NBTY, Inc., formerly known as Nature's Bounty, Inc., is a manufacturer of vitamins and nutritional supplements which are distributed under many third party brands in the United States and internationally. Its name was changed from Nature's Bounty, Inc. to NBTY, Inc. in 1995.
In 1999, NBTY became a supplier of nutritional supplements for Wal-Mart under the Nature's Bounty brand, and was named Wal-Mart's Supplier of the Year in 2002.
In May 2000, NBTY announced a large addition to its supply of products at Walgreens.
In 2003, CVS selected NBTY as its exclusive supplier for all existing vitamins and supplements.
On July 15, 2010 NBTY agreed to be acquired by The Carlyle Group in a $3.5B deal.
NBTY also markets products to chain stores such as CVS and Target.
Nature's Bounty was founded in 1971 by Arthur Rudolph primarily as a mail order, catalog based company. Nature's Bounty is headquartered in Bohemia, New York.
Nature's Bounty distributes its products to supermarkets, drug store chains, mass merchandisers, club stores, and health food stores under various brand names, as well as selling direct-to-consumer. Some of their more recognizable brands include Puritan's Pride, Vitamin World, Osteo-Bi-Flex, Nutrition Warehouse, MET-Rx, and GNC (UK). Other brands owned by NBTY include Holland & Barrett (UK), Julian Graves (UK & Ireland), Rexall, Sundown, Ester-C, Solgar, Precision Engineered, WORLDWIDE Sport Nutrition, American Health, DeTuinen, LeNaturiste, Flexamin, Knox, Herbal Authority, and Doctor's Trust and Leiner Health Products (which was acquired in 2008).
A drop of love, in rain falling, lighting up my
darkness
His light becomes weaker, infinite ocean of stars...
Far away from a dream...
Now alone I wake, hidden in every corner
Blinded to my dreams, looking for my angel
Knowing not where my dreams are flying
Finding not anymore white or gold wings
Angels sing come take my ashes
Wings to dust, lost heart...
Leaving back the ways leading to the sunrise
Night takes in the lorn, await me...
Angels sing come take my ashes
Wings to dust, lost heart...
Queen of darkness, queen of night
I walk in sadness blinded by my fears
Emerald breeze caresses my tears
Angels sing come take my ashes
Wings to dust, lost heart...
Angels sing come take my ashes
Wings to dust, lost heart...
Tears of sorrow broken like crystal
Embrace cold forever,
Pale moon yearning
When you accept you know nothing light may come to you.
Heaven, reincarnation,
hell or the nothing.
You may find on the other side anything you dream.
ἕν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.
Feel, imagine...
Only now that you don´t know
the end you are able
to caress the sweet
paradise of uncertainty.
When you accept...
Feel the shine of the stars
and let you go
because you can fill the void
with the magic of your fantasies.
ἕν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.
Believe that your way
in the afterlife can be;
choose your tomb,
choose your death,
without answer there exists a dream.
When you accept...
Feel the shine of the stars
and let you go
because you can fill the void
with the magic of your fantasies.
Above fire and water exists
an everything,
feel near him.
Universe, our only god.
All together, creation.
The dream lost in (the) sanity
of man comes to you as
possible reality.
I know that I know nothing.
The sea caresses my hair with its breeze,
I can't avoid the memory of your hands.
I miss those wonderful moments with you
when it wasn't important where, how or why.
I see you, feel your embrace.
I love you, take me away.
I think of you,
and touch you in my dreams.
But I trust your words,
you said you'd return.
Please, don't let me
To die alone.
You are my life... I will wait for you...
I won't stop to watch the horizont,
I look for the boat which sent you to the war.
I see you, feel your embrace.
I love you, take me away.
I think of you,
and touch you in my dreams.
But I trust your words,
you said you'd return.
Don't let my heart
To feel you dead.
"I heard a whisper in the waves
My broken heart, the uncertainty about your death...
A shine fell,
walked in darkness
lighting up other lights
lost through time
Star from the sky
don't you cry more,
don't let the darkness in the world
make you forget where you come from
The world is a mirror,
you look at yourself in
you don't believe innocence's been lost
Sad and small I walk,
today I will be the sparkle of a lost reflection
maybe tomorrow I will shine
Star from the sky
don't you cry more,
don't let the darkness in the world
make you forget where you come from
Only your delicate innocence
makes bloom true magic
hidden in others.
