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.
LEAD: HANNEMAN
Emptiness in twilight's rebirth,
The faint sounds of shoveled earth.
Madness growing as your mind dissolves.
Merely secret in my dreams.
LEAD: KING
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. [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/slayer/live_undead.html ]
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!
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.
LEAD: KING
A cannibal's desire feeds the fire
That burns in your head.
LEAD: HANNEMAN
Intense pain eats away at your brain,
Thorazine pumping through your veins.
LEAD: KING
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.
LEAD: KING
Laughing as you eternally rot,
Searching for human flesh
And life's blood.
This song is about the trepidation towards the afterlife; it's not death you fear since there's no avoiding it, but rather the notion of the difference, and exactly how different the afterlife will be/is, and you are afraid to accept it even though you are already in your spiritual form. However once you realize that your attempts to try to rekindle a past life are futile after your departure from it, it is much easier to accept what has happened to you, and forget about your fetid earthly carcass.