Be Quick Or Be Dead

Album: Fear Of The Dark (1992)
Charted: 2
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  • Covered in sinners and dripping with guilt
    Making your money from slime and from filth
    Parading your bellies in ivory towers
    Investing our lives in your schemes and your powers

    You got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief's in your head
    You've got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief in your head

    Be quick or be dead
    Be quick, quick, quick, quick
    Or be dead, dead, dead, dead

    See what's ruling all our lives
    See who's pulling strings
    See what's ruling all our lives
    See who pulls the strings
    I bet you won't fall on your face
    Your belly will hold you in place

    The serpent is crawling inside of your ear
    He says you must vote for what you want to hear
    Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're alright
    Pull yourself stupid, rob yourself blind

    You've got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief in your head
    You've got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief's in your head

    Be quick or be dead
    Be quick, quick, quick, quick
    Or be dead, dead, dead, dead

    You've got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief's in your head
    You've got to watch them
    Be quick or be dead
    Snake eyes in heaven
    The thief's in your head

    Be quick
    Or be dead
    Be quick Writer/s: Bruce Dickinson, Janick Gers
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Caitlin from Colmesneil, TxWhen I hear this song, two words spring to mind: BERNIE MADOFF.
  • Rock Lee from Hidden Leaves Village, JapanLove this song! And do't you underestiate Uchiha Sasuke! He's the MAN!
  • Brett from Parma Heights, OhWow, did some user really put their name as Sasuke Uchiha? What a weeaboo. Seriously, who names themselves after some emo anime character.
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