A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period of time equal to one thousand years. It derives from the Latin mille, thousand, and annus, year. It is often, but not necessarily, related to a particular dating system.
Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of one thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year "1"), or in later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Frequently in the latter case (and sometimes also in the former) it may have religious or theological implications (see millenarianism). Sometimes in use, such an interval called a "millennium" might be interpreted less precisely, i.e., not always being exactly 1000 years long. It could be e.g. 1050, 1500 etc. .
The original method of counting years was ordinal[citation needed], whether 1st year A.D. or regnal 10th year of King Henry VIII. This ordinal numbering is still present in the names of the millennia and centuries, for example 1st Millennium or the 20th century, and sometimes in the names of decades, e.g. 1st decade of the 21st century.
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Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album of all-time in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century.
Williams has sold over 70 million records worldwide, which ranks him among the best-selling music artists worldwide. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom and the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. He has also been honoured with seventeen BRIT Awards—more than any other artist—and seven ECHO Awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted as the "Greatest Artist of the 1990s."
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
Millennium
Some say that we are players
some say that we are pawns
but we've been making money since the day that we were born
Got to slow down,
cause we'll low down.
Round and round in circles
live a life of solitude
'till we find ourselves a partner someone to relate to
Then we slow down,
before we fall down.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Live for liposuction
detax for your 'rents
overdose for Christmas and give it up for Lent
My friends are all so cynical refuse to keep the faith
We all enjoy the madness 'cause we know we're gonna fade away.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Millennium
Millennium
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
(Sometimes you know)
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
We've got stars directing our fate (Millennium)
and we're praying it's not too late(Millennium)
'cause we know we're falling from grace(Millennium)
(And we won't stop)
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium (fades)
I was born to see two thousand years
Of man's effect upon the planet
Extinction seems to be a plausible risk
Whatever happens well i'm part of this
My life i've been waiting for this moment
All my life i've been waiting for this moment to come
Taste the salt of my tears
Take the wealth of my years
Singing in the millenium with you
Resolutions for show
Old ways don't seem to know
Singing in the millenium with you
Fire burn all our uncertainties
Water wash away impurities
Contradictions and predictions abound
Yes i believe we can turn it around
My life i´ve been waiting for this moment
All my life i´ve been waiting for this moment, to come
Taste the salt of my tears
Take the wealth of my years
Singing in the millennium with you
Resolutions for show
Old ways don't seem to know
Singing in the millenium with you
My life I´ve been waiting for this moment
My life I´ve been waiting for this moment
My life i´ve been waiting for this moment
All my life i´ve been waiting for this moment, to come
Taste the salt of my tears
Take the wealth of my years
Singing in the millenium with you
Resolutions for show
Old ways don't seem to know
Singing in the millenium with you
Taste the salt of my tears
Take the wealth of my years
Singing in the millenium with you
Resolutions for show
Old ways don't seem to know
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
Millennium
Some say that we are players
some say that we are pawns
but we've been making money since the day that we were born
Got to slow down,
cause we'll low down.
Round and round in circles
live a life of solitude
'till we find ourselves a partner someone to relate to
Then we slow down,
before we fall down.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Live for liposuction
detax for your 'rents
overdose for Christmas and give it up for Lent
My friends are all so cynical refuse to keep the faith
We all enjoy the madness 'cause we know we're gonna fade away.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Millennium
Millennium
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
(Sometimes you know)
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
We've got stars directing our fate (Millennium)
and we're praying it's not too late(Millennium)
'cause we know we're falling from grace(Millennium)
(And we won't stop)
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium (fades)
Torture in the minds of millions
Is breeding the plains of the earth
Trapped in the life of depravity
Creating your own scourge
Morals cast since your day of birth
Trained to forever follow these ways
A call to those from a different path
Exceed all bounds that surround you now
Realms of madness can never end
Deviant cycle of dreadful cries
Wounds way too deep to mend
Taking passage through the trials of fire
This machine engulfs your inferior life
Bringing forth the throes of death
Awaken in darkness to a million screams
They'll fucking rip your mind to shreds
Evaporation of these chains
To free us from your religious gains
The seize of change
All of life
Is blasting through the ages of our earthly genocide!
