Terrible Certainty
Album - 18 dicembre 1987 - Debaser id 61171

Roman Empire, Christian persecution is here
Strongest desire: eradicate the new sectarians
Hunting down those who pray the new words
Awaiting their fall, the thumbs down for the end

The arena is prepared, the crowd awaiting the spectacle
"They think they're not alone - 'God is always with you'"

Religious figment of your mind
Pacifist you are so blind
Pray to God to send you a miracle
Believe the visions of your brain
As we start sadistic games
You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH!

Feeding the lions with the meat of the christians
Order of the emperor, circus of deluded minds
Women and children, the young and the old
All who are awaiting the new messiah

Bloodlust fills the crowds minds, the massacre has begun
There is no Saviour, you're alone!
Why doesn't God help you now?

Religious figment of your mind
Pacifist you are so blind
Pray to God to send you a miracle
Believe the visions of your brain
As we start sadistic games
You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH!

The Lions come storming in, the spectacle begins
The crowd is as one on their feet - see Christians bleed!
The emperor is standing proud, he satisfies the crowd
Playing games with the damned - they die hand in hand

After it's over, the massacre<i>[Sings "slaughter"]</i> is done
Clearing the arena, the next game will soon come
They sang songs of praise as they died
No Pain on their Faces, only a smile

Prepare the arena again! our work is not yet done
So many are still free and the crowd is soon hungry again

Religious figment of your mind
Pacifist you are so blind
Pray to God to send you a miracle
Believe the visions of your brain
As we start sadistic games
You are lost without your miracle - BLIND FAITH!

[M: Reil/Petrozza/Fioretti/Trzebiatowski ú L: Petrozza ú cMaldoror]

[A perfect song for a live situation since it always gets the pit going. I guess we should put it in the set again on the next tour.........]

Die slowly, you're dying
From this contageous disease
Once you're infected there's no hope of a cure
Your passing is a sure thing
Your thoughts are empty and hopeless
Nothing is left for your now
Having to live with this terrible certainty
Praying is all you can do

It's vicious and crippling and slowly your life will end
But how long will it take to save us from the plague
With fatal convulsions the plague is reaching for us
God knows! What will it take to save us from the plague

Contracted by blood
The virus can be in us all
You're one of its victims, but then thousands more
And they won't be the last
So many civilisations before
The mighty, the proud and the brave
The poor, the rich - indiscriminate
soon they'll all end in the grave

[Taken from the album "Terrible Certainty" ú 1987]

Pesticide in torrents, how fast it flows
Total pollution the earth can't stand much longer
Chemical industry brings new diseases
The fear of self-destruction is growing stronger
Nuclear waste in an uncontrolled deluge
Reduces the earth to an airless planet
Reformation lies far away
Now is your only chance to save it

Contamination in every place
Condemn the human race
Everything will decay
Broken down by toxic trace

New plagues have come and soon there'll be more
Apocalypse not for the first time
Suppression is alive and that's for sure
Everyone will be annihilated
Enforcement of the last eclipse
Can't ignore predictions from the past
Ignore the warnings of ancient Prophets
Every minute of your life could be your last

Contamination in every place
Condemn the human race
Everything will decay
Broken down by toxic trace

Metamorphoses of the earth to a lifeless desert
Voracity for richness, ruin of Mankind
Craving more and more, to the world's Requiem
This is the earth's last century

Now depravation from things that count,
To make an easier life for me
Total confusions for the non-believers
Who ignore the writings on the wall
Times of suffering for everyone,
No-one can hide from reality
Social injustice will be no more,
Without exception, devastate all

Times have changed from the past to now
The earth is mankind's subject
Perfect creation stands over all
Experimenting with lethal objects
Domination, submission, demand for more
De-humanizes the brains of the rulers
What gives them the right to menace us all
This time will come but then it will be too late

Contamination in every place
Condemn the human race
Everything will decay
Broken down by toxic trace

Treacherous without compassion
You sought expression through them all
Sadistic and perverted urges
Dictated they had to fall
Spent your youth in reformatories
Where you're hate grew day by day
Molested and subjugated
Satisfying them in their way

Victim of your drives
Personification of insanity
No escape <i>[X2]
You can't control the instincts inside
Never, there is no escape

You feel no guilt for what you've done
You never thought it was a crime
Following you're nature
There was never malice meant that time
Can't understand the hate against you
Can't they see that you were right?
You must obey those powerful feelings
Coming from inside

Victim of your drives
Personification of insanity
No escape <i>[X2]
You can't control the instincts inside
Never, there is no escape

Let me live my own life
Leave me be, let me satisfy my drives
I don't care what they feel
When I was young no-one ever cared about me
Treacherous without compassion
You sought expression through them all
Sadistic and perverted urges
Dictated they had to fall
It makes no difference who you...
It won't change - you will see
So many lives lost, psychopath
Cured you'll never be

Entering a part of your mind
Where reality is lost and time stands still
Dreams and nightmares are one
Only hell knows if this is real
No human being has been here before
Not a single soul has seen this before, you are
Entering a new world and you are the first
The mysteries of life becoming clearer
Behind the mirror <i>[X2]

Flying through the black hole
Things look strange in this new dimension
You expected a brave new world
But what is this - only hate and destruction
No love, no hope only weakness and violence
When you return reality carries on for you
Nothing can help you escape from this world
A place of hate and terror
Behind the mirror <i>[X2]

Born in this world of hate
You try to escape through
The dimensions you made, trying and trying (again)
Scared of live you exist in endless fear

[Last part of second verse repeated]