A quill pen is a writing implement made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. The hand-cut goose quill is still used as a calligraphy tool, however rarely because many papers are now derived from wood pulp and wear down the quill very quickly. It is still the tool of choice for a few professionals and provides an unmatched sharp stroke as well as greater flexibility than a steel pen.
In a carefully prepared quill the slit does not widen through wetting and drying with ink. It will retain its shape adequately and only requires infrequent sharpening and can be used time and time again until there is little left of it. The hollow shaft of the feather (the calamus) acts as an ink reservoir and ink flows to the tip by capillary action.
The strongest quills come from the primary flight feathers discarded by birds during their annual moult. Generally the left wing is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand, although because of the modern scarcity of substantial quills this is rarely a condsideration as the curvature is not actually so pronounced as to cause any difficulty in the writing process.
Show me the way back to the garden
Lead me on the highway to the sun
Dusty are the wings I once was given
I am standing on the mountain of believe
Nothing of what I see looks like illusion
Show me the way into your room
Too close to the sun again
Too close to the sun again
Too close to the sun again
Close to the sun, close to the sun
I am rising like a free bird, given is freedom
Underneath me, the ground is giving way
Going to the centre of evolution
As I carry all the weight of the world
Too close to the sun again
Too close to the sun again
Too close to the sun again
Close to the sun, close to the sun
Show me the way to the sunlight again
Someone`s waiting
Yeah, I do know, I do know
Dusty my wings but I'm leaving today
on the highway
Too many satellites are spinning round the sun
I can't get focused on another single one
This mighty creature here is never to be tamed
Don't even think about it I remain the same
I can't hold it now
This room is turning upside down
I'm spinning round
I can't hold it now
Stealing earth from holy ground
I'm spinning round
In my kaleidoscope the future is a fake
My inner vision says it's all a big mistake
I breathe the air nobody ever has inhaled
But getting high is low when spirits are for sale
I can't hold it now
This room is turning upside down
I'm spinning round
I can't hold it now
Stealing earth from holy ground
Who is the slave if I am the master?
Who is the fool if I am the sane?
Well who´s the saddest soul around?
Who´s the saddest soul around?
On some kind of verge, no parole for the holy
No rest for the sleepless, I got pills to spare
Who is the slave, yeah if I am the master?
Who is the future, if you say I´m the past?
Well who´s the saddest soul around?
It´s killing me, well, yeah I´m killing myself
All you morphine minds are winding up in hell
Who´s the saddest soul around?
Well who´s the saddest soul around?
Who is the devil if I am God?
Who is the sinner if I am the saint?
Who´s the saddest soul around?
Tie me down under the desert sun
And let it burn my dusty skin
Feed me dirt it's all that I am worth
It hardly makes me free from sin
There will come a time
I'm stealing back what's mine
Let us bathe in light
Seize the day I'm taking flight
Curse my name, shoot poison through my veins
I'll still be coming back for more
Cause I am seeing things in my distorted mind
No man has ever seen before
I'd rather take a fall
Won't give away my soul
'Cause now the seasons right
Seize the day I'm taking flight
Well I leave it all behind
Life is just a way to die
What's awaiting
After this-infinity?
Why doesn't anybody see
Hell is coming over me
Would it please you
Bow down 'till you're safe and sound, kiss the holy
ground
Goodbye and let it all explode again
Cause this bond is about to break, just like a giant
wave
I'm rolling for the shore of wishful thinking
Who's free, wish I wouldn't be inside a fantasy
Within myself I'm looking from the outside
Well I'm in need for some faster speed, what was
reality
Is nothing but hallucination
Nothing left for me to do
I guess my days are done
What you see ain't always true
Somebody try to break my fall
'Cause I won't sell no soul
I don't know if you're friend or foe, when the ending
shows
I can only bend until I'm breaking
Long gone, it's a freedom song, nobody's ever done
A single thing, this wreck is going way down
Way too loud for me anyhow, cause I can't stand the
sound
I'm tired of the same old...
