I'm dizzy walkin outta larry's army wear used
with some black leather shoes and desert BDU's
many boxes of ammo, i got the camo face paint
barricaded the tower doors, safe this place ain't
up to the top, i can see the whole planet it would seem
the sun is beatin on my head as i'm livin my horror dream
up-chucked a couple times then i finally took aim
a man is chattin on his cell phone, i spattered his brain
a lovely couple started runnin, all the sudden she tripped
he kept right the fuck without her, like he never missed a step
i snapped one to his head, he fell dead to his knees
then his wife was right there to retrieve the car keys
not many notice at first, although some do start to scatter
pluggin iron in they back, who they are it doesn't matter
there's a psychopathic, way up in the tower somewhere
and when they think they outta range *gunshot* poof they hair
(chorus)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot...
i shot the lady in the ass and the kid on the grass
and the daddy on the swing through the lens in his glasses
first cop on the scene will be commended for his services
for now he holds his throat and scream 'i didn't deserve this'
the tower too high, i'm bringin shot from above
cuz my head's a battle royale of serpents, snails, and bugs
i'm quadarpolar, though my snipers scope i see the enemy
the world ain't never been my friend and never pretended to be
i fought in two wars, my country left me poor and sick
leg missin, agent orange and an un-useable dick
so as i reload, my trigger finger's frozen cold
from squeezing so hard my reason is no control
warped soul, look at that, pap-pap-krack
three frat college boys flat, dead on they back
and they lady tryin to hide behind the dead fat guy
just got one plucked in her eye
(chorus)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot...
i'm finally at war again, only i ain't takin orders
200 yards below, i'm taggin targets, small as quarters
marksman, sniper, military precision
spotlight on the tower, tryna nullify my vision
my eyeballs keep rollin in the back of my head
practicing for any minute when i'm actually dead
they put the tape up, these people think they outta my view
but still, i'm steady pluggin sleepin pills off into them too
i see in strobe light vision and i'm way beyond a panic
my only skill is murder and i'm stuck on automatic
sweatin profusely, bleedin outta my ears
their shots are missing by fragments, bullets shavin my hairs
and yet my aim is remarkable, i'm peggin these duck
one by one, jumpin out of those SWAT team trucks
i see the major activity, i'm caughing a chao
mad... my life went out with a flash
(chorus)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
and it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
so fuckin hot...
and it was hot that day, so fuckin hot
it shouldn't get that hot, humid and hot
beatin down on us, so fuckin hot
too fuckin hot that day, just too fuckin hot
how can it get that hot, how can it be that hot?
too hot, too hot, too hot, it was just too fuckin hot
I'm dizzy walkin outta larry's army wear used
With some black leather shoes and desert BDU's
Many boxes of ammo, i got the camo face paint
Barricaded the tower doors, safe this place ain't
Up to the top, i can see the whole planet it would seem
The sun is beatin on my head as i'm livin my horror dream
Up-chucked a couple times then i finally took aim
A man is chattin on his cell phone, i spattered his brain
A lovely couple started runnin, all the sudden she tripped
He kept right the fuck without her, like he never missed a step
I snapped one to his head, he fell dead to his knees
Then his wife was right there to retrieve the car keys
Not many notice at first, although some do start to scatter
Pluggin iron in they back, who they are it doesn't matter
There's a psychopathic, way up in the tower somewhere
And when they think they outta range [gunshot] poof they hair
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot...
I shot the lady in the ass and the kid on the grass
And the daddy on the swing through the lens in his glasses
First cop on the scene will be commended for his services
For now he holds his throat and scream "i didn't deserve this"
The tower too high, i'm bringin shot from above
Cuz my head's a battle royale of serpents, snails, and bugs
I'm quadarpolar, though my snipers scope i see the enemy
The world ain't never been my friend and never pretended to be
I fought in two wars, my country left me poor and sick
Leg missin, agent orange and an un-useable dick
So as i reload, my trigger finger's frozen cold
From squeezing so hard my reason is no control
Warped soul, look at that, pap-pap-krack
Three frat college boys flat, dead on they back
And they lady tryin to hide behind the dead fat guy
Just got one plucked in her eye
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot...
