(Intro)
(Fa see, le sou, lee ah, hallah led la) x2
1. Shadowland, the leaves have fallen
The shadowed land, this was our home
The river's dry, the ground has broken
So i must go, now i must go
2.And where the journey may leed me
Let your pray'rs be my guide
I can not stay here, my family
But i'll remember my pride
(Pridelands) I have no choice (Pridelands) I will find my worlds
(Please stay) My home (Pridelands) (Take me) Take this pray'r
(With you) What life's out there? (Fa see) My home (Le sou)
(music)
(chorus)
And where the journey may leed you
Let this pray'r be your guide
The winds may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
(African music and words)
(chorus)
And where the journey may leed (you) me
(Let this pray'r be your guide) Be my guide
(For it may take you) Take me so (So far away)
So far away (Always remember) I'll remember (your) my pride x2
Bless you all - My people, bless you all
Shadow Land
Don Williams
Bob McDill
Album: Flatlands
Everytime the tide comes in the tide goes out
Some folks fail some do alright
You could take a johnboat all the way to town
Had an angry broken father, in a house beside the water
CHORUS:
Shadowland, what secret are you keeping
Are you only sleepin to wake another day
Shadowland, Oh how could I have loved you
I never really knew you, anyway
Funny how the stars down there shine so bright
Breeze comes in just like a prayer
Mama asked Jesus to keep Daddy home at night
I guess it was a pity, but Jesus never did it
CHORUS:
Shadowland, what secret are you keeping
Are you only sleepin to wake another day
Shadowland, Oh how could I have loved you
I never really knew you, anyway
BRIDGE:
Storms blew up from Mexico, the boats would all come in
Nights like that you could smell salt water on the wind
I was so young back then
Brother was a gifted child so they said
We could build a starship in the yard
Angry voices came from the house at night
So we’d play a game he made up
And stay out a little later
CHORUS:
Shadowland, what secret are you keeping
Are you only sleepin to wake another day
Shadowland, Oh how could I have loved you
I never really knew you, anyway
White man
On the hunt
Hunting the black
Across the land
Klans of violence
And infiltration
Out on the road
For false salvation
In the shadowland we'll try to survive
In the shadowland there's no place to hide
Millions followed them
For murder and rape
White heads
And a mind of black
Deceiver destroyer
For false illusion
Spreading the disease
Wherever they are
In the shadowland we stand up and fight
In the shadowland there's only one right
The shadow of our sorrow
That swells with silence in our tortured souls
Feel the lie of the government
That lives lika a needle in our tortured hearts
In the shadowland
In the shadowland
In the shadowland
In the shadowland
(Steve Earle)
Way out yonder, where the wild wind blows
There's a place there lonely fools can go
Where if you hold your money, it'll burn your hand
So you buy you a ticket to the shadowland
chorus
Down the highway, down the road I'm bound
And my heart keeps poundin' and the wheels go 'round
And it's a hard place for a mortal man
And a heartbroke pilgrim in the shadowland
Yeah, when I was younger I could hold my own
My right hand was thunder and my left was stone
Now I ain't as handsome as I was back then
So I'm takin' my chances in the shadowland
chorus
Been down a thousand highways and they're all the same
Another empty place where I can hide my shame
And there's a heartache waitin' up around the bend
For a lonesome stranger in the shadowland
chorus
In a land where no love can be born
Self destruction everywhere
A restless soul on it's search for an answer
Sees through this masquerade of dispair
In a time where no love can be born
Desperation frozen eyes
A restless soul so alone no direction
Suffering as they follow the blind
This is a new dawn rising
Over this Shadowland
Tearing you from the world that you used to know
In a land where no love can be born
Isolation is the price
And the horror of this cold souless place here
Put everlasting stains on your life
In a time where no love can be born
Another crisis yet to come
A senseless life breeds a senseless death
Wondering what kind of pain will come next
Tired of being alive losing every time
I'm a shadow since you're gone
Just a shadow in the dawn
That breaks in the sand
A shadow lost in shadowland
My poor heart just flew away
When it realized one day
The dreams that we planned
Would only end in shadowland
I always wondered
Why you had to go
Whatever blunder I mad
I don't know
I guess that something
Turned out wrong
Didn't quite belong
In this lover's song
I'm a shadow, but you know
I'm the one who loves you so
So please, take my hand
And lead me out of shadowland
And lead me out of shadowland
Behind a nation's blind salute
Behind "my country `tis of thee"
Behind the pain that won't compute
Erase the memory of Shadowland.
