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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 |
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| 2. |
| 5:58 |
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> 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 |
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| 3. |
| 5:29 |
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> 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 |
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| 4. |
| 4:27 |
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> 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) |
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| 4:06 |
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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
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| 6. |
| 4:57 |
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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
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| 4:47 |
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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
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| 8. |
| 3:48 |
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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 |
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| 9. |
| 7:43 |
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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... |
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| 5:00 |
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> 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) |
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| 1. |
| 5:14 |
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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?" |
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| 8:24 |
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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 |
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| 3. |
| 7:30 |
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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 |
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| 4:24 |
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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?! |
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| 7:42 |
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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 |
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| 6:26 |
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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 |
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| 3:24 |
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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 |
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| 4:38 |
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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.. |
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| 6:58 |
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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! |
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| 5:26 |
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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! |
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