Open my eyes and see my bleeding wounded hands...
Feeling the pain too hard to stand...To stand
Caught in the now and here
While they are on the way.
Hiding imagination, leading us astray...
[Bridge]
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind
Sanity can be the toll
Leading to the core of your soul
[Chorus]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
Avantasia!
Walking along the icy gallery of pain
Tell me now... What can keep the flame alive?
Lack of imagination - raising up the tower
Where they hold our souls
To take away the power.
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Solo]
[Chorus]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
[Gabriel]
Open my eyes
and see my bleeding wounded hands...
Feeling the pain too hard to stand. To stand...
Caught in the 'now and here'
while they are on the way.
Hiding imagination, leading us astray...
[Lugaid]
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.
Sanity can be the toll -
leading to the core of your soul.
[Gabriel and the voices in his head]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia! - Avantasia...
Walking along the icy gallery of pain.
Tell me now: What can keep the flame alive?
Lack of imagination - raising up the tower
where they hold our souls
to take away the tower.
[Lugaid]
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.
Sanity can be the toll -
leading to the core of your soul.
[Gabriel]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
Oh - Avantasia
Oh - I hear the voices
Oh - into the light
Oh - Avantasia...
Lugaid
Mental vigour's been right on the egde
To a 'stupefying' hole of no return
Now we dance a holy war is won
But there must be more we got to learn
Gabriel
Don't you know that I'm here I must go
Into the morning light - illuminate the night
Be the guide on our side - the Gnosis
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
No return - I must know all that I never could ask
No return
No I still can't leave the world in here
Soon I feel that I am gonna get her free
But I've smelled at and I long for more
Take me in, oh i beg, philosophy
Oh I got to know, more now so I must go on
Into the morning light - illuminate the night
Be the guide on our side - the Gnosis
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
No return - I must know all that I never could ask
No return
Solo: Henjo Richter
Eldrane
No return - maybe you must pay
Many've been in quest for truth
Insanity has swallowed away
No return - but I wish you all the best
Go and face the tree of knowledge and be free
Gabriel
No return - I will go, follow the call of my spirit
Gabriel
Ah - Hugh !
Show me the way to he hallways
below Rome, I will be there
I've seen them burning in fire
They all bear too much to bear
Elderane
Why don't you think of all those who will come
Don't you waste your life
Gabriel
Don't you try show me the way
Don't need 'good advice'
Elderane
Cold hallways so old, a chalice of gold
A guard as they say, paralyzed
Follow the cries from out of the blood
The wine in the cup
Gabriel
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Gabriel
Regrin my friend we are passing the gate
Back into my world
Regrin
I am afraid of the guard and I wish
Warnings had been heard
Gabriel
Welcome to Rome, it's our mission
to make tortured spirits free
Regrin
Something's in here, oh I wish I could hide
from its staring eyes
Gabriel
Cold hallways so old, a chalice of gold
And I feel a chill
Staring eyes, while I hear the cries
From out of the blood, the wine in the cup
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Solo: Henjo Richter
No way out, we got to run to the gate
No way out , for some of the souls it's too late
Jakob are you free
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Welcome to Avantasia
Out of the wine, out of the chalice of agony
Gabriel
I remember it was long ago
But when I think of her I fell it grow
Something begs me to come home again
Something I can hardly stand
But I'm to defy, I have to ignore her cry
I don't know what to do, I'm missing you so bad
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light
Waiting for tomorrow just to see your smile again
Take away my sorrow from a blistered heart of mine
Where are you now if you are there anywhere
Please forgive me for how I decide
But before I can come with rapid strides
Don't expect you'll have to understand
Jakob needs my helping hand
First I have to go one out of two ways
Wich both are wrong and I'm to go
So afraid, so ashamed
So deranged - but I know...
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light
Waiting for tomorrow just to see your smile again
Take away my sorrow from a blistered heart of mine
Where are you now if you are there anywhere
Solo: Henjo Richter
Waiting for tomorrow, for a little ray of light...
Falk von Kronberg:
So, daughter of the old evil spirit, you still pretend
you don't know? Maybe we have a way to make you remember...
Else Vogler:
I have done no wrong, blood shall come upon you!
Falk von Kronberg:
Day after day I see her smile
If you could see her through my eyes
You wouldn't call her a little boy's fever dream
How can you tell my feelings wrong
How can't you see it's growing strong
Silicone angel you are my fantasy
Your eyes are cold
Pale are your skin and your lips
Pale is your desire
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
You are the rain
I'm the parade
Though your love is evil
I feel how you watch my every move
Why do you lie to me and you
Your languidness shining through a crystal wall
Nobody would touch you like i would
Nobody would stop us
If I could reach out through the glass
Pretend you don't hear my call
Your eyes are cold
Pale are your skin and your lips
Pale is your desire
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Cause your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
under your spell
And you look away
Though your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
You are the rain
Still I'm the parade
vocals by Amanda Somerville, Tobias Sammet and Michael Kiske
Amanda Somerville:
A dream of dwelling inside
Alone we come and alone we go
And who am I to know what I feel
Sympathy that's tearing me apart?
Attraction of the distance to a heart affinity?
What if love will leave your heart an open sore
And I can't reveal what even I don't know?
The love you feel you waste away on me
What kind of love will let us bleed away?
No kind of love will make us bleed away
Tobias Sammet:
If only you could be the one to take a look inside
I feel so incomplete
A broken man in need of mother love
I'm suffering in silence and no one wants to see
The only god is watching as I bleed
The star above my matching piece
[Amanda Somerville:]
Oh, this love will leave your heart an open sore
And I can't reveal what even I don't know
This love you feel you waste away on me
What kind of love will let us bleed away?
No kind of love will make us bleed away
Tobias Sammet:
Feel - that's all you gotta do
And it will heal you
Feel the pain to lead you home to peace of mind
Dwell inside
Feel - that's all you gotta do
And it will heal the wound
Feel there will be a song for peace of mind
A moment of glory
The blink of an eye and it's all gone
You hide in confinement
Dark is the cell that you call home
We pretend to be blind
everytime it hurts to see
You - you close your eyes
To blink the night away
At ease in the wastelands
You - you're dead and blind
You sanctify the way
Blindfold in the wastelands
Don't tell me in pain
The end doesn't justify the means
Spado, ascetic
It's easy to sermonize in jealousy
Now I'm off to life
I'm changing sides
Your final goodbye
You - you close your eyes
To blink the tears away
Love hurts in the wastelands
You - you're old and blind
You sacrifice it all
You'll be running out of miracles
Like I'm running out of dreams
Madness lurking into my left
Angels faint in front of me
And I see eyes to the right
I hear a promise resound
Gold and diamonds,love and fame
And music meant to remain
You've been dying for glory
You've been looking for love
Why don't we read the signs
When we're about to get lost
A seeker enthralled by a flame
Eventually home to his pain
The Great Unbeloved
You reach for the final stage
Hey man in your hideaway
Where do we go from here
Heroes in the tragedy
Down-home just a memory
Where do we go
When the world gets in the way
Way down to the hide away
Afflatus Divine! Your hands
And a wicked symphony
Hey now to the hideaway
Lock up the rain for a wicked symphony
Don't you give up on your emotions
Don't you abandon your despair
If you deny what you desire
This will have been just a mystery play
There'll be nowhere to go
Just oblivion,we're so close to reach out
Close to fall,make up or break up or crawl
You are striving for beauty
For a song to remain
A final touch and the spirit you have cited
Holds on to the reins
I feel how I'm losing my ground
A dancer enthralled by a sound
The smoke clears away
I'll reach for the final stage
Hey man in your hideaway
Where do we go from here
Heroes in the tragedy
Down-home just a memory
Where do we go
When the world gets in the way
Way down to the hide away,afflatus Divine!
Your hands and a wicked symphony
Hey now to the hideaway
Lock up the rain for a wicked symphony
Oh I can hear it,I can hear it
Oh I can hear it,I,I,I,I...
