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Catch My Fall
I wake up feeling lost without you
And the pain reminds me that I'm all alone
Those dreams we had, are now a nightmare
I feel just like a dog without a bone
Now is now and then was then
But I can't get used to being without you
It's a brand-new start and now I know that I should've
But I never ever thought I'd miss your eyes
'say' here we go again
All I need is you tonight
Why don't you call
All I need is you tonight
To catch my fall
I'd die for you over and over again
But I guess you've heard it all before
You say times have changed, changed your ways
But your absence makes me need you more and more
It's a brand-new start and now I know that I should've
Loved you then...
All I need is you tonight
Why don't you call
All I need is you tonight
To catch my fall
All I need is you tonight
Why don't you call
All I need is you tonight
To catch my fall- that's all
[SOLO]
All I need is you tonight...
In The Darkness
Why am I here now
What have I done
Running on empty- I got nowhere to run
Can't get an answer
Can't get it right
Just try to make it
'till the end of the night
Is there a way to avoid doing wrong
Lead me away from the darkness
Light up my day show me where I belong
Please don't leave me all alone in the darkness
Far in the distance
There is night, there is day
Sounds are waving nets of dismay
Sometimes I'm stuck in a shocking delay
Like in a slow motion movie
I'm reaching out for something to hold
Life slips away in the cold- in the cold
My heart is so cold- my heart is so cold
Why was I turned down
What's going on
I wish there was something that could have been done
How can I get there
Where is the light
How can I make it
'till the end of the night
How can I turn darkness to light
Leaving my fear in the darkness
Is there a way how can I overcome
My restless night's and my fear- and my fear
In the darkness- in the darkness- in the darkness
You always tried to be so nice
But always got it wrong
Day by day you played your games with me
But there's no way you'll win
But the time has come
I'll start another light
And now I'm gonna stand
Stand on my own - I've always been a man
Kick your desperate balls
It's my command the mighty fall
Kick your desperate balls
Received the blow forever tall
You got desperate balls
Double talk and desperate lies
You failed to see and recognize
So sorry for your puny minds
No salvation for your kind
You tried to take me on
For you I'm way too strong
I showed you how to stand
Stand on my own - I'll always be a man
Kick your desperate balls
So watch your back or I might call
Kick your desperate balls
From left or right or from below
You got desperate balls
You call those balls?
Feel the weight of mine!
You tried to take me on
For you I'm way too strong
I showed you how to stand
Stand on my own - I'll always be a man
Kick your desperate balls
It's my command the mighty fall
Kick your desperate balls
Received the blow forever tall
Kick your desperate balls
So watch your back or I might call
Kick your desperate balls
From left or right or from below
You got desperate balls
Dirty Boys
Bad boys on the run tonight
There's streaming energy
The future holds retreat or victory
Strollin' through the neon light
You get no charity
Looking for a fight- out on the run
They're never gonna win
Unless the system is to burn
They're tearing our world apart
Because, they never wanna learn
Dirty boys always on the run
Until six o'clock in the morning
Dirty boys always having fun
Never get them out of my mind
Windows closed and doorways shut
There's trouble in the streets
Another girl gets crazy from the heat
Heavy current loads the air
Headgames all around
Tidal waves of lust and moaning sounds
There never gonna win...
Dirty boys always on the run
Until six o'clock in the morning
Dirty boys always having fun
Never get them out of my mind
Dirty boys always on the run
Never get them out of my mind
[SOLO]
They're tearing our world apart
Because they never wanna learn
Bad boys on the run tonight
Burning up the streets
The future holds retreat or victory
Heavy current loads the air- you get no charity
They're looking for a fight, this ain't no place to be
Dirty Boys...
Restricted Area
High voltage in the air
No way to know it's good or bad
Don't try to trick it down
Otherwise you could be dead
So just look out
It may be mean
Just can't be too afraid of this machine
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
Restricted area
Your brain's been mesmerized
And in your mind this place is full of steel,
so full of steel
So shift to overdrive
Crash away the gang with the men from another space
So be aware
Just leave the scene
The world's been metallized by this machine
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
The world's been metallized
A hole in the middle of the night
Restricted area
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
It's a restricted area
Hold on - hold on - hold on
Your brain's been mesmerized
A hole in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night
You're heavy metallized
A hole in the middle of the night
Run For Cover
See the man in white
He's old he wouldn't dare to fight, to fight another
Rockin' like a beast upon on a never ending dream
We love each other
Asking for a sign- the action's coming from behind
Let's run for cover
Feel the music's beat, we fight for rock
And in the heat we stand together
We're holding back for you when you fight
And we stand for one another
We're holding back for you, when you run for cover
And see those open eyes
When you are standing here tonight
That's why- We're holding back for you, when you run for cover
Restless in the night, we all stand up for this delight
We fight together
We're holding back for you when you fight
And we stand for one another
We're holding back for you, when you run for cover
We're holding back for you.......
Burning in my heart- burning in my soul
Gotta have it more and more- hot and overloaded
Starving for some fun tonight- always dressed to kill
Don't tell me what I need- I need the thrill indeed
Don't stop me now
I'll run you over- bastard
Get out of my way
I feel mighty great
Burning heat- gets me- burning heat
Burning heat- breaks me- burning heat
Can't you see it coming- stronger than a bull
Get yourself going- you're too easy to beat
Don't forget I'm strong- powerful and straight
I can take you on 'cause I am hard to break
Don't stop me now
I'll run you over- bastard
Get out of my way
I feel mighty great
Burning heat- gets me- burning heat
Burning heat- breaks me- burning heat
Burning heat- gets me- burning heat
Burning heat- breaks me- burning heat
Burning heat- leads me- burning heat
Burning heat- feeds me- burning heat
Burning in my heart- burning in my soul
Gotta have it more and more- hot and overloaded
Burning heat- gets me- burning heat
Burning heat- breaks me- burning heat
Burning heat- leads me- burning heat
Burning heat- feeds me- burning heat
Freelance Man
You are a nothing and deceased
You ain't alive at all
Don't try to be sensible
I'll bang your head on the wall
I got no time to be locked in
I'm a dangerous son
You're always second
I'm the number one
Hail the battle
Take a bow
Monumental
Gonna stand my ground
I'm gonna stand my ground
'cause I'm a freelance man
I ain't walking I ain't talking tonight
Heart of steel - twisted feel - I'm no easy ride
You will never ever lock me up tight
'cause I'm a freelance man
And I'm breaking and I'm taking tonight
No mistake - don't dictate - I'm no easy ride
Don't you never ever lock me up tight
I'm always doing what I please
I'm always having a ball
You make me contemptible
I'll bury you in a hole
It's better you to be locked in
I'll be a terrible guard
You'll never matter
I'm still the number one
Hail the battle, ...