I walk in shadows,
today I will be the sparkle of a lost reflection,
maybe tomorrow I will shine
Please Remember.
Lost Light, shine for us, shine for you, shine!
Star from the sky
don't you cry more,
don't let the darkness in the world
make you forget where you come from
Dreaming forever,
there's no dust left to make me fly
Awake to fly,
the moment has come to shine one last time
No ways to light up,
today I will be the sparkle of a lost reflection,
maybe tomorrow I will shine.
See the meadows of tempest
rage furious,
withering lullabies.
In my eyes
there is not the sparkle once shined.
I will long for you
dear princess of tales.
Now there´s no way to go back,
withered heart, sunken chest.
I am mean to be alone,
no more hopes, no more dreams.
With the eternal wish to find
some magic to dwell in.
Drops of pain harass
what´s left in my soul,
withering lullabies.
Where are those
beautiful melodies?
Raven of the cliffs,
fly without black wings,
red eyes.
This crimson love,
once dawn now twilight of hope.
I will long for you...
Childhood´s light is gone,
love promise broken in shreds
which no one wants,
yet I still care for them.
I will long for you...
Tell me God, tell me Lord
Why do we find
in death the sense of our life
if we cannot rectify
Only pay for what
we should have done
but we did not?
Will, in his death,
the atheist find God?
Will, in his death,
the priest realizes his God was a lie?
All the same before
the dark final sight
And what if death
comes today?
Is this the final judgment´day?
Why do we find
in death the sense of our life
if we cannot rectify
Only pay for what
we should have done
but we did not?
Will, in his death,
the atheist find God?
Will, in his death,
the priest realizes his God was a lie?
Human kind, great, powerful,
but it comes for all of us
Will, in his death,
the atheist find God?
Will, in his death,
the priest realizes his God was a lie?
Tell me you are there
Great Lord,
please tell me!
Have my tears been in vain?
Look at me,
I am the feared dark one
The wind howls with grief...
A frightening shiver
comes from far beyond time
A million tears unborn tells this horrifying storm
Lonely hope may now the sunrise bless your path
Your souls will remain out of the march of time
The frozen instant will stand still beneath the sky
Once you could stare at the stars,
Sing with them and dream together in the shore
If I could just fall back and stop the burying roar of the flames
"Hear my prayer..."
"Silence the pain..."
In your wings there is dust
And blood
Why can´t I
Save your desintegrated dreams?
"Build a wall around my innocence
To protect me against the red inferno,
Save me from hell,
Don´t let go my hand from your care,
Save my name"
"Make me remember when we walked the moonpath,
(Our) hands together within the sweet breeze,
Softly caress my trace drawn under the moonguide,
The ocean will sing my tale forever"
"(I) can´t find you
Burning shadows all around
Among the dust
Ashes dancing in despair"
"(I) can´t see but fire
Pale sky is falling down
(Nightmares hunting me down)
Where is my home?
No... there is no scape"
Once you could stare at the stars,
Dream with them and sing together in the shore
If I could just fall back and stop the deadly roar of the flames
Seeing you smile again in peace
Distant shivers from the past
(Your) Tears echo in the abyss of dreams
I light up a candle for the tormented ones
I wish your souls rest forever in peace
Keep my secret deep within,
hear my call...
Oh... oh how I cry
In the lone night
please save me from
the embrace denying my future
Where are you father?
Where are you mother?
Come from the deep,
Bless me, protect me
from her cold fingers
Echoes of terror
In this solitude
Where´s my angel?
I remember your eyes (and)
How we played together
Angel...
I feel fear...
(Darkness is coming,
watch out from your back,
here we are...)
Why I hear but silence?
(Hunting your last breath,
stealing your soul,
torn apart)
Get out this cold
(Keeping the cold
even colder
around and inside)
Freezing my illusions
(Stalking the child
you once was,
where is it now?)
The whisper of rain will bring me life
From an unique memory
Missing inside the twilight,
The crown of my sunrise
and moon of my pale night
Chant in horizon brings hope,
Defeat all my fears
and make sound my best play
Come from the blue,
Bless me,
protect me from her cold fingers
Echoes of terror
In this solitude
Where´s my angel?
I remember your eyes (and)
How we played together
Angel...
