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Practice What You Preach  
[1989] 

Practice What You Preach 
Perilous Nation 
Envy Life 
Time is Coming 
Blessed in Contempt 
Greenhouse Effect 
Sins of Omission 
The Ballad 
Nightmare (coming back to you) 
Confusion Fusion (instrumental)

Practice What You Preach
Lyrics : Billy, Peterson, Skolnick Time : 4:58 
 

You think your life´s so grand 
You don´t believe a word you say 
Your feet aren´t on the ground 
You let your life just slip away 
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul 
The promises you make your mind go blank 
and then you lose control, then you lose control! 

I never was the one, the one to say 
the things you say 
Never seem to wonder what you say 
You think you´ve got your life completely in control 
You´ve got a lot to learn, the bridge you burned 
It´s gonna take its toll!!! Pay the burnt bridge toll!!! 

So practice what you preach! 
Practice What You Preach! 
Practice What You Preach! 
Practice What You Preach! 

You think your life´s so grand 
You don´t believe a word you say 
Your feet aren´t on the ground 
You let your life just slip away 
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul 
The promises you make your mind goes blank 
and then you lose control 
Pay the burnt bridge toll, then you lose control 
Pay the burnt bridge toll, so practice what you preach! 

Practice What You Preach! 
Practice What You Preach! 
Practice What You Preach! 
 

Envy Life
Lyrics : Peterson Time : 4:16 
 

In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic 
spirits from the vastly deep 
Respond the calls from their broken silence 
Make sure your reach does not exced your grasp 
All that is to be done before you act 
In a pact of invoking spirits from the past 

Have you lost your mind 
The dark souls of time 
Ending Life! 
Ending Life! 

They see you calling out their names and getting ready 
Chant in darkness shrouding near 
Through your virtued youth they´ll strike a deal 
What´s to obtain if no pain no gain 
But to sell your soul you must be insane 
Wrote your name in blood and then they came 

You´re as good as dead 
The lost souls of time 
Envy Life! 
Envy Life! 

Come on down to the house of pain 
You hear them calling 
Shouting out their names in vain. Envy Life! 

In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic 
spirits from the vastly deep 
Respond the calls from their broken silence 
Make sure your reach does not exced your grasp 
All that is to be done before you act 
In a pact of invoking spirits from the past 

You´re as good as dead 
The lost souls of time, Envy Life, Envy Life! Envy Life, Envy Life! 
 

Blessed In Contempt
Lyrics : Billy, Skolnick,Peterson Time : 4:12 
 

All that can escape me, all I realize 
that it will come back to me the day my father dies 
His burning eyes would stare at you 
I was born a masochise 
I cried out in pain, as he clenches up his fist 

Slowly as the years go by, the darkness builds inside 
Trying to find a passage out, before I lose my mind 
Ingestuous temptation but what is wrong or right 
Why must I fall victim of hereditary spite 

Soon! We will arise, forming despise 
Conceptual intent 
Blessed in contempt! 

Thoughts have now come back to me 
It´s time to perpetrate 
take me to my sanity, before it gets too late 
Hear me as I call to you, right here down below 
Resurrect my will to live, come before I... go! 

Soon! We will arise, forming despise 
Conceptual intent 
Blessed in contempt! 
 

Sins Of Omission
Lyrics : Billy, Skolnick, Peterson Time : 5:00 
 
 

The day vanished in the night, soon the children pray 
Pray themselves alone, the hate built from their pride 
You can´t take away, can´t take what they own! 

The eyes watching from the sky, guides them through the haze 
Calling far away, the rain is black as black, black as night 
Oh let them pray! 

False sense of pride, satisfies 
There´s no reason for suicide 
Use your mind, and hope to find 
Find the meaning of existence... 

The crys answers wonder why, why its time to die 
Time to die alone, cause I´m wasting too much time 
Wandering down the live reasons why I go my own! 

False sense of pride, satisfies 
There´s no reason for suicide 
Use your mind, and hope to find 
Find the meaning of existence... 

The eyes watching from the sky, guides them through the haze 
Calling far away, the rain is black as black, black as night 
Oh let them pray! 

False sense of pride, satisfies 
There´s no reason for suicide 
Use your mind, and hope to find 
Find the meaning of existence... 

False sense of pride, satisfies 
There´s no reason for suicide 
Use your mind, and hope to find 
Find the meaning of existence... 
 
 

Nightmare (Coming Back To You)
Lyrics : Skolnick Time : 2:20 
 

You wanted money, you wanted fame 
You broke the rules before you knew the game 
Wounds tearing you up like a knife 
Wish it was the end of your life, it´s a nightmare 
Going down that road on account of you 
No escape from the things you put me through 
I don´t know, I don´t care, I cant go anywhere, 
it´s a nightmare coming back to you! 

Don´t wanna die, just wanna live! 
I´ve got stop taking wath they give 
So many roads moving all around 
I only see the one going down, it´s a nightmare 
Going down that road on account of you 
No escape from the things you put me through 
I don´t know, I don´t care, I cant go anywhere, 
it´s a nightmare coming back to you! 

We got to fight, we got to try 
When all is gone we´ll know the reason why 
To kill the enemy we will win the wars 
To find the place our life was before, it´s a nightmare 
Going down that road on account of you 
No escape from the things you put me through 
I don´t know, I don´t care, I cant go anywhere, 
it´s a nightmare coming back to you!... to you! to you!...

