Beginning's End: T

2.2.11

The Escapist

[Japanese version bonus track]

Who's there knocking at my window?

The owl and the Dead Boy

This night whispers my name

All the dying children

Virgin snow beneath my feet

Painting the world in white

I tread the way and lose myself into a tale

Come hell or high water

My search will go on

Clayborn Voyage without an end

A nightingale in a golden cage

That's me locked inside reality's maze

Come someone make my heavy heart light

Come undone, bring me back to life

It all starts with a lullaby

Journey homeward bound

A sound of a dolphin calling

Tearing off the mask of man

The tower, my sole guide

This is who I am

Escapist, paradise seeker

Farewell, now time to fly

Out of sight, out of time, away from all lies

A nightingale in a golden cage

That's me locked inside reality's maze

Come someone make my heavy heart light

Come undone, bring me back to life

It all starts with a lullaby

The Islander

[Composer: Marco Hietala]

An old man by a sea shore at the end of day

Gazes the horizon with sea winds in his face.

Tempest-tossed island, seasons all the same.

Anchorage unpainted and a ship without a name.

Sea without a shore for the vanished one unheard

He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world.

Showing the way, lighting hope in their hearts,

The ones and their travels homeward from afar.

[Chorus:]

This is for long-forgotten light at the end of the world.

Horizon's crying the tears he left behind long ago.

The albatross is flying, making him daydream

The time before he became - one of the world`s unseen

Princess in the tower, children in the fields -

Life gave him it all: an island of the universe.

Now his love`s a memory, a ghost in the fog.

He sets the sails one last time saying farewell to the world.

Anchor to the water, seabed far below,

Grass still in his feet and a smile beneath his brow.

[Chorus x2]

The Poet And The Pendulum

[Part 1: White Lands Of Empathica]

The end.

The songwriter's dead.

The blade fell upon him

Taking him to the white lands

of empathica,

of innocence

Empathica

Innocence

[Part 2: Home]

The dreamer and the wine

Poet without a rhyme

A widow writer torn apart by chains of Hell

One last perfect verse

It's still the same old song

Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become

Take me home

[Chorus:]

Get away, run away, fly away

Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway

I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more

I cannot die, I, a whore for this cold world

Forgive me,

I have but two faces

One for the world,

One for God,

save me

I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more

I cannot die, I, a whore for this cold world

My home was there and then, those meadows of heaven

Adventure-filled days

One with every smiling face

Please, no more words

Thoughts from a severed head

No more praise,

Tell me once my heart goes right

Take me home

[Chorus]

[Part 3: The Pacific]

Sparkle my scenery

With Turquoise waterfall

With beauty underneath

The ever free

Tuck me in beneath the blue

Beneath the Pain,

Beneath the rain

Goodnight kiss for a child in time

Swaying blade my lullaby

On the shore we sat and hoped

Under the same pale moon

Whose guiding light chose you,

Chose you all

"I'm afraid, I'm so afraid.

being raped, again and again, and again

I know I will die alone

but loved.

You live long enough to hear the sounds of guns,

Long enough to find yourself screaming every night,

Live long enough to see your friends betray you.

For years I've been strapped unto this altar.

Now I only have three minutes and counting.

I just wish the tide would catch me first and give me

a death I always longed for."

[Part 4: Dark Passion Play]

2nd robber to the right of Christ

Cut in half - infanticide

The world will rejoice today

As the crows feast on the rotting poet

Everyone must bury their own

No pack to bury the heart of stone

Now he`s home in hell, serves him well

Slain by the bell, tolling for his farewell

The morning dawned upon his altar

Remains of the dark passion play

Performed by his friends without shame

Spitting on his grave as they came

[Chorus]

"Today, in the year of our Lord, 2005

Tuomas was called from the cares of the world

He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.

The music he wrote had too long been without silence.

He was found naked and dead,

With a smile in his face, a pen and 1000 pages of erased text."

Save me

[Part 5: Mother And Father]

Be still, my son

You`re home

Oh when did you become so cold?

The blade will keep on descending

All you need is to feel my love

Search for beauty, find your shore

Try to save them all, bleed no more

You have such oceans within

In the end, I will always love you

The beginning.

The Siren

A lady with a violin playing to

the seals

Hearken to the sound of calling

Who tied my hands to

the wheel?

