Live Undead

By Slayer

On South of Heaven

Released on July 5, 1988

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[Verse 1]

Cascaded darkness, walls close in on me

Nailed shut, but my eyes still see

Severe anguish as my body evolves

The pain of life after death, it resolves


[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]


[Verse 2]

Emptiness in twilight's rebirth

The faint sounds of shoveled earth

Madness growing as your mind dissolves

Merely secret in my dreams


[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]


[Pre-Chorus]

Night grows cold, twilight's near

On the edge of madness, the wounds are sheared

Forms of hanging, flesh-shredded carcass

No spared breath

Imprisoned in a shell

Ready to explode

Dead soul, stone cold

Out into the night


[Chorus]

Voices inside my head hold me under

Voices oppress like roaring thunder

An echo bouncing inside my brain

How much can I take of the pain?

The pain!


[Post-Chorus]

A war raging deep inside my head

A split decision that will end with me dead

You see the agony in my eyes

Protruding aimless, I think it's time to…

Die!


[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]


[Verse 3]

A cannibal's desire feeds the fire that burns in your head


[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]


[Verse 4]

Intense pain eats away at your brain

Thorazine pumping through your veins


[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]


[Verse 5]

Death walks inside you, smell death around you

Hell's evil spell takes a soul

Hear the sound of the bell

Counting off death tolls


[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]


[Verse 6]

Laughing as you eternally rot

Searching for human flesh and life's blood


[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]


[Outro]

Live undead

Dead