Motörhead Album

Stoneface dog, swirling fog,
Gates open on the dark dark night
Standing stone, skull and bone,
Dead witness to an unseen fight
Beat the drum, beat the drum,
Beat forever on the endless march
Stricken dumb, cut and run,
Someone is screaming and the sky is dark

Sword and shield,
Bone and steel, rictus grin
Deaf forever to the battles din
Deaf forever to the battles din

March or croak, flame and smoke,
Burn forever in eternal pain
Charge and fall, bugle call,
Bone splinter in the driving rain
Horses scream, Viking dream,
Drowned heroes in a lake of blood
Armoured fist, severed wrist,
Broken spears in a sea of mud

Sword and shield,
Bone and steel, rictus grin
Deaf forever to the battles din
Deaf forever to the battles din

Mother earth, mother earth
Enfold you in her cold embrace
Sinking down, killing ground,
Worm crawling on your cold white face
Win or lose, nought to choose,
All men are equal when their memory fades
No one knows, friends or foes,
If Valhalla lies beyond the grave

Sword and shield,
Bone and steel, rictus grin
Deaf forever to the battles din
Deaf forever to the battles din
Deaf forever to the battles din
Deaf forever to the battles din

You're playing tricks, babe and that's a fact
Your magic circle ain't where's its at
One moment you were here and then you disappeared
This ain't the first time I've caught your act

Nothing up my sleeve, babe
Watch out, watch out
Magic's what you need, babe
Just like that

You know your slight of hand is messing up my life
Maybe this time, babe, you're gonna get it right
One moment you were there, now just an empty chair
This ain't the first time you've shot out my lights

Nothing up my sleeve, babe
Watch out, watch out
Magic's what you need, babe
Just like that

Saw me in half babe, that's quite a trick
You make me laugh babe, you make me sick
I'm gone but now you lack the spell to bring me back
This ain't the first time I've seen your magic slip

Nothing up my sleeve, babe
Watch out, watch out
Magic's what you need, babe
Just like that

Watch out

I don't believe a word
I know you tell me lies
Just watch me flip the bird
Right in your lyin' eyes
You just can't figure out
Why I'm the way I am
I'm low-life born and bred
And I don't give a damn

I've had enough, I'm stepping out of line
Ain't gonna stop me babe, you ain't worth a dime
You nearly had me fooled, wastin' all my time
You might've broke my heart
And if you broke my heart
I know it ain't my crime

I'm here to tell you, babe
Was here and now I'm gone
You need a wages slave
But I sure ain't the one
I'm moving off the lot
Just hire another act
I don't need what you got
That ain't where I'm at

I've had enough, I'm stepping out of line
Ain't gonna stop me babe, you ain't worth a dime
You nearly had me fooled, wastin' my time
You might've broke my heart
And if you broke my heart
I know it ain't my crime

Just show me to the door
Here I go again
I seen it all before
Happens now and then
No tears in your eyes
Sure ain't none in mine
Two people in disguise
Frozen in time

I've had enough, I'm stepping out of line
Ain't gonna stop me babe, you ain't worth a dime
You nearly had me fooled, wastin' my time
You might've broke my heart
And if you broke my heart
I know it ain't my crime

Watching you, watching me
I was hoping you'd be here tonight
Watching him, watching you
He'd better watch out too
Keeps getting in my light
I think he's going overload
Don't know what you're running for
He thinks he's got you where he wants you, babe
But he don't understand the power of the claw
The claw, the claw, the claw

You know me, I know you
We both know what we came here for
And he thinks he knows you
He thinks he's got you too
Gonna make him cry for sure
He's going to have to make his own way home
I don't know what's he's smiling for
He thinks you're gonna keep your promise, babe
But he don't understand the power of the claw
The claw, the claw, the claw
The claw, the claw, the claw, the claw

Me walking up to you
And whisper in your eager ear
You whisper back to me
And he begins to see
He feels the claw is near
And so the ballet starts again
Exit stage left through the door
And we begin the horizontal dance
And he begins to know just what the claw is for
The claw, the claw, the claw, the claw
The claw, the claw, the claw

The claw, the claw, the claw
The claw, the claw, the claw

You know just what the claw is for
You know just what the claw is for
You know just what the claw is for

I know what my claw is for

Midnight runaway,
Know you're running scared
Bright lights, big city,
Nobody seems to care

