Judas Priest - Stained Class Lyrics






Wild-eyed and tight fisted, I'm fused to the bone
I stand contemplating, reacting alone
Impaled with betrayal
The tourniquet turns
Society's creation
Pole-axed out and burnt

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

Transfixed at deliverance, is this all there is
Faithless continuum, into the abyss
Fierce is my conviction, absolute my belief
I spit at you apathy, and seducer deceit

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered
He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world
But by doing so smashed all his hopes and utopian dreams
Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off, relentless and senseless
His lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep
To infest and decay from the core

Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns
Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt

Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

Stained class king





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  1. R.... &....

    Wild-eyed and tight fisted, I'm fused to the bone
    I stand contemplating, reacting alone
    Impaled with betrayal
    The tourniquet turns
    Society's creation
    Pole-axed out and burnt
    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king
    Transfixed at deliverance, is this all there is
    Faithless continuum, into the abyss
    Fierce is my conviction, absolute my belief
    I spit at you apathy, and seducer deceit
    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king
    Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered
    He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world
    But by doing so smashed all his hopes and Utopian dreams
    Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off, relentless and senseless
    His lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep to infest and decay from the core
    Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns
    Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt
    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king
    Stained class king

  2. K.... ....

    I like this goddamn song!!!
    I was thinking of Margot Kidder during the intro, that's what she reminded me of at the time. That was in 2000.

  3. S.... J....

    If u dont like this, call me and I'll meet u anywhere, and beat ur ass to a pulp...✊👊✊😟

  4. W.... M....

    One of my favorites from JP next to Sad Wings

  5. r.... m....

    imagine if this had painkillers production

  6. s.... ....

    Stained Class is THE greatest heavy metal album I have ever listened to PERIOD!!! Beyond the Realms of Death, Saints in Hell, Heroes End, Exciter, and the title track. This album is a masterpiece and will stand the test of time.

    s.... ....

    I believe so. I feel like I get kicked in the behind every time I listen to the album. It can't get any better.

  7. T.... B....

    So, now we know where Iron Maiden nicked the galloping groove.

  8. A.... C....

    Just here to let you know that if you were a victim of catholic church priests, our law offices are here to help you.

  9. M.... ....

    Priest rules !

  10. M.... K....

    Such a Phucing great album......

  11. d.... 1....

    No one like them

  12. E.... o....

    Best lyrics of judas priest, hands down.

  13. M.... t....

    I haven’t listened to this for decades. Hearing it again, I get echoes of Queen that I never noticed before. Great song

    M.... t....

    I can hear Queen throughout the whole record. Great stuff!

  14. T.... W....

    First band I ever saw live! Second was Black Sabbath with Van Halen as supporting group - damn those were the days!

  15. l.... b....

    ahead of its time.....

  16. R.... S....

    3:17 heavy metal as we know it

  17. �.... �....

    один из их лучших альбомов

  18. M.... ....

    Impaled with betrayal (Crashing on Hyksos) The tourniquet turns (Mount passing God fear) Society's creation (Tip of his finger) Pole-axed out and burnt (They're spying his throne)

    M.... ....

    Thank you for the correct lyrics. Much much appreciated

    M.... ....

    @jason Frost , you are so...very...much...and...definitely...welcome!!!

  19. B.... T....

    !!! SOLO !!! - 3:29 - 3.55 !!! SOLO !!! ... and INTRO 0:00 - 0.20, FILL 1:26 - 1.42, FILL 2:34 - 2.48...

  20. p.... 1....

    I was 10 years old listening to Priest my mom hated it...my favorite album here.🙌

  21. M.... C....

    Les Binks ! Drums sound good cranked up with a couple of hundred watts through the ol' Acoustic Monitors !

  22. J.... T....

    Judas Priest Academia do Heavy Metal !!

  23. J.... O....

    Tipton at his best.....you know they probably had to punch him in for this lightning fast intro. If KK whines anymore, they should let him back in the band and let him start this song off live. Yeah right .

