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FATES WARNING LYRICS
"The Spectre Within" (1985)
1. Traveler in Time
2. Orphan Gypsy
3. Without a Trace
4. Pirates of the Underground
5. The Apparition
6. Kyrie Eleison
7. Epitaph
1. Traveler in Time
Old man time, wisdom and rhyme
Seeker of reason, reaper of time
Born to a spell he walks the beaten path
To hell, rusty shackles of time burden his mind
Once on his side time turns to defy
In a flash of the lightning he's come and gone.
The clock strikes the hour, hje climbs to the belfry,
As he's done a thousand times before.
Many dark years, not a vacant hour through
War and fear had the bell been ever strayed
Hypnotized rhythmic the pendulum synchronized
With the beat of the old man's heart.
Man or machine he's living a dream
Forever the clock lives so does he
Faces below fade with seasons of long ago
Forever awake in his brass bed,
He holds the key
It's all a matter of time, there is no reason
Or rhyme -is there?
Traveler in time you're another left
Behind - you are
Tangled in the web of time you've
Swallowed the pill of illusion
Writings so clear on the wall you
Waste in seclusion
Mirror reflects the mark of the crowfoot
In his eyes now he realize
Nearing his hour he climbs to the belfry
As he's done a thousand hours before.
Moon of blue is in the sky
West wind he whispers why
Sacrifice living for life his perpetual vice
Lonely wind blows through his empty soul
He cries a river of tears on the clock below
Nothing's forever and time will tell
His tears rust the clock and he died as well
(repeat chorus)
2. Orphan Gypsy
Young warrior to the drunken galley slave,
Running with the wind running wayward knave.
I'm a vagabond with a maëlstrom mind
My blood has left me behind
So go away leave me alone
If you look in my eyes you see only stone
I won't let you in
I can lock you out
In your world, your fallacy,
I don't want desolate island debris
Sister superior, which is on her winged flight
Nightmare dream children scream
Echo orphanage hall tonight
I'm a misconception never had affection
I don't even know my name
Just as well who would know locked in
The closet all day, but I like it here
They leave me alone
I the sheep, she is the wolf, I must run
Run to the end of the world
Orphan Gypsy I'll ever be
Magic for emotion I am free
Orphan Gypsy all I want to be
Lift your chains from me
No place to call home, sever my roots from
the Earth, eternal exile from day one.
In this lease of life I entered as one
In the end I leave as one.
Not a single word of guile is heard
Come the clouds before the rain
You've entered my sanctum blasphemed
And caused my pain.
You're a figment of my imagination
I am stone now you know I gave my
Soul to read your mind
repeat chorus
3. Without a Trace
What lurks beyond thew minds of men
The switch is triggered once again
A silent rage makes the front page
A work of art so neatly done homicide
Cannot decide was it accident was it suicide
She's just a face without a name
never made It home.
They found her car down by the lake
The bottom was raked
The news says it's a classic case
She disappeared Without A Trace
A witness reward but nothing is heard
(chorus):
Run, Rabbit, Run,
hawk in the sky hides in the sun
Run for your life
he'll take it away
Run run run fast away
Don't look behind
you'll stun if you look in his eyes
Run for your life, he'll take it away
Run run run fast away
Defective unit on the street tonight
he hunts the weak and clips its wings
The moon ignites a flaming raging child
An empty soul is running wild.
He's just a name without a face,
hides from the camera in disgrace
His mother stands by,
wipes the tear from her eyes
In an island in the sea
rots a mind of seventeen
He dreams of the girl he cast from this world.
repeat chorus
4. Pirates of the Underground
So you learn real hard
babe in the woods
Fight for your keep
cause deep in the dark
wolves rip at your Heart
as you lie asleep
Endangered species of the megahertz
follow the yellow brick road
Your Asylum awaits you
Sign on the dotted line.
Pirates of the underground
Mutiny is in the air
You're the wind in the sail's mothership
Drifters at sea remain to be
'til land which speaks our tongue is found
On our way cut the tongues of dragons
breathing fire
ride the waves through the air
down below the mire
Preacher man spins backward secret messages
Tell me, what are you looking for?
Something your subconscious can devise.
Such a sin to dissapoint your suspicion
Your force is ours
There are no hidden lies
Tuned out in natural vegetation
prime time Bleeding hearts howl at the moon
Foul temptress, oh she sings seduction
As vultures feast forbidden fruit
Live your abstract life in your hibernation
A rude awakening
the underdog typhoon.