Poor soul made of rock'n'roll, I guess I do behold
This magical emotion
Nothing left for me to do
I guess my days are done
What you see ain't always true
Somebody try to break my fall
Well I'm walking backwards into the light
To a place where nothing grows but I will harvest life
There's no question, do or die
Cause I fade away to nevermore
I have walked a nowhere mile
Along with troubled times
Save me if anyone is out there
Cause this hard road is leading into nowhere
Time and again
I trip and I fall
In silence I'm making my plea
Save me
I reclaim the future cause I'm lost in the past
Yeah I am going forward thou' it seems I'm going back
Now you see me now you don't
An illusion til my God says- yeah
I think I've found the missing link
There is no master plan
Save me if anyone is out there
'Cause this hard road is leading into nowhere
Time and again
I trip and I fall
In silence I'm making my plea
Save me
Yeah- yeah I'm beginning to believe I've been misled
I've been cursing my holy maker
Now I'm watching your earth from below
Been drowning myself with a spoonful of wine
Just to see where the journey might go
I've been aching to live in your garden
So I'm building a hole in the wall
Yeah I'm sipping the greed it was what I believed
To be fuel for my poor dying soul
Let me be overlord
I need to satisfy myself
Let me be overlord
Nothing is real of the things I can see
I am watching your earth from below
I have seen with the eyes of the future
I've been living a daydream too long
Been exploring the moon with my needle and spoon
wish tomorrow, my yesterday's gone
Let me be overlord
I need to satisfy myself
Let me be overlord
Nothing is real of the things I can see
Look in the mirror yeah what do you see
The real thing or just an illusion
Here comes the morning, confession for free
To lay down this burden, my mission
Look at yourself among twisted and fools
Begging to heal the unbroken
I give a hand
I give a hand of grace, begging you...
Worry no more
Leave it all be
Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever changes
Come hard rain, come shine
Makes no difference to me
Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever changes
I am the monarch you wish you could be
I spit on ungrateful deceivers
I give a hand
I can see you on the mountain of belief
I can see you at the bottom of my dreams
I believe you´re playing tricks upon my mind
Well I wish you could unwind
Right now, you´ll learn
Alright now, your turn
I can tell from a hundred miles away
(I can tell from a hundred miles)
no light on the dark side
no light on the dark side
I can see you on a building looking right down
I can see you when you´re crashing to the ground
Well I believe we believe, do you believe?
Once broken, can not be healed
Right now, you´ll learn
Alright now, your turn
I can tell from a hundred miles away
(I can tell from a hundred miles)
no light on the dark side
no light on the dark side
Right now, right now
Yeah, release me from this halo
It´s a burden, bringing me down
Yeah, release me from this halo
I´m not worthy walking this ground
It matters to me, does it matter to you?
how I feel…what do I feel I don´t know
when I see, yeah, what no one believes
I am standing in a merciless room
All I´m given – desolation
I can´t stand this horrible sound
All I´m given – desolation
I feel safe when no one´s around
It matters to me, does it matter to you?
how I feel…what do I feel I don´t know
when I see, yeah, what no one believes
Follow me around the world
Come fly with me to meet the maker
Follow me around the world
Come fly with me to meet the maker
In the shadow of the sun
Life on earth has just begun
Into nothing, into void we are going
Follow me around the world
Come fly with me to meet the maker
Follow me around the world
Come fly with me to meet the maker
In the sky I see us burn
We are never to return
Into nothing, into void we are going
I predict the universe will bleed
Nail me to the cross to set you free
From eating with a silver spoon
To living hell and paper moons, in a day
I remain alive cause I believe
I may be blind but what I see is me
No matter how you beg or plea
I need protection cause I´m losing my speed, do need it
Somehow survey me in the camera eye
Yeah, the way I am, not supposed to be
I am treading water in a rolling sea
Won´t you please, please let me be the man in mind
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in mind
I can´t speak, I cannot open my mouth to scream out
loud
I need sleep but I can´t close my eyes
My hands are tied, in this prison cell
I pray for light but I´m given hell
Release me, let me be the man in mind
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in mind
Let me be the man inside your mind
Won´t you free me cause my hands are tied
I give you anything, whatever I can get you
Let me be the man inside your mind
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
Let me be the man in
I'm gonna ride on the edge of tomorrow
I'm gonna carry myself on the lonesome breeze
I'm gonna enter the room of tomorrow
