Somewhere in this universe of lost forgotten dreams The silence weaves a tapestry of once enchanted themes The shadows listen carefully and question what it means
For stories have lives of their own But what good's a story whose end is unknown
Stay with me For the little night that's left to be For a moment in a memory That time cannot defile Stay with me Where the night still offers amnesty And the ending is tomorrow's unborn child And stay with me awhile
The darkness covers everything and carefully watches all It hides behind the storm's lightning and cushions every fall And everything it witnesses it always can recall
Like things that the heart can regret Bury in time and then try to forget
Stay with me For the little night that's left to be For a moment in a memory That time cannot defile Stay with me While the night still offers amnesty And the ending is still yet to be tomorrow's unborn child And stay with me awhile
Do you see commissar The night is darker Do you think commissar Their dreams are starker Do you hear commissar The night is breathing Could it be commissar We should be leaving Now before the curtain Does comes crashing down
Do you hear commissar The night is silent Do you think commissar It is defiance Do you see commissar The mob has faces Could it be commissar The dark embraces All as darkness will And in that dark we'll drown
Cities, towns We've torn them down And all we've found Are relics in a cemetery
But never fear I will stay near And to the dark I will be your emissary
Knights on horseback Bishops pacing All are losing ground
The pawn is now a queen He's moved across the board unseen The move is down
I believe That we've intrigued for far too long But now i think the plot has ended
A quick retreat Into the street Admit defeat And hope our moves will be defended
Across their throats The blade does wander They die without a sound
Who'd have thought we'd meet As bones beneath the dragons feet The wall is down
As the steam from the street starts to rise The gutter whispers That the moon like a child has arrived The dark has missed her
And the light that she lends is a guide Among her shadows Like the ghost from the past that survive
And you ask me now What is my intent Here among the ruins Cloaked in false pretence And how do i belong
I seek power Where the power remains I seek power In the back of your brain
How will you see me If you don't know where i hide How will you bleed me If i am somewhere inside
In the ashes of empires lost A distant warning On the danger of ignoring cost and children mourning As the memories cloud in our mind The past can glitter And so it has been designed
I know every lie That the mind invents Though they're well disguised And cloaked in innocence And how do i belong
I seek power Where the power remains I seek power Like the kiss of cocaine I seek power As the darkness descends I seek power And i'll have it again
I seek power Where the power remains I seek power Like the kiss of cocaine I seek power When it's not always wise I seek power For the power survives
There's a thief on a summer's night Across an ocean Who sees another's life fading away
And of this life he writes Without emotion Then pushes it from sight Somewhere faraway To a distant land Every tear betrayed And never makes And never makes And never makes And never makes a stand Makes a stand Lord there's something wrong Makes a stand
Could a star's forgotten light A child's devotion Embrace eternal night In shallow graves
As we watch from distant heights No breath or motion Still every ghost must haunt in its own way Sleep beneath my dreams Safe within my hands Where i never under Never under Never understand
Lord there's something wrong
No one remembers No one denies No one asks questions No one replies
Here nothing enters Nothing departs Here nothing's ended If nothing starts
In your life could you carry on Could you never think about it Till in time you start to doubt it
Then you close your eyes Is it really gone How in truth can you defend her If you're really not remembering
No regrets If you just forget If a memory is lenient You can find it most convenient So you let it fade Till it's very vague Just a silhouette of shadows But the shadows are still lingering
Still i hold you there With your endless stare
I'm too old to be living this Lived to long to be given this Can our god be forgiving this
I had a light that shined Across my mind Rarely see it any more
Now it is mostly dark Accept for sparks Can't remember what they're for
I am the morphine child The dream defiled The never ending metaphor I am the wizard oz Result and cause Never look behind that door
Cantations Cantations Cantations Cantations
Never listen to the crowd before me Never listen to the self ordained Never really wanted to believe it any way
