First Strike Is Deadly - Testament

Prisoners of the venom master

Guilty for what you’ve been charged

Sit in cells condemned to face

The deadly snap of their jaws

Terror stricken you lie and wait

In the final hour

Knowing of your wretched fate

And the serpent power!

First strike is deadly

The evil path that you must take

Is filled with the slither of snakes

Their hiding and waiting for the time to lunge

For your flesh and your fate

No one escapes or comes out alive

For the snakes they’ll never lose

For if they hit you just one time

You have just faced your doom

First strike is deadly

Deadly strike bred to kill

The venom’s howling in your veins

Psychotic spell a gift from hell

The sound of a deadly lead remains