Official EXODUS lyric video for “Prescribing Horror“ from the eleventh studio album, Persona Non Grata, out now via Nuclear Blast Records. Listen: SUBSCRIBE to EXODUS: SUBSCRIBE to NUCLEAR BLAST: ORDER: LISTEN: Gary Holt states: “As we have finally come to the day of Persona Non Grata’s release, something we’ve been eagerly awaiting for what seems like an eternity. We are pleased to share one last lyric video with you, my personal favorite song on the album, ‘Prescribing Horror’. A little tale of motherhood and a drug, and what happens when greed comes before life and safety. The story of Thalidomide.” VISIT THE BAND Website: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: YouTube: TikTok: @exodusattack --- EXODUS “PRESCRIBING HORROR“ LYRICS Lyrics and music: Gary Holt Discarded, deformed babies of the chemical age Mutated, some unborn dying in their fetal cage On the day of the nativity in ‘56 comes a child forsaken The first of a hundred thousand, cursed by a drug they’d taken Chorus Condemned to a life unkind as they suffered in silence The Hell of Thalidomide all in the name of science A mother’s ruin all for another’s greed Prescribing horror and sorrow when they breed Melody Gary Miscarriage, disparage live a life of anguish Midwives were taking lives so the child it would not languish Suffocating newborn daughters and sons for their malformations Given toxic poison that twisted a generation Repeat chorus First created in the past as an antidote for Sarin gas Created in camps of death what price a pound of flesh? Limbless, eyeless all organs displaced They made money hand over fist by selling this toxic waste Repeat chorus #Exodus #ThrashMetal #Thrash #NuclearBlast #Thalidomide
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