Metal Church - Badlands (C# Tuning +25 Cents)

Track 5 from the classic "Blessing In Disguise" album, pitched 1 step and 75 Cents down, to 25 cents above C#.

(Lyrics by Mike Howe & Kurdt Vanderhoof/Music by Craig Wells & Kurdt Vanderhoof)

I ride alone, the wasteland that I cross -
Will take another life, we'll take another loss...
I feel a dry wind, dust is in my eyes -
The artic cold at night, the earth, it tells me lies...

God in heaven, my only friend -
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard -
My values have been changed...
I make a promise to myself: Never again!
A dusty godforsaken path -
Endless to my dismay...
I know these are the Badlands -
Somehow, I'll find my way...

No more paradise, no more soothing rain -
All the sacrifice, the pain is all the same...
Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny -
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies...

Will these lonely nights ever end?
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard -
My values have been changed...
I make a promise to myself: Never again!
A dusty godforsaken path -
Endless to my dismay...
I know these are the Badlands -
Somehow, I'll find my way...

The vultures that circle -
Cloud the empty sky...
Patiently waiting -
They wait for me to die...
Tortured and beaten -
Blistered by the sun...
Forceful and heartless -
Have the Badlands won?

Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny -
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies...
As the world awakens me so hard -
My values have been changed -
I make a promise to myself: Never again!
A dusty godforsaken path -
Endless to my dismay...
I know these are the Badlands -
Somehow, I'll find my way...