Rémi's Edguy Lyrics Page

INDEX
Evil Minded & Children Of Steel
Kingdom Of Madness
Vain Glory Opera
Theater Of Salvation
Savage Poetry
Mandrake

Evil Minded
1. Midgets Of Metal
2. I Hate You Too
3. Voices Of The Past
4. Evil Minded

Children Of Steel
1. Final Gate
2. Children Of Steel
3. Jester Of The Night
4. Loser
5. Das Reh
Back To The Top

1. Paradise
2. Wings of a dream
3. Heart of twilight
4. Dark symphony
5. Deadmaker
6. Angel rebellion
7. When a hero cries
8. Steel church
9. The kingdom

PARADISE

Lyrics: Sammet Music: Sammet & Ludwig

I've just returned to give you fears
To bring you pain as much as tears
You'll never know what's in my mind

It's an invitation to my way
Pray to me or you will pay
When I'm smiling what's behind

[Chorus:]

I'll be tearing down you paradise
I'll be bringing you down
No warning - I'm pawning

[Repeat]

Now let us open up the gate
Leave your way before it's too late
Into the heart of dark insanity
As black as hate but even white
It must be the dragon that I ride
Something burning my reality.

[Repeat * Solo: Jens * Repeat]

WINGS OF A DREAM

Lyrics & Music: Sammet

This is my day- soldiers are coming to take me away
May justice be done
I hold on to pray but no god seems to hear me
The pain I will face is my price for disgrace
For things that I've never done

The toll of the bell and the flight of the raven
They open my cell and I feel it's too late
There's no need to yell they don't want to hear me
The morning has come
It seems like my work's been done.
Today I'll be the one

Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene
Cause when I'm close to the end I've got always a friend
On my lonesome way to the final decay
I listen to a voice telling me

[Chorus:]

Now dream away - follow me astray
To a world that we can reach on wings of a dream

[Repeat]

I've got the key to the end of the nightmare
To leave all the dreams of bane and despair
The life I redeem has got the price of insanity
That you just can't get cause you're not even mad
You only trust in your eyes

[Repeat Solo: Jens]

Once upon a time there was a noble man like me
He only cared about the things he saw
One dark night without a moon he loved
The dog of his queen
Thinking it was her he enjoyed the life in the raw

[Repeat]

HEART OF TWILIGHT

Lyrics: Sammet Music: Sammet & Ludwig

Tell me why can't I understand
The feelings deep inside
Why do I try to scratch away the stains
Deep in my heart I feel there's a place
Where love and hate collide
But is everybody who asks for reasons
Destined to go insane

I don't know if I'm right or wrong
The heart of twilight is much too strong
Leaving the pride so I'm stopping to stride
I only dare to hide

[Chorus:]

Dying, dying! My mind is what I've lost
My head is dying cold
Dying, dying! My mind is what I've lost
The heart of twilight knows

An old illusion of understanding
Is fading day by day
The apparition of a future vision is black
Everytime I dive in depressions
The colors of life are grey
Father forgive me if I decide to come back

[Repeat * Solo: Jens * Repeat]

DARK SYMPHONY

Music: Sammet & Ludwig

(Instrumental)

DEADMAKER

Lyrics: Sammet Music: Sammet & Ludwig

I can't feel, and I can't see
I'm falling down what's going on with me
Lord in heaven why am I here
Do I live to rise or rise to fall to shed another tear

One more time I fell that I'm alone
I can't describe it cause it's better to be shown
Feel the darkness covering the spite
Hear me screaming when it's pounding deep inside

Forever I'll be a poisoned thorn
I'll be haunting among your lives
The moment I was born it was time for him to rise

[Chorus:]

Deadmaker, deadmaker
Why don't you realize
That he can paralyze you all

[Repeat]

My sorrow created by you
And even me cause I'm a self-destroying fool
I feel the spirit growing deep inside
I don't expect your comprehension
Cause even I don't know why

[Repeat Solo: Both Repeat]

ANGEL REBELLION

Lyrics: Sammet Music: Sammet & Ludwig

In the silence there's a fear
It's growing stronger with every breath I take
A fire inside that drives me mad
A haunt of darkness that makes me stay awake

But is it just a trace of evil
Or is it the force to bring me down

I feel like being chained by my noble reputation
I feel like being killed by a square and boring nation
It doesn't matter how but I know that I want out

