		"FIGHTING THE WORLD" 1987
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          FIGHTING THE WORLD (3:46)
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Fighting (3) fighting the world every day
Fighting the world for the right to play
HEavy metal in my brain I'm fightin' for metal
'cause it's here to stay
     Chorus:
     Fighting, fighting, fighting the world
     I been fighting the world (2)
     Fight for a living-fighting the world (3)
Now people keep asking if we're going to change
I'm looking 'em in the eye tell 'em no way
Strippers on a tiger don't wash away
Manowar's made of steel not clay
     Chorus:
See my brother standing by side
Only god one thing on our mind
Radio playing this nationwide
Turn it up louder 'til we all get fried
     Chorus:


            BLOW YOUR SPEAKERS (3:36)
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Wrote a letter to m.t.v.
What's going on now don't ya care about me
Sent the same to the radio, ha!
But my party went dead like a shot in the head
     We all like - rock and roll
     We all want it on your
     Play it loud, don't play it low
     Blow your speakers with rock and roll
  *We got lost of station around the nation
   And the stuff they're playning
   It just ain't worth sayin'
People want music to get 'em moving
We don't want labels
We don't music on the cable
     chorus (2); repeat *; chorus


            CARRY ON (4:08)
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The north start always guides me
When winter skies are gray
And I want for the sun when all are one
I shall not betray calling at me
I'm waiting when all are led astray
     Chorus:
     Carry on my sons forever
     Carry on when I'm gone
     Carry on for when the day is long
     For as long as we're together
     Then forever carry on
Darkness all around us we don't close our eyes
No one gonna ground us we were born to fly
Coming at us no stopping born to amplify
     Chorus
Yea, be my brother fight to stay alive
All the world can't change us
With all their borned out jive
Come get us now we're
Waiting we won't run and hide
     Chorus
Now we're all together let's sing a fighting song
One hundred thousand rides we can't all be wrong
Coming at us no stopping always carry on
     Chorus


        VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED (3:59)
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Civilization crumbling fast
End the world with a blast
People afraid walking the street
Scums have their day
'til they run into me
    Are you ready ?
Living in fear ain't living to me
I'm armed with a gun defending the free
The blew it in 'nam
Shot up my friends
I'm back in the street the fights never ends
I was born with a gun in my hand
I'll die for my country but I'll die like a man
     Violence and bloodshed (3)
Now that we're back to the animal law
The payback's a bitch I'm paying all
All my life I've been waitimg to see
Who's gonna win, crumbs or me
     Are you ready ?
My brother still in da-nang
Putting an ad in the back of kerrang
I'm looking for people who just wanna kill
We'll go back to 'nam':'cause no one else will
Land of the free home of the brave
Now that's how it is
And that's how it stays
     Violence and bloodshed ?


           DEFENDER (6:01)
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When you are old enough to read these words
Their meaning will unfold
These words are all that's left
And though we've never met, my only son
I hope you know
That I would have been there to watch you grow
But my call was heard and I go
Now your mission life ahead of you
As it did mine so long ago
To help the helpless ones who all look up to you
And to defend them to the end
     Chorus:
     Defender, ride like the wind
     Fight proud my son, you're the defender
     God has sent
Father (3) I look up to you and heed thy call
This letter ends my search
I'll live your dream now passed on to me
And I now wait to shake the hand of fate
Like the dusk awaiting dawn
So wizards cast your spell
With no heart to do me well
So it written, it shall be
     Chorus


            DRUMS OF DOOM (instrumental, 1:18)
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            HOLY WAR (4:40)
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Damnation, religion
Salvation, fire
Ans steel
I have seen the fire
Of a thousand suns pass by
While blasphemers spread their gospel
Bearing false witness
Now we rise
All ye children of the wild
Fists like hammers fill the air
Vast legions all immortal
Smash the stillness everywhere
     Chorus:
     Holy, holy war, holy
     We are fighting, fightinga holy war
     Holy war
     See us fly on winds of doom
     Holy war
     Baptized in fire and steel
     Holy war
     For the end we bring is soon
     Holy war
     Now face the storm
     A holy war
Brothers of metal know no master
Metal's our religion
Take it to the grave
Rules of the earth
Our down of glory
All reborn, me live again
Hold true, ye sacred army
Our last battle is at hand
Sweep these dogs from our kingdom
Bless this ground, our holy land
     Chorus


  MASTER OF REVENGE (1:31)
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Black dogs howl in the night
The lion is dead !
A solitary messenger
The master of revenge


     BLACK WIND FIRE AND STEEL (5:17)
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Fool moon's light is calling me
My kingdom lies within
The mystic soul and lion's heart
Brought by the talisman
The ecstasy of batlle takes me
Where the falcons fly
Immortal youth was granted me
I will never die
     Chorus:
     Born of black wind fire and steel (2)
     Born to teach them all to hell
     Born of black wind fire and steel
Pounded by the hammers
Of the giants of the world
I can see in darkness,
I'm overlord
Single combat I'm await
My shadow brings them fear
The spikes upon my chariot
Will grind them when they're near
     Chorus
**I am an outcast
On the path of no return
Punisher and swordsman
I was born to burn
Black wind always follow
Where my black horse rides
Fire's in my soul
Steel is on my side
     Chorus
     Repeat **
     Chorus

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