An open wound that never heals
A bone that never seems to set
A mind that thinks but never feels
The face we've never met from Shadowland.
They tell us time and time again
They only want a few good men
They lead us through the lion's den
To Shadowland.
The world would just as soon forget
And watch the wreckage drift ashore
Ten years reduced to one regret
The baggage of war from Shadowland.
Don't ask us how our names were lost
Our nation did a sleight of hand
We never saw the line we crossed
That took us into Shadowland.
They tell us time and time again
They only want a few good men
They lead us through the lion's den
To Shadowland.
The son will reap what fathers sow
But mothers have to hear the sound
Of the last breath of the boy next door
Whose life has ended
Worn out - A broken, fucked-up
mind. An empty shell of life con-
scious, breathing, feeling. Forced
on society's back - nailed to the
freakshow cross.
Submissive lever raging through
the veins. Distorting the values
set by us all. You've lost all con-
trol. Immoral machines all pleas-
ure & greed.
Shadow World
Liquify the senses and inhale the
poison. A way to find the path to
divinity. Arise from filth, always
fought for what you believed in
The crystal saviour will help you
on your way
Distorting the values set by us
all. You've lost all control
Immoral machines of pleasure &
greed.
Shadow World
Slipping away into a twisted state
of grace. The pain ignites my
growth. Nightmare closing in,
bleeding and begging for an end
to come. The spawn of a shadow
world. Shadow world. Distorting
the values set by us all. You've
lost all control. Immoral
machines of pleasure & greed.
I'm a shadow since you're gone
Just a shadow in the dawn
That breaks in the sand
A shadow lost in shadowland
My poor hear just flew away
When it realized one day
The dreams that we planned
Would only end in shadowland
I always wondered
Why you had to go
Whatever blunder I mad
I don't know
I guess that something
Turned out wrong
Didn't quite belong
In this lover's song
I'm a shadow, but you know
I'm the one who loves you so
So please, take my hand
And lead me out of shadowland
I am the one, I can turn to the sun
Here in my own destiny
I used to bleed, like a suicide I need,
How come, I'm my own enemy
Don't you have the strength,
No desire for shore,
Weakened by the haze
I discovered your weakness
I'm heading to fall
Returning to hit your face
I'm looking over my shoulder
So I see..
Do you hear, I'm the fear of a shadowland
Kiss the dirt, taste the pain,
Your heart in my hand
And it hurts in my brain, and my head would spin,
Let me down, don't give up, don't give in
Never alone, never too far,
Now when I'm here on my own
Cut off my pride, but I'm still alive
Watching the daylight to come.
Thrown to the gallow, forgotten and sore
Nothing's forever and so we ignore
Come see sadness you never saw
I'm something a painter drawn
I like the way that you let me
I have been to the shadowland
I heard the empty call
The hatred anorexia
Misery and alcohol
By their hearths I warmed myself
To escape from the winter years
until I saw in the window myself
crying fire coloured tears
Love the only alchemy
Love the killer of despair
Love the patient samurai
Love the armour angles wear
Love
They turned away the prophet
Because she was young and full of longing
Instead they turned to the magistrate
Who was busying yawning
And they tried the sell me holy books
And I can see their eyes are wild
I caught them boring shame and fear
Into the perfect vessel of a child
But, love is the only alchemy
Love the killer of despair
Love the true nobility
Love the armour angles wear
Love
Love will make your eyes clear
The order of the universe
What was the light that I saw before me
As I opened my eyes
Behold, the dream opens up
What's the thing that I feel inside me
I can tell what will come
What has becomes of us all
Rise, Shadowland
A world of ice
A destiny, the final key
The dream has come alive
Rise up again
Open, Shadowland
A dream to be, eternally
Open, Shadowland
What's the thing that has come to haunt me
The dream comes alive
Inside the gateway of time
At the dead lake of bitter waters
The future reveals
In the night of the day I was born
Quite sure I wouldn't see no tomorrow
All the days I was wasting alone
Always waiting for the nights without sorrows
Mister, mister, you don't know what I am
Can't you hear it always trembling in my voice
Don't you know I'm doing all that I can
But I'm a man without any choice
Everyday's only pain for me
I don't like the sunlight shining on my head
I'm the man that was born for the dark
Every light that shines is making me feel bad
Lady, lady, put your hand on my head
Can't you feel the grieving sorrows in my brain
'cause I'm the one who's behaving so bad
I need those feelings for you again
Man of the dark - the guardian of the night
Man of the dark - the guardian of the night
I don't like people working all day
Only working just to see next tomorrow
But they are happy while they're living that way
In that world I gotta beg, steel or borrow
Mister, mister, you don't know what I am
Can't you hear it always trembling in my voice
Don't you know I'm doing all that I can
But I'm a man without any choice
Man of the dark - the guardian of the night
Man of the dark - the guardian of the night
Of the night - of the dark
Welcome, I bid you welcome
As you enter my world
My infernal paradise
Will become your demise
My mind is exploring
A thousand ways
To inflict you pain
Evil, guiding my hand
Deeper into shadowland
Touch of evil
Draining your life
Deeper into shadowland
Leave here, you will never leave here
As we become one
My brutality divine