Turn on your brain before you talk
It was no secret what I am
You rue the day - you've been done over
I'm just a freelance man
No Limits
One life - never been a riddle
Black nights - live it to the max
It's all extremely done
No way - to colonise the middle
Ride hard - desperadoes at your back
Under a blood red sun
In this world - up to us
We stand or we fall - yeah
We got no limits - no hideaway
We got no limits - live today
We got no limits - the way to stay
We got no limits - no limits all the way
Gear up - life is what we make it
Rock hard - shaft it to the top
We've only just begun
Sun's up - we're gonna do some shakin'
Break out - we give it all we got
Make way 'cause here we come
In this world we decide
To answer the call - yeah
Power'n'riches'n'rank
Mean nothing at all
Render the game to the end
Once and for all - once and for all - yeah
We got no limits - no hideaway
We got no limits - live today
We got no limits - the only way to stay
We got no limits
Ev'rybody live the life
Lost Passion
Welcome hello, please take your seat
We leave now for a trip- in hell
Now we can start especially for you- join us now!
Shattered dreams, in shattered faces
Crawling off the stage
Forgotten heroes lost their passion, many years ago
Time after time in your life
You're burning your world of illusions
Tearing your conscience apart
Lost Passion
Now you can see, you can see what it means
To come to a world of lies, all such lies
Think about your destiny- the love you found
Was it just a dream, just a dream
Shattered dreams, in shattered faces...
Time after time in your life
You're burning your world of illusions
Tearing your conscience apart
Lost Passion- Lost Passion
Time after time in your life
You're burning your world of illusions
Tearing your conscience apart
Lost Passion- Lost Passion- Lost Passion
[SOLO]
Time after time in your life...
Ride The Storm
Thunder roads in action
Horizon's all the same
That's the big attraction
Come on join the game
Brothers out of time
'n' chasing down the line
Mighty eagles rage into the sky
Ride the storm - now and tomorrow
Faster and so far
Ride the storm - no hidden sorrows
'n' aiming for the stars
The colour black's for leather
Metal engines howl
'n' ride the storm together
Tailpipes gonna growl
We ride the iron horses
'n' freedom in the heart
We never will surrender
We are the breed apart
Stranger
Don't spend your life like a dime
I thought you are not for hire
Stand for your rights - don't look at the past
I don't know - I don't care - my brain's
spinning 'round like a wheel
Don't feel like a stranger
Don't feel like a stranger
So turn around leave your feelings behind
Just calm down keep the devil inside
It's like a stone lying in your head
You never know - this time it could be real
And then you'll realize
Maybe you're wrong this time
Do something in your life
And then it'll work out
Don't feel like a stranger
Everything can be real
Don't feel like a stranger
Move on like a wheel
So you don't know - what is the reason
It's up to you to sell your life so easy
I thought you were learning from the past
Can't you feel deep inside when you're breaking the chains
And then you'll realize
Maybe you're wrong this time
Do something in your life
And then it'll work out
Don't feel like a stranger
Everything can be real
Don't you know you're in danger
Move on like a wheel
And when it works out
Don't turn around
Something is in your heart
So let it free - oh yeah
Oh yeah
Don't feel like a stranger
Listen to me - everything can be real
Don't feel like a stranger
Move on like a wheel
Don't feel like a stranger
Everything can be so real
Don't you know you're in danger
Move on like a wheel
Don't feel like a stranger.
Future Land
It's a nightmare leading out of the dark
Tears running out of my eyes
Wake up and bring the truth into your life
I can't stand it anymore
All those nightmares - endless despair
Walk away from this dream
Show me the way out of the darkness
Into a land of light
See the world with different eyes
There's something true in this life
And I start getting closer
You'd better not fall behind
Don't take me to tomorrow
Don't take me to the future land
Don't take me to tomorrow
Don't take me to the future land
And now I've had enough of this ride
Just let me out of this game
So many reasons to step out and pay
Everyday it's the same
No more hiding - deep inside me
The pictures start to be real
You'd better listen to your heartbeat again
I know I wanna be free
See the world with different eyes
There's something true in this life
And I start getting closer
You'd better not fall behind
Don't take me to tomorrow (oh, no)
Don't take me to the future land (no lying - anymore)
Don't take me to tomorrow(mmmh, I)
Don't wanna see the future land
Don't take me to tomorrow (into the land of light)
Don't take me to the future land
Don't trade your life for sorrow (reach out for the paradise)
Stop longing for the future land
So many feelings deep in your heart
Don't you believe in this dream
So don't hide them deep inside you
Let them out this time, yeah
Don't take me to tomorrow (no lying anymore)
Don't take me to the future land (oh no)
Don't take me to tomorrow (don't take me away)
Don't take me to the future land (without day or night)
Don't trade your life for sorrow (oh no)
Stop longing for the future land (for the land of light)
It's a nightmare leading out of the dark
Tears running out of my eyes
Wake up and bring the truth into your life
I can't stand it anymore
All those nightmares - endless despair
Walk away from this dream
Show me the way out of the darkness
Into a land of light
Don't take me to tomorrow
Don't take me to the future land
Don't take me to tomorrow
Don't wanna see the future land
Don't trade your life for sorrow...
Warrior
Wasn't there a time
When no one lived in pain
Zero down to zero
But a warrior
The innocence of birth
The power of the earth
Out of all that's good
Comes a warrior
Time- is it you who changes minds
Suing us- for something we've not done
Stealing the heroes- all the guiding lights, to find the way
Justice has been gone
To pieces for so long
Some killers call themselves
A warrior
Warriors with no pride
Committing suicide
The picture of a man
That's your warrior
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
Think about the time
Where manhood promised pride
And history was made
Just by warriors
We have to face the world
And hope that someone's heard
Who could replace a man
Like the warrior
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
Time- is it you who changes minds
Suing us- for something we've not done
Stealing the heroes- all the guiding lights, to find the way
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
'cause he's a warrior
Yes, he's a warrior
He fights for peace and freedom
'cause he's a warrior..........