Take a trip with me, stay a dream on brocken
Watch them play their game, no one here can stop it
Walpurgis night is closer than every holy day

[Chorus:]

Right now I will set my life on fire
Now I'll satisfy my mad desires
Back into hell - Angel rebellion
Back into hell - Angel rebellion

[Solo: Jens * Both * Tobi * Jens]

[Repeat * Solo: Both]

WHEN A HERO CRIES

Lyrics & Music: Sammet

Awake by that dreams of you
Being all alone in the night
Coldness in my empty chamber
no one here holding me tight

I could take a masquerade
To show you I don't need to cry
But I can let my tears run away
To show you I'm as weak as a child

so many times you make me cry
But I got no reason to deny
Because I'm here and still alive

[Chorus:]

When a hero cries, emotions arise
The tears in my face seem to be a trace of life
When a hero cries

It felt like heaven to me but it was nothing for you
You said that I should forget but it ran me through
And I still can't deny that you still make me cry

[Repeat]

STEEL CHURCH

Lyrics: Sammet Music: Sammet, Ludwig & Storch

Huh!
What do you think when you smile into my eyes
You say that you like me but I know that's one of your lies
My love is abused my compassion misused
Cause I am too kind to despise, oh no

You hear me you see me and use me but you neglect
You like having me on your tail and show me your back
Why do we praise an illusion of grace
I know the way to survive
Standing to fight the love that misguides
The steel church is the savior of life

[Chorus:]

Take me - take me to a church that accepts my hate
Take me - take me to a church of steel on steel
Take me - take me to a world I can lose my grace
Take me - take me to a hell of steel on steel

Maybe I`m evil but I take every chance
When I can get more there's no time to waste for romance
Show me how to maltreat to lie and to cheat
To fight steel on steel
Out of the light into the night
That is what I wanna feel

Much too long I really have been to kind
Can`t you tell me why could I be so blind

[Repeat * Solo: Both * Repeat]

THE KINGDOM

Lyrics & Music: Sammet

Watching the eventide, the sun will hide and sleep
My heart´s beat is slow. I´m thinking about my belief
Rain washing over me cleaning up my brain
Till I question all my thoughts
And clean èm up from stains
Clean èm up from stains
Clean èm up from stains, yeah
Die free, yeah!

[Solo: Jens]

Welcome to the circle of those who know their way
Welcome to those who`ve realized their needs
Who don't need fear to pray and betray

But they don`t accept us living free
Believing what we need
haven`t heard anything about poetry
They only know their painful greed

[Pre-chorus:]

Don`t ever trust those who say they know
Those who show and force you to bow
I`ve done no wrong but to ask my brain
To be free from pain built up by those who reign

[Chorus:]

A mind in disguise - now I know
It`s better to hide my belief than feeding the crow
A life on the run - now I know
The kingdom of disguise is the last place to go

In the eyes of the world I`m a master of heresy
Swimming against the tide - endangering democracy
I remember the day when I was young and bold
When I thought that my mind was free
Until the time that I was told

[Repeat * Solo: Jens]

Out in the night they laugh about me and my
Knowledge and
Speak prayers our god don`t want to hear. But listen:
Wherever you are, I will get you! Well, you don`t know who
I am? I am the inquisition and I am your heretics
Barbarian end!

[Solo: Both * Dominik * Both]

Beware and be silent and follow the sign
Keep the mission as a secret of your mind
One out of a million is a friend of your line
Don`t forget there are evil eyes behind

[Solo: Jens]

Holding the candle she was found in the rain
Bright eyes and blissful but they thought
That she went astray
Too late to escape, she seemed to be insane
She got imprisoned because she got her own way

[Solo: Both]

Inquisitor: Now can`t you remember?
What have you done?
Accused: Believe me, I`m innocent. I`ve done no wrong!
Inquisitor: But you are strange! You are guilty I guess!
And after the torture you will confess......and burn!

Ending in the flames, burning down her fame
Prayers to the saints, their end of an evil game

Run to your last refuge
Maybe the silence of your voice
Lie but be true to yourself
Sometimes you`ve got no choice
Follow a king called silence
Live in his kingdom of disguise
There is a temple of shelter
Where god forgives you your lies.

