Desecrate

System of a Down

Let me desecrate you child
Let me penetrate your world
Let me penetrate your mind
Let me desecrate you
Don’t let me desecrate you my child
Don’t let me penetrate your world
And steal the warmness of your soul away
Don’t let me penetrate you my child
Don’t let me desecrate your world
And steal the warmness of your soul away

I divide you with faith
Provide you your soul
Defy you to love
I divide you with your faith
I provide you with your soul
I defy you with your love

Don’t let me desecrate you my child
Don’t let me penetrate your world
And steal the warmness of your soul away
Don’t let me penetrate you my child
Don’t let me desecrate your world
And steal the warmness of your soul away

I divide you with faith
Provide you your soul
Defy you to love
I divide you with your faith
I provide you with your soul
I defy you with your love


united we stand penalize the love for what we use to make for the price of the kind
add a beautiful player to the sheets of night the moment connects to the price of his crime

I divide you with faith
Provide you your soul
Defy you to love
I divide you with your faith
I provide you with your soul
I defy you with your love


I divide you with faith
Provide you your soul
Defy you to love
I divide you with your faith
I provide you with your soul
I defy you with your love


Lyrics submitted by themosquitogod

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    please help me with that quiet part its really hard for me to understand cuz of the fact that its quiet.

    themosquitogodon May 27, 2002   Link
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    I'm not quite sure, but this song may or may not be called "Defied You" Desecreate makes more sense though, and the bootlegged titled is "Defy You" oh well. .still a very good song

    Knave Murdokon May 27, 2002   Link
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    divide/defied ugh now i cant decide which it is. both words sound exactly the same when you say them fast and with music going. oh well im gonna keep it how it is. everyone else can decide for themselves.

    themosquitogodon May 27, 2002   Link
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    It IS Desecrate. Defy you was one of the wrong original titles

    blurr69on May 29, 2002   Link
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    ok SOMEONE HELP ME OUT WITH WHAT SERJ SAYS DURING THE REALLY QUIET HARD TO HEAR PART. or at least offer a meaning to the song instead of another debate over the godamn name.

    themosquitogodon June 03, 2002   Link
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    The Quite Part:

    United we stand divided our love for what we used to mean for the price time. What a beatiful place to the heat of the night to be forfeited next to the price of time.

    I'm almost positive about the first part not sure on the second though.

    FreeThinker863on June 09, 2002   Link
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    mmmmkay i say to you freethinker, i give a leesten, if its sounds good to me i post, if not i still post.

    themosquitogodon June 09, 2002   Link
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    ok well i have a really good ear and i hear things like the z sound in the word penalize. not criticizing you at all just sounds different to me. thanks so much freethinker you like, opened it up for me. before i didnt even try cuz it seemed too impossible. go back and if youre totally positive that youre right and im wrong then ill probably change it back. everyone else that comes here(if anyone else does) tell me which sounds better. it makes sense my way cuz it sounds like its talking about a child molester or something. the name desecrate and the chorus only support my theory on it.

    themosquitogodon June 09, 2002   Link
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    I hear it now thanks

    FreeThinker863on June 11, 2002   Link
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    desecrate is wrong,defy you is wrong. we cant know for sure because system didnt announce the title officialy, but my inside sorces tell me the song is called defied you.

    SOadOwnsITon June 11, 2002   Link

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