[Instrumental]
Sometimes it's not fair
Too many lies are told
Here we go- don't blame me
What are you lying for
Don't treat me like a toy
I have been through this pain
Long before- again and again
I believe that it's much too much
I only listen to my heart
It's never telling me a lie
I only listen to my heart
Like a kick in the face- sentimental lies
Like a kick in the face- sentimental lies
Don't you dare to hurt me
It's my life- and it's real
I'm not your fool
I will fight for my right
I only listen to my heart
It's never telling me a lie
I only listen to my heart
Like a kick in the face- sentimental lies
Like a kick in the face- sentimental lies
Like a kick in the face
Let's get right down to it
I hate the way you talk
I'm leaving all the bad times
I leave it all- all for you
I only listen to my heart
It's never telling me a lie
I only listen to my heart
It's like a kick in your face- sentimental lies
Like a kick in your face- sentimental lies
It's like a kick in your face- sentimental lies
Like a kick in your face- sentimental lies
I'm A Rebel
[Written by Accept]
They say I won't make it to the top of the hill
Won't take the fruit of a tree
And ev'rybody says I'm out for the kill
They're all laughing at me
They're all laughing at me
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel
And they're all laughing at me
They say I'm a danger to the public and all
I only wish they would see
I'm just a product of a screwed up world - but they're all
They're all laughing at me
But they're all laughing at me
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel
But they're all laughing at me
Never ever wash my old blue jeans
And brush the smile off my face
But still I'm a member of the
Human race - human race - human race - human race
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel - don't you just know it
I'm a rebel - rebel
And they're all laughing at me
I'm a rebel
For all of time we had a man
Who had a frozen heart
He's standig on a hill
And sees the morning come
Fear and rage - destruction
He made a world of pain
Hate and sin - confession
He craved a senseless crime
'cause he's a sane killer - he takes you by surprise
He's a sane killer - stares into your eyes
He's a hate stinger - nothing left to chance
He's a sane killer - and he's the last to dance
Just in time he finds the way
To do without the lies
It's time to bruise and maim
Stripped of all disguise
Fear and rage - destruction
No warning or a sign
Hate and sin - confession
He's deadly from behind
'cause he's a sane killer - he takes you by surprise
He's a sane killer - stares into your eyes
He's a hate stinger - nothing left to chance
He's a sane killer - and he's the last to dance
The devil rings - we pay the rent
The cruellest cut of all
We built the road he travelled on
The lessons come to call
So look for signs behind the eyes
Destructor of us all
Stands alone deathly still
The stealer has arrived
Fear and rage - destruction
He made a world of pain
Hate and sin - confession
He craved a senseless crime
'cause he's a sane killer - he takes you by surprise
He's a sane killer - stares into your eyes
He's a hate stinger - nothing left to chance
He's a sane killer - and he's the last to dance
'cause he's a sane killer - he takes you by surprise
He's a sane killer - stares into your eyes
He's a hate stinger - nothing left to chance
Backstreet Loner
I lit another cigarette
She did a little pirouette
No friend of mine - a dollar's fine
A cruel world - when you cross this line
The masquerade is over
The mask - it fades away
Like a backstreet loner
No need to be afraid
In Johnny Nofinger's bar
I travelled so far
I've been to all those places
Just a shot on the bar
A cheap cigar
And all the dead-eyed faces
Hold down the fever
Don't you cross the line
Hold down the fever
Stop yourself in time
Never step on the ride
Just take my advice
I've suffered all the seasons
Feel it coming again
I paid the price
There's no rhyme - no reason
When masquerades are over
The show will fade away
You'll be a backstreet loner
You better be afraid
One Step To Fate
Now it's time to break the spell
Future's written down
Is it tears or happiness
What's your fate - time will tell
Is it left or is it right
Elect the road you'll take
Will you see the other side
Take a ride - take a ride to see
There's no excuses if it's badness
So many ways it can go wrong
And if it happens to be gladness
Then you can say that you have won
That you have won
One step to fate - why don't you follow me
One step to fate - I know it's near
One step to fate - no power's over me
One step to fate - it only takes one step to fate
The time is now it's make or break
The turning of the tide
This is the way it has to be
Live your life to the edge
Could be bad you know it might
The mission's under way
Now you've reached the other side
Open up - open up your eyes
No more excuses if it's badness
So many ways that have gone wrong
Not always happens to be gladness
Which ever way you know you've won
You know you've won
With a touch of sadness
Dreams can fade away
Laughter is my passion
Never cried away
Sweet Little Child
Darkness- and yet another day slips away
So lonely- life's just like an empty room
Where is the answer, when our love was so sweet
I wish I could hold you tonight
But we only came close in my dreams
Sweet little child
Give me your answer
Some broken hearts
They'd die for that answer
To try to get back, back to the past to break free
Tell me how can I find your sunshine again
Truth is well- you know that better than me
I wish I could hold you tonight
But we only came close in my dreams
Sweet little child
Give me your answer
Some broken hearts
They'd die for that answer
To try to get back, back to the past to break free,
Sweet little child
Give me your answer
Some broken hearts
They'd die for that answer
To try to get back, back to the past to break free
[SOLO]
You know some broken hearts, would die for that answer
Sweet little child
Give me your answer
Mean Machine
The horror of a mad dog
Is chilling my blood in my brains
The lights disappearing
The cloud getting pregnant with rain
There's a rumor going round that
The master of darkness will come
They say he'll come from the sky
And there's nothing we can do
There'll be no place to hide
He's coming for me- he's coming for you!
Somewhere in time
Where creatures of the night never sleep
Lying and waiting, growing stronger
Planning our final defeat
They say he'll come from the sky...
Mean Machine
Comes from the sky
Stake your claims if you want to survive
Mean Machine
Comes from the sky
Don't try to run if you don't want to die
Mean machine
Comes from the sky
Stake your claims if you want to survive
[SOLO]
Mean Machine
Comes from the sky...
Break The Rules
Everything is wrong, yet they all deny it
But the time will come, when they can't hide it
Somebody says hey man- what's up with you
I say 'just make way' cause I'm sick of you
Sick 'n tired of no good two faced liars
Buck here- buck there, that's their sole desire
Leaders always put your life in fear
I don't wanna see the world disappear
You got to burn it up- burn it up tonight
Cause the time has come for us- to put it right
You gotta break the rules, so keep the aces high
Break the rules- break the rules
Burn 'em down with fire
No good thinking you don't have the power
Cause it's coming soon it's gonna be our finest hour
All I do is smile because I've been thru this before
I know just how to play this game- I'm kicking down your door
You got to burn it up- burn it up tonight...
You gotta break the rules, so keep the aces high
Break the rules- break the rules
Burn 'em down with fire
You gotta break the rules, so keep the aces high
Break the rules- break the rules
Burn 'em down with fire
[SOLO]
You gotta break the rules...
