A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope; the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalance each other.
The basic idea of funicular operation is that two cars are always attached to each other by a cable, which runs through a pulley at the top of the slope. Counterbalancing of the two cars, with one going up and one going down, minimizes the energy needed to lift the car going up. Winching is normally done by an electric drive which turns the pulley. Sheave wheels guide the cable to and from the drive mechanism and the slope cars.
A few funiculars have been built using water tanks under the floor of each car which are filled or emptied until just sufficient imbalance is achieved to allow movement. The movement is then controlled by a brakeman.
Funiculars used in mines were sometimes unpowered gravity planes, also known as self-acting inclines or brake inclines. The weight of descending loaded wagons was used to pull the empty mine wagons.
John Anthony Frusciante i/fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ/; born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released ten albums under his own name, as well as two with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally as Ataxia. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and electronica. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques.
Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at eighteen years old, first appearing on the band's 1989 album, Mother's Milk. The group's follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was a breakthrough success. However, he was overwhelmed by the band's new popularity and quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a long period of drug addiction, during which he released his first solo recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and then Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the album Californication (1999). His album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made in 2001. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album explored different recording techniques and genres. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean and again parted ways with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. As of 2011, Frusciante is currently working on his eleventh solo album. Frusciante has produced and/or recorded with the Wu-Tang Clan, The Mars Volta, George Clinton and others. His most recent solo releases will be a 5 song EP entitled Letur-Lefr, due out in July 2012, and a full length album entitled PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, due out in late 2012.
Cairngorm Funicular Railway - Scotland.
Bajada en el Funicular Gelmer . El mas inclinado del mundo!
TuTiTu Funicular
Funicular - Maxwald
Paranapiacaba - Trecho da Linha Funicular até Grota Funda 22-09-2013
Ascensore Montegalletto Funicular Railway. "Unique" Underground Narrow Gauge Railway. Genoa Tourism.
FUNICULAR DE PARANAPIACABA 1988
AWESOME Incline funicular elevator @ Huntington Metro Station Huntington VA
John Frusciante - PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone [Bonus Track Version]
Funicular Railway Capri June 2011.
Funicular Tbilisi
Festungsbahn (Salzburg) - Salzburg Funicular (Austria)
funicular barcelona
BOGOTA, SUBIDA EN FUNICULAR AL CERRO DE MONSERRATE
Cairngorm Funicular Railway - Scotland.
Bajada en el Funicular Gelmer . El mas inclinado del mundo!
TuTiTu Funicular
Funicular - Maxwald
Paranapiacaba - Trecho da Linha Funicular até Grota Funda 22-09-2013
Ascensore Montegalletto Funicular Railway. "Unique" Underground Narrow Gauge Railway. Genoa Tourism.
FUNICULAR DE PARANAPIACABA 1988
AWESOME Incline funicular elevator @ Huntington Metro Station Huntington VA
John Frusciante - PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone [Bonus Track Version]
Funicular Railway Capri June 2011.
