Machine Head Songs - Night of Long Knives Lyrics

Machine Head - Night of Long Knives

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Album: Bloodstone & Diamonds
Released: 2014

Night of Long Knives Lyrics

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
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 to propel the minds of the weak
He sprawled them balls deep within the desert
His followers into the belly of the beast
Don't look into his eyes
Buried with knowledge past the point of no return
The pride of the work he'd done
The family all the dreams they could
The prophecy of Charles Manson and what had been done in the hills

Of Hollywood tonight

Sing 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

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 bloody
In the hill's of family
Now 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
Noose tied around their necks
To beat their dying breaths
In the hills
Of Hollywood tonight

Sing 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
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
The pride of the work he'd done
The family all the dreams they could
The prophecy of Charles Manson and what had been done in the hills

Of Hollywood tonight

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

In the night
With these knives
And these bloodstains on our hands
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

On the night of long knives

Writer/s: ROBERT CONRAD FLYNN
Publisher: FINTAGE PUB & COLLECTION B.V.
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Machine Head frontman Rob Flynn told Kerrang! that he wrote three entirely different versions of this song. "I wrote one about the Newtown (school) shooting. That really affected me, that whole story. But they were scrapped. Then I wrote another about something else – and that didn't make it on the record. So the song is about the (Charles) Manson murders. I had read a lot of books on this whole thing when I was my 20s, and I'd watched all the movies, so I knew the subject well. It's obviously horrific and tragic: but it's also fascinating. He wasn't even a man who did these murders– he got other people to do them."

"I remember speaking to (drummer) Dave (Maclean), and he'd just seen a new documentary about it," he continued. "So I just started writing the lyrics."

"Of the three (lyric versions) I'd written, I didn't necessarily think this was the right one for the song," Flynn added. "But when I heard them back with the music, I knew it was working."

The Night of the Long Knives is a descriptive phrase that was applied to the night of June 30, 1934 when Hitler, assisted by Himmler's SS, carried out a series of political murders. Many of those killed were leaders of the SA, the paramilitary Brownshirts.

The term has its antecedents. The apocryphal treacherous killing of native British chieftains by Anglo-Saxon mercenaries on Salisbury Plain in AD 472 was named "The Treachery of the Long Knives" by Geoffrey of Monmouth and became a prominent symbol of Saxon betrayal.

The term Night of the Long Knives is now applied to any treacherous massacre or betrayal.