State Run Operation
Welcome to the madness
Of symptomatic rule
It's deadly and it's reckless
Another one is fooled
Miniature devices
The ears within the walls
Stiletto knives and cameras
To document it all
And the stream of data flows - endless
Police protection grows - it's here to stay
Another state run - state run operation
Another state run - state run operation
Under observation
Disloyalty is out
Covert operations
That's what it's all about
Hidden automatics
Activate the fuse
Forbidden terror tactics
The system is in use
Finger pointing accusations - they deny
Governmental legislation - why
Immovable and firm positions - don't defy
Supremacy and allegations - part of life
I was born in a backstreet
Where people live a dirty life
Of course it was different most of the time
But it was not my fault
A life in hell
I saw it every morning
Dreams'n'desires
Can't hide myself anymore
I tried to live in heaven
But this dream did not come true
I tried to live in heaven
Next time I'll try to knock on this door again
I've been hunting
Day and night
Oh, I've been losing
Please, hold me tight
Why am I here now
And what can I do
You tell me you're sorry
You know it ain't true
I tried to live in heaven
But this dream did not come true
I tried to live in heaven
Next time I'll try to knock on this door again
You know what I mean
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
Now I'm taking my chances
Everyday, everynight
You know what I'm talking about, man
No more backstreet life
A life in hell
I saw it every morning
Dreams and desires
Don't hide myself anymore
I tried to live in heaven
But this dream did not come true
I tried to live in heaven
Next time I'll try to knock on this door again
You know what I mean
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
I made it out of this hell you know what I mean
I tried to live in heaven
But this dream did not come true
I tried to live in heaven
Next time I'll try to knock on this door again
You know what I mean
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
'Cause when you throw in the cards
Life goes on and on
You're on a trip to nowhere
You'd better reach for the stars
Life goes on and on and on and on again
System Of Life
Now it's time to look in your eyes
You're so much better it's no surprise
It's like a mirror is watching you
Maybe the word's been broken - don't be no fool
Following the lights you see like a rolling train
Yesterday is gone - tomorrow's in your hands
Something you've had is gone - don't wish it back
Let it go - don't run away - it's nothing you'll forget
You know the rules don't need no warning
There's only one way to find the clue
Inside you so let it go
System of life - be the hunted or the hunter
System of life
System of life - it's always by your side
System of life - the one and only way to live in harmony
Don't paint a picture full of love and hate
Paradise is here - but exceptions prove the rules
Sometimes it feels just like a dream becoming true
Close your eyes - look inside - it will never be the same
'Cause for your life there ain't no warning
So stand up and fight to find the clue
So watch out you live and learn
It's the
System of life - be the broken or the breaker
System of life
It's the
System of life - it's always real and true
System of life - the one and only way to live in harmony
Yeah - yeah
Oh, it's the
System of life - be the hunted or the hunter
System of life
It's the
System of life - it's always by your side
System of life - the one and only way to live in harmony
It's the
System of life - be the taken or the taker
System of life
It's the
System of life - it's always real and true
System of life
Thunderforce
Thunder- thunderforce
Thunder- thunderforce
In a lonely night- stars are shining bright
My soul is wandering- striking the universe
I am flying to a light- to a point of no return
In the name of a master- some spirit picks me up
Oh- I feel the heat
Getting attacked- I'm fighting back
Oh- is this the light- the light of glory
Thunder- thunderforce- lightning strikes again
Thunder- thunderforce- lightning strikes again
Getting closer- you will see- the master- that's yourself, oh yeah
Oh- I feel the heat
Getting attacked- I'm fighting back
Oh- is this the light- the light of glory
Thunder- thunderforce- lightning strikes again
Thunder- thunderforce- lightning strikes again
Thunder- thunderforce- striking the universe
Thunder- thunderforce- getting attacked- I'm fighting back
Thunder- thunderforce- lightning strikes again
Thunder- thunderforce- dancing on fire- dancing in hell
Thunderforce
He is a man forced to live with the rats
But he is dying for a smile from you
He is a man without a home in his life
Is that a reason to walk on the line
It's like a game - don't mess around
Don't be a fool so just go on
No life of double standard what he's looking for
Only a dream of tender delight
No more a bloody fool in this dirty town
So get away take your own line
Hard is the game - don't turn around
You make the rules so hold your ground
He's got a heart of gold
The brain to realize he leads the better life
He's got a heart of gold
So free your mind - live with a smile
Heart of gold - just like a diamond in the rough
He is dying for a touch from you
No more a bloody fool in this god damned town
Please be strong for just one time
So play this game and move the pawns
It's up to you so just go on
He's got a heart of gold
The heart to free his soul, the heart to reach the goal
Sweet little a heart of gold
So free and fine - live with a smile
Live with a smile on your face
Hard is the game - don't turn around
No more a fool so just go on
He's got a heart of gold
The brain to realize he leads the better life
He's got a heart of gold
So free your mind - live with a smile
He's got a heart of gold
The heart to free his soul, the heart to reach the goal
Sweet little a heart of gold
So free and fine - live with a smile
Just live with a smile on your face
He is dying for a smile from you
So just go on - go on - go on
With your heart of gold
Don't turn around
You make the rules so hold your ground
Sweet little a heart of gold
Sweet little a heart of gold
Can't Get Enough
Again it's around seven
I'm burning like a candlelight
I don't know where I'm going
But I'm ready for this night
You'd better run for cover
Before I start to smile
No way there's time for wasting
Never walk in a line
Never walk in a line
Oh yeah
And I just keep going
Forget these boring times
And I'm hungry for desire
No way to live in a line
You'd better run for cover
Before I start to smile
No way there's time for wasting
Never walk in a line
Reckless and mean I'm ruling the scene - I never get enough
Acting the night - I'm gone with the light - I can't
get enough
I never get enough
Again it's around seven
I'm burning like a candlelight
I don't know where I'm going
But I'm ready for this night
Reckless and mean I'm ruling the scene - I never get enough
Acting the night - I'm gone with the light - I can't
get enough
Reckless and mean I'm ruling the scene - I never get enough
Acting the night - I'm gone with the light - I can't
get enough
I never get enough
Blitz Of Lightning
When it's nice and easy
He can handle the fear
He thought he was burning
With all the pain he had
Then his smile was gone
He didn't know where he was
Can't you hear him cry
This time he is alive
He's out to seek and find
To find his own style in time
No more retreat but fight
So be aware and watch the night, watch the night
Hello world, here I am
Don't you fool me again
I'm like a blitz of lightning
So get outta my way
Every night and day
The lightning strikes again
Then he came to the point
He could believe in his life
A different soul was born
He must no more deny
But he wants to forget
His old rotten desires
No more pain - no more cries
All those things are behind
He's out to seek and find
To find his own style in time
No more retreat but fight
So be aware and watch the night, watch the night
Hello world, here I am
Don't you fool me again
I'm like a blitz of lightning
So get outta my way
Every night and day
The lightning strikes again
Hello world, here I go
Don't fool me, oh no
I'm like a rolling thunder
The story's been told
And my blood runs cold
It won't be all the same
It will never be the same again
Hello world, here I am
Don't you fool me again
I'm like a blitz of lightning
So get outta my way
Every night and day
The lightning strikes again
Hello world, here I go
Don't fool me, oh no
I'm like a rolling thunder
Now the die is cast
Chances are vast
It won't be all the same
Hello world, here I am
Don't you fool me again
I'm like a blitz of lightning
The story's been told
And my blood runs cold
It won't be all the same
Hello world...
