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Avenged Sevenfold - Doing Time

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Album: Hail to the King
Released: 2013

Doing Time Lyrics

The lives of some men
If walls can taught to spills the lies
We'll see the world through devil's eyes

I maintain an addiction
Been known to take it too high
I gotta a inch with a loaded head trigger
And a one way ticket to fly

When there's no writing on the wall
I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
And I don't need no lessons
After all
Everybody's doing their time

Caught your eye in the corner,
Don't you look at me wrong
Fucked up and thrown into the gutter,
gotta fix what don't belong

I see the writing on the wall
I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
And I don't need no lessons
After all
Everybody's doing their time

That's just a price to play
So tell me what you like
Gotta hand on the kerosene match tonight, right

Had enough of opinions
I got enough on my mind
Sell your soul for approval and a dollar
Got a pretty little body to grind

I see your number on the wall
I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
I don't need no lessons
Watch the fall
You lost my attention
After all
Everybody's doing their time, time

Writer/s: BRIAN HANER, JONATHAN SEWARD, MATTHEW SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Doing Time

Hail To The King was produced by Mike Elizondo. The Los Angeles producer and songwriter is best known for his Hip-Hop collaborations with artists such as Eminem and 50 Cent. He previously worked with Avenged Sevenfold on their 2010 album Nightmare. Guitarist Synyster Gates told MusicRadar.com it was Elizondo who suggested this track. "He was hearing a kind of low vocal, swagger-based rock song," he explained, "sort of a quintessential '80s or '90s vibe but with a very modern approach. It's a bad freight train that never stops."

The song is about the band going to their favorite bar (Johnny's Saloon in Huntingdon Beach, Orange County, California) and getting themselves in trouble. Vocalist M. Shadows explained to Kerrang! magazine: "It's about the prison in your mind - the prison of going there to drink away your problems. Everybody's in the same mind-set there and everybody's doing their time. For us, it was a metaphor about being trapped in your own head and using devices to even that out and make it better."

"We went to Johnny's a lot during the making of this record," he continued." It's a place where we wrote (2003's) Waking The Fallen and (2005's) City Of Evil too. Every night when we'd finished writing, we'd go and have a drink. We kind of got away from that with the white album (their self-titled 2007 record) and (2010's) Nightmare. It's one of those places that's like a family there, so we tried to get back to that a little bit on the record."

Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem

Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hail to the King
Released: 2013

Requiem Lyrics

Prodigia, comploratus
Silens, oro
Regnet exitium

Days of warning
Night brings morning
My prayers worthless
Heaven is burning down

I walk stricken
Pitch black vision
Oh one, save me
Caress my weary eyes

Darkest Lord
Your mercy shall I gain
Strike the match
Engulf the earth in flames

In flames
In flames
In flames

Nature quaking
Prophets aching
I kneel faithful
Damnation cracks the sky

My heart fiction
Superstition
Your grace deathless
Give life to my last breath

Darkest Lord
Your mercy shall I gain
Strike the match
Engulf the Earth in flames

In flames
In flames
In flames

Prodigia, comploratus
Silens, oro
Regnet, exitium

Rise from ashes
Violence clashes my soul vacant
Cleanse me of all this sin

I stand guilty
I bleed filthy
Born of fire
Savor this final hour

Darkest Lord
Your mercy shall I gain
Strike the match
Engulf the Earth in flames

In flames
In flames
In flames

Writer/s: BRADLEY BAKER, THOMAS COHEN, SAM KILCOYNE, MELISSA RIGBY, HUW WEBB, JOLYON VAUGHAN THOMAS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Requiem

Vocalist M Shadows told Kerrang! magazine: "We wanted to make an evil requiem instead of all those ones about, 'Oh Lord, save me.' This one is about the dark lord coming to save you and resurrecting Hell to do it. It's a crazy, out-of-control piece of music with orchestras, strings and all sorts of madness."

Guitarist Synyster Gates told MusicRadar.com that they wanted this song's foundation, "to be a metal band's approach to classical orchestration." He explained: "Matt's vocal is more like a lead violin part, and when my guitar chugs underneath the riff, it's almost like what low brass would do. We layered each element very carefully, and the result is one of the more cinematic tracks on the record."

Avenged Sevenfold - Heretic

Avenged Sevenfold - Heretic Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hail to the King
Released: 2013

Heretic Lyrics

As they search for blood
All eyes descend on one
Honest man in chains
But that don’t matter anyway
My judgement day

My flesh will feed the demon
No trial, no case for reason
I've been chosen to pay with my life
Mad men define what mad is
Turning witches and saints to ashes
Rising masses marching to find Heretic blood.

