Intro
(Oi)
Sub-bass rumbling through the wet gravel (gravel)
Lock the steel door (door)
(Vai)
Verse
Two-inch gash on the left forearm
Cut from a fender, didn't sound no alarm (alarm)
Kerosene puddle on the warehouse tile
Step in the center with a crooked-tooth smile (smile)
Ten past three and the sub hits raw
Vibrate the copper in my lower left jaw (jaw)
Dirty white sneakers with the soles split through
Walking on glass like a sacrament due (due)
Got no license, got no badge, got no home
Just a ribcage vibrating down to the bone (bone)
Spit on the circuit, make the fuse spark out
This ain't a party, it's an ugly blackout (blackout)
Static on the collar where the sweat ring sits
Count five hundred in the mosh pit splits (splits)
Watch the grey cement take another red stain
Bow to the noise and we welcome the pain (pain)
Chorus
Black tape, cold sweat, iron in the teeth (teeth)
Ritual frenzy in the gut underneath (underneath)
Step in the circle when the speaker cone tears (tears)
Nobody clean when the red strobe flares (flares)
Black tape, cold sweat, iron in the teeth (teeth)
Ritual frenzy in the gut underneath (underneath)
Verse
Engine oil baptism, wipe it on the brow
Never learned later, only know right now (now)
Tear off the rearview, look me in the eye
Ain't a single pretty angel underneath this sky (sky)
Chokehold rhythm when the kick drum drops
Shake down the alley where the siren never stops (stops)
Rust on the knuckles and the chainlink fence
Everything cheap makes a whole lot of sense (sense)
Keep your velvet, keep your soft white bed
I want the thunder knocking holes in my head (head)
Pavement priest in a torn windbreaker
Crush every rule from the law to the maker (maker)
Spit full of gravel and the tongue stays sharp
Ripping through the wire in the midnight park (park)
Yellow street fixture blinking out of time
Holy is the fever and the filth and the grime (grime)
Chorus
Black tape, cold sweat, iron in the teeth (teeth)
Ritual frenzy in the gut underneath (underneath)
Step in the circle when the speaker cone tears (tears)
Nobody clean when the red strobe flares (flares)
Black tape, cold sweat, iron in the teeth (teeth)
Ritual frenzy in the gut underneath (underneath)
Bridge
No morning coming that can scrub me clear
I feed on the friction and the panic and the gear (gear)
Tear the clean skin, let the shadow show wide
Every broken creature running wild on my side (side)
Floorboards rattle, generator burns red
Living in the wreckage like the living ain't dead (dead)
Outro
(Oi)
Ritual frenzy (frenzy)
Circle don't close (close)
Iron in the teeth (teeth)
(Vai)
Iron in the teeth (teeth)
Shut the grid down.