Cure me from this illness
Caressing the moonlight
Sweet touch dreaming the angels
Blue is the soul of silence
Keep my secret deep within
Cold´s invading all of me
Comet of my ultimate yearning
Chained and merged forever to you
Freedom
To smile in peace
Freedom
To paint the sky with
My hopes
Stretch your hands
Take my love
Keep it with you
Rest for this night,
Rest in my shoulders,
my saviour, downcast
Echoes of terror
In this solitude
Where´s my angel?
I remember your eyes (and)
How we played together
Angel...
White mist rising from the floor
Where am I now?
Your smell singing everywhere
This should be peace
I have felt the ocean
Wished for the moon
Caressed the darkness
Swam in the sun
Sad is the day (Rest for this night)
Dark is the journey (Eternal Whisper)
When the moment comes (May you find peace here)
No victory nor defeat
Had no chance to fight
Dreaming the path to your smile
Tell me you are here
I have felt the ocean
Wished for the moon
Caressed the darkness
Swam in the sun
Great is the day (Precious the day)
Long is the journey (Precious the journey)
For the blood of the innocents.
For the marked bodies of the children.
For the wounded women.
For the lost souls.
For the stolen innocence.
For the trapped tears.
For the deep sadness of the world.
For you to return to the world.
For there to be hope for those whom
have it snatched from them.
For tomorrow to be worth dawning.
For there to be happiness
where there is hate.
I write a letter for my dead angel.
Please, I ask you, my dead angel,
to return to the world.
A bit of light for darkness.
For you to return to the world...
I write a letter for my dead angel...
A feather for each hurt soul.
A flutter for each injustice.
f your wings could fly again,
if they could embrace
the sorrow of those hurt.
Who will heal the pain?
Who will erase the damage?
Will rancor leave?
If your wings could erase the injustice of those who
have suffer.
I write a letter for my dead angel...
My dead angel,
I know why you departed.
Pain is so hard to accept
when it embraces you.
Who will heal the pain?
Who will erase the damage?
How will rancor,
hate and the hole in the chest
be gone?
How will helplessness
and pain depart?
Once again,
Let´s fight,
Let´s shout.
Who will pay for
those marked children?
Who will swallow the filth left
in the world ?
Let´s brandish hope.
Let´s lift the fallen.
Let´s embrace those hurt.
You have return just as you promised.
Should I believe in you?
I still cry when I remember
the things you made me do.
Leave me alone,
I don´t want you.
Feel paradise,
I can take you with me.
Just follow me (follow me)
and be still (my voice)
at my voice.
I still shiver when I feel
the blood you made me shed
(you´d better hide, you´d better hide).
Is there any pleasant word left
I can trust in?
If I only could get you out of my head
(you´d better hide, you´d better hide).
Will my tears be all in vain?
Should I stay awake or give up
to eternal madness?
Down to darkness, down to a place
where the stronger seems so frail.
Shadows around, fire for all them.
First step to the edge,
there is a red light sparkling,
should I touch the door?
Freeze... Don´t move yet,
still I keep some fears
you´d like to behold.
I still shiver when I feel...
Are you the one I was looking for?
Are you friend or foe?
Me... She... The breeze...
Long blonde hair...
Why can´t I find my light?
Save me.
Second step to the edge,
a misty long dank corridor,
your silhouette (appears approaching).
Freeze... Don´t move yet,
still I keep some fears
you´d better resolve.
I still shiver when I feel...
The fleeting beauty of the days gone by
The longing thrill of a child soul, dreamer eyes
The chances I found all along the way,
The doors are now closed, forevermore
Only a path leads to eternal bliss...
Fading, fading, fading, fading...
Too frail for the fate I have pursued
Running back and forward and so forth
As always the mirror reflects infinite things
As infinite are the paths to long for
Now there´s just one what I get to see
Missing everything I couldn´t find
Once I hold the key, and once again
It´s gone
For the cold white snowflakes
Falling through the winter yearnings
Autumn hopes dancing as if fading
everywhere I run
(I´ll) keep the promise never done to you
For the night we never had I cry
A thousand poems I didn´t write
For you, my one, my lorn
Swimming in an ocean of stars...
forward, back and so forth
And hanging like the tear you never drop
From the sky of my dreams to the pain of the memories (never born)
The perpetual storm surrounding everything
Raging the waves and waving the sea
Thunderstorm of peace, sweetest peace
Undone
Autumn hopes dancing as fading...
Fading, fading, fading, fading...
