knife a little deeper
Words so sharp actions dark
Hide the blade of the deceiver
- Together As One
Labelled a creation of evil
Ridiculed for their shocking appearance
Sharing both pleasures and pain
Two minds, two hearts, one soul
Separating mentally
An illusion of privacy
Together - they absorb each others lives
As One - they will live and they will die
- Torn To Pieces
Out to find the truth
Behind the myth of
Man eating man
Finding bodies tied
Up to a stake
You cannot understand
Filled with ignorance
- Trapped In A Corner
I want to watch you drown
in your lies.
The end of your masquerade,
a matter of time.
Intertwining lies, domination,
control.
Feed his twisted nature.
It is sickening to see dreams die.
- Vacant Planets
Mysterious objects of flight on a voyage
To correct what they have done, what we are doing
Perhaps submerged, living in the inner most
Recesses of the planet -- no choice but
To adapt to an underground world
Limiting our passages of thought
Are they the examples of regression
A life form's abusive progression
- Within The Mind
Transforming your mind from the inside out
Overcoming fear that made you doubt
Observing what is stored in the subconscious
Trusting what you feel with your gut responses
See past the dark
And use your energy
Learn from these images
- Without Judgement
Guilty until proven innocent
We condemn your soul and fate
Never mind the possibilities
Too busy for logic or to calculate
Take part in a diminishing breed
Where complex turns to simplicity
When pain is acknowledged
- Zero Tolerance
In a thar of night...
Abusing a portion of light
While others are sleeping
And some are escaping
A serpent spews out fantasy –
Unjustified blasphemy
That cannot be condoned
- Zombie Ritual
Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
State into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh