Elias (/ɨˈlaɪ.əs/) is the Latin transliteration of the Greek name Ἠλίας, which in turn is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew: אליהו, Eliyahu, meaning "Yahweh is my God". Another form of Eliyahu in English is Elijah.
The name belonged most notably to Elijah ( /ɨˈlaɪdʒə/), the Hebrew prophet. In the King James Version of the Bible, "Elias" is used in the New Testament as the English translation of the Greek name for this prophet.
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( /dɨˈdʒɛnərəs/; born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She was a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.
Theo Adam (born 1 August 1926) is a distinguished German classical bass-baritone who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from the 1940s through the 1990s. He particularly excelled in portraying roles from the operas of Richard Wagner. On the concert stage, he was a much admired Bach singer and also drew acclaim for his interpretation of the title character of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.
Born in Dresden, Adam sang with the Dresdner Kreuzchor as a boy. He studied singing with Rudolf Dietrich between 1946 and 1949. He made his professional opera debut in his native city as the Hermit in Der Freischütz at the Semperoper in 1949. In 1952 he joined the roster of singers at the Berlin State Opera. That same year he made his first appearance at the Bayreuth Festival in a small role. He returned annually to Bayreuth for many years, taking on the role of Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin in 1954, Titurel (and one of the Gralsritter) in Parsifal in the same year, Fasolt in Das Rheingold in 1958, and Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1963. He eventually added Amfortas in Parsifal, Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and the title role in The Flying Dutchman to his Bayreuth performance credits.
Elisabeth Sara "Elly" Ameling (born 8 February 1933) is a Dutch soprano.
Ameling was born in Rotterdam. She studied with Bodi Rapp, Jo Bollekamp, Sem Dresden and Jacoba Dresden-Dhont and later French art song with Pierre Bernac. She won the first prize during the Vocal Concours in 's-Hertogenbosch in Holland (1956) and the Concours International de Musique in Geneva (1958).
After her professional début as a concert singer in Rotterdam in 1953, she performed for more than forty years in virtually every major cultural centre in the world. Her frequent appearances with the leading international orchestras and conductors (Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelík, Carlo Maria Giulini, Benjamin Britten, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Sir Neville Marriner, Karl Münchinger, André Previn, Edo de Waart among others) established her as one of the greatest singers of our age.
She made her career mainly as a concert and lieder singer with some excursions into opera (Mozart, Haydn) and became world-renowned for her recitals of French and German songs and for her superlative interpretive gifts. She is equally at home in chamber music, orchestral music, operas, and oratorios. She made her U.S. recital debut at New York's Lincoln Center in 1968 and her opera debut in 1974 as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo in Washington, D.C. In 1974, Ameling also performed for the Peabody Mason Concert series in Boston.
Peter Schreier (born 29 July 1935) is a German tenor and conductor.
Schreier was born in Meissen, Saxony, and spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, near Meissen, where his father was a teacher, cantor and organist. In June 1945, when Schreier was almost ten years old, and just a few months after the destruction of Dresden, he entered the boarding school of the famous Dresden boys' choir, the Dresdner Kreuzchor (Choir of the Kreuzkirche or Church of the Cross). The choir had just been re-established. The young Peter and the few other choir members and teachers lived in a cellar in the outskirts of Dresden.
The conductor of the Kreuzchor, Rudolf Mauersberger, soon recognized Peter Schreier's great talent. He let him sing many solo alto parts and also created compositions that perfectly fitted Peter's boy voice. Solo recordings of Peter Schreier were made at the time (1948-1951) and are obtainable on compact disc even today.
Schreier was 16 years old when his voice broke, and he became a tenor, as he had passionately wished, because of the several Evangelists - all tenors - in J.S. Bach's Passions and in his Christmas Oratorio. After he had decided to become a professional singer he took lessons, at first privately, then later on at the Dresden Academy of Music. He had enough time to also study choral and orchestral conducting.
it's telling stories
telling just the truth
about some men
who don't excuse
only praying for you
it must be a starving man
who likes to hear
these crippled minds talk
greetings from me
following the wind
i don't want to forget ...
.. to regret
.. to remember all the time
.. everything
.. all these years
hear my voice
it's telling stories
telling just the truth
about the innocent elias
lying next to you
innocent elias
blood red messiahs
never coming home
greetings from me
hear my voice
it's telling stories
telling just the truth
about some men
who don't excuse
only praying for you
it must be a starving man
who likes to hear
these crippled minds talk
greetings from me
following the wind
i don't want to forget ...