  24. B.... T....

    (BeeTee Halford-part (ii))… (1978) ROB HALFORD escaping as ‘STAINED CLASS’ from the ‘Saints in Hell’ while singing it would be ‘Better by You, Better than Me’ ‘Beyond the Realms of Death’, as a ‘Savage’ who was a ‘White Heat, Red Hot’ ‘Exciter’ after ‘Burnin' Up’ ‘Running Wild’ ‘Delivering the Goods’ ‘Before the Dawn’, as a ‘HELL BENT FOR LEATHER’ ‘KILLING MACHINE’ ready to ‘Rock Forever’ and ‘Take on the World’ when seeing the ‘Evening Star’, and being ‘UNLEASHED IN THE EAST’ after the ‘Starbreaker’ offered Peter Green’s ‘Green Manalishi with the Two Pronged Crown’ and Joan Baez’s ‘Diamonds and Rust’ to catch ‘The Ripper’ who was a ‘Sinner’, a ‘Tyrant’ and a ‘Victim of Changes’, following a mass ‘Genocide’ witnessed by ROB HALFORD... (1979)...

  25. G.... W....

    OOOOH FRIIIIIIIICK IM ORGASMING WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOyour gay ;)

  26. S.... J....

    Awesome title track and LP...loved the Les Binks records. (This one, Hell Bent For Leather, [KILLING MACHINE] and the Live record...fantastic stuff

    S.... J....

    👍👍

  27. D.... Y....

    Rob halford is National Meral hero in this gloomy world..He is real action hero.

  28. S.... D....

    40 years later....still great.

  29. p.... 1....

    bad ass ....been a fan for 30 years now.

    p.... 1....

    Will you marry me? Hehe

  30. N.... ....

    Appears to be about the human condition - about the fall of man! The sceptical view of civilisation being corrupting because it results from the darker impulses of mankind are quite Augustinian. This theme is there throughout Stained Class - and the concluding verse of Beyond the Realms of Death confirm it - "They lie in thousands, lank and lost. Is knowledge worth this bitter cost?"

    N.... ....

    Definitely a politically involved album. Truly an album that's fantastic front to back. I only wish that they had kept Binks and continued down the path of his era. Btw he still plays. Vids are on YouTube

  31. J.... D....

    so incredible.

  32. G.... S....

    JUDAS PRIEST ....RULES

  33. W.... O....

    I stil get goosebumps jammin to this! A must crank it up loud

  34. G.... W....

    LEEEEEETS GOOOOOOO YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAyour are is gey

  35. G.... W....

    HELLLL YEEAAAAAAHHHHH

  36. M.... ....

    this song has negative and harmful subliminal messages

    M.... ....

    i hope it convinces you to many evil deeds

    M.... ....

    So does Nicki Minaj I'm sure

    M.... ....

    Makson Fuck outta here, poser.

    M.... ....

    STFU you fucking poser

  37. G.... B....

    Awesome

  38. S.... R....

    lol ..funny enough it's called Stained Class

  39. A.... A....

    steve harris gets an idea ?

  40. V.... C....

    What a beast of a chorus

  41. D.... C....

    I'll never forget the first time I heard this track. I bought the album back in late 1980 as I recall. Practically popped a vein in my forehead while air-guitaring to it furiously in my college apartment. The Priest at their pinnacle of invention and intensity!

  42. P.... ....

    Guitars are astonishing here

  43. j.... 6....

    Lol now I know where blind guardian got their sound from with majesty

  44. B.... ....

    Not a million miles away from how Queen sounded at the time.

    B.... ....

    Priest > Queen

  45. T.... ....

    Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off, relentless and senseless
    His lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep to infest and decay from the core!!!

    T.... ....

    killer lyrics..all the way through.

    T.... ....

    Brilliant

    T.... ....

    This song is Fucking majestic!