Jesus What's the reason For these scars that will never heal Hearts that no longer feel Eyes that can no longer see
Jesus What's the reason For this child that will not survive With all her dreams inside Could she mean nothing to thee
And jesus please tell me if you can recall Just where you were when this sparrow did fall
Jesus What's the reason Every tear isn't weighed the same Could you have died in vain If we have short memories
And jesus would you then come down from your cross Return every nail and say we are lost
And in the dark we seek your silent company For each hope that arrives and fades from memory Still after all this time our loss you won't concede For in the dead of night the rumor is Your hands they still bleed Still bleed Still bleed Still bleed
Jesus It would seem then That somehow you still trust You have more faith than us Perhaps that is how it should be
When in your life did you surrender Late in the night do you remember
What were the dreams that you betrayed then Would you go back if you could save them now
Did you believe there was something more Waiting behind some forgotten door Or was that all long before
You felt the pressure grow inside your brain Where every nerve is on fire You start to wonder if you're going insane It's not a fate you desired
Time is running down
Moments of reason that we hope to find Are we a thought somewhere in god's mind A work of art that he has never signed No
Children and mirrors have no memory They reflect us for that is all they see They are the us that is still yet to be And so we carry on
The clock is ticking and your growing afraid That the end will be violent You walk the edges all around your own grave And the gods they are silent Or can not be found
Searching your mind for correspondence from Joseph and mary and their only son Is their silence something you have done
No
And in the end what have you defied To end up so nearly crucified Just let me know when you decide That all hope is gone
Come and see him dying For it's really quite a show Walking on a wire Though he never seems to know Even when he's falling You can see a little smile Figures that he's flying Only for a little while
The ground is rushing towards him But he never sees it there Lives his life in pieces Always taking every dare What will be the ending Well i'm sure that i don't know The ground is getting closer Come and see the show See the show See the show See the show
Time Standing all alone I bled for you I wanted to Each drop my own
Slowly they depart But fall in vain Like desert rain And still they fall on and on and on
Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason i once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view
So Drifting through the dark The sympathy Of night's mercy Inside my heart Is your life the same Do ghosts cry tears Do they feel years As time just goes on and on and on
Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason i once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view
Years come around Men can be found Following orders Years come around Planning is sound Promises made Years come around Tears on the ground Blood stains the borders Leaders abound Chances are down No one's been saved
Give me one reason For this dark treason Every chance unsaid Turn around All dead What went wrong
[various international news reports]
Give me one reason For this dark treason Every chance unsaid Turn around All dead What went wrong
Drink until you drown What else can i say When you're falling down You seek the ground It's never far away
Can you live your life Completely in a fall Until you're found Well underground Your marker very small
As my world it keeps on spinning round
Have to get away Have to ease the pain I embrace the morphine child And pump it in my veins
Burning through my heart Fills in every hole Makes my mind so blissful numb And replaces my soul
Every moment drags me further Down down down down down down ...
Got to get back to a reason Got to get back to a reason i once knew And this late in the seasons One by one distractions fade from view The only reason i have left ... Is you
[intro to Jesus saves spoken by the bum "Hey, man, got a quarter? You ain't got nothin' that's ok man, that's ok. God bless you anyway. Here, I hope I didn't scare you or nothing like that. I, I ain't no bum or nothing like that. Yeah, I I use to live uptown once once before too you know. No, no, I did I did really. Use to come down here and look at all the characters. Never thought I'd be one of them though. Characters, man a lot of characters. He he, you got a minute, you got a minute, let me tell you a story about this friend of mine. D.T. Jesus use to stand for Down Town Jesus. He use to sell drugs and stuff down there, and they called him - that's why we use to call him DeTox. He was one character, one character that made it outa here. Let me tell you about him."]