The zodiac turns over me

(Come to me)

Somewhere there my fate

revealed

I hear but how will I see

I tied myself to the wheel

The winds talk to my sails,

not me

(Come to me)

Somewhere there my fate

revealed

I hear but how will I see

The Wayfarer

I went into the wilderness with Uncle Walt

I discovered the wild

Learning to suck all the experience

Seeing the world through cradle's bars

The wild blessed me with an errant mind

Showing the way for the ultimate lore

I went around the world, beyond the wild

Finding my home from an ocean shore

Wayfarer, heartlander

What if I only had

One more night to live

Home is where the way is

My road goes on forever

One more voyage to go

Dead to the world

Alive for the journey

The Phantom Of The Opera

[CHRISTINE:]

In sleep he sang to me

In dreams he came

That voice which calls to me

And speaks my name

And do I dream again

For now I find

The Phantom of the opera is there

Inside my mind

[PHANTOM:]

Sing once again with me

Our strange duet

My power over you

Grows stronger yet

And though you turn from me

To glance behind

The Phantom of the opera is there

Inside your mind

[CHRISTINE:]

Those who have seen your face

Draw back in fear

I am the mask you wear

[PHANTOM:]

It's me they hear

[TOGETHER:]

My/your spirit and your/my voice

In one combined

The phantom of the opera is there

Inside your/my mind

He's there the Phantom of the opera

Beware the Phantom of the opera

[PHANTOM:]

In all your fantasies

You always knew

That man and mystery

[CHRISTINE:]

Were both in you

[TOGETHER:]

And in this labyrinth

Where night is blind

The phantom of the opera is there

Inside your/my mind

[PHANTOM:]

Sing my angel of music

Tenth Man Down

Today I killed, he was just a boy

Eight before him, I knew them all

In the fields a dying oath...

I'd kill them all to save my own

Cut me free, Bleed with me, Oh no

One by one, We will fall, down down

Pull the plug, End the pain, Run'n fight for life

Hold on tight, this ain't my fight

Deliver me from this war

It's not for me it's because of you

Devil's instant my eternity

Obey to kill to save yourself

Cut me free ...

"I envy the 9 lives that gave me hell

My path made up by their torn bodies

Man to man, soldier to soldier, dust to dust

Call me a coward but I can't take it anymore"

They wait for me back home

The live with eyes turned away

They were the first ones to see

They are the last ones to bleed

"The ultimate high as all beautiful dies

A ruler's tool, priest's excuse, tyrant's delight...

I alone, the great white hunter

I'll march till the dawn brings me rest

10th patriot at the gallow's pole!"

Cut me free ...

25.1.11

Two For Tragedy

Sleep Eden sleep

My fallen son

Slumber in peace

Cease the pain

Life's just in vain

For us to gain

Nothing but all the same

No healing hand

For your disease

Drinking scorn like water

Cascading with my tears

Beneath the candle bed

Two saddened angels-in heaven, in death

Now let us lie

Sad we lived sad we die

Even in your pride

I never blamed you

A mother's love

Is a sacrifice

Together sleeping

Keeping it all

No sympathy

No eternity

One light for each undeserved tear

Beneath the candle bed

Two souls with everything yet to be said

The Kinslayer

For whom the gun tolls

For whom the prey weeps

Bow before a war

Call it religion

Some wounds never heal

Some tears never will

Dry for the unkind

Cry for mankind

Even the dead cry

- Their only comfort

Kill your friend, I don't care

Orchid kids, blinded stare

Need to understand

No need to forgive

No truth no sense left to be followed

"Facing this unbearable fear like meeting an old friend"

"Time to die, poor mates, You made me what I am!"

"In this world of a million religions everyone prays the same way"

"Your praying is in vain It'll all be over soon"

"Father help me, save me a place by your side!"

"There is no god Our creed is but for ourselves"

"Not a hero unless you die Our species eat the wounded ones"

"Drunk with the blood of your victims

I do feel your pity-wanting pain,

Lust for fame, a deadly game"

"Run away with your impeccable kin!"

"- Good wombs hath borne bad sons..."

- Cursing, God, why?

Falling for every lie

Survivors' guilt

In us forevermore

15 candles

Redeemers of this world

Dwell in hypocrisy:

"How were we supposed to know"

4 pink ones

9 blue ones

2 black ones

Tutankhamen

As the sun sets beyond the pyramids

To greet me with its rays

I place my hand on my forehead

To see your chariots' flames

Watch me kneel before you

Hear the cats meowing in the temple

They yearn the milk you cascaded

As I yearn that promised treasure

Treasure of

Tutankhamen

I am the one it is

Take me with you

through the stargate

To the valley of the kings

Sacrifice me

Tutankhamen

And let me be your queen

Take me

Tonight and always

We'll breed to fill all earth

Three milleniums it took me to guard your rest

Your slumber in mighty Phoenix's nest

But tonight the darkness in the tomb has perished

For Carter has come to free my beloved

[Repeat chorus]

The Carpenter

Who are you?

