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The Cure
04:08
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THE CURE
When you'll come back home again weary from the fight
I will nurse your wounds and I'll release you from your weights
You must be hungry and there's blood upon your hands
So please come in and I will cure your fever.
Why don't you rest your head? You long for warmth I bet!
You needn't worry of a thing when I'm near...I'm the cure
What can just light up your heart when you're in the dark?
Tell me what's privation worth what's dearer to a man!
To see this face again?
To touch this body and to feel the blood pulsating in your veins?
Your hunger will be fed, for every tear you've shed
you'll get the threefold pay in just one long night
... I'm the cure
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Shades of Doom
04:13
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SHADES OF DOOM
Can't control my hands and feet
Conditioned to be a human machine
Can't control my thoughts and needs
Memories erased...
Memories erased - my brain won't work
Without that chip inside my head
The things I see I can't define
Responsibility seems strange to me
I'm a victim of the latest gene technology
I'm trained to be a robot to serve society
I never ask no questions and never cause a doubt
I don't know what's going on and what it's all about
I gotta know the reason why
I can't receive no signals anymore
Seems like I'm left alone
In a dying world
I did my job all night and day
Now everything has gone astray
There's emptiness inside my head
I realize I've been long gone dead
Foreign determination and the happiness I've known
Have faded with the signals from my master's room
All wires disconnected – I see the shades of doom
Standing by the ruins fills my heart with gloom
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Sphere Eclipse
06:08
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SPHERE ECLIPSE
Blind by science, stained by blood
You look down to this global cage
filled up with misery and pain as coffin for your punishment
While religion gives the sense in praying to an imperfect might
Accepting the mutilated bodies of little babies
as payment for the luxury of a so called real and poor church
Somewhere they lost the meaning. Twisted it never seeing
there's no justification for this runaway creation
Nothing is true and nothing is false
while no one can build or destroy
worlds in less than seven days
Nothing is gained and nothing is lost
It's all a game that has no rules
Reality is insepted by reality
so all we see is created by electron waves
that flow out of a living screen
The truth is portrayted like a show
where hate rules all the winners take nothing.
While a hypocritical humanity
sends frozen kisses to a tortured people lawn-mowing
the endless mind of different thoughts projected
by clean white coats in a castle of science
no one can control and what's more
Nothing is true and nothing is false
while one can build or destroy
worlds in less than seven days
Nothing is gained and nothing is lost
It's all a game that has no rules
played by men and won by fools
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The Healer
07:25
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THE HEALER
It was the time we cried for justice loud
We did and felt so proud
Then they start to cut the moral out
Allright, we have allowed
And when they start to sort the people out
we looked away and had no doubt
See, when he first came it looked like a sign
He promised to save us from crime
So we thought everything would be fine
And he heals all our wounds - but...
Then he starts saying doubters are waiting
He talked about the only one he had become
the only thing that we could win and pray to him
And it seems to be that
hear now, fear now
We, we didn't see the tears now, tears now
And could it really be that we we're never free
or meant to be – see
We called him healer, see what we got
We were believers, see what we got
And now we cry for freedom loud
They laugh and felt so proud
Then we tried to turn the wheel around
Too late, we're not allowed
See, when he first came it looked like a sign
He promised to save us from crime
So we thought everything would be fine
And he heals all our wounds - but...
Then he starts saying doubters are waiting
He talked about the only one he had become
the only thing that we could win and pray to him
And it seems to be that
hear now, fear now
We, we didn't see the tears now, tears now
And could it really be that we we're never free
or meant to be – see
We called him healer, see what we got
We were believers, see what we got
Too late...
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Innocent ?
05:10
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INNOCENT ?
Wading through the oceans of minced dreams
while they puke some little pieces of
surreal truth to feed the stupid crowd
The endless kiss of him that made them proud
so the rigid lens gives you the perfect view into the heated
heart of bloody polished steel
and as they started dancing
you can hear them paying homage to their unknown fear
See what we have given you
See what we can do for you
We just do what we are told
for religion we are sold
all we touch is dead and cold
And while they exorcise what they believe
always flagging honour and justice
vindication for their blinded greed
so that you can play the innocent
'cause you learned how to behave in a virtuell world
that's full of mutilated dreams
and as they started dancing
you can hear them paying homage to their
unknown fear
See what we can give for you
See what we have done for you
all we have is here before you
accept our lives, we must implore you
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6. |
Memories of Tomorrow
04:37
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MEMORIES OF TOMORROW
All alone, I feel cold inside
Loneliness, I'm the only one to know
I am one with my armchair
All night I'm playing for you
Though I know you won't thank me
What else is left now to do?