I can hear it,yeah
I'm dying for a sign
You can turn your face away
can pretend you don't hear it
How long have you been begging on your knees
And now that you're near it
Won't you be damned if you defy what you're given
Mercury of salvation
The colors for the eyes of the world
We'll be kings for generations
Hey man in your hideaway
Where do we go from here
Heroes in the tragedy
Down-home just a memory
Where do we go
When the world gets in the way
Way down to the hide away
Afflatus Divine!
Your hands and a wicked symphony
Hey now to the hideaway
Gabriel:
Where do I go?
Never had a very real dream before.
Now I got a vision of an open door.
Guiding me home, where I belong,
dreamland I have come.
Oh where do I go?
Never had a flesh and blood like this before.
Got a new appearance when I passed the door.
Is it a dream I am withing? Oh what's going on?
Down, down, down
Go down, go down, go down
I roam into nowhere.
Don't see an end: eternal wastelands.
And I hear the voice, the voice, the voice, the voice...
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah...
Never been a fighter, neber been a man.
But I must help Vandroiy, he's my only friend.
Nowhere to go but I know that he knows how
we will get her out...
Magic of transcendence
brought me to this place
Vandroiy in reality lead me on my race.
Told me to bring back the seal
but still I don't know where I shall go.
Lugaid:
Can't you 'feel' the voice?
You don't have a choice.
What a kind of life:
Freedom in flesh - shackles on your mind...
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
For all the wisdom of ages doesn't die.
Elderane:
Men have good intentions
on their way to the light.
But som of them are venal
and end up in the night.
Maybe it's better for you, mankind,
not to know what's going on.
Gabriel:
Sometimes we must go
ways that seem to be wrong.
What a kind of life: Freedom in flesh,
shackles on your mind...
Lugaid:
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
Voice in the Tower:
You have come the long way through ages
to bring me the seven parts of the seal.
So now throw it over the walls of the tower.
Throw the seal!
Pope:
But first Godfather, what about the prophecy? What
about your reward: The ultimate illumination, the
gnosis and the power to defend your kingdom on
earth with a strong hand? What about the prophecy?
Lugaid:
I realize...
all:
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
Lugaid:
Gabriel I can feel:
You have it back - book and seal.
Still no war is won, we have just begun...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one,
Of the one...
Jakob:
Oh, how could the stranger steal the seal away?
Was it my fault? Or was it no one's fault at all?
feat. Bob Catley & Amanda Somerville
Rousing from dreams, craving for someone
Wept himself to sleep
He s waiting for a sign from above
Where is the love
The hourglass in pieces, dashed to the wall
The future is over
Tomorrow's been slipping away
And nothing remains
He'd known it won't last forever
She'd go ahead for a while
When you open your eyes
When you gaze at the sky
When you look to the stars
As they shut down the night
You know this story ain't over
When you open your eyes
When you gaze at the sky
When you look to the stars
As they shut down the night
You feel this story ain't over
Where is the candle in this lonesome night?
Angle why are you so wayward
Abandoning me, try my belief
When life is not words
and tongue is not answers
And we only can t see a reason
Why would it mean
that it's not meant to be
He'd known it won't last forever
She d go ahead for a while
When you open your eyes
When you gaze at the sky
When you look to the stars
As they shut down the night
You know this story ain't over
When you open your eyes
When you gaze at the sky
When you look to the stars
As they shut down the night
Gabriel
Drawn by the sound of that wild raving pound
No one has told me
I gotta know all about hell and below
They never told me
The quest for nexus
In your life and for all that's beyond...
Gabriel
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
Then I'm asking for more and the more
that i wanna know
I know what I'll never know
Tree of Knowledge
From far away, from the state of decay
You've come to wisdom
Many've been led, into madness instead
Toll of my kingdom
The quest for nexus has brought
Many men of genius to insanity
Gabriel
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
Tree of Knowledge
Then you're asking for more, and the more that
you wanna know
You know what you'll never know
Solo: Henjo Richter
Tree of Knowledge
As long as you long for the whole
You can't get a part of at all
How proud would the buildings of Rome
Look without a single stone
Gabriel
When I gaze at the man who is gazing at me
When I stare into the looking glass
When I ask what he sees
Then I'm asking for more and the more
that i wanna know
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Heal me, heal me
Yes in the darkness of the night
I know there's someone near me
I can't explain but it's all right
As long as this won't leave me
I give to you my sacrifice
My virgin creed, my passion
I'm torn in two but all my life, my life
My life I'll wait for you
To near me
And reveal me
Rush tonight
We play the darkest of all symphonies
And in a flash of light
Then it'll all become the symphony of life
Of life, my life
Heal me
And in the deepness of my dreams
I know it's you that haunts me
In blood I swear my purity
And save my treasures for you
I give to you my sacrifice
And lay my burden down
Am I deranged that all my life, my life
My life I wait for you?
To cease me
And release me
Rush tonight
We play the darkest of all symphonies
And in a flash of light
Then it'll all become the symphony of life
Of life, my life
You haunt me, chase me like a beast
And with a taste so bittersweet
You love me, grieve me till I'm mad
Your mind to infinity
Let reason rivet on your feet or you may fall
You're drawn into a distant glow
You dream of voices from on high
But can't evade another rainy night
And putting on another show
Hate and affection
Pleasure and pain
Modes of vibration
Unveiling to be all the same
And when the final day has come
It's another state of matter
And when you face another sun
It's the union of the states of matter
Failure and defeat and all the riches surely beat
Where I have been and what I have been before
And when the sands of time run low
Commemoration of a lonely crow
That would have made it through the door
Light and affection
Darkness and pain
Mind of matter
The all's gonna make it all the same
And when the final day has come
Another state of matter
When you will face another sun
Gabriel:
From a world of reign they come...
Pope:
In a world of mammon we have found it all!
Fighting for pride and for gold.
But the key to the reign, to the ultimate control:
wisdom of the old.
We have been elect to drain the wine
of Gnosis to hide it and pray.
Got to save our children from the beast.
We are on the way.
Gabriel:
Seven eyes to be blind forever in time:
Sign of the cross...
Hell arise! Castigation under the sign,
sign of the cross - make us drown in altar wine
Bishop von Bicken:
In the heart of justice called Horeb long ago
Moses got carvings in stone.
Imposed to judge those who do not fear
the only, the holy, the lord
Gabriel:
The blood of anger and pain:
Ink of the Old Testament
I know they'll end their crusade
drown in the blood of the lamb
Elderane:
Remaining in darkness
the land of salvation will drown.
And when we'll have vanished
slavery will take your freedom down.
Gabriel:
Seven eyes to be blind forever in time:
Sign of the cross...
Hell arise! Castigation under the sign,
sign of the cross - make us drown in altar wine
Regrin:
You have been the chosen one,
so welcome to this place.
Vandroiy's told us you would come
to help us win the race.
Bring baclk the seal from the men
who don't know what they do.
Seemed to be a fool without and own way of life.
But you've been a sleeping mind
and you woke up on time.
You'be got the power to save us and finally you.
Gabriel:
A dream is forever.
The land of salvetion can't drown.
These enchanting colors -
who could have the might to tear it down?
(all these colors - fantasy...)
Seven eyes to be blind forever in time:
Sign of the cross...
Hell arise! Castigation under the sign,
vocals by Tobias Sammet, Michael Kiske and Bob Catley
Tobias Sammet:
Like a wheel I keep on turning
Straight ahead, it's got me burning
The melody the dignity,
Something is speaking to me
Night is cold and my soul is battered
Not afraid for the first time now that I realize
We coincide, I'll never belong to the tribe
And a song is calling me to this ship of fools
Chorus:
Been dying for a sign when faith has been on the line
When you find your love on wasted grounds
You're taking to the sound, it's shelter from the rain
Michael Kiske:
No return from the way I've chosen,
Cast away - chasing rainbows - condemn the lie
And how could I make god believe I'm blind?