Times illusion
To break the trends of logic
Inherent traits
Can't force the end of change
This boiling knowledge falls into the never
Faceless human we must remains
Realms of madness can never end
Deviant cycle of dreadful cries
Wounds way too deep to mend
Taking passage through the trials of fire
This machine engulfs your inferior life
Bringing forth the throes of death
Awaken in darkness to a million screams
They'll fucking rip your mind to shreds
Evaporation of these chains
To free us from your religious gains
The seize of change
All of life
Is blasting through the ages of our earthly genocide!
Blinded society
Despair runs across their life
Spiritual warfare
Hate runs across mankind
Eye for eye Look their faces and cry
Cry for cry
Dying in this decadent land
Blinded peace
Desire and dreams are subdued
Sarcastic minds
Taking us to sadistic war
Lie for lie
Mankind in the abyss
Do or die
Rotten culture we have crowned
Look the world
Black shadows
Around anywhere
We cry in pain
We’re losing the calm
People escaping, trusting religion
People lie to win
People lie forevermore
Human kind heading towards the end
False prophets
Live
I look into the black horizon
the more i see the more i know
I try to justify the wars won
but that won't satisfy my soul
I hold the future in my hand
but I could easily destroy
I see the footprints in the sand
they seem to vanish in the void
can I walk away
can I choose to stay
feel I'm getting near
voices that I hear
sail away, follow the sacred heart
chase the sun, one with the moon and stars
sail away, You'll find the promised land
in your hand, there is a New Millennium
I wish wouldn't have to worry
about the life that lies ahead
but when the present turns tomorrow
I shall remember what they said
feel I'm getting near
voices that I hear
sail away, follow the sacred heart
chase the sun, one with the moon and stars
sail away, you'll find the promised land
Yes I'm sure I've got it all
I step from behind the wall;
I leave the pride of night
Now this is the world outside:
Memories can't hide away
And promises will also stay.
Half the man I have been and
Younger, who has it seen ?
Chorus:
And there she is again
Holding my heart in her hand.
And all I can do is to run,
But I can't go on
When neither my love nor one
Thousand years could ever end,
And whether one changes or one
Thousand years will never end.
I carved my very shades in stone
And emptiness, one spark alone
There is no rest in shadowplay
The dying ones can fly away.
One life calls me back again:
To sing, to dance, the power of man.
Millennium's lost, out of view
The arc of time will close without you.
Chorus
One life given, one life lost
One ring's gift failed in the frost,
My heart's beating, for ever bound.
Once fate leavin' was never found
Anyone's forgiven, I have paid my due
I waited thousand years for you.
Chorus
One time you means ever true
A thousand years into the blue...
T: Dorian
M: Kryshan
©Vox Humana 1998.
Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
The more I live, more clear it's each day
We've got to change our ways
There is no going back anymore
Eons rumble through space
We must find new ways to live
I know there's so much more to give
Millennium
Where do we go?
Millennium
Time will show
Forever more
The light will be guiding our journey
Millennium
Show us the way
Millennium
Into a new day
Forever more
Give us a chance to change
Ooh!
People may come and people may go
The dance of time is eternal
What is the meaning of this cosmic play?
Will we see another day?
We must find new ways to live
I know there's so much more to give
Millennium
Where do we go?
Millennium
Time will show
Forever more
The light will be guiding our journey
Millennium
Show us the way
Millennium
Into a new day
Forever more
Give us a chance to change
Ooh!
Millennium
Where do we go?
Millennium
Time will show
Forever more
The light will be guiding our journey
Millennium
Show us the way
Millennium
Into a new day
Forever more
Give us a chance to change
Everybody's talking 'bout a new beginning
A new place to drink in, a fast new boyfriend
A new science for a brand new century
A message to the future electronic holiday
Let the clock roll
So let the clock (the world is outside)
Roll (stars in the sky)
The clock hits midnight
Devil's hitting midnight
We hit midnight
New Year everything's gone quiet
Everybody's talking about a new space station
Your teeth falling out in the radiation
All your insurance and all your air miles
In gigantic computer millennium violence
Let the clock roll
So let the clock (the word is out now)
Roll (the sky's falling down)
The clock hits midnight
Devil's hitting midnight
We hit midnight
We hit midnight
New Year everything's gone quiet
Everybody suddenly thinks it's underground
To get into bands that split up in the 60's
Burn up the software learn that guitar
And get on the radio in America - yeah!