I'm finally at war again, only i ain't takin orders
200 yards below, i'm taggin targets, small as quarters
Marksman, sniper, military precision
Spotlight on the tower, tryna nullify my vision
My eyeballs keep rollin in the back of my head
Practicing for any minute when i'm actually dead
They put the tape up, these people think they outta my view
But still, i'm steady pluggin sleepin pills off into them too
I see in strobe light vision and i'm way beyond a panic
My only skill is murder and i'm stuck on automatic
Sweatin profusely, bleedin outta my ears
Their shots are missing by fragments, bullets shavin my hairs
And yet my aim is remarkable, i'm peggin these duck
One by one, jumpin out of those SWAT team trucks
I see the major activity, i'm caughing a chao
Mad... my life went out with a flash
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot...
And it was hot that day, so fuckin hot
It shouldn't get that hot, humid and hot
Beatin down on us, so fuckin hot
Too fuckin hot that day, just too fuckin hot
How can it get that hot, how can it be that hot?
Too hot, too hot, too hot, it was just too fuckin hot
I'm dizzy walkin outta larry's army wear used
With some black leather shoes and desert BDU's
Many boxes of ammo, i got the camo face paint
Barricaded the tower doors, safe this place ain't
Up to the top, i can see the whole planet it would seem
The sun is beatin on my head as i'm livin my horror dream
Up-chucked a couple times then i finally took aim
A man is chattin on his cell phone, i spattered his brain
A lovely couple started runnin, all the sudden she tripped
He kept right the fuck without her, like he never missed a step
I snapped one to his head, he fell dead to his knees
Then his wife was right there to retrieve the car keys
Not many notice at first, although some do start to scatter
Pluggin iron in they back, who they are it doesn't matter
There's a psychopathic, way up in the tower somewhere
And when they think they outta range [gunshot] poof they hair
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin high (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin high
I shot the lady in the ass and the kid on the grass
And the daddy on the swing through the lens in his glasses
First cop on the scene will be commended for his services
For now he holds his throat and scream "i didn't deserve this"
The tower too high, i'm bringin shot from above
Cuz my head's a battle royale of serpents, snails, and bugs
I'm quadarpolar, though my snipers scope i see the enemy
The world ain't never been my friend and never pretended to be
I fought in two wars, my country left me poor and sick
Leg missin, agent orange and an un-useable dick
So as i reload, my trigger finger's frozen cold
From squeezing so hard my reason is no control
Warped soul, look at that, pap-pap-krack
Three frat college boys flat, dead on they back
And they lady tryin to hide behind the dead fat guy
Just got one plucked in her eye
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot...
I'm finally at war again, only i ain't takin orders
200 yards below, i'm taggin targets, small as quarters
Marksman, sniper, military precision
Spotlight on the tower, tryna nullify my vision
My eyeballs keep rollin in the back of my head
Practicing for any minute when i'm actually dead
They put the tape up, these people think they outta my view
But still, i'm steady pluggin sleepin pills off into them too
I see in strobe light vision and i'm way beyond a panic
My only skill is murder and i'm stuck on automatic
Sweatin profusely, bleedin outta my ears
Their shots are missing by fragments, bullets shavin my hairs
And yet my aim is remarkable, i'm peggin these duck
One by one, jumpin out of those SWAT team trucks
I see the major activity, i'm caughing a chao
Mad... my life went out with a flash
[chorus]
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower)
And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower)
So fuckin hot...
And it was hot that day, so fuckin hot
It shouldn't get that hot, humid and hot
Beatin down on us, so fuckin hot
Too fuckin hot that day, just too fuckin hot
How can it get that hot, how can it be that hot?
A great lord came walking through the forest
One morning with a weapon in his hand;
Rich was his castle, he lacked for nothing,
But killing was his plan;
When a white bird flew by she fell from the sky,
Nothing was found, only blood on the ground, she was gone;
Cursing his fortune,
He turned to the forest to kill once again,
And standing before him was a lovely young woman
With her hand hung in pain,
When he saw her his eyes were filled with desire,
He said "I must have her, she must be mine,
She will be mine..."
He offered her silver, he offered her gold,
But she threw it on the ground,
He fell to his knees and he begged her,
"Oh please come with me,
What you wish will be found;"
She said, "Sire, I'll go if you put up your bow,
And spare these creatures, leave them in peace,
You have no need..."
But her words were lost in the wind
His eyes were fixed on a queen
And all he saw was a woman
And all she was, was a dream...
