A tram (also known. as a tramcar, streetcar, trolley car) is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns (interurbans, tram-train), and/or partially grade separated even in the cities (light rail). Trams very occasionally also carry freight.
Trams are usually lighter and shorter than conventional trains and rapid transit trains. However, the differences between these modes of public transportation are often unclear. Some trams (for instance tram-trains) may also run on ordinary railway tracks, a tramway may be upgraded to a light rail or a rapid transit line, two urban tramways may be united to an interurban, etc.
Most trams today use electrical power, usually fed by a pantograph; in some cases by a sliding shoe on a third rail or trolley pole. If necessary, they may have several power systems. Certain types of cable car are also known as trams. Another power source is diesel; a few trams use electricity in the streets and diesel in more rural environments. Also steam and petrol (gasoline) have been used. Horse and mule driven trams do still occur.
The Shore is an American rock group founded in Silver Lake, CA by frontman Ben Ashley. The Shore are heavily influenced by psychedelic bands like The Byrds, The Beatles, Coldplay, and The Beach Boys as well as Britpop groups Oasis and The Verve.
In the spring of 2002, Ashley wrote a series of songs with producer Rick Parker. Parker assembled a group of local musicians, including Kyle Mullarky (bass), Cliff Magreta (guitar), and John Wilmer (drums), to record a series of demos. The demos came to Scott Austin, a Maverick A&R Executive, and the band was given a major contract only a few months after their initial recordings. The Shore returned to the studio with Parker to record their first album. The Shore recorded the album over a period of three months. The Shore EP was released on New Year's Day of 2003. Their full length album, The Shore, was released in August 2004. After guitarist Wayne Faler toured with the band, he was added as a permanent member in December 2005. It was about this time that The Shore parted ways with Maverick Records to pursue a better record deal.
Greg Kramer is a British-born Canadian author/actor/director/magician. His first novel, The Pursemonger of fugu, published by Riverbank Press in 1995 was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. Other novels include Couchwarmer (1997) and Wally (2004).
As an actor he appeared regularly on TV’s Forever Knight, John Woo’s Once a Thief and Tales from the Neverending Story, and has been a voice actor in Tripping the Rift, George and Martha and Arthur. In theatres he has worked across Canada, from the Vancouver Playhouse to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Directing credits include Tiger's Heart at the Centaur Theatre, Marat/Sade (Dora nomination, best production), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal, which garnered him a Best Director MECCA award.
He was the magic consultant and coach for Des McAnuff's production of The Tempest at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, featuring Christopher Plummer.
Kramer is openly gay. His short story collection Hogtown Bonbons was originally published by Xtra! in Toronto as a regular column.
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
I will look for the perfection
Making your sweet heart smile again
The simple things as the raindrops
Give a new sense to this place
Our feet don't touch the floor
Our minds feeling the call
There's something wild
If we cross the door
We'll never stop
Take me higher give me your hand
As the fire we'll rise again
You're falling asleep inside of me
Shaking your wings
There are no words only our breath
When winds take the forest in their paws
Universe is as still as all my bones
In the spiral we made
Around the fire today
Tell me why should I cry for you?
Music in the air
Your blood is flowing for me
When the angels descend to the earth
They cover us with a real faith
But there is not wings for me
They'll leave me naked and free
Now I am wishing to flee
Who be the one to help me?
Alone I will be
The angels of heaven
They doesn't help me anymore
I'll never surrender
Maybe my angel will be lost
The angels of heaven
Now pull me under to my hell
I'll never surrender, never!
I will walk without angels
And I will be lone
I am lost and looking for your help
In my world I don't want to need you
But I know that you are the only one for me
Only your wings might save me
From here to eternity
Show me your reality
Your slave I will be
Embrace me in this purple sea
And raise me, I want to flee
From here to eternity
Show me your reality
Your slave I will be
Take my hand we will fly together
Return to be born
Only I want to live forever
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
Lord of your war
Don't you try to lie to us
Are you God?
This world's not in your hands
You choke our voice
You poison our minds
You shed their blood on mankind
And you force us to kill once again
To kill again...
Tell me if you'll bleed on our side
But... until your last sigh...