Impose your will on me
'Til fire sets me free
The flames of hell burn bright
My fate decided by their lies
Final demise

My flesh will feed the demon
No trial, no case for reason
I've been chosen to pay with my life
Mad men define what mad is
Turning witches and saints to ashes
Rising masses marching to find heretic
Heretic blood

Please, don’t leave me
Please, don’t leave me like this
I’ve walked a fragile line and I’ve fallen down
Please, don’t leave me

My flesh will feed the demon now
No trial, no case for reason
I've been chosen to pay with my life
Mad men define what mad is
Turning witches and saints to ashes
Rising masses marching to find heretic
Heretic blood

Writer/s: BRIAN HANER, JONATHAN SEWARD, MATTHEW SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Heretic

This was the first song that Avenged Sevenfold wrote for Hail to the King, hence it being a throwback to band's traditional sound. Guitarist Synyster Gates told MusicRadar.com : "It's a little progressive, but we wanted to maintain some space in the arrangement so the drums could shine and the riffs and vocals could breathe."

He added: "This is a lot of guitar, though, some big moments. If you're not the biggest groove fan – and it you're not, you should be – there's still a progressive element. So it's a mix, this song, and it worked out really well."

Vocalist M. Shadows is singing here about religious fanaticism and witch hunts. He explained to Kerrang! magazine: "To me, this is about the Salem Witch Trials. It's about the West Memphis Three. It's about being put in jail for life for the clothes you wear and because you have long hair. And it's all based on religion and fantasy, when no-one can just look at the facts for what they are, because they're completely clouded by their love of their religious beliefs. That song is a step back to say, 'You don't have to be at someone's door, ready to burn them without giving them a chance to explain themselves."

Avenged Sevenfold - Planets

Avenged Sevenfold - Planets Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hail to the King
Released: 2013

Planets Lyrics

Godless, meteoric war
†‹Anger, our existence nevermore
†‹You awoke the giants who were dormant in the sky
†‹Comets raining death from a fiery eye

†‹Mother of all, your time is coming
†‹One with eternity
†‹When Planets collide
†‹Planets collide

†‹Damage, galaxy destruct
†‹Endless, celestial a bit corrupt
†‹You will be forgotten like the others lost in time
†‹Deaths symbolization, left behind

†‹Mother of all, your time is coming
One with eternity
When planets collide
Planets collide

Take heed the final march is closing in
†‹You can't defeat them on your own
†‹Weapons are longing for the final stand
†‹And their all aimed at you from heaven

†‹Planets collide
†‹Planets collide
†‹Planets collide
†‹Planets collide

†‹You will be forgotten like the others lost in time
Deaths symbolization, left behind

†‹Mother of all, your time is coming
One with eternity
When planets collide
Planets collide

Writer/s: BRIAN HANER, JONATHAN SEWARD, MATTHEW SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Planets

Lyrically, this song is the precursor to Hail To The King's closing track, "Acid Rain." Guitarist Synyster Gates explained to MusicRadar.com : "It's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations."

Gates added: "Musically, the song was incredibly difficult to write and pull off – the elements of dissonance, tension and resolution. We wanted to have that friction throughout, but it still had to be palatable; it couldn't be like listening to Penderecki or Stockhausen. There had to be a relatability and connectability to it."

Vocalist M.Shadows commented to Kerrang! magazine: "This song is an intergalactic Darth Vader type thing – it's like the Imperial March with horns and a pure metal attack."

Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed

Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: City Of Evil
Released: 2005

Betrayed Lyrics

Passion in my eyes, I lived it everyday, but how could you go throw it all away?
In my dreams it's me and you, it's there I saw it all come true
As time went by faith in you grew, so one thing's left for me to do (finish you)

I feel it burn inside, burn like the rising sun
Lifted into the sky, took away the only thing I loved
I know after tonight all your power crumbles in my arms
So don't worry, I'll be fine, when my life ends, I'll leave this scar

A smoking gun in your hand, now don't you realize what you've done
Put a bullet in his back, your hero since you were so young
How could you kill the man who brought salvation through your pain
He must mean everything to end it all this shameful way

I started here so young and helped you get along
Just did it for the love, and people healed through us
Don't live your life in vain, don't take it out on me
You're cracked, so just remember, I'm not your enemy
I don't deserve to fall this way, by a man who felt Betrayed

I felt so down now you're around to rescue me
Every note and every word i'm listening
Sometimes problems seem too deep to take
Sometimes I cry thinking my future looks so bleak
Finally, together we were destined, I know what's best for us in the end
Someone hear me, someone stop me, someone listen, why aren't you listening?