I'm gonna tear down the wall to my total defeat
Bow before me- because I'm God
You don't have to die before me - because I'm God
I'm gonna live in the eye of the storm, yeah
I'm gonna die though I never came close to life
I'm gonna break yeah whatever's around me
I'm gonna give to the rich from the fatherless child
Bow before me - because I'm God
All I'm asking do adore me - because I'm God
Well won't you come on and dance up- to my evil eye
I said hey, yeah my dawning of day
I said hey, anywhere I follow
Do you know my rivers overflown
Do you know, what really matters
Evil mind, my satisfaction a crime
Evil mind send me flame and fire
Till the end, yeah, time and again
Till the end, bring me dust not water
I travelled back in time to the morning of my life
I travelled back in time, I saw me pray
For American Powder
I said hey, yeah my dawning of day
I said hey, anywhere I follow
Till the end, yeah, time and again
Till the end, bring me dust not water
I travelled back in time to the morning of my life
I travelled back in time, I saw me pray
Shame
Been given silver though I beg for gold
I've been framed
Nobody ever told me life is beutiful
Yeah Lord knows why
It's wearing and tearing, yeah Lord knows
Lord knows why
Someone's stolen my soul, I'm bound to wade across the
Mighty river
Mighty river
Shame on you woman, shame on you now
Shame on you woman, shame, shame
Yeah Lord knows why
It's wearing and tearing, yeah Lord knows
Lord knows why
Someone's stolen my soul, I'm bound to wade across the
Mighty river
Been walking down that lonely road
So many things I'm looking for
Maybe I'm a loser
But I still wanna win
Where have I been
Sometimes I think it won't be long
And times I feel like leaving it all
Life's been so hard
Wicked man still isn't free
He's you and me
It's been so long
Since I have believed in
Reality
I tried to tell her
Envy not a sinner
The writer sings, he wants to die
The flowers came, they all were mine
Maybe I'm a dreamer
But I can't sleep at night
Where's the light
It's been so long
Since I have believed in me
Reality
I tried to tell her
Envy not a sinner's fame
I'm nigh end screamer
I never be the same
I tried to tell her
Envy not a sinner's fame
Yeah, I'm nigh end screamer
I tried to tell her
Envy not a sinner's fame
Uh, believe me
Tried to tell her
Are we going to where the morning never breaks
Do we need to be afraid or hesitate
Cause wherever I go, wherever this here man will go
There´s no way but down, no way but down
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
wish I could see what has been and what will be
wish you could be my saviour
won´t you carry me across the line
Can you heal me cause my broken body aches
I trade yeah anything to make up for my mistakes
Well give me something to ease the pain inside my soul
Come on and black my sky, black my sky
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
wish you could be my saviour
won´t you carry me across the line
Way up high in the silvery skies the ending of time I see
Too late now, no solution at hand, no miracle man for me
no miracle man for me
Wish I could see
What is this feeling controlling my brain
Hallucination, am I going insane
Who is this fool inside of me, I don't know
Seems like I'm stuck here, there is nowhere to go
I let myself go crazy
While staring at the sun
Never thought of retribution, no
Inside this never ending spinning wheel
I control myself
Is there a reason for going insane
My own creator is who I will blame
I twist and turn yeah Lord knows I need a break
Invite the healer yeah before it's too late
I let myself go crazy
While staring at the sun
Never thought of retribution, no
Inside this never ending spinning wheel
I control myself
Me, I get washed away
Yeah, washed away
I'm slowly sinking
You watch me disappear
Yeah, disappear
cause I can't hold on
Well I'm leaving, it's now or never
In the morning I'm gone forever
I had to give it all
Now it seems to fade away
Here I go come what may
Down, there is no way but down
Yeah I am lost and found
Are you crying
Fool, fool, you had it coming to you
Yeah, coming to you
I´ve been cruising every highway but I don´t know where I
´ve been
All my life I´ve been rightful, if killing ain´t no sin
I´ve been trying to remember what I did along the way
Who I am, where I came from, well I guess it´s all the
same
I know, tomorrow I will beg for today
I know, I´ve never been afraid
Yeah I know, I have ruined my plan
Now I´m standing here as a broken man
I was given just a little but I ended with a lot
In the poison I was drowning I deserved just what I got
I know, tomorrow I will beg for today
I know, I´ve never been afraid
Yeah I know, I have ruined my plan
I can be you, you can be me
You can decode my weary mind, I can decode yours
If I could see inside
Behind the wall I might find my way
from what is itching in my brain
Yeah!
I can feel you, you can feel me
I can see inside your soul, you can have mine
If I could see inside
Behind the wall I might find my way
from what is itching in my brain, yeah
Give it to me now
Give it to me now
Yeah!