Funicular Tbilisi
Festungsbahn (Salzburg) - Salzburg Funicular (Austria)
funicular barcelona
BOGOTA, SUBIDA EN FUNICULAR AL CERRO DE MONSERRATE
Funicular de Paranapiacaba até Cubatão 14-09-2014
Quebec Funicular
Fløibanen Funicular - Bergen, Norway
antigo funicular de Paranapiacaba em funcionamento
El funicular de Artxanda en EUSKADI DIRECTO
Budapest Castle Hill Funicular Tram (Budavári Sikló) Cable Car - Budapest attractions - Hungary
Funicular de Bulnes
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Soundtrack - Picus Funicular Combat
Ferrovia com sistema funicular de Paranapiacaba em 1976
We are told it seems, from our first breath
That one day we'd cross, over the mountains
The land of gods, with the angels too
To spend eternity, in love and harmony
We work for nothing and the hours are so long
We work for rations and the place we call home
The morning trains carry us to our jobs
Murmurs of slavery within the mobs
Nothing else matters it is our precious fate
We are promised our own perfect place
On and on the pattern goes, never to end
Until the holy day when life should begin
The Promised Land, is what we toil for all our life
The Promised Land, is why today is misery
The Promised Land, is what we toil for all our life
The Promised Land, is why today is misery
We are told that it is heaven on earth
We are told you shall never need
We are told to do your work well
We are told forever you will see
The Promised Land, our god given right
We've circled the mountains, we've touched the sky
We've seen the ways on the other side
We've seen their oceans, and their deep blue seas
We'll reach their heaven or we will surely die
We are the soldiers of the Lost And Found
We are the warriors living underground
Every day we live, at our own expense
We make them richer than one should ever be
We sweat the hours and the days away
They count their billions in the land of greed
We are the soldiers of the Lost And Found
We are the warriors living underground
Look into your heart and seek out the truth
Don't believe the words that you learned from in school
Even if they tell you don't really know
Pass on the words of our gallant few
It will take a war that we will probably lose
Better die a man than a thousand mindless fools
We hide in the shadows and we are on the go
Listen for our signal, and carry it on through
We are the soldiers of the Lost And Found
We are the warriors living underground
We are, the martyrs, and the only one chance
We will, never surrender, to the last man we die
Maybe, we will never know, the freedom that we dream
We shall, forever search, or dying we will try
He stares, with eyes, that come from the bowels of hell
He sees, through you, part of his deadly spell
He smiles, he laughs, he checks his tools of death
He asks, "last words?" like it was a gruesome test
Fear the executioner
Damn the executioner
He moves, with grace, like an artist on showcase
He knows, his trade, there is no time to waste
He feels, no guilt, as another life he takes
He shows, no shame, he's a devil face to face
Fear the executioner
Damn the executioner
His blood, runs cold, like ice from the arctic north
His touch, it burns, with a very intense scorch
His mind, is closed, it might as well be dead
We say our goodbyes tearful as they may
We can't return, even from this day
To our final home we shall ever stay
So glorious, is all that they say
We board the train to the promised land
We've worked so hard, always on demand
To our rewards for our sacrifice
Blood, sweat, and tears has been our life
Take me home, to paradise
Where the seas move into light
Take me home to paradise
Where the days move into night
As sad as it seems, with families no more
We will now see, the old ones before
Surely they will be, younger in age
As we were told, from the master sage
Take me home to paradise
Take me home to paradise
On and on the train moves on and then we do arrive
The place is so barren cold nothing like it's told
An army of CCF wait by the doors
Then they march us one by one till there is no more
Take me home, take me home, take me home to paradise
From the first day of your life you are drugged
In the water or any liquid you might drink
We don't know when it started for sure
It controls the means to what you may think
Mastermind, to suppress the masses
Mastermind, it kills your drive
Mastermind, no one seems to know
Mastermind, until 65
Long ago, in time they discovered a way, they say
To keep us in, our place it seems forevermore and more
We never knew what the change was deep in our souls, so deep
All we knew was that we had no desire to fight, or change
They stole our minds
Nothing seems real
They took our memories
They destroyed our will
They killed our will
Mastermind, to suppress the masses
Mastermind, it kills your drive
Mastermind, no one seems to know
We read of freedom in the books from long ago
Justice prevailed then this is what we know
It may take a long time before our final stand
It may take a lifetime before they understand
Freedom, free us, take the shackles let us be united
Free us, let us walk the streets now undenied
We have been fooled for years the old ones told it so
They recalled yesterday from tales they had been told
They hide inside the caves deep within the faults
We must listen now to their straight wise thoughts
Freedom, free us, take the shackles let us be united
Free us, let us walk the streets now undenied
Please free us I am still a man
Please free us now you will understand
You count your dirty money each and every night
As we sweat in the fields our life just isn't right
All your wealth may buy things that you seek
Once it's over and we're strong you'll face defeat
Freedom, free us, take the shackles let us be united
Free us, let us walk the streets now undenied
Free us, remove the shackles!
