We Are The Video Nasties!

by The Video Nasties

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If your vision blurs If your vision starts to shatter Vertical hold ends Just adjust all of the tracking Scratches at the door End of the day is where we begin Cover up your eyes Welcome to the Terror Vision! The Terror Vision! If you’re hearing this, our transmission has begun If you’re hearing this, your mutation has begun There’s a mutation in the transmission And we must look out for changes There’s a mutation in the transmission And we must look out for strangers
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It’s no wonder why I turned out like I did Remembr’ing my bedtime tales as a kid The Three Little Pigs Were blown out of their digs And their houses and huts were despoiled The Wolf huffed and puffed Til the Pigs cried, “Enough! How can this wicked monster be foiled?” Two piggies were eaten Before he was beaten Down the chimney The Wolf was hard-boiled It’s no wonder why I turned out like I did Remembr’ing my bedtime tales as a kid A boy, strong and proud Climbed way up to the clouds On a product of magic bean spillage Brave and defiant He swindled the Giant Whose wealth came from plunder and pillage Then he picked up an axe Gave the beanstalk some whacks Dumped the Giant on most of the village It’s no wonder why I turned out like I did Remembr’ing my bedtime tales as a kid In the cloak of the night I awake with a fright Pull the blanket over my head You can say I’m insane But it’s stuck in my brain: Rumpelstiltskin is under my bed! A girl dressed in red Stood too close to the bed Of a beast all sinew and hair He seemed so sincere When he beckoned her near She obeyed, wide-eyed, unaware Then his razor-sharp claws And his slobbering jaws Left the poor girl A bit worse for wear Some call it obscene But the violence onscreen Vents the internal turmoil of drama For those buckets of gore Were spilled ages before George Romero, Hitchcock, or DePalma And the fear and the stress Throughout time’s been expressed Through the fairy-tale’s symbolic trauma It’s no wonder why I turned out like I did Remembr’ing my bedtime tales as a kid
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Bag Of Bones 03:11
This bag of bones It keeps them away To keep it filled Is the punishment that I pay The hole inside Empty is what I find Remove the bones Leave the flesh and skin behind This bag of bones Can never go away This bag of bones Refilling every day My hands are cramped From pulling off the meat The penance that I pay Day to day, I must find a way To fill the bag so my soul here can stay So many people that I strip away So the bones can pile high and my debt forever paid This bag of bones Can never go away This bag of bones Refilling every day My hands are cramped From pulling off the meat This bag of bones The penance that I pay Day to day, I must find a way To fill the bag so my soul here can stay So many people that I strip away So the bones can pile high and my debt forever paid
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“All Hallows’ Eve, who rise in flight Bring us tonight our fires light For thy is the veil and the thinning and the blending of the night” The Jacklings watch, the Jackings grow The stem sets forth the spirits’ glow From the patch, the apostles of Lantern Jack rise To behold the magic of the Halloween skies The autumn chill bring with it a gift Samhain's bonfires expose the rift The essence of Halloween Jacklings the infesting light of our Lantern King Tonight is the beginning of our season’s new age For the thinning of the spirit veil Diabolus in music sets the stage Beginning the dance of All Hallows’ Night The Jacklings blessing in orange, yellow, and white Break the rules, disrespect the mores The ire of the Jackling will be upon your soul The essence of Halloween Jacklings the infesting light of our Lantern King Tonight is the beginning of our season’s new age For the thinning of the spirit veil Diabolus in music sets the stage For the thinning of the spirit veil Diabolus in music sets the stage
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Don’t open the doorway Don’t pick at the wound Just do what the books say Cast the spell If you are over there Can you hear me? I’ve decided to pull you through You left us all too soon I see you writing on the wall I see you cutting through your skin I left when I did You’ll never see what I’ve become Are you over there Can you see me? Pulling you back to us Just give me your hand Bringing me back Will be your downfall Pulling me through Will bring them all Smell the other side Smell the blood and semen Like melting into blackness Darkness will begin Don’t open the doorway Don’t pick at the wound Just do what the books say And cast the spell