If I could see inside
Behind the wall I might find my way
from what is itching in my brain
What´s going on, going on
I´ll find my way
From the crack of dawn
'Til the end of day
On a crooked road I travel
Take me miles away
Cause here I go again
Searching high and low
For whatever the day will give me
Before I do explode
Dam the river, lead the water to my well
I hold my head up screaming cause I ride a rumbling
train
I am rushing to the moon and back, among the
dragonflies, upside is down
I travel without moving
In a wicked mind
hides naked soul
All I know, I don't belong here
Babylon's my home
Over silent fields
Armageddon cries
Barefoot still I keep on walking
But not afraid to fly
Dam the river, lead the water to my well
I hold my head up screaming cause I ride a rumbling
train
I am rushing to the moon and back, among the
dragonflies, upside is down
It's snowing outside the rumbling sound
Of engines roar in the night
The mission is near the confident men
Are waiting to drop from the sky
The blizzard goes on but still they must fly
No one should go where eagles dare
Bavarian alps that lay all around
They seem to stare from below
The enemy lines a long time passed
Are lying deep in the snow
Into the night they fall through the sky
No one should fly where eagles dare
They're closing in the fortress is near
It's standing high in the sky
The cable car's the only way in
It's really impossible to climb
They make their way but maybe too late
They've got to try to save the day
The panicking cries the roaring of guns
Are echoing all round the valley
The mission complete the make to escape
Away from the eagles nest
They dared to go where no one would try
Where are you going, where are you going man
It seems you're losing track of mind reaching the
promised land
'Cause everybody knows you're gonna go on down
To the river of damnation, letting yourself drown
Come to me sweetly, watch me disappear
I'm the universal healer, smoking out your fear
Nothing is forever when the sun is gone
And what is not alive will never overcome
And the caravan comes rolling
Moving me down the other side
love is like voodoo to my mind
And the caravan comes rolling
I am the river, I'm gonna flow your soul
I'm a humanized torpedo leaving nothing at all
Take a look inside the mirror, tell me what do you see
Well I'm leaving for the temple of life once again
Cause I've become one of those beggars who's denying
today
On top of the world lies a virgo, yeah I thought she was
gone
Nobody knows where I'm going, no one knows where I'm from
Well I'm heading for the mountain of greed, yes I am
Need to silent the volcanoes crying atomic rain
I spit on the future, wishing for a light in the black
Seven more days of penance won't be bringing her back
I believe I saw the maker
Breaking down before my feet
I never meant to kill the virgo
I couldn't help but let her flee
I don't know where I am going
I don't know where I am going
Do you know where we are going
I won't ever disappear I'll hide behind the sun
Resting until earth is bitter gone
Nothing's like the rain it makes my fountain flow again
Crying 'til the earth is bitter gone
Isolated, here I am, who's surfing in the snow
Who's tripping 'til the earth is bitter gone
Wrong is always right I'll give salvation if I might
See us burn 'til earth is bitter gone
Going down, going down
Do you believe I am fire I am the light
How do you know if you won't ever give it a try
It's up to you cause everything is meant to be found
Let us crash together let us tumble down
Until earth will be bitter gone, will be bitter gone
I´ve been sacked, I´ve been abused
Been thrown out in the street
I´m a wanted man, yeah, I´m wanted
Barely standing on my feet
Seeking shelter from the wind screaming in my face
Nobody lets me in, is this mercy, is this grace?
All I carry is this cross
All I carry is this cross
All I carry is this God damn cross…
….for my sins
If you see me along your way
Tell me when should I begin to pay
for all the trouble I have caused
Yeah I´ve caused along the way
I´ve been tricked, I´ve been misled
Yeah, I´ve suffered for too long now
There´s a prize set on my head
Guess I need salvation right now
Seeking shelter from the wind screaming in my face
Nobody lets me in, is this mercy, is this grace?