Will make you forever mine
The horror you feel arouses me
Beyond human ecstasy
Evil, guiding my hand
Deeper into shadowland
Touch of evil
Draining your life
Too late, we left it too long
now the summer has come
and it's gone
but I don't need you now
Your fire died in the sun
the midnight choir sings for everyone
and you can't hear them now
and baby somewhere the rain isn't falling
somewhere the game still goes on
and I'm calling you
From shadowland from shadowland
You're the only one who knew
I'm an empty man without you
there's no music
there's no songs left in my hands
here in shadowland
Now I'm still here, but oh what a price
love is always tied to sacrifice
and I won't ever crawl
You left home like
you told me you would
baby only the young die good
and I'm not young at all
In the arms of shadow my power is growing
I'm a half-god
I'm crossing the threshold of portal
I've arrived again be ware
Serviled fans of rotting pride
Soon my destination will be reached
The dethronization of coronated master of this land
I'm comforter of deceased and tameless enemy of those who live
I cast a curse in those people who lament in the twilight
And the morning they dream about fame
Again I'm mounting on flamed steedbr
To steal into the deadly moonlight to conquer the new worlds
To inundate them with my filthy hordes
And my delightful dreams came true
No, it's not a heresy, this is a twisted reality
Only I can create the vision so real
That fear for closing eye-lids like plaque will touch human's breed
I want to hear screams of terror and lamentable whimpering
When hellish desire will woke up in the dreams
Sand of time displacing slowly, in the hour-glass of infinity
Secret places are still waiting for me
See the breeze dancing over shadowland
Watch the darkening storm appear
Feel the power of a million men
Darkskies that embrace your eyemind
Overshadowing your own ability
To see right through misty weather
Inside of this empowering darkness
Suffering is found until you perish
Seek your own visions let them be the truth
To take you high above the wasted wasteland
Laughing as you look down
As you look down upon this phenomenon of chaos
The will exploit you, condemn you
They’ll haunt you, descent you
They’ll make you speak their truth
Their life has no essence, so yours they will drain
Eating your precious youth
Take a deep breath blow away all their lies
You’re the king of your own domain
Gather the strength to conquer your foe
You are the one who will reign
Seek your own visions let them be the truth
To take you high above the wasted wasteland
Laughing as you look down
Fatshe leso lea halalela [The land of our
ancestors is holy]
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Shadowland
The leaves have fallen
This shadowed land
This was our home
The river's dry
The ground has broken
So I must go
Now I must go
And where the journey may lead me
Let your prayers be my guide
I cannot stay here, my family
But I'll remember my pride
Prideland I have no choice
My land I will find my way
Tear-stained Lea halalela
Dry land
Take this Take this prayer
With you What lies out there
Fatshe leso Lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Fatshe leso lea halalela Fatshe leso lea
halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
And where the journey may lead youGiza buyabo,
giza buyabo
Let this prayer be your guide I will return, I will
return
Beso bo
Though it may take you so far awayGiza buyabo, I
will return
Always remember your pride Giza buyabo, oh giza
buyabo
[Music: Finn Zierler]
[Words: Finn Zierler & Jorn Lande]
I bid you welcome
To my shadowland
I'm coming soon
And the moon is full I am the prince of night
Please do come in
I am the last of my kind
The last in line Heavy load
Down the winding road
Heavy load here
Come and show
The way to paradise
Let me know now Fell the fire strong desire
Something's waiting there for me
Deep inside I have a feeling
This was meant to be
Drifting on a river blue
I'll sail my ship forever
Let me live the dream I carry
Don't wake me from my sleep Living ain't easy
When there is no release
So many hearts been broken
Too many shattered dreams
It's hard building bridges
In this shadowland
I've been rising from the fall
When it was too much to bear Heavy load
Down the winding road
Heavy load here
Come and show
The way to paradise
Let me know now
Why? Fell the fire strong desire
Something's waiting there for me
Deep inside I have a feeling
This was meant to be
Drifting on a river blue
I'll sail my ship forever
Let me live the dream I carry
Fatshe leso lea halalela [The land of our ancestors is holy]
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Shadowland
The leaves have fallen
This shadowed land
This was our home
The river's dry
The ground has broken
So I must go
Now I must go
And where the journey may lead me
Let your prayers be my guide
I cannot stay here, my family
But I'll remember my pride
Prideland I have no choice
My land I will find my way
Tear-stained Lea halalela
Dry land
Take this Take this prayer
With you What lies out there
Fatshe leso Lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Fatshe leso lea halalela Fatshe leso lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
And where the journey may lead you Giza buyabo, giza buyabo
Let this prayer be your guide I will return, I will return
Beso bo
Though it may take you so far away Giza buyabo, I will return
Always remember your pride Giza buyabo, oh giza buyabo
Beso bo, my people, beso bo
These times have shown the true face of the world
It's the disease that's eating us inside
The weeping of mankind behind the laughter of gods
I'm still sad...