Man condemned to shine a salvation

throughout the centuries

Why ?

Was the wine of the grail

too sour for man to drink

The carpenter

carved his anchor

on the dying souls of mankind

On the tomb of this unknown soldier

lay the tools of the one

who for us had died

Tools of the carpenter

The one they lick

The same old sick

dream of their precious saviour

Kiss them deep and

make them weep

over promises of eternal peace

The carpenter

carved his anchor

on the dying souls of mankind

On the tomb of this unknown soldier

lay the tools of the one

who for us has died

Tools of the carpenter

I hear you

through the symphonic voices of nature

- the purity I could never doubt

They tell me to lie on the grass

and observe my saviour

The one crucified to the chirping of birds

The carpenter

carved his anchor

on the dying souls of mankind

On the tomb of this unknown soldier

lay the tools of the one

who for us has died

Tools of the carpenter

The Forever Moments

The ticktock of time allows me to see

An authent to an echo

New butterfly to a cocoon

The swan to ugly duckling

The lake to an ocean

The deep times awake

As I can calm myself to yesterday

The flower has fallen its petals

Out of the petals a cradle I will

My cradle rocks with the waves of time

The time of beauty will never be the same

Falling again has no man's knowing

Please take me, take me with thee

Now I hear my mother from the deep

Sing me a lullaby of eternal sleep

With thou replant the plaster call

This and silence we seek to reborn

17.1.11

The Warrior Inside

Sonic fires bring mass devastation,

Manic search in sad desperation,

Jeopardise the right to hide from a sad existence,

Nothing left, still searching for something,

Deep beneath the cries

Wait for the deafening silence, fly forever more.

Crushed by the thought that you're all alone, cravation in her eyes,

I will be waiting tomorrow,

Striving to understand, wasting a life not meant to be,

Twisted and so broken once again,

And the promises we cast away will shine a guiding light,

Victim of your grief and denial.

[Chorus:]

Take my hand, this one last time,

Face the world before us, the warrior inside,

In a lifetime of disaster, it's a battle to the end,

Final stand, my life must carry on,

And forever, this time.

Battered, beaten, forced to submission,

Stricken by your fatal decision,

Suddenly it's time to say your last goodbyes,

Misery remains voluntary, all illusion gone,

Break through the blistering madness,

Free forever more.

Blinded my eyes with your filtering mutation cast aside,

I'll still be waiting tomorrow,

Stand to a toxic man, forced to a life of yesterday,

Theatre of salvation crushed and burned,

Down this lonely road, recede the day our dreams are brushed,

Can't regain this emptiness in time.

[Chorus]

See through the skies,

Far beyond the road tonight,

Here the sounds of freedom ring,

In a silent dream, and a million miles away.

See through the skies, far beyond our world tonight,

Hear the sounds of freedom ring,

In a silent dream,

And a million miles away.

Reach for the stars,

And live our lives forever free,

In our hearts for a thousand years,

And a thousand lifetimes before.

And the dawn of a new day will rise, a light for us all.

The Last Journey Home

Strangers to reason, our bleeding hearts so cold,

Life brings a change in season, fear will blind the soul,

In the silence one moment alone,

Cast away scattered far on the wasteland.

Sever the soul from the forgotten sickness, escape this life,

Challenge the dream before the long departed a mindless rhyme,

Whoa, oh, oh,

Hear the burning thunder roar,

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh.

Whoa, oh, oh,

Still lost in a fire storm,

Tonight we feel the past return.

Lost inside the dream, pass by the life we'll live forever,

Still the wasted time left burning below

One thousand shattered voices, lost inside in endless wonder,

Tonight her voice will take me home.

[Chorus:]

Shine glorious we run, we stare into the blackened sky,

Save the last command, the virtue blinding,

So far beyond the sun, still burning with the fire inside,

Once alone again, silent stares for our last journey home.

Paralysed, intensified mutation, frustration,

Everlasting lifetime in the underworld,

We'll travel endlessly, deluded, disjointed,

One man can't understand this sad misery.

Whoa, oh oh oh ohh,

Whoa, oh oh ohh,

Whoa, oh oh oh oh oh ohh.

They've taken my heart,

They've taken my soul,

And now we stand alone insanity.

In time we'll see the past unwind,

Alive, still wandering our fallen land,

One more time we stare into the blackened sky,

For tonight, in our hearts now we feel,

One last time see our destiny revealed.

