Released on the Worship Music album in 2011. The song sticks to Anthrax’s usual topic of anarchy and dictatorship, with themes relating to the ‘order producing chaos’ theory.
[Bridge 1]
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa...
[Verse 1]
Look into my holy eyes
An empty smile and you're hypnotised
Selling lies, my enterprise
The sheep just get in line
Capitulate so easily
The power of fear that I'm traffickin'
Years of sleep have made you blind
I made the bed you're in
[Pre-Chorus]
As I lead the child to war again (War again)
Heaven lives in every gun
I'll damn you!
[Chorus]
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives in everyone
[Verse 2]
When your world has slipped away
And all you have is me to pay
Once so proud, you beg for more
And spread your legs like some dirty whore
[Pre-Chorus]
As I lead the child to war again (War again)
Heaven lives in every gun
I'll damn you!
[Chorus]
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives in everyone
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives...
[Bridge 2]
I'm invited
I'm invited
One nation under
One nation under me!
[Pre-Chorus]
As I lead the child to war again
As I lead the child to war again
As I lead the child to war
Heaven lives, lives in every gun
[Chorus]
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives in everyone
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives in everyone
I'm alive to be the demon
I'm alive to be the one
Yeah-eah-eah-eah
Hell, it lives in everyone...
I’m Alive was written by Frank Bello & Charlie Benante & Scott Ian & Dan Nelson & Joey Belladonna.
I’m Alive was produced by Rob Caggiano & Anthrax.