Criminal Afterlife

Say, hail the leader with the mask Let's say we put him to the testSomehow he doesn't like the sound He'll dig his heels into the ground To think that he's the seventh wonder Moving mountains with the thunder All the lies he tries to cover Money talks, where is the love And the land that falls beneath him to apologize-beneath him Watch a crowd of many tease him Run in circles to appease him It's a rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage! Rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage! A little freedom for us all Too many guns, too many tax Too many mobs pursue the waks Too many cops push you around The lunatic has come unwound I think his tie is a little too tight We gotta teach the man his wrong from his right Ya gotta, ya gotta, ya gotta It's a rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage! Rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage! And the lunatic has come unwound A little freedom erases the hate of us all It's a rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage! Rage of disorder, rage of disorder Rage!...Rage!Guns, guns, guns are spreading disease Sex is survival, survival to me He's lying to you, yea he's lying, he's lying

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

In a field of lies and broken homes Fallen angels cry to get back home When they lie along the city roads A coat of steel won't save them from the unknown In another life they ruled the land People selling people for their souls It's just a criminal afterlife It's nothing new to the scared and lonely It made me finally realize I'm alone When the tears of time begin to flow Son of an angel fires another bow Still it ain't right, still it ain't right, still it ain't I'm losing my sight, still it ain't right The way you kick me out my home It's just a criminal afterlife It's nothing new to the scared and lonely It made me finally realize I'm alone I don't need no hand of charity, feelin' low I got a feelin' that your money ain't right Gotta feelin' that you left me no sleepin' zone A walkin' idle bomb, you're fuse'n it slow Oh, no, no, no, you've gotta start a riot Oh, no, no, no, you've gotta start it Systematic lyin' junky, cryin' rotten fool You made a million selling funky shades of rotten doo I don't need no hand of charity feelin' lowA walkin' idle bomb you're fuse'n it slow Oh, no, no, no, you've gotta start a riot Oh, no, no, no, you've gotta start it I don't need no doubting fire to free the stones Another cheatin', smokin' nuclear zone I don't like grinding the bone I-don't-see-no-future It's just a criminal afterlife It's nothing new to the scared and lonely It made me finally realize I'm alone

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

This is Holy Mother's cover version of this Dio classic This version will also be appearing on the upcoming Dio tribute album

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 12, 2026

Fear my whole life set to speed time is taken, not enough for me Just like my age is dying My friends are always crying It's not enough to pacify your needs You stop belonging, but you always put your calling on it You stop belonging, but you're stranger and you're falling on it Times are changing, day to night Cold war, second story, vehicles can fly There is no cash in money, I'm just a number running I can't believe that there is pavement on the streets There is surrender in somebody's eyes I have been chained to the wall Future, culture shock, lost in time My streets, gone to survive without a dime Looks like my friends deserted My house is only dirt There is no room for the hungry on the streets There is an anger in somebody's eyes And I am still chained to the wall At the boundries of this haunted kingdom I'm a victim, defenses will crack Paralyzed, I will follow the cycle of the sun Oh, the path to my freedom I see the tears fall in some other time But, I'll never pay for the crime At the boundries of this haunted kingdom I'm a victim, defenses will crack Paralyzed I will follow the cycle of the sun

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

My people fight to hold me My people fight to choose My people built this wall of inner strength to keep from you Surrender's not my language I never learned to pick and choose My freedom violated contracts of a corporate rule When I die I wanna taste of hope When in doubt, I'll call the ghost If I'm flying with my friends I know I will be watching you from here Now everyone I talk to tells me Everyone I talk to knows Now everyone has got their own direction for my life to go My people fight for freedom And my people fight to grow My people hide behind the hidden secrets you don't know When I die, I wanna take you there When in doubt I'll call the ghost If I'm flying with my friends Up here, a path of straight and narrow gold When I die I wanna take you there When in doubt I'll call the ghost The spirits surround me, my life I want back Does anyone regret this anger, anyone regret you know Does anybody really care what makes the path of straight and narrow gold Another foreign figures army sets his sites on killing all Why is the value of our life within his hands When I die I wanna take you there When in doubt I'll call the ghost If I'm flying with my friends Up here, a path of straight and narrow gold Cause when I die, I wanna take you there When I'm in doubt, I'll call the ghost When I'm dyin', when I'm dyin' A path of straight and narrow gold