[Chorus]

Shine glorious tonight, still blinded by the blackened sun,

Save the last command, forever rising,

So far beyond they come, still burning with the fire inside,

Once alone again, silent stares for our last journey home.

The Fire Still Burns

Finally all the world will see,

Rise again before the endless silence,

Burn the soul before we'll all be free,

Light the path beneath a blackened, burning sky.

One final sacrifice, this night belongs to me,

Turn back before the dawn of winter,

So far away the cry set fallen angels free,

Through my mind tonight, our journey ever after.

Never ending solitude, this is your life to be,

So cold and dark, the voice of sadness,

Suffering in endless pain, the truth of all to be,

Crawling back to life through ever-blinding darkness.

Free falling, fates warning, find a life to hold on,

Souls stealers, true believers, rise now they are gone,

And as they ride away forsake the one to save us,

Winters mourning of a lost fallen world,

Pray now united in a lifetime alone,

Won't you wait for the silence so strong?

Wait for the dawn.

[Chorus:]

Tonight, falling like the rain insanity lives on,

Feel the shattered dreams, one thousand voices crying,

Raging endlessly they come, whoa,

And the morning light will hide the darker days gone by,

And the sun will shine again across the blazing skies,

Glorious eternally we'll rise above the world,

Marching on till victory we fight,

The fire still burns...

Looking back our passing lives, their memories to see,

Flick through the passages of silence,

Hidden by the sacrifice to set the demons free,

Now they understand reclaim the land relentless.

Fear calling, transforming, stand alone in our time,

Advocation, desolation, slay the vision divine,

And all the stars fall around the world tonight,

Silent forces from a past life return,

Pray for the silence in a world so alone,

Til' we touch the horizon beyond,

Fly through the storm.

[Chorus]

The tears in your eyes,

A lifetime of misery,

In silence we stand all alone for the fate of our own destiny,

A lifetime of lies,

One chance at this fantasy,

The judgement will pass for the cries of the world that has faded from me.

Whoa, oh oh oh,

Whoa, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhh,

Whoa, oh oh oh,

Whoa, oh oh oh oh oh ohhhh oh oh oh.

[Chorus]

Trail Of Broken Hearts

Here we are far beyond the distant sky

Seen all the world and how the story will be over

Through the snow and tainted mountains we have climbed

Now we have found the light that guides us over

Through the fallen rain we travelled far and wide

And through the blackest darkness

Stars above shining bright

Through the sun and winter rain will fall

All our lives we all were waiting for a sign to call

We're walking hand in hand in dreams and endless time

How do we know when we will leave this life behind?

Stare at life through eyes of mine

the hate the fear and the pain

There's a feeling held deep inside - when life you live is in vain

[Chorus]

Fly away down the lonely roads of yesterday

We close your eyes to see the light of brighter days

And all alone we'll be where time can never heal

With the trail of broken hearts flying free

Once again we walk this lonely road

There are times that we are wading through the rain and cold

We're lost in memories of what we left behind

Relive the dreams, the endless screams of pain inside

Lives are filled with emptiness

The fear returned once again

Searching endlessly you cannot see

Drown your mind in the pain

[Chorus]

The last temptation will be all that's left for me

When I see those tears you cry

When I hear those lies you lie

When I see your creation now falling down on me

Is this the reason to be?

[Solos: Sam/Herman/Sam]

[Chorus]

The trail of broken hearts flying free

The Flame Of Youth

Close your eyes hear the thunder and rain

Fear inside of the torturing pain

For the cries of the world and the last lives remain

Chain your heart swear to die for their gain

Deep inside slowly fading away

And the last breathe remains and the fear turns to rage

Locked in a world by the fallen evil souls

Torn right apart for your life insane

Burning in my mind now to bring my life to hold

Reach out and die in the flames

See through the lies and their ever staring eyes

Now is the time to defend your ground

Destiny will call to remind us all now

Fly free so far from here

This life we know will end

In dreams of everlasting pain

The fallen now rise again

Through the fire, through the flames Like the sun will rise again

Lost in time

Lost in space

To the end of all their days

See their endless ways insanity

The quest deranged not meant to be

In flames will now forever burn eternally

[Chorus]