... to regret
... to remember all the time
... everything
... all these years
hear my voice
it's telling stories
telling just the truth
about the innocent elias
lying next to you
innocent elias
blood red messiahs
never coming home
greetings from me
Time is gonna take my mind
and carry it far away where I can fly
The depth of life will dim my temptation to live for you
If I were to be alone silence would rock my tears
'cause it's all about love and I know better
How life is a waving feather
So I put my arms around you around you
And I know that I'll be leaving soon
My eyes are on you they're on you
And you see that I can't stop shaking
No, I won't step back but I'll look down to hide from your eyes
'cause what I feel is so sweet and I'm scared that even my own breath
Oh could burst it if it were a bubble
And I'd better dream if I have to struggle
So I put my arms around you around you
And I hope that I will do no wrong
My eyes are on you they're on you
And I hope that you won't hurt me
I'm dancing in the room as if I was in the woods with you
No need for anything but music
Music's the reason why I know time still exists
Time still exists
Time still exists
So I put my arms around you around you
And I hope that I will do no wrong
My eyes are on you they're on you
And I hope that you won't hurt me
my arms around you around you
And I hope that I will do no wrong
My eyes are on you they're on you
I wish and I pray
that you love me forever baby
but its difficult when they don't approve,
they just don't understand what were going through.
But I got you, i got you, i need you, I want you to know that I love you.
baby you've got me, you've got me, believe me you've got me no matter the weather baby.
Lately, things have been staying the same,
but you'll see things are about to change.
So don't give up, lets sit, lets talk about us. Get a couple of drinks, its on me, dont worry
I noticed I been thinking alot so I wrote this just to show you i got this feeling
telling me I need to hold on,
telling me I gotta be strong for you
chorus-
I wish and I pray
that you love me forever baby
but its difficult when they don't approve,
they just don't understand what were going through.
But I got you, i got you, i need you, I want you to know that I love you.
baby you've got me, you've got me, believe me you've got me no matter the weather baby.
Trust me, what they say isn't true.
About me, they hate when im with you.
thats why I can't let them
get to your head
no matter what your friends said,
its not true
I've lernt this from the things I've been through. their just jelious, jelious of me and you .
so lets stand tall, believe me I can hold on just as long as you can hold on to me
chorus-
I wish and I pray
that you love me forever baby
but its difficult when they don't approve,
they just don't understand what were going through.
But I got you, i got you, i need you, I want you to know that I love you.
baby you've got me, you've got me, believe me you've got me no matter the weather baby.
See i got you girl
and I'll never ever let you go
'till the day i die
you were ment for me
see, Im avaliable for you
No matter what we do
How ever hard it gets
Im'a love you down.
chorus-
I wish and I pray
that you love me forever
baby
but its difficult when they don't approve, they just don't understand what were going through.
So hard to see this story unveil, brought together by a broken heart,
or torn apart by useless times of anger.
And as I exit through my actions, you will shift back to your side.
An equilibrium reaction, a trait not necessarily required.
Better left undone and overlooked,
We wouldnt want to know this all, we wouldnt wanna know.
Your eyes came around and stared me down I wonder,
All this time, feeling weak
Maybe there's no guarantees
Look for proof, finding lies
All the answers in disguise
Give me truth, give me lies
Give me answers in your eyes
Barricades have been built up
This steady pulse has been cut off
The push and pull of empty hearts
Like feeble fingers torn apart
Let's shake these wars (shake these wars)
Give me truth, give me lies
Give me answers in your eyes
All this time, we've been weak
Maybe there's no guarantees
All this proof, all these lies
All the answers in disguise
Brick by brick they've been built up
My steady pulse has been cut off
Let's shake these wars (shake these wars)
Shake these wars (shake these wars)
They're coming down
They're coming down
Give me truth, give me lies
Give me answers in your eyes
It's always better in my head
Give me truth, give me lies
Give me answers in your eyes
All this time, we've been weak
Maybe there's no guarantees
All this proof, all these lies
All the answers in disguise
Give me truth, give me lies
Give me answers in your eyes
Give me truth, don't give me lies
(CHORUS X2)
Every breath I take till the day I die
Imma hold you down Imma be ur guy
Imma be your one till the day I'm done
Till the day i die
VERSE (ELIAS)
Me and you, you and me, how we feel
I think was meant to be
You took off, with ur man, you don't understand
How much you mean to me
Everyday, everynight, till i die
I want u next to me
Understand, I'll be your man, till the end
So don't say no to me
But you left and I'm all alone
Just wish you would call my phone
I call u but no ones home
Why does this happen to me
I'm sad no one cares
I reach but no ones there
This shit just seems unfair
Nothing good happens to me
(CHORUS X2)
Every breath I take till the day I die