The clock hits midnight
Devil's hitting midnight
We hit midnight
New year everything's gone quiet
Clock hits midnight
Devil's hitting midnight
Rip it up midnight
Millennium 1977 gebor'n im Kino läuft der 1. Rocky der Kölner SC wird deutscher
Meister im Eishockey '79 die Sowjets überfall'n Afghanistan und Jody Scheckter
wird Ferrari zum Sieg fahr'n 1980 Militärputsch in Liberia viele Menschen
sterben beim Volksaufstand in Südkorea und '82 kommt E.T. auf die Leinwand.
die Kassen klingeln von L.A. bis ins Rheinland '84 entdeckt man das HIV und die
Discovery ist unterwegs in den Weltraum die NDW rockt die Clubs immer mehr und
die Jahrtausendwende rückt 'n bißchen näher
der Countdown läuft, Baby halt dich fest wenn die ganze Menschheit das
Jahrtausend verläßt Armaggedon oder Weltfrieden das Jahr 2000 bring mich nach
Hause, bring mich nach Hause
1985 Life Aid Concert für Afrika und Boris Becker wird mit 17 zum Tennisstar '86
explodiert die Challanger ein Jahr später feuert Köln Toni Schuhmacher '88 gib's
'n Atommüll Skandal und Steffi Graf schafft den Grandslam zum 1. und zum letzten
mal Bremen wird Meister die Kids spielen Computer noch ohne Ronaldo, Rivaldo,
Preetz oder Batistuta '89 Caucescau hingerichtet.
DDR öffnet Grenzen Bild berichtet Greg Le Mond gewinnt die Tour de France nur
sehr schwer und die Jahrtausendwende rückt 'n bißchen näher
1990 vereinigt sich Deutschland wieder und das Team von Kaiser Franz wird in Rom
WM-Sieger '91 Saddam verliert den Golfkrieg und Michael Stich holt in Wimbledon
den Sieg 1995 kommt O.J. Simpson wieder frei und zwei Jahre später stirbt Lady
Di die Männerwelt freut sich über Natascha Kinski und Clinton '98 über die
Dienste von Lewinsky '99 in Kosovo roll'n Panzer SPD's Gerhard Schröder ist
Bundeskanzler es ist so viel passiert und es geschieht noch viel mehr und das
Millennium rückt näher und näher
Sitting in the sun
Waiting for the millennium
They say that history's coming to an end
Nothing happens now
Since the wall came down
Can't remember where I was back then
It don't mean a thing
Throw it all away
In the new millennium
It don't mean I even meant it
Sitting in the sun
Waiting for the millennium
Looking forward to the end of time
You can find me here
Waiting year after year
Ready for nothing all the time
It don't mean a thing
Throw it all way
In the new millennium
It don't mean a thing
Another year, another lesson to learn
Another task, another failure
Beneath these physical progressions
We've made one giant step of degradation
Reaching the point of no return
As this world falls beyond control
Should we call this "development"?
Or should we agree "it's a self-destruction"?
Time will no heal the wounds and scars
Through the ages that we've passed
The love we have is the love we deny
Where greed seems for mor appealing
Millions have died as the victms of wars
And the millions live under extreme poverty
When we try to find something to blame,
Our fingers are pointing of ourselves
It is so unpredictable... suddenly alll drown so deep
Our world is now crumble
Crumbled-down withing a thousand year
Lord please forgive us, we are weak
Live this life so far away from You Way
Here we must face the consequence
So many years we've refused to seek the Truth
Chosen to be under the influence...
...of ignorance
We've passed through the ages with greed
Creating all the profit-seeking systems
We built a tower withouth proper foundations
But now it's all too late as the tower falls...
