Belly of the Beast
Anthrax Lyrics

You walk this earth without a heart
You have no empathy or compassion for others, causing pain and suffering wherever you go.

You tear the innocent's souls apart
Your actions harm the innocent and cause deep emotional wounds that may never heal.

You shovel your conscience into the grave
You bury your sense of right and wrong, ignoring the morality of your actions.

Your uniform couldn't be taken off
Your role in causing harm may be an integral part of your identity, and not something you can easily separate from yourself.

A tattoo burned into your flesh
Your past actions and decisions are permanent and will always be a part of you.

Your mind, your voice
Your thoughts and words can cause harm or incite violence, and you use them intentionally to cause pain.

These are your instruments of death
Your actions bring harm and destruction, both physically and emotionally.

How could you dare to be so bold
Your actions are so egregious that they are difficult to comprehend or justify, even to yourself.

You only did as you were told
You followed orders blindly, ignoring the moral consequences of your actions.

Marionettes dancing in time
You and others like you are mere puppets, following orders without question, and causing harm in the process.

To the apologetic lines
The words of apology you or others may offer cannot erase the harm you have caused.

For all the monsters of our time
You and others who cause harm are considered monsters, feared by those who suffer from your actions.

Who is evil, who is blind?
It's difficult to discern who is truly evil and who is ignorant or blind to the harm being caused.

In the name of who you'll find
Those causing harm often do so in the name of some higher authority or ideology.

A city of souls dying for peace
Your actions and those of others like you have led to a city filled with people suffering, longing for peace and an end to the violence.

Welcome to the belly of the beast
You have entered a place where harm and violence are normalized and accepted as a way of life.

One mind, one voice
You and others like you share a collective mindset and often speak in unison, ignoring dissenting voices.

Who hears your voice?
Your actions may feel like they are making a difference, but nobody is listening or being positively impacted by them.

Millions, never, never again
The harm and violence caused by you and others like you must never be repeated or allowed to continue.

Madness, never, never again
The insanity and cruelty upheld and celebrated by those in power must never be accepted or allowed to continue.

Martyrs, dead that can't die
The innocent victims of harm and violence caused by you and others like you are considered martyrs, permanently etched into history.

Monsters
You and others like you who cause harm and violence are considered monsters by those who suffer from your actions.

Insanity, the normal state
The cruelty and harm caused by you and others like you is so normalized that it feels like sanity, when in fact it is pure insanity.

The left hand a hammer, the right the stake
You and others like you use violence and destruction as common tools to achieve your goals.

Driven so deep into the heart
The harm and violence caused by you and others like you has become ingrained in society and difficult to remove.

It's killing love, it's killing faith
The harm and violence caused by you and others like you destroys the ties that bind people together and cause them to lose faith in humanity.

It's killing 'cause it's from the heart
The harm and violence caused by you and others like you is deeply ingrained and motivated by a sense of pride and identity.

What better way to demoralize
Those who cause harm and violence do so as a means of exerting power over others, demoralizing and subjugating them.

When your own children are your spies
Some who cause harm and violence use their own children as tools to advance their cause, even at the cost of their children's well-being.

The things you trust are not the same
Those who cause harm and violence often do so in the name of some higher authority or ideology, which may ultimately betray their trust and cause more harm.

Trust in death, trust in grief
The harm and violence caused by you and others like you can only be trusted to bring death and grief to those impacted by it.

Trust in hope is trust in pain
The hope for a better future brought by some causes can ultimately lead to more pain and suffering, causing those impacted by it to lose hope.