Walking along the river of redemption
Burning water to cleanse my soul
Finally I found myself sipping
The forbidden wine
These times have shown the true face of the world
It's the disease that's eating us inside
The weeping of mankind behind the laughter of gods
I'm still sad...
Drown myself in the river of redemption
The only way to help myself
I can't let go of the devil's scabbed hand
Released under watchful skies into a town I didn't recognise
I was a tourist with no story, lost in this purgatory
Escaped the smell of chalk and shame, pledged a classroom in my name
The PTA won't bless me and the yearbook will assess me
I walked down these familiar streets, now filled with circus freaks
My plans are as useful as a baby's hand there's no planning in
shadowland
Shadowland, shadowland, shadowland...
I chased you round the chimney stacks, the burnt earth pressed into our backs
It was so dark I just don't know what I kissed and I couldn't even see what I missed
You walked me across freedom fields, my shadow was a forcefield
I want to float upon my memories, not sink into the gloaming seas of shadowland
Weight loss, first frost, valium, sink fast
Fatshe leso lea halalela [The land of our ancestors is holy]
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Shadowland
The leaves have fallen
This shadowed land
This was our home
The river's dry
The ground has broken
So I must go
Now I must go
And where the journey may lead me
Let your prayers be my guide
I cannot stay here, my family
But I'll remember my pride
Prideland I have no choice
My land I will find my way
Tear-stained Lea halalela
Dry land
Take this Take this prayer
With you What lies out there
Fatshe leso Lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
Fatshe leso lea halalela
Fatshe leso lea halalela Fatshe leso lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride
And where the journey may lead you Giza buyabo, giza buyabo
Let this prayer be your guide I will return, I will return
Beso bo
Though it may take you so far away Giza buyabo, I will return
Always remember your pride Giza buyabo, oh giza buyabo
Fatshe leso lea halalela [The land of our ancestors is holy] Fatshe leso lea halalela
Shadowland The leafes have fallen This shadowed land This was our home
The river's dry The ground has broken So I must go Now I must go
And where the journey may lead me Let your prayers be my guide I cannot stay here, my family But I'll remember my pride
Prideland I have no choice My land I will find my way Tear-stained Lea halalela Dry land Take this Take this prayer With you What lies out there Fatshe leso Lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you Let this prayer be your guide Though it may take you so far away Always remember your pride
Fatshe leso lea halalela Fatshe leso lea halalela Fatshe leso lea halalela
And where the journey may lead you Let this prayer be your guide Though it may take you so far away Always remember your pride
And where the journey may lead you Giza buyabo, giza buyabo Let this prayer be your guide I will return, I will return Beso bo Though it may take you so far away Giza buyabo, I will return Always remember your pride Giza buyabo, oh giza buyabo
In a land where no love can be born
Self destruction everywhere
A restless soul on it's search for an answer
Sees through this masquerade of dispair
In a time where no love can be born
Desperation frozen eyes
A restless soul so alone no direction
Suffering as they follow the blind
This is a new dawn rising
Over this Shadowland
Tearing you from the world that you used to know
In a land where no love can be born
Isolation is the price
And the horror of this cold souless place here
Put everlasting stains on your life
In a time where no love can be born
Another crisis yet to come
A senseless life breeds a senseless death
Wondering what kind of pain will come next
This is a new dawn rising
Over this Shadowland
Tearing you from the world that you used to know
Tired of being alive
losing every time
Suffering side by side
shadows of mankind
This is a new dawn rising
Over this Shadowland