We create by intuition,
call it fate the tounge of angels in our soul
Feel it resound and carry you over the grind
All that's left is a song giving shelter from the rain
Chorus
Bob Catley:
It's a dark and stormy night,
Ain't it funny what it takes to read the signs?
But I'm always there, I am the footprints to your right
Man overlooks when riding high, young and blind
In your darkest lonely night, heed a voice to take you higher
Take you higher
As you stumble through the ruins, let the spirit take you higher, and a soul
Tobias Sammet:
Oh, and a song
I can hear a song
Goodbye
Your pocket full of dreams
Your mind in a daze
Keep on chasing rainbows
Fly high
Leave the past behind
The dark road you take bears no escape
In a world of grand illusions
Where love is just a dream
You gotta make your sacrifices
Time to pick your poison
The fool is he who is noble minded
And bellies up to poverty
He's not a king in the world of diamonds
Paling into oblivion
I lay down my soul for glory
I've given a life away
Don't know if I am sorry
Blind me, blind me
Don't know where I'll be going
I gotta get away
From the pain of recollection
Drawn into the faint
Hang on to a runaway train
No turning back
Tethered to a runaway train
Take me away
Torpid in the wind and rain
No turning back
Hang on to a runaway train
Take me away
If I'm a stranger to myself
Then I better gotta stay away
Even better gotta get away, get away
Time to pick my poison
Feel the devil sitting in my neck
Straight ahead into the unknown
Oh father I forgive you for I
Don't know what I'm doing
It's only human nature
To keep away from pain
Take a train to ecstasy oh
Ride on, ride on
Inhale the scent of heaven
Respire the smell of fame
You've been to hell and back
You can't change things anyway, no
I hang on to a runaway train
No turning back
Tethered to a runaway train
Take me away
Torpid in the wind and rain
No turning back
I hang on to a runaway train
Take me away
Reaching out to rule the world
you'll watch the mirror shatter
As you'll be dazzled by the sight
Once only diamonds mattered
How can you justify the way
When you wake up screaming
Will you pretend that you were blind
When you were really seeing
Your image everywhere
The looking glass: a sheet of ice
It's thick enough to dance on
In a frozen realm of lies
But the ice will break
And you will scream repenting
Oh boy the ice will break
You'll just feel your heart rending
Riding on to a world of funny flowers
Riding on to the white wide world
If coming back would hurt my pride
I rather take another ride
Riding on, winter on the mirror
Riding on into the unknown
If I'll awake in pain one day
I gotta catch just one more train
Days gone by
Who'd wanna live forever
On our knees up your road
Paved with good intentions
Fly high
Where angels can't breathe no more
Some dare to go blind
Some stay behind
I hang on to a runaway train
No turning back
Tethered to a runaway train
Take me away
Torpid in the wind and rain
No turning back
I hang on to a runaway train
Take me away
Hang on to a runaway train
No turning back
Tethered to a runaway train
Take me away
Torpid in the wind and rain
in the wind and rain
feat. Eric Singer
Traveling this dark world, leaving light behind
seeing things I shouldn't see
new eyes I got to find
Mars Venus and stars shaking
their heads at me
No more today's - tonight I'll be riding the sky
Hey world look out I'm coming
Friends pass me by and you saw me humming
Mars Venus and stars shaking
their heads at me
No more today's - tonight I'll be riding the sky
Tonight ride the sky, tonight ride the sky
The smile on his face turn me to stone
The words that he spoke
wouldn't leave me alone
Mars Venus and stars
shaking their heads at me
No more today's tonight I'll be riding the sky
Tonight ride the sky, tonight ride the sky,
Tonight ride the sky
There'll be fireworks tonight
Everybody's on their knees
Admiration for the one
Riot in a dead-end street
Don't be afraid to hear his voice
Tells you lies you wanna hear
You just listen and obey
Got the ticket in your hand
A new religion for the mob
For everyone to understand
We're all just clockwork toys tonight
And salvation is drawing near
The snow covered opera tonight
Enchanted with dilated eyes
Living in a rat race
Dying in a rat race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Living in a rat race
Living in a rat race
I got sulfur in my veins
Devil watching through my eyes
I got beauty I got brains
And there's no one to defy
I've got the power in my fingers
And the opera in my hands
The onset of winter tonight
The mirror it gives me a smile
Living in a rat race
Dying in the rat race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Speeding in the rat race
Bleeding in the rat chase
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Living in the rat race
Dying in the race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Speeding in the rat race
Bleeding in the rat chase
Burning in the stream again
Bishop
Cought in neverland, no purpose to be seen
There's no point of destination
Neverending wastelands, such a wicked odyssey
Don't know what we have done wrong
Lead us back to Rome to follow you again
Bring you the power, get salvation
I know less than all but more
than many who know less
I know it's keeping us strong
Gabriel
And while they are pulling strings
While they are in command
They're hanging on strings
And fate they do commend into another hand
Cought in neverland, heat and fire, snow and ice
They call nether world what we call a paradise
Cought in neverland and their spirits cannot rise
From the nether world, they can't see a paradise
And the Roman whore, the masters and the slaves
Raging on without they don't know
Good intentions on their minds
Can't ask for why they bow out
Bishop
Lead us to Eden, judge those who bite off more
than they can chew to serve, without they ask
Or call in doubt the ask
Gabriel
Cought in neverland, heat and fire, snow and ice
They call nether world what we call a paradise
Cought in neverland and their spirits cannot rise
From the nether world, they can't see a paradise
Solo: Henjo Richter
Cought in neverland in the place of many eyes
Make it be what they are allowed to realize
Falk
Oh, I dare not to sleep anymore
Cause I see her face in every nightmare
In all the windows of my haunted house
And when I dream a dream of flowers
I wake up in my hand a bloody rose
'Blood shall come upon you'
So she spoke to me
Never knew she'd come back
Now she's on my dreams
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream
Or just a wicked memory ... Oh
Now I see her coming on her besom...
The smell of brimstone
And the mark of the beast
From the open window
Is it just a dream
As she's pulling out the dagger to stab
A thousand times into my hurting breast
Wake up from the nightmare
Screaming when I see her stand
with the face of Jakob
A bloody dagger in her hand
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream
Gabriel
Maybe his conscience
Will send him a dream in his dreams
If I only knew - oh Anna -
If his soul also came free
Or maybe if Jakob
Would talk to the bailiff for you
I can't come for you
I don't know how many souls were set free
To start a rebellion, don't know if I'll still have to flee
Solo: Jens Ludwig
Oh that faces in my dream...
From the faces in my dream
Another star
has fallen without a sound
Another spark
has burned out in the cold
Another door
to barrens standing open
And who is there
to tell me not to give and not to go
How could I know?, how could I know?
That I'll get lost in space to roam forever
How could I know?, how could I see?
feeling like lost in space to roam forever
I'm crawling down
The doorway to the badlands
And kicking down
Are you heard: it's to the black
and all the damage
fading in the oblivion mirror
When the demons
are calling me, their dragging me away
How could I know?, how could I know?
That I'll get lost in space to roam forever
How could I know?, how could I see?
feeling like lost in space to roam forever
Lost in space
Lost in time
Lost in space
Lost in (Lost In) Time
Lost in Space
Lost in time
Lost in space
How could I know, how could i (how could i) know
How could I know, How could I know
That I'll get lost in space to roam for ever
How could I now, how could I see
feeling like lost in space to roam forever
Forever...
Forever...
Lost in space
Another star
Has fallen without a sound
Another spark
Has burned out in the cold
Another door
To a barren standing open
And who is there
To tell me not to give and not to go
How could I know?, how could I know?
That I'll get lost in space to roam forever
How could I know?, how could I see?
Feeling like lost in space to roam forever
I'm crawling down
The doorway to the badlands
And kicking down
Are you heard: it's to the black
And all the damage
Fading in the rear view mirror
When the demons
Are calling me, their dragging me away
How could I know?, how could I know?