Is your army ready to attack?
Die! I don't want to die
You know? My flag is white
Tell me âBlind-Manâ
What are you seeking in our minds?
We'll turn against you
In this war that you began
We want a future
Without madness, nor distrust
No! You can't hide
You'll be the first to leave us
Antichrist!
You're the preacher of war
We hear your legions marching on us
Our pride won't fall to the ground
Though you'll step on our tears
Music: Elisa C.Martin, Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
Silence is clouding your fat will decide your death
You're crying and dying alone
Deciding... to live or not
Flames burning in your mind
A hell you like to hide
The show will be the end of your suicide
Another path you'll find
To escape this rite inside
World full of gods
-Today I don't know you-
Now, you can't smile
-But it doesn't matter-
Emotions.... your emotions are lost
Passion... passion is gone!
All the world is moving so fast
And your dreams are still in the past
Oh! Can you hear the call
Offering you my soul?
Please now, believe in me
Don't left yourselve down
The moon is high on you
The light is breaking through
A whisper in the air
Reminding that you were born
âstill I feel so lost...
I've got nothing left to say
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
I can't explain all my emotions
And I don't like to speak of myself
But I guess that is the way
The only way
To know what I want to say
Tell me now what you think about me
Tell me what are you seeing
Lie down by me, feel it with me
All my fears here you will see
I am afraid of my own mind
I'm scared but I'm alive
I will leave this life to die
Why do you call to say good-bye?
It's so easy for you to break my life...
I have to speak if I don't want to
And then you say that I am like ice
I am what I am, I'm tired and bored
But I will last on my own
'Cause I want to know...
I will simply tell you all the truth
My heart will see you through
Beating so near... Living in fear
Music:Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
When I pray
I kneel down in front of you
And I think ....
Where are you? I can't see you
And I feel so weak
I don't trust your white tears
Have you left me now?
You were never with me...
It's alright to make mistakes
I'm only human
The mortal one
Who lives fulfilling your laws, no thanks!
I would like to ask you God
When I die where I should go?
Into ashes will my soul turn?
Where is your blue paradise?
If there's an eternal life...
Why don't you bring this life here?
Born to die
This sensation is so strange
Born to die
To live fulfilling your laws... no thanks!
If you want, I'll try to save you
But to save me from all your lies?
You've always believed in my truth
In your stupid Holy Bible
Also in your famous saying
âI am the path, the truth and the lifeâ
Everything you say I distrust
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
I've never sighed before the dusk
But I was there with you
With my heart waiting for your last command
I'm so afraid, I don't know what to do
I'll tremble as I speak
If you think that I am weak
Your words can't be denied
The truth will be your key
You back down, you want to change
But your blows feeds the fire with
The passion you can show
Yes, I know that I'm not a perfect soul
But I'm going to try
Have the force and am alive
You don't try to be a perfect girl
The shadow's coming back
And you will be to die
I have my dreams, I still can't turn away
I am myself and that is more that what I was
Mercy is over!
I know your name, your name is mine
You think that you don't belong to any one
When the night falls on my crystal heart
My eyes weigh. I am feeling so tired
But tonight stay away!
I don't have to dream again
He's waiting for me
In the depths of my dreams
I can feel you...You are here!
I'm feeling your breath near of me
I want to run to escape from your claws
I'm afraid, I'm feeling alone
Nightmares Factory
Destroying my dreams
I can not cry
He controls my mind
Nightmares Factory
There is no sun here
Only one friend... the fear
Now the fear is under my skin
I can hear the whisper and the scream
And my bones as the ice
Wants to move my body but
I am petrified, I need to wake up
But he's come to visit me
I want to return and not to sleep
I want to run to escape from your claws
I'm afraid, I'm feeling alone
"Mummy! Are you? Where are you mummy?
I can't see you... please help me mum!
He's near, he wants to catch me!"
...I'm afraid, I am feeling
I sing with my heart fearful of you
And feeling your passion
My eyes free themselves
My throat is free
Run until I fall
Under the sweat that flood my bones
Now, scream for me!
