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                                    TESTAMENT



                                  The New Order



                            Compliments of  Swamp Rat



                      >>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<<

                        -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-

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TESTAMENT is:    Louie Clemente: Drums               Info: send SASE to

                 Eric Peterson: Rhythm guitar              Pat McKillop

                 Greg Christian: Bass                      2837 Delmore Rd.

                 Alex Skolnick: Lead Guitar                San Pablo, CA 94806

                 Chuck Billy: Vocals

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--Eerie Inhabitants

  Music (Peterson,Skolnick)

  Lyrics (Skolnick,Billy,Peterson)



A world of chaos

A world of fear

A world of anger and corruption

When all is lost

And millions starve

Is this humanity's destruction?



Life!  A game that people play

Cryout!  Will they see another day?



No one to help us,

The children pray

Nobody listens to their crying

This great depression

When will it end?

To live like this is worse than dying



Life!  A game that people play

Cryout!  Will they see another day?



Your destiny is over

Your fate has declined

Refuse to discover

What so many could find

Death's endless toil

As I long for rest

Life's now forsaken

Condemned to repress!



No sign of Heaven

No sign of Hell

Just the sign of pain and sorrow

This generation inhabits all

To form an order for tomorrow



Life!  A game that people play

Cryout!  Will we see another day?





--The New Order

  music(Skolnick,Peterson

  lyrics(Skolnick,Peterson)



Takers of humanity, elders paranoid

The time is now

Give up this world you once destroyed

Society versus the underground

Their battles fought and lost

The time has come

To rule the world at any cost



For the past it's too late

Cause the world can't control fate

Shadows cast loud and clear

Tell the world the new order's here



Cities turn to battlefields

A deadly spell is cast

Corpses falling one by one

Until the last

The preacher speaks of prophecy

So many years before

No one escapes their punishment

The gods of war



For the past it's too late

Cause the world can't control fate

Shadows cast loud and clear

Tell the world the new order's here



Death like an empty space

Feel no thoughts of fear

The future cries

As mother nature sheds a tear

The world becomes a prisoner

A victim of its crime

The human race is now a race

Against time



For the past it's too late

Cause the world can't control fate

Shadows cast loud and clear

Tell the world the new order's here





--Trial By Fire

  Music(Peterson,Skolnick)

  Lyrics(Billy,Skolnick,Peterson)



Accuse you of a crime

Sentenced to endless time

The price you have to pay

Won't get away!

Sworn in by the stand

Your rights are gone

The system's banned

They think you are a liar

A trial by fire



Hey!

This is what the people say,

A new way

A trial by fire



Locked in an empty cell

Your life becomes a living hell

The river of fire flows

Time only knows!

Trapped by flames of fury

Ordered unto by the jury

Death is their desire

Thrown in the fire!



Hey!

This is what the people say,

A new way

A trial by fire!



Quiver by the fiery light

Cringing as your soul ignites

The book of law's been thrown away

Starting today!



The system before the war

Is gone for now and evermore

There is no sentence higher

A trial by fire!



Hey!

This is what the people say,

A new way

A trial by fire!



--Into The Pit

  Music(Skolnick,Peterson)

  Lyrics(Billy,Skolnick,Peterson)



Deep in the pit and lying alone

Where death has reared itself a throne

We're all the good, the bad

The worst and the best

And where they land is their eternal rest



Foul plays of passion

At twilight's dim

In joy of woe, of good and sin

Winds of storm and fates overcast

Darkly my presence

Is now your past



Join the insanity

Or die as you fall

Into the pit!

The mass production

And the killing of all

Into the pit!

The future screams for help

Are fading away

Into the pit!

The world tomorrow

Will it die for today?

Into the pit!



So in the sad, silent watches of night

The lonely pathway envisions my sight

Echoes of laughter

And boundless cries

So here I wander under infinite skies



Join the insanity

Or die as you fall

Into the pit!

The mass production

And the killing of all

Into the pit!

The future screams for help

Are fading away

Into the Pit!

The world tomorrow

Will it die for today?

Into the pit!





--Disciples Of The Watch

  Music(Skolnick,Peterson)

  Lyrics(Billy)



Cast to the fire

Banned by the light

Worship and listen to me

Condemned in his mind

In his evil place

Your fate is all that you'll see

I am the one

To show you the path

Salvation is in the fields

Listen up children and follow me

Or I'll let you pay the price

Of Malachi!



Disciples of the watch

OBEY!

Or I'll burn you to that cross!



Holding the mass

The demon is cast

To resurrect your soul

Calling to him

Is like an evil sin

A prophet is what they're told

Taking the land under command

Killing friend or fore

Feel the might of his evil wrath

Desecrate your soul!



Disciples of the watch

OBEY!

Or I'll burn you to that cross!



Cast to the fire

Banned by the light

Worship and listen to me

Condemned in his mind

In his evil place

Your fate is all that you'll see

For I am the one

To show you the path

Salvation is in the fields

Listen up children and follow me

Or I'll let you pay the price

Of Malachi!



Disciples of the watch

OBEY!

Or I'll burn you to that cross!





--The Preacher

  Music(Skolnick,Peterson)

  Lyrics(Billy,Skolnick)



In days of old

When the books were untold

Speak of a world crushed by sin.

"The people will mourn

Of a war to be born"

Nobody would listen to him.

Think back in time

When the future you find

Is so faint that it's too hard to see.

Don't disavow his word

For the truth must be heard

Cause the preacher tells visions he sees



In 1906

Like the future predicts

The city will crumble to the bay

Then what's in store

When the worlds go to war?

Peace will have come another day

Then came the one

In the year of '41

Warfare would light up the sky

He beckoned the call

Of the future for all

Blinded by what's in his eyes



In days of old

When the books were untold

Speak of a world crushed by sin.

"The people will mourn

Of a war to be born"

Nobody would listen to him.

Think back in time

When you future you find

Is so faint that it's too hard to see.

Don't disavow his word

For the truth must be heard

Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.



Listen to these words I preach

Catastrophic lessons they shall teach (x2)





--A Day Of Reckoning

  Music(Peterson,Skolnick)

  Lyrics(Billy)



First there came a mass

Brilliant lights of flash

All across the President's skies

As he sits and laughs

He preaches non-conformity

I don't think they see

They live for him and what he believes

A wrath of misery



Left to die alone

In their living past

As he takes their lives away

To never get it back

No more need for society

All the lives he took

The fault of law and majority

Rules in an open book



Leave me alone

Don't take it away

A place where I know

They're destined to take away



Now they lives they lead

Are left to broken dreams

Just when they thought

 They had it all

Life's not what it seems

He preaches non-conformity

I don't think they see

They live for him and what he believes

A life of misery



Leave me alone

Don't take it away

A place where I know

They're destined to take away



Don't take away

Society

There'll come a day

You're gonna pay



Day by day a day of reckoning



You're all gonna pay



You can't get away





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 (c)1988  cDc communications  by Swamp Rat                           8/15/88-69

 All Rights Worth Not Very Much At All, And Regrettably So

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