That I'll get lost in space to roam forever
How could I know?, how could I see?
Feeling like lost in space to roam forever
Lost in space
Lost in time
Lost in space
Lost in time
Lost in space
How could I know, how could I
How could I know, How could I know
That I'll get lost in space to roam for ever
How could I know, how could I see
Feeling like lost in space to roam forever
A lonely boy, a handful of dreams
Cold wind blows through a heart wired-in
Open skies he would explore
No there ain't no mastery
Of a passion and a deep blue love
Yearn to see far away places
One day he'd feel two hearts collide
In his eyes tears and desire
But he prays and he swears every night
One day scales will fall from her eyes
Just with a dream
Just with a dream and with a song
On my own I may stumble and fall
It don't matter at all when you're blessed with
Just what's yet to come, what's yet to come
When dogs run barking
And I don't hear no sound
And the sky is as blue
As eyes have never seen it
Then I remember
What I'd have been dying for
Faith rescue my dream
From a role that I've been put in
On their screen
Your eyes, and as I'll look into your eyes
We're at the crack of dawn
Life will stop telling lies
And destiny will know
It's just you and I
Burning feet on the ground
Got my head in the clouds
Journey to Arcadia
And I know I will stand
What I can't comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more we see we understand
That there's a lot that we don't know
As you awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show
Far from the eye but close to heart
No matter how we try
Can't repel the counterpart
Our common bond we can't defy
I've seen them standing at the crossroads
When they were waiting for a sign
And they unlearned to face the silence
As they unlearned to turn inside
You're turning to the sky
And you're dying for an angel
If you want it bad enough, see those eyes
That's where two glances collide
Learn to breathe, learn to crawl
Learn to stand, walk and fall
Learn to lose and to love, to believe, to rise above
Love is more than to love
Burning feet on the ground
Got your head in the clouds
You're out to find Arcadia
And you know you will stand
What you can't comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more I've seen I understand
That there ain't nothing that I know now
As I awake on padded ground
In my defence what is there to say
All the mistakes we made must be faced today
It's not easy now knowing where to start
While the world we love tears itself apart
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
For just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between
With a fading dream
In my defence what is there to say
We destroy the love - it's our way
We never listen enough never face the truth
Then like a passing song
Love is here and then it's gone
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
For just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between
With a fading dream
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
I'm just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between with a fading dream
Caught in between with a fading dream
Caught in between with a fading dream
Oh what on earth
Oh what on earth
How do I try
Do we live or die
Oh help me God
[Living in the darkness
What a cold and lonely night
Voices in the darkness
Sing a sweet, sweet lullaby
Something's coming nearer
Anyone to join the game
A game
Welcome to the attic
Hospitality is my name]
Eyes, so alive
I've been feeling pretty dead for quite a while
Give me a smile
Dead and alive, come a little closer
You and I, affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I, swapping finitude and love for diamonds
I'm just a little pale
Don't hesitate to sign right here
Don't be afraid to come with me
Specialized in temporizing
Dead to faulty love and time
Faulty time
We'll be dancing here forever and a while
Day by day
Dead and alive, come a little closer
You and I, affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I, swapping finitude and love for diamonds
Value by value I'm gonna turn into breath after breath
Love, we trade in for silver
Defy what they used to call "death"
And dust covered treasures will shine again
An unseen accolade
Larger than life, a memory, death will be just a
charade
Dead and alive, come a little closer
You and I, affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I, swapping finitude and love for diamonds
Gabriel:
Days had come, winters had gone,
and we gamboled like siblings in Paradise.
I was your knight, holding you tight
as a brother when I saw your crying eyes.
Time went by and we had to say goodbye.
Staring up to the clouds above
Children - so little and sad.
Hoping the saints could help one day
Lead us together again.
Holding the key to the alley of dreams
still in hands.
Time telling me to say farewell
but I knew that I would fight hell
and I knew: We will
go for another time we can see,
for another time we'll be free,
for no more farewell.
Anna:
Stepbrother tell me where have you been
when they brought me to this godforsaken place.
Sign of the cross - they took me away
for healing with herbs by the way of grace.
Now I wait for the day to feed the flames.
Gabriel:
I have been caught in a cage of despair.
My heart as a monk's cell so empty and bare.
But no holy water can make me
forget you again...
Time telling me to say farewell
but I knew that I would fight hell
and I knew: We will
go for another time we can see,
for another time we'll be free,
for no more farewell.
Lugaid:
No farewell could be the last one.
You're awake in your darkest dream
I have come for you
And nobody can hear you scream
When I reach for you
Don't you remember they're feeding your face
Before they have carved you in stone
And don't you remember your sweat and your pain
When you were drawn to the bone
When you were left on all alone
Chorus:
Living on a dream
Dying for an angel
Reach out, waiting for a miracle
No sign of wings, as you turn your back on me
Living on a dream
Lonely cold and dire
Head up, feet down in the fire
Giving till you're gone
Dying for an angel
Everyday
Where do we go from the apogee
What do we leave behind
How will I stand what I'll have to see
This reflection of mine
Collateral damage, your sacrifice
Got a longer fly alone to fall
Gotta tear down the walls of love and light
You have come on your own
You will go on all alone
Chorus
Solo: Sascha Paeth
(Living on a dream
Fighting for an angel
Reach out, waiting for a miracle
No sign of wings, as you turn your back on me)
All of a tremble
You can feel their poison arrows
Have left their mark
Higher and higher
Wanna seize the day
While you're waiting for the dark
You're running from the disdain
You know this time
You won't turn around
Chasing an illusion, disillusion
Desire leading, downward bound
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
Down in the dark you'll be crossing the line
I'm a believer on the receiving end
Of the bat they hold with grace
Dead to the voices of the anxious
Timid of him who must not be named
Enticing me away now as the sun sets
To the truth that lies beyond
I'm chasing an illusion, an illusion
Revelation I'm coming home
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
Down in the dark you'll be crossing the line
You turn your back on the one
Willing to make up his mind
No you never stood in my shoes
Evil versus divine
You're feeling drawn to purity
Like a moth to the flame
Light at the end of the tunnel
Strange how the voice of the savior
Roars like a train
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
vocals by Tobias Sammet and Bob Catley
Tobias Sammet:
A heart out of affection, a night at the masquerade
You won some and you're long some
as the spotlight fades
Going forth pretending destination is at hand
When she's crying just a little just for me
Bob Catley:
I've seen them set off to the Promised Land
Escaping from the hurtings they don't understand
A sense of satisfaction on account of pristine tears
She's crying just little more just like you
No, oh, no, no
Chorus:
Why don't you cry, cry a little over me?
Why don't you lie?
Can't you tell me that I am hard to deny?
Can't you see what I am going through?
Cry just a little for me, oh, girl, a little for me
Bob Catley:
Afraid to give away what you keep inside
There's a ghost in your mirror every lonesome night
All those nights are getting colder
and your heart is a frozen wound
Don't you wonder who'll be there when you awake?