Writer/s: SANDERS, MATTHEW CHARLES/SULLIVAN, JAMES OWEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Betrayed

This is about the shooting of former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell in a Columbus night club in late 2004:
"A smoking gun in hand, now don't you realize what you've done
Put a bullet in his back, your hero since you were so young
How could you kill the man who brought salvation through your pain
He must mean everything to end it all this shameful way"
It's a tribute to Dimebag.

Avenged Sevenfold - Chapter Four

Avenged Sevenfold - Chapter Four Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Waking The Fallen
Released: 2003

Chapter Four Lyrics

(Conceived) Give me your hand (and born was one of light)
Blood is spilt and man will follow (Rain and dark)
Infernal man,(rain and dark, the other born black night) punishment too great to bear

Raise your head and taste the courage (the one of light)
Fall from grace, unholy night
I've come here to kill you
Won't leave until you've died
Murder born of vengeance
I closed my brothers eyes tonight

(Conceived) Give me your hand (and born was one of light)
Blood is spilt and man will follow (Rain and dark)
Infernal man,(rain and dark, the other born black night) punishm

Raise your head and taste the courage (the one of light)
Fall from grace, unholy night
I've come here to kill you
Won't leave until you've died
Murder born of vengeance
I closed my brothers eyes tonight

It's cold tonight as the clouds turn gray
And from my hands to my brothers grave
You took his side, you took his gift
Feel the power of a fallen man, crestfallen man

Far away in this land I must go
Out of the site of the One
A punishment sent from his hand
A hardship no one should know
Now go out of the site of the one
Away in this land you must go

(Oh oh oh) Where has he gone? What have you done?
A voice commands from high above this earth
From the soil his blood cries out to me
Murder, liar, vengeance, deceit

Writer/s: SANDERS, MATTHEW CHARLES/HANER, JR., BRIAN ELWIN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Chapter Four

This song is about the Cain and Abel story, which is the fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis in The Bible. Compare the lyrics to the events in the book, they are a clear match.

Avenged Sevenfold - Radiant Eclipse

Avenged Sevenfold - Radiant Eclipse Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Waking The Fallen
Released: 2003

Radiant Eclipse Lyrics

Two nights ago I was shot
A bullet sunk straight through the skull
A friend pulled the trigger that silenced me
No pain as I awoke, but dead
Seeing the face of the man
The time as he lays down his gun
I knew this was going to take place
White silence, so peaceful, so numb

No one knows the time they're changing
No one will see through

You're all gone to me, (gone to me)
I've been pulled out to watch from my eternal sleep
Intuition and a warning to believe (I will believe)
Something was wrong and though I felt I had to stay
Moving on seemed to be somber bliss
Without one goodbye
I watch my mother shed tears

No!
This gun has stopped time in its tracks
Has altered the course of my fate
Destiny is shattered and timeless
Closed eyes feel the cold winds embrace

I'll watch you call, calling for me,
You can't bring back time
Close your eyes and look away,
Fate exposed, won't let me stay
Hope will fall tonight with broken wings,
Descending entity in me

My voice has been taken from me
The more I listen, the more I have to say

You're all gone to me, (gone to me)
I've been pulled out to watch from my eternal sleep
Intuition and a warning to believe (I will believe)
Something was wrong and though I felt I had to stay
Moving on seemed to be somber bliss
Without one goodbye
I watch my mother shed tears
And taste the blood that she cries,
And taste the blood that she cries

I'll watch you call, calling for me,
You can't bring back time
Close your eyes and look away,
Fate exposed, won't let me stay
Hope will fall tonight with broken wings,
Descending entity in me
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

Writer/s: MATTHEW CHARLES SANDERS, ZACHARY JAMES BAKER, JAMES OWEN SULLIVAN, BRIAN ELWIN HANER JR.
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Radiant Eclipse

This song can either be understood as about dying or being betrayed by a friend. It starts by saying, "Two nights ago I was shot, a bullet sunk straight through my soul. a friend pulled the trigger that silenced me" and then in the sung part he says: "I'll watch you call, calling for me, you can't bring back time, close your eyes or look away/ fate exposed and won't let me say."