DEATH - Spiritual Healing

Living Monstrosity (5'06")
- Schuldiner -

Every day blows by in a world of corrupt addiction
With life comes pain withdrawls and deformation
Breaking the mould of human appearance
Contorting bodies wih chemical interference

The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands, and half a brain
Being born addicted to cocaine

Living monstrosity
A freak for life they'll always be
Never knowing love or hate
Only pain the drug creates

Some say she's naive, she's a stupid bitch
Some say to forgive, guilty she should die

The beginning of the end begins at birth
Breeding masses of twisted screaming flesh
An example we should make out of these creators of misfortune
A serious crime that should not be forgiven

The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands, and half a brain
Being born addicted to cocaine

Living monstrosity
A freak for life they'll always be
Never knowing love or hate
Only pain the drug creates

Altering the Future (5'33")
- Schuldiner - Butler -

Creating a life only to destroy
Saved from a life of the unemployed
Where crime is 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

Death and life taken so easily
Right or wrong, whose choice will it be?

Abortion, when it is needed
Execution, for those who deserve it
The giving and taking of life will always be

Altering the future

Look into the future to prepare us for our fate
Controlling our existence with every life we take

Life for a life should remain the rule
The innocent victim that is what's cruel
Look to the past is what we should do
When justice was done and justice was true
Using our laws to help their escape
An easy way out is what they create
Claiming insane is the way to freedom
People are stupid enough to believe them

Death and life taken so easily
Right or wrong, whose choice will it be?

Abortion, when it is needed
Execution, for those who deserve it
The giving and taking of life will always be

Defensive Personalities (4'42")
- Schuldiner - Butler -

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
Violent one minute calm the next
Defensive personalities

Passed down from generations,
Years of pain and complications
Darkness was a punishment,
Memories time cannot mend
Brutalised from the day of birth,
To reality they can't return

Existing in a world of three lives inside of one

Protecting the weak points of the mind
Defensive personalities
Violent one minute calm the next
Defensive personalities

Within the Mind (5'33")
- Schuldiner - Murphy -

Transforming your mind from 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
Thoughts that we call dreams

This power lies within the mind
Gain wisdom through abilities
Change what's to come in future times
Avoiding pain and misery

Look through the fake for what is real
Making decisions by what you feel
Live for the future and not for the past
The weak of mind will never last

Percieving visions that reoccur
Analyse your dreams to gain
A better perspective of your life
In control of your destiny with mind and soul

See past the dark and use your energy
Learn from these images
Thoughts that we call dreams

This power lies within the mind
Gain wisdom through abilities
Change what's to come in future times
Avoiding pain and misery

Spiritual Healing (7'43")
- Schuldiner -

Always blocking 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

Preach the good word
Speak no more, prepare to burn
A justified torture?
From this may others learn
The life you took a holy death, a grave mistake
No changing your mind, your life you should pay

Practice what you preach
Your loved one is now deceased
Knowledge is at our hands
Never to understand

Spiritual Healing

Blinded by the twisted ways you live
Kill for religion, will the Lord forgive?
Idiocy has stricken your mind
A real-life hell you will find

All the prayers in the world can't help you now
A killer a taker of life is what you are

Preach the good world
Speak no more, prepare to burn
A justified torture?
From this may others learn
The life you took a holy death, a grave mistake
No changing your mind, your life you should pay

Practice what you preach
Your loved one is now deceased
Knowledge is at our hands
Never to understand

Low Life (5'21")
- Schuldiner - Murphy - Butler -

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
Each word that you speak is a lie

Low life - thats all you'll ever be
Lies in effect -
That's what you'd like to see

Hiding behind material values
That help cover up your weakness
Never to change, always to look
For an easy way out of life

A pethetic excuse for a human being

Nothing to back you up, never giving second thought
Thinking you fool the world, into seeing something you are not

Fake is a word you represent
Your existence on earth I resent
At the cost of others you get by
Each word that you speak is a lie

Low life - thats all you'll ever be
Lies in effect -
That's what you'd like to see

Genetic Reconstruction (4'50")
- Schuldiner - Murphy - Butler -

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

Genetic Reconstruction
Evolution in production

Producing a race of human machines
A new age of existence the world will see

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

Genetic Reconstruction
Evolution in production

Killing Spree (4'13")
- Schuldiner - Murphy -

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
On left to recover
Self-inflicted wounds
Life he has consumed

Planning a killing spree
Victim of a conspiracy?

Getting bored with his current life
Rearranging with a knife

Greed before despair suspicious start to grow
His life was spared for this he does not know
Screams filled the air there was no way to help
The ones he mourns he kiled himself

Slaughtered the dreams of others
On left to recover
Self-inflicted wounds
Life he has consumed

Planning a killing spree
Victim of a conspiracy?

All words by Chuck Schuldiner
All songs published by Mutilation Music / Theory Music / BMI 1990