Wanderer On The Edge Of Time

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1.	Introduction - Classical Guitar 02:18		buy track
2.	Ouverture 02:50		buy track
3.	A Certain Fool ( Le Fou ) - Movement 1 03:37	lyrics	buy track
A CERTAIN FOOL ( Le Fou ) A thought of what is true I don’t know for how long I’ve been around this place One reason to live on Don’t know why this dark days should be mine And those old ones – bodies of machines Cold price for endless life Still see those Gates I once stepped through Nothings certain or true………………….. Frozen sea Just reflecting me Tumbling through this unreal lifeless scene Absorbed in hopeless thoughts Don’t know what happened to this ) world All is certain not true………………….. What I see Is creating me Must be strong within my thoughts Have to find someone who knows Somewhere truth must have survived I must walk on to find a sign I don’t know why I don’t know why I Whats true true
4.	Interlude 1 - Group 00:52		buy track
5.	The 5th Element ( Le Bateleur ) - Movement 2 06:32	lyrics	buy track
THE 5TH ELEMENT ( Le Bateleur ) Bluebird in slowmotion Disturbed by a silent cry “ I will never hurt 'cause I’m that what they deserved I create what they should see, sense of my life I hope you see that’s true, look in my eyes All that what seems to be, part of my art Who else should have this might, create this glorious light, no one should stop me See me acting gently Hoping to safe the lost blue sky Don’t know any limits I was ready ….. Anxious to know - wisdom to know - wisdom In the end going beyond the pale Endless nodes beyond the means now Bluebird with no motion Hiding spot of thoughts Can’t clarify Bluebird in motion There must be something more a missing line Time will not change me This will always hurt ‘cause that is what they deserve I destroyed all the proofs disturbing my life Recruiting all the world slaves in my eyes All that what seems to be, no place to hide Than I start take their lives, create this glorious light, no one could stop me Diving into darkness Tasting frenzy Crossing madness Finally moved the skies Into madness Mashed by power Breathing boundless might Anxious to know - wisdom to know - wisdom In the end going beyond the pale Endless nodes beyond the means now Free All you see is part of my art noone else has this might I create this glorious light now see! Can't you see this glorious might my world full of wisdom a small part of what you once lost a glooming power unleashed the fire (that) I am!
6.	Interlude 2 - Group 00:34		buy track
7.	The Apocalypt - World In Shards ( La Maison Dieu ) - Movement 3 05:43	lyrics	buy track
THE APOCALYPT - WORLD IN SHARDS ( La Maison Dieu ) Wading through this desert ocean I am talking with the wind “See this world beyond control” Cataclysm Abstract vision Green collision Can’t see clear right now Aberration Twin sensation Fear foul nations Preoccuppied downfall Fading out this black white monkeys I am now - reaching for this light Lost of feel, last frozen motion Endless nodes of what could be Kings will come apparelled satin Merchants dressed in tailored cloth And a heroe, shrouded in sorrow Mirror, Mirror on the wall Strolling through the library build out of human idiocy smeared letters of democracy razed traces of humanity clarify it finally Everything I felt as good Experienced as part of truth Just have to learn How to accept Conspiracy is just a word Abstraction for what is not sold Award Last planets breathing but still no one knows whats right ? A bleeding heart is mine And all this veritable mutants - killing with a smíle white lily of the nile And all this spat out rulers, lawless - vapid painted mall a silent stone in time in time
8.	Interlude 3 - Classical Guitar 02:03		buy track
9.	King With Broken Crown ( Le Diable ) - Movement 4 05:41	lyrics	buy track