No, oh
vocals by Tobias Sammet
Tobias Sammet:
Never been told my prayers would be answered
Wherever I go I see you around
Never been told that something that beautiful
Would bring me up to let me down
Waiting up on the roof, waiting up in the rain
Just to catch a glimpse of your face
Even when you're around
Still I'm out of sight, out of sound
In your world I'm out of place
Chorus:
Carry me over, carry me over
Carry me over now
Carry me over, carry me over
Carry me over now
You're like a ghost that I can't let go
You follow every step that I take
Never thought someone could be too close to you
Now across the street is miles away
And now I might as well be the man in the moon
I am watching but you don't seem aware
And I won't be around
I'll be out of sight, out of sound
Someone's gonna wait somewhere
I sold my soul for diamonds
And reason for acclaim
Been begging for white angels
To blow my mind away
Been growing funny flowers
Where roses never grew
I stayed awake all night
When I woke up from dreams
Of me and you
I tried to take the sun and I went blind
God help me to erase you from my mind
I'm growing cold
And the night is yet to come
Anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
Lost and isolated
I'm way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I'm blowing out the flame
Self-pity gave me shelter
I always hid away in vice
Dyslexic, torn and tattered
I tried to read the signs
You never tried to take a look
At the one I'd have died to be
Now it seems you don't see me at all
Was it all worth it
Visions holding sway
When the real thing got lost along the way
Yes anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
I'm lost and isolated
Way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I'm blowing out the flame
Yes anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
Lost and isolated
I'm way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I've been here through a million ages
I am the savior inside
Tonight I am love and justice
Tomorrow perversion to spite
And now that it's bleeding you dry
I'm calling you, I'm calling you
When temperance is bleeding you dry
I'm knocking you off the perch
And out in the rain
I'll hide under wings I'd curse in sunlight
Out in the rain
You can break me and take me away
On wings of fury
Live your tragic comedy
I'm the poison in your veins
Circumspection, vanity
You give all they can take
I am fury, I am fire, I'm the worm inside
Deliver you from self-denial tonight
When temperance is bleeding you dry I'm inside
And out in the rain
I'll hide under wings I'd curse in sunlight
Out in the rain
You can break me and take me away
On wings of fury
Who do you think you are
To tell me what to say
Who do you think you are
To tell me what to play
And what not to break
And out in the rain
I'll hide under wings I'd curse in sunlight
Out in the rain
You can break me and take me away
vocals by Tobias Sammet and Jorn Lande
Jorn Lande:
I am the master of the game that's made a fool you
I'm watching from the highest tower
You've got the aura to enchant them and a symphony
And I have got the power
You better taste: they call it life my special area
I'm breeding winners over there
Ain't it a sin to turn your back on what you're given?
It's time to take your share
Tobias Sammet:
God left me for dead - I've been turning my head
Away from the living - the time has come
To gamble for gain - to tear down the gate
And see what's inside
Chorus:
We rock the ball, been smashed to the ground
Arose from devotion to take a look and see what is inside
Sight of the crown: another angel down
We rock the ball, I'm facing my pain
A rage and a symphony driven by the wounds I cannot hide
Rise above the crowd: another angel down
Tobias Sammet:
We'll see a black hole will be left up in the starry sky
We gotta mourn another angel
If I am just a light descending to caducity
It's still so far away
There's no tomorrow, I don't remember yesterday
I'm just living for tonight
And all the love I'm not gonna waste no more
I won't spit what's divine
Jorn Lande:
They left you for dead - turning your head
Away form the living - from flesh and blood
You've got the draw and desire to claw
For fortune and fame
We have roamed the plains a million years
Gathered at the shore
When we had run out off all fears
We have come from everywhere
Crumbling worlds behind
Reason is what we're gonna give
To be given peace of mind
Crimson is the pavement
Blood is dripping from our dreams
To the sound of smashing yesterdays
We dance in ecstasy
Oh craving devour me, take me away
Oh to infinity, take me away
Take me away
Oh yeah take me away
Far away
Don't you turn your face to the night sky
Said the fainthearted one
You may see through the charades
An instant that won't come undone
I can feel the ease of my pain
Decline of the blood reason level
Gazing in awe bystanders scream
Mentally critical fettle
We're sailing on gentle waves
We read the sky
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
Infinity
Reason left behind
Where are you detecting the wrongs
Spirit that always denies
I've gone insane
Release me from waiting
For the sparkle to rise
I can see they're nailed to the cross
Cannot live till they're gone
Immortal they cry on terrestrial embers
While they laugh at the clown
You feel a chill as if time stood still
There's no way out
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
For a lucid dream
You'll leave the world behind
Oh craving devour me
Release me, please, take me away
To infinity, oh take me away
Craving devour me
Take me, take me away
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
Infinity, reason left behind
When the sun rose to wake another day
they were gone, gone without a trace
Babylon, craving in lucidity
Babylon, the fire will remain
And the sun razes from their memory
What the dark had cyphered in the sky
And the flame's burning their lucidity
Babylon, rise up to the night
Oh, let us wander
let us wander between the worlds
We override their principles
Abrogate horizons
Abandon mental gravity
Oh, we overrule the eye
Compromise your sanity
To heaven
vocals by Tobias Sammet and Roy Khan
Roy Khan:
One of a kind they say they've never seen before
Investigate the aberration, disorder in the core
[Tobias Sammet:]
I never tried to hide away or tried to keep your pace
You walk me to the slaughter with a smile upon your face
Chorus:
From the cradle to the madhouse, a twisted mind
There's no way out of this hell for twisted mind
There's no way out
There's no way out
Roy Khan:
You've come to see the healer, so don't you be afraid
They call me tranquilizer, I'm here to isolate
We paint in black and white and you're the dirty in between
Monstrosity of nature, a virulent disease
Chorus
Can't you see, can't you see
That you are not like anyone?
You'll never see through anyone else's eyes
And who am I to certify the sanity of a twisted mind
A victim of perception, a twisted mind
[x2]
Missprizing chastising
Subhuman fragmentizing
Sensation aberration
Repulsive tantalizing
[x2]
From the cradle to the madhouse, a twisted mind
There's no way out of this hell for twisted mind
vocals by Alice Cooper and Tobias Sammet
Alice Cooper:
Don't you be afraid,
come and step inside, take a look around
I'm your holy grail in your candy store to save you from the profound
They used to dream in only black and white
Can't you hear them scream, drowning in the tide
Pre-chorus:
Out in the cold, I see water frozen in their eyes
What a sorry sight
I am willing to believe they would pay for a smile
Chorus:
I'm the master of toys
and all you girls and boys
are welcome to my wonderland
I'm the angel of joy
And I'm here to paint the void
Welcome to my world
To my dream factory
Say hello to the gentleman with the paint
The deeper you're in the blue, the sweeter the sound of your plaints
If only I had a heart it would break oh sure
And I wonder how much more they can take
Pre-chorus sung by Tobias Sammet
Chorus
I'm dealing in pain and a little Novocaine
Welcome to my world, to my toy factory
[x2]
No more struggle at the classes
No more struggle at the masses
On their knees, conformity
They all ready for a hero, they all flying at zero
It's their turn to crash and burn
Chorus
I come to bring you pain
And a little Novocaine
vocals by Tobias Sammet, Jorn Lande and Michael Kiske
Tobias Sammet:
I'm just a loser in the game of love
I'm just a stray boy in the shade
And how I wish to know what love is like
To find someone to contemplate
There's a voice and a million answers
To the questions I don't ask
A demon I've got to contain
When I'm walking through the fen
Gonna deep into the black
There are whispers that I can't restrain
Don't give in
Chorus:
Rise to fame time will come
Make your claim time has come
For the crow who fly away
Jorn Lande:
So you're an angel meant to walk down here
And you believe it's all divine
And you don't play by all those temporal rules
Watch the world begin to die
Alright when the lamb's been torn to pieces,
I've been crashing from the sky
Fallen to care for the pray, they put a spoke right in your wheel
I'm the one to dare the weak, to push you all over the pain
You give in oh
Chorus
solo: Sascha Paeth
Tobias Sammet:
I close my eyes and I see what's coming my way
He's got treasure in his eyes that he's gonna turn to clay
Jorn Lande:
Hm, I'm a stranger, I'm a changer and I'm danger...
Maybe
Tobias Sammet:
Fallen angel - waiting for the prey
The devil has come to take a maimed away
Penetration of the twisted mind
The evil is out for the weak and blind
I can feel it in your voice
Ever so sweet, no
Do I really have a choice? No, no, no!
Jorn Lande:
Oh, you burn your feet on unholy ground
You roam the barren wicked plains abound
In evil eyes and evil speak
About it all your evil freaks
When you say it's all divine and meant to be
What about your flesh and blood and defires like me?
