"Up The Tombstones!!! Live 2000" (LP)
Recorded: February 25, 2000
Location: Club Phantasmagoria, Wheaton, MD
Recorded By: Mike Bossier
Mixed: Mike Bossier & King Fowley
Live Sound: Eddie Warhead
Executive Producer: Reinaldo Lopez
Released: 2002
Cover Artwork: Jim Hunter
Label: Thrash Corner Records
Format: Compact Disc
"Up The Tombstones!!! Live 2000" - 2000 Tracklist:
More than once we've closed our eyes to science and its flaws
Ghastly research carries on locked behind a door
While cancer cells still breed like roaches killing off the land
They disturb peace and destroy life, for this we all shall die?
The silent creature, the walking dead
The deadly dose of chemicals have changed the course of man
As reborn corpses activate on impulse from beyond
And there's no time and there's no end for finally it is done
So face the truth and live in fear of what has come at last
The silent creature, the walking dead
And every human placed on earth will bring their scent to them
As horror will now become the world
Like rabid dogs they smell the life that's flowing in our veins
A world of ghouls will storm mankind new life their destiny
As moaning corpses leave the ground and walk again on earth
Shattered coffins thrown aside for death's finally left its womb
The panic it starts as reason has stopped,
The human mind must now adjust
Adjust to the buried walking the earth rabid to devour us all
A constant reminder is the stench of death
Of all the world's become
Quickly we learn they feed on the flesh as the hollow victims they grow and
grow
The dreaded dark no place to hide from their reaching hands
The monsters slow yet menacing seeking out a soul
You close your eyes yet still you see the creeping reality
You tell yourself this isn't so but yet it's real, it's true
Run we must run, try to get away
Shelter somewhere, anywhere, from corpses that await
We're living in fear, but still we must go on
The shock must not stop us, our minds must stay calm
Broken down a nervous wreck yet there are no regrets
All the prestige drains my soul as illness takes to bed
It's time I need to ease my mind and become new again
So rest my child and be cleansed for breakdown's not the end
But what is this? What leads me from my room?
An apparition? It beckons me!
In this place here I rest while doctors roam the halls
Yet I'm alone inside myself to struggle with my fears
And there it is I can see a shadow on the wall
Calling me towards the end and onwards to the morgue
But the fear it takes my breath away
So near is the lonely world of death
I try to think of other things yet it is always near
I just can't help but walk its path and end up at the morgue
No, not the morgue! Not that dreaded place!
The morgue is cold and stinks of death the bodies freezing cold
I feel the grasp of something strange pulling at my soul
The dead just laying on their slabs sends chills right down my spine
And there's that shadow on the wall its image stains my mind
That shadow, that shadow on the wall
That shadow, creeping down the wall
Waht does this tell me of my mind this crazy lunacy
I fear that this is a sign that death is wanting me
That shadow, that shadow on the wall
That shadow, creeping down the wall
That shadow, that shadow on the wall
That shadow, creeping down the wall
Down the wall!
My release from this place should take this all away
My mind has healed up long enough for life it now awaits
So off I'll go into the sky and ride the flying plane
Back to a place where I belong the soothing hand of fame
But wait it's that shadow once again my fate is in my own hands
I run away from teh boarding plane that takes off in the night
As up in flames death does claim everyone but I
That shadow, that shadow warned me of the end
That shadow, that shadow let me live again
That shadow, that shadow pulled me from teh flames
That shadow, a premonition!
"The Premonition" inspired by the TV show The Twilight Zone episode "Twenty-Two" written by Rod Serling.
The shocking truth the 13 souls the time ticks peacefully
A horrid tale a frightful day now locked in history
As one by one the chosen gone some final place they'll stay
Forever lost as all stands still and weirdness claims it's prey
Into the air they disappear the 13 souls erased
No horrid thought was left unthought no boundaries were untraced
The years have passed but nothings changed an unsolved piece of time
The 13 frightened souls!!!
Unmasking those marked to go was there a reason why?