Raiders Of Beyond
Raiders gonna open up the stargate
The planetary call is here to stay
Galactic energy's in all directions
A ticket for a ride on a time machine
Now the gate is open solar wide
Million kingdoms are inside
Raiders of beyond - energise
Raiders of beyond - speed of light
Raiders of beyond - blinding white
Raiders of beyond - blaze eternity
Systematical declining forces
'n' gravity has lost 'n' gone for good
Hypersonic engines scream for mercy
The elements will bear and take the load
Preparing for the masses who will fight a horror war
With a little bit of luck and a powerful attack
Gonna force the allied law
Spreading death and blood- terrorizing all the world
In a bloody kinda hope like a killer working dope
Living weapons- cold as ice
Without a sign of fear in their face
They stand up in this serious race
Nothing to lose much to gain
Calling the shots in this game
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Forcing you to run
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Your life is in their hands
Defending all their idols hard as the burning land
In the middle of the night in a darkest hiding hole
Living legends will be born
Preaching peace of love- emphasizing to be strong
It's another kind of fight for another holy right
Living peaceful in this world
Without a sign of fear in their face
They stand up in this serious race
Nothing to lose much to gain
Calling the shots in this game
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Forcing you to run
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Your life is in their hands
We see them die- we see them cry
Pain and heartache- losses of lives
In their fearless hearts- they're rising high
To just another world of eternity
Without a sign of fear in their face
They stand up in this serious race
Nothing to lose much to gain
Calling the shots in this game
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Forcing you to run
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Your life is in their hands
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Forcing you to run
Powersquad rules- powersquad wins
Your life is in their hands
You sense his picture without a clue
You feel his presence- you think it's true
Somehow we know we have to pay
For all the things we didn't do or say
He is here- calling for you
Don't turn away- get down on your knees and pray
Seven days- seven secrets he had
We can't find out- and that's too bad
We always tried to believe in you
No sign or proof of the truth
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- he's coming back for you
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- metal maniac mastermind
We're burning out like a fireball
Leaving just a shell
If you ever gonna let us down
We break apart- so let's hold on
We always tried to believe in you
No sign or proof of the truth
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- he's coming back for you
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- seven days- seven secrets he had
And when you hear the voice- you know you got no choice
With no more tears and no more fears- you will never be alone again
He's coming back just for you- who ever thought that he would
You better start to believe it- it's time to let a dream come true
We always tried to believe in you
No sign or proof of the truth
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- he's coming back for you
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- don't turn away
No one like you- seven days- seven secrets he had
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- metal maniac mastermind
You sense his picture without a clue
You feel his presence- you think it's true
He is here- calling for you
Don't turn away- get down on your knees and pray
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- looking for ya
No one like you- metal maniac mastermind
We pray to you- metal maniac mastermind- don't turn away
No one like you- seven days- seven secrets he had
We pray to you, ...
It slits you up- deep inside
It hits you here right between your eyes
It's somehow evil- red-hot and weird
A dangerous feeling- you never want it
It turns you inside out
Don't know why I can't beat it
It feels like burning steel
It sounds like grinding metal sheets
Metal eater- it always gets you
Metal eater- money eating murder slot machine- metal eater
If you would know- how to stop
But you're hooked to the bandits for your life
And as you see it- it's better than to run
But you're dead wrong- it's gonna kill ya
It's gonna smash you after all
Don't know why I can't beat it
It feels like burning steel
It sounds like grinding metal sheets
Metal eater- it always gets you
Metal eater- money eating murder slot machine- metal eater
Don't know why I can't beat it
It feels like burning steel
It sounds like grinding metal sheets
Metal eater- it always gets you
Metal eater- money eating murder slot machine- metal eater
Metal eater- with a smile it's gonna kill ya
Metal eater- money eating murder slot machine
Metal eater- burning steel- it's somehow evil
Metal eater- no one stops the money eating murder slot machine
Fight for the right thing
Fight for yourself-no one should run your life
Believe in you- it's just the best to do
Before you're giving up
Stay put and give yourself a chance to grow
Get tough and rough- defend yourself on time
Get coming back for more
You gotta push it through
You're gonna make the truth come true
Back in pain- freedom is not free
Back in pain- freedom is not free
You see yourself so busy
Doing things people always telling you to do
No matter what- always on your own
Fight just for the right thing
Go all the way and never ever change it
Get coming back for more
You gotta push it through
You're gonna make the truth come true
Back in pain- I wanna see your pride
Back in pain- freedom is not free
Back in pain- you're gonna win this fight
Back in pain- freedom is not free, yeah
Oh yeah, you can't do it on your own
I tell ya nothing, nothing new
You gotta see yourself as what you are
Blinded by light and lost- lost in the dark
Back in pain- I wanna see your pride
Back in pain- freedom is not free
Back in pain- you're gonna win this fight
Back in pain- freedom is not free, yeah
Back in pain- I wanna see your pride
Back in pain
Can you feel the morning light
Wanna make the sunrise mine
Been wandering from dusk to dawn
So many sleepless nights
Can't seem to get it right
So many memories in my mind
How many years have gone
Where was I coming from
I need someone to take me home
Has love just passed me by
No tears no reasons why
For harmony I'd sell my soul
For - my aim is right and strong
The sign I've waited for
There's no more knives into my heart
Now - I know right from wrong
My rescue's just begun
I've turned and faced the midnight sun
In the book of the healer
In the time of the healer
Why is the world so blind
I asked it many times
The answer's here for all to see
Now the past is laid to rest
Resurrection - born again
I thank the healer for it all
For - my aim is right and strong
The sign I've waited for
There's no more knives into my heart
Now - I know right from wrong
My rescue's just begun
I've turned and faced the midnight sun
In the book of the healer
In the time of the healer
It's on you - take your chance
Try it once and you'll break free
Power's out - just reach beyond
No light inside as empty room
Under pressure I can't win
The screams - the pain - it's all inside
All this talking all the time
When there is something left
Talk to me face to face
Expected so much more
I'm sick and tired of it all
Why don't you pray for the hunted
I scream for help to free my heart
You better pray for the hunter
I wonder why you take me apart
The light has diedd and who's to blame
You're the one who messed around
You shook - you took - you played your games