The CCF is knocking at my door as we speak
They are looking for me as I take sleep
But I'm no fool as I move from place to place
They will not ever fine me, I left not a trace
Will they give me my life, will they admit the wrong
Will we ever live, will we ever belong
We are united in our common cause
We will not be turned back or deterred
Many have fallen for our final goal
I must go on, spreading out our word
Will they give me my life, will they admit the wrong
Will we ever live, will we ever belong
Fight! Till the death we must, until we break free
Fight! Till the death we must, it is agreed
Fight! Till the death we must, put trust in force
Fight! Till the death we must, it's now or never
I never knew what freedom cost
Fight! Till the death, Fight! Till the death
Until we break free, Fight! Till the death
All through life, we're taught it's the law
All through life, we're told it's because
To another land, we all must pass
We're taught it's heaven, a reward for our tasks
All the day, the honor will commence
Graduating, it was the event
We must move on, the force we can't deny
We are the victims of Directive 65
Even now we come, believing the big lie
We are the victims of Directive 65
Three score and five, marks the great age
They met at the stations, for the final stage
We suspect now, that the aged all will die
It's just the plan, our production must thrive
We must move on, the force we can't deny
We are the victims of Directive 65
Even now we come, believing the big lie
We are the victims of Directive 65
We are the victims of the lie
The victims of Directive 65
No, we can't deny
They march ever night and day
And they feel, so very proud
They do their job with no remorse
As their fathers once did as well
The Citizen Containment Force
They know not what they do
They are the law, it's what we're taught
As long as we can recall
It's an honor, to be part of the force
The gallant CCF, is given its due
The Citizen Containment Force
They know not what they do
Blindly following history
Not knowing the birth of misery
All shall serve two years to life
Do your job well and be released
No one seems to know the truth
Their world is only what they're told
You can't refuse you must abide it is required to conform
Resist and you will die execution awaits always near by
The Citizen Containment Force they know not what they do
My life is flying by so fast
It seems like just the other day
The choices I made
The questions I asked
Have they led me a stray
I know there's one thing for certain
I am the best at what I do
One million percent and no regrets
Is the only way I know
I am consumed by a force within my soul
A part of me since birth but still beyond my control
Each day that becomes the night
Could be the one the last my friend
It's things as these that sets it free
Overwhelming feeling
I have no defense
Finely crafted skills shall channel
This megaton beast of creation
One million percent and no regrets
Is the only way I know
I am consumed by a force within my soul
A part of me since birth but still beyond my control
The Only way I know
The Only way I know
I feel it
It's coming
The fire that won't stop burning
It takes me
Forsakes me
A dark secret I'm still learning
From where it comes I'll never know
And in its wake it leaves me scarred
A legacy of song and show
Upon the Earth I'll leave my mark
It's shown me one thing for certain
I am the best at what I do
One million percent and no regrets
Is the only way I know
I am consumed by a force within my soul
A part of me since birth I will never control
The only way I know
It's the only way I know
You chose to seal your fate
The day you showed your face
From the sky you took our pride
And tried to bring disgrace
The terror you think you are
Lives only in your head
You just don't know it yet but you're already dead
Cries
Of the Eagle
Eyes
Of vengeance on you now
Talons
Never miss their mark
Dive
In for the kill
Hiding in your underworld
A hell of sand and stone
Striking with a Godlike force
Your home becomes your tomb
Mountains fall and winds that burn
The earth begins to quake
The melody of your demise
The music that we make
Cries
Of the Eagle
Eyes
Of vengeance on you now
Talons
Never miss there mark
Dive
In for the kill
You're
Walking dead
You re
You're walking dead
You're
Walking dead
You're
You're walking dead
Forever now the world has changed
By demons in your mind
Instilled resolve determination
Eradicate your kind
You chose to seal your fate
The day you raised your head
Soulless lifeless bastard breed
Now you re walking dead
Cries
Of the Eagle
Eyes
Of vengeance on you now
Talons
Never miss their mark
Dive
In for the kill
Don't want to get to know you better
