Machine Head - A Farewell To Arms Lyrics

If an album is only as good as its weakest song then The Blackening is probably an all-time Top 10 metal album.

Love the music, the message makes sense...for war. Not for my household tho. I'm not giving up my damn guns, sorry Rob.

Machine Maiden

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<3 you folks

Can you hear their cries?
Nowhere can the children run to hide
Crimson rivers

Flow down the hills
Atone our ills
And woe to all her songs of love

A farewell to arms

Mutilated lives
Blackening as coffin line the sides
Filled with fathers

Who has won?
When only sons
Hold their grieving heads and mourn

A farewell to arms

Always our souls entwine
Erase this vast divide
Deaf ears our voices rest
Tyrant, this is protest

Who has won?
Yes, who has won?

[Chorus:]
I'll wave this flag of white
So the venged see the light
We'll pay for closed eyes
With our genocide

Piercing the masquerade
March to the death parade
Trade no humanity
For pearls of the slavery

In the depth of mind the heart will I find
The truth of our leader
We'll try the facts so through the cracks
May fall the lying cheater

Who has won when we're all dead?

[Chorus]

So is this how we live?
Or is this how we die?

Black blood dripping from platinum fangs
Rich blood flees while
Our poverty hangs

Shepherds they herd the mindless trance
As the flock follows the puppet's dance
In a fatal romance

[Solo: Demmel]

All that they needed was
A pretext, war's next
Heads to the chopping blocks
And our necks are next
For those we died
Who fought for our rights
Whose children now slaves
They're turning in their graves

War hawks and senators
They sit tight, so trite
Never their sons will know
What it's like to fight
But soldiers are dead
And children have bled
And the silence is numb
What have we become?

God save us

A farewell to Arms

Best lyrics ever. Trade not humanity for pearls of our slavery.

God I love Machine Head, incredible

Intro sounds a bit like "One" by Metallica

I hear it. In the guitar st the beggigig

Where's the lyrics? Sometimes I make up my own; in a funny way

EPIC! 🎸🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊

I'LL WAAAAAAAAAVE THIS FLAAAG OF WHIIIIITE!

Just those worthless dudes with saddest songs and explicit lyrics. They're very dumb and stupid.

A kid asks you what heavy metal is, you give them a copy of the blackening. Masterpiece

In a non- gay way, this song makes my ding dong expand on length.

Let the blood flow through you lmfao

Aren't all ding dong expansions not gay unless they are

@Bringer of Death only if your balls touch

Easily their most underrated song, and one of my all-time favorites.

This song reminds me when a time a was wasted and in my cusion car jamming to this. While I grieve over a break up hahaha aww them memories

Forever my favorite Machine Head song.

SphericalThinker mine too bro

Every time I listen to this somebody is cutting onions

I've been cutting onions to this song since the album came out..........all the onions.

If The Blackening is explicit, there's no need to mark this song as explicit, as "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "Battery" aren't marked as explicit. We know the album is explicit, so only mark songs with profanity in them as explicit. It's just stupid to mark all the songs on the album as explicit when not all of them are explicit. None of the less, AWESOME SONG! ROCK ON MACHINE HEAD!

Violate is not the heaviest song you wrote,this one is!!!