All I carry is this cross
All I carry is this cross
All I carry is this God damn cross…
….for my sins
If you see me along your way
Tell me when should I begin to pay
for all the trouble I have caused
Keep the circle whole
Yeah
Slave/master
Broken man
Man in mind
Merciless room
Trespass
Black
No light on the dark side
Triumph is a sea of flames
In the shadows
Down
Keep the circle whole
Well I am the wizard
I put a spell on you, yeah
I make you do the things I know you would not do
I am the master
You are the master
Nobody needs a wornout soul
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Inside the fire
I wanna be, yeah
Cause what you get it is exactly what you see
I am disaster
You are disaster
Nobody needs a wornout soul
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Whole
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
I`m standing tall
I wanna keep the circle whole
Don´t lose control
I wanna keep the circle whole
Sing me, sing me a song
And keep on singing 'cause my time has come
I've finally come to know
Now I'm certain 'cause I feel the flow
In springtime a wider sun
Rises in the morning and I come undone
Barefoot I step right in
Naked in the fountain, purify my skin
Need a jet of water
Flush my body free
A jet of water all just to please me
Need a jet of water
Wash all over me
A jet of water all just to please me
Bring me to depths unknown
Back to creation when no days grew small
Take me to setting suns
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
In the shadows I belong
Silver skies and butterflies
Bring me to where freedom lies
Give me what I need and all I praise
Won´t trade my soul for nothing else
Was blind, I see clearly now
alright, I have found peace
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
Until the day I die, I´ll be hiding from the sun
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
In the shadows I belong
I´m giving in, I steal your wings
Cause I´m the one who´s suffering
If I can´t make it on my own this time
I will have another try, I will have another try
Was blind, I see clearly now
alright, I have found peace
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
Until the day I die, I´ll be hiding from the sun
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
Until the day I die, I won´t rest until I´m done
I will never leave, in the shadows
Until the day I die, I´ll be hiding
I will never leave, in the shadows I belong
In the shadows I belong
It seems I'm slowly giving in
I see the black hole, please begin
To wreck my 1999
Tear out the shattered soul of mine
Hole in my head
Let the beginning be the end
Let me return to yesterday
Here comes the earthquake, once again
I lay before you, I lay before you
Hole in my head
What I was given you did steal
Now I am you and you are me
In another time and space
I'm awaiting the awakening of day
Going far beyond the sun
Cause nothing is really what it seems
In a room within a room
Where I go to see the setting sun
In a room within a room
Hammerhead
Do you understand
Yeah the deeds of man
Worship you my hammerhead
Let me stay inside your womb
Time is no more, evolution is for fools
Should have told me long ago
What's right is wrong but yesterday is gone
Room within a room
Where I go to see the setting sun
In a room within a room
Hammerhead
Do you understand
Yeah the deeds of man
Worship you my hammerhead
I am standing on the outside looking in
Searching for the end to find where to begin
Doesn't matter what you do when evolution fails
I am given no reason, I am all out of hope
The ground here is hollow and the blackbird has flown
Beg or steal or borrow, cause I can't take another mile
Now I see the broken sky, I won't make it all alone
Giving my soul to anybody
Giving my soul if I can get to you
Giving my soul to anybody
Giving my soul
Nothing is holy, for a man without name
The less you are giving the more I will take
Bless me I'm the sinner, show me how to live
Bring me to the house of love, it's been a long hard day
Giving my soul to anybody
Giving my soul if I can get to you
Giving my soul to anybody
Giving my soul
Cry me a river for all I have done
I am the giver I'm one with the sun
I’ll get to you with a smile
I’ll come to you for a while
Nobody knows what’s ahead
Giving my soul to anybody
Giving my soul if I can get to you
Giving my soul to anybody
Flowers growing all around me
Making colors fade to grey I believe I'm going crazy
If it's the day I'll die won't you spread my ashes over
The exploding sky I'm gonna break this rusty cage of
mine
Speeding fast I'm rolling lost in a daze
Begging for peace of my mind
It's so easy to slip into wicked ways
I'm drifting, color-blind
Well does it matter where I go, tomorrow
I don't know what to find
Cause when the day is done
I watch another sunset burning red
Until the morning comes
I hear the howling wolves inside my head
Drifting- drifting
Follow nowhere, what you seek
Is way beyond forever
You gotta give if you will reach
Any higher, do you dare
To leave it all behind
Cause I can make it anywhere
Yeah I'm drifting in time
I expect no tomorrow
Yeah I am drifting in mind
I could still be alive
How come I can see thou' I'm blind
Am I sleeping, I don't know
No need to erase and rewind
Someone´s watching me from somewhere
when everything is breaking down
Bare me to your temple mother
let me die another day
I will deny eternity as I´m watching me
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
I´m going down
One step further led me nowhere
I was stuck inside this haunted house
Why was I shown all this glory
Heaven help me come around
I will deny eternity as I´m watching me
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
I´m going down
I will deny eternity, I will deny eternity
as I´m watching me
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
On my way down
Are we going to where the morning never breaks
Do we need to be afraid or hesitate
Cause wherever I go, wherever this here man will go
There´s no way but down, no way but down
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
wish I could see what has been and what will be
wish you could be my saviour
won´t you carry me across the line
Can you heal me cause my broken body aches
I trade yeah anything to make up for my mistakes
Well give me something to ease the pain inside my soul
Come on and black my sky, black my sky
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
Wish I could see but all the lights are blinding me
wish you could be my saviour
won´t you carry me across the line
Way up high in the silvery skies the ending of time I see
Too late now, no solution at hand, no miracle man for me
no miracle man for me
Wish I could see
What has been and what will be