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Souls of Black
[1989] 

Beginning of the End 
Face in the Sky 
Falling Fast 
Souls of Black 
Abscence of Light 
Love to Hate 
Malpractice 
One Man's Fate 
Legacy 
Seven Days of May 
 

Beginning Of The End
Music : Peterson Time : 0:36 
 

[Instrumental] 
 
 
 
 
 

Falling Fast

Lyrics : Billy Music : Peterson, Clemente Time : 4:05 
 

Locked in a darkened world 
Made to never last 
That´s where the dreams you seek 
are like stories from the past 
Sweet infant child´s born 
Sweet mother of the womb 
Hope it is over soon 
Not to much more can I take 

Help me lord 
I´m falling fast 
Bring me back 

Nerves slip away from 
within your conscious mind 
Translucent hopes are now 
nothing but dismal lies 
You lived your life so down 
to the bitter end 
Better think it over now 
Your life has just begun 

Help me lord 
I´m falling fast 
Bring me back 
from suicide 

Just show me life is how 
and not a bitter war 
The odds in favor now 
It´s hard to live and learn 
Silence the sorrow 
and don´t let it slip away 
Think of tomorrow 
as the future of today 

Help me lord 
I´m falling fast 
Bring me back 
from suicide 
I´m falling fast 
Locked in a darkened world 
Made to never last 
That´s where the dreams you seek 
are like stories from the past 
Sweet infant child´s born 
to the mother of the womb 
Hope it is over soon 
Not to much more can I take 

Help me lord 
I´m falling fast 
Bring me back 
from suicide 
I´m falling fast 
 
 
 

Absence Of Light

Lyrics : Billy, Skolnick Music : Peterson, Billy Time : 3:55 
 

Life, as we know 
Is full of gloom 
Oppress the masses 
We´ll lead to our doom 
We want the right 
to live or die 
Can´t take away 
what we feel inside 

Like empty shadows 
afflict our brains 
Envision dreams 
just to ease the pain 
There´s more to life 
than to satisfy 
I ask myself 
for the reason why 

If it were my way 
I´d deliver us from this hell 
If it were my way 

If ever there comes a day 
Renovations blown away 
Is there no end 
to this endless war 
The fear of man 
is now what´s in store 
We look at life as a memory 
Long live the dreams 
that they took from me 

If it were my way 
I´d deliver us from this hell 
If it were my way 
 
 
 

Malpractice
Lyrics : Skolnick, Billy Music : Skolnick, Peterson Time : 4:43 
 

We all will go and stay sometime 
Soon to be a victim of a crime 
Loss of blood and death is near 
Take a number, can you you wait right here 

Check in-to the place 
Reduce your life into disgrace 
Isn´t there some kind 
of better way 

When it´s time to operate 
fatalistic figures hold on to your fate 
just relax you´ll feel no pain 
Hope they put you in the right domain 

Patients helpless to defy 
Negligence is why 

Check in-to the place 
Reduce your life into disgrace 
Isn´t there some kind 
of better way 

Within the laws 
they´ll rip you off 
then write you off 
Malpractice! 
And in the end 
they´ll let you in 
Please come again 
Malpractice! 

Suffer until you get well 
Bleak existence like a prision cell 
If you find your life is lost 
Dedicate the world to pay the cost 

Patients helpless defy 
Negligence is why 

Check in-to the place 
Reduce your life into disgrace 
Isn´t there some kind 
of better way 

Within the laws 
they´ll rip you off 
then write you off 
Malpractice! 
And in the end 
they´ll let you in 
Please come again 
Malpractice! 
 
 
 

The Legacy
Lyrics : Skolnick, Billy, Peterson Music : Peterson, Clemente, Skolnick Time : 5:30 
 

We`re gonna take you back 
through the pages of the past 
Just another lonely boy 

I could laugh and play 
and live in any other way 
Then the devil took my soul 

The fortune and the fame 
I knew I was not the same 
and I know I´d never return 

Looking at the sky 
I know I would never die 
And forever shining through 

Wish the sky would say 
that blue would turn to grey 
and I know that I´d be there 

Life was like a fantasy 
taken by reality 
Does anyone remember me 
You once knew me 

Flashes of the day 
I knew I was here to stay 
But no one stays the same 

Turn the pages back in time 
through the chapters in my mind 
Life´s too short to leave behind 
It´s too late know 

Life was like a fantasy 
taken by reality 
Does anyone remember me 
You once knew me 

Flashes of the day 
I knew I was here to stay 
But no one knows my name... 
 
