Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

CHILDREN OF BODOM

FOLLOW THE REAPER (2001)

  1. Follow The Reaper
  2. Bodom After Midnight
  3. Children Of Decadence
  4. Everytime I Die
  5. Mask Of Sanity
  6. Taste Of My Scythe
  7. Hate Me!
  8. Northern Comfort
  9. Kissing The Shadows
10. Hellion

CHILDREN OF BODOM

FOLLOW THE REAPER

1. FOLLOW THE REAPER

Death, be not proud
Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, art not so

Losing the war I'm feigning to win
Though I never tried to strive deep from within
Life could be beautiful for anybody it's for
But I'd swear this mothafuckin' shit
Is rotten to the core

The portal has been past
And it's time to make a turn
To follow the reaper
Until the point of no return

When your blindly death-raying blade
Sweeps the grieves and fears away
I cross my heart and hope to die
Thy freedom will be mine

Sinking down in the ocean of severe emotions
Grab a bottle to drink up the pain-relieving potion
But after all that got boring too
So no matter what happens
I couldn't give a damn or two

The portal has been past
'Til the point of no return
No more lines to cross
No bridges to burn

Now when your blindly death-raying blade
Swept my grieves and tears away
I'd never go back to cross that line
I cross my heart and hope to die.

2. BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT

I was only 21 when I died

Hang on
Got to go
Preview what they oughtta know
Keep your head down now and fucking die
Wake up
Rise and shine
Gotta take another pint
Dig your heads and watch out for the night
When the sun comes down and the moon comes up in the sky
The battle of the day and the night

Kill, kill, kill
Go fuck another one
Candlelight burns in a wood so high
On a carpet take it down to the other side
Flying high
The way beyond it may lie
When the moon comes up and is rescuing under the night
The reaper is on the other side, let's go

Bodom after midnight
Bodom after midnight
Yeah
Bodom after midnight
Bodom after midnight
Yeah

Bodom after midnight
Bodom after midnight
Yeah
Bodom after midnight
Bodom after midnight
Yeah.

3. CHILDREN OF DECADENCE

Running under cover of the moonlight shadow
Death row
At night we're running wild with no hope for tomorrow
No tomorrow

As we're walking through the fire
That burns within us all
If ya wanna take a glance to the blaze of pain
You'll never be the same

You wanna get closer and get a taste of death?
I know ya wanna fuck me down til' I'm bleeding red
I couldn't care less, I'll end up rotting in mud
So c'mon mothafucka and gimme yer best shot

You really thought you'd see
Through what I am and what I need
We are children of rebellion, we'll fight, we'll bleed
Don't try to come to preach over us and over me
We're children of decadence
We're right, we're real, we will fight, we'll bleed
We're mothafucking dying breed, we're dying

All wrecked and fucked I wonder
If this is the way I'm supposed to go
But that is all I ever got, that is all I'll ever get
So I just let it go

As we're walking through the fire
That burns within us all
If ya wanna take a glance to the blaze of pain
You'll never be the same

You wanna get closer and get a taste of death?
I know ya wanna fuck me down til' I'm bleeding red
I couldn't care less, I'll end up rotting in mud
So c'mon mothafucka and gimme yer best shot

You really thought you'd see
Through what I am and what I need
We are children of rebellion, we'll fight, we'll bleed
Don't try to come to preach over us and over me
We're children of decadence
We're right, we're real, we will fight, we'll bleed
We're mothafucking dying breed, we're dying

You wanna get closer and get a taste of death?
I know ya wanna fuck me down til' I'm bleeding red
I couldn't care less, I'll end up rotting in mud
So c'mon mothafucka and gimme yer best shot

You really thought you'd see
Through what I am and what I need
We are children of rebellion, we'll fight, we'll bleed
Don't try to come to preach over us and over me
We're children of decadence
We're right, we're real, we will fight, we'll bleed
We're mothafucking dying breed, we're dying.

4. EVERYTIME I DIE

The faint blaze of the candle of my life
Slowly dying like a fire in a pouring rain
No sparks of hope inside
No shooting stars on my sky
On broken wings, no flying high

Another night, another demise
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice
I'll let the wind blow out the light
'Cause it gets more painful every time I die

Out of strength to fight
I cannot take another night
I cannot take it no more
Lust of light slips through my fingers
Like blood on my arms
Black candle wax has buried me

Another night, another demise
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice
I'll let the wind blow out the light
'Cause it gets more painful every time I die.