Perilious Nation
Lyrics : Skolnick Time : 5:50 
 

Bold is the one who dares to say what he feels 
Renegation man, to no one he yields 
The bleeding hearts and empty minds, hiding words they fear 
Blind is the one who censors what we see and hear 
Come into my world and take a journey with me 
Paint me a portrait now, of the things you see 

Men are poor and lost in war of ideology 
No solution will prevail unless we can be 
Free of anger, free of pain 
Free of hatred that we obtain 
Tell me what this place was meant to be 

Can you see? Can you see what it does to me 
Can you hear? Can you read? 
Can you see what it did to me! 

Totalitarians in a perilious nation 
Forcing thought control turns to desolation 
Listen to the leader speak he´s your only friend 
Take a stand in the motherland, take it to the end 

Say now what you will, before they make it illegal 
Time to draw the line, between the bad and the evil 
Distant times had friendly rules, became its deadliest foe 
We have heard it all before, the morals come and go 

Men are poor and lost in war of ideology 
No solution will prevail unless we can be 
Free of anger, free of pain 
Free of hatred that we obtain 
Tell me what this place was meant to be 

Men are poor and lost in war of ideology 
No solution will prevail unless we can be 
Free of anger, free of pain 
Free of hatred that we obtain 
Tell me what this place was meant to be 

Can you see? Can you see what it does to me 
Can you hear? Can you read? 
Can you see what it did to me, Can you hear? Can you read? 
Can you see what it did to me 
Can you hear? Can you read? 
Can you see what it did to me... 
 

Time Is Coming
Lyrics : Billy Time : 5:26 
 

Yeah! The way I feel, seems to me to be so real 
So sick and tired you know just how I feel 
Cops they dress in black, they bid their lives 
The bribes they stack, so sick and tired 
of the same old this and that 

The time is coming, it´s too son I can´t quite tell 
I don´t know, I think my world has gone to hell 
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel 
I don´t know, that´s the way that it makes me feel! 

The man I most resent 
You might know him through the government 
He´ll tax our lives the money spent 
He´s just the president!!! 
The land liberty for all mankind and all to see 
What´s the use, laws a conspiracy 

The time is coming, it´s too son I can´t quite tell 
I don´t know, I think my world has gone to hell 
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel 
I don´t know, that´s the way that it makes me feel! 

Searching for answers to make life complete 
No need to search for more question 
There for you to see! 

The wars that we must fight 
You dodge the draft before, you drive 
so sick and tired, why can´t, why can´t they realiza 
The rights they sympathize 
Life is just a big disguise 
So sick and tired, why can´t we live our lives 

The time is coming, it´s too son I can´t quite tell 
I don´t know, I think my world has gone to hell 
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel 
I don´t know, that´s the way that it makes me feel! 
 

Greenhouse Effect
Lyrics : Skolnick Time : 4:52 
 

Fools the ones who stray, the rain forest burns away 
Know what to believe, this is the air we breathe 
So the world we know is dying slow in south america 
Flames are burning down, all the trees to the ground 

Time is running low, we can´t stay no more 
Wealth these people see, fight for eternity 
Lies they televise paid by the government 
There on! It lingers on 
and they don´t even care if they... 

Seal the planet´s fate 
crimes they perpetrate 
wasting precious land 
it´s time to take a stand 

Our only hope to breathe again 
to stop the madness closing in 
what will we do when all is lost 
Environmental holocaust... 

Our only hope to breathe again 
to stop the madness closing in 
what will we do when all is lost 
Environmental holocaust... 

Foes these people go, someone destroyed their home 
Plagued with disease, left praying on their knees 
Laws protect the land, social justice in demand 
Smoke it fills the air into the atmosphere 
Now it´s time to see a cycle of a tragedy 
On! It lingers on, and they don´t even care if they... 

Seal the planet´s fate 
crimes they perpetrate 
wasting precious land 
it´s time to take a stand 

Our only hope to breathe again 
to stop the madness closing in 
what will we do when all is lost 
Environmental holocaust... 

Our only hope to breathe again 
to stop the madness closing in 
what will we do when all is lost 
Environmental holocaust... 
 
 

The Ballad
Lyrics : Skolnick, Peterson Time : 6:09 
 

I´m not one to say 
Where my feelings are going when they wither away 
I pray to see another day 
My heart´s feeling like a needle lost in the hay 
Restrained to meet again 
My friend do you think that we ever will 
I know we are free... 

The games are played with your life on the line 
Some lose, you win if you keep on trying 
I don´t mind doing time, I´m happier being alive 
Now I know the means to my opression were all lies 
The only truth is your own most sacred lesson I´ve ever learned 
I know we are free... 

I´ve been robbed, I´ve been fooled 
I intend now to make my own rules 
Dagger´s edge cut the line, I´ve been down that road 
too many times 

What´s to fear, fear no more 
Show my conscience what fears´s for 
Now I know this is so real 
What´s done is done so do as you will! 

I´m keeping alive! Go on, no don´t look back 
Just realize where you´ve gone 
Where are you going to, no lifes not done with you 
You´re only just begun, to live your life! 
for you... 
 

Confusion Fusion
Time : 3:06 
 

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