Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus [Limited Edition] (2008) by Edguy (보컬) on maniadb.com

MINISTRY OF SAINTS
(Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet)

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

Tonite a thousand angels fall
Heaven’s up against the wall
Changes holding sway
We can make you anyone
By the morning we’ll be gone
The ministry of saints

You’re afraid to disappear beneath the waves
Bread and circus, bread and wine
They rain on your parade
Round and round and round
You’re spinning like a wheel
Crying for redemption you break the seventh seal

We’re cleansing your soul from sin
Plead for you, angels sing
We’re taking pride of place

Tonite a thousand angels fall
Heaven’s up against the wall
And change is holding sway
We can make you anyone
By the morning we’ll be gone
The ministry of saints

Tonite a thousand angels fall
Heaven’s up against the wall
And change is holding sway
We can make you anyone
By the morning we’ll be gone
The ministry of saints

Tonite a thousand angels fall
Heaven’s up against the wall
And change is holding sway
We can make you anyone
By the morning we’ll be gone
The ministry of saints

> 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 your 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
Calling you - a razor edge affair
You close your eyes boy
She tears your lids in two
Never even try to miss she's there
And then when the time pieces shatter
I am baptized by the attar
Right into heaven's door
Sex fire religion
Visionary position
Angel in your temple of pleasure
Sex fire religion
I been granted admission
Angel to your temple of love
Wicked wild m'am with a bag full of tricks
And up shit creek there I'm stuck in a fix
Strikes like a bolt from the blue
The Siren baits with lubrication
Then she steals your habitation
Rides you and ties you and runs you
Maybe she don't know love
But she knows how to make it
Divinity is running down her skin
In the city of evil we touch the sky
Let the ride to the Paradise begin
And then when the time pieces shatter
I am baptized by the attar
Kick down into the pie
Sex fire religion
Visionary position
Angel in your temple of pleasure
Sex fire religion
I been granted admission
Angel to your temple of love
Sex fire religion
Visionary position
Angel in your temple of pleasure
Sex fire religion
I been granted admission
Angel to your temple of love

> I can't figure the Lord down in funereal gravity
One finishing touch and the creature is coming alive
As I kneel down and pray
I know God is watching over me
Is He pissing Himself
When He's knocking me out of my stride
And on day number eight
When the sun is about to go down
Here we go, what a show
What a nose for blow
(Chorus)
You're alive, said the maker and smiled at the aardvark
You're divine by the grace of the master above
You're alive, said the maker and smiled at the aardvark
You're divine by the grace of the master above
Hey Frankenstein, are you the one I think you are?
(Godfather!) If you are divine then we are bizarre
I hear you laughing from the loge above
At my expense for your entertainment
Hey Lord above, why don't your armies ever smile?
(Godfather!) Why don't they ever dress in your style?
And never share the humor that you surely have
Creating me for your entertainment
Why do they have to get married
Before they do what they do?
Every day, any way
When there's Hell to pay
(Chorus)
We hold our hands afraid of what we've done
Fear is the key to you - thy Kingdom Come
You shake your head and have another wine
Don't you almost die laughing wondering why?
Running in the dust, running in the dust
Afraid of the hail stones cold as ice
Running in the dust, running in the dust
Straight to the wastelands
We'll never read your signs
Running in the dust, running in the dust
Afraid of tomorrow
Afraid of what we've done
Running in the dust, running in the dust
You're the disciples of the big bad wolf
(Chorus)
You're alive, oh, you're alive
You're alive, the pride of creation
Oh, you're the pride of creation
Yes you are!
Oh, you're the pride of creation

> Silence - it ain't the kill but the thrill of the chase
Same old story, same old song
Only the names have changed
Fair warning - I could have read your mind in time
By the look in your eyes
Like diamonds turning to ashes
Ties frayed and I missed your signs
Now I can't get over you
Cannot get under somebody else
I close my eyes...
(Chorus)
When all I see is you, you came to drain my life away
But it takes nine lives til it's over
All I see is you, you came to drain my love away
But I got nine - I got nine lives til it's over
All my supplications gone unheard
Your head in my crotch has turned to a boot
But you won't hear a word
Salvation - I ride into nowhere and out of nowhere I come
The twinge in your brain, the pang of regret
Don't mess with no son of a gun
I'm gonna get over this
Gotta get under somebody else
I close my eyes...
(Chorus)

