Album: South Of Heaven (1988)

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• Murder at your every foot step
  A child's toy sudden death
  Sniper blazes you through your knees
  Falling down, can you feel the heat burn?
  
  Ambushed by the spray of lead
  Count the bullet holes in your head
  Screaming skull sent out to die
  Living mandatory suicide
  
  Suicide, suicide, suicide, suicide
  
  Holes burn deep in your chest
  Raked by machine gun fire
  Screaming skull sent out to die
  Living mandatory suicide
  
  Suicide, suicide, suicide, suicide
  
  Lying, dying, screaming in pain
  Begging, pleading, bullets drop like rain
  Minds explode, pain sheers to your brain
  Radical amputation, this is insane
  
  Fly swatter stakes, drive through your chest
  Spikes impale you as you're forced off the crest
  Soldier of misfortune
  Hunting with bated breath
  
  A vile smell, like tasting death
  Dead bodies, dying and wounded
  Litter the city streets
  Shattered glass and bits of clothing and human deceit
  Dying terror
  Bloods cheap, it's everywhere
  Mandatory suicide, massacre on the front line, aah Writer/s: Jeffery John Hanneman, Kerry King, Tomas Enrique Araya
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Vydia, Inc.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Stoney The Reaper Cardin from South Of Heaven In The UsaDon't compare Slayer to metallicA, they sold out long ago , they went pop after And justice for all.......Slayer is Speed metal at its finest Metallica are no better than a trumped up version of Beyonce or Taylor Swift smdh
• Stoney The Reaper Cardin from South Of Heaven In The UsaI'm not sure but my take on this masterpiece best song ever written is the possibilty WW2 south Pacific cause the Japanese were brutal ass hell. Whether WW 1, 2 or prophetic about number 3 it will be the only song I ever listen to for the rest of my life, thanks for waking me from my sleep .....you charlatan preacher begging me to tide 1000 bucks guess your god cant help me unless I pay him too........here I lie lost in agony begging your God to save me but I can't afford, so the evil one turns out is free. Too lay waste to everyone I can or just blow my brains on a wall it's tough to do but hearing suicide over and over again turns a coward into a man.......Thanks a bunch thanks to the whores who destroyed me
• Eric from Long Beach, CaI think Buster called it correct, the song is more about Viet Nam than WWII. The 'child's toy sudden death bit' is even a reference to a part in the Viet Nam war movie Full Metal Jacket.
• 1994 Mazda Miata from Topeka Honestly, this song describes WW1 in my opinion, due to it being called “mandatory suicide” since going over the top usually meant certain death to the soldiers
• Conejo from EverywhereI was 14 when I started listening to Slayer now I'm 50 and I'm still jamming mandatory suicide it's sounds just as good as it did 36 years ago Slayer rules.
• Luke from Manchester, United KingdomSlayer sound nothing like Metallica apart from they play metal...
• Josh from Bowie, MdAlot of their songs sound like Metallica.
• Matt from Cleveland, Tnyea me to devon
• Buster from Houston, TxThis song is about the Vietnam War not WWII. References to "a child's toy sudden death!" means the enemy making bombs out of childrens' toys that soldiers may pick up with dire consequences. There is also a mention of "flyswater stakes impaling you." Again this was a popular booby trap from the enemy that is unique to the vietnam war.
• Devon from Westerville, OhSlayer rocks. part of it reminds me of For whom the bell tolls from Metallica.
• Slayer Rules from Somewhere In AlbertaThis song kicks ass

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