For the cold white snowflakes
Falling through the winter yearnings
Autumn hopes dancing as if fading
everywhere I run
(I´ll) keep the promise never done to you
For the night we never had I cry
A thousand poems I didn´t write
For you, my one, my lorn
(I) Did never find the will to rhyme
the silence and the rose
And have beauty covering all the way back to you,
my gone beloved...
Time has passed through dark veils and shining paths
Since these pains weren´t back to sadden me
Fall from many graces, the lament of my broken illusions,
(Whising upon a star... let me give you the last line...)
Music... save me...
Grant the twilight a sigh of despair
A forgotten smile and drop a tear
For once we had the chance
To make it real
I feel cold this winter empty of you
Dreaming the embrace I didn´t find
My chant trapped in cold walls
My tale covered with these dark clouds
oh why your beauty´s gone
why you? why you my love?
I miss the blue of night
I long for the hope to dance
So blind to see but pain
Waterfall sings despair
Shreds of distant lullabies
Our promise died in vain
Missed sunrise will never come
These chains of sorrow
are too heavy to bear within
My silence screams inside
Trapped in a midnight beam
Shreds of distant lullabies
Our promise died in vain
From this nightmare
I will never wake (ever)
Unblessed crying oceans inside
My river of eternal mourn
Play the last serenade
Misty-eyed angel
Erase my fairy tale
Where was my guardian angel
To watch over me?
(There was no guardian angel)
Where is my little princess
to draw our ship in the wind?
(There´ll be no little princess)
Trapped in a midnight beam
No one can hear my silence within
(Alone in this world voice inside)
I´m already death my love
There is no strengh to run
Nor will to hide
This is my dance of tragedy,
Greed, avarice,
they are the dancers
My life´s their stage
and my destruccion
is their work
They lie for money
Destroy lives for money
Souls come to me
Surround me with your magic
Dance of Tragedy,
I´ll hand to you
the keys to my paradise.
I believe,
I´m your serf,
I adore you
like a God.
They lie for money
Destroy lives for Money
Souls come to me
Surround me with your magic
Dance of Tragedy,
I´ll hand to you
the keys to my paradise.
My supossed saviour may my sad tears be
the daggers which go through your body
before the incredulous eyes of those who adore you
They lie for money
Destroy lives for money
Souls come to me
Surround me with your magic
Dance of Tragedy,
I´ll hand to you
the keys to my paradise.
I believe,
I´m your serf,
Look around you, grow your dreams,
go raise your paradise
In (the) land Harmony a maiden called
F sharp decided to escape
from his village (Stave) evading
the guardian Sol key.
The maiden travelled to a distant place
where a sage turned her into seed.
From there the first musician
on Earth was born.
My desire is your desire
Which stave would you like to be escaped from?
Listen to each note like a shine in the dark of night
and feel part of the music of universe
Close your eyes then open your eyes
then you can see the note you have inside
When a musician borns,
a musical note borns
When a musician dies,
a musical note dies
In (the) land Harmony a maiden called
F sharp decided to escape
from his village (Stave) evading
the guardian Sol key.
The maiden travelled to a distant place
where a sage turned her into seed.
From there the first musician
on Earth was born.
My desire is your desire
Which stave would you like to be escaped from?
Listen to each note like a shine in the dark of night
and feel part of the music of universe
Building an stave
that keeps us all forever in time
To catch my hopes,
to draw a note,
to show my tears,
music is my soul,
music is my dream
In (the) land Harmony a maiden called
F sharp decided to escape
from his village (Stave) evading
the guardian Sol key.
The maiden travelled to a distant place
where a sage turned her into seed.
From there the first musician
I fear the deep silence of my tears,
Sunken in the darkness they imposed me,
where I cannot scape from
Keep my demons in the past for I can born again,
for they don´t hurt me with a day without hope,
for my eyes can see the world and breath in peace
Cause tomorrow the sun won´t shine for me,
because there is a place for hate,
I have to go towards forgiveness
Give me your hand,
don´t leave me,
don´t let loneliness
to surround me
until the end of my days
Look at me,
now I´m you,
I´m the one
I should not have been.
Dark secrets of my heart
open the door to the cruel destiny
that should not were forged
Cause tomorrow the sun won´t shine for me,
because there is a place for hate,
I have to go towards forgiveness
Save me from myself,
save you from me,
Sadness tomorrow,
sadness yesterday,
Free me from myself, keep my pain with you
turned into the reflect of your dark evil
Show me no mercy.
