- superhero
City lights are calling
slowly coming back to life
Speeding in the fastlane
Mama let us waste no time
Devil in the doorway selling any kind of hell
We're just coming out to play the game
- 9-2-9
We opened the door after midnight
To step into a timeless world
Angels and madness been flying around
A crack in the voice of reason
Something has taken over
Preventing us from turning around
Been sailing across the seas
- All the clowns
When you're walking down the empty road
Feel like creeping, crawling, cold and bare
And you're afraid of Mistery Scary-face
Don't turn around since you may find him there
A fire of hope has turned into smoke,
The child to a man
- Another time
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
- Arrows Fly
Faking the truth 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
- Behind The Gates To Midnight World
Born alone, tiny soul
Unknown looks to face from all around
Caught in space and time
A new apparel, different name
We got another stowaway
In life and who's to blame
What a beautiful day
- Blessing in Disguise
Living in a screenplay she neve r read the end
and no one else is to see..
The pain of abrasions covered with a smile
no one's to look underneath
In a lonesome night she ran
away in quest for light and then
she found fire....
- Catch Of The Century
Catch Of The Century
You do not know, and you don't care
And you may never learn
I made approaches, you gave me teeth
And got my hope inurned
Unprepossessing, that's what you say
- Dead Or Rock
No rules, no pain, no fear and no reason
Full moon, we're insane
Two-time and one big treason
There is fire in the air tonight
A wicked sensation
Stick waving, dick waving
Trial-run of procreation
- Deadmaker
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
- Dragonfly
Is it really the treasure of gold
Or the dance on the rainbow itself
Bound to a track
Painting over the cracks
In his dreams they'd put up on the shelf
Little wind-up soldier
With a ball and a chain
- Every Night without You
Waiting up all night
I am lying by your side
I can't close my eyes and slowly dream away
I so need to feel you near
The sight I'd see, the breath I'd hear
Watching till the break of day
- Eyes Of The Tyrant
In the eyes of the mighty domain and its evil
Doctrines, there is no trace of romance
But the fears that grow
Noone can watch his next into the eyes
You killed the poetry of mine
A long time ago – NOW
How many times have you given me rage
When your words were mendacious
- Faces in the Darkness
There in the distance
You don't see anything
And anything is what keeps me alive
I am the mess inside your mind
I am the black behind the light
I'm the tail of the glowing ball
That drowns in the horizon
- Fairytale
yeah...
giants of stone build up my desire
no one could tell us the secret of fire
the hinger for wisdom deep in your heart
you can`t accept that you`re liveing apart
water runs down through the river
lord you are the only to deliver
- Fallen Angels
[Music & Lyrics: Sammet]
Sun going down, she opens her eyes
It's dark in the belfry and cold
Whispers of rain, wind in the sky
So long it's been all she's been told
Dream child, you're all alone
- Falling Down
"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 to hurt
You don't try to find a reason why
You don't have a brain
(You don't wanna have a brain)
You are just a masquerade, just a nice facade
- For a trace of life
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
- Frozen Candle
Crying on the pyre, feelin' all so strange
When you took my mind to deteriorate, told
Me that you like me, atrocious and deterrent
Lies, you showed me how it is to suffer hate
Celebrate my funeral, vultures on my corpse
Ashes to ashes – me to hell, you think I could
Be dug alive, but you never knew, you're just
- Golden Dawn
He was born into this world
Living love but he got hurt
And he sighed when he beheld
The bleeding lamb
Blood and tears drip on the ground
Dung the olives on the mount
Love is crucified, made way
- Hallowed
Sacred – standing full of pride
Spite in my brain causing you to fight
Enchained – you pray to get a slave
Rules with no sense, to dust you will decay
You left the empire of freedom
Hallowed be my name
Hallowed be my name
- Holy Water
Waiting all the time to erase it from my mind
I feel like I've been left behind, my heart is frozen
Pushed to rush and fall and again I'm gonna crawl
Is there really no return from the life been chosen
You wanted more from me than I could ever be
Rain is falling, pouring down on me
- Jerusalem
[Music: Sammet & Ludwig / Lyrics: Sammet]
Cold in the wind, starless the night
Rain pouring down when the last one arrives
So many stories telling of pain
Are told by the freaks they've been throwing away
Ride out, set off to the sea
- King Of Fools
ОРИГИНАЛ И ПЕРЕВОД.
ОРИГИНАЛ:
What do you think when you spit in my face
How does if feel to accuse and to haze
Now look at me, I'm not one of your kind
And I prefer to stay behind
And walk the wicked way
- 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,
- Lavatory Love Machine
Oh if only Brazil was not so far,
Far away I would swim or walk or ride,
But never ever fly!
But all the noise of the maniacs there
The seat on my face it's worth to bear
But I don't wanna bounce and die.
