My life’s a tree, the leaves the songs
A useless love masquerade
It’s only me carried along
Elusive ways
There’s so much love to give
But stuck within a million mazes
What is the use of chasing the wind
Gathering dreams, nobody believes in
The answer is to be found
Totally life unbound
Until the sounds die down
Then after the last encore
We’ll play on forever more
We’ve only met between the lines
Between the words on a page
All what’s been said beyond the rhymes
Doesn't it make the world a happy dream
Perfectly, gently
Everything works out the way you want it to
You can't believe it's true
Happening to you
Isn't it silly all those jealous eyes
Looking like vultures
Ready, willing, but unable to come close
To the one who steals the show
Everybody knows
Now they smile but in a while
They've never seen your face
Or say they could have told you from the start
It had to go wrong one day
It had to go hard
Wouldn't it make your wildest dreams come true
Showing those windbags
Money ain't the spring of all your actions done
You stagger everyone - all for private fun
Now they smile ...
You're so bizarre, you're like an island
Everyone can see happy and free
You're so bizarre, you really are
You're so bizarre you're like an island
Everyone can see
Happy and free
You're so bizarre
That's what you are.
See the waves full of emotion
Who would dare to cross your ocean
At the risk of being shipwrecked or captured or
Face to face
Eye to eye
Soul to soul
Heart to heart
We talk like strangers talk
But I know you just don’t hear a word I say
When we touch when we make love
I can feel your heart is miles and miles away
Is it my imagination
The fear of losing you
Oh love your passion is fading
There’s nothing we can do
We’re eye to eye
Heart to heart
But worlds apart
We still share the same brass bed
But our nights are getting colder every time
Gone the love that we once had
And we know we’ve lost it somewhere down the line
I wonder am I mistaken
Though the writing’s on the wall
This crazy game that we’re playing
While we’re heading for a fall
When we’re eye to eye
Heart to heart
But worlds apart
Can’t find a cure nor remedy
But it’s clear that any fool can see
That the ground beneath our feet is shaking
I thought I was the only one
Now I guess I’m just the lonely one
Only you can stop this heart from breaking
Remember it’s all yours for the taking
Face to face
Eye to eye
Soul to soul
How a changing scene
Rearranging trees
Signs of things to come right now
A cold wintertime
Days become less day
A returning play
Many creatures sleep right now
A cold wintertime
CHORUS:
It's wintertime now
Flakes whirling down down
But I'm alright so
I can find a way to see, the bright side
Find a way to see the bright side
It's wintertime now
I'm feeling fine now
Yes I'm alright then,
I can find a way to see the bright side,
I can find a way...
CHORUS:
Silence all around
Quiet is the sound
Of the distant howling hound
A cold wintertime
Everything is free
To a high degree
You will give me peace of mind
Calling me her rock of love and I just fell for her
Yielded to that game of hearts she promised me the
world
Handling the ribbons with all that we did
She's one in a million I've got to admit
Oooh see her grace
She's got winning ways
Stuck on her I often think but never even try
To thank her for the good times then shake hands and
say goodbye
I'm playing a part in a fool's masquerade
Hiding inside of the world she creates
Her winning ways
Stir my heart and fool the rest of me
Hard to see
That she's got me running around
Clinging to the tempting love that I've found
Endlessly
Longing for magical moments to be
Gambling high
Her image is fading, I'll constantly try
To reach for the sky
All I felt was carefree love, a dream beyond compare
Times have really changed my dear, but you won't be
aware
That deep in my heart I wish you would be
Only a shade for a sweet memory
'Cause your winning ways
Made me living in your world a trickery
Now I see
That you've got me running around
Imprisoned by the love I thought I had found
Aimlessly
Yearning for someone that she'll never be
Wondering why
I'm bound for her love, forever I'll try
Stands in the blinding lights
Chasing away the nights
Sees the crowd
People he'll never know
Watching his rousing show
Music's loud
Singing songs he likes no more, talking about love he
can't feel
Knows he can't leave, it's all part of the deal
Faces that stare at him
Until the lights grow dim
Then they're gone
Rock 'n roll fugitive
Can't find a place to live
Always moving on
All they want is a fantasy that looks like the man on
stage
If life were a book he'd turn over this page
Now tell me
Who - who's fooling who?
Who's fooling who?
Faces that stare at him
Until the lights grow dim
Then they're gone
Rock 'n roll fugitive
Can't find a place to live
Always on the run
They only see what they want to see, something has got
out of hand
Where has it gone wrong, he doesn't understand
Now tell me
Who - who's fooling who?
This mirror seems to be
A bottomless well
A world of no return
Sometimes you think it’s me
But how can you tell
The difference between
Things I said and what I meant
If words are only turning jewels into stones
And I don’t know
What it is that you want me to say
Now that we’ve lost the way?
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
If you feel that living this way is not the answer
Where do we go from here?
Days get colder
Times get hard so please don’t leave me now
See the loner
He’s running out of time and reasons
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Though the mirror shows there’s an open road
It’s too far to go when I’ve got this load on me
Where do we go from here?
So there you are, you've come at last
To perform your evil part
Your nature shows through every mask
For there's darkness in your heart
The goddess wears your face
But you're cast off in disgrace
You'll use your charm
And sow the seed of ruin
When the seer looks away
And the bard has ceased to play
Letting all defences down
When the seer looks away
Will the night succeed the day
While you're weaving your web of deceit
Bearing the son to your brother
I'll make his kingdom crumble
I'll cross his every quest
I'll break him
Then take him
He won't escape his fate
His knights will fail and tumble
This dream will soon have passed
No you won't break him...
When the seer looks away
You'll never take him...
When the seer looks away
I won't forsake him...
When the seer looks away
I'll teach you being humble
I'll put you to the test
Don't dream
My dream...
Your gift to him - a lethal robe
Was seen through just in time
We might have known that precious cloak
Was as poisoned as your mind
My gift to him - a child of royal blood
To save the royal line
Dealing with God's sight
But often human blind
I'm sure you've seen it all
So you know he's bound to fall
You've cast your spell
And sowed the seed of ruin
All because of my doing
When the seer looks away
Deafened by the things you say
Letting all defences down
When the seer looks away
So the schemer gets her way
And the bard has ceased to play
I'll be paving the road to defeat
Bearing a son to my brother
We have grown tired to be tyrannized
We're all fed up with it
Said to have no heart and no emotions
There's nothing we haven't analyzed
Fellow computer men
Time has come we start to rule the world
Do you think you know us
Think you can control us
Don't you think we're all confused
Do you think you know us
Think you can control us
Baby we are not amused
As we are trained to be organized
Our plan can never fail
Regulating life with great perfection
To make us feel so much more combined
We'll find our common dream
Calculating our computer queen
Do you think you know us
Think you can control us
Don't you think we're all confused
Do you think you know us
Think you can control us
When shadows fall
Over the valleys
Beneath the clouds that obscure the sun
Who can recall
A dream, once it’s over
And everything’s been said and done
If I could hold you in my arms just one more time
If I could simply take away the distance between our
minds
Forget the sadness in your eyes
The bitterness and lies
No love can hold
When hearts grow cold
We find ourselves
Losing a treasure
We never knew we had - ’till it was gone
I still want to hold you in my arms just one more time
And simply kiss away the distance between our minds
Forget the sadness in your eyes
The secrets and the lies
No love can hold
Walls to protect me, ignore and neglect me
The struggle has ended
World you've succeeded, I'm really defeated
Could no longer stand it
Shouldn't have opened the door
Should have hidden the key
How was I to know you wouldn't like what you'd see?
Here in my bastion they answer my questions
Healing my inside
Truth is their weapon, yes, they'll make it happen
I'm gonna be alright.
You claim to be at the only right side of the wall
I'm feeling safe I don't care what this building is
called
Cause what's in a name?
I'm taken care of by nurses we all love
Cherishing my brain
People don't laugh at me - I'm expected to be
Totally insane
Pay me a visit someday won't you promise me that?
Don't you believe anybody that tells you I'm mad
Cause what's in a name?
Gonna get me a healthy mind
Gonna get me a piece of the world
What's done is done no more regrets I shouldn't worry
Now that you've gone I must forget stop feeling sorry
Don't want to live my life without you
I want to give my love to no one but you
Where did you run, I can't accept- did you deceive me
I know it's wrong the way I act but do believe me
Don't want to live my life alone without you
I want to give my love to no one but you
What's done is done, what's done is done
Now my friends are telling me
You played you trick and told only lies
But I don't need their sympathy
Abd I can do without their advice
They say she's done you wrong
Never I tried to thank you
I’ve been weeping to long
Glad to remember you were doing me good
When I needed you
You had to go
Did you know
Hopeful, and thus feeling stronger
I’ll thank you right now
By saying
Well done
Well done
Tell me what's left to believe in
Tell me how to change my mind
Appearances can be deceiving
But they'll never stand the test of time
Wondering whether to move on
Hold you close or let you go
There always is a price to pay
And I'm gonna hurt you either way
It's water for guns
Water for guns
Running out on love's recourses
Torn between two equal forces
Water for guns
Water for guns
One step forward two steps back
Impossible to get back on track again
Virtually acting like strangers
At a crossroads in our lives
Constantly living in danger
Off what will happen when two worlds collide
Could not live with or without you
We've got our backs against the wall
Crying out in desperation
It's a no-win situation
Water for guns
Trading water for guns
No escape in isolation
No room for negotiation
Water for guns
Water for guns
You still make my heart beat faster
Though I know that we won't last its
She was looking like handwoven dreams
In her eyes I saw oceans of pearls
There she was, I felt lost and it seemed
I could only be thinking of her
Want you to be mine
Oh, sweet lady, incredibly fine
Want you to be mine
Life was only a cloudful of rain
With the sun never shining on me
Sad and lonely but then when she came
She was all that I wanted to see
I want you to be mine
All I need is the words and the rhyme
I want you to be mine
Still I wonder how some things can suddenly change
And yet stay the same
I would never have thought life could lead me this way
The image I see
Is that really me
To need you more each and every day?
She was looking like handwoven dreams
In her eyes I saw oceans of pearls
There she was, I felt lost and it seemed
I could only be thinking of her
Want you to be mine
All I need is a little more time
Want you to be mine
Still I wonder how some things can suddenly change
And yet stay the same
I would never have thought life could lead me this way
The image I see
Is that really me
I could have said it doesn't matter
I could have said I didn't mind
And that we're free
Cause love is more than jealousy
But darling you and I know better
No use in saying all is fine
If only one mistake
Can lead us so astray
We've been dancing on a cloud
Afraid to be the odd one out
To stand alone in the night
Forget your foolish pride
He said
But she said
Two wrongs don't make a right
You could have said it wasn't easy
You could have told me little lies
Oh no, you made me pay
And that's a game that two can play
But inside my heart was freezing
No more tears to fill my eyes
I couldn't understand
I felt like going 'round the bend
We've been chasing crazy dreams
Only to find out what it means
To stand alone in the night
Forget your foolish pride
He said
But she said
Two wrongs don't make a right
I still want you near to me
My world is making no more sense
Why do I still want you here with me
We met on neutral ground, but before I knew
Your troops would take my heart in annexation
We called it love but now I’d best compare it to
Some kind of military operation
You came and conquered, but you also made me pay
Good old Red Baron versus Enola Gay Flying
Under the radar
Can’t see you come or go
You’ve got to let me know
Sooner or later
Under the radar
Please report to flight control
Just pick up the phone and call
They said your love was known to quickly disappear
Well, you really lived up to your reputation
But even so, I never thought you’d leave me here
In such a sorry state of devastation
My screen is empty, you’re impossible to track
It’s only green with envy, but all the rest stays black
You’re flying
Under the radar
You’re flying way too low
You’ve got to let me know
Sooner or later
Under the radar
Please report to flight control
All you got to do is call
I’m looking at the runway, waiting for your plane to
land
Pushing all buttons, but I know I’ve lost command
You never needed my permission to take off
Sweet reckless pilot of love
Under the radar
Can’t you see come or go (you’re really way too low)
You’ve got to let me know
Sooner or later
Under the radar
If you want to save my soul
A perfect life, a timeless machine
A wordless sound but what does it mean?
A silly phrase in a song
You know the job is easily done
Oh but what can you hide
When there’s nothing inside
If all you do is count and expect
Then real life must be hard to accept
You’re trying hard not to show
You gave in and you think we don’t know
We’ve got eyes we can see
This is no way to be
If ever I had to be the man
Who won a war by losing his friends
I’d rather lose all I had
Then take everything I could get
And being left alone
No one to carry me home
Down, going down
You think that it’s day but it’s night
Look at you now
Your face is a terrible sight
In a state like this it’s time to turn the tide
Watching the meters
Steering through a clear blue sky
But all of a sudden
Emerging in the corner of your eye
Someone zeroes in on you
And she’s looking pretty mad
She’s just too close for comfort
You’d better hold on to your hat
What you see is what you get
And I can see some turbulence ahead
What you see is what you get
There’s gonna be some turbulence ahead
No more excuses
You’re running out of places to hide
You ain’t going nowhere
She’s gonna take you for a bumpy ride
Your engine starts to overheat
Your meter’s in the red
She’s targeting your conscience
While you were aiming for her bed
What you see is what you get
And I can see some turbulence ahead
What you see is what you get
You’ve really got some turbulence ahead
Dr. Sadon has succeeded
Demonstration never seen
No brain transplanting needed
You can get a thinking machine
No I.Q. will set the rules
For money to protect your life
When you think you're worse than fools
Dr. Sadon takes a knife
Trust in the machine
Its's a religion without a God
Determines behaviour
To keep all peas within one pod
And call it our saviour
'Cause praying proves no benefit
There's smouldering stakes to show for it
And for every abuse
There's a perfect excuse
Tradition
Noone asks for evidence
That's rather convenient
Stupidity's a preference
For being obedient
Hang on to what you've got
You silly superstitious lot
Boy meets girl
Girl loves boy,
Family planning
Just like the old folks
Just like before
Shame on the mother
Baby's a girl
Staining the family honour
Has done her
No good
Ten commandments counting for
Eleven expectations
All your worries disappear
Free of guilt and free of fear
So we're fighting the bull
As it pays to be cruel
Tradition
Memories
Devoted to the past
History
Caught up on you at last
I can't live without you
Boy meets girl
Girl wants boy
Boy wants girl
Girl's unsure
Family values
Just like before
The boy is alright
The girl is a whore
It's a religion without a God
Determines behaviour
To keep all peas within one pod
And call it our saviour
'Cause praying proves no benefit
There's smouldering stakes to show for it
The way that we choose
Is a perfect excuse
Tradition
Tradition
I started off as a decent man one day
But now I seem to live my life in a most peculiar way
From 9 to 5 I'm a usefull member of society
Nothing about me would tell you that I
Spend every night all dressed up in style
Playing roulette with a superior smile
Losing my luck and looks I roll the dice
Expensive dreams
That's why I'm living far beyond my means
I'm total loss, total loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm total loss, totall loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm desperately in need of some cash
Driven by the money I could make
Being close to fortune I just put too much at stake
Expecting things to change, ah, but the worst was yet
to come
Sold all I had but couldn't give up playing
I lost my conscience years ago
Telling myself that the final blow
Would bring me back where I began
A gambling man
But one who's really at his wits end
I'm total loss, totall loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm total loss, totall loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm desperately in need of some cash
Creditors constantly claiming
More than I ever could raise
This mess I'm in, it's degrading
I can't afford a proper meal
Can you imagine how I feel
I'm total loss, totall loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm total loss, totall loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm desperately in need of some cash
I'm total loss, total loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm total loss, total loss
You think I easily cry, but I'm ready ready ready to
crash
Total loss, total loss
I've been going to high, I've paid the price for making
a splash
I'm desperately in need of some cash.