[Repeat]

I can see it bright here in front of your eyes
the apparition never dies
Yes I see, yes I feel, yes I know it all
Back To The Top

1. Overture (1:32)
2. Until we rise again (4:27)
3. How many miles (5:39)
4. Scarlet rose (5:10)
5. Out of control (5:03)
6. Vain glory opera (6:08)
7. Fairytale (5:09)
8. Walk on fighting (4:44)
9. Tomorrow (3:52)
10. No more Foolin' (4:54)
11. Hymn (4:53)

OVERTURE

[Music & lyrics: Sammet]

Nowhere to run
Nowhere to go
Welcome to life damnation
Welcome to fun
Welcome to hope
Here is your invitation

Welcome to the gate
To the unknown fate
Waiting for a better day
Jesters dance around
Slowly growing old
Having party while they stay

Nowhere to run
Nowhere to go
Welcome to life damnation
Welcome to fun
Welcome to hope
Here is your invitation

UNTIL WE RISE AGAIN

[Music & lyrics: Sammet]

2080 - our world is an empty domain
Emotions have died
Men bleeding oil are the heroes for children today

Drinking the blood of the weak dictators bring pain
But they show us a smile
Feelings and love are kept hidden in a madhouse cave

It's a mad revolution
And the spirits will die
Oh escape the confusion
Take my hand

[Chorus:]

Now take my hand
Take me now
Take my hand
We won't be so free
Until we rise again

Eden is mad so enjoy it and fly to the sun
Don't you return
Your breath and your heartbeat are gifts
You've been given for life - oh yeah

Oh our deepest emotions
Are a sign of our life and our love
No robot can stop us
Take my hand

[Chorus:]

Now take my hand
Take me now
Take my hand
We won't be so free
Until we rise again

[Solo: Jens]

[Chorus:]

Now take my hand
Take me now
Take my hand
We won't be so free
Until we rise again

...Yeah...

HOW MANY MILES

[Music: Edguy: Lyrics: Sammet]

Oh yeah...

Watching a face and a smile and a light
When you're walking alone in the street
I know your look always gives you the might
Many miles from your ass to your feet

And I dream - what I've seen
Is what I want it to be - self-made reality

[Chorus:]

How many miles to the gate of reality
How many steps left to go to my dreams
How many miles to the land where my dreams come true
Dreams which come true just have died

Look like a queen but you talk like a pawn
And I know you're a fool in disguise
Godfather tell me how to carry on
Blinded by fantasies of lies

And I dream - what I've seen
Is what I want it to be - self-made reality

[Chorus:]

How many miles to the gate of reality
How many steps left to go to my dreams
How many miles to the land where my dreams come true
Dreams which come true just have died

I see your smile. A golden masquerade
And I know my dream it will be my fate
Time has stolen my fantasy
Cause it has become a pale reality

[Solo: Jens/Jens & Dirk]

[Repeat chorus]

SCARLET ROSE

[Music & lyrics: Sammet]

The moment when you held me tight
Won't come back any more
And at the end of that night
You slammed the door

My dream it died away
Just when I saw red
And nothing but a memory
Is left inside my heart

Nothing is forever in life
But a memory - believe it's true
And when I gaze in the rain
I'm crying just for you

[Chorus:]

The scarlet rose has died
Lost inside the night
Left in my mind like a dream and full of pride
The scarlet rose has died

The one and only way to catch the
Beauty of a dawn
Is to take a picture
Of the growing sun

I got that experience
No one could steal away
One moment of your life is mine
I remember day by day

Nothing is forever in life
But a memory - believe it's true
And when I gaze in the rain
I'm crying just for you

[Chorus:]

The scarlet rose has died
Lost inside the night
Left in my mind like a dream and full of pride
The scarlet rose has died

[Solo: Jens]

[Chorus:]

The scarlet rose has died
Lost inside the night
Left in my mind like a dream and full of pride
The scarlet rose has died...

...And full of pride...

OUT OF CONTROL

[Music: Edguy: Lyrics: Sammet]

Into a place of darkness, he was born to live alone
He got one big desire: one day he'd get the crown:
Hey devil come on help me now
Be the one to pull my string
Let me be your slave to serve you
To let me be the king

Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind

[Chorus:]

Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate

Wherever I may roam there will be hate and pain
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, respect is what I gain
I look up to Mr. Crowley, evil powers: now unite!
I will be your darkest nightmare
My life's a fatal fight

Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind

[Chorus:]

Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate

[Solo: Jens & Dirk / Jens / Timo Tolkki / Jens / Timo Tolkki]

[Hansi Kürsch:]

"Listen up my friend: You just cry for a hand
But you only pretend that you're bad - now!"