What do you want from me
I don't understand the signs you're givin'
'Cause you never let me see
You've got a strange pre-occupation
Keep 'em holdin' on
Wanna know who you really are
Not this thing that you've become
So tell me what it takes
Just to get through this facade
'Cause your words have left me broken
And the answers become scars
When I think I've had all that I can take
You just keep me holdin' on
Tell me how to get through to you
Would it take an act of God
Shackled to misery
There's no faith left for you
Back to the way it was before
That first pain that ya knew
Damned by the way you live
You're only telling lies
Still some way underneath it all
I can feel through the disguise
So tell me what it takes
To get through this facade
'Cause your words have left me frozen
And the answer s still unthawed
When I think I've had all that I can take
You just keep me holdin on
Tell me how to get through to you
Would it take an act of God
've begun to believe there's just no breaking through
Wanna tear down the walls but there's nothin' I can do
I don't want to get to know you better
No I don't want anything
You're so lost in the fantasy you're livin'
That you're never gonna see
I'm so done trying to understand the reasons
For feeling so alone
I don't care who you really are
I know what we've become
There's an ending to this story
'Cause I know now who you are
And I've wasted many years
Trying to figure out your farce
This time I've had all that I can take
I'm better off alone
If you think I'll play your game again
Moving pictures our reality
Wondering what it's all for
People talking, yet nobody sees
Beyond all that they think they know
Guilty by your insanity
Always condemning
First to cast the stone
In the face of death
We will stand alone
No one to judge
No one to say
What you should have done
In the face of death
This will all be gone
Live your own way
Soon you will be
In the face of death
Are we really ever good enough
All these things we try to be
Constant struggles for some peace of mind
Life through unfounded dignity
It's just a game you'll never win
'Cause in the end
We're all the same you know
In the face of death
We will stand alone
No one to judge
No one to say
What you should have done
In the face of death
This will all be gone
Live your own way
Soon you will be
In the face of death
Look inside and let it go
Embrace individuality
The differences between us justifying hate
Leaving us with only misery
There's no pride in hypocracy
Live and let live
You'll know the answer soon
In the face of death
We will stand alone
No one to judge
No one to say
What you should have done
In the face of death
This will all be gone
Live your own way
Soon you will be
In the face of death
Strong sleek shiny and black
Just two beats shy of a heart attack
Feel it calling feel it drawing me in
Don't try to resist 'cause I'll never win
Take the seat turn the key give it life
Buckle down for this white knuckle ride
Feel its power I must set it free
More damn horses than a cavalry
Light the streets ablaze
They'll never touch me
Lay them all to waste
They'll never catch me in my
Midnight Hellfire
Midnight Hellfire
Wide open hear this monster roar
I give it hell but it's hungry for more
Red lines they don t mean a thing
Behind the wheel of this demon machine
The lights the leather the smell of the fuel
Engine raging drunken with attitude
On the edge of never returning
Still this baby keeps on burning
Light the streets ablaze
They'll never touch me
Lay them all to waste
They'll never catch me in my
Midnight Hellfire
Midnight Hellfire
Winding down time to take her back in
I may be stopping but it's sure not the end
It won't be long till the next time we meet
Bringing doom showing others defeat
Strong sleek shiny and black
Just two beats shy of a heart attack
I feel it calling feel it drawing me in
Set the night on fire again
Light the streets ablaze
They'll never touch me
Lay them all to waste
They'll never catch me in my
Midnight Hellfire
Midnight Hellfire
How many lovers in lifetimes've gone like clothing that we wear
Long after it's worn out with love undying love undying love
Life had no meaning till I gave you mine
Now the red rose and green briar have entwined
With love undying love undying love
[ ac.guitar - steel ]
The light in the window is keeping us warm
And inside my heart is a raging storm of love
Burdened by the weight
I withstand all that crowd my space
Lost adrift a sea of second rate
An endless maze
Time will tell us
Who will be there standing tall
An epic figure
Unto which the masses all shall crawl
I'll carry on
Time to take up arms and run you through
My heart beats strong