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The thirty-first of the tenth month Think that we are pretending There is something that moves us To cover faces, move to different places Among the dark … the dark … The Ritual is upon us Lanterns lit, one for each door You never leave Before it’s dark out Prepare your offering We’ll be knocking The night is calling out for the offering Take from you as we roam door to door We are disciples of the plastic masks That cover our identity Trading tricks or treats To protect our secrecy Our group stays tight to the shadows Roaming streets for sacrificial treats A cult of sweetness breeds a cavity Turn a blind eye to those who don’t try The night is calling out for the offering Take from you as we roam door to door We are disciples of the plastic masks That cover our identity Trading tricks or treats To protect our secrecy The night is calling out For the offering We are disciples of the plastic mask Trading tricks or treats To protect our secrecy
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I feel ground above me weakening This shallow grave you've dug for me Won’t be keeping me From playing my upper hand I see the moonlight shimmering Through the hole I've dug I'll be seeing you In a day or two, my friend I need to thank you For pushing me in front of you And at the knees Of the monster that tore our lives apart You buried me early Too soon to see What I've come to be Seems I am okay Just a hunger that breeds inside of me Revenge is a dish best served cold And I'm as cold as they come When I tear into you And serve the ice to your veins! It's taking longer than expected To get to you Can't keep myself together Going to pieces over you You left the light on So nice of you To let me through So I can repay you for saving me eternally Revenge is a dish best served cold And I'm as cold as they come When I tear into you And serve the ice to your veins! I'm ice cold Lost my soul And I bring revenge When I bite your neck And tear your skin And you'll be like me When I eat your humanity We’ll be together forever I forgive you, and I taste your forgiveness, too!
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Long ago there lived a doctor, By the winding River Rhine In a castle dreary, he had a theory Dr. Victor Frankenstein Well, the fact is That private practice For young Victor seemed too drab ‘Cause that physician He had ambition Creating life down in his lab With his equipment Down to the crypt went Frankenstein and his hunchback It sounds appalling But they came back hauling Chunks of corpses in a sack Well, in the lab Sprawled on a slab A figure made of long-dead folk First came the lightening Damn, it was frightening! Then there were sparks, and the thing awoke! Oh, my darling Oh, my darling Oh, my darling Frankenstein You were lost before you started You were damned by your own design The monster reached out And Victor freaked out When he realized what he’d done Oh this sudden terror Was his great error But Victor turned, and began to run Like an unloved child The brute went wild To be despised was more than he could take Forsaken outrage Led to rampage Death and pain left in his wake I guess the moral If you can find one Past the terror and the screams If you’d defy All that is holy Be strong enough to face your dreams Oh, my darling Oh, my darling Oh, my darling Frankenstein You were lost before you started You had a brain, but you had no spine
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To resonate Stimulate Reactivate Procreate the pleasures from beyond Growth of pineal Shatters what is real Resonator Expose the deformed layer Looking forward from beyond A tearing passage A tremor in my spine To help humanity Ripped apart my sanity I reached out It reached back, it reached back, it reached back From beyond I feel myself giving Mutating within Creating the end The power to destroy Is mine to enjoy Return to destroy The infected scenery Restore the resonator Before our eyes Creatures metastasize Promising a pleasure to arise Just let them arrive To help humanity Ripped apart my sanity I reached out It reached back, it reached back, it reached back From beyond
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I see you even though you can’t see me yet I know what you’ve done and plan to do … Next time you decide to steal or destroy my … Plan on our introduction to be quick I bring the season Into the night I’ll punish those who Would put out my darkened light Each bag of candy that you steal I’ll take half a hand Each decoration that you break I’ll take a toe Each child you make cry I’ll take your arm The jack o’lantern’s life you end I’ll remove your head! You’ve been warned And now we shall begin Your transformation into the season Four bags of candy That’s both your hands Nine toes, there they go So many tears You owe five arms And next comes my favorite part! Carve out your eyes Then remove your teeth Pull out your tongue And dig out the meat The top must come off And the candle goes in And the glow of the season begins again No disrespect, you must respect The rules I’ve laid out for you

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The debut full-length album from The Video Nasties. Ten tracks of horror-inspired synth goodness.

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released September 18, 2018

Music - Justin Burning
Lyrics & Vocals - Matt Dougherty
Additional Lyrics - Jef Delman
Cover Art - Matt Dougherty

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