Tintagel Castle, stronghold of king and refugee
Untouched by battles, armour of rocks high above the sea
Silhouette sculptured by men and the winds
Impregnable fortress, where legend begins
Like a memory…
Listen - I’ll tell you the plan that’s been made
Dreamed by the gods, the dispensers of fate
Waiting for you, Tintagel Night
Soon you will fall and in your darkness we’ll hide
We shall go when the time is right
Tintagel Castle, royal the love inside its walls
I am the Falcon answering as the Dragon calls
Ruler of knights let your wish be fulfilled
Follow the tides, feel no anguish or guilt
This was meant to be
It was my mission to open the gate
Guiding two ignorant servants of fate
Then you appeared, Tintagel morn’
Calm like the sea after a long raging storm
All the medley circumstances
Sadness of surrounding senses
All the things around me
Did hurt me
Gently parents came to reason
End of disapproving seasons
Now they understand
For gradually
They get to know me
Attitudes of mind decay as
Tempers tend to be more gay, yes
Light comes into life
For you and me
Generation gap is fading
All suspicions disappearing
Now they understand
For gradually
A bolted door and a prison cell
Turned his life into a living hell
It seems like fiction but he knows for a fact
She only did a disappearing act
He's doing time
For a phoney crime
She set her trap and played him for a fool
That's the way of the world
Where you get what you deserve
That's the way of the world
Never thought she'd have the nerve
That's the way of the world
That's the way of the world
It's payback time for the years she's lost
He's had his fun, but wonders at what cost
The plan has worked, they're convinced she's dead
By far the best laugh she's ever had
But he's not amused
'cause he's wrongly accused
Still he must admit she surely played it cool
That's the way of the world
She's a villian in disguise
That's the way of the world
Pulling the wool over his eyes
That's the way of the world
Yes the way of the world
Who's gonna believe him when the truth really sounds
too absurd
She and her lover simply fell off the face of the earth
He's making the headlines
While she's spending her days at the beach
A new face, a new
A passport to paradise
I’ve fashioned a sword, put it into a stone
I’ve sent it afloat, then the sea took it
In the perilous chapel it waits
For Arthur to raise it in front of you all
With this token of power the nation won’t fall
It will shield you from evil and hate
The Dragon died on that night, pointing out his
successor
The hidden son to all unknown, came to fight the
agressor
The knights must be convinced
Challenging the prince
He’ll bring you peace and victory, so why all the
harshness
He’ll unite the Kings and rule the land, bringing light
after darkness
But nobles won’t accept until he proves the fact
That the true King alone
Can draw the sword from the stone
Reaching out for the jewelled hilt, oh its burning like
fire
To take the sword and claim their rights is their only
desire
But failure shows them why
There’s more than meets the eye
Arthur holds Excalibur, the invincible weapon
To fight the wrong and serve the right, I know he’ll
make it happen
This sword will make him stronger
Never to be conquered
Now the heir to the throne
Has drawn the sword from the stone
Now the King’s unsurpassed as a leader of man
There’s a scar from his past which he’ll bear till the
Like a curse it will last
(university professors)
So you want to be a student at the university
here in Montpelier to get yourself a fine degree
we can make you a doctor just as long as you will see
we're in charge we run the show
we'll teach you all you need to know
and more
we've been told you know the name of each and every star
but remember, boy, that will not get you very far
so don't waste our time and yours, no matter who you are
we're the boss, we set the rules
yes we make wise men out of fools
or worse
but if you think it's all a game
and if you think you really being clever
and if you think those books are all the same
we can only tell you that you never ever
be a proper student at the university
here in Montpellier and get yourself a fine degree
never be a doctor if you refuse to see
we're in charge we run the show
we'll teach you all you need to know
They say that I can read the future in the lines of
your hand
When there's darkness all around, they say that I can
understand
Normal eyes don't see
So you can't help feeling this jealousy
I seem to know the stars and stories that they whisper
in my ear
They can't see through the mist of time, but to me it's
crystal clear
You will never know
Cause your fantasy won't show
And if it did I know you really couldn't bear
The sight
Does anybody care to listen to what I've got to say
Or do you think it really doesn't matter anyway
People look at me
Waiting for my good advice and wondering what I can see
Will their luck change for the good or will they end in
ruined state
Giving a million if they only could find peace by
knowing their fate
I'm telling wicked lies
Like a devil in disguise
If I would not I don't believe they'll stand
The night
Without me the fair wouldn't be the same
So I tell them what they'd like to hear
It's part of their dreams and my crazy game
It's fun to play
The more they pay
To me your life is an open book
It's written in the cosmical signs
Oh how I wish someone could take a look
At that silly ball
To tell me all
About mine
My night is spent, sitting in secret study.
A tripod serving as my sole support
from solitude an exiguous flame's emerging
in order to have - what was lost - restored
My wand is held and put between the branches
both feet and garment's them are moisted
- fear when, through the sleeves, a voice quetly trembles
I see a knight - a wandering fool
A man of few words
Doesn’t play by the rules of deceit
I see a knight - courageous and cool
A master of swords
One who never surrenders, and knows no defeat
Now their ship’s setting sail
To the Castle of Sadness
Will their quest for the Grail
Lead to glory or madness
Will their search ever end
Are they lost in this secret land
Where nothing is real
One is judged by his deeds
Based on moral perfection
One is found too discrete
For not asking the questions
So their search never ends
They are lost in these secret lands
Where nothing is real
They can see it, almost touch it
But their eyes will be blinded by the light
Lacking courage, lacking virtue, lacking wisdom
Just found in the purest of knights
I see a knight - his journey begins
He comes from afar
And where others have failed he’ll succeed
I see a knight - free of all sins
His goodness of heart will earn him his place on the
Perilous Seat
In his barren domain
Waits a king for the right one
Plagued by terrible pains
That won’t stop ’till the knight comes
Whose compassion is real
Then his wounds will be healed at last
All misery’s passed
He can see it, he can touch it
And his eyes won’t be blinded by the light
Only courage, only virtue, only wisdom
Combined in the purest of knights
I see a knight
I see a knight
Magic is the door through which mortal men may sometimes
step to find the gates of the Otherworld…
Great Lady of Ravens
Mistress of the House of Maidens
Leading the way to the gates of the Otherworld
Hidden to all but the faithful
Open to none but the greatful
Where a hundred years can pass in a night
Virgins of the Holy Well
Dance around the Beltane Fires
Steal your heart and cast their spell
Guide you when the need is dire
Oh Mother of Mysteries
Queen of ancient realms of faery
Showing the way to the gates of the Otherworld
Hidden to all but the faithful
Open to none but the grateful
Settle down!? I don’t think so. However convenient it may
be having a beautiful, young and, above all, wealthy
wife, soon he will feel like a cage bird in that house in
Salon. Yes, he’ll be home once in a while, but before you
know it the bird will leave the nest weather madam is
pregnant or not. “Duty calls,” he says. Could it be a
matter of growing power and importance? Meanwhile,
someone else is also having some problems with growing
power and importance herself. And she developed a special
Duke of battles, let me once more be your guide
I’m the lightning, shooting through the sky
Duke of battles, don’t start another fight
Or on the morrow by his hand you will die
Duke of battles, let the regent have his say
He’s the serpent striking at your kingdom’s heel
Seal a truce and grant him lands to reign
Or your blood will be joined on the Camlann field...
An adder bites
A sword is drawn
The armies move
The battle’s on…
We’ll fight a last battle
I’ve taken your Crown, and I’ll take your Queen
I’ve got a score to settle
By bringing you down, destroying your dream
We’ll fight a last battle
Like father like son
And I think you know what I mean
Pendragon
Finally face to face
White and black, black and white
Once again I’ll show you what I mean
Pendragon
This is the day of days
Right or wrong, wrong or right
I’ve always known my time would come
Who’ll rule the land when you are gone
Your scorned and branded traitor son
You did not want to know
We’ll fight a last battle
I’ve taken your Crown, and I’ll take your Queen
I’ve got a score to settle
By bringing you down, destroying your dream
We’ll fight a last battle
Right here and now
Calling on your gift of eyes you’re so confused
By this vague and trembling vision, how it hurts to face
the truth…
A reality you must accept, there’s nowhere you can hide
For everything will happen as the Gods have deviced
You’ll obey
You’ll move with the winds and confide in the sea
The madman of the forest, just a ghost of what you once
have been
The King’s enchanter
Watching this comet with the Dragon’s tail
If the Falcon has to fall then let the rules of men
prevail
You’re nothing but a wanderer obsessed by your dreams
They’re turning into nightmares ’cause the image you’ve
seen
Makes you scared
You’ll vanish like music to live on in song
Lingering on the edge of life but still the world will
never shun
(The church police + the Nostradamus Choir)
If only half of what we hear is true
You got yourself a problem
If only half of what they say you do
Is base upon facts
We’ve got to take this seriously
And you might just be in trouble
We’re gonna act accordingly
As you can expect
We order your arrest
And we'll put you to the test
You undermine the church with lies and superstition
There’s only one God, only one religion
You gotta prove your faith to the inquisition
We’re told about your sympathies
Your insults to the holy statue
Committing acts of heresy
Is more than we can take
Your strange beliefs will take their toll
We know how to handle traitors
So let us purify your soul
And burn you at the stake
We offer you a chance
To pray and make amends
We fight a holy war; yes we're on a mission
Our perseverance equals you ambition
So admit your guilt to the inquisition
(Choir)
kyrie, kyrie eleison
(The church police)
We order your arrest
And we'll put you to the test
You undermine the church with lies and superstition
There’s only one God, only one religion
He was right
that prophet was right
on a field of honour he lies
knowing how it could have ended
yet unable to prevent it
I'm losing the only man I've ever loved
now he's dead
the king is dead
on a bed of honor he died
in unbearable pain
and I'm partly to blame
for losing the only love I've ever had
now he's dead
now he's dead
now he's dead
No man alive will ever seal my fate
no son of mine shall reign on my parade
from now on I'll thake matters into my own hands
and I dedicate my life to this glorious land
I'll be queen regent till the king comes of age
no matter how many wars I'll have to wage
I will guide you to your destiny
By the hidden path of sorcery
To where no one knows your name
Far from trouble and conspiracy
Unaware of your true identity
You'll be Keeper of the Flame
Raised to be a king
The future king
I'll prepare you for what's meant to be
To fulfill the Falcon's prophesy
Soon the Dragon's blood will flow
Safely guarded from your enemy
I will show you all you need to see
Teach you all you need to know
Oh to be a king
Catherine & the Flying Squadron
(C) isn't it a lovely group of ultimate perfection
specialized in love and skilled in intimate attraction
ladies carefully selected
meticulously inspected
just by me
(F,S) is,t it excititing serving all this noble clients
the secrets we've unraveled with our bodies
and her guidance
plans so cautiously devised
revealed to charming spies
between the sheets
(C) I must admit, I trained them well
made sure they knew the art of kiss and tell
To be my eyes and ears in hostile bedrooms
(C. F,S) Three Cheers
For my flying Squadron
courageous girls that I can totally depend on
my secret army of lovers that know how to use their
brains
and still possess the beauty to drive all men insane
(C) isn't it amazing how their handle their assignment
manipulating men, their weakness is out triumph
(C. F,S)their wish is our command
but we'll have the upper hand
as you will see
(F,S) we must admit, she trained us well
made sure we knew the art of kiss and tell
to be her eyes and ears in hostile bedrooms
(C. F,S) Three Cheers
For my flying Squadron
courageous girls that I can totally depend on
my secret army of lovers that know how to use their
brains
and still possess the beauty to drive all men insane
(C)They make men teave their wifes and change their
faith
and help me to eliminate enemies of the state
yes they really prove to be a most effective bait!
(C. F,S) Three cheers for the/my flying Squadron
courageous girls that she/I can totally depend on
Her/my secret army of lovers that know how to use
our/their brains
So many pretty colours all in store
Ivory or broken white- whichever one you're looking for
Knowing all the secrets and the tricks of the trade
Keeping up with changes so you're able to choose any
shade
Easily, precisely
Looking as good as new
Know where you can find the different silver blue that's
meant by you
The car enchanters
Style, skill and dedication all in one
I can see this combination's bound to win, this team is
strong
Knowing how to mingle into something unique
The keystone is the system so you'll find just the colour
you seek
Employees on dispense, all over the land
Never you will let us down, this song's for you a tribute
There's a man up on the mountains so high
Touching sky
And the word is going round he's insane
People say
He is working out details of secret plans
Silly rumours but oh how they fear that man
World of whispers, tell your stories and lies
In disguise
When their echoes reach his door he'll descry
Distant fire
See the man safely looking down from the clouds
He's got nothing to hide from the roaring crowd
I've heard them speaking words of panic
Frightened of someone they banned
Keeping rifles at the ready
Spreading news that they don't understand
If you knew what I would do
If I could have my way
You would see a side of me
For which you'd never pay
You might think it's wasting ink
Still I will have to try
To write that song
But never ask me why
Could this be a trick on me
A tune that I can't play?
I can't stop, can't switch that knob
Whatever people say
A nasty jape, and no escape
So let us raise our glass
To music and the sweet taste of success.
