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Slayer

Overt Enemy

Release date: 9th June 1998

From Diabolus in Musica
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About This Track

'Overt Enemy' by Slayer is a track from the album ' Diabolus in Musica ' (1998). The lyrics sketch a confrontational, hate-fuelled persona breaking into someone’s life, policing thoughts, and pushing coercive lies, while railing against a church and imagining violent upheaval. In among the threats and domination imagery is a sense of loss of control, alongside an obsession with crossing boundaries without consequences, summed up by the line “I walk the line, I'll do no time”.

"Overt Enemy" is a track by Slayer, from the album Diabolus in Musica , released 9th June 1998. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slayer.

About the Artist

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Lyrics

Overt Enemy

[Verse 1]

I breach your life, indoctrinate

Police your thoughts, ask why I hate

I lose control when I see your face

Abusing power, I infiltrate

Continue lies, then masturbate

I walk the line, I'll do no time

I hate your church, I'll burn your state

A bleeding heart, a seal of fate

There is no crime within my mind

[Chorus]

I'll sell your life and preach your death

A wicked plan born of contempt

Bleeding my ideology through pain

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Verse 2]

Audacious plans I calculate

A new worldview I'll reinstate

Don't cross my path or I'll see you burn

You'll meet your end, find death alone

No grave to mark, the seeds you've sown

You've pushed too far, my secrets I defend

[Chorus]

I'll sell your life and preach your death

A wicked plan born of contempt

Bleeding my ideology through pain

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Bridge]

Demonize what is feared

Profane architect

Skull and bones through the mind

Barbaric thoughts of old

Celebrate all unknown

At last, the dead await

The die is cast for the meek

Inherit endless dead time

Smell the victims are near

Consume the catalyst

Hunting masses for game

Implanting septic thoughts

Reaping terror through words

While armed behind your back

Pseudo-leaders betray

Enslaving all of mankind

[Interlude]

Cast out the demigod

Dethrone the demagogue

Cast out the church of God

[Bridge]

Demonize what is feared

(Cast out the church of God)

Profane architect

Skull and bones through the mind

(Cast out the church of God)

Barbaric thoughts of old

Celebrate all unknown

(Cast out the church of God)

At last, the dead await

The die is cast for the meek

(Cast out the church of God)

Inherit endless dead time

[Verse 3]

I command your life and I don't care

Let bullets rain from everywhere

No suicide will save you from yourself

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From Diabolus in Musica

1998
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