The time has come you're going down
When there is something left
Talk to me face to face
Expected so much more
I'm sick and tired of it all
Why don't you pray for the hunted
I scream for help to free my heart
You better pray for the hunter
I wonder why you take me apart
You take me apart
Why don't you pray for the hunted
You better pray for the hunter
Why don't you pray for the hunted
You better pray for the hunter
Why don't you pray for the hunted
I scream for help to free my heart
You better pray for the hunter
I wonder why you take me apart
Why don't you pray for the hunted
You score no more you've lost this game
You better pray for the hunter
Independence Day
One electrified eye
Freezing metalized smile
No more cheating the code
The scene is set - emotions disconnected
Welcome to the cyber trail
Laser cops and sirens wail
Held down with magnetic force
Said: come with us - you broke the law
Obey the rules - don't do no wrong
A thought too loud - and crime is done
No appeal for the common man
Just cold hard facts - in computer land
All freedom burns on eternal fire
There's no more independence day
Forever gone never have another
No other independence day
Cyborg arms put the straps around
One more second 'till the switch comes down
Flaching lights - a cage of steel
Turns my head into a dead dogs meal
In this world - robotic rage
You'll understand the acid pain
Do no right - you won't last long
Remote controlled - under the heel of submission
All freedom burns on eternal fire
There's no more independence day
Forever gone never have another
No other independence day
No remorse - for human kind
No recourse - to keep your mind
It's too late - there's no escape
Is this the end of the line
All freedom burns on eternal fire
There's no more independence day
Forever gone never have another
No other independence day
All freedom burns on eternal fire
There's no more independence day
Forever gone never have another
No other independence day
No use for humanity
We'll never ever be free again
No tomorrows
Zero - the number of the year
Zero - the number of the year
Don't Wanna Read Between The Lines
I Know What's Good, I Know What's Fine
I Know What Makes Me Feel Just Right
Don't Wanna Have An Endless Fight
And I Know – What's Right
I Know What's Right
And I Know – What's Wrong
I Know What's Wrong
I Give As Good As I Get
I Give As Good As I Get
I Know What Time To Lay My Head
I Know The Answers Best Unsaid
And No Decree Can Make Me See
Another Way Of Being Me
I Know The Way To Cross A Street
I Even Know To Trick Or Treat
I Know What's Right – I Know What's Wrong
You Better Listen Or You're Done
I Know There's No One Same As Me
I Am Unique – I've Got To Be
This Is The Way – I Am For Real
I have to tell a story - about a man
Never in the mood - to change his life
Nobody wants to help him - as he spirals down
But one day the wrong decision - hit him overnight
No more cocktail parties - champagne's run dry
No company take-overs - stock markets high
No more hand-jobs in the boardroom - sex is history
And no saunas, no jacuzzis - the penalties you'll reap
At last he realized - he did it wrong
Messed big time everywhere - double-dealing lies
He's going down on his bad luck - his just deserts
He's going down on his bad luck - what he deserved
His old man told him always - listen son
It's a two-way street to fortune - you gotta hit and run
Don't forget the mirror - look who's behind
And don't you come up crying - when it's faster coming down
At last he realized - he did it wrong
Messed big time everywhere - double-dealing lies
He's going down on his bad luck - his just deserts
He's going down on his bad luck - what he deserved
He's going down on his bad luck - it's his time
He's going down on his bad luck - can't rewind
Do you get the story - you know this man
Have you learned a lesson - do you understand
When all you got is crystal - you shouldn't cast a stone
So be careful when you go up - 'cause you'll meet them coming down
He's going down on his bad luck - his just deserts
He's going down on his bad luck - what he deserved
He's going down on his bad luck - it's his time
[Instrumental]
Rated X
Blazing steel on the horizon
In the desert
Forces like the ultimate Poseidon
The arrival
Although it burns your eyes
The government denies
Rated X
Not allowed to know
It's rated X
No files to show
The men in power call you liars
It's suppression
They say you never saw it so forget it
All oppression
They're passing on the lies
The bunkers full of files
Rated X
You better not care
It's rated X
The facts are somewhere out there
Can we ever trust each other
To believe in
They keep the information under cover
It's not needed
The legacy is born
They classify us all
Rated X
Not allowed to know
It's rated X
No files to show
Rated X
You better not care
It's rated X
The facts are somewhere out there
Rated X
It's rated X
Manhunt
We're straining at the leash
We smell the human meat
The only way for us to go
The order of the pack
Command is kill - attack
Obey the master's law
Bad temper rules our minds
The hunt is on this time
We can't wait
No way to stay alive
The prey is finalised
It's total genocide
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt
We train our deadly pride
No way for man to hide
We're always aiming for your neck
This is your final day
Just believe and pray
We're feasting on your eyes
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt - this ain't no suicide
What is the victim's face - not us who's wrong
The terror of the chase - can't be undone
We turned the game around - not us who's wrong
You made us go to ground - can't be undone
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt - this ain't no suicide
We're on the manhunt - we keep on pushing
We're on the manhunt - try to hide - no way to run
Lovemachine
If you need - need a one-day lover
Just call 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - one-day lover
If you need - need a two-days lover
Just call 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - two-days lover
'cause the love - the love I will give you
'cause the love - the love I will give you
Is sweeter than anything else
I'm the lovemachine in town
The best you can get - fifty miles around
I'm the lovemachine in town
The best you can get - fifty miles around
If you need - need a one-day lover
Just call 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - one-day lover
'cause the love - the love I will give you
'cause the love - the love I will give you
Is sweeter
Streets On Fire
Standin' in the night, I don't know just somewhere
And I'm feeling cold inside about what I see
Give 'em all guns, there's nothin' left- for losers
Time is running out so secretly
This ain't no paradise
The nightmare's on it's way
Insanity appears- in their eyes
Streets on fire- ready or not
Will the goodtimes return- no way!
Streets on fire- ready or not
Will we ever learn- no way!
Echoing sounds of thunder make me shiver
Battlefields turn to wasteland- no one wins
The ghost of terror creeping, through the cities
And someone says it's a holy war
This ain't no paradise...
Streets on fire- ready or not...
[SOLO]
Humans will always fight
The same shit everywhere
East or west, the same desires
Will always haunt the earth
[SOLO]
Streets on fire- ready or not..
Painted Love
She's been around, knows how to make you think
You're in a world of innocence
She'll make you moan- make you moan and groan
Then spit you out and eat your bones
She sits around and thinks about those lies
It really makes her wonder
Chasing history- her world of ecstasy
A life of rape and plunder
Welcome to the rooms of your desire
Painted Love- Painted Love
Take a ride and explore inside
Painted Love- Painted Love
She knows how to make you scream and shout
You know she loves to get it out
The fascination of a fuckin' lie
It's just a case of do or die
She sits around and thinks...