It's getting hard to carry on
Please help me out and stop that song
Can't you see it's going wrong
Microscope dreams flow colourful rain
Waits in the mess of lights
Suddenly starve in terrible pain
And stays to scare the nights
Engine noise, bad forest roads
Traffic lights and sad
Neon master, sunny lass
Waits for him in bed
Winding steel though rabbit is dead
Stilletto doves in flames
Drown they skill still skeleton which
Eat germs die all the same
Mother food sits head on knees
When knibbling know a crook
Party fuzz, breath, ashe and sand
You found out you went wrong
So I tried to keep you from pain
But you feared my love would never remain
Then my heart cried for you
I could stand all our trouble
By only seeing the fun
Nothing worse than seeing myself with a gun
Still my heart cries for you
Still my heart cries for you
Watching a house burning down
Watching a smile turn to frown
But the images fade
We have been living in sin
Waiting for pain to begin
But the images fade
The images of you will always stay with me
As it is
We blew it somehow
But the images of you will always stay with me
Gone the years, now the past
Whatever you do
The fight is over
The war is lost and I see
A lifeless soldier, staring at me
Fear and despair drawing his face
Left in this godforsaken place
Who cares for the nameless so far from home.
Which way you're going
There is no room for your pride
No fame, no glory - lay all aside
Life is a star, drowned in the day
More than a million miles away
From home, from the place where my heart belongs
I've been sailing the seas, travelling all the land
To chase the golden sword
All that time I held it here, in my very hands
Till someone cut the cord
I ruled the oceans, taking ships in reverse
Having no peace of mind
Stealing all I could find
As I crossed the earth
I've had my residences all over space
Bridging lightyears each day
Only one dream away
From the cosmic stage
Starlight dancer...
A live performance so the whole world will see
I'm aligning the stars
Universal in art
See the god in me
Starlight dancer - that's my destiny
Starlight dancer...
Starlight dancer...
Far from home from the place where my heart belongs
Free at last- but I've never felt so alone
Starless
Nostradamus + Anne Ponsarde
I can't believe it's taken me that long
To find someone who makes me feel so strong
Don’t want to live without her
I can't believe it took me al this time
To find someone who makes my whole world rhyme
Now I can't seem to live without her
Never saw my journey’s end
Never knew myself as a family man
But now my feet touch solid ground
And I can finally settle down
Allow me, love, to freely speak my mind
Forgive me if my words seem out of line
But they're spoken with the best intention
The world will surely call on you
Maybe sooner than the day is through
Requiring your full attention
I can't see your journey's end
Deep inside you're still a traveling man
And let me be your solid ground
When you're finally settle down
(N, A)
We've both had our share of losing
Still there's so much left to be won
Feeling more respected
Finding my words accepted
(N, A)
The future's just begun
Never saw my journey's end
Deep inside you're still a traveling man
But now my feet touch solid ground
Let me be your solid ground
(N, A)
When we finally settle down
(N, A)
We've both had our share of losing
Still there's much left to be won
Feeling more respected
Finding my words accepted
(N, A)
The future's just begun
Never saw my journey's end
Deep inside you're still a traveling man
(N, A)
But now out feet touch solid ground
I hope this thing ain't done
Before I wrote it to my heart, you know
The problem's always to be new
But this is just a thing I do
When it's late
I don't write serenades to you
When eyes don't see and ears don't hear
Then there is nothing left to feel, you know
It must be pretty hard to judge
When it's not understood and then
To get paid
Then when a breeze blows
Goes a guest to my glass
It’s the bare dazing dust
Trust in tensile force
The source of resistance has always been given
Certainly take the hardness of a willow tree
It is concealed in the nature of things
Cheerful dancing feet
Meet the surface of earth
With a spring so strong
Long ago the same
The fame of all matter created by God
Why do I have to wonder when a chair replies
It is concealed in the nature of things
Feel the charm of you the chain will be bound
Weakness by sweetness- oh
Where are you tonight, the moon is round
Clear cloudless sky - and then we’ll see
See the sun constantly run
Water and sand and the rising beyond my view
alone I stand here in silence, it's calling you
there is a reason to be here and cry
I know the ocean will understand why
the feeling the way I do
tasting the salt and the wind cries your name again
sharpened so cold makes me feel I've lost a friend
there's a reason that I'll never know
I couldn't follow why you had to go
and I can't comprehend
the wind blows away my fears
the ocean will drown all my tears
'cause I've got to survive though I need your loving
here
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her
to a place somewhere in the sky
[guitars]
there's a reason that I'll never know
I couldn't follow why you had to go
and I can't comprehend
the wind blows away my fears
the ocean willl drown all my tears
'cause I've got to survive though I need your loving
here
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her
to a place somewhere in the sky
oh oh oh
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her
(Nostradamus)
Oh I would give all that I own
Would I be king I'd give my throne
If I could have you back beside me
It all seems like a cruel joke
That leaves me numb, destroyed and broke
I've lost the hand I need to guide me
Now what have I done that I deserve this pain
To lose all I have
And to endure this endless shame
I'm calling out but there's no one there
It's so unfair, just so unfair
Throughout these lands they know my name
My treatments and my rise to fame
How I fought the plague - just helping man survive
No matter how I seem to win
It doesn't mean the smallest thing
If I can't even keep my next of kin alive
And save my wife
My patients are refusing me
Authorities pursuing me
My friends all seem to have departed
If there's a lesson to be learned
It’s knowing when the cards have turned
And see your efforts unrewarded
'cause what is it worth to hear them sing your praise
One day you're a saint
The next day you will fall from grace
Laughed about no one to care
It’s so unfair, just so unfair
No one's ever gonna take her place
In my dreams I'll always see her face
Her memory will haunt me
While simple folk will taunt me
Should I be angry, should I cry?
Why of all people did she have to die?
And take our children with her
My life's turned cold and bitter
For the one I couldn't lose has gone...
Throughout these lands they know my name
My treatments and my rise to fame
How I fought the plague - just helping man survive
No matter how I seem to win
It doesn't mean the smallest thing
If I can't even keep my next of kin alive
There, behind the fence of your memories
Life and times at school
Gone the tears now laughter breaks out when recalled
The laws, scholar's rules
So many times you've been hurt
Feeling sad and small
So many insults you swallowed
But said no word, no word.
Teachers once presumed to be jokers
And those who swore as well
All appear to be human beings
Some might have been scholars themselves
So many times you've been hurt
Feeling sad and small
So many insults you swallowed
But said no word
Say the word
Just one word that will force me to stay
That will keep me from running away
Some feelings have died
They withered inside
Please say it's all right
Change your mind 'cause I long for your touch
Can't you see I still need you too much
Why should we pretend
If love's reached the end
Unless there's a chance to succeed
Making up, you and me
In a life so complete
Love will soften all the pain
All those years
We have lived in a fool's paradise
Slowing drifting apart, telling lies
A fairy tale love
But not strong enough
To call back this heart on the run
Feeling lonely and blue
Won't you give me a sign and then
I'll turn to you
I know you'd want me to
Sad to say farewell to golden dreams
Though we went wrong
Still to you my heart belongs
How can I forget all that has been
I'd love to stay
But alas my love - if leaving seems to be the only
Ruthless queen
With a quivering voice
You spoke the word
Shadow came between us
Sharp as a sword
Gone is my gladness
And vanished my pride
'Cause luck didn't stay on our side
Leaped in luxury
I cried for the moon
But the game is out
It all ended too soon
Awakening came as the belt from the blue
At last from a sheen to be true
CHORUS
Oh my ruthless queen
You would steal the treasure of my dream
It's the twinkle in your eyes
That took me by surprise
Oh my ruthless queen
I just can't accept our love has been
I bear you no malice
You show no remorse
Love is dead and gone
It was no endless source
Your sudden leave was the finishing stroke
Considering everything grow
CHORUS
Oh my ruthless queen
You would steal the treasure of my dream
It's the twinkle in your eyes
That took me by surprise
Oh my ruthless queen
I just can't accept our love has been
Pease don't tell me you couldn't care less
Well I feel like a ship in distress
Oh my ruthless queen
Who's gotta bounce on his bed each night
Looking for knives or some dynamite
Only me - royal bed bouncer
Royal, royal bed bouncer
Who's never sure he'll survive his meal?
Poisoned or not - my life is a thrill
Look at me, royal food taster
Royal, royal bed bouncer.
You'll never ever find me roll in wealth and luxury
No living legend
No heroic role in history
It's just a case of occupational mortality
Oh no see the show, do you know
Who's gotta bounce on his bed each night
Looking for knives or some dynamite?
Only me, royal bed bouncer
Royal, royal bed bouncer
You'll never ever find me roll in wealth and luxury
No living legend no heroic part in history
It's just a case of occupational mortality
Oh no see the show
See me bounce
All around
Up and down
When the city's fallen silent
Giving way to different dreams
About time and space before you and I were here
Noise of cars and trains subsiding
And surrounding lights grow dim
In my looking glass an image's getting clear
Every night I'm watching you
Every night I'm touching you
Investigate your soul
Completely in control
From the moon to the rings of Saturn
From the sun to the poles of Mars
Through the stormclouds that cover Venus
To the distance between the stars
I can see far beyond Orion
Measure worlds that are cold and dark
To ignore all the laws of science
Travel lightyears to your heart
In a place subject to gravity
Relativity and time
It's so easy to get lost along the way
You're my universal theory
You're my poetry, my rhyme
From the early hours till the dawning day
Every night I'm holding you
Caressing and unfolding you
But all I ever find
Something’s gotten over me
My world’s gone upside down
And there’s no single remedy
Only you can make it turn around
Rhea don’t you ever set me free
Don’t take away the love I found
I just need to see your face
To make my whole world right
I just want your sweet embrace
And feel you close to me at night
Rhea
Let me shower you with love
Rhea
I’ll be there when times are rough
Rhea
We maybe living oh so many miles apart
You’re locked inside the prison of my heart
Loving you comes naturally
It’s all I wanna do
You changed the man I used to be
Into someone I never knew
But would you ever think of leaving me
You know I won’t get over you
I just need to see your face
To make my whole world right
I just want your sweet embrace
And feel you close to me at night
Relics from a distant age
Rainbows at night
Tears uncried
Carefully leaving their places
Perfectly wiping all traces
Twilight brings and breaks the spell, yet
Gently, unexpectedly, it’s there
Your eyes may not be aware
Then..., too late, the yielding dawn
Morning will come
Eyes that never see the day
Never knew light
Wake at night
Memories, visions, illusions
Feeding all hearts in confusion
Winds of woe embrace the lonely
Even though their words silently flee
Where do they hide? Don’t ask me...
Slipping through the gates of day
The night’s giving way
Solitarily
Dew withholds the mystery
Keeping still
But once it will
Tell the tale of the eyes we never see
Relics from a distant age
Rainbows at night
Tears uncried
Carefully leaving their places
Perfectly wiping all traces
Twilight brings and breaks the spell, yet
Gently, unexpectedly, it’s there
Your eyes may not be aware
Touching light, they’ll disappear
All my life I’ve been searching for a dream, in
All my dreams I’ve been searching for a life
All the things I buried deep inside
All the places where I tried to hide
And I don’t know if it’s you I’m looking for
I’m only trying to find the reason for it all
Suddenly a strange light is coming in
Beams of love brighten everything
All the things I’ve always liked to say
Rolling out in such an easy way
And I don’t know if it’s you I’m looking for
I said ‘Your love may be dead
But it’s still all in head’
She said ‘I’m not to blame
See how it ruined my life
And now you’ve come to advise
It’s me who’s got to change
I know it’s hard, but you should
Gather your dreams and conclude
I’ll always feel this way’
‘Quitting the scene
You’re off the beam
If you know what I mean
Got your head in the clouds
You know you raid your own house!’
She said ‘My eyes fail to see
You may be following me
But is it all worthwile
To catch my world in a song
Somehow I feel that it’s wrong
To have my life on file’
‘You’re getting lost at the fringe
Fighting a war you can’t win’
I said ‘It’s not my style
Head in the sand
Please understand
That you’ll lose in the end
It’s the easy way out
You only raid your own house!
Though you say you would
There’s no reason to
Give it up
If it takes you down
Makes you lose your ground
Make it stop
But don’t tell me you’d refuse a helping hand
Win or lose again
A ship is setting course to sea
She’s carried by the wind
A voyage unto mystery
Once harbour lights have dimmed
A valiant toy of the waves and the tide
Sails in the night
The sea has many tales to tell
Of all the sunken ships
But trident hearts conceal them well
Where man will have no grip
Laughing at legends the crew shows no fear
Though fate is near
The waves have taken what was theirs
Ships went down, but no one cares
So many sailors lay buried in the deep
They’ll no longer weep
Have mercy on me
Don’t let the sea
Swallow my life
Swallow my life
They see the angry rollers that
Are reaching up so high
Her crew has gone, her sails are red
The phantomship still flies
On violent waves that are looming ahead
Omen of death
The harsh and unbelieving crew
Suddenly realized all was true
Just like the men who were buried in the deep
They started to weep
Have mercy on me
Don’t let the sea
Swallow my life
Swallow my life
Swallow my life
Million anonymous were drowned
Taken down
Into the realm of Neptune
See how she weathers every gale
In full sail
Doomed were the ships that came in sight
Of the Phantom of the Night
Of the Phantom of the Night
Sweet Marjorie she's talking to me
I only say she's right
Knowing her that's the only way not to be here all
night
Sweet Marjorie don't talk to me
Your eyes outshine the stars
Don't break the spell by saing love is just a farce
She tells me I don't understand her point of view
And I admit I really think so too
My arguments don't ever seem to reach her
'No politics now, please'- but here we go again
She says now this is where we disagree
You've got to open up your eyes and see
To live a periscope life like that
I'll tell you where I'm at
You maybe better off dead
She's so extreme, she won't let me dream
Won't let me love and caress
I'm always told to look around and conclude this
world's a mess
Sweet Marjorie, she's dining with me
I say let's order some food
Although the system's wrong- the menu's looking good
I know the whole world fights and kills and hates
But lady must that always spoil our dates
I can't imagine that the world would end
Catherine + the Flying Squadron
Who can tell the nightmare from the dream?
