Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest
“Screaming for Vengeance” is the seventh and title track of Judas Priest’s best-selling album.
The lyrics are speaking about someone who shouting out a clarion call to someone else, and one gets the feeling this is not simply a person-to-person dialogue; he tries to get into the other person’s mind...
[Intro]
Ahhhhhh!
[Verse 1]
Hey, listen, don't you let them get your mind
Fill your brain with orders, and that's not right
They're playing out a game that draws you closer
Till you're living in a world that's ruled by fear
Always taking, baby, but that's okay
What they're giving, maybe it's out of phase with me
Told you once, you're never gonna win the race
Same old no tomorrow kicked in the face
[Chorus]
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
[Verse 2]
Tie a blindfold all around your head
Spin you round in the torture before the dread
And then you're pushed and shoved into every corner
Then they lead you out into the final slaughter
As the sweat is running down your neck
All you're praying for is to stop your body breaking up
Oh, your heart is pumping, gonna soon explode
Got to fight the horror of this mental load
[Chorus]
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
So you wait it out and bide your time
Rip off that straight jacket, you gotta break the line
Everyone who wins in the great escape
Leaves a thousand more who suffer in their wake
I don't talk about it, but that's all right
Table's turned now, there's a revenge in sight
If it takes forever, then I tell you I can wait
Send them screaming back through their hell's own gate
[Chorus]
We are screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
[Outro]
Screaming, screaming vengeance
Screaming, vengeance, screaming
Screaming for Vengeance was written by Glenn Tipton & Rob Halford & K.K. Downing.
Screaming for Vengeance was produced by Tom Allom.
Judas Priest released Screaming for Vengeance on Wed Jul 14 1982.
It’s like the establishment thing, which sounds so like a very old ‘ploy’. But when I talk about ‘them’ I’m talking about this element of control and power that can be taken on and when I say ‘they’, or it’s ‘them’, it’s that side of what you want to try and do that is against you – that is opposing...