The song Domination, track 6 on the album Cowboys from Hell, its breakdown has been called the heaviest breakdown played in E-Standard tuning. It is a song about the destruction coming from a dominant power. It also mentions how people get too sucked into their power and end up destroyed by it in th...
[Intro]
(First take like a motherfucker)
[Verse 1]
Agony is the price that you'll pay in the end
Domination consumes you, then calls you a friend
It's a twisted fall
Binds are like steel and manipulates the will to be
And it's hard to see
How soon we forget when there's nothing else left to destroy
It's a useless ploy
[Pre-Chorus]
Your eyes will see the dawn of the day
And the writing on the wall
Those words that stare into your soul
And to yourself you will befall
[Chorus]
It's domination pushed into living hell
Domination
Yeah
[Verse 2]
A now blacked heart is reaching out in divinity
Bodies suspended by chains over razors and nails
It's a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail marks demise of your life
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick?
Sealed you in brick by brick till your end
Forcing you to bend
[Pre-Chorus]
Your eyes will see the dawn of the day
And the writing on the wall
Those words that stare into your soul
And to yourself you will befall
[Chorus]
It's domination pushed into living hell
Oh, domination
[Instrumental Outro/Guitar Solo]
Domination was written by Rex Brown & Vinnie Paul & Dimebag Darrell & Phil Anselmo.
Domination was produced by Vinnie Paul & Dimebag Darrell & Phil Anselmo & Rex Brown & Terry Date.
Pantera released Domination on Tue Jul 24 1990.