Strength Beyond Strength (Live) - Pantera

There is nothing No education, no family life to open my arms You'd say that my job is today Yet gone, tomorrow I'll be broke in a gutter I know the opinion A broken record Fuck you and your college dream Fact is we're stronger than all You're working For perfect bodies, perfect minds and perfect neighbors But I'm helping To legalize dope on your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune You're muscle and gall Naive at best I'm bone, brain and cock Deep down stronger than all A sad state of affairs A crippled America A pipe dream buttfucked Immune, stronger than all We've grown into a monster An arrogant, explosive motherfuck Hard as a rock, shut like a lock The president in submission He holds out his hand on your television and draws back a stump It's too late for some Far too late Far too late! Hail kings The new kings Stronger than all A simple process To legalize There would not be a choice But to take our side Be there no question Of certain strengths Know this intention Forever stronger than all Stronger than all

One, two, three, four! Almost every day I see the same face On broken picture tube It fits the attitude If you could see yourself You put you on a shelf Your verbal masturbate Promise to nauseate Today I'll play the part of non-parent Not make a hundred rules for you to know about yourself Not lie and make you believe what's evil Is making love and making friends and meeting God your own way The right way To see To bleed Cannot be taught In turn, you're making us Fucking hostile! We stand alone The truth in right and wrong The boundaries of the law You seem to miss the point Arresting for a joint? You seem to wonder why Hundreds of people die You're writing tickets man My mom got jumped, they ran! Now I'll play a public servant To serve and protect by the law and the state I'd bust the punks that rape, steal and murder And leave you be if you crossed me, I'd shake your hand like a man Not a god To see To bleed Cannot be taught In turn, you're making us Fucking hostile! We stand alone Vince! Come meet your maker, boy Some things you can't enjoy Because of heaven, hell A fucking wives tale They put it in your head Then put you in your bed He's watching say your prayers 'Cause God is everywhere Now I'll play a man learning priesthood Who's about to take the ultimate test in life I'd question things because I am human And call no one my father who's not closer than a stranger I will not listen To see To bleed Cannot be taught In turn, you're making us Fucking! Fucking! Fucking! Fucking hostile!

Here we are in a world of corruption Human nature is of violent breed Who cares if there's no tomorrow When I die for my future's laid out for me Can't you see? Rise Above the lies Moral's on a backwards globe A sin to you, for me it's hope It's my life and provision Black or white some pay to pray You question why they act this way It's their fucking decision! No more judgement day Only tranquility Peace signs, protest lines Mean nothing to me Honesty Born in me Heresy I know what's right or wrong And my belief is stronger than your advice People, they go to war Because religion gives them reason to fight, sacrifice Die for pride A group that caters, no one's fees or synthetic deities Is where I belong My stand is the human race without a label or a face So they can lick my sack No more judgement day Only tranquility Peace signs, protest lines Mean nothing to me Honesty Born in me Heresy Honesty Born in me Heresy

There is a part of me that's always sixteen I've found the secret of eternal youth Some get high on life or money But there's an escape, drop out of the race To walk through world by one's self, you can't be protected Your trust is in whiskey, weed and Black Sabbath It's goddamn electric Don't waste your time Embrace it And then you will know yourself The change in you is goddamn electric The weight of the world has lifted and parted My eyes roll blind to sights that distracted Through tunnel vision and dope-hair blinders I'll cut a path and evoke my will To walk through the world by one's self, you can't be protected Your trust is in whiskey, weed and Slayer It's goddamn electric Don't fake your life Inhale it And then you'll know yourself The change in you is goddamn electric Don't waste your time Embrace it And then you'll know yourself The change that is goddamn electric will focus the mind's eye One hand on the bottle, the other a shaking fist Rejuvinated, yet I isolated, no pressure from the outside My sight is goddamn electric And these eyes have seen a world Goddamn electric system Don't waste your time Embrace it And then you'll know yourself The change in you is goddamn electric Goddamn electric Goddamn electric Goddamn electric

A dead issue Don't wrestle with it Deaf ears are sleeping A guilty bliss So inviting (let me in) Nailed to the cross I feel you Relate to you Accuse you Wash away us all Take us with the floods (Then throughout the night) (They were raped and executed) (Then throughout the night) (They were raped and executed) Cold hearted world Your language unheard of The vast sound of tuning out The rash of negativity Is seen one sidedly Burn away the day The nervous The drifting The heaving Wash away us all Take us with the floods (Then throughout the day) (Mankind played with grenades) (Then throughout the day) (Mankind played with grenades) Cold hearted world (And at night) (They might bait the pentagram) (And at night) (They might bait the pentagram) Extinguishing the sun Wash away man Take him with the floods Die... Die... Die... Die...

I don't want you to look at me while I'm shedding skin I can't afford for you to see what's in I'd rather shoot myself than have you watch me I feel you'd steal my skin to try and wear me I was betrayed, one more day of my short life You were carried away, had no shame To suffocate my being I was me, but you weren't you You were sticking to me like a scab So I peeled you away, bled for days Then stepped out of myself I'm shedding skin, changing within, falling in Through swollen eyes I dreamed you died, caught inside I'm shedding skin, spreading thin, severed stem Created the end, killing a friend I'm shedding my skin I don't think you belong in here, I feel I'm sick Don't ask, cause you know damn well where I've been I've kept a simple woman through the thick and thin But I've found the guts to sever from my Siamese twin I throw you away, every day A dead part of life Strangling back, seething black In between my longing for torture Blood on my face that came from your face A mix of kissing and bleeding I put you away, I shut you away I pissed you away, I threw you away You're fucking and sucking You're friendless, it's endless Your flower has soured It's endless, you're friendless It's harder and stronger But no-one's been inside you longer And harder and deeper To get you off, you need the fear The fear, the fear, the fear, the fear It's never love, bloody touch Broken wrist, needle rust Choking throat, swallowed teeth Head fuck, no peace I'm shedding my skin To peel you off of me You've got to love me Ornament Shrunken head Playtoy Snake strike Poisonous Syphilis Drenched me Soaked me I'm shedding my skin To drain you out of me You've got to hate me