This is what we are: helpless in our frustation
But yet I still hear the voice calling me back
I know I've wandered, so far away
From the pathway that is prepared for us
Everything changes
As we're approaching another millenium
But Your Love still remains the same
With the presence of You in our hearts
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
Millennium
Some say that we are players
some say that we are pawns
but we've been making money since the day that we were born
Got to slow down,
cause we'll low down.
Round and round in circles
live a life of solitude
'till we find ourselves a partner someone to relate to
Then we slow down,
before we fall down.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Live for liposuction
detax for your 'rents
overdose for Christmas and give it up for Lent
My friends are all so cynical refuse to keep the faith
We all enjoy the madness 'cause we know we're gonna fade away.
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough
Millennium
Millennium
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium
(Sometimes you know)
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
And when we come we always come too late
I often think that we were born to hate
get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes.
We've got stars directing our fate (Millennium)
and we're praying it's not too late(Millennium)
'cause we know we're falling from grace(Millennium)
(And we won't stop)
We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
I am, the one, who can free myself
Tonight, it's cold, it's raining outside there
I know, the truth, that you can free yourself
Of all the tears and sadness
And turn them into light
Day after day
Love after love
I've been waiting to love again
Day after day
Love after love
Love is waiting inside your heart
[2x]
To you, and me, to face real life
You are, the one, it's all because of you
All the things you feel will, turn into love
Day after day
Love after love
I've been waiting to love again
Day after day
Love after love
Love is waiting inside your heart
The last days characterised by sin nature,
Lustful gallivanting,
You choose the nomenclature,
Clearing than water as I overturn the cistern,
My story's complete,
Pass to Bone when it's his turn,
Time's unnecessary for a diligent worker,
A chance for this philanthropist,
Post-Jesus circa,
My pestilence is petulant,
Rebuke the adversary,
The world shoot their flatulent blend with commentary,
1-9-9-9
Ain't hard to find,
Face to the grind,
As you stare at the timeline,
2 g's
Who survived this?
When the smoke settles and the air clears, you're face to face with your worst fears.
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
In the last days many believing,
Too many sleeping,
Nobody trying to awaken,
Worshiping satan,
Unconsciously in a state of repubate,
A house divided,
Righteously unabiding,
Religiously reunited to the flesh love,
Collections of the best of,
From the last love,
Gave up your first love,
Cursed by complacency,
Why the dissention from above?
You used to be dedicated and word related,
Since you got your goatee you're complicated,
Thinking you can do what you wanna and still propel, and still excel,
But baby, time will tell.
Or maybe has it already?
Is the life you lead the choice of your final destiny?
The millennium,
It's the end ya'll.
The millennium.
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see is
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
As the light turns into darkness
We are headed for the abyss
No conception to direction
See our world is standing still
In new millenniums we wake to realize
This quest for knowledge
Was it worth it now can it be undone?
Millennium
Set in stone, we're all condemned to wait
Millennium
Set in stone, we were told
To be patient and wait
New millennium
As the age of reason
Declines into an obscurity
It will take a million lifetimes
Open up your heart to me
And say what's on your mind, oh yes
I know that we have been through so much pain
But I still need you in my life this time
And I need you tonight
I need you right now
I know deep within my heart
It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right
I really need you tonight
I figured out what to say to you
But sometimes the words they, they come out so wrong, always they do
And I know in time that you will understand
That what we have is so right this time
And I need you tonight
I need you right now
I know deep within my heart
It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right
All those endless times we tried to make it last forever more
And baby I know
I need you
I know deep within my heart
It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right
I really need you, oh
I need you tonight (I need you, oh I need you baby)
I need you right now (It's gotta be this, it's gotta be this)
I know deep within my heart
No, it doesn't matter if it's wrong or it's right
All I know is baby
I really need you tonight
As the states raid and invade another land
Hatred (?) for Sam
The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
Winners goal: To control, be number one
Making modern day slaves of everyone
That's their plan: To protect, infect
(?) brothers in combat
To kill another man from another land
Man's ashamed being a pawn in the games of a rich gang
Another murder in the name of democracy
Land of the free with policies of slavery
I'm laughing hard - The draft card I watch it burn
They want to see my ass dead, well it's his turn
That's why they're calling me a communist, a socialist
Ain't that a bitch?
