Stained Class Lyrics - Rob Halford

[Halford/Tipton] 

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 

Long ago when man was king 

His heart was clean 

Now he's stained class 

Time has slashed 

Each un-touched thing 

So now he's just 

A stained class king 

Transfixed at deliverance 

Is this all there is? 

Faithless continuum 

Into the abyss 

Fierce is my conviction 

Absolute my belief 

I spit at you apathy 

And seducer deceit 

Long ago when man was king 

His heart was clean 

Now he's stained class 

Time has slashed 

Each un-touched thing 

So now he's just 

A stained class king 

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. 

Impaled with betrayal 

The tourniquet turns 

Society's creation 

Pole axed out and burnt 

Long ago when man was king 

His heart was clean 

Now he's stained class 

Time has slashed 

Each un-touched thing 

So now he's just 

A stained class king 

Stained class king