Eerie choices random death is no ones quest replied?
Just what controls the course of all lead us to the one?
Is there a being a martyr lord to change all destiny?
Can we believe in all truth that there's no other life?
Beyond our time beyond our world beyond our seeing eyes
13, calling
A texture made of demise, uncertainty of the soul, the horrible task of fate
13 the number of fear, refusal to believe the beyond, existence of darkness unknown...
13!!! 13!!! 13!!! 13!!!
What will become of a world where so few know?
Most lives escape there without soul
The Earth is full of robot minds
But who controls thought decline?
Detached senseless life brothers
They march programmed by others
In life forever they follow
In death another lives shadow...
Blind, exist without a mind
In trance a corpse of time
Never knowing why
Never knowing why
Never knowing why
Never knowing what their thoughts unknown will be
Now obey...
Obey in the robotic village!!!!!
Columbus wrote of awful things, as he forsook the seas
And many men have spoke of doom, aboard the Flight 19
The devil's home, some do preach, a force beyond this world
A secret time, that's part of us, a place that is no good
Explain the missing men, lost throughout the years
And all the missing planes, snatched from out of the sky
The triangle, the legend lives, a tale for all to read
An unknown force, that makes us trust,
The horrors we can't see
And what of the soldiers? Astray from their ships
As over 100 are gone
For where are the answers, to all that is "odd"?
Turning all science undone
Has alien life, within our time, marked the planet Earth?
Do UFO's come and go, lighting up our sky?
Do they search and steal, for their own world,
The bodies of our kind?
And do we know, just who to trust,
What's real, and what are lies?
The sea erupts, the sky goes black, the air is numb,
The wind is full, but can't we see, are we blind?
Some time has passed since the last tale,
Of the triangle's disease
But as before, the doom will fall, unto the haunted seas
The triangle!!!
Is this the porthole through time?
Is this the center of mind?
For what has caused this to be?
For now the other world sleeps,
But just how soon 'til the unknown returns to feed?
My nerves are sharp with insanity as slowly I've gone mad
Why there's fear of the old man and his eye I'll never know
Yes for some time I've had the urge to stop the evil eye
As if possessed I crave its death I truly can't resist
Inside my brain so many voices comfort me
As murderous thoughts race through my mind to finally rid the eye
I approach his room without a sound I'm death outside the door
The heartbeat guides me through the dark and to his resting site
For in my hand I hold the knife the one that slits his throat
With a final shriek my torment ends the eye it is no more
And now I'm free for with his death the chains of fear are gone
It's only me left all alone to live amongst the world
In perfect manor I dissect the old man and bury him under the floor
All the while thinking back to the deed I must laugh to reassure
I reassure myself that I'm free and secure the open wood to the ground
And when I'm done I try to sleep but nightmares twist my dreams
That dark chilling heartbeat will it come for me?
Will it haunt my world for evermore and steal sanity?
But before my eyes can witness sleep there's a knock upon my door
Without a pause I answer calm my discipline assured
Behind the door I find police investigating screams
I politely beg them "Come inside, put your mind at ease."
With innocence I lead them down to the room he's buried in
I place my chair right above the man's poor and worthless grave
As we sit and talk I'm becoming pale and sickly so on edge
I beg for them to "Please be gone, and let me find my rest!"
But horror's just begun for the heartbeat does return
It reminds my mind of the hideous eye, that gleaming putrid eye!
Sweat now drips from my brow I plead and scream along
"I did the deed tear up the floor the corpse is in the ground!"
But horror's just begun for no one can hear my pleas
For in my mind there lives the eye forever haunting... me!
The heart it beats, it lives in me
Inside my mind lives the eye...
"Dark Chilling Heartbeat" inspired by the book The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allen Poe.
The prowling demons side by side
The final proof that death is life
The reapers army built to kill a tragic return to our world
I can see the terror in their eyes that empty stare
Their haunting souls still intact to seek revenge
Unknowing victims take the bait a horrid ending in distaste
As we sweep our dead from the streets
These fiends devour all in reach
I can see the terror in their eyes that empty stare
Their haunting souls still intact to seek revenge
An endless maze with no escape what can we do?
