Waking the Dead - No Mercy

Kept in the guard of Mother Nature’s womb

Rest in the safety of their tomb

Sheltered by six feet of soil and rock

The spade is the key which their gate we’ll unlock

Why should they rest so peacefully

When we’re up above in pure misery

I don’t care that they already died

Well that’s not enough to make me satisfied

Waking the dead, waking the dead

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

Wait 'til the stroke of the midnight hour

Then we’ll set loose the darkest of power

Hell’s gates will open a new Judgement Day

Now is the time the dead will pay

Why should they rest so peacefully

When we’re up above in pure misery

I don’t care that they already died

Well that’s not enough to make me satisfied

Waking the dead, waking the dead

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

Tearing over tombstones, thunder blasts from the sky

Now we feel the tears that they cry

Mausoleums firebombed now rage in flame

When the dead come out, they’re bodies we’ll maim

(Rob) robbing their graves, stealing their bones

(Bang) banging our heads to their screams and their moans

(Fix) fixing the wounds even time cannot heal

(Soon) soon we will know how good it feels

Waking the dead, waking the dead

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

Hell’s gates open, earth trembles and shakes

Now their pardons are over, they pay for their mistakes

Purgatory hammers, they can do them no good

But did they really think that they would

(Rob) robbing their graves, stealing their bones

(Bang) banging our heads to their screams and their moans

(Fix) fixing the wounds even time cannot heal

(Soon) soon we will know how good it feels

(Waking the dead), you said that it couldn’t be

(Waking the dead), you said that we wouldn’t see

(Waking the dead), you said that it was all lies

(Waking the dead), now the dead stand before your own eyes

(Rob) robbing their graves, stealing their bones

(Bang) banging our heads to their screams and their moans

(Fix) fixing the wounds even time cannot heal

(Soon) soon we will know how good it feels

Waking the dead, waking the dead

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

This is not damnation or an act of God

Now the dead they rise, ripping through the sod

Purgatory has to wait, but how can this be

The dead are free, the dead are free

(Rob) robbing their graves, stealing their bones

(Bang) banging our heads to their screams and their moans

(Fix) fixing the wounds even time cannot heal

(Soon) soon we will know how good it feels

Silence is blaring, the earth opens wide

History repeats, reburied they die

Darkness descends through nature’s pores

Now returned to their sleep under earth basement floors

Now they rest, not so peacefully

As they’ve had a taste of our misery

I didn’t care that they’d already died

That wasn’t enough to make me satisfied

Waking the dead, waking the dead

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

Return back to their tombs, now they lay

This is no game for the novice to play

Repeat not the word lest ye be forewarned

The punishment of hell’s darkness and scorn

Repeat not a word of the sermon said

A prayer for the dead, don’t play with the dead

Don’t try to comprehend what’s going on

You can’t understand, please don’t understand

Waking The Dead, and we’ll be

Waking The Dead, alright now

Wake the dead, wake the dead

Waking the dead

Waking the dead, and we’ll be

Waking the dead, alright now, listen, hear

I said the words, what have I done

I thought it was cool, I thought it was fun

The words I say, they start to change

The syllables now rearranged

A language I can’t comprehend

I shut my mouth, it doesn’t end

The bowels of nature open wide

I cannot move, I cannot hide

I can’t believe the things I see

The dead are free, the dead are free

I close my eyes, pray it’s not real

The presence close, coldness I feel

What have I done, Lord please forgive

Once they died, but now they love

I wake the dead, I wake the dead

I wake the dead, I wake the dead