Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base metals into the noble metals gold or silver, as well as an elixir of life conferring youth and immortality. Western alchemy is recognized as a protoscience that contributed to the development of modern chemistry and medicine. Alchemists developed a framework of theory, terminology, experimental process and basic laboratory techniques that is still recognizable today. But alchemy differs from modern science in the inclusion of Hermetic principles and practices related to mythology, religion, and spirituality.
The defining goals of alchemy are often given as the transmutation of common metals into gold (known as chrysopoeia), the creation of a panacea, and the discovery of a universal solvent. However, this only highlights certain aspects of alchemy. Alchemists have historically rewritten, and evolved the explanation of their art, making a singular definition difficult. H.J. Sheppard gives the following as a comprehensive summary:
Plot
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight begun so many years ago.
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If You Don't Get It This Time, He'll Have To Drill It Into Your Head!
We Tried To Warn You. If You Don't Get It This Time We're Going To Have To Drill It Into Your Head!
The tall man is back for the final kill.
The tall man is back to prove once again "it's never over"...
Terrifying. Relentless. Unstoppable.
He's back... and this time he won't take no for an answer!
Reggie: Dominate me, baby!
Reg: Jody, what the hell are you doing here? You're dead.::Jody: So what else is new?
Reggie: Ever try vanilla?
Tim: Shit! What the hell are those?
Reggie: Cryogenics. All the mortuaries are into it now. These guys figure they'll wake up in a couple of hundred years with new bodies.
Rocky: Some folks never know when to give it up.
Reggie: [laughs] Now, look who's talkin.
The Tall Man: It's time now, boy.
Reggie: Sure fucked up my hallway.
Tim: You're in trouble. You're in trouble.
Plot
Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in his past were just in his imagination. But once he's free, he contacts Redge and they team up to hunt down and eliminate the "Tall Man", who plunders the graveyards and abducts the sleeping with help of his terrible gnomes. A beautiful strange girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams. He assumes she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can do her any harm?
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Now, the horrifying truth is about to be revealed...and all it took was a little digging.
This summer, have a ball.
The Ball Is Back!
For ten years the secret of Perigord Cemetery has remained a mystery. Now the ultimate evil is about to be revealed.
Terrifying - Relentless - Unstoppable
After ten years... the ball is back!
The Tall Man: You think that when you die, you go to Heaven. You come to us!
[Reggie revs up his chainsaw, about to take on one of the Tall Man's henchmen]::Reggie: Come on, you mutha!
[the Tall Man is planning to inject Liz with embalming fluid, which Reggie has spiked with acid]::Mike: Hey!::[the Tall Man glances up]::Mike: Suck on this!::[Mike releases a captured silver sphere, which flies directly to the Tall Man's head and inserts a drill into the front of his skull. A yellowish fluid flies from the back of the sphere, but after it stops, the Tall Man rips the sphere from his head & crushes it like a beer can]
[Mike & Liz are in the back of a hearse after escaping the mortuary & the Tall Man. Reggie has just been attacked by Alchemy in the hearse's front & thrown out of the car]::Mike: One minute... we're gonna wake up. This is only a dream.::Liz: That's right... it's only a dream! [the barrier to the hearse front suddenly slides down. The Tall Man is sitting at the wheel and glaring back at them]::The Tall Man: No! It's not!::[the back window breaks, and Mike & Liz are pulled out by the Tall Man's dwarf zombies]
Reggie: Come on. Lets go kick some ass.
As my demon shell subsides
Particles of Light previously confined by night
Escort me to the other side
Where warriors of Light unite
Cleansed from this disease called life
We dive in fire
Where our dreamworlds in wisphood arise
Invade, illuminate
Transcendental, we part with demise
Impurities purged from existence
We shine from beyond
Our virtue warms your soul
The alchemy of our presence profound
As their blackened hell abides
Gleams of life provide shelter for those maimed by night
Guide them to the other side
Unspill the martyrs' wine
Crippled souls, inhale our Light!