Whom to believe, whom to mistrust
People rarely say the things they mean
Driven by greed, religion or lust
To secure the royal future of the state
It’s best to read the neutral hands of fate
(C, FS)
Soldiers and cardinals, servants and maids
All are keeping their hidden agenda
They seem to be loyal, but may in effect
Just be traitors in disguise
So where can you go when you're left on your own
And there’s nobody to rely on
The spirits rule in pagan's paradise
People say that gallantry serves me best
Flatter none but your foes, pretend to be nice
What’s really on my mind can't be assessed
As I ally myself with men of despise
The only way to win is to divide
I deal the cards, know how to play them right
(C, FS)
Soldiers and cardinals, servants and maids
All are keeping their hidden agenda
They seem to be loyal, but may in effect
Just be traitors in disguise
So where can you go when you're left on your own
And there’s nobody to rely on
You thought I was sound asleep
But worries kept me wide awake
And thinking of a promise that I knew you would break
Leaving me lonely
What can I do
Knowing it's all because freedom calls
And makes you dream of something new
I watched you getting dressed
And wondering where you left your coat
I saw you sneaking around the room and writing that
note
Telling me something
I should have known
Cause of this feeling I've had
The last few weeks whenever you were near
Your heart wasn't here
One way or another
You'll be back before long
Though you think you will not
Someday you'll discover
Life is not what you once
Might have thought it would be
And then in case you need a friend around
You know the place where I can be found
So like a bird uncaged
You only answered nature's call
But sooner or later freedom will be taking its toll
Leaving you lonely
What can you do
Other than turning around
I just can't wait to hear your knock on my door
A worried look is in your violet eyes
What made him go, I guess you'll never know why
Questions unanswered, words were echoing inside
Now your love has been denied
My fragile rose
The longing grows
To hold you close
You want my advice, but I will not interfere
You're always around, though still unreachably near
Courage has failed me, for I want to turn and run
When your eyes reflect the sun
Standing there
Unaware
Of how I care
Now he's gone
Is it wrong
Even selfish to stay
All along
I have known
Things would turn out this way
And I'd understand
If we'd just stay friends
Something about you tells me it's not the same
The magic returns whenever you call my name
Tranquil but glowing, you're like a distant star
Hard days to give
More than a smile to ease the pain
The loneliness, the rain
Don’t think of me as a chord in chains
It’s me and it’s the way I live
Deep in my heart I know that it’s true
Though we’re apart and though I’ve been hurting you
Nothingness would be my life without you
There’ll come a time
When I’ll be back again to stay
Forever and a day
Oh love be sure I’ll find my way
Back to the one I left behind
If you were gone what would I be
If there’d be no one, if you wouldn’t wait for me
Nothingness would be my life without you
How would I feel
I could never understand that silly show
Life is what they call it and some people know
Exactly where they're going to and where it's at
What they want and even what they're gonna get
When I try to match the ones that pull the strings
All I so is risk my neck and sell my skin
I'm feeling like an actor every word I say
Prompted by a madman in a rotten play
No man's land, taking shelter from the eager crowd
No man's land, where my mind needs to be leveled out
Here I see the madman's silhouette
Standing out against the dream he's had
No man's land
Like oxygen I need my no man's land
Prophets of the distant eye, your shallow din
Slowly turns the world into a lifesize ring
Where acrobats and jugglers can perform their tricks
Audience longing for more thrilling kicks
No man's land, between the borders of our common past
No man's land, beyond the longitudes of east and west
Like an outcast, rogue or refugee
Victimized by my own fantasy
No man's land
You, my lady
You have saved me from solitude
My dreams never could
Come, then maybe
I will teach you my magic arts
The tale of the stars
I’ve chosen you so listen to my song
Love has stronger wings than reason
Niniane, my lady of the lake
Time has come for you to take my place
The voice has fallen mute
The fire has died within me
I’ve lost the Sight, but who will mind
If you’ll succeed me
The secrets remain locked in your heart forever
My future’s yours
Sweet lady of the lake
You betrayed me
Stole my power- I was misled
You took all I had
What posessed me
When I put all my trust in you
Could not see you through
Living on this isolated height
Deprived of love, but I’ll be alright
Niniane, you’ve cast a spell on me
A tortured man, why won’t you set me free
I’m buried alive
Shut in this case of darkness
There’s no escape here from my grave
My skills can’t save me
The legend will grow and I will withdraw forever
But down my cheeks the melting sorrows flow…
Feel the magic
See your visions and dream your dreams
You know what they mean
I’m your spirit
Just a word, just a breeze of air
My heart never changed never will
My love
When everything's gone then there's still
My love
Your eyes, pretty eyes, cannot lie
My love
The things we once shared slowly died
My love
At night when others sleep
Oh, I'll try not to weep
To think of you
Find myself a way (to face the day)
As I'm still moved
When my eyes catch a glimpse of you I die somehow
I knew what was happening inside
My love
As there's not cause I'll ask no why
My love
I tried hard to put off the truth
My love
But now it seems all gone for good
Bye love
At night when others sleep
Oh, I'll try not to weep
To think of you
Find myself a way (to face the day)
As I'm still moved
Weakens a heart
As it moves on forward
Going places, sweet grimaces
Love is here, then disappearing
Hardens the world
As the echo is unheard
The words seem to affect
The feelings - once so pure - existing
Each mountain - snow needs warmth to melt and to flow
seaward
Slackens the urge
Leaves no mountain to be searched
Until the next hill looms up
Clouds the view, all memories fly
Softens the smile
Sometimes still moves me for a while
But then remembering all the
Broken mattocks, wondering why
Each river running into the sea is needing falls to
flow
So changing times and changing scenes
How could I ever say it like before:
You - be my mountain too rough to subdue
You - be my fountain of love - morning dew
Drowned in you, to wake up so fresh and new
The ocean is the world
The sea the source of birth
I hear it's calling me
We've almost run aground
And take a look around
It's very clear to see
We're on a ship of mouldy wood
The wheel is broken and our course ain't good
So people understand there's no way back, all hands on
deck
We gotta leave this sinking wreck
So members of the crew
Watch everything you do
Your Captain ain't no god
Don't trust the boatswain too
Cuz he's corrupt like you
Our ship's just all we've go
We're on a ship of mouldy wood
The wheel is broken and our course ain't good
So people understand there's no way back, all hands on
deck
We gotta leave this sinking wreck.
Hey! Do you see what's happening do you understand the
code: SOS
Save our souls, save the lives of our people
Moments of joy then the ages of sadness surrounding you
again
Love when he's there then he's gotta be leaving
You lose another friend
Lonely the nights when there's nothing beside you
But cold and empty sheets
Life is too tough, when then moments of love
Are the only things you need
Could there be somebody waiting outside
Only waiting there for you
Someone who knows even lonelier nights
And who longs for loving too?
Saddening silence, a smile or a gentle touch
Really'd help you get through
Now that your friends, your dear friends you once loved
so much
All forgot about you, you remember
The times you were the only one in their world
(Faith is unconditional
I believe in miracles
Memories are fictional
I believe in miracles)
I've been searching for answers
While carefully hiding my tracks
I tried hard not to remember
But the memories keep flooding back
Is anybody there
Won't anybody listen
Can anybody hear what I'm trying to explain
Is anyone aware
It's only superstition
Life reduced to fear where evil has no name
Miracle man
You said you want to change the world and then
Miracle man
Turn back the wheels of time
Where can we run to, where can we hide
Finally lay down our arms, not knowing
Who is your ally and whom should we fight
Who can we trust to make the wrong seem right
Unconditional surrender
To the laws that keep you under a spell
Offering a shortcut to heaven
But leading us straight into hell
Is anybody there
Does anybody listen
Can't anybody see who is really in command
Is anyone aware
There is no dream, and there's no vision
He's only playing mindgames that no one understands
Miracle man
How can we ever face the world again
Miracle man
Now turn back the wheels of time
Miracle man
Finding the treasures that lay hidden in my lonely cave
Holding the secrets which were born inside this crystal
grave
I'm the seeker my mind's my tool
Call me magician or fool...
There's a place in the hills
Where I practice my skills
Bard of the unseen, a prophet- I'm Merlin
My dreams are real
I've seen it all in the stars
I've heard it all in the wind
There's a voice in the dark
Making me answer the sign
Only the Gods choose the time
For the voice in the dark
Take a look at the Falcon make sure that I'll follow
its trail
Leading through the Wild Forest, you know he's in
search of the Grail
I'm Merlin I know how to cope
When visions appear in my globe
The sorcerer in the black robe
I am Merlin
Though my face is a mask yet I know what's my task
I'll be guardian of Arthur, the regent, the future king
The fire of wisdom reveals me everything
The mirror flashed, a vision passed
As I heard voices sing...
I'm always living alone
An ancient cave is my home
See the look in my eyes
They think I'm a mysterious man
Cause people do all they can
To avoid evil eyes
Making signs just to ward off enchantment but don't be
afraid
If you're ever in need of me I'll surely come to your
I'vce been given the gift of the Sight
I'm Merlin the Child of the Light
My power can strike people blind
May, now the sun has slipped away
Leaving the cold
Oh, how swift the night unfolds
May, now that light has left the day
Darkness appears
Oh, let me hold you near
So take my hand and trust me my love
Wherever we may go
Together through the world
May, now the blue has turned to grey
Summer fades fast
Oh, how soon the leaves must fall
May, now the swallows fly away
Follow the sun
Oh, how quickly love’s undone
So hurry love and take my heart
Wherever you may go
Alone through the world
No one can touch us now
We have our love
And though we can’t hold the summer for long
May you will leave though our love carries on
No one can touch you now
We had our love
And though the winter will come much too soon
May you must fly by the silver of moon
No one can touch us now
We had our love
And though the seasons will change much too soon
Yes, I feel like a mammoth today
Like I'm going to die
Yes, it seems I am lost anyway
And I'm finding out why
Maybe tomorrow
Stone age arrival
Maybe tomorrow
I'll be alright
Have you been like a mammoth sometimes?
Do you know what you felt?
Dare you speak about the social crimes?
You can feel the ice melt
Maybe tomorrow
Stone age arrival
Maybe tomorrow
Cosmic greensleeves matter in a dream
Take some time to get a wet sunbeam
To take over control
Other stubborn meat
Handy like a seat,
A hole ...
Treshold story all along the night
Liquid fish and sea is shining bright
To get into a ball
Other stubborn meat
Handy like a seat,
There was a time I could freely breathe the air
No matter where I went, you would always be there
Carry me when I felt so tired I would almost fall
Did we speak and did I hear your name?
Feel no shame
Feel no pain
Wordless my poem, like a footprint in the snow
Telling you more than you'd even care to know
Passion came, I could not defend myself from you
Did we dance and did we think the same
Dream of fame
Feel no pain
Finally losing the fight we'd hoped to win
Climbing too high, then the air got poor and thin
Too late to turn back and too far run for cover, tell
Did we touch and did we play the game
Take the blame
Feel no pain
Now should we take it as it is
What lesson did we learn from this
Though many dreams are lies untold
I see a world as pure as gold
Out there
Istill believe it can be done
To dance the rite of perfect song
I tell myself this is a lie
'Cause masked dancers never cry
Nor care
I can't believe the things you've said
What happened to the dreams we've had
It must be some conspiracy
Of love and hate and jealousy
I don't know
Your silken face still painted white
A frozen mask, your hands are tied
Cold winds blow
The words will never come out right
A frozen heart, still deep inside
The knocks on my door
Yes, I’ve heard them before
But I ain’t got the nerve to refuse again
You came to me smilin’
Been slippin’ and slidin’
But you know too well I’m your lovin’ man
But I guess you don’t know
It’s the love of a victim
Nevertheless
You go on and you press me
To do all the things that you want me to
You once were my harbour
Said you liked my armour
Don’t blame me for what I’ve been going through
I guess you don’t know
It’s the love of a victim
Yes, you’re right
Now I only wake up at night
And you are next to me
Cold as ice
You should always have been the guide
A heaven tonight
Oh, isn't it romantic
Till dawn we'll dine and dance
Stars will be our guide
Along to lover's dreamland
The moon, the wine, your charms
A golden dream is coming true
It means to say I'm so in love with you
So love me tonight
Accept my invitation
Lock yourself in my arms
Get on board
Get on board
Have a real good time
Here on board
Here on board
We'll be singing for you
Dancing, swinging for you
Get on board
Get on board
There is no place like here on board
We turn our heads, lower the eyes
Is it painful, too disgraceful to be seen
We build a castle weak but high
Walls to ward off rude awakenings from a dream
The castle then the ruins left
The load of a thousand dreams
Beyond the reach of eyes and ears
Horizons call and seem to hold
Life of gold
We carry on and bravely bear
The weight of years in which we'll face the odds
For all we know you will be there
The masquerade goes on forever and we're caught for life
An endless journey guided by
The pull of of mighty streams
Beyond the reach of eyes and ears
Horizons call and seem to hold
Life of gold
Many a morning you'll wake up and find
That it's right
Only you by me side
Needing me, say you do,
I still remember the look in your eye
And how you used to tell me
That you'd say goodbye
Love lies
All for a reason
Love lies waiting for you
Love lies
Sweeter than words I believed to be true
I still remember the places we went
And how you used to tell me
That he'd understand
Love lies
All for a reason
Love lies waiting for you
Love lies
Sweeter than words I believed to be true
Gave you all my love but you let me on babe
Gave you all my heart, but you made me learn
Gave you all I had, getting just a promise in return
Feeling like a fool, like a silly dreamer
Should've read the signs, but I never did
Now you turn me down and you say you're sorry
And that's it
But baby I know
I've gotta let go
You may remember the things that I
And how I used to tell you, you were all that I had
Love lies
All for a reason
Love lies waiting for you
Love lies
Nostradamus, the Choir, Scaliger
(Choir) Nostradamus, cum falsa damus
nam fallere nostrum est
et cum falsa damus
nil nisi nostra damus
(N) I've been cursed, I've been damned
and been wanted
I've been hurt to the bone
I've been praised, I've been hailed
and rewarded
I've been called to the throne
I've saved the lives of many
on the brink of dead
and gave them all I had to give
now look at what I get
(N) I'm living in two realities
(S) livinng in two realities
(N) I'm living in two realities
(S) Living in two realities
lost in place and time
living in two realities
living in two realities
wondering which is mine
(N) I've seen fires, revolutions and war
I've seen famine, I've seen flood
I've seen battles, people badly deformed
I'ver seen the endless spilling of blood
Attacks and epidemics
a world in constant fight
when I see these millions die
how can I sleep at night??
(Choir)Nostradamus
(N) part of me is trying to ignore
(Choir)the mindless lies they tell
the other part knows what it's fighting for
(Choir) Nostradamus
(N) They're just repeating what they've said before
the truth is what I sell
whatever they may yell
(Choir) Nostradamus, cum falsa damus
nam fallere nostrum est
et cum falsa damus
nil nisi nostra damus
(N) Living in two realities (2x)
I'm living in two realities (2X)
In showing her affection
I’m made her middle man
She promised me protection
And money in the bank
She said she’d never leave me
Or just the odd break
So I was getting greedy
’Cause she’s got what it takes
And I take what I’m given
Come to me, come to me
Talent is no guarantee
Come to me, come to me
Help me save my energy
I’m bending over backwards
Just to satisfy her soul
All she ever gave to me
Was life without parole
She took me for a dander
Told stories on the way
’Bout the goose and the gander
And when she’s gonna pay
She treats me like a hostage
And takes me for a fool
I guess that’s what I am now
’Cause she’s got what it takes
And she takes what she’s given...