I need your voices without words
Time... time to set out on your flight
To feel myself alive
To live forever in your arms
Time to make you understand
That I only want
To live forever in your arms
When I feel your arms covering me
Only this day is true
Tonight I don't have secrets for you
Now you sing with me
Come! Come and rise your fist
Tonight I want to be among yourselves
The lights on my face
The music fill this day
You press my hand and make me fell so good
If I cry it's for you!
If I sing it's for you!
In my eyes tears and wounds
But you know
Music: Jorge Sáez, Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
In the silence
The thunder's howling free
It's raining tears inside myself
With your madness
And promises I've lived
But now I have the force to fight
There's no one in my life who lives
Anywhere close to me
But I need to see
Through your eyes and flee
A game you must play
You know that
You'll decide the places
Crease the curtains
When you lose... you will raise my flag
Are you prepared to play and cry?
We are face to face
In the deepest of the cliff
You and me
You're like an iceberg
Who freezes my blood
With frozen ropes
You're in front of the fire, we came to play
Now we're face to face
Take your time though
Victory's in my hands
Move your pawn
The board is ready
Yesterday
I was afraid to die
Today I don't know who I am
An animal with hope
Or a woman without love
Across the seven seas I lived
Too much lives and mysteries
Feeling inside of my heart
All your blood...
I don't want to live into your eyes
We can't fly together
An immortal chain beat my life
While I know that someday you will die
We'll never have eternal love
During the day I crush my dreams
Searching in nowhere
For you... immortality
I don't know where I will go
Time is like a dirty doll
Play with me and make me fall
More and more!
I don't want to live into your eyes
We can't fly together
An immortal chain beat my life
While I know that someday you will die
We can not fly together
We can not live forever
You! My nightmare
You! My black air
Without blame I was betrayed
I feel the rage
As a wild gale
Biting all my lanes
I'll tell you bye! With a hand
In my face a big smile
Revenge has begun...
A sea of hate surrounds me
You thrust a dagger on my back
From now on till the end of all times
You! my enemy
Enemy always be...
You don't cross my way because
You are my enemy
Hating your name
Scoring yourself
In your world of lies and shame
I have to fight
Music:Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
Shaded death, I feel you close to me
Drags me with the violence of the sea
Up to the deepest lonely ocean
Crushing my forgotten emotions
Out of here I'll be a stranger
I'll feel the bows of a sure danger
And I won't, won't think about death
There's no god. It's the end...
I wish I dreamt of you
I wish to feel you
I wanna touch you now!
I learnted to live in dreams
So close the pain I dream
My freedom will not hang
From your thorns... anymore!
A sweet sigh of your breath close to me forever
Today I can say that I'm frear than ever
Enclosed, enclosed, enclosed...
A tear in a corner of my eye
Witness of my sacrifice
I'm yearning to follow my silence
I'm falling in a soul of madness
It's time to leave this place far behind
Now I am here so free
Walking with the rainbow's tears
Without past grief
But if you call me
My poor soul
Run with you so lost
Though at last in my heart I know
That all my life will be alone...
Why I'm alone again?
But why I don't stop my steps?
I've to find in the air a reason to live
I'd like to be a wall
Without sentiments or words
Close your eyes
Close your eyes and feel me
I am alone... so alone!
"I don't understand why I am alone
one more time... sometimes I think
that all my life is a dream"
I am waiting for you
Flying through the sky so blue
I'll dry my wounds
But if you need me
All my hope
Will fight if you fall
Though at last in my heart I know
That I always will be alone...
I'm alone and still
The snow burn inside of me
Under my skin
Now a beautiful melody
Is covering me slowly
I remember your voice that say:
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
If I had it in my power...
If I could remain here...
Every minute, every hour
To leave knowing that I will return again
To return dreaming that I'll never go away
I'm a lost and scared hunter
But I chose this tortuous way
'Cause it's me and it's my life
I don't want to make mistakes
Your voice reminds me now that I'm alive
When you call me and say to me that all is fine
But now I miss the silence of the night
And the calmness of the sun
Sometimes I feel so far away from home
So far away from my life
Never felt this way before
Everytime I feel so far away from your love
Small things that become details
Now you have to let me go
Every second's like an hour
Every hour's like a day
I'll feel for the last time desire
And I'll turn and run away
If you think that I am strong
You are wrong!