We dance, together we feast
And turn all our dreams into gold
We chant, as spirits fulfilled,
What's the secret of the unity ?
Is this magic or some alchemy ?
Who holds the fire that burns inside our being ?
It could be you or it could be fears.
Balance is not easy to keep :
One world, one movement could ruin it all.
If you don't get yourself a grip,
Then you will fall in a hole !
Don't you know that you're a part of me
Don't you know that I can set you free ?
Even though it's not easy to see,
We have the same dreams.
Your power and mine will be melting into one,
Together as one we will reach a, new horizon.
Try to understand,
And we'll shape diamonds from the sands.
Try to understand,
And we'll build a world in a no man's land.
Try to realize, I see trough your eyes,
And if you were blind I would read your mind.
Reach the melting point, it's time to make the joint
Change your heart so cold,
From stone to gold.
Don't you know that you're part of me ?
Don't you know that you can set me free ?
Maybe it was just our destiny,
To share the same dream.
Your power and mine will be melting into one,
Together as one we will reach a new horizon.
We're not really the same but we're playing the same game
The perfect reunion to reach a new horizon...
We're like the wind, th fire, the water, the stone
Different elements fusing in one !
We unleash a power that create a sun !
And we will spread our rays.
Been living under frozen sky,
but we've all got ways that we get by.
You changed your name,
the one you had it didn't fit right.
And I know you'd dream of something else
if you could sleep nights.
I know, so tonight I'll stay here with you.
There's nothing else I'd rather do.
We'll look for reasons for why we're here,
We'll blame the season for this fear.
I'll say everything'll work out
like I know what I'm talking about.
But all this snow keeps piling up,
we dig it's never deep enough.
Just need a change in atmosphere.
It's like winter's earlier each year.
Sidewalks across this town
are icing up, we're sliding down.
Look for a place to drown, find a bar a block a way.
You're just a kid bruising up.
If I could tell you
how many times you gotta fall
before you break through
I would, so tonight I'll stay here with you.
There's nothing else I'd rather do.
We'll look for reasons for why we're here,
We'll blame the season for this fear.
I'll say everything'll work out
like I know what I'm talking about.
But all this snow keeps piling up,
we dig it's never deep enough.
Cold drinks and snow falls, I'll pick up your phone calls.
I get too wrapped up in my own shit.
We order one more round and sit.
And I know when you're living under sheets of snow
it can look like the worlds gone black
but remember that the sun comes back.
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of salvation,
And salvation comes in love, at least that's what they
I don't know if it was love or just imagination
But the siren of my dreams was made like me of clay
Now I look outside my window at the people covered
pavements
Shores to the river of the traffic running through
and the gray scale of sky says there's rain in my
future
and the only blue that I can see is what I feel for you
We say that we'll be friends when we know we never will
Once we were as one, now we lie alone
Alchemy once blended base metals into golden
Now what once was gold is transmuted into stone
Into lead and stone
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of a sunrise
The sunrise that takes over and the moon that fades
away
daylight when it happens obscures the dream of darkness
and the river shifts and shivers in the tawdry light of
I know I was a fool to take it all for granted
Never once imagioned that I'd feel the way I do
And I know the past is gone and I wish I could forget
but the begger never rides his horse,
my dreams are still of you
(chorus)
I am free to make my choices, I will choose my own
direction
I will walk along the pathway that others choose for me
I will make my own decisions with sufficient
introspection
Now I introspect away until there's nothing left to see
I can say that we'll be friends like it's really what I
wanted
Not to hold you in my arms, to lie once more with you
But as alchemists once tried to change base metals into
golden
It never worked for them back then,
why should it now come true?
