Artist: Pantera
Pantera was a heavy metal band from Texas, formed in 1981. The best-known line-up was the Abbot brothers – drummer Vinnie Paul and guitarist Dimebag Darrell – vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown. Having started as a glam metal band they are credited with being part of the second wave of thrash metal from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, as well as the development of the groove metal subgenre.
Title: 5 Minutes Alone
Date: 1994
Album: Far Beyond Driven
Genre: Thrash Metal
5 Minutes Alone is from Pantera’s 1994 album Far Beyond Driven. It also appears on the band’s live album. It also features in the background of Tom Clancey’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Lyrics by Darrell Lance Abbott, Philip Anselmo, Rex Brown, and Vincent Paul Abbott
I see you had your mind all made up you group of pitiful liars.
Before I woke to face the day, your master plan transpired.
Something told me, this job had more to meet the eye.
My song is not believed?
My words somewhat deceiving?
Now I'm unwhole.
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are.
Can't leave the scar.
You cry for compensation.
I ask you please just give us
5 minutes alone
I read your eyes, your mind was made up.
You took me for
A fool.
You used complexion of my skin for a counter
Rascist tool.
You can't burn me, I've spilled my guts out
In the past.
Taken advantage of because you know where
I've come (from) my past.
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are.
Can't leave the scar.
You cry for compensation.
I ask you please just give us
5 minutes alone
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