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Exodus
Exodus


Background information
Origin San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Genre(s) Thrash Metal
Years active 1980—present
Label(s) Capitol Records
Century Media Records
Nuclear Blast
Associated acts Metallica
Blind Illusion
Sexoturica
Testament
Website Website
Members
Rob Dukes
Gary Holt
Lee Altus
Jack Gibson
Tom Hunting
Former members
Kirk Hammett
Paul Baloff
Steve Souza
Rick Hunolt
Rob McKillop
Michael Butler
John Tempesta
Paul Bostaph
Evan McCaskey
Steev Esquivel
Chris Kontos
Keith Stewart
Matt Harvey
Tim Agnello
Mike Maung
Carlton Nelson
Geoff Andrews
Perry Strickland
Gannon Hall



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Exodus Album


Shovel Headed Kill Machine (10/04/2005)
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Let's start a fire, biggest one you've ever seen
You bring the matches, I'll Bring the gasoline
Ignite it, delight it, the flames grow higher
Burn the world upon a funeral pyre

(Chorus)
Raze!
Light this motherf**ker like a roman candle
Burn this bitch straight to the ground
Raze!
Let's not worry about consequences
If it's standing, we'll bring it down

Destroy it all, show no inhibition
Revel and rejoice in unbridled demolition
Smash it, f**k it, nothing will remain
Detect it and wreck it but never take the blame

(Repeat chorus)

We Have Ignition

(Solo: Gary)
(Solo: Lee)

Shake the earth from its very foundation
Lay waste to the world without hesitation
Break it, take it, you don't have any reason
F**k it, destruct it, its demolition season.

. . .


Life spent with lips on glass
Another hit, just one more blast
How long can you make it last?
Hit the pipe and vaporize
Feel the rush, so energized
Your lungs begin to crystallize
Try to stem the tide
From another five day ride
Don't you know you're dead inside?
The world spins out of control
All amped up, no where to go
A glass house is all you know

(Chorus)
Poison cloud hangs in the air
Breathe it deep, your only care
It's a nightmare, not a dream
DEATHAMPHETAMINE!

Spun and sleep deprived
The calendar burns before your eyes
Another hit, for now revived
So many sleepless nights
Only wet your appetite
Strike a match, the torch ignites
See the shards start cracking back
Watch them turn your world to black
While waiting for the heart attack
All your dreams are dead and gone
I tell you now, it won't be long
Before death ends the marathon

(Repeat chorus)
(Solo: Gary)
(Solo: Lee)

Withered and sucked up
You're wasting away
Eyes sunken deep in your skull
You care not about yourself
Nor any other
Only if the pipe is full
Lick your lips
As you hover around the glass
Anxiously awaiting your turn
Depressed and paranoid
It's all gone to hell
Inhale as your world burns

Lost everything you own
Now waiting by the telephone
For the dope man to come home
All your friends and family
Age sickened by your need for speed
Only driven to exceed
So many years, so little time
For you to halt your life's decline
You've got to read the signs
Everything has come unwound
You've got to turn this shit around
Before you're six feet underground
(Repeat chorus)

. . .


Unrelenting vengeance
On man for all his sins
Ruthless eradication
Day of reckoning to begin
The human race is a cancer
Fueled by power and lust
Punishment is the answer
And payment is your blood
(Chorus)
Death and destruction
Hellish cries are the sound
Headlong into hell
Retribution is now
Inflict the suffering
Let the punishment fit the crime
I belong to vengeance
And vengeance is mine

Choking out the life
Of every living thing
History repeats itself
World brought down by greed
Prostitute the truth
Stealing from the blind
Arrogant indifference
The raping of mankind

(Repeat chorus)
(Solo: Gary)

Killing just for profit
And weeding out the week
Ruling with an iron fist
The cure for the disease
Driven by the madman
Driven by the greed
Infected by a cancer
Lust and debauchery

(Repeat chorus)

. . .


You hit rock bottom, now where do you go from here
Sunk-down, locked-up, all you do is disappear
All your promises areall just a pack of lies
Your've got nothing, something you can't recognize

[Chorus]

Why don't you take some responsibility
You're pointing fingers and blaming everybody
Shudder to think if I lived like you
They would be shaking too, if they only knew

I can't take any more excuses
No longer needed and you don't have any uses
Washed up, washed out, what more can I say
You better start filling out your resume

[Chorus]

[Solo: Gary]

Everything was there for the taking
Too Busy with the lying and faking
Drugged up, fell out, too many second chances
Nothing else to do under the circumstances

[Chorus]

. . .


I am affliction
The cause of all that ails you
I am addiction
That blinds and assails you
Through all confusion
I am the chaos
I'm the the thing that makes you hurt
Laughing at your loss

[chorus]
Just underneath your skin
Is evil's origin
Come see the face of devastation
You are me, I am abomination

I am the bleeding
When you open up the vein
I am the overdose
That rushes to your brain
I'm all you've come to loathe
All you've known to hate
I am the hunter
When you come to take the bait

[repeat chorus]

I am Jehovah
I am the virgin whore
I am the battlefield
Of pestilence and war
I am the monster
That lurks beneath your bed
I'm all perversions
Trapped inside your head

. . .


Unholy pedophile
Preying on the innocent
Protected by the papacy
So called men of enlightenment
Children fingered by the hand of God
Raped in the name of Christ
They took a vow of chastity
Yet have torn asunder so many a life

Chorus:
Chickenhawks of the Catholic Church
Out to save and destroy
They have become the preist of burden
And he's become an altered boy

Men so benevolent
In a position of trust
Molesting children by the score
Rendering young life straight into the dust
They're curch is their Golgotha
Their crucified by the priest
Child becomes the victim
Holy Father becomes the beast

Repeat chorus

Multi-million dollar payouts
Restitution for their crimes
This vile sickness
Cut so many down in their prime
All the bishops and the cardinals
Tried to hide it away
In the parish and cathedrals
The predators come to prey

Repeat chorus

. . .


