Those Once Loyal Those Once Loyal
Bolt Thrower
LYRICS
In Battle There Is No Law
In Battle there is no Law

Countless numbers die in war's path
Armies falling to our wrath
Warriors of power marching to fight
Destruction, killing, is all that's in sight

Raise the shield or be cast into death
Take a final look, your final breath
Innocent victims of war
No turning back, in battle there is no law

Awaiting the slaughter, time stands still
Thoughts fade away, so does your will
Enemy close in, blood on their minds
You won't die once, die a thousand times

Soldiers of hatred, killing corps of war
Bodies litter the field, what was it for?
Stench of death, no victory for this night
Plead for mercy, you have no right


Challenge for Power

Final challenge laid down
Decision on victory is death
Ultimate forces arise
Building weapons of strength

Artillery machinery roars
Wheels of war again roll
Strategic tactics are planned
Military minds take control

Ownership of the domain
Taste to conquer grows strong
Ruler of all that remains
Agony for conquest prolongs

Call for the power to rise
Battle of strength within strives
Total authority they demand
Ruling territorial lands

Fighting for total command this night
Successor to take up control
Aggression overthrows fear
Your downfall slowly unfolds

Burning quest for power
Possess minds as they fight
Domination and destruction
Reign in glory of might

Challenge for power ends
Battle cry for victory (sound) no more
Ultimate forces have grown
Rising from the slaughter of war

Rulers of the seven nights rise
The future of mankind unfolds
Hail the dawning of a new age
The master race shall now take control


Forgotten Existence

Storms calm neon skies
Still chilling winds roam the nuclear wastes
Haunting the conscience of a forgotten existence
Civilisation's mistake

Peace at last takes it's grip on the land
For a moment time stands still
Existing in the debris of bygone wars
Hope breeds an incentive not to kill

Existence declines, extinction mankind
A lifetime of time slips away

Resurrect mankind sacrificed to power
From ruins to the birth of a new reality
Rising from the ashes of past destruction
Civilisations, new existence

Lost in a void without future or past
Shattered mind in the presence of pain
Domineering desolation
Controlling the solitary plains

Existence declines, extinction mankind
A lifetime of time slips away

Darkest fears dwell in man's mind
Insight to depths of what will be
Reclamation from the grasp of destruction
From ruins to the birth of a new reality

Construction from destruction
Bringing back life to mankind
Rebuilding an existence sacrificed for power
A future with hope to find

Existence declines, extinction mankind
A lifetime of time slips away

Existence - Declines
Extinction (of) Mankind
A Lifetime - Of time
Now slips – Away


Denial of Destiny

Denial of your destiny
Your future - Your fate - I control
Denounce your past existence
Your life means nothing to you now

Enslaved by the power of fear
The torture - The pain - I unleash
Suffering at the hands of command
Mercy for you is out of reach

Brainwashed, past lost
Now taught only to obey
Mind scan, thought ban
All that exists is all that I say

Your future you see
Is my enforced reality
Command me obey
Your mind is mine to take
The future you see
Is my enforced reality
Command me and obey
Your mind belongs to me

Brainwashed, past lost
Now taught only to obey
Mind scan, thought ban
All that exists, is all I say

The executioner of all recollection
To eliminate the memories you hold


Blind to Defeat

Led to the slaughter, your life in their hands
Destroying maiming at will
Spread all around, deep in the group
Trenches for corpses to fill

Advance to attack - Forward to death no retreat
Onward they charge - Running blind to defeat

Battlefield graveyard bodies pile high
Laid to rest where they fall
Merciless war which they had fought
They showed no mercy at all

Advance to attack - Forward to death no retreat
Onward they charge - Running blind to defeat

Another assault - Counter attack
Half the battalions gone
Numbers decreased masses deceased
The mindless killing goes on

Advance to attack - Forward to death no retreat
Onward they charge - Running blind to defeat


Concession of Pain

No justice found
Beneath the blackened clouds of war
Attack in the darkness
No peace before the dawn

Killer instinct, sadistic tendency
Aggression breeding hatred, kill all enemies
Power-surge eliminates remorse for mankind
Hopeless, domination freezes in the mind

Intense hatred lies in state
Hands of death await your fate
Concession of pain, the taste for power
Life awaits the final hour

Locked in conscience, strange mass of thoughts
Privilege of pain, gained the power sought

Mass enforcement, total control
Captives of command, fallen to our hold
Dark torment of the fear inside
Domination takes away your pride

intense hatred lies in state
Hands of death await your fate
Concession of pain, taste for power
Life awaits the final hour

No justice found
Beneath the blackened clouds of war
Attack in the darkness
No peace before the dawn…..no peace before the dawn


Attack in the Aftermath

All is lost, survival is all that remains
Dying at will, there is no pain
Memories of hate run deep in my mind
Body's numb, no feelings toward mankind

Ruins fall, the war zone lies in decay
Wounded crawl, dying, lying they pray
Fallen dead row on row line the path
Streams of blood run thick in the aftermath

Fighting for life
Defending yourself from the night
The strong shall survive
Weak shall fall to their plight
Fight to the death or surrender to their wrath
Attacking in might, attack in the aftermath


Psychological Warfare

Psychological warfare
Bear the scars from a past war ceased
Neurological nightmare
Torture holds the mind from peace

Can't face reality unrestrained mentality
Hiding from the darkness of your insanity
Driven to soul despairs
Madness in your mind tears
No escape from this mental insanity

Captive life, held in past
Deranged memories burning in your brain
Thoughts of pain, darkest dreams
Self-inflicted torture, rotting your mind
Punishment, no pain release
Captive to the darkness of this psychotic… insanity

Tearing in deep mind
Madness dwells with pain
Destruction of your life
Renders you insane


Nuclear Annihilation

Holocaust, nuclear Annihilation
Final blow, life eradication
Night turns to day, a blinding flash
Total deafness from the blast

No warning, no time
Split second, no chance of escape
Confusion of mind
Panic sets in, uncontrollable state

Crimson clouds melt the skies
Killer dust, carries your cry
Acid rain, destroying storm
Massacre life-forms destruction born

Radioactivity
Total possession of the atmosphere
Oxygen capacity
Extinction is drawing near

Hide from the air nobody breathes
Eyes see pain, body bleeds
Poisonous gas, chokes your breath
Active fallout, burning flesh

Asphyxiation
Gasping for air, suffering you lay
Slow suffocation
Torment as time slips away

ANNIHILATION

Survival craves in the minds that live
Hunger to take, no more to give
Living off dead, parasites feed
Contaminations, mutations breed

Disease takes it's toll
Wiping out thousands each day
Infection controls
Pray for death as the living decay

Toxic chemicals, pollution stays
Terminal madness seeks it's prey
Life takes life, mass genocide
Desolate void now opens wide

Mass suicides
Ending it all to ease the pain
Fear rots inside
Suffering now drives you insane

ANNIHILATION


ALL LYRICS COPYRIGHT BOLT THROWER 1988.
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