[Verse 1]
October turned the leaves to copper & gold
Set my world on fire left me in the cold
If I were a master of alchemy
[Pre-Chorus]
I'd change everything
I'd make all the broken things beautiful
Especially the way we left it
[Chorus]
If only we could go back
Maybe we could change it
Fix a single mistake
Maybe that would save it
Turn this ship around
It's headed for the falls
But it's all been said and done
Said and done
[Verse 2]
Take a telescope and focus on the stars
A million light years and fading
That's how far you are
If I had invented a time machine
[Pre-Chorus]
I'd change everything
I'd make all the broken things beautiful
Especially the way we left it
[Chorus]
If only we could go back
Maybe we could change it
Fix a single mistake
Maybe that would save it
Turn this ship around
It's headed for the falls
But it's all been said and done
Said and done (3X)
[Bridge]
There's a time for one last hope
And there's a time for letting go
[Chorus]
If only we could go back
Baby we could change it
Fix a single mistake
Maybe that would save it
Turn this ship around
It's headed for the falls
But it's all been said and done
[Chorus 2]
I know we can't go back
Baby we can't change it
Every single mistake
They were all worth making
I'd do it all again
For the high before the fall
When it's all
[Blueprint]
I spit with an immense amount of power
Skull flame showers, cowards, cower, underneath our
Storm clouds that indicate the acid rain hours
Now or, never, ever, ending on a bad note
Ripping a crab's throat for spitting a bad quote
(Blueprint what's your approach?)
I smash black folk and white folk alike for jokes with mics
And make a Kodak moment out of the most boring open mic
I'll make a sad fan appreciate rap again
Fuck around and forget just how wack it's been
I'm a bad man (Why's that?)
I catch bullets in my molars, body slam boas
And take flight with the weight of the world on my shoulders
And play David Blaine on any chains that hold us
What started out as food for thought, turned into thoughts to turn they
crews into food in hopes to satisfy my
Insatiable appetite to dine on lifeforms
Small planets and satellites
You solar system is my condiment
I'm bombin' comets, and don't sweat the small things and nonsense
Every dog has his day and even more so in rhyming
So I decided that I'd never play the fire hydren
Or grab the mic sounding lazy, worn down and tired
Cats don't really fall off they just get uninspired
But before you, get a reason to ever diss us
I'll drop a ill LP and disappear like Bobby Fischer
But this is, the building block of all that is
And what it is, is Alchemy
[Aesop Rock] (Chorus)
Alchemy, basic with a touch of wild wonder
Alchemy, we made this to take your style under
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
This is Alchemy, iron b-boy and all his glory
Alchemy, hold it from the colder sob story
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
[Aesop Rock]
Ah, dirty, dirty destiny
Birded murders with a burn gurshin a peasantry
Nervous flux flirtin' with hurley burly chemistry
Graffiti burner urchin merchant with a certain urge jerkin' served and centerpiece
My zig-zag bully balance gallops with a fiery outline
Ban and bomb y'all pastel poets belly up (I'll tell you what)
Born stylin' 4 dimensions count em'
3 to take to ya muck one to build a world you'll never touch
And I'm a pilot, delerium, serum, poison arrangement
?Aroused? when I feel like storming suck the raw enslavement
With a grin-style stinger creeping out the basement
Impatient wild ritualistic visions of sacrificial bitch cadence
For all my iron giant soldiers with a metal fist upshielding mother nature
from her fatal wrist cuts story I'll respect you
(So why they blaming you for the cats that sleep while the earth turns?)