Oh oh...And all he saw was a woman, and all she was,
Was a dream...
He took her and bound her with ropes tied around her
To his castle he did ride;
In the wood was a bower where stood an an old tower
And he threw her deep inside;
Then the birds left the sky and a terrible cry,
Brought thunder and lightning, and rain falling down,
Tears on the ground...
All through the days on her face he would gaze,
For she was lovely as the spring;
No words would she speak but "Leave them in peace",
And some sad lament she would sing,
Oh one day by the door, at the window he saw
A single white feather lying on the floor.
She was there no more...
Now that great lord is dying,
His cold heart is crying for the love of the girl;
For many an hour he has wept on the tower
For she meant more than the world;
And once in the sky, a white bird flew by,
He lifted his hands, he cried out in pain
"Come back again..."
But his words were lost in the wind,
His castle was built upon sand,
And all he has is a memory,
And all he yearns is her hand...
Ah ah ... all he has is the memory,
the sword of truth is just another weapon
let me live for just one more second
i see a woman, she's holding flowers
a bouquet of roses that are blood red
from a burning building, a man leaps to his death
i stand above these mansions of the dead
red tombs and above us looms
the tower
i see red
i see a tower against the sky
beneath a red unblinking eye
radiowaves curve and cross
i stand below them - lost!
above me is a black obelisk
and the dangers that i risk
here gather the ghosts of the mind
that tear my heart and here i find
all the traps that have been set
everything i would forget, beneath
the tower
i see red
i see a tower against the sky
beneath a red unblinking eye
violence is close at hand
you are damned if you do
and if you don't - damned!
a red eye, tyrant full of hate
glares from the sky, it's captive state
if it should blink or deviate
a thousand worlds would obliterate
i do not move, nor do i speak
beneath that hard and pitiless peak
of concrete, steel and antennae wheels
the tower
i see red
i see a tower against the sky
I am the Captain and it feels absurd
How I let my life crash down by your every word
And I know you feel the weight it puts on you
But I can't stop thinkin' we can make it through
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower
Can you believe in what you want to feel?
Not turning back but going up the hill
I'm sure there is a view from the very top
And then it's all downhill and never stop
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
Last night I said out loud a little prayer
And don't believe it died out in the air
It maybe seems impossible today
But I will keep believing anyway
Every day
All the way
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
Ooh, can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
Can we keep it hangin' on the tower, yeah, yeah
I'm rollin' up in a big gray bus
And I'm shackled down
Myself that's who I trust
The minute I arrived
Some sucker got hit
Shanked ten times
Behind some bullshit
Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
So without hesitatin'
I made a weapon quick
If found a sharp piece of metal
Taped it to a stick
Then a bullhorn sounds
That means it's time for chow
My first prison meal
The whole feeling was foul
It wasn't quite my style
But my stomach growled
So I flushed the shit down
And hit the weight pile
The brothers was swole
The attitudes was cold
Felt the tension on the yard
From the young and the old
But I'm a warrior
I got my ground to hold
So I studied the inmates
To see who hd the power
the Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
Blacks put their backs to the wall
Cause it was north and south
A gun man shouts
And everybody had doubt
Until the bullets started fly'n
Took two men out
Thn they rushed everybody
Back to their cells
Damn the pen is different than
The county jail
I'm in a one man cell
I know my life's on a scale
I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
This is my second day
I got a ten year stay
I learned my first lesson
In the pen you don't plaay
I saw a brother kill another
Cause he said he was gay
But that's the way it is
It been that way for years
and when his body hit the ground
I heard a couple of cheers
It kind of hurt me inside
That they were glad he died
and I ask myself
Just who had the power?
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
You see the Whites got a thing
The call White pride
The Blacks got the muscle
Mexicans got the knives
You better be wise
You wanna stay alive
Go toe to toe with a sucka
No matter wht size
A fool tried to sweat me
Act'n like he was hard
I stuck him twice in the neck
And left him dead in the yard
It was smooth how I did it
Cause nobody could see
With my jacket on my arm
And my knife on the side of me
Bam bam, it was over
Another one bites the dust
I went crazy in the pen
With nobody to trust
Bench'n ten quarters, so I'm hard to sweat
Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
They call me a lifer
Cause I'm good as dead
I live in the hole, so the floor's my bed
And I ask myself again
Who has the power
The Whites? The Blacks?
he is anark
can you hear the sound of the phantom bell
people gather around
burn in his half-world hell
proto-overman
user of the dead hand
to the tower
he is anark
screams that calm the wind
hear the black birds shriek
death is your last breath
we have one enemy
proto-overman
user of the dead hand
to the tower
he is anark
dark dance
break of dusk
cold wind
time to kill
eyes closed
see his blood
fear not tomorrow will
proto-overman
user of the dead hand
[Gabriel]
Where do I go?