Well, take on my mind...

[Chorus:]

Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown

VAIN GLORY OPERA

[Music & lyrics: Sammet]

The prayers have been spoken
May the Gods be on my side
May they join my way to bring me victory
Seven at one stroke
My triumph and my pride
They will be history

But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

[Chorus:]

We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide

What's hell without a paradise
What's the night without a day
We would think it's bright
What's a fall if we can't rise
What's a hero at a play
Without a fool to fight

But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

[Chorus:]

We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide

[Repeat]

[Solo: Jens]

[Hansi Kürsch:]

But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

[Chorus:]

We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide

FAIRYTALE

[Music: Edguy: Lyrics: Sammet]

Yeah...
Giants of stone built up by desire
No one could tell us the secret of fire
The hunger for wisdom deep in your heart
You can't accept that you're living apart

Water runs down the river
Lord you are the only to deliver
Night: stay night

In the night nothing's white
Not a knowledge not a light
Lord, will you tell me why someday

[Chorus:]

Fairytale - life is one big fairytale
A book of seven seals
Someone tell me why and how

[Repeat]

I'm always told to kneel down and pray
What shall I do to stay on my way
Questions borrow through my brain
Pound and disturb and drive me insane

Lost in visions of knowledge I'll never owe
Night to night

[Choir of the damned smurfs of death:]

Lolalalolalalolalolalalolalalola

In the night not a light
Not a knowledge nothing's white
Lord, will you tell me why someday

[Chorus:]

Fairytale - life is one big fairytale
A book of seven seals
Someone tell me why and how

[Repeat]

[Solo: Tobias / Jens]

Tell me what is time - yeah

[Solo: Jens / Jens & Dirk]

[Chorus:]

Fairytale - life is one big fairytale
A book of seven seals
Someone tell me why and how

WALK ON FIGHTING

[Music: Edguy: Lyrics: Sammet]

The ivory is cold, where is my desire
In a cage of gold, not a trace of fire
Ice cold as ice, I'm heading for tomorrow
I am tired of waiting, I'll beg and steal and borrow

Life is too short to be wasted
So why do I sit around
Dance on the edge of a razor
Get off the ground and I'll never return

[Chorus:]

Walk on fighting
Don't look ever back
Walk on fighting
Don't you look back to your cries

[Short fill: Jens & Dirk]

The phone it waits in silence, no message left by you
There is no use in crying, I know I've been a fool
Now it's too late, no words left to say
I gotta call it fate, forget and look away

Life is too short to be wasted
So why do I sit around
Dance on the edge of a razor
Get off the ground and I'll never return

[Chorus:]

Walk on fighting
Don't look ever back
Walk on fighting
Don't you look back to your cries

[Solo: Jens]

Walk on fighting...

[Chorus:]

Walk on fighting
Don't look ever back
Walk on fighting
Don't you look back to your cries

TOMORROW

[Music & lyrics: Sammet]

Another dawn is coming
A new day has begun
An eagle is rising slowly to the skies of no return
Disappearing in the growing sun

So proud and so beautiful
Thinking of tomorrow, with tears in his eyes
Once a lot of brothers spread their wings to join his way
Now he's left alone in a world of lies

[Chorus:]

Cry for tomorrow
Why don't we hear the eagle's cries
Living in sorrow
Why don't we help him to survive

Once a dignity - a mighty sign of pride
Strong and proud and free
A symbol of eternity - why don't we see
We can't survive, if we don't realize
Our world is a place that can't be created twice

[Chorus:]

Cry for tomorrow
Why don't we hear the eagle's cries
Living in sorrow
Why don't we help him to survive

NO MORE FOOLIN'

[Music: Edguy: Lyrics: Sammet]

Fair sex paralyzer, lipstick in a face
Spirit analizer, not one human trace
No need to cry
Roll the fuckin' dice, I'm a looser in a game
Gonna hurt my feelings, your only really aim
Feels like I die

You can play nice you get satisfied when you win
I see a smile of truth but I can't stare within
Riot in your soul

[Chorus:]

No more foolin'
You will save all your love
No more foolin'
You will save all your love

Say goodbye - say goodbye
You never knew that I was strong enough to stand
All alone on my own I don't need your hand

Got your weapons loaded, your target is in your sight
Why don't you only tell me, that I shall fuckin' die

[Short fill: Jens]

Looking so attractive, wanna get me active
But you never realized that I have got the tactics
I'm much too cool, much too large to be fooled
By tour lies

You can play nice you get satisfied when you win
I see a smile of truth but I can't stare within
Riot in your soul

[Chorus:]

No more foolin'
You will save all your love
No more foolin'
You will save all your love

Say goodbye - say goodbye
You never knew that I was strong enough to stand
All alone on my own I don't need your hand

...ow...