 

 

Face In The Sky
Lyrics : Billy Music : Peterson, Skolnick Time : 3:53 
 

Shadows glow from the full moonlight 
Hear clouds cry, it´s so insane 
Souls hold on to the key of life 
See how it´s bleeding from the pain 

When will they open their eyes 
Stop to face our demise 
It´s live or die 
Who am I? 
Face In The Sky 

Walk with me, my friend 
to a darkened place 
Welcome down to the abyss 
Caught between two worlds 
with no advocate 
The legions´ army 
Holds on to your fate 

When will they open their eyes 
Stop to face our demise 
It´s live or die 
Who am I? 
Face In The Sky 

Screams from the night 
seems to intensify 
as the air shifts silent through 
ghouls crowded in the clouds 
on a misty night 
guarding secrets 
man has brought to you 

When will they open their eyes 
Stop to face our demise 
It´s live or die 
Who am I? 
Face In The Sky 
 
 

Souls Of Black
Lyrics : Billy Music : Peterson, Skolnick, Clemente Time : 3:22 
 

Can´t you see 
that in the world we live in 
political lies 
are just corporate decisions 
They`ll take away 
all the hopes, not their promises 
They´ll put an end to this 
land of the living 

Look at the lost souls 
They seem so black 
Look at the lost souls 
Souls of black 

They got control 
of the heart of a nation 
Their social bribes 
seem so graciously 
as time goes by 
´Cause time as you can see 
will slowly die for you and me 

Look at the lost souls 
They seem so black 
Look at the lost souls 
Souls of black 

So put an end 
to this idolization 
Antagonizing so commonly 
Open your eyes 
´Cause the lie´s there so plain to see 
Life goes on 
There´s no guarentees 

Look at the lost souls 
They seem so black 
Look at the lost souls 
Souls of black 

They´re bleeding so black 
 

Love To Hate
Lyrics : Peterson,Clemente, Billy Music : Peterson, Skolnick Time : 3:40 
 

Hail to the new leader now 
Ruler of this land 
with plans that follow 
to demonstrate 
Fear the blackened band 
So horrid 
and deathly true 
Dishonest and powermad 
Unspoken, sealed fate 
Bursting to desolate 

His love to hate 
He´ll murder souls like me and you 
But a long the way 
He´ll have to dwell 
in his own hell 

Clear the streets 
See them marching 
while columns take a stand 
Time provoked, their mirror of hatred 
with dark uncanny plans 
to take out 
and follow through 
Just following their orders 
with death rates 
and death´s toll 
Those unfortunate souls 

His love to hate 
He´ll murder souls like me and you 
But a long the way 
He´ll have to dwell 
in his own hell 

Twisting and turning 
through the mazes in your head 
But in a time like this 
you´re better off dead 
The time has come now 
Put up or shut down 
The feeling that you have 
were lost and never found 

His love to hate 
He´ll murder souls like me and you 
But a long the way 
He´ll have to dwell 
in his own hell 
 
 

One Man´s Fate
Lyrics : Billy Music : Peterson, Clemente Time : 4:49 
 

Time is nothing but life´s decay 
Pitch your reverend path 
This is the path you paved 
What you will find 
is life´s only way 
There´s no looking back 
There must be a better way 

Lightning skies 
Prayers from an open grave 
A dead man´s eyes 
Must be a dead man´s day 

Black skies fade to a shadow grey 
The darkness is so deep 
Prayers for the light of the day 
What you will find 
is life´s only way 
There´s no looking back 
back to a better way 

Lightning skies 
Prayers from an open grave 
A dead man´s eyes 
Must be a dead man´s day 
that leads to one man´s fate 
There ain´t no better way to die 

Fate, there´s no compromise 
Hate leads to suicide 
Trapped in a crystal haze 
Hail to a dead man´s day 

Time is but a passage way 
trying to believe 
your life was sanity 
A matter of time 
is all that you need 
Life´s not coming back 
back to those better days 

Lightning skies 
Prayers from an open grave 
A dead man´s eyes 
Must be a dead man´s day 
that leads to one man´s fate 
There aint a better way... 

...To die.



Seven Days Of May
Lyrics : Skolnick, Billy Music : Peterson, Skolnick Time : 4:41 
 

Put your life on the line 
To hesitate is a waste of time 
No giving in to repent 
unto the system of the government 

It´s called the People´s Republic here 
The propaganda is so sincere 
Oh, what a joke and a blatant lie 
from criminals ranking high 

Born a political prisoner 
Raised outside of the law 
I´m gonna keep on fighting 
until I die for the cause 

Put an end to hypocrisy 
Lead the way to Democracy 
No longer will we play the fool 
to brutalized military rule 

They started fourty years ago 
We never could say yes or no 
Millions souls make your voice 
We want the right to make a choice 

Born a political prisoner 
Raised outside of the law 
I´m gonna keep on fighting 
until I die for the cause 

Freedom, freedom calling 
out from the pain 
Freedom, freedom calling 
seven days of May 

They tried to show a peaceful path 
then it turned into a blood bath 
In the Square they plan the game 
That´s when the tanks of the army came 

They called the murders minimal 
Described their victims as criminals 
Dead souls like you and me 
who only wanted free society 

Born a political prisoner 
Raised outside of the law 
I´m gonna keep on fighting 
until I die for the cause 

Freedom, freedom calling 
out from the pain 
Freedom, freedom calling 
seven days of May