Never had a very real dream before.
Now I got a vision of an open door.
Guiding me home, where I belong,
dreamland I have come.
Oh where do I go?
Never had a flesh and blood like this before.
Got a new appearance when I passed the door.
Is it a dream I am withing? Oh what's going on?
Down, down, down
Go down, go down, go down
I roam into nowhere.
Don't see an end: eternal wastelands.
And I hear the voice, the voice, the voice, the voice...
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah...
Never been a fighter, never been a man.
But I must help Vandroiy, he's my only friend.
Nowhere to go but I know that he knows how
we will get her out...
Magic of transcendence
brought me to this place
Vandroiy in reality lead me on my race.
Told me to bring back the seal
but still I don't know where I shall go.
[Lugaid]
Can't you 'feel' the voice?
You don't have a choice.
What a kind of life:
Freedom in flesh - shackles on your mind...
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
For all the wisdom of ages doesn't die.
[Elderane]
Men have good intentions
on their way to the light.
But som of them are venal
and end up in the night.
Maybe it's better for you, mankind,
not to know what's going on.
[Gabriel]
Sometimes we must go
ways that seem to be wrong.
What a kind of life: Freedom in flesh,
shackles on your mind...
[Lugaid]
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
[Voice in the Tower]
You have come the long way through ages
to bring me the seven parts of the seal.
So now throw it over the walls of the tower.
Throw the seal!
[Pope]
But first Godfather, what about the prophecy? What
about your reward: The ultimate illumination, the
gnosis and the power to defend your kingdom on
earth with a strong hand? What about the prophecy?
[Lugaid]
I Realize...
[all]
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
[Lugaid]
Gabriel I can feel:
You have it back - book and seal.
Still no war is won, we have just begun...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one,
Of the one...
[Jakob]
Oh, how could the stranger steal the seal away?
Was it my fault? Or was it no one's fault at all?
I’m staying now in a vacation house
It’s all season, there’s no reason to leave
Today in the fishing boat I pulled the choke
And started the engine and set it on slow
I patrolled down the river under collapsing hopes
And dead leaves and mossy trees you know I made my way
down to the gulf
I let my friends go to let my friends know
Tonight I’m staying in to do my tarot, I got stuck on a
card I couldn’t let it go
The burning tower hit by lightning and people are jumping
Gabriel:
Where do I go?
Never had a very real dream before.
Now I got a vision of an open door.
Guiding me home, where I belong,
dreamland I have come.
Oh where do I go?
Never had a flesh and blood like this before.
Got a new appearance when I passed the door.
Is it a dream I am withing? Oh what's going on?
Down, down, down
Go down, go down, go down
I roam into nowhere.
Don't see an end: eternal wastelands.
And I hear the voice, the voice, the voice, the voice...
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah...
Never been a fighter, neber been a man.
But I must help Vandroiy, he's my only friend.
Nowhere to go but I know that he knows how
we will get her out...
Magic of transcendence
brought me to this place
Vandroiy in reality lead me on my race.
Told me to bring back the seal
but still I don't know where I shall go.
Lugaid:
Can't you 'feel' the voice?
You don't have a choice.
What a kind of life:
Freedom in flesh - shackles on your mind...
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
For all the wisdom of ages doesn't die.
Elderane:
Men have good intentions
on their way to the light.
But som of them are venal
and end up in the night.
Maybe it's better for you, mankind,
not to know what's going on.
Gabriel:
Sometimes we must go
ways that seem to be wrong.
What a kind of life: Freedom in flesh,
shackles on your mind...
Lugaid:
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Find out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
Voice in the Tower:
You have come the long way through ages
to bring me the seven parts of the seal.
So now throw it over the walls of the tower.
Throw the seal!
Pope:
But first Godfather, what about the prophecy? What
about your reward: The ultimate illumination, the
gnosis and the power to defend your kingdom on
earth with a strong hand? What about the prophecy?
