DOWN
NOLA
(Lyrics sheet c/o Todd Follett [DownCFH@aol.com])
DOWN IS:
Philip Anselmo - Vocals, occasional guitar
Pepper Keenan - Guitar
Kirk Windstein - Guitar
Todd Strange - Bass
Jim Bower - Drums
Note: {Items in these brackets are in the lyrics in the coverslip but not
in the song}
It should be noted that these lyrics are only my best possible
transcription and are completely UNOFFICIAL. May not be reprinted except
with written consent from me.
Track 1: TEMPTATION'S WINGS
that's right!
I feel the pressure, it lightens
to judge this spirit of mine
to be like the judgement
to be the king that is left behind
to hell with "I miss you"
I said I 'd do it alone
ripping apart from you
a broken vision to call my own
I gave my life to reason,
so now I'm watching my life go-
my wit is falling apart-
I can't shake temptations wings (x2)
I bury my head with frustration,
and I look at others and wonder why
I'm feeding my cancer,
a broken vision that stole my sight
I gave my life to reason,
so now I'm watching my life go-
my wit is falling apart-
I can't shake temptations wings (x4)
that's right!
temptations wings...
temptations wings got me pale
why?
Track 2: LIFER
free at last, I'm the past,
undone in unknown prison,
I'm holding on. Peace and need?
A mouth to feed?
I'm standing way on
the other side. I'm staring
right back at myself,
and through it's frozen image,
I'm laughing right back
at my health - Lifelong
Arms in knots, never spot,
My blood is fading
on the world. Stealing keys?
Soul to me?
and to the BrotheRhood with what
writes the pain.
I'm staring
right back at myself,
and through it's frozen image,
I'm laughing right back
at my health - Lifelong
I'm a lifer.
I'm staring
right back at myself,
and through it's frozen image,
I'm laughing right back
at my health
I'm a lifer.
Track 3: PILLARS OF ETERNITY
crumbling world falls
through my hands.
in my mouth
taste bitter sands.
grass is burning,
pulse is slow.
drip by drip my back-
wards growth ....crawl
fade to hate.
and I'll die within my fade-
wine, song, women, birth -
this deflowered mother earth
planting, plowing, how she grieves.
the seeds that grow these dying trees.
Crawl...
fade to hate.
and I'll die within my fade
fade to hate.
and I'll die within your fade
Track 4: REHAB
long day lay me low.
lay me low.
head burning drunk.
I don't need none
that's right man I'm fine
but what I've got to know,
is have I wasted time?
My eyes are blind
to almost everything you see.
and I'm drowning through sorrow
- you recognize me -
be me {for a change (fucked)}
under the silk,
in a box of pine,
and that's dying -
not a single other life
ever will have felt my price
is it worth the risk to be revived?
and I'm dying, I'm hollow
- It won't deny me -
be me {for a change (fucked)}
on the last day
they'll take it all away
on and outta my mind
gimme some medicine...
and I'm drowning through sorrow
- it won't deny me -
be me {for a change (fucked)}
yeah, one more time...
long day kill me long
Track 5: HAIL THE LEAF
that brave river, I can't sail.
because of that lone feeling,
that I might fail.
So {fuck it.}
I just smoke-
let me feel stoned
6th hour.
I still fail to rise,
and I cower in
reality's eyes, so I
just smoke-
let me feel stoned
{let that paranoia cut
my head off.
I'm low down
crying shame today}
smoke-
stoned
I have fallen
scattered the wave
alone I'm crying
broken shade
So I just smoke-
let me feel stoned
I can't feel you
you can't brave(the river?)
no more sadness no more pain
not what feeds you but what raves
no more sadness no more....
Track 6: UNDERNEATH EVERYTHING
Woe to me, battered man
raise the monolith
deitize my spirit rise
like days the world forgets - down the
drain - laid to lame
a fool-ass hearty bliss
borderline suicide,
celebrate before my death
your promised land divide,
that's why the world lies.
I give up.
That's enough. I give up.