I'd rather be a commie than a fascist
I fight the system of oppression who's profession
Is discretion another ? for the possession of money
And of course I think I'm funny 'cause I'm worldwide
Too many millions are the victims of a genocide
I'm going crazy, all I do is see and stand by
We're a victim of another fucking homicide
So I'm waiting for the day to rush the White House
I see a brother kill a punk and take his head out
Until that day I'm dedicated to open eyes
Organize the revolutionaries of the mind
And yet we'll soon the movement reach an apex
A lynch mob with a noose for Sam's neck
There rests the future for the land that they stole
A whole nation built upon the labor of black folk
He's gonna pay for his crimes to humanity
The ultimate creator of the world's insanity
And yes I'll put a rest to the merchant of death
With a shotgun blast to his chest
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
The victim of a criminal
A message so serial
I ain't down to be a killer's accomplice
Accessory to murder so I fight the resistance
System of oppression leaving people with no hope
Conspiracy to kill us like the stuff that was all rope
At the same time sinner's equility
For all nationalities in the midst of brutality - yo
Here's the reality while in the United States
Four hundred years of hate and the world's highest murder rate
I`m too unsteady in the pains of ?
Presumed (?) suicide penalty ?
(?) struggle
Making billions off their brokers (?)
and with no shame we`re motivated to rearrange(?)
(?)
Well no one (?) at his goddamned funeral
Not even one individual was the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
Yeah kick that shit
Victim of a criminal
Assembled on the front line what yeah
A message so serial
Dedicated to a world revolution straight up
Kickin' that shit
Victim of a criminal
Yeah you know it's time to kill
Straight up yo
Sick of that genocide
Sick of that man made disease
It's a world wide genocide I'm on the side
Ain't going out like that
Assembled on the front line
People oppressed by the world's entire foolery
Comin' up layin' it to you
Yeah and it ain't no joke
Goin' out with nothing but gunsmoke
Organizing a world revolution
Ten thousand Somalis lie dead in the desert sand
Killed by American humanitarians
Operation Restore Hope - No hope restored
Just another killing field a state of war
And just like a rat we never see the attack
(?) of their bodies be they brown or black
We carry out our regime like some zombies (?)
So they believe in every message of the TV screen
The newspapers get filled with propaganda and hype
But you can't believe anything you see, read or write
so you`re slammed up braindead and change the(?)
The American Dream becomes the whole world's nightmare
Our future home - Nothing but a war of the classes
All of the masses versus the fascists
These are just the (?)
THere ain't much time to find that
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
A message so serial
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
A message so serial
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
A message so serial
We're the victim of a criminal
We're the victim of a criminal
A message so serial
We're the victim of a criminal
i was born to see two thousand years
of man's effect upon the planet
extinction seems to be a plausible risk
whatever happens well i'm part of all this
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment to come
taste the salt of my tears
take the wealth of my years
singing in the millennium with you
[resolutions for show]
[old ways don't seem to know]
singing in the millennium with you
fire burn all our uncertainties
water wash away impurities
contradictions and predictions abound
yes i believe that we can turn it around
my life i've been waiting for this moment
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment
In the new age we see the combinations of human consciousness and science
Dominated by the element, our imagination having turned towards the sky
New frontiers cause the reformation of the human race
Celebration of ourselves and our sanctity of the earth
Our civilization has entered the millennium of peace and wisdom
We have begun to live our lives as part of the galactic community
Our world has no boundaries, but have we now become a selfish race?
Obsessed by our power and freedom we are becoming insane
People are now spawning our future generations, they will hold the power to create life
Possessing the ability to travel through out the cosmos
Free from all the boundaries the only sin is to forget...
No more leaders of injustice
We have begun to realise potential far beyond our lies
To release the energy we have ignored for our own selfish greed
Ignorance inside the mind will be eradicated finally