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JUDAS PRIEST LYRICS
"The Best Of Judas Priest" (1978 Best of/Compilation)
1. Dying to Meet You
2. Never Satisfied
3. Rocka Rolla
4. Diamonds and Rust
5. Victim of Changes
6. Island of Domination
7. The Ripper
8. Deceiver
1. Dying to Meet You
Came in this morning
High on a birds wing
Quite open-minded
But still quite aware
Followed the sunrise
Right through from dawning
Picking out landmarks
That said I was there
Led to positions
By stern faced leaders
Who never let one smile
Depart from their face
Then with an armraise
The slaughter is started
One or two crack up
And start to cry
Selfishness breeds in
This cesspool of sorrow
Every few moments
I see a friend die
Synchronized watches
Flash in the sunlight
As into the battle
We all are led
Killer, killer
Keep your thoughts at bay
Maiming, destroying
Every single day
Is this the way
That you get your fun
Slaying, waylaying
In the heat of the midday sun
Get out, get out
Go and do your job
Rape and pillage
Squander all and rob
You make me sick
Getting paid for murder
You wouldn't lay a finger on your mother, oh no
You never ever dream to hurt her
Hero, hero
You have done so well
So sit back and lick your wounds
Cause you won't go to hell
Take your medal
Wear it now with pride
Consolation for the pain
And sin you feel inside
2. Never Satisfied
Where do we go from here
There must be something near
Changing you, changing me
Forever
Places change, faces change
Life is so very strange
Changing time, changing rhyme
Together
There's nowhere else to go
This could be our last show
Changing dreams, changing schemes
Never
We are never satisfied
Love is gone, along with fun
Now we're reaching for the gun
Changing cast, changing fast
No more tether
We are never satisfied
3. Rocka Rolla
Man eatin' momma
Steam driven hammer
Sorts the men out from the boys
Takes no messin'
All in wrestlin'
Is one of her pride and joys
She's a classy
Flashy lassy
Imitation sapphire shrine
Two-faced liar
Full of fire
But I know the flame is mine
Rocka rolla woman for a rocka rolla man
You can take her if you want her
If you think you can
Rocka rolla woman for a rocka rolla man
You can take her if you want her you can
She's a grip and choke ya
Heavy smoker
Wrong side of the law
Midnight Shady
Good time lady
Heavy, ready show you what for
Barroom fighter
Ten pint a nighter
Definite ninety-nine
Diamond cluster
Knuckle duster
Feline on the borderline
Rocka rolla woman for a rocka rolla man
You can take her if you want her
If you think you can
Rocka rolla woman for a rocka rolla man
You can take her if you want her you can
4. Diamonds and Rust
I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again
but that's not unusual
it's just that the moon is full
and you decided to call
And here I sit, hand on the telephone
hearing the voice I'd known
a couple of light years ago
headed straight for a fall
Well we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
Yes we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
Now I see you standing with brown leaves all around and snow in
your hair
Now we're smiling out the window of the crummy hotel over
Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
we both could've died then and there
Now you're telling me you're not nostalgic
then give me another word for it
you were so good with words
and at keeping things vague
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now, it's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
and if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
But we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
yes we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
5. Victim of Changes
Whiskey woman don't you know that you are drivin' me insane
The liquor you give stems your will to live and gets right to my brain
Don't you know you're driving me insane
You're tryin' to find your way through life
You're tryin' to get some new direction
Another woman got her man
She won't find no new connection
Takes another drink or two, things look better when she's through
Takes another look around, you're not goin' anywhere
You've realized you're gettin' old and no one seems to care
You're tryin' to find your way again
You're tryin' to find some new...
Another woman's got her man
But she won't find a new...
Takes another drink or two, things look better when she's through
You 'bin foolin' with some hot guy
I want to know why is it why
Get up get out you know you really blew it
I've had enough, I've had enough, good God pluck me
Once she was wonderful
Once she was fine
Once she was beautiful
Once she was mine...she was mine
Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore
Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore
Changes, changes, changes, changes
Victim of changes
6. Island of Domination
Beware of their coming
Take heed our time is near
Fatality relinguish not
Brutality in arms doth seek to destroy.
They smashed through the clouds into the light of the moon
Their steeds were full charging, called destruction and doom
'Twas as if all hell had broke loose on this night
And all in all it was a terrible sight
Now we are taken unto the island of domination
We gotta get, we gotta get, we gotta get out of this place
There's a man with a needle who's pleading to get at my face
Hide me and hold me control free as best as you can
It's all becoming too much, I can't cope, for one man
Now we are taken unto the island of domination
Skyrider, you supersonic flyer
Nightdriver, you demon of desire
Spinesnapper, you tried your best to break us
Throatchoker, you thought that you could take us
The fright of your life, the fright of your life
The fright of your life is here guaranteed
This is no illusion confessing confusion you're freed
Lashings of strappings with beatings competing to win
Oh what a mess I am blessed, dominations set in
Now we are taken unto the island of domination...
7. The Ripper
You're in for surprise
You're in for a shock
In London town streets
When there's darkness and fog
When you least expect me
And you turn your back
I'll attack
I smile when I'm sneaking
Through shadows by the wall
I laugh when I'm creeping
But you won't hear me at all
All hear my warning
Never turn your back
On the ripper
You'll soon shake with fear
Never knowing if I'm near
I'm sly and I'm shameless
Nocturnal and nameless
Except for "The Ripper"
Or if you like "Jack The Knife"
Any back alley street
Is where we'll probably meet
Underneath a gas lamp
Where the air's cold and damp
I'm a nasty surprise
I'm a devil in disguise
I'm a footstep at night
I'm a scream of the fright
All hear my warning
Never turn your back
On the ripper...the ripper....the ripper
8. Deceiver
Solar winds are blowing
Neutron star controlling
All is lost, doomed and tossed, at what cost forever
Meteors fly around me
Comets die, and then they
And then they, you wanna see how they try to surround me
I can say, here today, we shall stay forever
If you want to find us in a hurry
Oh let me tell you don't you worry
I can't say, here today, we shall stay forever
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