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 God tell me why your voice ran dry And left me dreaming black [Chorus:] Dying angels, Dying angels Feeling takes a gun to fire Reason from a lightening sky Dying angels, dying angels I'm agonizing over dreams Strangled by a feeling I wake up dreaming black A million single islands drift apart And I'm losing ground The more I feel the less I know Strait-jacket-hero inward bound God tell me why your voice ran dry And left me dreaming black [Chorus 2x] I wake up dreaming Another hero - a dying hero Another hero - a dying hero

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 chain Got destinations engraved on your mind Now you don't care as long As you don't make it there You wanna fly but not arise Calling you, calling you You are the one to hear them Calling you, calling you Calling you, calling you And your daddy don't approve And when no-one's awake anymore He paints a picture of a strange looking fly From a distant world You light and lo and behold It's coming alive Calling you, calling you You always hear them speak Derring do, derring do Calling you, calling you From a distant burning star refrain: You wanna fly, so you drag on flies Drag on dragonflies From a suffocating room, on a dragonfly You're riding high when you nasalize What you pulverize Make your day and dream away on a dragonfly Mayday mayday I ain't fond of smoking The buzzer known in dire straits Selfless without intention Too late to intermediate Smoking kills Calling you, calling you You are the one two three four Calling you, calling you Calling you, calling you And your daddy don't approve refrain We're getting high on a dragonfly

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 Had only just begun You reach for the distance And when you arrive the distance is gone Already gone Withered roses in the rear view mirror Fade away and rain came late Was it all worth it When it's all been proven just an illusion A distant memory for Tomorrow in the palm of our hands What's gonna be left but a thorn without roses Tomorrow in the palm of our hands We're gonna take hold of a thorn Of a thorn without a rose Laid out a hedge of thorns around my heart Pricking your fingers Our reasons and soul Tearing you and me apart Bed of roses in the rear view mirror It turns to thorns To a bed of thorns I'd never known that dying embers Would hurt more than the blazing fire we'd lit Tomorrow in the palm of our hands What's gonna be left but a thorn without roses Tomorrow in the palm of our hands We're gonna take hold of a thorn without a rose Why do you think that you have lost There ain't nobody who has not It ain't right what I feel I'll been begging on my knees For the sun to rise again - yeah Four yours and mine Another time

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
We never arrived but always believed
And now for the first time time I feel
The port I was too blind to see
929 - Just a number at sundown
A room with a view
929 - A night to remember
929 - I been reaching out
I been stumbling around
929 - I'm finally home
Been standing there with a suitcase
Surroundings fighting to get out
Send it off to the Lost-And-Never-Found
Maybe I don't have my head on straight
Maybe I'll lose it tomorrow
Preventing me from turning around
Been sailing across the seas
Up in the wind
Plowing through grief
And now for the first time I see
The port I was too blind to see
929 - A number at sundown
A room with a view
929 - A night to remember
929 - I been reaching out
I been stumbling around
929 - I'm finally home

Welcome to this wonderworld
Everybody take your sledges
Winterland Plutocracy
Down the slope don't fear the hedges

Everybody in their box
Waiting under rights of action
Raise your heads and hold your breath
I can't stand your putrefaction

I can smell your brain decay
As you look down at the stage and
Drive me mad and then insane
Welcome to the show

You've been waiting for the one
To bring you joy and ecstasy
And you've been waiting for a song
And you demand to feel the tragedy

But when it's right out of control
And it's not your song anymore
And you are ready to forget
The truth that you'd been asking for

I'm not afraid to sacrifice
And I don't care bout your advice
As I spread my wings and fly

No love - it's pain you've come to feed
In mental strain I crawl and bleed
You make me please

Forever roaming
You will hear it scream
The cries of Speedhoven
Forever roaming
Every starless night
You will hear the cries

You'll never get:
I'll never be the one that you want me to be
And all the treasures that you hold
All your diamond rings and gold
All your flake and look and tongue
I have tried and it was wrong

You tried to push me up a notch
But all I made was an itchy crotch



Fornication, ass galore
I wanted love and I want more
Muckrakers waiting for the prey
Muckrakers want me to obey
But you will never own me
Though you pay

This opera is haunted they will say
That's where they've driven the light insane

Forever roaming
You will hear it scream
The cries of Speedhoven
Forever roaming
Every starless night
You will hear the cries
Forever roaming
You will hear it scream
The cries of Speedhoven
Forever you'll hear it scream

In a cold winter night I had a vision
Taking me by my hand
Leading me to the door
To rescue me from the wastelands

The glance of the shining ivories
A world that they can't understand
Out of sound, out of reason
The voice of their laughter was gone

Taken away, time for a change
I'm walking over
Flying away, flying away
Dying into another world
Pure and divine
And the laughter dies

Welcome to this wonderworld
Everybody take your sledges
Winterland Plutocracy
Down the slope don't fear the hedges

Forever roaming
You will hear it scream
The cries of Speedhoven
Forever roaming...

