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LORD LYRICS
"Ascendence" (2007)
1. Echoes Of The Past
2. Reborn
3. Going Down
4. Same Old Lines
5. Rain
6. My Own Way
7. Through The Fire
8. The Calm
9. Limb From Limb
10. 220
11. Legacy
1. Echoes Of The Past
(Concept / Music: T. Grose)
(INSTRUMENTAL)
2. Reborn
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras / A. Dowling)
The story over
The final chapter
Laid to rest
And said our last goodbyes
They say we come from nothing
And return to nothing
Dust to dust
That fairy tale is nothing but a lie
We all search for meaning
In an age of reason
Before our eyes the prize
That very few can see
To live for now and ever
Past ties are ripped and severed
Break the chains and claim
Our immortality
Thrown from the precipice
Cast to damnation
For new life: a sacrifice
Old life must die
Oh, yet the spirit still remains...
Challenge obsolete ideals
Deconstruct reality
Recreate the world around me
I will be reborn
Leave forgotten sins behind
Resurrect my will to be
I arise for my ascendence
I will be reborn
Look past naive delusions
To see a new day
Oh, a place with no confusion
So take me away...
SOLOs: LT
Torn from the chrysalis
Raging with hunger
Emerge from the funeral pyre
The Phoenix arise
Thrown from the precipice
Cast to damnation
For new life: a sacrifice
Old life must die
Oh, yet the spirit still remains...
Challenge obsolete ideals
Deconstruct reality
Recreate the world around me
I will be reborn
Leave forgotten sins behind
Resurrect my will to be
Beyond the sacrifice
Arise.... I will be reborn
3. Going Down
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
"Judge me for who I am
Don't like me for what I'm not"
In every aspect of my life
Talk the talk and take the blame
Stand up for what I feel is right
And feel no shame
I'm a sinner, but I'm a winner
Take no shit from anyone
Speak my mind and do the time
For my views
CHORUS:
Going down - I stand behind the choices I make
Going down - Be they wrong or right
Going down - I see fires of hell below me
Live and die an honest man
So take me away...
Every day another test
Run the gauntlet, walk the line
So live your life to be the best
Every time
Not a rebel or the devil
No false facade, I'm true to me
Stand up to the bastards
And know I'm free
SOLOs: LT
REPEAT CHOURS x2
4. Same Old Lines
(Words / Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
It seems like a long time ago
Felt the sun on my face
A life lived with so much regret
There has to be a better place
A bitter wind, an empty skin
Of all once held true
Searching for reasons I wonder if
Time can heal these wounds
A path that's well worn, returned here again
Once more, oh I'm unsure I'll find another road
Sometimes in finding your way, you lose yourself
When the mirror's eye shows the face of a stranger
CHORUS:
I'm hearing the same old lines
Don't tell me it's true when you look in my eyes
Keep telling the same old lies...
An ever broken dream
Crushed again and again
Should we lie or a truth be told
As a means unto an end?
A path that's well worn, returned here again
But this time, oh now I know I'll find another road
A way to believe, a way back to me
But I know that this sadness will stay forever
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLO: LT / LT (HARMONY) / MARK FURTNER
REPEAT CHORUS OUT
5. Rain
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras / A. Dowling)
Darkness closes in
And I turn and face the storm
Midnight in the rain
Like a thousand times before
Oh... I feel the sorrow coming, world succumbing
Oh... I feel the sadness tear me away
CHORUS:
The rain keeps falling down on me
Of pain and life unwound to be
The rain keeps falling down on me
And darkness all around
As the rain falls down
Falls down on me...
A feeling of an empty life
Of broken heart, of broken dream
So tear the sonnet from my soul
Silent words unseen
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLO: LT / CHRIS BROOKS / LT
REPEAT CHORUS
6. My Own Way
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
And when the daylight falls to grey
When even twilight fades
In the darkest veil of night
We stray
It seems this road will never end
Watch our trust decay
As sacred memories turn to dust
And drift away
Can you hear me now?