Yeah I had em' up all night praying I'd re-release Music For Earthworms
Greed even are lease screaming with milestone like ring ring ring I just
caught the scream phoenix click dial tone
Welcome to a clouds swell blew to hallucination war pillar
Carnivore, carnival, karma slasher
I dash like a jack rabbit that orbits revelation with a single pounce
To Edward Scissorhands your string of doubts (Yo turn it out)
This is that mighty case of home field advantage to bend your blizzard With
a crocodile smile and five robot knuckles to your kisser
(Chorus)
This is Alchemy, basic with a touch of wild wonder
Alchemy, we made this to take your style under
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
This is Alchemy, iron b-boy and all his glory
Alchemy, hold it from the colder sob story
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
mugen ni ikitai mugen ni ikiraretara subete kanau
demo ironna mono ga atashi o oikondeku
ikiru nokori jikan yume no zahyou yukue
zenbu daiji na mono na no ni
ii sa kokora de chotto amai mono tabeteiko
sou iu shikouteishi bakari tokui ni natta
aruitekita michi furikaeru to
iya na koto bakkari demo uunzari da yo
fureru mono o kagayakashiteyuku
sonna michi o ikitekitakatta yo
mushou ni ikitai asette bakari no hibi subete kiesou
demo sabotte mo miru datte tsukarechau ja nai sonna mujun shikou
atashi atama dokka shiranai uchiutta mitai da
ikka kokora de chotto byouin e ittokou
zutto okiterareru kusuri wa oitemasen ka?
bosaa to tsuttatteru dake de mou
kaseki ni natteshimaisou na nda yo
dare kara mo wasurerareta you na
kusunda sonzai ni natteshimau yo
ii sa kokora de chotto konjou o miseteyaru
jibun de hoo tataite sonzai no shoumei e
aruitekita michi furikaeranai
iya na koto bakkari demo mae e susume
fureru mono o kagayakashiteyuku
sonna sonzai ni nattemiseru yo
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of salvation,
And salvation comes in love, at least that's what they say
I don't know if it was love or just imagination
But the siren of my dreams was made like me of clay
Now I look outside my window at the people covered pavements
Shores to the river of the traffic running through
and the gray scale of sky says there's rain in my future
and the only blue that I can see is what I feel for you
We say that we'll be friends when we know we never will be
Once we were as one, now we lie alone
Alchemy once blended base metals into golden
Now what once was gold is transmuted into stone
Into lead and stone
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of a sunrise
The sunrise that takes over and the moon that fades away
daylight when it happens obscures the dream of darkness
and the river shifts and shivers in the tawdry light of day
I know I was a fool to take it all for granted
Never once imagioned that I'd feel the way I do
And I know the past is gone and I wish I could forget it
but the begger never rides his horse,
my dreams are still of you
(chorus)
I am free to make my choices, I will choose my own direction
I will walk along the pathway that others choose for me
I will make my own decisions with sufficient introspection
Now I introspect away until there's nothing left to see
I can say that we'll be friends like it's really what I wanted
Not to hold you in my arms, to lie once more with you
But as alchemists once tried to change base metals into golden
It never worked for them back then,
why should it now come true?
(chorus)
Che che me
Che che me
We're movin
Movin in a circle
But from your spirit I can't hide
You're into me
But I'm ok
I didn't I didn't I didn't want this
Alchemy
Don't go there
Don't go there on your own
Fetish objects
Buried bones
Six black Candles
On the table
I didn't I didn't I didn't want this
Alchemy
You know something
I don't want to know
But I'm in your footsteps
and I really wanty to go, oh
I didn't I didn't I didn't want this
Alchemy
Che che me
Che che me
Che che me
I've heen watching a river.
I've seen it dressed in a breeze.
And I wanted to get closer.
I find I'm sinking to my knees.
And I'm sinking in mysteries that I can not quite unfold.
I'm talking about Alchemy and all those things that explode.
I was a young boy when I was thrown in the world.
My hands were made out of silver.
You see they're looking for gold and to find a solution of value intrinsically.
They're just playing with dreams that they call Alchemy.
Un-huh.
So tell me. Whisper everything and I'll put it all to good use.
Cause when you took my hand to grab me away,
that's when l held it all out to you.
And I'm watching everything that you do.
So don't be impatient.
Turning to Alchemy.
Baby don't turn to Alchemy.
Brother, don't turn to Alchemy.
ONE DAY
We see the true
DARK DAYS
Hover over us
ONE DAY...ONE DAY
who i am... Who are you?
What's the true meaning of life?
