Текст (слова) песни: Exodus - The Last Act Of Defiance

The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane
Is the ultimate expression of injustice
and inhumanity in the society at large.
Those of us on the outside do not like
to think of wardens and guards as our surrogates, yet they are.
And they are intimately locked in a deadly embrace
with their human captives behind prison walls.
By extension, so are we.
The terrible double meaning is thus imparted
to the original question of human ethics
"Am I my brothers keeper?"

The second of February, 1980
Began three days of misery
A scene of retaliation
Epitomizing violence, horror, and vindication
Thieves, murderers, and rapists
Inundated their prison like homicidal sadists
Guards and convicts alike would pay the price
To them the electric chair would look like paradise
Only degradation, torture, and cremation would suffice

A sea of agony rolled in like the coming of the tide
The more fortunate escaped the insanity through suicide
The screams of the dying would haunt the living to the grave
Survivors of the riot relive the nightmare every day
The last act of defiance

With a never-ending appetite
Barbiturates set them off like dynamite
Eradicating informants
Acetylene torches dealt the punishment
Melted from skin to bone
The fire silenced their screams to moans
Smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame
Begging for mercy, but their words were spoken in vain
They werent allowed to perish until they cherished all the pain

Guards they had taken hostage
Were to blame for pushing them over the edge
Their brutality would be their demise
Like sharks in a frenzy they lashed out at their prize
When the madness had ended
The gore was too intense to be comprehended
No one explained the real reason why
For cruelty of a few, so many should die
They knew of the flaws, but still insist the cause was justified

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Architect Of Pain
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Bonded By Blood
Brain Dead
Cajun Hell
Changing Of The Guard
Chemi-Kill
Choose Your Weapon
Climb Before The Fall
Corruption
Culling the Herd
Deathamphetamine
Deliver Us To Evil
Deranged
Exodus
Fabulous Disaster
Feeding Time At The Zoo
Force Of Habit
Forward March
Fuel For The Fire
Going Going Gone
Good Day To Die
Heads They Win (Tails You Lose)
I Am Abomination
Impact Is Imminent
Impaler
Like Father, Like Son
Low Rider
Me, Myself & I
Metal Command
No Love
Now Thy Death Day Come
Objection Overruled
One Foot In The Grave
Only Death Decides
Open Season
Overdose
Parasite
Piranha
Pleasures Of The Flesh
Pump It Up
Raze
Scar Spangled Banner
Sealed with A Fist
Seeds Of Hate
Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Shroud of Urine
Shudder To Think
Strike Of The Beast
Tempo of the Damned
The Last Act Of Defiance
The Lunatic Parade
The Toxic Waltz
Thorn In My Side
Thrash Under Pressure
Throwing Down
Verbal Razors
War is My Sheppard
When It Rains It Pours
Within The Walls Of Chaos