Welcome to the rooms of your desire
Painted Love- Painted Love
Reaching out- breaking out
Painted Love- Painted Love
Take a ride, explore inside
Painted Love- Painted Love
Reaching out- breaking out
Painted Love- Painted Love
[SOLO]
She sits around and thinks...
Welcome to the rooms..
Friends Will Be Friends
A voice in the back - the lies and the fears
No colour but black - the truth disappears
Just by the look in your eyes I can tell
That your honour is gone - you're caught in confusion and
pain
Mysterious sounds - hidden in ice
Your lying is found - protective disguise
No one is braking the wheels are forsaken
In sheer overdrive - diamonds and rust
Breaking their lives - I burst them to dust
Friends will be friends
Down on this dirty road
Friends will be friends
One for all
The meaning is wrong - there's no reason why
The logic is gone - it's hard to deny
Friends will be friends
Down on this dirty road
Friends will be friends
All for one - one for all
No one is braking the wheels are forsaken
Diamonds and rust - I burst them to dust
[instrumental]
Black Widow
I just love my nightmares
I can't wait to sleep
Enjoying all my dreams
got no regrets
I can be a flash of lightning
Striking down on rocks
Burning down the law
Getting things I never got
Turning the world
Nothing unheard
One night can be more than a day
Just like a black widow
Like a black widow
I can't stand the dreamers
Scared of things that fly
They just have sweet fantasies
And fade and die
Nightmares- are so good, so good
And they always end just when they should
Nightmares are cool, nightmares are cruel
I love the fun and the thrill
Just like a black widow
Like a black widow
Black widow
Just like a black widow
Here comes the morning
And who can deny
Leaving the dream is so hard
I love my nightmares
I await their return
And this time, I'm dressed to kill, dressed to kill
Just like a black widow...........
Go Back To Hell
Mystic rainbows- in the night
Flashing colours- shining bright
Can't you see me- in the dark
Feel a heat wave- of a spark
If you're fighting the world just beware of the knives in your back
When you need to defend then you know that it's best to attack
See the light- feel the pain- and you're going insane
Go back to hell- go back to hell
To the sight of mystic light you've seen before
Go back to hell- go back to hell
Where the dead are always knocking at your door
Feel so lonely- far away
Eat your heart out- time to pray
Moving faster- to the flames
And I'm playing- all the games
If you're fighting the world just beware of the knives in your back
When you need to defend then you know that it's best to attack
See the light- feel the pain- and you're going insane
Go back to hell- go back to hell
To the sight of mystic light you've seen before
Go back to hell- go back to hell
Where the dead are always knocking at your door
Go back to hell- go back to hell
To the sight of mystic light you've seen before
Go back to hell- go back to hell
Where the dead are always knocking at your door..
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Portrait of Richard Price, engraving by T. Holloway after a painting by Benjamin West. |
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Born | 23 February 1723 Tynton, Llangeinor, Glamorgan, Wales |
Died | 19 April 1791 Newington Green, London, England |
Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the Constitution of the United States. He spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, where possibly the congregant he most influenced was early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who extended his ideas on the egalitarianism inherent in the spirit of the French Revolution to encompass women's rights as well. In addition to his work as a moral and political philosopher, he also wrote on issues of statistics and finance, and was inducted into the Royal Society for these contributions.
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Price was born in Tynton, Llangeinor, Glamorgan, the son of a Dissenting minister. Educated privately and at a dissenting academy in London, he became chaplain and companion to a Mr Streatfield at Stoke Newington, then a village just north of London but now considered part of Inner London. Streatfield's death and that of an uncle in 1757 improved his circumstances, and on 16 June 1757 he married Sarah Blundell, originally of Belgrave in Leicestershire. The following year they moved to Newington Green, and took up residence in No. 54 the Green, in the middle of a terrace even then a hundred years old. (The building still survives as London's oldest brick terrace, dated 1658.)
In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope (known as "Citizen Stanhope"), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers;[1] and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes' theorem.
Price was fortunate in forming close friendships amongst his neighbours and congregants. One was Thomas Rogers, father of the above-named Samuel Rogers, a merchant turned banker who had married into a long-established Dissenting family and lived at No. 56 the Green. More than once, Price and the elder Rogers rode on horseback to Wales.[2] Another was the Rev. James Burgh, author of The Dignity of Human Nature and Thoughts on Education, who opened his Dissenting Academy on the green in 1750 and sent his pupils to Price's sermons.[3] Price, Rogers, and Burgh formed a dining club, eating at each other's houses in rotation.[4]
And there were many at a distance who acknowledged their debt to Price, such as the Unitarian theologians William Ellery Channing and Theophilus Lindsey, and the formidable polymath and Dissenting clergyman, Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen. When Priestley's support of dissent led to the riots named after him, he fled Birmingham and headed for the sanctuary of Newington Green, where Rogers took him in. Price and Priestley took the most opposite views on morals and metaphysics. In 1778 appeared a published correspondence between these two liberal theologians on the subjects of materialism and necessity, wherein Price maintains, in opposition to Priestley, the free agency of man and the unity and immateriality of the human soul.
It was illegal to deny the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, and this remained the case until the passage of the 1813 Act. Nonetheless, various theologians and clergymen had begun to voice non-Trinitarian views. Theophilus Lindsey resigned his living and moved to London to create an avowedly Unitarian congregation, and Price played a key role in finding and securing the premises for this, which became Essex Street Chapel.[5] Both Price and Priestley were what would now vaguely be called "Unitarians", though they occupied respectively the opposing extreme positions of that school. Indeed, Price's opinions would seem to have been rather Arian than Socinian.
In 1744 Price published a volume of sermons, which gained him the acquaintance of Lord Shelburne; this raised his reputation and helped determine the direction of his career. It was, however, as a writer on financial and political questions that Price became widely known. In 1769, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year; in May 1770 he presented to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions. The publication of these papers is said to have helped draw attention to the inadequate calculations on which many insurance and benefit societies had recently been formed. In 1769 Price received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow. In 1771 he published his Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt (ed. 1772 and 1774). This pamphlet excited considerable controversy, and is supposed to have influenced William Pitt the Younger in re-establishing the sinking fund for the extinction of the national debt, created by Robert Walpole in 1716 and abolished in 1733. The means proposed for the extinction of the debt are described by Lord Overstone as "a sort of hocus-pocus machinery," supposed to work "without loss to any one," and consequently unsound.