But then I see a lady in a tight blue dress
- Love Tyger
"What a cheek of the gods"
I thought when I'd hit the ground
But now that I'm here anyway - terrestrial-bound
(I) gotta make the most of causing this stir
Condescent to save the world
And turn it upside down
- Ministry Of Saints
When the lights go down you feel it come alive
Driven by the dread of love that never passes by
When the night unfolds a veil across the day
Waiting for the flood to come to wash the stains away
Look at the clouded sky
Poisoned rain, angels cry
Cracks show in the seal
- Mysteria
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Freakshow
Oh yeah...
The world around is killing me
No thunder win and rain
Eel are crawling everywhere
Compounding with the game
- Nailed To The Wheel
[Music: Sammet & Ludwig / Lyrics: Sammet]
Good intentions pave the way of the human child
Heading for the fork as you walk the path of life
A spell cast from the hiding woods, don't you close your eyes
The snake is waiting anytime to penetrate your mind
Don't you hear voices whispering, incline to walk down
- Navigator
[music: Tobias Sammet/Jens Ludwig, words: Tobias Sammet]
The desert in the blazing sun
I feel my throat is burning
The guard is incorruptible
You name it vanity and yearning - oh
Now - dusty wind into my face
- Nobody's Hero
Alright!
When they'd found him without name
He was cries resounding from the waste
He'd been thrown away
He'd never speak but he could see
Eyes of a child and certified insane
- Open Sesame
I got the power of the second sight
And I can see what's mine
I was bound to attain my ends
At the dawn of time
When the laughter got contagious
My conduct has turned outrageous
I can breathe my words into your brain
- Out Of Control
Out Of Control
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
- Out of Vogue
You ride the spinning wheel that's gotten faster
Outside they saw the passing centuries
Round and round, merry-go-round, round and round you go
Scream and shout, laugh aloud
So out of vogue
To lead a way outside the catalogue
- Overture
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
- Painting On The Wall
[Music & Lyrics: Sammet]
Strong on your feet, you were blinded
Building up a towar on shaking ground
Once in a world full of colors
Back to see just ruins there to be found
And now you're falling, crawling
- Pandora's Box
God, oh please bear with me, as you're looking from above
Elementary question: what do you take as love?
Badlands all around me, I got animal inside
God oh please forgive me for my sins
And for I enjoy this ride
Woe to you o earth and flood
- Paradise
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
- Ravenblack
You wake up to the screaming darkness
You brave the murk that moves
Like a bat in the night
Or an afllatus divine?
You're one of those terminal illusions
They're looking through you
They don't care what's inside
- Reach Out
When the spotlight is fading
And everyone's gone
When your thoughts come back to life
And you think of what you have done
Take a look in the mirror
And then look to the past
Tell me who you are
- Rise of the Morning Glory
[Music & words: Tobias Sammet]
I see an angel, fed up and pale
You've been a sleeper
You have been getting state my friend
Time to leave the vale again
Back on the runaway you accelerate
- Roses to No One
I'm feeling this time as bad as never before
A bleeding wag is fading away
Once you needed me for spending delight
But below this funny mask there's a crying face
The way that I smile is the way that I cry
But you'll never realize
My reputation is the one of a fool
Now watch how a poet dies, hear a poets cries
- Roses To Noone
I'm feeling this time as bad as never before
A bleeding wag is fading away
Once you needed me for spending delight
Below the funny mask there's a crying face
The way that I smile is the way that I cry
But you'll never realize
My reputation is the one of a fool
- Sacred Hell
Ravens in the air, noone in the streets
Seems like the fiend he must be back
Riding on his horse but also flying in the iar
Love has just started to crack – ow
Whisplash and torture, falseness and pain
Envy is driving our hate
Everything out there is mad and confused
- Sacrifice
Sacrifice
(music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet)
Too much time to get lost in the maze
Tell me isn't that strange
You bleed to get there - you are ready
To be a bird in a golden cage
- Sands of time
Seasons come and seasons go
Here I wait for something to be
Try to get as much as I can see
Hungry for life
But Have you see the sands of time
Every day is a moment in past
Every heartbeat a step to my last
I won't survive
- Save Me
Waiting for a little sign
Seems like to no avail
Strolling down the pavement aimlessly
Waitin for someone to snatch her bag of memories
How come you call it destiny?
When the cross you bear's your only company
- Save Us Now
The sound of explosions, the children awake
The turn of the tide acts up, the ground it starts to quake
A pile of dented steel, in fear I realize
Behind the shuttle's windshield two evil shinig eyes
Highspeed alien drum bunny
Highspeed alien drum bunny
- Scarlet Rose
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 head
- Sex Fire Religion
Hey there pal won't you gimme an ear
Gimme your everything and keep your fear
Godly voices telling me what to do
They're out for palpitation
Then leave you to your desperation
Take you and tie you and run over you
There's no resistance to the cry of the sirens
- Space Police
An ocean of stars gleaming like diamonds
How many times have we wondered what lies behind
And how do you wish to make explorations
And travel through space and time
To the crest of forever
Shoot up to life out there what will it be like?