Stupid people playing god
In this world only money prevail
Lifes came, lifes go
we still a plague whithout soul
Digging your own grave
Cover with bulshits and desgraces
ONE DAY
We see the true
DARK DAYS
Hover over us
who am i? Who are you?
What's the true meaning of life?
Stupid people playing god
In this world only money prevail
Lifes came, lifes go
we still a plague whithout soul
Digging your own grave
Cover with bulshits and desgraces
ONE DAY
All along
Been picking up the pieces that I've
Broken
Now I stay asleep because
It's all wearing me out
A shift so small
And everything is crumbling
My heart
Petrified in front of me
It's all wearing me out
So help me
I don't know if I'm a man or a machine
Come on and help me
Because I just feel anything
I'm always breaking
I'm not the man I wanted to be
Time won't wait
My past is catching up with me
Realized
With sweet and simple alchemy
No more surprises
Always the same excuse
What more could I lose
Always the same excuse
Pushing the pulp right on through
Always the same excuse
It's not my place to choose
Featuring: Above & Beyond, Johnston
All these words you speak to me are from a foreign land
You're telling me that birds don't fly
How can it be that you love her
You don't have to raise your voice, I still don't understand
There's me and you, and you and me
So how can it be that you love her?
It was alchemy to sing to me your freedom song
To make love where there was none
Alchemy, now it's all gone
She is the golden one
So what are you saying, we've got to dismantle it all
Rip off the paper, smash up the walls, how can it be that you love her?
Take all of the things we so carefully made
Take all of the life that you've betrayed
How can it be that you love her
It was alchemy to sing to me your freedom song
To make love where there was none
Alchemy, now it's all gone
Crusade after crusade
Defending the faith and the holy light
I come to your aid
Fear not my fair maiden, fear not
I'm set to attack
No demons or dragons
will hold me back
There's strength in my sword
Fall into my arms and I'll take you back
When the cold wind starts to blow
Into battle I shall go
Any tower I will climb
I can fight you folded blind
I would die for my king and my land
But I must die
with my sword in my hand
Raise my cup in honour of the lord
Gives the power I need
to wield my sword
So mush stronger than you
No power, no God cannot heed you
You're my sacrifice
You know in the end
you must pay the price
You are my Prey
I am the slayer, the predator
You'll never grow old
No armour or sword will save your soul
Clash of lance, clash of shield
In the end you must yield
You're a ghost inside my head
I will see you good and dead
I would die for my king and my land
But I must die
with my sword in my hand
Raise my cup in honour of the lord
Gives the power I need
to wield my sword
Hanging, hanging by one arm
Been this way for hours
Starting to fantasize scenarios using both hands
Building, building my belief
Snapping the hypnotists fingers
Donning a work shirt and fashioning glass from the sand
I am north, I am north
Read the report
Once again I am yours
More than I can afford
Alchemy works its way
Begging, begging for mercy
Working magic,
Pretend to bring in the end with disappointment
So steal me
From regular arms and
steal me
Into the dark and
steal me
From regular arms and
steal me
I am north, I am north
Read the report
Once again I am yours
More than I can afford
Written by leah andreone
Oh God we're here
And goodbye chokes on my tears
While your exit seems so effortless
So mean, you don't fool me
When the morning wakes you'll grab for me
But the plane took me away
Are you scared of what you'll see
Do they mean more than me
Trying to try
Trying to give you all your lines
Trying to walk away without a move
Trying to catch your eyes
So they fall down
Out of reach out of sight
Are you scared of what you'll see
Are you scared of me
Immersed in love's encounter
The heavens merge with hell
My arms release my body
Your arms hold what I held
Finally I know you'll take me
Finally I know you fell
I climb into your body
Climb into my own cell
Don't turn the lights on
Don't turn the lights on
What's on your mind tonight
Don't think too much you'll go blind
Make it easy find a beast in me
Now I'm not your type
And I'll fly solo into my loner love
While you walk and play it safe
Aren't you scared I'll leave
Do they mean more than me