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

You lie in the garden surrounded by fools They're trying to taste it, the evilest part of you Stretching your life line You're kicked out of school Learnin' survival, you live in the waste pool You're holding a shotgoun, destroying your life You want it, said want it, said want it Where life turns cold You know when your memory dies Where fire flows Say it in another life, should have never left it alone They call you a freak yea, who's different than you You're hitting the streets to find any new solitude You choke in the dark, hide your cigarette stain You choke in the dark, yea you're chokin' it, chokin' it Where life turns cold You know when your memory dies Where fire flows Say it in another life, should have never left it alone Always called the bastard child And no one really cares if I die Where life turns cold You know when your memory dies Where fire flows Stone and kaleidoscopes, sand on the walls Serpents and snails are crawling, crawling my inner walls The floor always spinning when the rain spills the roof Escaping the fury of it escaping the truth Where life turns cold You know when your memory dies Where fire flows Where life turns cold You know when your memory dies where fire flows

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

So you learned that tonight you'll be lucky if you listen to every word All this talk of armageddon makes you wonder if you're still alive Anyway, another toy electronic regulator stopped dead, like they said it would You try to listen to a fast talkin' power suckin' lunatic You try to figure out the skip-code, looking for their every clue Generator powered lights, generator for the weapons of a better world Rewind my science rewind my life So you think armageddon's just a fantasy A crazy man's just a fool So you think armageddon's just a lie about the skip-code holy rule So you're thinkin' armageddon's just a fantasy A crazy man's just a fool So you think armageddon's just a lie about the skip-code Just another lie, I say, just another... Rewind my science, rewind my life So you think armageddon's just a fantasy A crazy man's just a fool So you think armageddon's just a lie about the skip-code

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Skies are open, mountains fall Try to stop this crumbling wall The ocean rises, wash the land The sun is burning, armageddon's call Remember when your life was new Worries were so far from you Now you're looking to the skies Your burning eyes...it's armageddon's call The sun is burning, not far from you A regulator, just a fool My science eye, my holy rule It's over!

Just broke the law Can't fight about it, gripe about it Don't sell me short Can't save our freedom's home (Blame all your allies, our nation's worst fool Believe there's a scapegoat, the culprit's not you) The foreign code, the information's confidence Could break the world, and see our nation fall (Expecting our allies to sponser a fool Decifer our secrets, our culprit is you) You set a firey code To save a world unknown A nation's only hope But you have turned in your gun The FBI, a secret service spying eye They wrote the book, to change our alibies (Blame all your allies, our nation's worst fool Believe there's a scapegoat, the culprit's not you) You set a firey code To save a world unknown A nation's only hope But you have turned in your gun Just broke the law Don't sell me short Can't save our freedom's home (Expecting our allies to sponser a fool Decifer our secrets, our culprit is you) You set a fiery code To save a world unknown A nation's only hope But you have turned in your gun You set a fiery code To save a world unknown

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Sold my life ten for noneWill my savior call me done Life on land, time falls from me Red hot sands from burning sun Oh..my life... Higher pastures, dying sheep Time for war dance, passions of thieves All my life...it comes Just like the way you used my life What if tomorrow never comes As if you thought you'd read my mind, mind... Where I came from, kill for needs Empty hearts fall short of greed Men in face paint, tribal laws Winds can change, I refuse to bleed Just like the way you used my life What if tomorrow never comes As if you thought you'd read my mind, mind What if time stands still for years Youth and lightspeed, life can freeze All my life can freeze... Just like the way you used my life What if tomorrow never comes As if you thought you'd read my mind...mind... Just like the way you used my life What if tomorrow never comes As if you thought you'd read my mind...mind...

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Caught on a whim, pressure's building up now All out of wind, it's a frantic race Politics, lunatics, it's the mad man's law Traveled the light, blinded brim shaded sun rise Fought all the laws just to prove I was right All out of wind, I've been stuck in the mad man's world Caught in the truth, you feel the lie Button your shirt, try to lose your tie Lies...lies... Walkin' a life on a path straight and narrow Camera shot you a curse pic of dread Tryin' to cover a life, under gun by man Caught in the truth you feel the lies Button your shirt, you lose your tie Time can't over feed the lies Don't you know you could lead this paradise Caught in the truth you feel the lies Button your shirt, but lose your tie Lies...lies... Time can't over feed the lies Don't you know you could lead this paradise Time can't over feed the lies Don't you know you can lead this paradise, paradise...

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Sillouettes of evil lives Have cursed my mind with lies Evil men with evil minds controlling time in time An urchants net of fear has swollen gills of bloody moles It's power in the money made selling every feeling saved You call it liberation, makin' rules to fit your needs You make your own religion Filled politics and greed Your money makes a net A fiery web to hold you cold Levels of distortion split your neck and rot your soul Injections of rust.... Trusting only me, I want to let my mind burn to coal.... Unwanted for love, unwanted landmines Write my broken life in stone.... Release you of your painYou breed my anger everyday Dress the wound, give time to heal The price you have to pay Fallout covers land like snow Your hands are in the soil Grasp a root, pull up a tower Clouds of smoke breathe acid rain...shit Grade the mountains, open up the sky... Dress the wound, and cover up a lie... Write my book, in broken stone

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025