Open your eyes
Who's there? Who's there?
Open your eyes, nightmare
Unclean, fever dream
On the high side in the mean machine

Black bomber in the night,
Can you handle the pain
Better call the FBI,
Better change your name

Open your eyes,
Oh no! Oh no!
Open your eyes, creepshow!
Unclean, fever dream,
On the wild side in the mean machine

Unclean, fever dream,
Take a ride mean machine
Wet dream, bad scene,
We don't care where you been
On the screen, movie queen,
Things ain't always
What they seem.
Stay clean, crazy dream
Off the high side in the mean machine.

you know the rules, you all know the game
try to do what's right
and I swear, I can't complain
if I die tonight
but I don't think it's in the stars
for me to go that way
I'll be here for a long long time babe
I'm here to stay

chorus:
I was born to rock'n'roll
everything I need
I was born with the hammer down
I was built for speed

bet your life it aint no easy money
but you won't hear me bitch
I spent a long time raped and funny
I got the tenyear itch
see me running all around the world
tryin' to make some time
a million miles, a million girls
a million real good times

repeat chorus

don't you listen to a single word
against rock'n'roll
the new religion, the electric church
the only way to go
I don't give a good god damn
my life's been allright
I'm goin' crazy, out of my mind
every single night

repeat chorus

Iron child out of Vulcans forge, metal scream and thrash
Red steel in the driving wheel, hear the pistons clash
Black dragon breathin' big black smoke, howlin' up the tracks

I'm ridin' on the Thunderchief, spit in the devil's eye
No force on earth can stop me now, I'd like to see 'em try
Hey, hey ridin' with the driver

Juggernaut comin' down the line, hear the banshee cry
Engineer like to lose his mind. glory in his eye
Too fast to live this way, too young to die

I'm ridin' on the Thunderchief, spit in the devil's eye
No force on earth can stop me now, I'd like to see 'em try
Hey, hey ridin' with the driver

Hold tight, feel the drivers bite, hear the whistle moan
Engine rockin' on the left and right, vibratin' in my bones
Once the locomotive steal your soul, you got a Casey Jones

I'm ridin' on the Thunderchief, spit in the devil's eye
No force on earth can stop me now, kiss your ass goodbye
I'm ridin' on the Thunderchief, spit in the devil's eye
No force on earth can hurt me now, I'd like to see 'em try
Hey, hey ridin' with the driver
Hey, hey ridin' with the driver
Hey, hey ridin' with the driver
Hey, hey hey

All right, all right
I hope you son of bitches see the light
You again, you again
I know you've got a mental age of ten
Listen up, listen up
I wouldn't swap you for a thousand bucks
Come on, you're the one
I think I'm going to switch your lazer on

I've got the medicine you need
I've got the power, I've got the speed
I'll find out how to stop your clock
We sure ain't talking Doctor Spock
Hear me talking, Doctor Rock.

Lay down, turn around
Here come the sister gonna strip you down
Shut up, breathe in
Lets have the address of your next of kin
Chin up, shoulders back
You've got a body like a Marshall stack
Keep still, take your pill
Or I'm gonna make you really ill.

I've got the medicine you need
I've got the power, I've got the speed
I'll find out how to stop your clock
We sure ain't talking Doctor Spock
Hear me talking, Doctor Rock.

Next please, next please
Try to separate those cowardly knees
X-ray, you've gotta pay
The only chance you've ever got of getting away
Here we are, what's the scar
I don't like anything I've seen so far
Pay me, pay me
I ain't no doctor of philosophy

I've got the medicine you need
I've got the power, I've got the speed
I'll find out how to stop your clock
We sure ain't talking Doctor Spock
Hear me talking, Doctor Rock.

I am the one Orgasmatron
the oustreched grasping hand
my image is of agony
my servants rape the land
obsequious and arrogance
clandestine and pain
two thousand years of misery
of torture in my name
hypocrisy made paramount
paranoia the law
my name is called religion
sadistic
sacred
whore

I twist the truth
I rule the world
my crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies
you grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you
your downfall is my gain
and still you play the sycophant
and rebel in your pain
and all my promises are lies
all my love is hate
I am the politician
and I decide your fate

I march before a martyred world
an army for the fight
I speak of great heroic days
of victory and might
I hold a banner drenched in blood
I urge you to be brave
I lead you to your destiny
I lead you to your grave
your bones will build my palaces
your eyes will stud my crown
for I am mars the god of war
and I will cut you down