[Solo: Jens & Dirk / Jens]

[Chorus:]

No more foolin'
You will save all your love
No more foolin'
You will save all your love

Say goodbye - say goodbye

...

HYMN

[B. Currie: C. Cross W. Cann: M. Vre]

Give us this day all that you showed me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

And they say that in our time
All that's good will fall from grace
Even saints would turn their face
In our time
And they told us that in our days
Different words said in different ways
Have other meanings from he who says
In our time

[Chorus:]

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

And they say that in our time
We would reap from their legacy
And we would learn from what they had seen
In our time

And they told us that in our days
We would know what was high on high
We would follow and not defy
In our time

[Chorus:]

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes

Faithless in faith
We must behold the things we see

[Solo: Both ?]

[Chorus:]

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
Back To The Top

1. The healing vision (1:11)
2. Babylon (6:10)
3. The headless game (5:31)
4. Land of the miracle (6:32)
5. Wake up the king (5:43)
6. Falling down (4:36)
7. Arrows fly (5:03)
8. Holy shadows (4:30)
9. Another time (4:07)
10. The unbeliever (5:47)
11. Theater of salvation (12:25)

THE HEALING VISION

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Lord of fate, I feel you deep inside my brain...
Is it really just a dream or the urge to survive?

BABYLON

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Yeah...

In a world of hate pollution
We can't breathe anymore
We've to leave and this time you
The pawn, have won
On our quest for nowhere island
We set off to the sea
You call surrender what we call
Acalm before the storm...

Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return! I don't live my life for you
It's too short to get burned
Stand upright and face the wind!"

[Chorus:]

Time to go back where I belong...
No one can prevend me from
Raising towers in Babylon
Time to go back where I belong...
No one can accuse me
For I do not fear Babylon, Babylon...

You only can love me if you can convert me
To attitudes of your brain
You blame us for doing things
That you don't know, you tell me what you'd do
If you were me but you are you and I am I
Lucky you, but this time I say: "No!"

Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return! I don't want to hurt you
But you'll have to learn: you are you and I am I!!!

[Repeat: Solo: Jens, Both]

Ooohhh...

Oh yeah...

[Repeat]

THE HEADLESS GAME

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Longing for silence
"Always faster" is the way that we go
Not a little patience
Higher, farer, better we grow

The beast is rising, it's tantalizing
Those who are taking the time
Alienation... a revelation...
Straight to the end of the line...

The cold chill you feel is no dream it's for real
We don't follow!

[Chorus:]

Fly! Riding away... Rising today...
No we don't play your headless game!
We are alive, don't say goodbye
Fly! Riding away... Rising today...
No we don't play your headless game!
We are alive, don't say goodbye

[Lead-fill: Jens & Dirk]

Cast out from Eden...
You don't like what we are in your eyes
We're leading the treason on the race you run
The way of your life

I am danger, I'm a stranger
Cause I don't give in to your call
And not until she is satisfied
We can come and explode and we fall!!!

We'vr blowing the frame of your headless game:
We don't follow!

[Repeat: Solo: Jens: Repeat]

LAND OF THE MIRACLE

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Blinded by the fire and the sorrow of the day
I come knocking at your door to dry the tears away
The eventide is calling me to take a look into your eyes
Pull me on and make me mesmerized!

Riding on the wings of light
Dreaming dreams and holding tight:
Leaving all my sorrow far behind
Your eyes are the gate

[Chorus:]

To the land of the miracle where our love can make us fly
Make us fly
In the land of the miracle
We can can find a reason why and how we can fly

Open up the book up madness read the page of life!
Who's the one to tell you what to do and how to rise?
And if the stars would fall one day I'd climb up to the sky
To put them back for you to save your smile

[Repeat: Solo: Jens: Both: Repeat]

...Take a look onto the book of fantasy and poetry and
you will see: what you can feel is everything you
need to heal your crying mind, the soul behind and
everything that you may find inside your head...