It is here, near and nearer
One foot in the grave, I've seen this all before
Memories, memories of tomorrow
In the grave, I've seen this all before
Dear me, memories of tomorrow
Once I was dead, I know I'll be
I've diffracted it all on myself
Oh, can't this chalice pass by me
Why can't it be someone else
I've got to pay for the world now
If not, there's no one to do
It is here, near and nearer
One foot in the grave, I've seen this all before...
Memories, memories of tomorrow
In the grave, I've seen this all before
Dear me, memories of tomorrow
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Heroes Grief
05:34
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HEROES GRIEF
Hear them sing the tales of glory about a man so brave and wise
He subdued the hated tyrant but he's unlucky, hear his cries
Why - All of mine are dead and gone
Oh, my absence was too long
Bloody vengeance's what I swear
Heroes grief, it makes me strong!
In the world's most darkest hour when he prevents the fall of man
He shakes off the yoke of evil, he is the saviour of all land
Why - These betrayers killed my love
But there soon will come the day
For their treason they must pay
Heroes grief, it makes me strong!
"After Karlaak had fall he went through the forest of Troos
where he met Zarozinia, daughter of the fallen king of the
Dreaming City. He tried to part himself from his two glorious
swords Stormbringer and Blade of Sorrow and was punished
by the gods with the knowledge about his destiny. He had to
face the bitter truth of being an immortal hero in the endless
war between good and evil........"
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Heartbeat
06:54
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HEARTBEAT
In the shadow of our industry we constructed all these big machines
symbolizing what we want to be - superpowers of insanity
accepting all of this bureaucracy content to be another wana be
obscured by all of this complexity consumed as fuel for even bigger dreams
little voices saying please sign here - you know these children are too young my dear
and the endless sound of moving parts replaced the rhythm of their straining hearts
while the wheels continue turning we still believe in sold out learning
in the center are these blinded eyes masked by a melted fire out of ice
answers finally came to me inside a plastic strawberry
creeping through your cancered skin, remember that your life is a sin
Lost like a heartbeat we will never hear
caught by the house of coldness we all fear
and in our blindness we can't see the ghost of all we used to be
in the daylight of our destiny swimming in reflected vanity
so you smoke another cigarette one more thing in life that you'll regret
while the wheels continue turning we still believe in sold out learning
in the center are these blinded eyes masked by a melted fire out of ice
Lost like a heartbeat we will never hear
caught by the house of coldness we all fear
and in our blindness we can't see the ghost of all we used to be
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Transgressor
03:32
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TRANSGRESSOR
Transgressor -I am
the one force of the future
Control - The new ways are stronger
Obey - Your Weakness is my power
Downfall
I'm the transgressor
Predecessor - Overstepper
Strong aggressor
Put your ways behind you,
they only have confined you
They are the chains that bind you,
needn't I remind you?
I am the tempter - extravagant my ways
The worid is my menagerie
Freedom the dream of whe weak
Knowledge the scheme of the meek
Boundaries of this world behind
Apes walking upright - Mankind
Transgressor born to lead, I will satisfy your greed
Soon you'll understand the power I command
Transgressor the one The process has begun
Soon you'll understand the power I command
Reality is gone
The new weys are strong
Transgress!
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10. |
Prophecy
04:18
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PROPHECY
Before the night is over, you'll be initiated too.
You are elected for the world,
you must be prepared when the time will come
Listen to the prophecy now
You're given by the great old ones
The music in your hands is a bastion
Why me? Tell me, out there.
Isn't it deceit, man? Pay the price.
Believe me, I'm too weak.
You've got inner strength, man. Ability's your might
Deceive me! Take my doubts away.
You've got no choice, man. It's the only way!
What should I think of this?
'cause much too many have failed this way
Maybe it's just another paralogism
and my mind fools me now
I listen to the prophecy now
that I'm given by the great old ones
The music in my hands could be a bastion
Why me? Tell me, out there.
Isn't it deceit, man? Pay the price.
Believe me, I'm too weak.
You've got inner strength, man. Ability's your might
Deceive me! Take my doubts away.
You've got no choice, man. It's the only way!
Listen to the prophecy!
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