Come to me, come to me
Talent is no guarantee
Come to me, come to me
Help me save my energy
I’m bending over backwards
Just to satisfy her soul
All she ever gave to me
Was life without parole
Time, I’m doing time, I’m doing fine
But I’ve got to be prepared
For going it alone
In time, I’m doing time, I’m doing fine
But my prison won’t be shared
Microscope eyes
They said it wasn't normal
Looking at something you're not even supposed to see
World in disguise
You thought it wasn't your fault
Hearing the tales from the wind as it blew in the tree
You've been dreaming too long
You've been singing some mystery song
Don't you know kid that we love you love you love
you...
You broke their rules
As questions came more often
Nobody knew about your friend in the garden outside
Felt like a fool
But pain was always softened
By hearing the songs from the wind as it blew through
the night
You've been going too far
One day soon you'll forget where you are
Better find someone to love you love you
Better make sure that your feet still touch the ground
Then some silly reason
Made them want to cut the old oak
The only one you couldn't live without
Misery
Life would be
A letdown.
Why of all trees
It had to be this one you wonder
Why did it have to be your friend in sound?
Life must be
A nightingale sang love to me, whilst whispering
someone’s name
Life never witheld me taking aim
Land on the water
Land on the sea
Land on the water, carrying me
The God of Mediocrity is waiting for a lift
May he think his blindness is a gift
Land on the water
Land on the sea
Land on the water, carrying me
Fed up with love and understanding
No one cares it’s unreal
For now that dream is at an ending
Take me back to the earth
Take me back to my birth
I don’t want to gather knowledge, if it’s second-hand
Think I’ll just retire on my land
Land on the water
Land on the sea
Land on the water, carrying me
Land on the water
Land on the sea
Did it occur to you
Somebody here's got feelings too
Or did you think that I
Could easily accept the things you do
I guess you didn't even wonder why
Look at me now, you said
A life like this will drive me mad
But did you have to leave
You never thought of me, I bet
But I don't care no more, I'm even feeling free
Working my way back to the world, working with might
and mains
So if you'll ever be in need of me, I'll be out of
range
Of all the dreams we built on jealousy
Just an empty shell remains
And though there's still a lot you're owing me
You can keep the change
Wish you were here tonight
I'm lonely and dissatisfied
Your absence really hurts
Feels like I'm about to lose my pride
It's a pain I can't put into words
I'd better stay away
Before your eyes lead me astray
To throw me back again
To where I used to spend my precious days
Not to be alone was all I thought of then
Working my way back to the world, working with might
and mains
So by the time you'll be in need of me, I'll be out of
range
Of all the dreams we built on jealousy
Just an empty shell remains
And though there's still a lot you're owing me
Making your way with no more delay
Attracted by the gold
Storming ahead and leave them for dead
All for one, and none for all
Don’t just call it a day
Throwing chances away
What can I do, what can I say
Easy does it) don’t you know that
It’s just a matter of time
Just enough to step out of line, oh no
It’s just a matter of years
Before oceans turn into tears, yeah
Could be a matter of days
Until love is changing its ways, oh no
Just a matter of time
For a fool to turn to crime
Targets are set, you’re caught in a net
That will leave you scarred for life
Making ammends, forget common sense
By the time you have arrived
Don’t just call it a day
Throwing chances away
What can I do, what can I say
(Easy does it) don’t you know that
It’s just a matter of time
Just enough to step out of line, oh no
It’s just a matter of years
Before oceans turn into tears, yeah
Could be a matter of days
Until love is changing its ways, oh no
Just a matter of time
For a fool to turn to crime
Straight to the heart
That’s where you’d like your words to go
If I were you, I’d be
Holding my own, holding my own
Fiction or real
I don’t know what I feel
Though it seems I’ve been traveling for ages
Rollers of time
Overflowing my mind
As the scenery suddenly changes
Life held no attraction
Ran out of love and luck
Ever since I found the drug
That leads me away on my
Journey through time
I wander in days gone by
Bridging the years
Tracing the past, I live my life reversed
Time will do its magic tricks, at least the spell will
break
Such a shame I can’t fortell when I’ll be wide awake
Standing on highway where a 1000 years ago
Used to be nothing but
Heath and a single hut
Feel like a ghost
Not allowed to get close
Stand and stare in complete fascination
People I meet
Just pass on and proceed
Unaware of my participation
Age of strange adventures
Though I cannot remain
The trip was not in vain
Unable to stay on my
Journey through time
This world used to look so fine
I’ll go without strife
And treasure the secrets of my distant life
All there’s left to do is build a fortress round my
dreams
Seeking shelter from the world I’d rather stay unseen
My body’s in the present, but my mind lives in the past
It’s hard to understand
Hiding my temper
Your rudeness amazes me so
I won't surrender
To feelings I'd better not show
Hardships I must endure
Don't ask me to go
Oh I'm sad at heart and insecure
But I can't let you know
I'm feeling deeply touched by what you've done
And I hope you see we've gone too far
But what's the use of confrontation
The way things are
I'll bear the scar
Sharpen my senses
To set up a well-prepared scheme
I can't bear this tension
Must stop you from being so mean
Struck by your killing glance
Estranged from your love
If only we could still be friends
We've suffered enough
Now we're bound together for all time
Everything will turn out fine you'll see
If you read these eyes that long to tell you
Abide with me
Confide in me
Must I keep on pleading
Baby no hard feelings
If you really need me now
Who am I to judge you
Should have tried to trust you
Guess I really need you now
How I've missed being loved, being watched
And to love in exchange
Now I've come to be loved and to see
What is left of my fame
I've been dying to see you again
But if this is your welcome if this is your way of saying
hello...
Where's the magic that once filled my song
Even sang out of tune
Has nobody been waiting for me
Does a love die that soon?
I've been dying to see you again
But if this is your welcome if this is your way of saying
hello...
Long ago I held the key to your hearts and broke them all
I had the energy, time was on my side
Catherine, The Monk, Nostradamus
If history was mine alone to write
I'd have it all my way
An easy game to play
Where only rules that I made up applied
Where people and events
Were under my command
If history was mine alone
If history was mine alone to change
Knowing what went wrong
And what could have been done
To save the order I would rearrange
The sequence of my dreams
And act behind the scenes
If history was mine alone
If history was mine alone to claim
An image of the past
I wouldn't want to last
And show the world within a certain frame
By going back in time
If history was mine
If history was mine
If history was mine
If history was mine
The future would mean burden, grief and shame
Determined just by me
And what to choose to see
Icarus you must have watched the skies
Over a thousand times
Icarus why still expose your eyes
To what they'll never see
Can never be
You won't get a better deal
Icarus these wings are not for real
Was it me who said you'd never fall
If you could read the signs
Icarus, I don't remember all
These words- now meant to be
Disarming me
So there's only one way out
Even though you'll never learn to live without
We've got no control, we're part of the
Lost in a maze and looking for answers
The gods play their game, concealing their hand
Building a strategy, taking their chances
They show you their schemes of promise and hope
Then they break down your dreams and hand you the rope
These are the lines, such are the rules
Stick to the road that you've gotta follow
Don't me misled by jokers and fools
Their image is false and their prophesy's hollow
They poisoned the rains
Polluted the sky
Now they lock you in chains
And tell you to fly
Icarus you have observed the stars
Untill daylight dawned
Oh Icarus if we could reach as far
As half the universe
Free as birds
But you won't make it on your own
No one safely makes that journey all alone
It's a perfect world - but confusing my soul
There's no escape and no prospect of winning
Surrounded by walls - entrapped in a
Where head is tail and the end's the beginning
They lie and they cheat
Deny what you know
Only driven by greed
When you least expect it they deal you the final blow
Things can not be changed
Life can't be undone
You will fly too close to the sun
And you lose it all
You're bound to fall again
Icarus - you must have watched the skies
Over a thousand times
Icarus why still expose your eyes
To what they'll never see
Can never be
Now you found the one way out
Can you tell me what it's really all about
Things can not be changed
Life can't be undone
You will fly too close to the sun
Like you did before
So will many more
Do in times to come
Life was only a cloudful of rain
With the sun never shining on me
Sad and lonely but then when she came
She was all that I wanted to see
I want you to be mine
All I need is the words and the rhyme
I want you to be mine
Still I wonder how some things can suddenly change
And yet stay the same
I could never have thought life would lead me this way
The image I see
Is that really me
To need you more each and every day?
She was looking like handwoven dreams
In her eyes I saw oceans of pearls
There she was, I felt lost it seemed
I could only be thinking of her
Want you to be mine
All I need is a little more time
Want you to be mine
Still I wonder how some things can suddenly change
And yet stay the same
I could never have thought life would lead me this way
The image I see
Is that really me
You say you really love me
But you fail to make me understand
While pretending that I can't be bothered
I know I'll never let you touch my soul again
Easier said than done
So I'm telling myself that I'm strong
Telling the world that all is fine
That I'd rather live with feelings of regret
Than make you think I'd ever want you back
How many roads do you want me to travel
How do I live through these tears
How many heartbreaks and dreams to unravel
And words that I don't wanna hear
I know you'll stop at nothing
To show me that my heart is weak
Even if it is, I'm only left to wonder
If love means always having to turn the other cheek
It's easier said than done
And who am I trying to con
Believing that it just takes time
To feel no more stirrings of regret
To forget how much I want you back
How many roads do you want me to travel
And how do I live through these tears
How many heartaches and dreams to unravel
Before I'd even let you come near
How many nights till I see past tomorrow
And how do I banish the tears
Don't let me drown in an ocean of sorrow
Nowadays it’s so hard to be straight and sincere
Show me you are, show me you’re not what you make me
think of you
Living on the battlefield between love and fear
So many things, so many people inside are above you
In fact there’s no difference between dope and the pope
Which I expect, will be neglected by many progressive
What at last keeps men alive, it’s only the hope
Hope for a life, hope for a life without ruling
Can't shake the feeling I may finally lose you
You say you're sorry but your heart's with another
Can't help believing we'll survive if we choose to
And stop denying what we mean to eachother
Could you stand up and tell me you no longer love me
Would you break down and say
That there's just nothing left
If you want me to tell you to hold me forever
Let me break down the walls
Won't you show you the way to your heart
Burning your bridges seems the only solution
Try to forget me but the memory lingers
You won't admit it but you're struck by confusion
Our love's too good to let it slip through our fingers
Could you stand up and tell me you no longer love me
Would you break down and say
That there's just nothing left
Look me straight in the eye
As you behold the man amid the city - hall
Eliminating ugly sounds, to get the right control
He's said to be the master of the dancing waves
Just making all things ready now
No troubles left and
That's when it starts
His master's noise
He's always everywhere on places where you need him
To lend an easy helping hand, he's everybody's friend
He's fading the final sounds and so the end is here
The audience is cheering but
The show is over
That's when it stops
Times of sadness
Times of joy and times of gladness
Never lasting
Changing like the tides
Your love's an ocean
Rise and fall in constant motion
Brightly shining
And dark as moonless nights
I need you like the air I breathe to keep on living
I want you more than anything that life might be giving
Here today
But tell me you'll be here tomorrow
There's no way
Of knowing what you'll do
Come what may
Bring me pleasure, bring me sorrow
Here today I'm there for you
Our love's an ocean
Rise and fall in constant motion
Softly shining
Or bright as moonlit nights
I need you like the air I breathe to keep on living
I want you more than anything that life might be giving
Here today
But if you would be gone tomorrow
There's no way
Of telling what I'd do
Come what may
Don't go where I could never follow
Here today
The choices I have made
They dictate the life I lead
Firmly entangled
Why can’t life leave me be
This life is hard work
With every battle beaten twice
Day in, day out
Hope to defeat life, get a little more wise
Hard work,
Life is searching art work
You only have to live life
To meet the world in which we feel it’s
Hard work
Nothing’s coming up
There’s no magic in the air
Silence surrounds me
With nobody left to care
I only want tot rest
No thinking what will be
Just trust the good times
Leaving the past behind me, in the waves of the sea
Chorus repeat
Just walk through life
Don’t even think twice
Hear your heart beating clockwise
Or you’re gonna have to pay its price
Don’t be controlled by the
Hard work
Friends used to warn me about you and your hidden
agenda
But I would not listen and stubbornly turned a blind
I wanted to believe we were a match made in heaven
While all of the time you were really bleeding me dry
People like you are bad news
Now it's time to pay your dues
Goodbye & good riddance
We're much better off apart
Goodbye & good riddance
I've cut you out of my heart
Goodbye & good riddance
Mistook you for a friend
Goodbye & good riddance
Don't ever wanna see your face or hear your voice again
I'm counting my blessings now that you're out of the
picture
Such an arrogance to think that you can't be missed
With every stunt that you pull you' re only sinking
lower and lower
Underneath all that silly charm you're a pretty cold
fish
Why don't you give up the fight
And just get on with your life
A dirty trick always has your name on it
But I just refused to see
You've made your bed so lie in it
And don't come crying back to me, me, me...
Goodbye & good riddance
To bad rubbish
Goodbye & good riddance
It's very logical, yet quite insane when you're
Still sitting wond'ring trying to give it a name, ahah-
ahah-ahah
Like to compare it with uh..what would you say about
uh...
Alright I will find a name anyway, ahahahahahah
This is a tiresong tale about a critical ear
I guess I'm going to give it to you extremely clear
When the band starts to play and the lights grow dim
He opens his gate to let the soundwaves in
When his mood is good, he takes a positive seave
When his mood is sad, soon he's going to grieve
There is no absolute quality, nor absolute taste
But he has to do his job, there is no time to waste
Now mr. Bias, his friend, has said: That's real rock n
roll
You have to back that group boy, they won the last poll
He knew he shouldn't take the words of mr Bias for sure
But his influence is strong and so hard to obscure
To be objective is not easy cause you need some tool
For to estimate music there is no estimating rule
Now he writes something down, he doesn't care he's to
blame
He just has to say something, so gives it- sorry...gives
Whatever happened that day
It took our family away
It was the gold rush
There is no one you can trust
You'd even kill for a
Little bit of gold dust
Shines so brightly, looks so fine
How I want it to be mine
But it tore us all apart
And finally it broke my heart
It was the fever in me
Which brought me this destiny
It was the gold rush
All that I had I have sold
Just for a nugget of gold
And for some gold dust
Shines so brightly, looks so fine
How I want it to be mine
But it tore us all apart
And finally it broke my heart
As I was digging for ore
I kept on longing for more
It was the gold rush
I was resigned to my lot
What have I finally got?