...A million years have passed away to make us head
for the decay and to unlearn just what yearn for
all day long: Right to be strong and stick to our
ideals, are they for real and do we just have lost the
thread!

... I believe in miracles they happen everyday
In your arms a dream comes true for me...

[Repeat everything possible!!!]

WAKE UP KING

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Soldier of sunlight
Welcome to the kingdom of ignorance
Where all the tears of ages tell their tales
No one dares to break the spell
No one dares to fly
Time is running out you can't deny

How many times have you found yourself under the influence?
How many times has a mirror made you cry?
Now it's time to stand upright
Tear down your inner door!
The birth of yourself can´t wait no more...

In your mind there's a battle raging on
Try to find what your fighting for!

[Chorus:]

Wake up the king
From his sleep in your fantasy!
Wake up the king
Let him be all your exctasy!

Tears flow to rivers and rivers to oceans of broken dreams
Have you ever heard of tears of joy?
Show yourself a sense of life, open up your eyes:
Let your heartbeat be your best advice!

In your eyes I can see the fire burn
Realize: now it is your turn!

[Repeat]

Look at the mountain, look at the sun
Feel of the pure energy!
Birds fly and wisper, call out yor name!
They belong to you and you're the
King of the kingdom, light in your hand
Look at what you have never seen!
Walk on a rainbow, look to the stars
Cry it out and make your dream come true!

[Solo: Both, Jens: Repeat]

Can't you see your crown?

FALLING DOWN

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

"No brain is left but here I got one more nail!"
The master's final word
When he created a "hero" like you
Born to deride and hurt

You don't try to find a reason why
You don't have a brain
You are just a masquerade, just a nice facade
In a snob parade, I know

[Chorus part 1:]

You don't have to wait, I'll be too late
When you meet to jump off the edge!
You don't have to wait, I'll be too late!
When you meet to jump off the edge!

[Chorus part 2:]

I'm not like you and I don't wanna be
Follow the times to a place you can't see!
Don't call in doubt, what the fashion may bring
And you'll be falling down

Hammer the nail into what you don't know
Keep on believing you're strong!
You got your pride and I got my peace
There's no sense in proving you wrong

We will fight just to stand upright
We are here to dare
Guts to sail against the stream
To defend the dream, to do what we feel, I know

[Repeat: Solo: Jens, Both, Jens]

Oooooooohhh...

[Repeat]

ARROWS FLY

[Music: Tobias Sammet & Jens Ludwig lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Faking the thruth in their eyes...
Smile but they really deride...
Never give you shelter
Lady all alone, naked to the bone...
Make you bleed and melt into tears

Down on your knees you will see what you could be
Raise the power in your eyes! Makes you rise
To make you say:

[Chorus:]

Down and alone... arrows fly!
Breaking on my soul...
Down and alone... arrows fly!
I remember times when arrows hit me
Causing pain
All alone I found my soul
And now my soul is sane

The night has come down on the land
I wanna reach out for her hand
But she takes another
Lonesome in my room...
Staring at the moon...
Treated like a bother...

Down on my knees I have seen what I can be
Raise the power in my eyes!
Makes me rise to make me say:

[Repeat: Solo: Both, Jens, Both: Repeat]

HOLY SHADOWS

[Music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

You're a child of an old illusion,
Can't you hear it cry?
You live your life to the exclusion,
Of what they call a lie...
The touch of evil it is getting stronger,
You'd better hide in the daylight.
Or you won't stand the temptation no longer,
And you will ask if your way is right.

Do not ask the preacher why!
All your fears keep it alive.
Waiting for the end of time...

[Chorus:]

Holy shadows, always follow
Holy chains on... ...holy shadows...

When you are eve then I am temptation
I am the words you're not allowed to say
The animal of their revelation
Cause I can take your fears away.

They make you blind and they want you to follow!
"Free love is sin! Desire's slavery!"
My wicked kiss on your virgin lips
Will be a pleasant way you'll see it

[Repeat]

Let's get down on the floor
you'll be screaming for more
When out bodies collide
I'll make you feel alright
Never give in when they call it sin!