Price then turned his attention to the question of the American colonies. He had from the first been strongly opposed to the war, and in 1776 he published a pamphlet entitled Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America. Sixty thousand copies of this work were sold within a few days; a cheap edition was soon issued which sold twice as many copies;[6] the pamphlet was extolled by one set of politicians and abused by another; amongst its critics were Dr Markham, archbishop of York, John Wesley, and Edmund Burke; and Price rapidly became one of the best known men in England. He was presented with the freedom of the city of London, and it is said that his pamphlet had no inconsiderable share in determining the Americans to declare their independence.[6] A second pamphlet on the war with America, the debts of Great Britain, and kindred topics followed in the spring of 1777. His name thus became identified with the cause of American independence. He was the intimate friend of Franklin; he corresponded with Turgot; and in the winter of 1778 he was invited by Congress to go to America and assist in the financial administration of the states. This offer he refused from unwillingness to quit his own country and his family connections. In 1781 he, solely with George Washington, received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale College.
The support Price gave to the revolt of the colonies of British North America made his name as a famous or notorious preacher. Price rejected traditional Christian notions of original sin and moral punishment, preaching the perfectibility of human nature,[7] and he wrote on theological questions. However, his interests were wide-ranging, and during the decades he spent as minister of NGUC, he also wrote on finance, economics, probability, and life insurance, being inducted into the Royal Society in recognition of his work. On the 101st anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, he preached a sermon entitled "A Discourse on the Love of our Country," thus igniting a so-called "pamphlet war" known as the Revolution Controversy, furiously debating the issues raised by the French Revolution. Burke's rebuttal "Reflections on the Revolution in France" attacked Price, whose friends Paine and Wollstonecraft leapt into the fray to defend their mentor. The reputation of Price for speaking without fear of the government on these political and philosophical matters drew huge crowds to the church, and were published and sold as pamphlets (i.e. publications easily printed and circulated).
The pamphlets on the American War made Price famous. He preached to crowded congregations, and, when Lord Shelburne acceded to power, not only was he offered the post of private secretary to the premier, but it is said that one of the paragraphs in the king's speech was suggested by him and even inserted in his words. In 1786 Mrs Price died. There were no children by the marriage, his own health was failing, and the remainder of his life appears to have been clouded by solitude and dejection. The progress of the French Revolution alone cheered him. On 19 April 1791 he died, worn out with suffering and disease. His funeral was conducted at Bunhill Fields and his funeral sermon was preached by Joseph Priestly.
Arguably the congregant Price most influenced was the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who moved her fledgling school for girls from Islington to the Green in 1784, with the help of a fairy godmother[8] whose good auspices found her a house to rent and twenty students to fill it.[9] Her patron – or matron – was the well-off Mrs Burgh, widow of Price's friend.[10] The new arrival attended services at NGUC: she was a life-long Anglican, but, in keeping with the church's and Price's ethos of logical enquiry and individual conscience, believers of all kinds were welcomed without any expectation of conversion.[11] The approach of these Rational Dissenters appealed to Wollstonecraft: they were hard-working, humane, critical but uncynical, and respectful towards women,[12] and in her hour of need proved kinder to her than her own family.[13] Price is believed to have secretly helped her with money to go to Lisbon to aid her dear friend Fanny Blood. She, an unmarried woman making her own way in the world, was marginal to the dominant society in just the same way that the Dissenters were.[14]
Wollstonecraft was then a young schoolmistress, as yet unpublished, but Price saw something in her worth fostering, and became a friend and mentor. Through the minister she met the great humanitarian and radical publisher Joseph Johnson, who was to guide her career and serve as a father figure. The ideas Wollstonecraft ingested from the sermons at NGUC pushed her towards a political awakening.[15] A couple of years after she had had to leave Newington Green, these seeds germinated into A Vindication of the Rights of Men, a response to Burke's denunciation of the French Revolution and attack on Price. In 1792 she published the work for which she is best remembered, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in the spirit of rationalism extending Price's arguments about equality to women: Tomalin argues that just as the Dissenters were "excluded as a class from education and civil rights by a lazy-minded majority", so too were women, and the "character defects of both groups" could be attributed to this discrimination.[16] Price appears 14 times in William Godwin's diary, Wollstonecraft's later husband.[17]
Much of Price's most important philosophical work was in the region of ethics. The Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1757, 3rd ed. revised 1787) contains his whole theory. It is divided into ten chapters, the first of which, though a small part of the whole, completes his demonstration of ethical theory. The remaining chapters investigate details of minor importance, and are especially interesting as showing his relation to Butler and Kant (ch. iii. and ch. vii.). The work is professedly a refutation of Francis Hutcheson, but is rather constructive than polemical. The theory he propounds is closely allied to that of Cudworth, but is interesting mainly in comparison with the subsequent theories of Kant.
Right and wrong belong to actions in themselves. By this he means, not that the ethical value of actions is independent of their motive and end (see ch. vi), but rather that it is unaffected by consequences, and that it is more or less invariable for intelligent beings. II. This ethical value is perceived by reason or understanding (which, unlike Kant, he does not distinguish), which intuitively recognizes fitness or congruity between actions, agents and total circumstances. Arguing that ethical judgment is an act of discrimination, he endeavours to invalidate the doctrine of the moral sense. Yet, in denying the importance of the emotions in moral judgment, he is driven back to the admission that right actions must be "grateful" to us; that, in fact, moral approbation includes both an act of the understanding and an emotion of the heart. Still it remains true that reason alone, in its highest development, would be a sufficient guide. In this conclusion he is in close agreement with Kant; reason is the arbiter, and right is (1) not a matter of the emotions and (2) no relative to imperfect human nature. Price's main point of difference with Cudworth is that while Cudworth regards the moral criterion as a vanua or modification of the mind, existing in gere and developed by circumstances, Price regards it as acquired from the contemplation of actions, but acquired necessarily, immediately intuitively. In his view of disinterested action (ch. iii.) he adds nothing to Butler. Happiness he regards as the only end, conceivable by us, of divine Providence, but it is a happiness wholly dependent upon rectitude. Virtue tends always to happiness, and in the end must produce it in its perfect form.
Price was a friend of the mathematician and clergyman Thomas Bayes. He edited Bayes' most famous work "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances" which contains Bayes' Theorem, one of the most fundamental theorems of probability theory, and arranged for its posthumous publication. Price wrote an introduction to Bayes' paper which provides some of the philosophical basis of Bayesian statistics.
Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England (2nd ed., 1780) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World (1784). A complete list of his works is given as an appendix to Dr Priestley's Funeral Sermon. His views on the French Revolution are denounced by Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Notices of Price's ethical system occur in James Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics, William Whewell's History of Moral Philosophy in England; Alexander Bain's Mental and Moral Sciences. See also T Fowler's monograph on Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. For Price's life see memoir by his nephew, William Morgan.
Even when, in 1770, Price became morning preacher at the Gravel Pit Chapel in Hackney, he continued his afternoon sermons at NGUC. He also accepted duties at the meeting house in Old Jewry Street in the City of London.