I'm underneath my life.
dog in heat, beware the street
its there you'll meet your end
poverty is not for me,
but I'll take her back again
to prove a point,
to laugh it off, to cross you off my path,
grip the night, pull the cord,
a much inspired wrath.
your promised land divide,
that's where the world lies.
I give up.
That's enough. I give up.
I'm underneath my life.
carry me back from the war
and from the lord.
Track 7: EYES OF THE SOUTH
goddamn!
this time it's real,
it's a love that I feel.
I may be tainted but god knows
it's good to me, 'cause you see -
I leave my woes at
stranger's road dispose,
and let the sun back on my face.
It's a soul sense of pride,
good lord the south is blind,
but she gives me
so much sufferage with my pain,
I feel the strain
when I get behind a big slow day
I've fucked it all
was that down? was that family?
I leave my woes at
stranger's road dispose.
and let the sun back in my face.
It's a soul sense of pride,
good lord the south is blind,
but she will never
let me go back to being sane
but please let me die there...
cold war leaves me there...
let me die there...
Track 8: JAIL
one day, the strain,
I've never felt like this before.
our lives capsized.
one man will give back,
be calm my love,
why don't you kneel for me?
I write for sight,
one day you'll find me in the corner,
more sublime,
but I still never died before.
Track 9: LOSING ALL
this is one called losing all...
oh yeah...
my brain distorts the pleasure,
no facts behind my eyes.
this pain I've come to treasure,
being down has become my life...
don't know which one is real,
been kicked in the groin
I drown the way I feel,
thoughI will to go
Losing all
I'm lord of misery
I'm king of the hill
I'm a broken man of the world
in a state of-
my wrists are slit,
I'm losing all.
gun at my head,
I'm losing all.
my bones are broken,
I'm losing all
last time I had,
I'm losing all
Losing all
Losing all(x4)
Track 10: STONE THE CROW
a bout of deep depression,
can't seem to move it forward.
my lying eyes lie awake,
I'm not sure what I am after.
I've never died before.
can't live what happened yesterday.
I've never stoned the crow.
flip through, end the stories
alive through a harried past
don't wanna share this earth
that's mine, mine, mine
I've never died before.
can't pick what happened yesterday.
I should've stoned the crow.
same old say,
same old day,
no matter how I try,
no matter what I say,
I'm blamed, I'm shamed,
I'm judged unfairly.
so now I've died before.
It feels as bad as yesterday.
I never stoned the crow.
you, too, have died before.
I thought it sown as yesterday.
I never stoned the crow.
Track 11: PRAY FOR THE LOCUST
(INSTRUMENTAL)
Track 12: SWAN SONG
My time, all my life
some way, I saved
the memory, the pending,
the family, surround me
a god given time,
a god given gift of life.
a time to take away,
to kill the pain,
to give me to the ground.
the pills, the windowsill
razorblade, great escape
so lonely, the feeling,
the slipping, the bleeding
good lord where are you found?
carry judgement way underground
did you laugh at me, now alone?
shoulda changed my way by now...
hero... (x4)
a god given time,
a god given gift of life.
a time to take away,
to kill the pain,
to give me to the ground.
Track 13: BURY ME IN SMOKE
windows a-closing, killing lights away
your chance was given to find myself today
my time of aging, wonder when I've died
but when my time will come, I know the reason why...
I haven't escaped a low that keeps me safe from in my home
I have a reason to keep me satisfied until I croak
don't regret the rules I broke,
when I die bury me in smoke
Under the world, a leap of my faith
my soul is resting beneath my blissful hate,
my time of aging, wonder when I've died,
but when my time will come, I know the reason why...
I haven't escaped a low that keeps me safe from in my home
I have a reason to keep me satisfied until I croak
don't regret the rules I broke,
when I die bury me in smoke
Questions, comments, opinions: DownCFH@aol.com
Live high. Stay hostile. Smoke weed.
Todd
CFHSTA
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"Don't regret the rules I broke,
when I die bury me in smoke."
- Phil Anselmo, Down
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