[Solo: Jens, both: Repeat]

ANOTHER TIME

[Music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

The rain outside reminds me of your voice
Like everything I hear since you're not there
The distance doesn't leave me any choice
Than to meet you in a dream we still can share
In my dream I see your smile
But when I open up my eyes
I can't see anyone
Now that you have gone away
I wonder if we'll reach the day
That you will realize that we belong

[Chorus:]

I can't take it for granted
I remember your smile
I can't take it for granted
'Cause I know that our life is in line
For another day or life in another time...
...In another time...

The pressure and the fear it made you blind
You thought you have to give some burden away
But are you really sure if it's required?
Don't you want to find out another day?

[Repeat]

THE UNBELIEVER

[Music: Tobias Sammet & Jens Ludwig Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

I am the madness carrying the torch
lighting the wheat in your fields
I am the eyes staring out of the dark
I am the war of your yields

When you give response away I grow
I am more of you than you might know

[Chorus:]

Burning down... burning down...
It's a story of deceivers
Burning down... burning down...
Put the blame on the unbeliever!

I am the vision that comes to your mind
When you denounce without regret
"God" is the word in the bible you say
I am the word that you spread!

[Repeat: Solo: Jens]

I'm born and I lead the weak into the fire
"No more pain" is what you claim
While you have found your wicked desire...
Hahaha...

[Solo: Jens: Repeat]

THEATER OF SALVATION

[Music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

"I've heard voices in my dream
Made me stand up, helped me see." Aaah...

Oohhh...

Visions called him to awake his mind
To find his horizon
And find out what may be behind

[vision:] "Take what you need
You can find in the back of your soul!
Wake up the king in yourself
To be mighty and bold!"

Seasons of doubt
Fear and silent desires of life
Have gone by
Visions have called back my longing
For freedom tonight
Made me sigh...

Wasting my life till the day
That the voice has appeared...
Made me see:
I am the one that can make it
Through times of despair; I am free!"

They built up a symbol of warning
To give me fear
To keep me away from paradise
Although it's so near
Expecting I don't take a look
At what is behind: Freedom calling...

[Chorus:]

Take a look at the open gate!
Walk on and don't be afraid!
Free your mind in what they call
It's the heart of temptation!

...oh... Go the way!

Take a look at the open gate!
Walk on and don't be afraid!
Free your mind in what they call
It's the heart of temptation!

Night after night
I remembered the word of the priest:
"Thou shalt not!
Never give in to the promises
Made by the beast
So help me god!
Never give in to temptation
Or you'll burn in hell
Along, long time!
Forever-eternal-salvation
Is what I can sell
If you stay blind!!!"

But I wanna know what lies behind
The gate of their hell
And I won't believe all the stories
that they always tell
I got the mind to find out
What is right and what´s wrong
Freedom calling...

[Repeat: Solo: Both, Jens]

Queen of mine I long for you
Tell me why to wait to find our joy!
It's your wait for heaven's door
Your fear that makes them grow
And let you forget today

[Solo: Jens]

I'll never go and I'll
Stay on your side
They'll never know what I give to you
Is a piece of paradise

Heaven can wait! Now I'm living!
Heaven can wait forevermore
Heaven can wait!
I am to live like I want to also before I'll die
Heaven can wait! You can't thrill me!
Heaven can wait, we dance till we die!
Heaven can wait! Welcome to the
Theater of salvation

[Solo: Jens]

"Hallelujah, hallelujah!"
I hear the man in black, his
"Hallelujah, hallelujah!"
He tries to keep me back. No!
"Hallelujah, hallelujah!"
Lock up the gates to wisdom
"Hallelujah, hallelujah!"
Too late! I've found the kingdom...

Hallelujah, hallelujah!
I see a band of angels
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Freedom calling...
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
I do not fear the stories
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Freedom calling me...

[Solo: Both]

Don't you see it? Don't you feel it?
Freedom calling...

[Repeat]

FOR A TRACE LIFE

[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]

Don't know where I come from
Don't know where to go
Don't know if I know
What is good to be known

I wonder if madness
Is just a child of my urge to know
The more that I ask
The more I get down

A million times my quest for life is pain
But still it has not made me going insane

[Chorus:]

And I long for more
For a trace of life
Tearing down all doors
For a trace of life

You tell me you wonder
If wondering is heaven or hell
You say that you've got the view
On the dark side of life

You can't see the shadows the others can see
But you can see it's well:
The sun and the day
The light in the sky

A million times your quest for life has been pain
But still it is the key to make you sain

[Repeat]
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