    T.... ....

    Great lyricist

  46. g.... ....

    I SPIT AT YOU, APATHY, AND SEDUCER DECEIT

  47. J.... H....

    Do it do it do it

  48. K.... M....

    the whole thrash scene and other bands like Mercyful Fate wouldn't have existed without Judas Priest, it's clear when we hear songs like this!

    K.... M....

    @Lt. Drebin rock and rolla 1974 sad wings of destiny 1976 I think it was those two

    K.... M....

    @Lt. Drebin you know the song victim of change the Judas that was on sad wings of destiny that's awesome song

    K.... M....

    @King Diamond God I agree and they have so many. Judas Priest was just on another level during their time.

    K.... M....

    You got that right cheers

    K.... M....

    @King Diamond God judas was first

  49. E.... W....

    Can't think of many riffs better than that intro.

    E.... W....

    A Touch of Evil has the two best riffs in all of Metal IMHO. \m/ \m/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW-6FKFnHx8 The riff at 2 : 40 is amazing, and mixes perfectly with the opening.

    E.... W....

    The Helion/Electric Eye

    E.... W....

    David Richfield Ew the official video

  50. K.... R....

    two teens committed suicide and the mom tryed to sue. where do they say do it in this great metal classic

    K.... R....

    Kaitlyn Rude That was better by you better than me

    K.... R....

    mommy just don't like metal, so mommy play the blame game.

    K.... R....

    Kaitlyn Rude wrong song

    K.... R....

    Kaitlyn Rude , it was better by you better than me. They didn't even write it lal

    K.... R....

    Wrong Class. It's Better By You, Better Than Me.

  51. T.... ....

    Wild-eyed and tight fisted, I'm fused to the bone
    I stand contemplating, reacting alone
    Impaled with betrayal
    The tourniquet turns
    Society's creation
    Pole-axed out and burnt

    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

    Transfixed at deliverance, is this all there is
    Faithless continuum, into the abyss
    Fierce is my conviction, absolute my belief
    I spit at you apathy, and seducer deceit

    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

    Lethal, deadly, hung, drawn and quartered
    He slaughtered and faltered and altered the world
    But by doing so smashed all his hopes and Utopian dreams
    Whipping, stripping, peeling the flesh off, relentless and senseless
    His lust snapped like vipers whose fangs sank in deep to infest and decay from the core

    Impaled with betrayal, the tourniquet turns
    Society's creation, pole-axed out and burnt

    Long ago when man was king, his heart was clean now he's stained class
    Time has slashed each untouched thing, so now he's just a stained class king

    Stained class king

    T.... ....

    What the fuck happened to Rob's ability write lyrics? He used to write some killer songs, but since Point of Entry he's been just going back to the same old book of comic-book cliches and ham-fisted rhymes.

    T.... ....

    That’s rock poetry man 👍 and ....the music ; well that’s beyond definition !
    One of my all time albums ever - it don’t get any better than this 😜

    T.... ....

    Satyros Phil Brucato this is why I prefer their 70s songs. Tbf there are some decent 80s lyrics too - mostly the ballads

    T.... ....

    Thank you for the lyrics!!

  52. s.... l....

    Fav priest song!

    s.... l....

    Mine too

  53. H.... H....

    I hear rhyme of the ancient mariner, funny

    H.... H....

    Stained Class came out in 78, Powerslave came out in 84.

    H.... H....

    Now that you mention it...

    H.... H....

    Herman Helmich how

    H.... H....

    Galloping guitars- Maiden seem to have took this template and not really diverged

    H.... H....

    @imperatorvult Oh snap! Happy learned how to putt.

  54. J.... W....

    I owned all there casettes at least twice. Then cds, the riffs man I could never get enough.

    J.... W....

    Ive got the album on vinyl record

  55. l.... m....

    damn it break my neck at 3.17.....amazing riff

  56. D.... V....

    Putain de riff de la mort qui tue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!