'Cause I need my simple life
Music: Albert Maroto, Nino Ruiz
Lyrics : Elisa C.Martin
If I could trace your voice
If I could be in your mind
To know what I did to you
To know why you do all that
You have fallen down so far...
You'll never see the light
Only I'll try to understand
Why you hate all that I am?
Look down into your spite
Can you see your face
Watching me with hatred eyes?
Just in silence I can hear your words
Tearing my life only when I'm not
And this silence gathered all my tears
I'm wide awake into something real
I opened my arms for you
And I tried to be true
But you're against me
Who are you?
Now I really can't understand
What has happened in your head
I live in a reverse universe
It's too late to change my mind
I don't want to waste my time
It's just time to pay the price
For the hurt that you have done
The world seems to disappear
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
Are you calling me?
I want to begin again
I cannot believe it!
We don't need to talk
All so stupid, all so fake
And your life's an empty game
Do you grieve for me?
I would live and die for you
I cannot believe it!
That's my truth
Everything in you is a lie
I started to realize
Liar! Say it to me
What do you want today?
Dirty my life with your lies again?
I really know you more than yesterday
Take care 'cause you are over the edge
Why do you follow me?
I don't want to fight with you
I cannot believe it!
You don't say good bye
I gave everything for you
Only for a piece of truth
Can't return to your life!
You forget me now!
Wake up babe
Don't want to talk about this shit
Do you listen to me now?
You must feel shame to say all this shit
I don't want to run away
Two snakes will decide my fate
Always near to my chest
In the middle of this land
In search of a name
I'll not be alone
I can find her dream
If you never lose your hope
Leave a chill, fly to fantasy
And all what you wish will be
Hep me! Now you must help me!
Hear my call...
In the mirror of your dreams
I was born
Hidden in the lines
Is the answer and the child
Read and find the door
This world is real
Under the rain
Flying with you through this tale
Day by day... Cry a new name!
Killing two worlds
Then nothing is evil and touch my soul
Defeat your hope
Tree black gates is feeling my pain
I've to cross it without blame
Help me! Now you must tell me!
Where are you?
Why the night and the twilight
Trust in you?
Then nothing come and touch my soul
Flying with you, killing two worlds
Music: Albert Maroto, Jorge Sáez, Elisa C. Martin
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
Come with me across the forest
I wish to see the terror in your eyes
You can beg and you can shout
But you know that nobody will help you
I'm breathing blood again
Will I wake up from this nightmare?
Please help me!
The pain is killing me
I won't survive
Look at me, you know my name
You had never imagined it
A human chill, a sweet deceit
I will drag you up to the limit
I feel your fist's strike
And the steel's tearing all my flesh
No mercy!
I only beg for death, I won't survive
Now wring the blood from your hands
No! you don't regret you love your life
You'll find another child
You're in my mind
Your smooth body must be mine
Breathing your breath
You'll be my slave all this night
âmy lovely child I'm at your feet
take a look at me and tell me what you see
I'm just a friend but I wan't be more
My world's upside down and
I've got nothing else to lose
so I need to return to do it
to feel your fear, to smell your flesh
Among dusty books my life
Is waiting for a smile
I'm still here with trembling hands
This room is swallowing me, is killing me!
I need to fly and to live
*I'm not afraid of devil or hell*
I need you Lord! I'll do all that you want
Tell me your name and you show me the gate
The darkness come back
The evil command
Slavery you'll find
Don't pray for your soul
Now you are in my home
You have to cross the door
Welcome to my hell
You don't have to be afraid
You'll die another day
But at last you have to pay
My will seil the pact
A droop of your blood
Relive your live
Your soul will be mine, you will be mine...
"do you want to find the light to live forever wild?"
-I want to live other life!
"do you want to pay the price? Forever you will die..."
-I know the sound of the dark!
*He is a spirit that bring you a piece of the dark*
I need you Lord, I'll do all that you want
Tell me your name and you show me the gate
Live this life, this time
I take you with me by my side
Screaming! You're bleeding and feeling
My mind into your head
The death... your cell
So welcome to my hell...