And if we're much faster than light maybe I can see
- Spooks In The Attic
Always tried so hard to leave a tragic story
It's tearing me apart you never really care
Never met with your approval from your higher category
Found life at killing pace and wanna have my share
I've been led to the water to lap up
So I'm not gonna dry out draining
- Standing in The Rain
Standing by the doorway
Starring into space
And i'm wondering what is happening
Is it right
Staring at the leafs
As i'm walking through the rain
Is it just a change of seasons
- Superheroes
City lights are calling
Slowly coming back to life
Speeding in the fastlane
Mama let us waste no time
Devil in the doorway selling any kind of hell
We're just coming out to play the game
- Tears of a Mandrake
Gaze at the leaving clairvoyant
Predicting invasions and pain
A child can see through the stranger
The Watcher's eye, the noble liar
It's time for the merchant and his help for sale
Blades to cut wicked flesh
On a merchantman he counts his money
- The Arcane Guild
Rain pouring down from
Beyond this grey shroud of mystery above
The goblet of memories is filling
Yet it can't appease your thirst for love
Salutation - invocation of the light
Of a spark to ignite
- The Asylum
Lying in the still of the night
A yearning for shelter
Silence kissing your wounds, soothing your pain
Darkness, and what do they know
'Bout losing direction, clutching a straw
Cherish the hope to make it finally home
Home, home, home, home
- 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.
- The Pharaoh
From the cradle of silence and of light
It took a birth in human blood - angels cry -
To the ages of violence and of hate...
To explore the left hand path I came alive,
Into my striding, the shell of a god in the cold
My soul is just hiding, my spirit haunting on to control!
Flame of the Nile, fire in the darkness
- The Piper Never Dies
Thirsting for salvation
You're off to find the stairway
Novice on your never ending ride
Whatever you may find dare to take it higher
Here's your instigation on your trip into the light
Standing at the temple
Where the wizard shall arise
- The Spirit Will Remain
A scent of rain
A healing breeze
Is blown into my face
To feel desire
And raise my head
To gaze at the sky
And watch the setting sun
Breaking through
- The Unbeliever
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
Burning down, burning down
- Theater of Salvation
"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!
- Thorn Without A Rose
Walking a lonely road in the dark
A scent of rain
Under wings of a clouded sky
Is it a losing game
Running after pictures
Slowly slipping away
Trying to take hold of a memory
Do you remember the days when forever
- Tomorrow
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
- Trinidad
"Let me tell you a story about an ugly woman I know"
"Hello Girls!"
"Hello Tobi you hot little machine!"
I'm a sight for sore eyes
Oh, if your eyes would only see
I've been born on tiptoe
Still you looked
- Under the Moon
Now if you gaze up to the moon
See she's become as blood and soon
The time is right...
We gotta pave the way
You gather silk to weave the net
Entrap the strongest you can get
A soul that's ready to return again
- Until We Rise Again
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
- Vain glory opera
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
- Vain Glory Opera 1998
1. Overture 01:31
2. Until We Rise Again 04:28
3. How Many Miles 05:39
4. Scarlet Rose 05:10
5. Out of Control 05:04
6. Vain Glory Opera 06:08
7. Fairytale 05:11
8. Walk On Fighting 04:46
- Wake Up Dreaming Black
[Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet]
You gotta know
That there ain't always
Words of reason to explain
With those words my heart is falling silent
To let me slowly go insane
- Walk On Fighting
[music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet & Edguy]
The ivory is cold. Where is my desire
In a cage of gold, not a trace of fire
Eyes cold as ice. I`m heading for tomorrow
I am tired of waiting. I?l beg and steal and borrow
Life is to short to be wasted
So why do I sit around
- Wash Away the Poison
Here alone now I'm staring at the sea
Behind the far horizon
Is there a better place for me?
Afraid to drown, afraid to dive
Scared by fears and the hot sunlight, yeah
And I dance in the rain, dive in the pool of life
- Wasted Time
Pain is over, no one's to take the blame?
We believed in roses, but then the thorns remained
When I look into the rear view mirror
We create and we destroy
But I've run into a street with a dead end
Walk up that stairway to jump off into the black
Here we go
- We Don't Need A Hero
When you wake up in the fire
And your harbor lies in ruins
You wonder why the giant has been shot
Fired off down from sky
You plead for explanation
Is it accident or rule
And where is your childhood hero
- When A Hero Cries
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
- Вниз к Дьяволу
Roaming the plains
Where a number is your name
In a palace
And you'll never fin the door
Oh look into the mirror
Is it what you wanna see
Or just a cuddy toy
The vogue has washed the ashore
- минус Judas At The Opera
Darkness has covered the opera house
Something is wrong you can fell
There's a devil in disguise
A traitor has taken the dais
Catalogue people spend a pitying gaze
What can a man do in such a case
Aristocratic experts on art vomit all over the place