Go away Monsters.
Bless me in the night
with a sunbeam that guides my steps
Cause tomorrow the sun won´t shine for me,
because there is a place for hate,
I have to go towards forgiveness
And pain went through a way without end,
and hope came to a body without a soul,
The ground shakes,
the war cries are heard,
the wind brings their hope for victory.
The bonfires fill the horizon
creating their own dawn,
the night lighted by their great pride.
They run through my forests,
destroy my trees,
converting my body in their weapons.
I hear the beat of their hearts.
They fight as brothers
and love the ones on their side
but there are no sides on the Earth, sons of the Earth.
Because you all come from my depths,
you are all brothers under the same sky,
in the same paradise.
The Earth talks to them
as never before.
Cross my forests without fear
for your Mother Earth.
She will guide you
in the most difficult battle:
the path of life.
They cross indestructible
among the shadows of my forests
like men of pure heavy steel,
like titans in the world,
like wild beasts
they write their destiny with blood.
They fight as brothers...
They fight as brothers...
Don´t let yourselves be blinded
by the thirst for victory.
Remember the innocence once had.
Oh, remember please.
Branches of my trees
stretch as arms trying to reach
the peace for them.
The leaves fly like messages in the wind,
the earth shakes,
the rivers get furious,
the winds blow.
But man can´t see beyond
his bloody road.
But at the end
I feel the blood
running through my forests.
I feel my land growing
with the ashes of the fallen.
I write a message for my sons,
everything in me cries for peace.
The dance of the Earth.
And with all this shame
I still hear the chant of victory
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!
Fear no more the frown o' the great;
thou art past the tyrant's stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic,
must all follow this, and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!
Fear no more the lightning flash,
nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
consign to thee, and come to dust
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
Once music had a princess.
She sang louder each day
for her beloved moon to listen to her
and the stars intone her song.
Owner of her voice
and of an army of muses.
The dream was broken
and the envious serpents banished the princess born
from music,
making her wake up in a world
of tall towers and black smoke.
The world without crystal bubbles
and the banished princess walked
like just a mortal: lost, forgotten...
Lost in the void.
Once music had a voice.
A voice that out of the dream
fell in the abyss
and, in the deep inmensity of space,
a hand raised her up.
Two souls walked with
a common purpose
and she was alone never more.
The world, without crystal bubbles...
The shadow of her greatness
come to life.
[Princess:] My love?
[Shadow:] I will walk with you.
[Princess:] My voice?
[Shadow:] Will return to you.
[Princess:] Sadness?
[Shadow:] I´ll move it away from you.
[Princess:] My throne?
[Shadow:] You will get to it again.
[Princess:] Muses?
[Shadow:] They will come to you.
[Princess:] The path?
[Shadow and Princess:]
We will walk across it together.
The world, without crystal bubbles...
No one knew she was a princess;
hated with cruelty,
envied by serpents.
She was attacked
by those who didn´t accept
her greatness.
Go on!
Build on a loss to injury.
Step back from a fallen dream.
I stay and won't go easy.
I stay for My Desire.
My arm falls and strenght is fading from my veins.
I cling to a dream that once ruled my world.
Been gone for so long without a second thought.
I have misled but I won't let this wreck my world.
That I have left without a trace.
It takes all I have to forget.
I wanted nothing more than to have my day.
This dream still lives inside of.
Hold on to every emotion.
Go further with every step.
I asked for with every wish, but now I find it almost gone.
Misguided, another day has come and gone without the truth.
But this will never fade my world.
That I have left without a trace.
It takes all I have to forget.
I wanted nothing more than to have my day.
This dream still lives inside of me.
This will never fade.
This dream will never fade!
As each day goes on the chance for my day slips away.
Listen to the breezee.
Keep my breath for cold nights.
I need every drop
of your love to feel free.
I need you to need me.
I will carry on.
Your fingers travelling
all over my body,
your caresses building
my way.
I will care for you.
Embrace me in the long wait.
In this, our sad wait
I will dream every night alone.
I will count every smile,
the ones I sent to you,
I treasure all of them,
the whisper of my wings
full of hope to see
you again, again...
Then I´ll choose a star for you.
I need you to need me...
I won´t let myself fall
because I love you.
Listen to the breezee.
Keep my breath for cold nights.
I need every drop
of your love to feel free.