Rapid Fire

Album: British Steel (1980)
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  • Pounding the world like a battering ram
    Forging the furnace for the final grand slam
    Chopping away at the source soon the course will be done
    Cleaving a trail of destruction that's second to none

    Hammering anvils, straining muscle and might
    Shattering blows, crashing browbeating fright
    Fast devastating and desolating the curse
    Blasting the cannons of truth through each man of this earth

    Wielding the axe comes the one culmination
    That's always seemed certain to bring down the curtain on greed
    Sifting the good from the bad it's the age for the rage
    Of the dogs which must fall to the just and be free

    Now grate for the vandals who trampled and sampled
    Till this place conditioned brought forth demolition to war
    The slipping and sliding, corrosive subsiding
    That withered and waned
    Till the world seemed all drained fills the bay

    Pounding the world like a battering ram
    Forging the furnace for the final grand slam
    Chopping away at the source, soon the course will be gone
    Cleaving a trail of destruction that's second to none
    Second to none Writer/s: Glenn Raymond Tipton, Kenneth Downing, Robert Halford
    Publisher: Round Hill, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcAnother Judas Priest headbanging heavy metal classic songs that helped inspire the thrash metal scene and it does sound like its full of pure brutal rapid fire.
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjThe lead progression goes: KK/Glen/KK/Glen. I think it's about judgement day.
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