> 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
Lady don't you leave us in a mess
Take the bow and shove it up your ass
(Chorus)
Go die or rock tonight
No tradeoff - there's just dead or rock
Go die or rock tonight
No tradeoff - there's just dead or rock
She reigns and goes down, your muse in prudery
Encaged, enslaved, depressed and shaved
Austerity
We're caviar to the general
Beyond your sight
Rape your imagination
Kicking up a row tonight
Oh we have come to make a mess
Kiss the baton and then shove it up your ass
(Chorus)
Don't need no sympathy
Don't need to play by the rules
Go down in ecstasy, go down on you
(Chorus)

You do not know, and you don't care
And you may never learn
I made approaches, you gave me teeth
And got my open heart

I'm paid for sassing, that's what you say
Don't get the essential point
What it came down to, was you and good nothing
Here's to the wicked and here's to the odd

You got your chance going down the drain,
You're dumping
The catch of the century
You've got your chance,
But you're much too vain to take it
The catch of the century

Your bodies waiting, cause all the world is already spoken for a host of rivals, I'm out for boogeying and I'll be forever more
You spread all around, sniff while I'm high, I'm on the road again
I'm going down with flying colors, before I go down on someone else

You got your chance goin' on my train, you're dumping
The catch of the century
And lady luck's got her ass in pain, you're wasting
The catch of the century
You got your chance goin' on my train, you're dump
The catch of the century

"I tell you, one day you will regret it
I will sell millions of records
I?m gonna have hundreds of women
Seven, seven Ferraris!
A private jet!
A helicopter license!
I'm gonna be the Formula One world champion!
I?m gonna have a big house in Hollywood Hills!
And you will be nothing
Nothing! Nothing! You will be nothing but nothing!
AAAAAHHH! AAAAAHHH! YOU! NOTHING! NOTHING, YOU'RE NOTHING!
HELICOPTER!"

"Tobi, so ist es gut?"

"Gut?"

Too much time to get lost in the maze
Tell me, isn't that strange?
You bleed to get there, you were ready
You were ready, to be a bird in a golden cage

Sweat is breaking on my brow
Where's the freak to ease my pain?
The room is dark and big and empty
Silence drivin' me insane

Night has fallen, demons laughing
Waiting for the light of day
Here's the land of milk and honey
There you got the price to pay

Searching for shelter
Riding the pendelum to paradise
As I'm reaching higher
What a pure desire
Swinging back towards the edge

When I drift away killing sacrifice
Here I go insane
What a price to pay, living sacrifice
I set off to Heaven, and found bedlam

There's a part of me that has not been sold
Save me please, embrace me, hold me
And kiss my bleeding soul

You can see below the creature
Pounding, sitting in my neck
If you'd see inside my head
You surely wouldn't turn your back on me

I'm looking for shelter, riding the pendelum to paradise
As I'm reaching higher, what a pure desire
Swinging back towards the abyss

When I drift away killing sacrifice
Here I go insane
What a price to pay, living sacrifice
I set off to Heaven, and found bedlam

Nothing remains the same, but still I hear those voices
Nothing remains the same, where am I gonna go?
Is it my destination, or just a fake temptation, baby?
I remember home, when demons came and I got swept away
From me

When I drift away killing sacrifice
Here I go insane
What a price to pay, living sacrifice
I set off to Heaven, and found bedlam

Babylon
by Edguy



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
a calm 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!"

Time to go back where I belong...
No one can prevend me from
raising towers in 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!!!

Ooohhh...

Oh yeah...

and like the vision of my urge to salvation told me,
I built up a tower to widen my horizon, whatever they might say

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
I close my eyes, I know what I would go for
Stewardess before the crash

Lavatory love machine
No fear can quell my steam
Lavatory live machine
No cabin fire burn my dream

I'm at you disposal
I gotta get up to see what you ain't gotta hide
Wheeling junk along the aisle
Keep your seat belt fastened
You're whipping with an iron voice
You command
Uh mistress I am in your hands

And when she asks me what I'd like to eat
I realise the domina feels the same
And I reply... What about your pie?