Lugaid:
I realize...
all:
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
For the glory, for the glory, for the glory,
For the glory. Oh - what is going on?
Lugaid:
Gabriel I can feel:
You have it back - book and seal.
Still no war is won, we have just begun...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one
who reigns from inside...
Go all the way to the tower!
Long for the secrets behind!
Go all the way to the tower!
Found out the name of the one,
Of the one...
Jakob:
Oh, how could the stranger steal the seal away?
Was it my fault? Or was it no one's fault at all?
A haunting wind from the frozen
It carries the message of death
It howls and whistles and whip through the night
It's storming towards Nazareth
As the fool is cast from the tower
To drown in the waves below
The tower is shattered of lightning
And through conceit his weakness will show
Arrogance can't breed forever
The path of the fool is foretold
As the storm is whining around him
He struggles to stay in control
The darkness is the salvation
Burning and freezing its path
The key to rise from the dead again
To grow in the storms aftermath
Revelations of the truth
Exposing all the hidden
A burst of insight
Seeing through the riddle of the forbidden
Black flame rise within
Black flame burn eternal
The storm is raging over sea and land
But yet he's standing straight
Trapped inside a wounded womb
To grow by inner faith
He will erupt in anger
His fortune will now take a turn
When facing the truth of his arrogance
First finally then he may learn
He's forced to breath the sulphur
He's destined to nakedly burn
Revelations of the truth
Exposing all the hidden
A burst of insight
Seeing through the riddle of the forbidden
Black flame rise within
The one who survives by making the lives
Of others worthwhile
She's coming apart
Tight before my eyes
The one who depends on the services she renders
To those who come knocking
She's seeing too clearly what she can't be
What understanding defies
She says I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
She turns up the light
Anticipating night falling tenderly around her
Watches the dusk
The words won't come
She carries the act so convincingly
The fact is sometimes she believes it
She can be happy with the way things are
Be happy with the things she's done
And yet I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
Reach out, hold back
Where is safety
Reach out and hold back
Where is the one who can change me
Where is the one
The one
Reach out, hold back
Where is safety
Reach out and hold back
Where is the one who can save me
Where is the one
The one
I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in the snow
The danger and the power
Behind the walls I hide where the sun cannot reach me
Within the tower where you can't see my face
Through dust I slowly stride where the night is forever
Within the tower where you can't see my face
One step behind you
Turn around, and I am gone
You'll never see me
Just a feeling that something is so wrong
Each night I wander
Uninvited, from the tower
A nightly guest
Who has come to kiss your life good-bye
From the past, a shadow
A phantom, in the pale moonlight
I can see you
Oh, how sweet is not your face in fright
Your heart is pounding
As you walk through the shadow of the tower
I can smell your fear
There are twelve commandments
There are twelve divisions
Twelve are the pagans who have mapped the sky
In the outer circle
To the inner sanctum
From the octave at the end of time
The fountain, the trinity
The pilgrim is searching for blood
(searching for his blood)
To look for his own free will
The stone of infinity, washed in the flood
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, and the hanged man smiles
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, let the fool decide
In the atom circle
Where we break the stars
Hammer into anvil, stuffing out the sun
Witness all the killing
See the birth of Mars
Our religion thrown into the fire
The fountain, the trinity
The pilgrim is searching for blood
(searching for his blood)
To look for his own free will
The stone of infinity, washed in the flood
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, the hanged man smiles
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, the magician laughs
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, and the priestess kneels
(priestess kneels)
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, let the fool decide
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, and the hanged man smiles
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, let the fool decide
Lovers in the tower
The moon and sun divided, the priestess kneels to receive
Lovers in the tower
She lifts the flowers from the window box
Summer's fouled now winter flocks
She lifts her veil to the morning rain
Wipes her eyes to the summer again
Pearls of dew shimmer on her face
Cut inside she would dream to taste
She knocks her flowers from the window side
They fall to the ground they fall to the ground
Hide away from the raging sun
You hide your love from the fire beyond
Now the woman in an aging form
She's tangled in the bushes tall
Cowering down with head in hands
She cries out loud, she cries out loud
"Seems so cold, it seems so cold tonight.
Seems so cold, seems so cold tonight"
Hide away from the raging sun
You hide your love from the fire beyond
She can't see visions of this force below
Freezes her life through (garbled "in a joke"?)