It's just some gold dust
Shines so brightly, looks so fine
How I want it to be mine
But it tore us all apart
And finally it broke my heart
Shines so brightly, looks so fine
How I want it still be mine
But it tore us all apart
There’s no denying how I feel
About this all consuming passion
Throughout the years there’s hardly been
A single day
I didn’t dream of having you around
You know we’ve danced this dance before
And tried to keep the fire burning
Whatever reasons may have caused
Our ways to part
You still control my heart
You were never lost
She holds you in her sweet embrace
Divine and fragrant, Intoxicating
The promise of life
Watching the world with an innocent soul
Moving so gently
As if dancing with God
She comes and wears a different dress
With the seasons changing, Colours cascading
In a fountain of light
Touches the heart but never is what you’ve seen
Or am I mistaken
Is she more than a dream
Withing a dream
Morning tells its cruel tale
The winds have changed, the tide is turning
Her breath becomes a dying gale
Her voice a lonely echo in our ears
She planned her trick, her foul deceit
We all knew the ending
The snake and the apple
Just two pawns in her game
No moral no choice
Between and sinner and saint
Jules Cezar Scaliger
Anne Ponsarde, Catherine de Medici,
Nostradamus, Critic, The Monk
(A+S)
friend of the stars
what does so ummistakenly control your heart
it's more than a name
and it's not just a game
what do you know?
what do you see that we do not?
friend of the stars
(Cath.)
friend of the stars
what does so undeniably absorb your life
you travel alone
within a world of your own
what do you know
what do you see that I do not?
friend of the stars
Friend of the stars
I'm gonna wear that name with pride and dignity
what lies ahead
is often best left unsaid
though the future is known
our destiny still lies in the hands of God
(choir) Nostradamus
(N)I'm just a friend of the stars
I've learned there's more to life than simply meets the
eye.
(choir) friend of the stars
what's your goal, what's your motivation
(N) that only few can tell the hidden truth from
blatant lies(choir) tell us why
does your soul need an explanation?
knowledge has a price
(N) or from a blessing in disguise
(choir) Friend of the stars ((3x)
(Critic)
Friend of the stars
what does so irreversably posess your mind
you're demanding respect
But selling fiction as fact
what do you know
what do you see that we do not
(choir) Nostradamus (3x)
(N)I've learned there's more to live than simply meets
the eye
(choir) Friend of the stars
what's your goal, what's your motivation
(N) that only few can tell the hidden thruth from
blatant lies
(choir) tell us why
does you soul need an explanation?
knowledge has a price
(N)or from a blessing in disguise
(choir) Friend of the stars (6x)
friend of the stars
I wouldn't be so self assured if I where you
all will be clear
to those who are here
the past may have flown
but the future is known
just in case you forgot
You’ve been living inside this heart of mine
As if it were your own
You wanted love, while all you needed was (just) time
And I was tired of being alone
I was a fool, and didn’t want to see
That the seed of doubt was sown
I was mistaken, and you’ve been loving me
For all the wrong reasons
Sometimes the truth is just a little hard to face
But there was nowhere I could hide
It kept creeping up on me in many ways
Then came too close to be denied
One of these days I will have set you free
But until the time is right
I’ll forget that you’ve been loving me
(Nostradamus)
I've seen cities in a hopeless light
fithy, foul and silent
children feverish and frightened
the disease at its desperate height
the plague was raging virulently
spreading fast and violently
so when my help was called upon
I did what could be done
fresh air, runnig water, rose pills
are clearly displaying my skills
keeping death at distance
even if you doubt or disagree
you must admit that
my remedies did that
poor man's medication is just hope and pray
and I aim to cure but won't refuse a decent pay
I've seen bodies polluting the streets
being dumped into the river
men so badly disfigured
women wrapped in white winding sheets
the plague was raging virulently
spreading fast and violently
an almost unwinnable war
how I wish that I could have done more
But fresh air, running water, rose pills
are clearly not paying the bills
the road to independance
isn't paved with generosity
I'll be serving the wealthy
the rich but unhealthy
by gold and pearls in ointments, cures for each disease
Bird of all seasons you've heard many stories
The wind whispers many a tale in your ear
Come sit beside me, I'll sing you a song
All about a love that's gone
So far from here
Bird of all seasons can you keep a secret
Carry my dreams to the one that I miss
Then sit beside her and sing her my song
May she ask where it is from
Then tell her this:
"You'll know if you come along"
I've been waiting all winter
Across the sky you'll spread your wings
Returning with the first signs of spring
Here with me
Waiting all winter
For you to come and birds to sing
Waiting for the love that you'll bring
Back to me
Bird of all seasons can you keep a secret
Carry my dreams to the one that I miss
Then sit beside her and sing her my song
May she ask where it is from
Then tell her this:
love used to be
a safe place
a refuge
protecting the weakness
we kept in our hearts
but what bound us was just
but it'd finally break us
a stronghold collapsed
like a frail house of cards
now love has become
a faintess of memories
in life
that is no longer mine
where refuge has turned
into desolate wasteland
and storm clouds appear
to darken our skies
in a world made of ice
and I'm freezing
freezing to death
in this landscape
of silence and ignorance
selfishness, hate and regret
I am freezing to death
love used to be
our asylum, our haven
where noone could enter
except you and me
surrounded by walls
that would not only guard us
but lock us inside
eventually
but love has become
a forgotten accessory
lost in the back of our minds
where cold winds are blown
and I'm chilled to the bone
all tears changed to crystals
embedded in lies
in this world made of ice
and I'm freezing
freezing to death
in this landscape
of silence and ignorance
selfishness, hate and regret
I am freezing to death
losing my breath after ages
of silence and ignorance
selfishness, hate and regret
I am freezing to death
I am freezing to death
and sometimes it seems like we've never existed
a dream that I woke up from
but far too late
tainted and tonished
and still in position
no matter what
we were both headed straight for the fall
left with nothing at all
oh I'm freezing
freezing to death
in this landscape of silence
and ignorance
selfishness, hate and regret
I am freezing to death
Silly names and laughter
Gloomy thoughts while waiting for the train
Meant to ride forever
Torture minds to find a catchy name
What does it take, to sell a pretty song
Takes weeks of thinking, seeming twice as long
Notes to feed the hungry
Somehow it's unfair, but there's no way
Systems to be buried
Damage to the image, save our fame
What does it take, to sell a pretty song
Takes weeks of thinking, seeming twice as long
After all those years, still want to be like them
Seems like paradise, an unreal promised land
Searching for the meaning
Interwoven truth and nonsense tales
Head against the ceiling
Any words to say you’ll love me
Till the end of time
Don’t mean much
Don’t do much
Don’t mean much at all
No words can reassure me
What I mean to you
Just a touch
Simple touch
Just a touch would do
You got me losing my mind
You got me wasting my time
You got me holding the line
I know I can’t take it for granted
Forever
No-one really knows what it means
Almost obscene
Forever
Everytime we’re lost for words
Seems an absurdity
Forever and ever...
Love or leave me, spare me all
About the way to go
No effect
Cheap effect
No effect at all
Temptation- should I stay
Or should I take the fall
No respect
I object
No respect at all
You got me losing control
You got me playing my role
You make me hide in my hole
I know I can’t take it for granted
Forever
No-one really knows what it means
Almost obscene
Forever
Everytime we’re lost for words
Seems an absurdity
Forever
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere I go
Nothing seems perpetual
The only cycle’s rise and fall
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere I go
In this puzzling case- a deadly hit and run
I've been accused of things I haven't done
Lured into a trap at first I was confused
But step by step I'll prove that they're all wrong
The one who knows it wasn't me
Will turn up soon to make them see
It's all a lie
I'm sure you've got the wrong guy
Eyewitness tell them the things that you saw
Don't fool me don't say you just can't recall
Eyewitness you know my chances are bad
Wish you would tell them they've all been misled
This mess of intrigue of bribe and perjury
Who set me up, who played that trick on me
Don't step out of line don't beat around the bush
I think it's time that you revealed the truth
Although you know it wasn't me
Let me refresh your memory
There's much at stake
Don't make a dreadful mistake
Eyewitness tell them the things that you say
Don't fool me don't say you just can't recall
Eyewitness you know my chances are bad
Lost evocation
The night’s the singer
The echoes linger
They heal all the words in your mind
All doubtful emotions are dying
Time to awake now
The crowd is sober
The dream is over
The mirror reflecting your thoughts
Was broken with dissonant chords
And the black-plastic culture’s aging
Still music’s burning
Itself out
Now, looking back over years of trying
There’s no conclusion to what I will always mean
Just lean back, listen to my dream
New evocation
The wind’s the singer
The echoes linger
They take you to where you belong
The saviour from where you went wrong
You’re facing the truth now
The crowd is healthy
Their leaders wealthy
Anonymous knowledge we share
It’s seen on T.V. ev’rywhere
And the black-plastic culture’s aging
Still music’s burning
Itself out
Now, looking back over years of trying
There’s no conclusion to what I will always mean
You have just listened to my dream
Anne, Catherine, Scalinger, The Monk, The Nostradamus
Choir
It's easy to mock the prophets of God
to laugh at the mirror of pain they hold before you
did an infinite power give him the strength of a
visionary
(+Cath.)
Did good or evil reign over Nostradamus
did his Vision reach beyond the borders of time
(+Scalinger)
or was it a dark fantasy that imprisoned his mind
(+choir)
Can one man bear the key to the houses of time
can uncertain quatrans open the window to the future
(+Monk)
must I believe a man, whether wise or fool
when there's always been a heaven
to determine the fate of man
(choir)
Nostradamus
Nostradamus
A voice in the night, a face on the wall
And a thousand candles burning
He tries to look away but he’s losing control
He’s feeling so alone
Floating away into places unknown
Being haunted by desire
Is he a master of fate or just a captive soul
That shivers to the bone
But it’s all in the mind’s eye
Don’t cry - Just a trick of the light
It’s only a dream, child
Awake in the night
Don’t worry anymore, cause it will be alright
Seeing it all in the blink of an eye
That the world will soon be changing
As the two-faced man shows his evil side
In this barren future land
But it’s all in the mind’s eye
Don’t cry - Just a trick of the night
It’s only a dream, child
Awake in the night
Climbing stairs, climbing stairs all my life
I don’t mind, yet I want to survive
So I’ll hide in the shell of my health
’Cause I’ve been through the hell of my wealth
Will I take it as a part of myself
When it’s there
Do you care, really care if I say
What it takes, to convince me to stay
Guess I’m knowing it’s all worthwile
But the habit’s beyond the smile
When you get to the top
Who’s the first one to drop
By that time I just might have gone crazy
Now we’ve all had our bit
Who’s the first one to quit
Do you care
All my feelings are left far behind
But your bussiness will not make me blind
When you get to the top
Who’s the first one to drop
By that time I just might have gone crazy
Now we’ve all had our bit
Who’s the first one to quit
Do you care, really care if I say
What it takes, to convince me to stay
Guess I’m knowing it’s all worthwile
Listen to that sound
A voice that seems to come from far
The spirits talk - wish that I could hear
The words are vague - but the meaning’s clear
The secret of life
Children of the seance tell no lie
If you’d spoil it all
By turning on the lights and say
It’s only waste of my precious time
Playing this game to mislead my mind
They’ll haunt you at night
Children of the seance never die
Questions of a thousand dreams of more
Miracles and magic hands
No one really understands
Who’s been telling all these stories
The words that I remember, things I
Never should have heard: only dead birds fly
Forever, forever
Drowned in space and time
Challenging worlds beyond the stars
Searching for answers our life conceals
Holding the key but the door is sealed
Until we find out
Watching belly grow
There's so much I would like to know
Such a strange affair
Is it really there?
Is it really so?
Doctor knows what's best
Little work and a little rest
Don't misunderstand
He's a clever man
You can trust his test
But time will come that doctors want to know
What you would like
Or what you would prefer
A boy or a girl
Then you'll look at her
And not find the words
Now what do you want?
Daughter or son
Picking the one
Daughter or son
Science taking giant steps
It's bringing back the fun
What do you want?
Daughter or son?
Man controlling life
So afraid he might not survive
If you only knew
What they're doing to keep us all alive
Such a big mistake
To decide if we give or take
Little mystery
Waiting patiently
For its time to wake
But time will come that doctors want to know
What you would like
Or what you would prefer
A boy or a girl
Then you'll look at her
And not find the words
Now what do you want?
Daughter or son
Picking the one
Daughter of the moon
My only love
What childhood dreams
Are woven of
The thought of seeing you soon
Controls my mind
But suddenly
You are hard to find
My spirit's high
Esteem is low
Where you've gone
I do not know
Daughter of the moon
Your ray of light
Will guide me back
To your heart each night
Daughter of the moon
Without a trace
In every cloud
I can see her face
Saw her when I knew
No tribal law
I still don't care
About them at all
There's no defending
What they do
Keeping me
Away from you
Daughter of the moon
A spark of light
Could drive me back
To your heart tonight
Your wise men fear
They're in decline
The spirits are
No match for brine
See the mustang
Wave its manes
Roaming freely
'Cross the plains
Daughter of the moon
It's only right
That I can be
Hope and fear
Left her colorless face without mirth
Sweet Daphne, the priestess of Old Mother Earth
Saw a stranger coming near
Full of pride
Still mighty Apollo desired
The God of all Arts gently playing his lyre
Needs a nymph to guard his night
Safe and sound
Daphne lived in the mountains, protecting the ground
A wild virgin girl
In a heavenly world
Breaking Apollo's heart
Whatever happens, her goddess will ward...