"only for a God's delight in a eternal madness
I am hidden
In my heart the fear
But I have to raise my head
I'm expecting
with my eyes full of tears
I need to see the death
Running through dead bodies
Always chasing the huge danger
To retain in my eye all this pain
All this horror on the floor
I am here because
Now I am the eye of war
In this war I'm a free prisoner
I'm waiting to find and to record
I can help you
But I'm not your salvation
I've to do my work
Day by day my sentiments
Vanish out of my soul
In this day I'm the only one
Maybe today I'll survive
Maybe I'll die...
In this madness
I'm a real victim
Sadness running through my veins
Open my lens
To record all your fear
[Bonus Track de Japón]
Down! Is down into the depths
Where you need my help
Where dreams and thoughts
Darkness and fate embrace my soul
Like the wind and the rain
I never meet anyone who really love me
I go alone... walking alone
In the space of your eyes
In the fright of your fall
Suddenly your words
And the sound of your lies
Floods my mind
I'm the sand where lovers walk
I'm the sand where lovers walking alone...
You! You cry! You stir up and shout I love you
How many years with myself telling truths
For no one to listen to me
Now I can live without you...
But embrace me for others times will come
I want to sleep my last dream in your arms
Feeling the wail of your soul
Trusting in the course of all my love
All my love will sing to the wind
With placid tenderness
My voice, my dreams will fly away
The sun dry all my tears
Tears of blood on my face
My thoughts are sweet knowing that in my days
Neither dismay nor spite have a place
Along the winter my heart making me cry
With no wings to fly
[Bonus Track de Japón]
Spread your wings
This is the sweet key to heaven
You trust in me
Always I'd know that we will together
Don't lie to me, don't make me cry
I want to tell you that I will never hide
Open your eyes, open your eyes...
In your world my place is a lane far away
In the middle of your pride I'll leave this jail
Don't sing to the wind dragging your sadness
I'm building dreams
Walking through my land
I come to rest on your mind
I'd want to live in the past
I'd like to be a lie
I haven't Gods
And I don't understand
How can I live in this lie?
I'd prefer to be the dark
Beyond the moonlight
What can I do?
I can't find the door to madness
I'll wait for you
So I will bleed suffering and torment
Sometimes I fight
Sometimes I die
I want to tell you that I will never hide
Music: Albert Maroto
Lyrics: Elisa C.Martin
If you tell me that I can't
I will, I will, I'll try...
If I say that I will do it
I'll do it when I want...
I control... I control my world
I live beyond the dreams
Don't overwhelm me
Why you cut my wings?
This soul you think you own
Wants to break the walls
You try to control my mind
Why do you do it?
I don't want to be like you
'Cause I'm feeling free
In my world I live without walls
Deciding who I am
Looking for my place
Freedom in my hands
Don't wanna fight no more
You should know that...
I live my own life
Don't try to stop me!
Don't make me waist time
'Cause I am my own guide
I don't do the right things
But it doesn't matter
I don't want to be like you
I live my own life
Understand... Try to understand
That I am who I am
You know me so well
I'm not gonna change
I've never been your doll
Entangle wires
Electric flex paint my thorny life
Million of waves flowing in the sky
Shake the earth, this eternal land
I'm like a chain
A boring metal in the air
The wire fence that spin me again
Now is making me insane
I have in a hand my sweet hope
Waiting for you in our blue sea
In the other hand all the love
And I feel you with me...
Save me from you
Save me from my life
From my empty times
Cover me with you
With the passion and hope
All your real love
Come to me! Your voice like an angel
Whisper me. Between blows of anger
All my sentiments around you
Come to me! The darkness is near
In my dreams
I can feel the fear but together
We'll can find the light in this land
Under my feet
This sand so white is caressing me
Starry nights walking on the sea
I'm believing in destiny
You're everything
I feel your fingers over me
Like a rose dancing in the wind
Anywhere my heart beat
...like a gale you can breath my air
the death is like a game beside you
near of your eyes
from the darkness of all my nights you'll be mine
your voice whisper me, you're my angel