According to Chuck Schuldiner in an interview with Spark, “Crystal Mountain” was written about one of his religiously bigoted neighbours.
Chuck Schuldiner:
The title “Crystal Mountain” sounds like fantasy in a way, but in fact it deals about the troubles we had with our former neighbours in Florid...
[Verse 1]
Built from blind faith
Passed down from self-induced fantasy
Turn a page to justify
Conjuring power - it opens wide
On your seventh day
[Pre-Chorus]
Is that how it's done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
All that you want
To assume from ignorance
Inflicting wounds with a cross-turned dagger
[Chorus]
Inside crystal mountain
Evil takes its form
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn
[Bridge]
All the traps are set to confine
All who get in the way of the divine
In sight and in mind of the hypocrite
A slave to the curse forever confined
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Shatter the myth
Don't cut yourself
On your words against
Dreams made of steel
Stronger than any faith
That inflicts pain and fear
[Pre-Chorus]
Is that how it's done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
All that you want
To assume from ignorance
Inflicting wounds with your cross-turned dagger
[Chorus]
Inside crystal mountain
Evil takes its form
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn
Crystal Mountain was written by Chuck Schuldiner.
Crystal Mountain was produced by Jim Morris & Chuck Schuldiner.
Death released Crystal Mountain on Tue Mar 21 1995.