Stained Class

[Guitar Solo: Glenn Tipton]

[Verse 1]

Wild-eyed and tight-fisted, I'm fused to the bone

I stand contemplating, reacting alone

Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns

Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt

[Chorus]

Long ago when man was king

His heart was clean, now he's stained class

Time has slashed each untouched thing

So now he's just a stained-class king

[Guitar Solo: Glenn Tipton]

[Verse 2]

Transfixed at deliverance, is this all there is?

Faithless continuum, into the abyss

Fierce is my conviction, absolute my belief

I spit at your apathy and seducer deceit

[Chorus]

Long ago when man was king

His heart was clean, now he's stained class

Time has slashed each untouched thing

So now he's just a stained-class king

[Bridge]

Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered

He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world

But by doing so, smashed all his hopes and Utopian dreams

Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off

Relentless and senseless, his lust snapped like vipers

Whose fangs sank in deep to infest and decay from the core

[Guitar Solo: Glenn Tipton]

[Pre-Chorus]

Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns

Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt

[Chorus]

Long ago when man was king

His heart was clean, now he's stained class

Time has slashed each untouched thing

So now he's just a stained-class king

[Guitar Solo: Glenn & K.K.]

[Outro]

Stained-class king