Their evil eyes are looking down on you
And those who don't are losing sight of you
Face the rage to chase away
The specter of disgrace and shame
Withered roses dying on the ledge
A withered dreamer standing on the edge
You dream of love but you wake up to pain
You're better off to join in my game
Then she'll better off to cry contrite tears
One day she'll wonder why she had to let you disappear,
Rise to fame your time has come
Time will come to take the sun
Make your claim - you're drawn to the sound
Time has come you're leaving ground
Rise to fame - the flight of the crow
Time will come - cross the line
Your time has come - for the crow to fly away
It's a flight to hell
Can you hear the bell
The devil has come
To take your soul away
A flight to hell - alright
I'm a stranger
I'm a changer
And I'm danger
Fallen angel
Falk:
Jesus Christ I'm coming - terrestrial home.
I'm allowed to guide their train
to visit you in Rome.
I am sick of preachers telling to be plain
while you got it nice in here.
They'd better feel ashamed.
Johann Adam von Bicken:
Oh, ways of gold
lead is into Your blaze of fame.
Oh, are You waiting
for what we have brought You from hell?
Gabriel:
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Praising the king of the kings.
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Reaching for haloes and wings.
Johann Adam von Bicken:
Heading for the angels, heading for the feast,
heading for salvation and the ruin of the beast.
Let us fight the outcast, let us brin 'em fire,
let us lock the center of their wicked, mad desire.
Oh, ways of gold lead us into Your blaze of fame.
Oh, are You waiting
for what we have brought You from hell?
Gabriel:
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Praising the king of the kings.
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Reaching for haloes and wings.
Pope Clemens IIX:
Holding in my hand: Seven parts of a seal
to unlock the land of illumination I feel.
And it's been foretold: after touching the light
we shall lock the world.
But now it's our time to transcend,
the ultimate key in our hand.
Gabriel:
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Praising the king of the kings.
Glory of Rome, glorious home.
Gabriel
Staring into the lake, watching for heaven's sake
faces screaming in fear
Crying like at the stake, in the fiery waves
I can see all the souls how they suffer and howl
in their eternal pain
Service taking its toll, living life in hades
All the souls that left their mortal
frame if it's been dead or not
All the deaf who did not hear the truth
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was their final sacrifice
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was their final sacrifice
Jakob's voice
Someone pullin' me out to come back to my flesh
Or I'm going insane !
In a world under Rome, in the fiery waves
Can't you see all the souls, how we suffer and howl
In our eternal pain
Service taking the toll, living life in hades...
Oh I see you standing on the
shore of castigation now
We don't wanna burn no more so pull us out,out,out
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was our final sacrifice
Get ready for the brimstone-
getting blisters on the eyes
The power of the spirit was our final sacrifice
Get ready !
Solo: Jens Ludwig
When I was sent to walk this long cold way
I'd never meant to take it all this far
Nobody told me I was bound to stray
You gave me visions and cut out this part
When the journey is over
Then what will remain
But a churchyard of angels
Don't need no glory
The bottle and I
Don't need no sympathy at all
As I hang on the edge
Don't need no glory
Till the river's run dry
I won't cry for sympathy as I
Hang on the edge
When your were shackles chances passed me by
I've broken free
Now I'm free falling
Laid down my arms as you laid down the lie:
Those words you didn't say when I was calling
Fingers bleed onto the ivory
They dance on the keys
To a churchyard of angels
Don't need no glory
The bottle and I
Don't need no sympathy at all
As I hang on the edge
Don't need no glory
Till the river's run dry
I won't cry for sympathy as I
You turn off the light
And you won't make no difference
You hear the echoes fade away
When the cries of despair
Turn to a sound in distance
The road ain't divine
Black are the wings that will carry me home
Tower in the night, up to the sky
Carry our remains angel of light
To the dark side of Paradise
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
I feel how I faint as I'm crossing the Acheron
Wash away my innocence
Was I losing my away
When the sky has been blackened
This short cut of evil
Where do they drive me, where will I go
Days gone by time after time
I'm going insane, losing my mind
To the dark side of Paradise
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
Gabriel:
Reading the madness they took her away
under the cross.
Bailiff and bishop and monk -
Malleus Maleficarum - the law
Prayed for salvetion, I fought for her soul -
scared by the horned.
The devil was creeping around
until she died in the flames as he saw.
Father forgive me for I've hardly seen
the human deep within. Just an intention -
so holy and clear - paving the way to madness
for us...
Serpents on the way to paradise -
dying for love, fighting for ages.
Serpents on their way to paradise -
raging with anger and pain for the cross.
Jakob:
Father forgive me for what I have done.
For I betrayed the one that I loved like a son.
Demons and spells are they reality?
The pest and the schism; the power of the Moor
We've got to fight. Keep our people afraid...
Keep them away from what they shall not see.
I see a menace to our paradise
in these evil times.
Heaves is burning, people are yearning
for a new doctrine, they are...
Gabriel:
Serpents on the way paradise.
Jakob:
Don't know they'll end in final damnation.
Gabriel:
Serpents on the way to paradise...
Jakob:
Raging with anger and pain against the cross.
Gabriel:
Lord if I'm an unbeliever - what do I believe?
Can you tell me lord what you had done
if you were me?
I have stared into the eyes
of innocence and fear.
I saw Anna in the tower in a lake of tears.
Something strange is going on and
still I don't know why.
I have stared into the secrets
they still try to hide.
Vandroiy can you tell me what you know about it all?
Vandroiy can you help me
to leave this prison hall?
Vandroiy can you help me
free Anna from the chain?
Vandroiy can you help me
to become a little sane?
Serpents on the way to paradise -
Dying for love, fighting for ages.
Serpents on their way to paradise
I spy with my little eye
Things you ll never see
Whispers burn my eardrum
It s eerie to the feel
I see them crawling up the wall
I see them staring at us all
Am I afraid of what I know
They look at you, they look at me
And as they look inquiringly
They scratch their heads
And watch the show
I can t explain, am I ashamed
Scary eyes watching every move
Fail to make out a reason
Scary eyes tracing what we do
At the tail of us fools
Extraterrestrial you follow me around
Not that I don t like you
Basically you re sound
Welcome to the Stone Age
Don t ask me to explain
Or you will crash the headlines:
Martian gone insane
You can t explain why you re insane
Scary eyes watching every move
Fail to make out a reason
Scary eyes tracing what we do
At the tail of us fools
Why are you afraid of little spider
Not a claudication
Or other complication
Why don t you just be a little wiser
You stick in a relation
Instead of fornication
I can t explain, am I ashamed
Scary eyes watching every move
Fail to make out a reason
Scary eyes tracing what we do
Predetermination, belief
Veracity of incidents
Reconciliation
Between justice and tomorrow
You're innocent
It's only human to just close your eyes
Blinding fury, part of paradise
Heaven justifies
To take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
At the scaffold scales held even
take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
Look away, scales held even
You owe the power and your pace
To the brute that's running after you
Humiliation's growing hate
Righteous anger driving you
Cut off the hand
That tries to keep me back
Blinding fury, a piece of paradise
Cause heaven justifies
To take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
At the scaffold scales held even
To take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
Look away, scales held even
Just close your eyes, just look away
What you don't want to know
Ain't gonna hurt you
Time passes by, we all die anyway
And no nothing remains
Whatever you say, whatever you do
To take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
At the scaffold scales held even
To take your eyes off the drag
Walking to the block
Gabriel:
Lord above - why don't you tell me
why I'm here in agony?
I've been serving, I've been praying
now I'm caught in misery.
I've been praised by friar Jakob,
I misused his confidence.
Cheated by this work of evil -
feigning Anna's innocence.
Oh what have I done?
So many ways lead to the fallen one,
Lucifer, fallen light...
Oh what have I done?
What is going on?
We should bring salvation,
not give in to his temptation - no!
Read and preach the holy world
and no forbidden lies that hurt.
I remember words of "seven".
Set me bree - sanity!
Lugaid:
Reach out for the light
far beyond confines.
You have read the magic lines
leading to the light in your mind...