5. MASK OF SANITY

I can't waste away, I'm slowly losing my way forever
Better raise your slave for me anymore
Daylight's sin inside, day's growing closer, wait for pain
I cannot wait another night to be alone

Voices are calling me: "Be my night!"
This devil's sigh
Yeah, shadows are tainting me, yeah
I know that only you can render pain

Peace of mind, you run away from me
So make me lose my mask of sanity

I can't waste away, I'm slowly getting my way forever
Better is what I used to feel alone
Shattered light's sin in taint, day's growing longer
Wait for pain
I cannot wait another night to be with you

Peace of mind, you run away from me
So make me lose my mask of sanity

Peace of mind, you run away from me
So make me lose my mask of sanity.

6. TASTE OF MY SCYTHE

Rip and cut and mutilate the innocent
His friends and again and again and on and on

You make me own my life in Hell
My kingdom back to the bound
You say you don't make it alone
Kingdom back to the Lord

Falling
I say you too, falling
You too, born to die

Come with hate
Come and die

One day I'll face you all alone
Enduring out with wind and ice
It's payback time
It's your demise sought to feel
They'll taste of my scythe

You say my ear, my God who help me, God take yours in shame
Back too low, I want your head on a plate to feel my eyes

Come with me, I want your blood to save it on my eyes
I want you and in the plate to be coming in the sky

Come with hate
Come and try

One day I'll face you all alone
Enduring out with wind and ice
It's payback time
It's your demise until they feel
Taste of my scythe.

7. HATE ME!

I was born in ashes of molten hatred
Raised by demons in abodes of the dead
The Reaper's scythe I fall upon to light my path
Wrecked by mangled wounds of life
I have become the resurrection of the Evil one

You know that I don't fucking care if I live or die
I need a bishop preaching fire to get away my sins
I despise everything I see
So I don't give a fuck if ya hate me

Ain't got respect for humanity
Never lived or wanted immortality
The Reaper's shadow I fall upon to obscure my path
Every day I'm being battered up until I bleed
You motherfuckas just leave me be
Ya could never give me cure for the pain I feel inside
It's that with the poison
To get away my fears
I despise everything I see
So I don't give a fuck if ya hate me

Led by the Reaper I walk in the night
Show me the way to yer kingdom come

I believe in Armageddon
I've been baptized in alcohol
I'm embodiment of Antichrist
I'm living for my own demise

I was born in ashes of molten hatred
Raised by demons in abodes of the dead
The Reaper's scythe I fall upon to light my path
Wrecked by mangled wounds of life
I have become the resurrection of the Evil one

You know that I don't fucking care if I live or die
I need a bishop preaching fire to get away my sins
I despise everything I see
So I don't give a fuck if ya hate me

I don't give a fuck if ya hate me

If ya hate me.

8. NORTHERN COMFORT

You're the one who plays with fire in the night
You're the one who scares people with the scythe

You're the one to tell Him to ever live by
You're the Lord to shaking all alone

You're alone!

Now you left me out to drop His sight
I wasn't ready for the sunlight to come to my heart

Take me with you, take me far
Take me away from the painless soul
Drop the haze
Save the skies, reaper never lies

Don't ever fucking lie

Now running out to forever alone
Sweating and shivering cold right to the bone

Pain is come, control to fall
Become for the mad to escape with a bottle from this world

You're far too alive, try back to the sky
I wasn't ready for the scythe, no
Get me down to the trough

Like lightning from the sky
The moon is up with pride
Go listen, take away

Your place for my lying out
Being high, come Heaven above
Drop it now, it falls alive
Take me to the sky.

9. KISSING THE SHADOWS

High above yer shadow smiles at me
Way down below I hear you serenely breathe

I'm running after you
Throughout the valleys of tormented souls
Don't you be afraid of me only kissing your shadow
You re so far away, I can feel your scent
When I caress your shadow
And if you truly want I'll cross the line I'll follow

I'm dreaming my way out from down below
To get wherever you're haunting from, I'll go

I'm kissing the shadows you surround me with
To feel my pain vanishing away from me
Your touching the shadows I'm surrounding you with
So together in peace we shall be

I'm running after you
Throughout the valleys of tormented souls
Don't you be afraid of me only kissing your shadow
You're so far away, I can feel your scent
When I caress your shadow
And if you truly want I'll cross the line I'll follow.

10. HELLION

Hell-hound, hot leather on your legs
That smokin' powder keg
You're riding on is hell-bound
And you're the one they claim
It's going down in flames
Riding Hades' rails
Hellion

Hellion, the devil's Hellion child
Hellion, will never have to die

Well child, you're sweatin' and you're stoned
The alcohol you downed makes you crazy
All night you damn the hurt and pain
Drink the devils rain
It's screaming out your name

Hellion, the devil's Hellion child
Hellion, will never have to die

The Gods you worship are steel
At the altar of rock 'n' roll you kneel
A slave who forever rocks
Is chained in the devil's locks
And slain by the bloody axe I wail

Hellion, the devil's Hellion child
Hellion, will never have to die.

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