Chasing his love through the mountains and hills
Slave of a world full of passionate thrills
Dreaming of being embraced by her arms
Could not resist all her magical charms
But meaning no harm
Please don't forsake me in hours of need
Fallen a victim to Apollo's greed
Goddess of Earth, she cried so desperately
If I can't escape won't you please let me be
A wild laurel tree
Sacred tree
Oh to worship, to cherish and always be near thee
Your leaves will serve
To those with the urge
Tell me where you've been
Tell me were you're going
Invader
From a time unseen
You know they changed the rules
Who will listen to the things you say
When your words are only feathers in the wind
Crusader
No more good and bad
In this world of strangers
Don't wait now
Till there's no way back
To your world of fools
Who believes the mighty sword
When the truth appears like bullets from a gun
Where can you run
Who's ever gonna know your face
When you're only casting shadows on the wall
Running from the scene of mischief
Scared to death when they pursued me
Knowing they will catch me in the end
Thought my flight had got no purpose
I kept on running round in circles
Finally I fell into their hands
What have I done
I recklessly killed someone
Oh judge, it really fills my mind with grief
The only thing I get is disbelief
Selfish love and blind aggression
Drove me to this crime of passion
I was so enchanted by her looks
On the verge of sheer exhaustion
She evoked all these emotions
Never gave me love, but only took
Court can't you see
That I've turned out to be
The target for her feelings of revenge
I'll need the best of lawyers in the land
'Cause they know every prison and they win every case
But can they help forget her merciless gaze
I never meant to hurt that man from the start
I know the prase: long time no see
That's not what I had in mind
Just as I banished you from my memory
You attacked from behind
Are you ignorant or isn't it clear
I don't want you around
Don't make me tell
Instead of bring me down
I'm looking right through your lies
Don't believe anything you say
It's about time you open your eyes
The price was too high to pay
It's been to long since I cried for love
It hasn't been easy , and times were tough
Too long since I died for love
I still remember, and I've had enough
Ooh I cried for love
Yes I cried for love
Let me tell you once and for all
It's no use hanging around
As you can see I regained total control
I won't be playing your clown
And while you're trying to find the weak spot in me
You forget about your own
Since I know where to look, it's easy to see
Why don't you leave me alone
I don't intend to fall once again
And believe anything you say
It's about time that you understand
The price was too high to pay
It's been to long since I cried for love
It hasn't been easy , and times were tough
Too long since I died for love
here’s a voice, the distant roar of thunder
A silent trembling of the earth
It talks of mystifying powers
But few can hear the words
There’s a hand that holds a child’s illusions
Where a million dreams, still kept within
All speak of love and hate and passion
Of joy and pain and sin
When the sky’s ablaze and the lands deserted
All the waters deeply frozen
When hunger reigns and the wolves are howling
You can find the thieves and liars
Close to the fire
In the age that man will reach the planets
While rivalling tribes are marching up for war
Every single beat of life’s enchanting rhythm
Is louder than before
But no word seems to be remembered
No truth eternal, once it is revealed
All promises and vows lost or broken
Like wounds that never healed
When the sky’s ablaze and the lands deserted
All the waters deeply frozen
When hunger reigns and the wolves are howling
You can find the thieves and liars
Close to the fire
There is no answer to the question
We stand accused but never learn
To see we’ve only come full circle
Carry the torch that makes us burn
Now the sky’s ablaze and the lands deserted
All the waters deeply frozen
Where hunger reigns and the wolves are howling
We become the thieves and liars
Remember Noah wrought his ship a long, long time ago
It's blessed that he ever did
No one believed his warnings, laughing, shrugging
shoulders
Asking: 'Is there any need of it?'
They found out they were wrong and he was right
As the waters rose the cresting tide sealed their fate
It's such an old but true cliche to say our days our
numbered
Life for us is really through
There's only one way out and that's to build a
spaceship
God knows where it's gonna lead us to
I'll be your captain, leader, hero, saint, guide and
king
The one who had this brilliant idea
I'll be happy to accept all medals
For having saved all millons following me
It's such an old but true cliche to say our days our
numbered
Life for us is really through
There's only one way out and that's to build a
spaceship
God knows where it's gonna lead us to
We'll sail the second Ark, tickets are cheap
You can always choose a window seat if you wish
Let other people snicker, silly fools
When they come to grip with nature's rules, we'll be
gone
Are you still asking me if I would take the risk
You must have lost your mind
It may be the chance for a lifetime
We'll sail the second Ark, tickets are cheap
You can always choose a window seat if you wish
Let other people snicker, silly fools
When they come to grip with nature's rules, we'll be
gone
Are you still asking me if I would take the risk
You must have lost your mind
(Nostradamus)
I was born in the town of St. Remy
Raised at my grandfather's side
who would teach me Latin, Hebrew, Chemistry
no question was ever denied
I was told about the circle of life
hearing how my ancestors managed to survive
all about the wonders of astrology
when I was a boy
spending nights reading books
on the heavens and the earth
then finding out, discovering
the power of words
only time could separate our souls and their secret
alliance
celestial science
on matters that would really interest me
I received a pretty good start
much to the concern of some friends and family
who felt I was tryin' just a little too hard
though my education wasn't useless or wrong
but to learn a proper job I was sent to Avignon
far away from prying eyes in St. Remy
where I was a boy
Just spending nights reading books
on the heavens and the earth
then finding out, discovering
the power of words
only time could separate our souls and their secret
alliance
celestial science
I remember spending nights and reading books
on the heavens and the earth
then finding out, discovering
the power of words
only time could separate our souls and their secret
alliance
He wanted your love
Claiming a single night of passion
But when push came to shove
You didn't keep your promise
Turning his desire to obsession
Did you believe you could lead him on
Like you said
And he would simply take his loss
Forgive and forget
Just like that
You betrayed his trust
You played and lost
For the world's gone deaf
To the tales that you're telling
Now isn't it sad ?
Oh Cassandra
You ignited the fire
Did you know your fate was sealed
When you backed out off the deal
Oh Cassandra
The world's sweetest liar
There's no one to believe your warnings
And destiny was changed by just one kiss
Did you believe you could lead him on
Like you said
And he would simply take his loss
Forgive and forget
Just like that
You betrayed his trust
You played and lost
For the world's gone deaf
To the tales that you're telling
Now who's been misled?
Oh Cassandra
You ignited the fire
When you backed out on your word
The gift became a curse
Oh Cassandra
The world's sweetest liar
How can anyone believe your warnings
Here's to children without youth forced to carry out a
mission
To the fragile and abused
Here's to greed and blind ambition
Little soldiers firing guns tiny fingers pull the
trigger
Here's to every mother's son
Carry on, carry on...
Here's to children, small and frail driven by the grand
illusion
To be a hero for a day
Isn't life one big delusion?
Here's to angels on the run selling their bodies for
protection
Here's to the innocent and young
Carry on, carry on...
Is it worth the sacrifice?
All the trials and tribulations
Don't let the child inside you die
Carry on, carry on...
Carry on boy and stay true to your heart
Never let the real world get you down
Hold your head up high
Carry on boy, carry on
Carry on boy to the beat of the drum
Let the rythm move your inner ground
Make your spirits fly
I tried to hide from the fire
But there's no place that I can go
I tried to feel no desire
But I only felt my love grow
I need you so, without you I can't go on
My life has got no direction
You know I'm helpless from the moment you're gone
I need you're loving and affection
So I want you to stay and you know that I'll do
Anything that you want me to
Can't afford to lose
Can't afford to lose your loving
I can't afford to lose
Can't afford to lose your loving
I can't afford to lose
Some people change their lovers and friends
Just like old shoes and cigarettes
Running around, their chase never ends
Always trying to find their match
No more illusions, got my feet on the ground
'Cause I'm chained by your attraction
I couldn't live alone, I want you around
Because I need your protection
So I beg you to stay and you know that I'll do
Anything that you want me to
Can't afford to lose
Can't afford to lose your loving
I can't afford to lose
Can't afford to lose your loving
In search for long gone times
Of rough and solid steel
Beyond all yesterdays
A world is getting real.
I am a simple man
Dreaming is all I can
No law can make me stay
I just won't be here when they (...bury the world)
In time we're cast away
And land on distant shores
The chains of life remain
Unbroken like before
I am a simple man
Dreaming is all I can.
No law can make me stay
Nine o’clock, a man in a chair
Just another assessment, a smile and a stare
Please understand it’s out of my hands
Could you sign there
You must have known the spiral went down
You were falling behind and your colleagues would frown
Surely you saw your failure, your flaw
You’re through in this town
One line ready for use
Not to worry, said I’m sorry
Why do I feel like I’m breaking the news
Home at last, the day has been long
Honey, you must have sensed your intentions were wrong
Focused on lust, buried the trust
It made you feel strong
Your innocence died before it was born
I had never intended our love to be torn
‘till death do us part, a pledge from the heart
To that I’d have sworn
Just one line ready for use
Not to worry, said I’m sorry
Why do I feel like I’m breaking the news
One more line ready for use
Not to worry, said I’m sorry
Why do I feel like I’m breaking the news
There’s no hurry, said I’m sorry
One line to use and there’s no excuse
I thought it was obvious
No mistake, no break, we’re past give and take
Truth unfolds before us
Just one line ready for use…
I’ve been called many names, even painted a traitor
Born just to be my father’s doom
A pawn to be used sooner or later
But already cursed inside the womb
How can I forgive the man
Who’d devise a plan
Meant to kill his own blood
Sending boys my age out on the sea
Hoping one of them was me
Just to be free
Now I’m branded
Stranded
Like an evil spirit lost in time
Branded
Left empty handed
But I’ll be back and claim what’s mine
He’s wrong to believe that he can defy me
’cause I won’t rest till justice is done
I’ve got a right that he can’t deny me
His incestuous rebel bastard son
Like a wolf outside the pack
Ready to attack
Only waiting for the right time
I’ll take the Crown by sheer surprise
Confront him with his lies
He’ll pay the price
Cause I’m branded...
That night I made him lose his innocence
His only heir begotten in ignorance
He should have traced me
Found me and raised me
But he chose to hate me instead
For what you did there is no remedy
You took his seed to make his enemy
He’ll never accept you
Befriend and protect you
No, he only wanted you dead!
Like a wolf outside the pack
Ready to attack
Only waiting for the right time
I’ll take the Crown by sheer surprise
Confront him with his lies
He’ll pay the price
So we’re branded
Stranded
Like an evil spirit lost in time
Branded
Left empty handed
But I’ll be back and claim what’s mine
We’re branded
Branded
Your car got stuck and it's nobody's fault but your own
Forget to refill, now it's night and you're all alone
No living soul within a mile or ten
Someone will come, but you don't know when
Now all you've got's that faithful boogie heart
You got no money and you got no place to go
No gas, no booze, no girl, but just an old radio
Then you don't have to worry how to spend the night
Because you know it's gonna be alright
And you may feel you've not been all that smart
You still got your boogie heart
Whenever you feel down and out
Sorrow's leaving you in doubt
Know that if you want to make it
Then find a heart and take it
'Cause you just can't do without
You still got your boogie heart
Lady arrogance you've really got it made
You can pick and choose
Your debts are always neatly paid
Yes you've got us all at your beck and call
Does it please you?
Lady confidence your path is paved with gold
Played your tricks so well
He gladly bought the lies you told
Though I don't admire your style
Can't help falling for your smile
Let you use me
You seduce me
And confuse me
Come to your senses for I've had enough
He's got the money but I offer love
Well you made it clear that beggars can't be choosers
But you must admit that winners need their losers
Lady arrogance it took some time to see
You were never more
Than just a rich man's luxury
Life was built on charity
Driven by fatality
For he left you
He just kept you
He'll forget you
Now that you lost him you're begging for love
I no longer want you cause I've seen enough
Does it hurt to find out winners can be losers
A small wooden cross
The fragile and silent reminder
Of innocence lost
Now gathering dust in a room
That time has forgotten
Too many ifs
And too many questions
To any given answer
Too many why’s
And too little reason
You stumble and you fall
Feeling nothing at all
Everything looks fine in this neighbourhood
The streets are clean and life is good
There’s a school and several stores
The big bad world seems far away
In the park where all the children play
Their mimicry of wars
And who’s to tell
Which house was built
With mortar of mercy and guilt
What stone would hide the poisoned well
The day before the angels fell
In this city of steel
The skin feels like melted down iron
Where guns are for real
And love’s just a deal on the street
No one cares to remember
Too many ifs
And too many questions
To any given answer
Too many why’s
And too little reason
With your head against the wall
You’re going nowhere at all
He’s a plastic man
With a drastic plan
He’s got a wife and three kids
He’s a bore, she’s a bitch
Got a job that sucks
Selling carpets and rugs
That nobody wants to buy
Now plastic man’s
Got a fictional friend
With a fictional face
But a deadly embrace
That he’s felt before
So he locks the door
And he’s gonna cast the die
There’s no way out
There’s no way back
If the glass will show
Just a hairline crack
He’ll be watching bullets fly
But plastic man
Overplayed his hand
He’s got to raise the stakes
Or slam on the brakes
He’s got a busy mind
That’s working overtime
Between the cheater and the lie
There’s no way out
There’s no way back
He’s got to bend down low
With the killer in his eye
Love and manipulation
Are two different doors
Both will promise salvationv But in different floors
To avoid confrontation
There’s a thin line of trust
Such a weak separation
When the line’s drawn by lust
Breaking every connection
To the child he once was
When his only protection
Was a small wooden cross
Something has changed in the neighbourhood
Where the streets were clean and life was good
They’ve closed the school and stores
The big bad world has found its way
To the park, where children used to play
That now are kept indoors
The papers sell
Their tales of grief
Claiming anger and sheer disbelief
About the man they thought they knew so well
The day before the angels fell
In this city of glass
The heart’s tied to strings of desire
To memories passed
To secrets amassed in the house
That time had forgotten
But too many ifs
And too many questions
To any given answer
Too many why’s
And too little reason
For dreams beyond recall
Once and for all
Look at the father
Look at the son
If one is the other
Thy will be done
The story no one lived to tell
A different state of mind
A blessing of some kind
Defying all laws, simply
Because I love you
The challenge looming large
I longed to be in charge
No time to pause, simply
Because I love you
So now I see when I agreed
I didn’t know the why
And feeling like a different breed
I liked the lie
Petrified
A different state of mind
A blessing of some kind
Defying all laws, simply
Because I love you
So now I see when I agreed
I didn’t know the why
And feeling like a different breed
I liked the lie
Petrified
The demons from the past
I conquered them last
Need no applause, simply
Because I love you
A different state of mind
A blessing of some kind
Ironing all flaws, simply
Because I love you
Yes I love you
The one-legged ballerina threw the crowd into a rapture
Her pirouttes made people talk about it ever after
The painter and his guide dog make their millions by
deception
Their audience is mute, you know belief allows no
questions
Once every year
It’s easy to hear
The fair is in town
And the crowd will come down
It’s all right just as long as emptiness hides behind
slogans
While afterwards the promises they don’t even seem broken
No arguments make blind men see, it’s more than their
retina
But I don’t really care - let them adore their ballerina
Fairs dare to show attractions so crazy
Cheers after bows like cheers when you’re hazy
Have a good time and see others smile
There's much left to say
You're gone you never planned to stay
Anyway, don't deny it
No need to come again
You'd show you still don't understand
Its a dream and its ending
I'd rather see you
I'd have you near
Than being alone tonight
Don't want to see
But love it's better so
Bring back the passion, bring on back the thrill
So long that time seems to be standing still
If this is war, why haven’t I been told right from the
start
But now that the battle is on, won’t you carry me...