Jesus was a talker Just an out-of-place New Yorker He hung out on the boulevard He was sellin' nickel candies He was saving up all his quarters Bought himself a cheap guitar Started playin' bars Kids came in their cars Hear them shouting at the stage
Jesus saves Jesus saves Yes he does Jesus saves
You know Jesus he started changin' Things got really strange He saw his tee shirts everywhere He started missing shows The band came down to blows But Jesus he just didn't care
Things got out of hand And so he quit the band Still the critics they would rave
Jesus saves Jesus saves Yes he does Jesus saves
So the dice were cast Today become the past Jesus just disappeared He was headed for New York Or so his little label thought And there he gave away the years
Last seen drinking wine Beneath a flashing sign Promising salvation to strays
Jesus saves Jesus saves Yes he does Jesus saves Hear him cut through the night On those late night radio waves Jesus saves Yes he does Jesus saves
The night is growing dark From somewhere deep within It shelters like an ark That always takes you in
The barmaid walks on over And pours another round For a lost soul at the corner Who prays he's never found
And the mind goes numb Until it's feeling no pain And the soul cries out For a handful of rain
Wash your women In your Whiskey When your future's In the past And your staring Up at heaven From the bottom Of a glass And you need some insulation From the years you've Had and lost And you feel the perspiration As you're adding up the cost
And the night rolls on Like a slow moving train And the soul cries out
There's a land beyond the living There's a land beyond the dead If it's true that God's forgiving Of the lives that we had led In the distance there's a thunder And the air is thick and warm And the patrons watch with wonder The approaching of the storm
And the night rolls on Like a slow moving train And the soul cries out For a handful of rain
There's an old man in the corner And he's smoking all the time An the smoke is drifting upward and it's Twisting in my Twisting in my Mind In my mind
The whiskey's getting deeper And I use it like a moat There's a blues man in the distance and he's Lost inside his Note His note
The night is growing dark From somewhere deep within It shelters like an ark That always takes you in
And the night rolls on Like a slow moving train And the soul cries out For an handful of rain
Out there coming closer quicker Moving with a swiftness Closing in on me Children of the metal movement The legions growing stronger Stronger than they believe
It's a power I'm drawing From a light that's glowing Power of the Night The call of the wild Power of the Night Raise the fist of the metal child
Thrashing Screaming, twisting, banging Heads upon the platform The witch has been conceived Children of the metal movement The armies growing stronger Crack my cranium
It's a power I'm drawing From a light that's glowing Power of the Night The call of the wild Power of the Night Raise the fist of the metal child
Out there coming closer quicker Moving with a swiftness Closing in on me Children of the metal movement The legions growing stronger Stronger than they believe
Thrashing Screaming, twisting, banging Heads upon the platform The witch has been conceived
Power of the Night The call of the wild Power of the Night Raise the fist of the metal child
Power of the Night The call from the wild Power of the Night Power of the Night
Walking alone on a cold night Chills rattle through my bones The way she looks it shocks me Standing at the door that leads below
There's a light at the end of the hall Can I reach it before I fall She's unusual So unusual
In a daze I turn to run A thousand steps to her arms Does she really want to touch me I see it in her eyes See it in her eyes No
I follow through very slowly When I get there she's gone She's unusual So unusual
I know some things can't be right Ghostly visions of delight She tells me of a better life The way she looks it blows my mind silhouette cast in time Temptress of the night is calling me
Does she really want to touch me I can see it in her eyes Snakes of fire hypnotize her Seductress of lost lives
There's a light at the end of the hall CAn I reach it before I fall She's unusual So unusual She's unusual So unusual
As the edge of midnight falls The warrior stands alone Visions of the fighting past A thousands tales are told
Immortal
Let the battles of street life begin Don some leathers and chains They live their life And they feel their own pain The times that is chilling their bones And they can't get away Alone in the cold Watching night turn into day
Armed to attack The soldiers react Kill or be killed Is the life they live
Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world
On the streets they are roaming the night Out to claim their domain One more Pointless battle With nothing to gain And life is a hell for them Living with the shadows of death Scratching and clawing Till no souls are left
Armed to attack The soldiers react Kill or be killed Is the life they live
Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world
They call the streets of hell their home They're not alone A thousands tales are told The streets of hell their home
Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world Warriors, Warriors Warriors of the world
I've been looking all over for you I know you can be found And are you looking for somebody new I know you get around And you'll like what you're gonna feel Senses burning luscious meal
I I've been looking for you Part of the things you do To me I am hard for your love tonight I'm hard for your lovin' I I am hard for your love tonight Hard for your lovin' I'm I am hard for you love tonight
Are you lookin' for action Give me the right reaction I like when we move faster That's why I'm gonna blast ya You're hot like a fire's hot Here I come X marks the spot
I I've been looking for you Part of the things you do To me I am hard for your love tonight I'm hard for your lovin' I I am hard for your love tonight Hard for your lovin' I'm I am hard for you love tonight
If you're ready for action Show me your main attraction I can't wait any longer Out of control I want you closer
I I've been looking for you Hard I've been wanting you to Hard Gotta run to you Part of the things you do To me I am hard for your love tonight I'm hard for your lovin' I I am hard for your love tonight You're feeling alright Hard for your lovin' I'm I am hard for you love tonight Hard for your lovin' I'm I am hard for you love tonight Hard for your lovin' I'm I am hard for you love tonight Hard for love