She heads to the voice of this rainy day
And it cries like a choir in her mind to stay
It's "Sister hold now, hold now, hold your head
Dream a cloud put out the fire which is your bed!"
She then danced through the kitchen through the force below
And it cries "How fun! But oh so slow..."
Just living, like a dreamless child with hatred
Just living, like a dreamless child with hatred
She's never been quite as cut by life before,
Never been cut by way of life before
Hide away from the raging sun,
You hide your love from the fire beyond
She can't see visions of this force below
Freezes her life through... (garbled "in a joke"?)
She heads to the voice of this rainy day
It cries like a choir in her mind "Just stay!"
"Sister hold now, hold now, hold your head
Dream a cloud put out the fire which is your bed"
She then danced through the kitchen through the force below
We built a tower for all the town to see
Bricks, concrete, metal and memories
Inside the rocks and stone, spaces became our home
Arguments echoing, love made me so high
Searching for words for the end
But we built the tower too high
When the light finally dies and we look to the sky
Will we finally know why
The call the dawn the morning
And I'd wish we'd said goodbye
Years flying by, trapped all alone in the sky
And you stories down and all our loved ones outside
Our words turned out all wrong
Intentions lost in halls
Now all I want to do is tear down the walls
Searching for words for the end
But we built the tower too high
When the light finally dies and we look to the sky
Will we finally know why
The call the dawn the morning
And I wish we'd said goodbye
Seems like the final day you'll ever come my way
So please forgive me if I hold on too tight, too tight
Tight, tight, tight
There's a tower, there's a tower
There's a tower, crumbling
Crumbling, crumbling, down
So when the light finally dies
I'll know the answer to why
They call the dawn, mourning
from the plain fields to the mountain top
and in the suburbs where we used to die
there’s a tower standing straight up to the sky
I am the captain and it feels absurd.
How I let my life crash down by your every word.
And I know you feel the weight it puts on you.
But I can't stop thinking we can make it through.
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Can you believe in what you once could feel?
Not turning back but going up the hill.
I'm sure there is a view from the very top.
And then it's all downhill and never stop.
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Today I said out loud a little prayer.
And I Don't believe it died out in the air.
It maybe seems impossible today ...
But I will keep believing anyway, everyday, all the way.
Withered flowers hem my toilsome way
The armies of spring defeated long ago
Where hopeful green once covered the land
Now decay and death rule everywhere
Shaggy crows, plaguing the soil, await the kingdom of frost
Grey and dirty the day laments, and a dust-hidden sunset blurs the sky
Through valleys of shadow, over hills of forlorn beauty
I drive my feet to a tower, where the night shall bring oblivion
(lead Hilbert)
The highest mountains provoking
Black stone forms a needle
Piercing the clouds at the horizon
It marks my quests solution
Reaching the massive gate, darkness takes the land
With the moon racing the heavens, behind wild and hoary fog
Looking down from the spire
I see the world beneath my feet
In the safety of this place
My present to mankind reveals
All human eager firestorms, the foul stench of lost battles
Vast pains and bitter grief, for only one now to consume
I enlighten the fields below, thunder roars throughout the plane
Gathering the ancient demons, sorrows last tunes now begin
Calling the mighty forces
Of this buildings secret powers
A breach to the inner core
Opens as a voracious door
(lead Hilbert)
With a black holes gravity
It inhales the outer tragedy
Gateways to exterminate
What we've done in our hate
My energy exhausted
My mind totally frosted
With all my memories erased
Loveless, soul-less robots made out of skin
Manicure, accessorize, cover up the sewage within
Twisted, tainted, always at odds
Silicone idols to disposable gods
You turn every good thing into a sin
Build your tower out of stone, live within until it falls
Then crouched in darkness all alone
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling
You imitate reality
Haunted, sleepless meat-puppet without a will
Sanguine, yet your peace of mind comes in a pill
Torpid, tranquil, hopeful and vain
Undersexed, overfed and living in pain
The less you know of yourself the more you can kill
Build your tower out of twigs, live within until it falls
Then like those silly play-time pigs
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling you imitate reality
Build your tower out of stone, live within until it falls
Then crouched in darkness all alone
Come tumbling down like plastic dolls
Hide the signs of suffering, embrace your mediocrity
Like mindless zombies shuffling