KING WITH BROKEN CROWN ( Le Diable ) Skull in my hands Someone is mumbling in front of me Nameless fear is all around Don’t believe what I was told “So I’ve found you Condamned king of this pain You are here Look at me malignity What you see eternity Lord of fear Can’t you hear? I sensed the spite Behind your golden mask Akward years I rushed through Try to find you Lost myself in agony Sentiments, walled in heart And this Hokey Talking what you stand for Freedom Mankind So I start a war And silently what they are dying for And suddenly Now I am blinded no more And finally Than I opened this door it’s you and me Now I am blinded no more And finally Than I opened this door it’s you and me Don’t stare at me as if I am dehumanized there’s a lot left to do blow out candles can’t you see it in my eyes I am the one who take the lives And your futile hoping can’t free all those you love mankind So I start a war And silently what they are dying for And suddenly Now I am blinded no more And finally Than I opened this door it’s you and me Now I am blinded no more And finally Than I opened this door it’s you and me
10.	Intermezzo - Movement 5 05:23		buy track
11.	Interlude 4 - Group 02:11		buy track
12.	Affection ( L' Amoureux ) - Movement 6 02:53	lyrics	buy track
AFFECTION ( L' Amoureux ) I already miss you I don't know for how long I'll have to wait for you And I am anxious as always I cannot forget you you brought me out of equilibrium And I still can't tell "why you?" But I can feel that your poison is already in my mind (You are the stormwind in my sails) You are the air that I breathe (you are the air that chills my skin) You are the flame that burned my soul (you are the fever in the night) You are the fever - you are the cure (you are the one forbidden fruit) Do you care for me, oh do you care for me? Do you know my name? Do you know what I endure for you? For you I'd sail over seven seas For you I'd bring kingdoms on their knees For you even I would start a war All for you I would fight and fall (You are the stormwind in my sails) You are the air that I breathe (you are the air that chills my skin) You are the flame that burned my soul (you are the fever in the night) You are the fever - you are the cure (you are the one forbidden fruit) Do you care for me, oh do you care for me? Do you know my name? Do you know what I feel for you?
13.	Interlude 5 - Group 00:51		buy track
14.	Mistaken Truth ( Le Heretique ) - Movement 7 05:10	lyrics	buy track
MISTAKEN TRUTH ( L‘ hérétique ) Shortcut of devotion Starring alien eyes Clerics akward prayings God was out of sight All this emotion Squandered as hate This preyed upon my mind Hopeless try to understand Live turned into frozen dark Armed with my ocean Jailed unshed tears Lost Staggering hope Go straight on Then I saw a place a final trace Whats going on The fate laid out in sand Bones once been a pulsing live Ageless storm of senseless waste Shortcut of emotion Glowing in my eyes As I started crying God was not in sight Canine devotion Green fishing gear Hate not enough broken words Fear Written down Liars bluff I found here Flavor of a wonder Searching for a proof inside Reading inside outside Starring blankly at the scene Bloodmoon with a white flag Sailing on a scourged red head Blinded by a green track Nightmare of a profane rite Absurd might “Stamp out all humans God will sort them out” Invasive promised sky Ancient pages full of lies Written down for holy eyes Subtly temptation Always been there I am free Can move on Try To Find out What the faith Has wiped out Flavour of a wonder Searching for a proof inside Reading inside outside Starring blankly at the scene Bloodmoon with a white flag Sailing on a scourged red head Blinded by a green track Nightmare of a profane rite Absurd might
15.	Finale 02:56		buy track

