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Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer) Lyrics

Everything around me ignites my rage
I'm burning with animosity
Everywhere I look another war to wage
Filled with purpose of singularity

Got my hollow points, got my magazines
Wrote my manifesto of decay
Commencement of the killing at the university
Antipathy, the lesson of the day

They never should've pushed me away

Student bodies lying dead in the halls
A blood spattered treatise of hate
Class dismissed is my hypothesis
Gunfire ends the debate

All I ever wanted was a little affection
But no one ever gave it to me
My hate primer's the result of my rejection
You'll die for it...and I'll die for thee

The halls of learning now a shooting range
My final exam with a gun
Killing everyone who ever thought me strange
My bloody dissertation has begun

Pomp and circumstance replaced by bullet wounds
The smell of gun powder in the air
Murder is the nightmare of this afternoon
My malevolence, your cross to bear

All because of my despair

Student bodies lying dead in the halls
A blood spattered treatise of hate
Class dismissed is my hypothesis
Gunfire ends the debate

All I ever wanted was a little affection
But no one ever gave it to me
My hate primer's the result of my rejection
You'll die for it...and I'll die for thee

Hate lives in me
Hate lives in me

Hate - I need it and it needs me
Hate - I feed it and it fed me
Hate - I breed it and it bred me
Hate...
Hate - I read it and it read me
Hate - I lead it, and it led me
Hate - I bleed it, and it bled me
Hate - I breathe it in, and it breathes through me

While swat teams swarm all around the quad
The symposium of slaughter carries on
Smith & Wesson is my only god
And the line in the sand has been drawn

Valedictorian of violence
Graduation day, one bullet remains
Charles Whitman set the precedent
I pull the trigger and blow out my brains

They never knew I was insane

Student bodies lying dead in the halls
A blood spattered treatise of hate
Class dismissed is my hypothesis
Gunfire ends the debate

All I ever wanted was a little affection
But no one ever gave it to me
My hate primer's a result of my rejection
You'll die for it...and I'll die for thee

Hate lives in me
Hate lives in me

I instruct you, and I destruct you
I deconstruct you, til my hate has fucked you
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Cover art for Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer) lyrics by Exodus

"We decided to give everybody another taste of the new record… and it's about one of America's favorite pastimes, the school shooting. This song was primarily inspired by the massacre at Virginia Tech, as well as Columbine and the many other instances of unhinged individuals who decided to take out their wrath on their classmates, going all the way back to [University of Texas at Austin’s 1966 tower sniper] Charles J. Whitman." -- Gary Holt

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