Set the Thames on fire
Climb aboard this mon of war
She'll take you far away
to a land of fantasy in your imagination.
5. The Apparition
When the stars are right and you're alone
Take a journey, lock the world up tight
Out of your mind
The hall beckons your presence
the doors open wide
you're to decide to turn back
Deep the bowels of this black abyss
Compelled, I just can't resist it. Take me.
Chorus:
Take me away, take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away (home)
Drawing near
someone passes through me
A silent entity
never looking back
I won't dare
Evil eyes staring through walls of stone
I fear I travel not alone.
Laughter echoes with the blatent wind
I have passed the threshold deep within me
Repeat chorus
A Voice of thunder said
"Turn back. Tabernacle is forbidden. No mortal dares to enter here"
I want to know
Flame is burning center of a fountain yearning
water spring eternal, spiritual water physical fire
Above the center is sky, cold cold neverness
Just vastness filled with stars upon stars
In the four corner of life are the golden mirrors
Reflecting what you are and what you are to be
In the first is a young boy
white dove in his hand
in the second is a warrior in amour
in the third is an old man
Gold watch in his hand
Fourth and last
no relection at all
no reflection at all
No reflection at All
Waters rise towards physical fire
voice says Tabernackle is forbidden
never looking back I won't dare
If the water touches the flame
Forever in darkness yes I'll remain
White dove flies from the young boy's hand
Through the mirror of the old man, only way out
Repeat chorus
6. Kyrie Eleison
Never thought my time was coming
Wasn't in my dreams.
Twice I visioned I was falling down,
Down to the ground, I screamed out loud,
Woke on a cloud.
Never really a holy man even though
I understand the father son and Holy Ghost.
He's the one that scares me most
Ashes to rain you feel no pain.
Hell fire burns my conscience. My mind explodes.
Spine is severed, blood runs cold, confess the
Deepest of sin, envision a king
With a white violin.
Crucifix hung above my death bed begins
To bleed.
Imagination, lunacy, has he come to hear my plea,
Grant absolution condone my sin.
The lady in black I ask what do you see.
A glimpse in your glass what good
Fortune for me.
The lady in black said your lifeline is damned.
The tarot of death card she held in her hand.
Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison
Segments of my life flash through my mind
Things never seen.
It must be fate warning me for now
The walls are closing in. Rosary in Hand,
Last grain of sand.
Here I go I start to fall again.
Try to scream I'm mute it is the
End of my last fall.
To the land of nevermore
Shatter her glass I woke on the floor.
The lady in black I ask what do you see.
A glimpse in your glass what good
Fortune for me.
The lady in black said your lifeline is damned.
The tarot of death card she held in her hand.
Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison
{...???...}
7. Epitaph
Isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart
Trapped within a world, a world apart.
Desolate am I, a tempest raging silently.
Lost a barren soul adrift at sea.
Catatonic state, it sharpens lifes depressing edge
The clamor draws me closer to the ledge.
As I gaze upon this burning world I curse this life,
A life through which I'm hurled.
Lies, lies upon this side and that
Truthless violence deception mourned by the wise.
Thousands of voices drowning out his own
In a popular torrent of lies upon lies.
Turn to stone.
So intense the pain that has crawled
From the bleeding corpse of pleasure,
That feeds the worm the writhes
Inside my brain.
In the deep of night it stirs again
In the heart of the sleeper,
From the crack of dawn I wake to curse
The rising of the sun.
Every life is built on hope
Now my dreams have surely passed,
Inner voices haunt my numbered days
Darkness calls me with her laughs.
Torn between life and death inertia
Fills my soul.
Now will to be nor pride to care
Reapers take your toll.
Strangers cast a menacing glance as
Existence I defy.
Shatter their dream like world I'm not
Afraid to die
Torn between life and death inertia
Fills my soul.
Now will to be nor pride to care
Reapers take your toll.
Strangers cast a menacing glance as
Existence I defy.
Shatter their dream like world I'm not
Afraid to die
Afraid to die
Omen bird soars the desert land to the castle
Of idolence, there lies the shadow of a man.
You see the colored flowers and marble towers
They fade to brown
Like the unknown inscribed in stone
He's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones
He's lost in silence swallowed in vastness
Drowned in the depths of a meaningless
Past
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