Imma hold you down Imma be ur guy
Imma be your one till the day I'm done
Till the day I die
Girl Verse(ANNE-MARIE)
I was scared, I ran away, far away
Cause I didn't know what to say
But now I see, your love is real, and you feel
It takes my breath away
Just say you'll hold me down...I'll hold you down
Don't let our fire burn down... you know I won't
Just say you'll be my man... I'll be your man
Love me as long as u can... you know I will
Now you'll neva be alone
If you need me call my phone
For you I'm always home
I'll always be there for you
I've searched but now I've found
There's no love like yours around
Those words have made me see
That your the only one for me
(CHORUS X2)
Every breath I take till the day I die
Imma hold you down Imma be your guy
Imma be your one till the day I'm done
Till the day i die
Just say you'll hold me down... I'll hold you down
Don't let our fire burn down... you know I won't
Just say you'll be my man... I'll be your man
Love me as long as you can... you know I will
(CHORUS X2)
Every breath I take till the day I die
Imma hold you down Imma be your guy
Imma be your one till the day I'm done
I feel the change in weather,
I wish I never met her
This shit is takin thru to me
I wrote it in a letter,
I said we be forever, now this is what you left for me
I'm laying in my bed and your not by my side
All the promises was said and my heart broke in side
It hurt so much it didn't work out
We tried so hard couldnt figure it out
Thought she was the one
But Now I see that she aint the girl that was ment for me
So I drove away didn't watch my back
And I can't deny ima call her back
Cuz I really really love her
Cuz she was the girl that was ment for me
So I never gave up and I no it seems that I always give up
But when I can't breath then I no it's real
That she was the girl that was ment for me [x2]
We putting it together
It's getting hard then ever
But this is how it's got to be
I wana make it better
I swear I want it better
So this is how I really feel
I aint neva been, Hurt like this before
So find some supplement
And I can't take it any more
It hurt so much it didn't work out
We tried so hard couldnt figure it out
Thought she was the one
But Now I see that she aint the girl that was ment for me
So I drove away didn't watch my back
And I can't deny ima call her back
Cuz I really really love her
She was the girl that was ment for me
So I never gave up and I no it seems that I always give up
BUt wen I can't breath then I no it's real
That she was the girl that was ment for me [x2]
Do you see me crying out for you
Do you see me reaching out for you
Do you see that I am there for you
Do you see how much I care for you
Do you see that I'll be there for you
Do you see that I am ment for you
[Pause]
She was the girl that was ment for me
So I never gave up and I no it seems that I always give up
BUt wen I can't breath then I no it's real
That she was the girl that was ment for me [x2]
Look at the world we're living in
War, hate, killing the innocent
Manipulating our brains
We're just victims of the insane
Poisoned lives, unholy decadence
Filling the new with your sick ignorance
Sending our children to war
Tell me what they are dying for
Who's playing God?
Global conflict, this war will never end
Blame it all on misguided religions
Continue your senseless fight
I see no end in sight
East, west following prophecies
Comes to us by radio and TV
Who's telling the truth?
Can't you see they're fooling you?
Who's playing God?
Nothing but lies is what they're always speaking
Power and greed is what they're really seeking
Let's start a revolution all of our lines to them
They don't mean nothing, still they survive
They always think of something
Watching our world crumbling down
And from above I don't hear a sound
Is there time, is there time
Time is short for every race of man
Seize the future, we must make a stand
Stop living their lies, don't believe their alibis
Try to change the world before it ends
Global war on the horizon
Why can't the powers that be
Open their eyes and see
Who's playing God?
Got more than we bargained for
Got more than we bargained for
Got more than we bargained for
Got more than we bargained for
I look in their eyes
I see the lies
There's no place to hide
I just need to know
I just need to see
If you really love
Really loving me
See I ain't fuckin' playing
But I just see you playing
What is going on
Everything is going wrong
You got me all stressed out
You dont wanna work this out
So you keep on walkin away
I gave the best of me
You put the blame on me
So just keep on walkin away
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I saw you walk away
From the life we had
One day you'll realize
I'm the best you had x2
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I gave you one more chance
You threw it in my face
No I aint playin games
Baby girl you'll get replaced
I always put you first
But now you put me last
I knew it wouldn't last
Everything is moving fast
You got me all stressed out
You dont wan to work this out
So you keep on walkin away
I gave the best of me
You put the blame on me
So just keep on walkin away
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All I really need
Is for you to answer me
Do you here what im sayin?
You don't even know what I'm feeling right now
So don't even act like you know
Cause you don't know
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I saw you walk away
From the life we had
One day you'll realize