Gabriel:
What is right and what is wrong now?
Is it a trial of paradise?
Is anna a witch or do they stick to an error?
What's the book and the seal inside?
Am I a cleric or maybe a sinner?
Unbeliever? Renegade?
Was it the devil who led me to "seven"?
Oh redeemer is it all too late?
Oh, what have I done?
I have been led by the smelling one,
Lucifer, fallen light...
Tell me stranger, what have I done?
Oh what's going on?
We should bring salvation,
not give in to his temptation - no!
Read and preach the holy world
and no forbidden lies that hurt.
I remember words of "seven".
Set me free - sanity!
Lugaid:
Reach out for the light
far beyond confines.
You have read the magic lines
leading to the light in your mind...
Gabriel:
Hey redeemer
Now what's become on me
taken in by promise
awakening in grief
Collecting us like puppets
you instrumentalize
A frigid trepidation
in a million puppet eyes
God gave his word just to let us down
Where is he now?
You've been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
Come into the promised land
You scratched my back and I scratched yours
It s you who makes decisions
I just open up the doors
Whining in the gutter
They forget their sanctity
Welcome to my clockwork
Vanity machinery
You gave your word
You let me down
What am I now
You've been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
Come into the promised land
Oh as far as the eye can see
They re bent in submission
Empty inside
An army of scarecrows like me
Thousands of brokens dreams
Thousands of tragedies
Tried to run from their destiny
Like moths to a flame
Driven by vanity
They been off to Jerusalem
Chasing a dream
Calling on me
We re just trading in needs
You've been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
ABBA Cover
I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every man I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up man should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you dear
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think it was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible
'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned has overturned
What can I do
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Anna
Heading for another life
In a new world far away
Why not me, oh Lord
Why did Vandroiy have to die, why
Gabriel
Dreamers come and go
But a dream's forever
Freedom for all minds
Let us go together
Neverending ways
Got to roam forever
Always carry on
Walking down a misty road into the unknown
Heavy winds may blow into our faces
You can't kill the dream in killing the dreamer
Can't tear it down
Always carry on
Dreamers come and go
But a dream's forever
Freedom for all minds
Let us go together
Neverending ways
Got to roam forever
Always carry on
I've seen dreamers come and go
Elderane:
We're the little creatures
deep inside your mind.
Regrin:
Some call us their fantasy
but some to never find.
Elderane:
We can teach philosophy
but still we must commend...
Regrin:
The state of our existence
right into your hand wlcome to this place in here come overstep all your fears...
Gabriel:
Where have you all been once
when I was alone?
When I was a hero in their crazy wicked show
you've sent no little spark
into my darkened view of life.
Did not make me ask for what is wrong
and what is right.
And still I regret to be here.
I'm dreaming of Anna in tears.
Inside - so deep inside
you will die if I don't dream anymore?
Inside - so deep inside
Tree of Knowledge
Coming from the wastelands
Full of reason, common sense
Where their principles are blocking minds
And you don't understand
Giving you belief,
You never touch, you never see
But if you dare to try to grip it
you're accused for heresy
Gabriel
Here I stand to find the truth
and for ought I know
You're the one to show me
You can tell my spirit how to grow
No, the more I try
The more confusion on my mind
And no matter how I try
I feel my eyes seem to stay blind
Tree of Knowledge
No use in analysing, forget about alchemy
Because the secret of all truth
Is the quest for - and you'll feel
When you knock right on the door
"Forever locked" they say
A little man will let you in,
For you have always tried - to get inside
You're in quest for more to find the core
Your journey still ain't over
Your quest is your purpose, go on
You're in quest for more to find the core
It will be - never- over
Your quest is your purpose, go on ...
vocals by Tobias Sammet and Oliver Hartmann
Oliver Hartmann:
No one around to hear your cries
No one there to even realize you grit your teeth
What are you afraid to lose when you're left alone?
I'm the one to make you anything you wanna be
Tobias Sammet:
Never broke the silence, never broke the ice
No more waiting, I gotta wipe her off my mind
Loving her is dying, loving her is pain
Babylon I'm coming, ready for the fray
Chorus:
I don't believe in your love, tread on this bed of roses
I don't believe in your love, don't give a fuck for roses
Don't give damn for roses, no, no, no
Oliver Hartmann:
You've been standing on the edge, lost between the worlds of agony and ecstasy
Take your share boy straightaway, it's all heaven sent
She won't care: they call divine but it's all evil
Tobias Sammet:
Loving you was bleeding so I had to break away
Darkness' stretching out its hand to save me from your sway
'cause loving you was wasting, loving you was pain
No angel left temptation, open up the gate
I don't believe in your love
Tread on this bed of roses
I don't believe in your love
Don't give a fuck for roses
Tobias Sammet:
Loving you was bleeding, so I had to break away
Darkness' stretching out it's hand, to save me from your swear
'cause loving you was wasting, loving you was pain
No angel left temptation, open up the gate
'cause loving you was wasting,
[x2]
I don't believe in your love, tread on this bed of roses
I don't believe in your love, don't give a fuck for roses
No I don't believe, I don't believe in your love
Your love, no, no, no, no
Oh yeah
Young is the day
Still it's the same
The same old tomorrow
Colors too bright
So dream in black and white
If you wanna rise from the hollow
The future in sight
The past in your head
Nightmare or treason
The father above you as you
Walk through the ashes
Don't you run out of reason
You keep waiting
For your choice to be made
There ain't no bounty
For the number of passions
You rein in for love
You are defying the devil
Forever this time
But you can't imagine
Forever will drag on a long long time
You are defying salvation
The wait is your crime
Stalemate in virtue we falter
Forever is a long time
Pleasure and pain feel all the same
To the dreamer who's trying to get closer
Strange how it feels in reality
When your fairytale is over
No right or wrong
I just keep going on
And I don't get lost in belief
Falter and pray
Keep looking away
I don't wanna see
We keep on waiting
For a choice to be made
There ain't no bounty for the passion
We rein in for love
You are defying the devil
Forever this time
But you can't imagine
Forever will drag on a long long time
You are defying salvation
The wait is your crime
Stalemate in virtue we falter
Forever is a long time
Forever is a long time
It's gonna take forever
Oh - young is the day
Still it's the same
The same old tomorrow
Colors too bright
So dream in black and white
Wanna rise from the hollow
You are defying the devil
Forever this time
But you can't imagine
Forever will drag on a long long time
You are defying salvation
The wait is your crime
Stalemate in virtue we falter
vocals by Tobias Sammet and Jorn Lande
Tobias Sammet:
I dropped off in the shadows
the lead of a tragedy
I open my eyes blind by the spotlight
and what do I see?
Jorn Lande:
Pushed by ambition, you've been granted admission
to the hall of acclaim,
She denied your affection,
now listen the whole world is screaming your name
Tobias Sammet:
I will forget her but I won't forgive
the curtain has fallen, behold the messiah
Chorus:
Riding high, the devil on the crest
for all the world to see forevermore
I am I devil in the belfry, I'll be glorified forevermore
Jorn Lande:
Is it a sin to learn to be able to live without love?
And is it a sin to put love under will and control from above?
Tobias Sammet:
Devil in my fingers pleasure at my feet
Mind out of sight
The shadow I'll cast shall darken her world
and ghost her at night
With each song you'll die a little for me
It won't leave the scar, 'cause I've drown the curtain
Chorus x2
Jorn Lande:
Into the opera like moths to the flame
Spellbind their senses to follow the hero
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died
It's five and I'm driving home again
It's hard to believe that it's my last time
The man on the wireless cries again
It's over, it's over
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died
It's late and I'm with my love alone
We drink to forget the coming storm
We love to the sound of our favourite song
Over and over
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died
It's time and we're in each other's arms
It's time but I don't think we really care
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
I'll-defined as I look in the mirror
Am I blind, am I blind
Am I given or just a straying fool
Feel it near
Something's here to watch
I feel their eyes sending shivers down my spine
Evil eyes, evil eyes
See me crawling as I'm falling off the edge
Paralyze, tantalize
Feel it there
From everywhere it sounds
And you'll fall away from heaven
Once you know you can't take no more of it
You will fall away from heaven
By the time you can see the crime against you
Hey - desperation
Angels crashing from the sky
How can you hold on to your way
In your mental disarray
I am your struggles
The answer to your pain
I am the fury in your eyes
I am reason, I am vice
It's there
From everywhere it sounds
And you'll fall away from heaven
Once you know you can't take no more of it
You will fall away from heaven
Lugaid:
Don't wait my friend. We better don't think twice.