A straight razor and a flick of the wrist
Brass knuckles and a willing fist
A big knife and a little scream
They do wonders for my self-esteem
Warm blood and a cold embrace
The catch is better than the chase
They all ask why I'm doing this
Violence is bliss

Chorus:
What you see
All I know to be
Is a madman out on a killing spree
One thing I say
I did it all my way
Gave rise to the dawn of the dying age
When I feel the urge
And it's tarting to surge
Soon I'm blowing like an atom bomb
When you comprehend
Your life's coming to an end
I'm going, going, going, going, gone

Two things that I can't ignore
Dark nights and an unlocked door
I get the feeling and I follow through
I get high like I'm sniffing glue
It's time to let the games commence
This really helps my self-confidence
Blood orgy for the hedonist
Violence is bliss

Repeat chorus

I never leave any telltale traces
Only fear frozen on dead faces
An orgasm of depravity
It's the best kind of therapy
I always flee the scene of the crime
No victims, left to drop the dime
So many lives yet to be dismissed
Violence is bliss

. . .


[Music and Lyrics: Gary Holt]

Bloodied, cleaved and mutilated
Dead bodies amputated
Mans bloody inclination
God's final abdication
Angels weep on bended knee
So begins the tyranny
The fallen one will rise again
So ends the time of man

My will be done
Now they death day come

Never more the sound of laughter
Misery for ever after
The cries of suffering
Are what the death day bring
No one gives the benediction
All hear the maldication
Lucifer makes his accent
No words for mans lament

My will be done
Now they death day come

On black wings I take to the sky
Scouring the land
Rejoicing in and laughing in
The folly of man
Centuries of hatred
Centuries of fear
Have led you to the end of days
And the one you so revere

The gates of heaven have been shattered
Wings of angels torn and tattered
All due to mankind's thirst
For war so well rehearsed
When you see my demon eyes
Too late to apologize
Can you feel the irony?
War for all eternity

My will be done
Now they death day come

. . .


Can't Withhold my anger won't control my rage
My bloodlust will be sated
I'm locked and loaded ready to engage
Killing everything I've always hated
A motherfucking Van Gogh with a gun
Blow the world into oblivion
Paint with the blood of the deceased

Sub chorus
Fire away
Put your body on display
Build a tower of decay
A symphony
Written in human debris
Art and murder true synonymy
No appeal, No "I got a raw deal", I don't give a fuck
One thing is clear I've got a deaf ear
You better shut your mouth and duck
When I get a taste of laying everyone to waste
My hunger won't subside
I won't ever stop till the last body drops
Let the bullet be my guide

Chorus
The virtue of vice
In my bloody paradise
A portrait of gore
My .44
Magnum
My .44 magnum opus

Solo: Gary

Bodies are the canvas, ammo is the vision
For my greatest work of art
I'm waging my own inquisition
Tearing everything apart
I'm building a monument to horror
A temple so divine
Remembrance to those I've massacred
Death the grand design

Chorus
The virtue of vice
In my bloody paradise
A portrait of gore
My .44
Magnum
My .44 magnum opus

Solo: Gary

Bodies are the canvas, ammo is the vision
For my greatest work of art
I'm waging my own inquisition
Tearing everything apart
I'm building a monument to horror
A temple so divine
Remembrance to those I've massacred
Death the grand design

Sub chorus
Fire away
Put your body on display
Build a tower of decay
A symphony
Written in human debris
Art and murder true synonymy
No appeal, No "I got a raw deal", I don't give a fuck
One thing is clear I've got a deaf ear
You better shut your mouth and duck
When I get a taste of laying everyone to waste
My hunger won't subside
I won't ever stop till the last body drops
Let the bullet be my guide

Chorus
The virtue of vice
In my bloody paradise
A portrait of gore
My .44
Magnum
My .44 magnum opus

Solo: Lee

People will stare in disbelief and awe
When they see what I've created
Still life, no life beautiful and raw
The world will be captivated
Never have they seen something so ambitious
Like nothing done before
A work so terrible and vicious
A masterpiece of gore

Sub chorus
Fire away
Put your body on display
Build a tower of decay
A symphony
Written in human debris
Art and murder true synonymy
No appeal, No "I got a raw deal", I don't give a fuck
One thing is clear I've got a deaf ear
You better shut your mouth and duck
When I get a taste of laying everyone to waste
My hunger won't subside
I won't ever stop till the last body drops
Let the bullet be my guide

. . .


Tank treads crushing over piles of broken bones
Siege engine revving and coming to atone
Poisonous black smoke billows from it's eyes
Unholy war machine can't be compromised
Fueled by the corpses feted fleshed
Never turning back forward to the death
It's only mission is killing everything
It's the shovel headed kill machine

[Chorus]

Here to sarifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Kneel and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine

So inhuman you don't speak it's name
It's artillery sets the world aflame
Mechanical demon rolling 'cross the sand
Blood stained thing scorching black the holy land
Skin made of iron heart made of steel
Lubricated by the blood beneath it's wheels
Reclaiming the world for it's king
It's the shovel headed kill machine

[Chorus]

Here to sacrifice
Infernal hate device
Satan's go between
Knee and die before the
Shovel headed kill machine

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