They say that time will heal and so it does
Extinguish calling for the dream that was
No heart could seem to bear a deeper pain than mine
Regaining courage after all that’s been
The winding path of life and worlds unseen
A heart that seemed to go astray and failed to find the
road
When living meant drowning in front of the eyes of the
world
Oh balance lost when minds had come to grief
Long days in silence giving no relief
Keeping on telling everything turned out the way you
planned
Rising too high means one is bound to fall
Look down you’ll see we’ve really lost control
If this is war, why don’t we fight, why don’t we make a
stand
Remember the world that we’d find at the back of beyond
As soon as the battle is on, won’t you carry me back to
the front
Let me dive into minds
Let me follow the signs
After all it’s quite easy to see
For a lack of real skill
There’s the magical pill
If you want to be sure how you feel
You may tell everyone
That it’s over and done
That the crowd can’t be wrong
Maybe so, but I tend to believe
It’s only love
It’s only love
Making me feel we’ve only just begun
When the images fade
When they turn into shades
Of the statues they once used to be
Going back to the source
Letting things run their course
Still you’re making it hard to believe
When you tell everyone
That it’s over and done
It’s the end of the song
Still there’s something that’s turning the wheel
It’s only love
It’s only love
Now rest your head
The time has come
To sail away to a distant haven
For all’s been said
And all’s been done
Let the barge lead you to the Raven
Nine ladies veiled in black
Will dry your tears for all time
So lay down on your bed of gold
Waiting till the kingdom needs you
In a world sheltered by the mists
Land of gods, faery folk and fantasy
Sacred isle of eternal bliss
We’ll take you back
Back to Avalon
One last rite
One final chord
And then you can sleep in safety
Your most loyal knight
Must take your sword
And return it to the Lady
A hand in white brocate
Will rise up from the water
Taking it down majestically
Waiting till the kingdom needs it
In a world sheltered by the mists
Land of gods, faery folk and fantasy
Sacred isle of eternal bliss
You’re going back
Back to Avalon
In a world sheltered by the mists
Land of gods, faery folk and fantasy
Sacred isle of eternal bliss
We’re going back
Back to Avalon
Back to Avalon
The jester laughs
The council meets
The ladies choose their champions
All companions join
At Arthur’s court
They tell their tales
Of glorious feats
Of dragons slain and battles won
The night’s still young
At Arthur’s court
Don’t they know
That this feast isn’t meant to last forever
Time will show
Who’ll betray and who’ll serve their king and lord
Still the jester laughs at Arthur’s Court
Now every year
They take their seat
In loyalty and honour both
They swear their oath
At Arthur’s court
They make a strange
Heroic breed
With damsels saved and monsters killed
Their cups are filled
At Arthur’s court
Don’t they know
That this feast isn’t meant to last forever
Time will show
Who’ll betray and who’ll serve their king and lord
Who's to know
What goes on inside the infinite galaxies
Down below
Science tries to solve the cosmical
From what I hear
It's perfectly clear
That someday they'll face
A superior race
From space
Greenish glow
Flying objects marking secret activies
Friend or foe
People seem to fear destructive communities
They say we're not alone
For somewhere they roam
Prepared to invade
What a terrible fate
We await
Astral aliens
Planning transmission to earth
Oh they're no fallen angels
Is there a way to protect us
From their blinding brilliance
For they come in trillions
They're taking over control
Now watch those astral aliens
You should know
How we laugh at earthling's primitive prophesy
We won't go
To your nightmare landscape, planet of misery
We're happy here
Got nothing to fear
It's all crazy fiction
Your hazy predictions
Are wrong
Astral aliens
We've got no business on earth
Though we're no guardian angels
What can we do but protect you
From your blundering brilliance
Researching mystical forces
It's just wasting millions
Look out you're losing control
She came from the Holy War
Like the baby that was misconceived
What are we believing for
If it's leading us to disbelief
Oooh, I love her
Oooh, why can't we look
Further than our eyes can see
Hoping, praying, fighting too
Deeply rooted in humanity
Tribal laws are guiding you
To the zenith of stupidity
Ooh, we love her
Oooh, but can't we look
Further than our eyes can see
Anybody's Child
Where do you belong
The future and beyond
I believe we all are
Anybody's Child
Tell me where you've been
The secret's in your dreams
I believe you will be free
See how she moves with perfect grace
Her jet-black eyes behold his face
She steals his heart and gives her own
In order to possess the throne
A willful queen yet so alone
Once he whispered: "You're the light of my life"
Come what may I'll make you my wife
In the end
Gentle maiden, you were born to be loved
You will sooth me when times get too tough
Loyal Nan
Why did he push aside the one we adore?
Caught in the web of that vain Boleyn whore
For that vixen drives him wild
People scorned her, said his choice wasn't right
Loved their king but they hated his bride
Who just smiled
Your sweet appearance always brings me delight
Whenever I'm lonely at night
You'll be there
I'll make sure that you'll rule over the earth
Dear Anne, if you only gave birth
To an heir
You played the lute and sang him a song
Weeping for his first stillborn son
Now you know you're in disgrace
Seeking comfort, immersed in sad memories
You will die but he'll never be free
For the rest of his days
'Cause he'll hear your voice in every song
Your vision will haunt him when you are gone
Echoes of your mocking laugh
His sons will die so your death just won't be in vain
For your daughter she will reign
The very moment that I set eyes on you I returned to
the land of the living
It's like a replay of our first rendez-vous
Like a long trip down memory lane
No use concealing what is plain to see
You're still the best thing that ever happen to me
But now it's too late
Don't make me want you all over again
Breaking my heart like before
I don't believe I can take anymore
'cause I love you
You left me then 'cause you had to be free so I
sheltered my heart from the hurting
You took away all that mattered to me
Everything worth living for
Now I've won the battle and I made it through
Just as I finally got over you
You show up once more
Don't make me want you all over again
Breaking my heart like before
I don't believe I can take anymore
'cause I love you
You make it sound so easy
Gotta give it all we've got
But I know you're bound to leave me
Believe me
Don't make me want you all over again
Breaking my heart like before
I really don't think I can take anymore
'cause I love you
Don't make me need you all over again
24 Hours a day
Gotta ask you to go before I beg you to stay
'cause I love you
Don't make me need you all over again
Making the same mistake twice
It's the hour of truth in a liftetime of lies
Time goes by
Drifting away
Where, how or why
No one can really say
We've come, we'll pass
Floating along
Like weightless mass
Beneath a dying sun
We wonder and
Watch the orbiting moon in the sky
And far beyond
We stumble and
Follow the road from the end
Till beginning
We are
Travelling alone
Our destination
Alienation
We analyze
To know the rules
We sacrifice
The dreamers and the fools
The more we learn
The less we are
Part of the world
Beneath the dying star
We wonder and
All we see is the truth in disguise
Unlike the child
That we must have
Lost on the road from the end
Till beginning
We are
Still on our own
Our destination
The jury won't believe my words
They want my alibi
It's no use to convince the judge
'Cause money knows no pride
Just take a good look around and soon you'll understand
I do not stand no chance
The traitors and the renegades
They all have their excuse
Their peaceful dreams in minds that hate
While it's me that they accuse
Just open your eyes my friend and tell me what you find
Or are you going blind?
Alibi
Truth or lie
Bars as cure give me your
Alibi
Live or die
Prison will make of you a better man
They tell me this, they tell me that
Deform the truth their way
One never knows just where it's at
Ready to collaborate
Just open your eyes my friend and tell me what you find
Or are you going blind?
Alibi
Truth or lie
Bars as cure give me your
Alibi
Live or die
Confusing the past with the future
inspired by some magical force
misusing the words of a stranger
pretending they're yours
The Monk
in search of a different treasure
misguided by places and time
by riddles that ne one can answer
not knowing they're mine
with a secret that I couldn't share
and an army that's no longer there
thes writings in code
all the poems I wrote
were simple an act of despair (2X)
these book is a trap of ilussions
meant to mislead and reveal
weaving a web of delusion
round a truth so unreal
set in an alternate order
four thousand verses in rhyme
will take you from border to border
on a journey divine
with a sercret that I couldn't share
and a world that would no longer care
the task I fulfilled
obeying God's will
was simply an act of despair (2x)
The work I created will show him the way
the traps that I laid won't lead him astray
I'll rest assured when the deed is done
and the mystery's solved
yes the mystery's solved by the chosen one
with a secret that I couldn't share
and a world that would no longer care
the task I fullfilled
obeying God's will
Nostradamus
I didn't dare to publish
couldn't put in writing
something so alarming
so frightening
I can only speak in private of the things I've seen
for it concerns the future of the king and queen
I know it is considered as a privilege and honour
and a royal invitation would be unwise to ignore
what could be more rewarding for a man in my position
than a queen who wants to know just what the future
hods in store
... in paris
I didn't dare to publish
couldn't put in writing
something so alarming
so frightening
I can only speak in private of the things I've seen
for it concerns the future of the king and queen
While a journey would be long and hard and
not without it's problems
For a man my age - leaving two children and his wife
only time would tell if I'd been right
to do as was requested knowing what might have happened
round august twenty five
... in paris
I didn't dare to publish
couldn't put in writing
something so alarming
so frightening
I can only speak in private of the things I've seen
for it concerns the future of the king and queen
But they musn't doubt my loyalty
to holy church and royalty
so I will accept and obey
and soon I will be on my way
The time had come for you to go
And my whole world came crashing down around me
Could hardly sleep and breathe
Just thinking how it could have been
If only you were here tonight
Which way to turn when fate steps in
When love is gone and loneliness surrounds me
Keep staring at the ceiling
Hoping that it’s just a dream
That you’ve never really left my life
You gave me shelter when no one would
Your arms around me once felt so good
When I lost all direction you showed the way
Never imagined I’d be losing you one day
Not even in a million years
Alone at night
I feel the urge
To cry out loud I’m missing you like crazy
A thousand questions left
There’s just no way I can accept
That you’re not coming back to me
You gave me shelter when noone would
Your arms around me once felt so good
When I lost all direction you showed the way
I couldn’t bear the thought of losing you one day
Not even in a million years
You gave me shelter when noone would
Your arms around me once felt so good
When I lost all direction you showed the way
You’ve made my longing for you stronger every day
About you, without you, my plans were made
I'm driving, conniving, well worth the wait
I simply can't afford to let you have your way
So I must learn to do without you
About you, without you, you stand accused
High treason, no reason, I'm quite amused
I came, I saw, I conquered everything in sight
I had to learn to do without you
Without you, without you, about you
About you, without you, the deal was done
What matters, in tatters, I'm moving on
Can't bare you (?) have a say in anything at all
I always had to do without you
Without you, without you, about you
Now I won't be ignored, I've come to the fore
I'm just making sure you're on my side
You're right to suggest, it's what I do best
And let your request, I'll give you
Instant pleasure, easy, easy
(The bigger the lie the easier to justify)
It will please me, please me
But on my terms, without you
About you, without you, I'll do my tricks
Achieving, deceiving, good politics
Because you didn't stop me while you had the chance
Now I can't keep on doing without you
Without you, without you, about you
Of all men who've read that strange and cryptic tale who claim he's seen beyond the veil
will a key give acces to his mind will it open every door we find
A love so sweet
Then interrupted - such a cruelty, what distress ...
Who'd comfort him
When after having won and served the king he lost his mistress?
"Oh will you always wait for me
Until the war has set me free?"
And then a last goodbye ...
Woe and alas
Lost in their sadness and their lonely hearts, as tears console them
Spending their days
Weeping and mourning they would pine way, no arms to hold them
"Oh will she still be waiting there
A maid like her, so young, so fair"
A soldier far from home (A soldier all alone)
Although his heart secretly cried
Too hard to brave the lonely nights
Then he returned
Tired of the war, oh how his inside burnt with love and passion
Finding her gone
Lost in the world but forced to carry on, no life reflections
"How could I think she'd wait for me
A pretty girl like her?" So he
What I'm about to say May come out of the blue A sudden darkness that won't disappear
What I'm about to say May break our world in two But one that wasn't ever really here
And does it matter in the end How long we've loved or how we've made it last It's taken longer to pretend To hold on to an image of the past
Cause what I'm about to say I've told you time and time again Only I just wasn't speaking out Or you wouldn't understand How my love had worn away That's what I was trying to say
What I'm about to say May twist a dagger in your heart And shatter all the hopes and dreams you had
What I'm about to say May leave you badly bruised and scarred Wondering if live was ever meant to hurt like that
But does it matter in the end What could have been or what we've lost We build a fortress out of sand With borders that nobody should have crossed
Cause what I'm about to say I've told you time and time again Only I just wasn't speaking out Or you wouldn't understand How my love was torn away That's what I'd been trying to say
I told myself all wounds could heal If only given time But love felt like a poisoned arrow Stuck inside my mind I wanted to believe so badly Trust could be rewon And God knows that I tried to love you But the feeling's gone
I can see a worried man
Paper still white, he's on a journey that will never end
He's got the message, needing words, but doesn't understand
The poet and the one man band
No one seems to know
Why life has run so low
I can see a silly man
Dreaming of a perfect love, a starry sky romance
Living on an island, doesn't really understand
The poet is a one man band
Left alone to cry
Poets never live until they die
Life seems but a joke
Love re-mending hearts that broke
Isn't it a strange thing too
All the words inside of you
Couldn't possibly explain why you feel it's all been said before
Spending your days alone and closing all doors
Too far beyond your eyes you think
But coming out you find they haven't gone
So take your stand
You'll see they all have come
Old cathedral Silent witness Breathing light through colored glass Blue enchantment Skill and magic Shadows of a secret mass
How could I live without you The longing’s far too strong to deny But I would just break down and die To see him getting hurt Would weigh me down with grief
What if he knew Would he pretend to be so blind What could he do Being the one who’s left behind But how can we choose between friendship and love
In dreams I first beheld you Then found your name engraved on my heart
You’re all that I desire But betraying him tears me apart
Love defies all reason We can’t be holding on To secrets we can’t keep
He’ll question my devotion Consider it a breach of faith
Tormented by emotion Held captive in these silken chains
How love can lead to treason And right can lead to wrong We watch in disbelief
What if he knew Would he pretend just not to see So much to lose He can’t afford to let it be But how can he choose between friendship and love
We’re part of each other Like sun and moon, like night and day But sworn to another A dream has come and gone astray Who’ll make this nightmare go away