For just how long can we last for where is life still pure
Hospitals full with failing life the people soon to go
They scream in pain as they fade away
Into the shape of "them"
We bolt the door they die behind to try and find escape
For what can stop this deadly war what will bring their end?
Is it violence? Is it science?
My thoughts are so unclear who's got the answer?
The wind blows in the next wave of the walking dead disease
As I sit here watching their every move
I know they're watching me
But how can I plot my own escape from creatures that don't end
Is there safety anywhere? I haven't got a clue
As I flee to get away I know they're close, so close
I can see their snapping jaws open and close
Hell's lunacy is in my brain, insane
And panic is now a part of life
A victim just waiting in the night, this night
Their crippled hands they pull me to their lair, despair
My every move and suddenly they're there, beware
Hell's lunacy is in my brain, insane
And panic is now a part of life
But where am I to run? My destination is nowhere fast
Is there a place just out of reach where serenity awaits?
Or am I just a dreamer without the strength to carry on?
The fool of fools forever chasing all eternity, eternity
This has to be illusion is this the way it's going to end
Zombies taking all life's children and throwing them away
On earth they've arrived like tortured soldiers sent to war
But they're the dead the past returning and now they live again,
They live again
Then reality hits me like a slap in the face
The world's become so wrong
Just look around at what's happened
To earth the ending has come
The terrible deaths the destruction of man the unhuman entity
This must be the work of unnatural lords for what else can it be
Tell me! What else could it be?
Fearless undead machines!!!
The end of hope and dreams, fearless undead machines!
A place full of futuristic insight with those who share a magical gift
Foreseeing into future fully aware of what has come
You see they predicted monsters from the ground to swallow man
Safely in their fortress they live as if there is life
There's no fear of the living dead
They know they'll live on in their "new world"
There's telepathic scenes with crystal balls and tarot cards
A cult of fortunetellers with minds that see all mystery
They say that they've been waiting for my arrival to their world
It seems as though I'm gifted with the sight to see beyond
As they prepare their magic I prepare my mind
To break this hold that's hanging on to keep me from my kind
As we join hands and chant the chant the truth is now revealed
I feel their power I join their ranks a living breathing lord
And now I know there's a future hidden beyond this world
A new beginning a higher plain very few shall see
By invitation I've been accepted to build and start again
I've learned these monsters are really saints cleansing all the earth
The undead have their purpose to strengthen, rebuild the weak!
Within my mind I realize there's still life to see
As I vision it now I can understand the reasons for their acts
I can see our world I can see beyond
We're not afraid forever we are strong!
And now there are no worries for all our goals will be achieved
While the outside world awaits this sudden "plague" to fade and die
And as all time keeps moving bringing the end to a tired world
We just stand by ready for our crowning moment to come!
Now they're tearing at our walls and challenging our force
A mutiny of our monsters now at war with our lords
Destiny all destiny a monster for infinity
Destiny my destiny an eternity of death
How quickly we lose battle with creatures that don't die
From beyond the grave these new messiahs control what's left of life
Destiny! All destinies, a monster for infinity
I am the animal, my god, I am the beast
I love to see you bleed, so welcome to my feast
We're serving human flesh to keep you satisfied
With every bloody bite you eat, another's going to die
Don't give me politics, don't give me public schools
Just keep the cops and t.v. police, from breaking all the rules
I am the raging bull, no fear, no Sympathy
Sex and drugs and rock and roll, that's my cup of tea
Feel the heat, throw your bodies into the fire
Time to feed, Headhunter, Headhunter
Headhunter, Headhunter
My axe is clean and soft and blade is shining bright
She's hungry for her midnight snack
And heads will roll tonight, I am the hunter
Not easy to please, stand in line, she cures their lust
Victims on their knees aahh
