Studio Demos '89



Collection of demo songs recorded between 1988-89
Self-promoted
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Haunted House
Written On The Walls
Life And Death
The Funeral
Plea Of Insanity




Haunted House (3:45)

Music / Lyrics : Jon Schaffer

Look into the path
As it leads to the unknown
Weeping willows hallow
You feel you're almost home

Stranger in the town
Yet you've been here before
Trapped in the prison
Still you come to me

You're asking these questions
Of the unknown origin
Terrifying mansion
Burning in the path

Come inside, take a look around
Come inside, take a look around

This poltergeist enchantment
Has you wrapped up in a scream
You're broken in this terror
Your faded burning hell

Come inside, take a look around
Come inside, take a look around

Haunted House later became Tearing Down The Wall on the Demons & Wizards first album 



Written On The Walls (6:05)
Music: Schaffer, Shawver, Abell, Adam / Lyrics: Adam

On the night the darkness fell
Across the naked land
A demon force was summoned up
From the bowels of hell
The stench of death grew thick that night
We knew it was the end

We run to find a place to hid
The land was raped and bare
The wind it blows a eerie cold
A fog that never lifts
Their tears will flood the land tonight
And the thunder's drowned by screams

As I lay here
Freezing veins of ice
What will be for me
What will be the price

Is it what they say
Is it written on the walls
Why can't we stop
This shattered worlds' fate
Why didn't we try at all

Armageddon town life is gone
We knew it was the way
Written down so long ago
Implanted in our minds
Our fathers told us of this hell
They read it on the walls
It's written on the walls
It's written on the walls

The frightened children know not why
And no one will explain
We've brought it all upon ourselves
An ending to this world
Forgiveness for your soul you pray
But it's written on the walls



Life And Death (6:08)
Music: Schaffer, Shawver / Lyrics: Schaffer

I came into this world
A screaming infant
Forced entry into this life
As I grow the pain sustains
Deep inside my soul
Visions come and visions go
But hate will never leave me

As I grow the pain sustains
Deep inside my soul
Visions come and visions go
But hate will never leave me
Life and death never again
I shall not return
Soul sucking pious man
I shall not return

The reflection, an aging soul
My body's old and cracked
Death soon will be with me
Coldness, inactive pain
Soul sucked at the speed of light
Trapped in someone else
No please not again
Evil reincarnated
The cycle's spun once more
Soul sucked at the speed of light



The Funeral (6:15)
Music: Schaffer, Shawver

Instrumental



Plea Of Insanity
Music / Lyrics : Jon Schaffer

Here I sit, judges stand
my fate is held in his hand
please hear my plea "Insanity"
I never meant to hurt no one
it wasn't me who did the deed
I wasn't in control

There she lay so innocent
Her blood upon my hands
the memory is like a blur
let me explain if I can

He wakes me up late at night
Drives me to the edge
He held my hand, gripped it tight
She just lay there without a fight

Hear my plea Insanity
Let me out, I'm innocent
Help me please, He's in here!
He's coming after me

He's wrapped it tight around my neck
Hanging by a noose
It's too late for me now
Look out, he's on the loose

My eyes were closed, like a dream
Until I heard her scream
Oh My God, what have I done?
It was insanity, not me

He plunged it deep
He held my hand and plunged it down
It wasn't me, it was insanity

Plea Of Insanity later became Jekyll & Hyde on the Horror Show album




Gene Adam - lead vocal
Randy Shawver - lead guitar
Jon Schaffer - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dave Abell - bass
Mike McGill - drums