Angel Of Death Lyrics - Singles - Thin Lizzy

"Oh my god... There's millions of them!" 

I've seen a fire start in Frisco 

The day that the earth quaked 

I've seen buildings a-blazing 

Throwing up in flames 

I heard men, women and children 

Crying out to their God for mercy 

But their God didn't listen 

So they were burned alive 

They went down, down, deep underground 

In the great disaster 

I was hanging out in Berlin 

In the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine 

I've seen Hitler's storm troopers 

March right across the Maginot Line 

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I've seen two world wars 

I've seen men send rockets out into space 

I foresee a holocaust 

An angel of death descending to destroy the human race 

Down, down, deep undergound 

A great disaster 

In the sixteenth century there was a French philosopher 

By the name of Nostradamus 

Who prophesised that in the late twentieth century 

An angel of death shall waste this land 

A holocaust the likes of which 

This planet had never seen 

Now, I ask you 

Do you believe this to be true? 

I was standing by the bedside 

The night that my father died 

He was crying out in pain 

To his God he said, "Have mercy, mercy!" 

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His body was riddled with a disease 

Unknown to man so he expected no cure 

But before he died that night 

He was lost, insane 

He went down, down, deep underground 

A great disaster 

You'll go down, down, deep underground 

A great disaster 

You'll go down, down... 

Deep underground... 

"I think they're gone now."