So free your heart leave your life far behind

In the cold of winter skies escape the pain inside

Now feel your soul lost in seas of all eternity

Everyday this life, defending and the flames of youth not ending

In a lifetime, searching, we must fight through the eternal pain

So alone in the world far away,

memories of a dream will remain

As the world's falling cold and our lives all in vain

Fire in my soul will forever rise again

Nothing in my mind to remember now

Broken by the fear of the dark night calling

Ride free on endless seas

The final curtain falls

Cut the ground from down below

The time to lock and to load

Through the fire, through the rain,

far across the distant plains

Feel the wind beneath the steel

as your mind becomes insane

Save the pain from all humanity,

their rides trough our destiny

For freedom now we rise for all again

[Chorus]

[Solos: Herman/Sam/Vadim/Herman/Sam]

So free your heart leave your life far behind

In the cold of winter skies escape the pain inside

And when the memories are all but left behind

And the days have gone forever, lost within my mind

Now feel your soul burn in seas of all eternity

Every day of this life defending and the flames of youth not ending

In a lifetime searching we must fight through the eternal pain

We fight through the eternal pain

Through The Fire And The Flames

On a cold winter morning, in the time before the light

In flames of death's eternal reign we ride towards the fight

When the darkness has fallen down, and the times are tough all right

The sound of evil laughter falls around the world tonight

Fighting hard, fighting on for the steel, through the wastelands evermore

The scattered souls will feel the hell bodies wasted on the shores

On the blackest plains in hell's domain, we watch them as we go

In fire and pain, and once again we know

So now we fly ever free

We're free before the thunderstorm

On towards the wilderness our quest carries on

Far beyond the sundown, far beyond the moonlight

Deep inside our hearts and all our souls

[Chorus:]

So far away we wait for the day

For the lives all so wasted and gone

We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days

Through the fire and the flames we carry on

As the red day is dawning

And the lightning cracks the sky

They'll raise their hands to the heavens above

With resentment in their eyes

Running back from the mid-morning light

There's a burning in my heart

We're banished from a time in a fallen land

To a life beyond the stars

In your darkest dreams see to believe

Our destiny is time

And endlessly we'll all be free tonight

And on the wings of a dream, so far beyond reality

All alone in desperation, now the time has gone

Lost inside you'll never find, lost within my own mind

Day after day this misery must go on

[Chorus]

[Solos: Twin/Sam/Twin/Herman/Twin/Herman/Sam/Herman/Sam]

Now here we stand with their blood on our hands

We fought so hard now can we understand

I'll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can

For freedom of every man

[Chorus]

13.1.11

The Final Solution

Country in depression

Nation in despair

One man seeking reasons everywhere

Growing hate and anger

The Fuhrer's orders were precise

Who was to be blamed and pay the price!

Wicked propaganda

Turning neighbors into foes

Soldiers of the third Reich searching homes

And then the former friends are watching

As they are rounded up one by one

Times of prosecutions has begun

Ever since it started

On Crystal night of 38

When liberty died

And truth was denied

Sent away on train on a one way trip to hell

Enter the gates Auschwitz awaits!

When freedom burns

The final solution

Dreams fade away and all hope turns to dust

When millions burn

The curtain has fallen

Lost to the world as they perish in flames

There was a country in depression

There was a nation in despair

One man finding reasons everywhere

Then there was raising hate and anger

The Fuhrer's orders still apply

Who was to be blamed and send to die!

[1x chorus]

[2x chorus]

The Price Of A Mile

Hear the sound of a machinegun

Hear it echo in the night

Mortals firing rains the scene

Scars the fields

that once were green

It's a stalemate at the frontline

where the soldiers rest in mud

roads and houses

all is gone

there is no glory to be won

know that many men will suffer

know that many men will die

half a million lives at stake

Ask the fields of Passchendaele

And as the night falls the general calls

and the battle carries on and on

How long?

What is the purpose of it all

What's the price of a mile?

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army on the march

Long way from home

Paying the price in young men's lives

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army in despair

Knee-deep in mud

Stuck in the trench with no way out

Thousands of machineguns

Kept on firing through the night

Mortars blazed and wrecked the scene

Guns in the fields that once were green

Still a deadlock at the frontline

Where the soldiers die in mud

roads and houses since long gone

still no glory has been won

know that many men has suffered

know that many men has died

Six miles of ground has been won

Half a million men are gone

And as the men crawled the general called

And the killing carried on and on

How long?

What's the purpose of it all?

What's the price of a mile?

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army on the march

Long way from home

Paying the price in young men's lives

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army in despair

Knee-deep in mud

Stuck in the trench with no way out

Young men are dying

They pay the price

Oh how they suffer

So tell me what's the price of a mile

That's the price of a mile.

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army on the march

Long way from home

Paying the price in young men's lives

Thousands of feet march to the beat

It's an army in despair

Knee-deep in mud

Stuck in the trench with no way out