Night of Long Knives

Album: Bloodstone & Diamonds (2014)
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  • You won't see us come
    You won't see us come
    You won't see us come
    You won't see us come

    You won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    Paint the walls
    Taste the blade
    On the night of long knives

    You won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    Paint the walls
    Taste the blade
    On the night of long knives

    Midnight we kill

    In summer of '69, there came a prophet
    His words were used profit off the minds of the weak
    He spoke of holes deep within the desert
    His followers into the belly of the beast
    Don't look into his eyes
    Burning with malice past the point of no return
    They're piling bodies one by one
    Fulfilling all their dreams to come
    The prophecy of war that Charles Manson had begun in the hills

    Of Hollywood tonight

    City of the angels
    Sanity deprived
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives
    Deserts and the devil
    Rapist of the mind
    The family fatal

    Pitch black

    You won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    Paint the walls
    Taste the blade
    On the night of long knives
    Midnight we kill

    The hills were echoing with their laughter
    Happily ever after was a faded memory
    Rosemary and the baby of Polanski
    6 people dead and bloodying
    In the hill's of Beverly
    They're screaming for their lives
    Praying and pleading for lives of babies unborn
    The spawn of hell they just begin
    The horror of the splitting skin
    Ropes are tied around their necks
    To breathe their dying breaths
    In the hills
    Of Hollywood tonight

    City of the angels
    Sanity deprived
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives
    Deserts and the devil
    Rapist of mind
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives

    We have been so wrong
    We will fall
    No tomorrow

    We have been so wrong
    We will fall
    No tomorrow

    We'll fall away tonight

    Don't look into his eyes
    Buried with knowledge past the point of no return
    They're piling bodies one by one
    Fulfilling all their dreams to come
    The prophecy of war that Charles Manson had begun in the hills

    Of Hollywood tonight

    City of the angels
    Sanity deprived
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives
    Deserts and the devil
    Rapist of mind
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives

    City of the angels
    Sanity deprived
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives
    Deserts and the devil
    Rapist of mind
    The family fatal
    They bring the night of long knives

    You won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    Paint the walls
    Taste the blade
    On the night of long knives

    You won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    Paint the walls
    Taste the blade

    'Cause you won't see us come
    In the night
    With these knives
    And these bloodstains on our hands
    On the night of long knives Writer/s: ROBERT CONRAD FLYNN
    Publisher: Fintage House Publishing
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