Time to fell the prison guard you gotta realize:
No turning back again. Therefor it's all too late...
New horizons wait...
I know the time has come
te leave your past behind.
And now the time has come
to stop them controlling your mind.
Gabriel:
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away.
Otherwise she will be dying
while both of us are lying here in chains.
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away!
Oh - otherwise she will be dying
while both of us are lying here in chains.
Always been a novice in quest for paradise.
Hope they will forgive me for I apostatize.
I can't be no hypocrite, can't wear a masquerade...
New horizons wait...
Lugaid and Gabriel:
And now the time has come to go another way.
To learn for life and to grow ripe
and prevent the decay...
Gabriel:
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away.
Otherwise she will be dying
while both of us are lying here in chains.
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away!
Oh - otherwise she will be dying
while both of us are lying here in chains.
Breaking away!
It is so hard to lay down what I've been.
But I must go even if my way leads to Hades...
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away.
Otherwise she will be dying
while both of us are lying here in chains.
Breaking away!
All we can do now is break away!
Oh - otherwise she will be dying
Faces in this empty room
Cited in despair
Gazes that I had invoked
They're driving me insane now
Walls have eyes they're staring down on me
From everywhere around
In the face of dreams I had
Grimaces of pain
Now I am turning helpless
Callous and alone
Waiting for a storm to brew
To wash my dream and love and sins away
I'm with you
I'm the otherside
You just gotta try
Fly now! No one's gonna care
Cause no one's gonna know
What no one's ever seen
Close your eyes now
Kingdom on the broken mirror
Close your eyes now
Blizzard on the broken mirror
The scent of goodbye
They're dying away: the sands of time
Sands of time
Fortune favors just the braves
What the blessings always say
Love will come in time
But I am always late
I pray the wine my will to take
And those evil hands to tie
Wreaking havoc, baneful sight is growing dim
Tie the dream I've had my fill
Raze the love and tie my will
Fires ploughing up my head
Oh forgive I will forget
Lord you're hiding in the haze?
The seventh door I'll try is daze
Angel send another storm to face another dawn
Close your eyes now
Kingdom on the broken mirror
Close your eyes now
Blizzard on the broken mirror
The scent of goodbye
Gabriel:
Open my eyes
and see my bleeding wounded hands...
Feeling the pain too hard to stand. To stand...
Caught in the 'now and here'
while they are on the way.
Hiding imagination, leading us astray...
Lugaid:
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.
Sanity can be the toll -
leading to the core of your soul.
Gabriel and the voices in his head:
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia! - Avantasia...
Walking along the icy gallery of pain.
Tell me now: What can keep the flame alive?
Lack of imagination - raising up the tower
where they hold our souls
to take away the tower.
Lugaid:
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.
Sanity can be the toll -
leading to the core of your soul.
Gabriel:
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.
We are the kingdom of light and dreams,
gnosis and life: Avantasia!
Oh - Avantasia
Oh - I hear the voices
Oh - into the light
I've been walking down this road
With a suitcase full of dreams
I've seen my demons come and go
To show me what I need
Madness, walking dynamite
Been dancing on the edge
They got me by the fuse
Smiling with a match
I wanted love, I wanted life
Been striving for a new direction
I wanted out, I wanted more
I wanted to forget the damage left behind
But I recall the dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
Raise your head
Got stars above and emptiness below
Think of what you'd never had
And would have never known
You wanna turn your back on me
Condemn this pleasure dome
Make sure you won't regret
Mistaking friend for foe, no
You're at the gates,
You re on the edge,
I've seen them falling back to nowhere,
You re of the red, out of your head,
And you ll wish you haven t seen it all
I recall dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
Oh and I recall I used to have a dream
I won't forget that moment of glory
But I recall the dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
Believers
Fire falling from the sky
Rage of god is coming down
Armaggeddon's drawing nigh
Sinner cry ! Heathen die !
Hear the toll of pain, gloria, gloria
In the fiery rain
Fire falling from the sky
Rage of god is coming down
Armaggeddon's drawing nigh
Sinner cry ! Heathen die !
Hear the toll of pain, gloria, gloria
Now the time has come, the end's begun
And the only one will come
Gabriel
It has been foretold
By the visions of the old
And the madness in their eyes
Said his angel will arise
That's what they know : "Holy Lord it's over, oh god
We have done no wrong
So we go where we belong
To the neverending dream
But for those who lived in sin"
They claim to know : "Holy Lord it's over, oh god"
Pope
Hey Angel, can you tell me
Will you lead us to the place
Full of heat, in the fire
For we only brought disgrace
Lugaid
He is not the one. If they only knew
Bishop
Hey Angel, will you take us
To the judgement of his rage
Hey will we die
For we couldn't close the gate
Lugaid
To the knowledge as they have been told
Gabriel
I don't know how could I prove
Nothing but the cloven hoof
Reigning over them as well
While they keep on fighting hell
Babylon the scarlet whore has come
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
Pope
Redeemer, devastion
Hope it only has been ment
For the sin of the dreamer
who broke the low you'd sent
Lugaid
He is not the one. If they only knew
Jakob
Hey, don't know but i wondered:
When we lost the seal again
Maybe stoned by the incense
Do we rise or just descent
Lugaid
He is not the one. If they only knew
Gabriel
I don't know how could I prove
Nothing but the cloven hoof
Reigning over them as well
While they keep on fighting hell
Babylon the scarlet whore has come
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
We are the seven, judgement of heaven
Why don't we know : We are the angels
It's revelation, soul castignation
Fire will burn us away
Solo: Henjo Richter
Voice of the tower
Woe to you longing for the wisdom
Woe to you longing for the light
All my sons bring me back what is mine
Or you'll end burning in this night
Woe to you longing for the wisdom
Woe to you longing for the light
All my sons bring me back what is mine
Or you'll end burning in this night
Solo Timo Tolkki
Gabriel
Once I have been lost in what they told me to believe
Until I felt in burning deep inside to set my spirit free
And I escaped to another world to help the little men
who make me plunge into philosophy - to feel my
mind again... No one left to hold me tight - on the
`real`other side - but her in chains
I had been alone till the madman come along
With the knowledge and silver long beard
He was the first man ever teaching how I could be free
Helping me to find - oh - the mind and the soul
They've been trying to hide away...
And he promised we'd help Anna if I'd help him to
go all the way
Lugaid
Go all the way into the world of minds
Open the gate and do not close behind
Prevent them from hiding the light away
Prevent them from tellin' us tales
Or the end of all they scare us with will be a
million empty brains...
Gabriel
I could bring you what you told me
The seal they need to close the gate forever
But still I haven't found a meaning
Anna will we ever be together
Regrin
You've been fighting for your soul
And sometimes it takes a toll
Hope one day you'll understand
What it means to hold in hands
What they call a fantasy
It is nothing but a key
To the world that now you're in
That they call a wicked dream
Elderane
When you're walking on your own
When you're broken and alone
You may feel us from inside -
on the other side of life.
Ohohohoh...
Gabriel
I've been fighting for my soul
And sometimes it takes a toll
Hope one day we'll understand
What it means to hold in hands
What we call a fantasy
But it's nothing but a key
To the world that now I'm in
That we call a wicked dream
Oh, walking on my own
When I'm broken and alone
I may feel you from inside
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