Lavatory love machine
No fear can quell my steam
Lavatory live machine
No cabin fire burn my dream

Lavatory love machine
No broken wings to stop me stream
Lavatory love machine
Honey do you like the way I cream?!

Now if I gotta die
I'll have been stiff and smiling till the crash
Let them know I've been alive
Till I made my final splash

Lavatory love machine
No fear can quell my steam
Lavatory live machine
Oh~

Don't hear those scary noises
From the turbine when you scream

Lavatory love machine
No broken wings to stop me stream
Lavatory love machine
Honey do you like the way I cream?!

Tears Of A Mandrake
by Edguy



Gaze at the leaving clairvoyant
Predicting inovasions and pain
A child can see trough 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
Then he sales away
The sea he'll cruise blood and fire

Oh father i can't see a lane
They make you a pawn in a game
For we are all deaf, dumb and blind

Chorus:
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feeel as the graze

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chains

When you're of to the hall of the serpent
See the synic who's counting his gold
While gun runners, priests and clairvoyants
Are dancing around the rising demon

You are taught to eat up all the crap they shit
Parading your nuts on a silver plate
Kill your brother by the blade they sell
For you don't unite
They reap your bondage sowing evil

There's no use to tell what i've seen
they know how to make you belive
Just what they want you to know

Chorus:
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feel as the graze

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chains

Tears of mandrake - yeah

Chorus:
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feeel as the graze

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chain

Chorus:
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feeel as the graze

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chain

Vain Glory Opera
by Edguy



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

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

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

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

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

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

And we never cry for love
We're superheroes
We are back where we belong
We never cry for pain
We're superheroes
Make a stand where we belong

Way too long I've tried to be what I could never be
For too long you've rolled the dice
But you can't control me
I ain't talking about romance
you may fiddle I may dance
Anyway it's just a game we play

And we never cry for love
We're superheroes
We are back where we belong
We never cry for pain
We're superheroes
Make a stand where we belong

You gotta move to stay alive
We're gonna rock the bash tonight..

Cry for love - We're superheroes
We are back where we belong

And we never cry for love
We're superheroes
We are back where we belong
We never cry for pain
We're superheroes
Make a stand where we belong

I saw her coming in high heels
moving like a queen
A little sweet angel but deep underneath
a mean machine

You're lying in wait to make me a fool
you want me to bite
I'm gonna take the bait and the hunter for afters
I'll take you for a ride

I don't wanna play no games
cause I'm a bad bad boy-all around
Let me be your Titanic before you know what's going on
I may go down..

Fucking with fire-I'm coming to rock
got my rocket on fire and I take what I want
Fucking with fire-loaded and cocked
you never miss it until you've begun
with the hair force one

Don't make no mistakes,don't you miss out
on the hell of a time
I'm a real go-getter and there's no doubt
that down the line

I know what you want and I know what you need
your secret desire got the gloves of a man
the hands of a beast
and my pants on fire

And I don't wanna play no games
cause I'm a nasty bad boy-all around, around
Let me be your Titanic, before you know what's going on
I'm going down...

Fucking..

Open my eyes and see my bleeding wounded hands...
Feeling the pain too hard to stand...To stand
Caught in the now and here
While they are on the way.
Hiding imagination, leading us astray...

[Bridge]
Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind
Sanity can be the toll
Leading to the core of your soul

[Chorus]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
Avantasia!

Walking along the icy gallery of pain
Tell me now... What can keep the flame alive?
Lack of imagination - raising up the tower
Where they hold our souls
To take away the power.

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

[Solo]

[Chorus]

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!

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

We don’t wanna be like you
Don’t you get that King Of Fools
We don’t mind your life is trite
You are the King Of Fools.

We are never gonna be like you
We don’t follow - King of fools
You’re the blind to lead the blind

And I walk the wicked way

You feel at ease as you flock with the masses
What do you see with your heads in their asses
Keep on railing at what I believe
Call me insane and I am proud to be

And walk the wicked way

We don’t wanna be like you
Don’t you get that King Of Fools
We don’t mind your life is trite
You are the King Of Fools.

We are never gonna be like you
We don’t follow - King of fools
You are the blind to lead the blind oh
...

We don’t wanna be like you
Don’t you get that King Of Fools
We don’t mind your life is trite
You are the King Of Fools.

We are never gonna be like you
We don’t follow - King of fools
You are the blind to lead the blind

You are the King of Fools!