about

Libretto Wanderer

First Movement "A Certain Fool" ("Le Fou")

The violinist awakes in an unreal and lifeless scene and doesn't know what happened.
The world has changed to a barren, hopeless place with burning ruins where should be cities.
He is wondering about that view and goes on to find the truth about the past that changed the world into a living hell.
Because we decided to continue this story ( "Dances....") and also try to connect each song to a high arcane of Tarot Cards, this 1st song is dedicated to the card "The Fool" and when I close my eyes and listen to the song I can see our undead dancer holding a dusty and worn out jester's hat in his hands, hits the dust off it while singing this song.

Second Movement "The 5th Element" ("Le Bateleur")

Our protagonist mets a strange guy on his travels. The man is standing on a hill and waving his arms in an enchant. This wizard is playing with the elements. He creates small worlds in his hands, watches them and let them disappear again. And while he is playing with these mights he is messing with it more and more, while he falls into a selfish overconfident frenzy. And in the end he becomes one with the energy of his own magic, bursts into flames and disappears with a knowing smile.

Third Movement "The Apocalypt // World In Shards" (“La Maison Dieu")

The violinist finds an old deserted newspaper archive in a library in the ruins of a big city and starts to put the puzzle together with the last newspapers he can find. And while he is reading the partially burned, partially full intact newspapers he sees the hidden signs of warning in every story he reads. He imagines all things that happened - global warming, war, terrorism, world in panic and all other things that predicted the preoccupied downfall of the human race. In horror and disbelief he shouts out his anger and frustration at the walls, but isn't able to help anymore. The world lies in shards of a mirror...

Fourth Movement "King With Broken Crown" ("Le Diable")

The further he travels, the darker the world becomes. Finally he reaches a gigantic fortress in which nobody is left alive. He steps over corpses of the former inhabitants and walks into a big hall that seems to be kind of a throne room. On that throne sits a huge man in black. The figure is hard to see with the bare eye. In his hand he holds an head that is wearing a crown.
In the following conversation the figure on the throne reveals himself as Lucifer. And that he is very pleased with that overall situation. He encourages the violinist to believe that mankind has extinguished itself very well. That he is only a profiteer of the whole situation and not the perpetrater.
And that the only true evil lurks in the hearts of men - just have a look around.
And then he goes away, because he is very busy these times harvesting the last souls he can get...

Fifth Movement "Affection" ("L’Amoureux.")

While he strolls aimless through the lands, searching for a healthy and unharmed human now, he found an old weathered house. A light is burning and inside he finds an old man with long grey hair, a long beard and over and over full of cobwebs... he seems to be sitting in an armchair for a very long time. And as the violinist is trying to talk with him he tells his story. But our hero notices soon, that it makes no difference to whom he would tell it. There is only one thing in the mind of the old man and this may be there for eternity. He is waiting for a sign of the girl he deeply feels for.
But we know that she won't come back anymore. She won't hear his pledges and won't return to the old man, who is waiting for her since so many years. His undying love gave him unnatural long life and so it is almost impossible to tell if he is sitting there since 50 or 200 years. He is affected to this woman and even if these feelings may have been something good in the beginning...after all these years of waiting they turned him into an empty hull of madness...so the violinist leaves him alone again while the old man is going forth with the story without even noticing that there is no listener anymore.

Movement six "Mistaken Truth" ("Le Hérétique")

In the end he finds the reason for the beginning of all this annihilation.
He finds more evidence for religious motivated battles everywhere. He returns to the library searching for the proof. And finally finds the reoccured fight between many religions swelling over the last decades of the last recorded time.
That the religion was used in a political way and that in the end the faith has turned against the politics, because in the end they couldn't stop the fanatics.

credits

released March 12, 2010

Ralph Hubert - bass & classical guitar
Alex Landenburg - drums & percussion
Benedikt Zimniak - e - guitar
Erik Grösch - e - guitar, 6 and 12 accoustic guitar
Martin LeMar - vocals

Guitar Solos :

“The 5th Element” ( Le Bateleur )

1st solo by Benedikt Zimniak
2nd solo by Erik Grösch

“The Apocalypt - World In Shards” ( La Maison Dieu )

1st solo by Peter Lake
2nd solo by Erik Grösch

All songs composed by Ralph Hubert

Lyrics by Ralph Hubert except
- except “Affection” ( L’ Amoureux ), words by Martin LeMar

General arrangements by Mekong Delta
Drum arrangements by Uli Kusch and Alex Landenburg

- produced by Ralph Hubert
- co produced by Erik Grösch

- cover & artwork by Eliran Kantor

- published by Zardoz Media

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