Passion guides me through all that I do
One by one you'll fall
I'm the fear that clouds your eyes
Days are running low
Time to say your last goodbyes
The sun will never shine
Upon your twisted fantasy
Face to face I'll take you
Lay to rest your misery
I'll carry on
Time to take up arms and run you through
My heart beats strong
Passion guides me through
There's nothing you can change
No way to forgive the pain
A new day brings
The promise and a hope again
The blood that has been shed
Feeds the starving barren land
Giving future lives a chance to survive
In a world free from all that you have been
I'll carry on
Time to take up arms and run you through
My heart beats strong
Hell now
Living under animosity
Lay down
Opening the sacrifice to see
No more
You think you've got my number
Disgraced
As I kill the day again
You fail to see I've given up
It's just gone I've had enough
No confusion in my mind
Now I've got to draw the line
You'll see
'Cause I've done my time
Trapped in your prison cell
And this life with you
Has become my living hell
Restrained
Seeming in a false reality
Conveyed
Everything that you could never see
So wrong
Justification's coming
Long gone
Reduced to yourself again
You bled the life right out of me
Nothing left for you to bleed
This transfusion's running dry
And it's time for this to die today
'Cause I've done my time
Trapped in your prison cell
And this life with you
Has become my living hell
My living hell
It's become a living hell
Can't take it back it's too late
You know the damage done
So time for you to go now
I don't care anymore
You lied
When you said that you were never wrong
Apologies
What you never did for all you've done
Oh no
That's it too late it's over
Eat this
Hope you will regret all of your
Thoughtless ways and empty words
So obscene it seems absurd
How you tried to justify
All the awful things you did to me
'Cause I've done my time
Trapped in your prison cell
And this life with you
You have no clue what you've done
You're thinking only of one
The time has finally come
And now your blood will run
No way to change it now
I'm here to cut you down
No one will hear you cry
As you begin to die
Your life all over my hands
It's time you understand
You nailed the coffin tight
Everytime you chose to fight
Your mind's a waste of thought
Corrupt in all you've taught
Brought pain to other's lives
And now the turn of tide
Face up show your hand
Never to deal again
This is the final run
Your world will come undone
I spill your blackened soul
Into the pit of hell
The place where you belong
At last you've found your home
Everytime you open your mouth
You show what you're about
A worthless shell of pain
Now victim to your game
Every time you draw a breath
A closer step to death
Your end begins today
No matter if you pray
I'll watch you writhe and plead
Growing weaker as you bleed
And as you're losing sight
You'll see what wasn't right
Too bad that it's too late
The irony of fate
There is no second chance
When death begins to dance
I spill your blackened soul
Into the pit of hell
The place where you belong
At last you've found your home
No way to change it now
I'm here to cut you down
No one will hear you cry
as you begin to die
I spill your blackened soul
Into the pit of hell
The place where you belong
Late at night you call on a phone
We talk about the day, when you found out he was cheating
You tell me that it hurts to the bone
To trust someone that way,
To find that he was decieving,
And I know I've always just been your friend,
But if you look my way I'll make sure you'll never hurt again
*Chorus*
Do you know I exist, just to promise you this,
Endlessy to be true to you
And if you answer my prayer
I'd cross my heart and I'd swear
Endlessly to be true to you
And if you'd only see,
How beautiful you and I would be... endlessly
Ooh oh yeah
I remember when you fell in love,
I could not believe... that it was not with me
I sent a secret prayer up above,
And put my heart away,
So that you could be free,
And I know right now you're broken in two,
But did you know that my heart's been broken since the day I met you
*Chorus*
Do you know I exist, just to promise you this,
Endlessy to be true to you
And if you answer my prayer
I'd cross my heart and I'd swear
Endlessly to be true to you
And in my sweetest dream,
You'd learn to put your faith in me... endlessly
Sometimes the thing you need
Is the one thing you can't see
If you put your faith in me...
How beautilful you and I would be
*Chorus*
Do you know I exist, just to promise you this,
Endlessy to be true to you
And if you answer my prayer
I'd cross my heart and I'd swear
Endlessly to be true to you
And if you'd only see,