Hear me calling you?
Can you see my eyes?
These tears that fall for you
You know you've always been a friend
Through even lightless days
Sometimes we don't see eye to eye
Times change
But can you hear me now?
Hear me calling you?
So look in my eyes
Believe my words to you are true
CHORUS:
Oh, I'll never turn my back on you
To go my own way
You'll never walk alone
To face the darkness
Oh, for all the pain that we've been through
Together
And you'll always have a home
Deep inside my heart
So many years have passed us by
A chance to start again
And hope that time will heal these wounds
Someday
So can you hear me now?
Hear me calling you?
So look in my eyes
Believe my words to you are true
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLOs: LT
REPEAT CHORUS
7. Through The Fire
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
Watch another fortune fade away
Another dream cast to the wind
Chronos waits to seize the day
So play his game and play to win
CHORUS:
Take hold of life - walk through the fire
Sometimes it seems like time is slipping away
Take hold of life - walk through the fire
Don't waste your life when time is slipping away
Like the golden goose that never lays
Always waiting for the sign
Time to see it's time to be
Release the hero, free to fly
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLO: CHRIS BROOKS / LT / LT (HARMONY)
Search inside to find the truth
Circumstance won't come to you
Be the one you want to be
Live your life to live your dreams
REPEAT CHORUS x2
8. The Calm
(Music: A. Dowling / T. Grose / T. Yatras)
(INSTRUMENTAL)
9. Limb From Limb
(Words: T. Grose / A Dowling Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
Fuelling the anger inside
The rage starts to break
Reaching the end of my line
It's all I can take
This hunger for justice I crave
A thirst for revenge
So beg for remorse, for your life
As it comes to an end
Oh, no more time, no more words for me to say
Oh, a time for action, time for you to pay
I'll tear you...
CHORUS:
Limb from limb - you thrust the dagger deep in my back
Limb from limb - you crossed the line the day you stood in front of me
Limb from limb - say your prayers, it's time for payback
Limb from limb - don't stand in my way or I'll tear you limb from limb
Pathetic excuse for a man
You're lower than swine
Betrayer, deceiver and coward
Born with no spine
Believing your own hype
Drunk on your ego and power
Now beg for your life
As you're torn from your ivory tower
Oh, no more time, no more words for me to say
Oh, a time for action, time for you to pay
I'll tear you...
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLOs: LT
Feeling my hate penetrate
Your inhumane soul
Feeling your strength dissipate
You're losing control
Down on your knees like a dog
No time to reject
Spit in your face
Now you feel the same disrespect
Limb from limb - you thrust the dagger deep in my back
Limb from limb - you crossed the line the day you stood in front of me
Limb from limb - say your prayers, it's time for payback
Limb from limb...
Don't stand in my way, I'll warn you now
Get out of my way or I'll tear you limb from limb
10. 220
(Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
(INSTRUMENTAL)
ALL SOLOs BY LT EXCEPT THE MIDDLE "BLAST BEAT SOLO" BY MARK FURTNER
11. Legacy
(Words: T. Grose Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras)
Cast to my death in flames
But I will never die
Past life is burned away
Stronger man arise
I am shadow, I am light
I'm your world to be
I am angel, I'm your hell
I am me
Oh, so it seems like this world always changes
But I know what's coming for me
I see with open eyes
How things should be
CHORUS:
Shed the skin of yesterday
My legacy begins again today
Live the dream that drives me on
My destiny, tomorrow will belong to me
I leave the blackness, walk into the shining light
Reach out for my dreams...
SOLOs: LT
Ascend from my trial by fire
Branded and torn
I wear my symbol proudly
Carved into my flesh
I walk the world
A free man
SOLOs: LT
My path now set in stone
As written so shall be
Rise up to claim the throne
Fulfil my destiny
I am angel, I am sin
I'm your Lord's decree
I am devil, I am light
I am me
Oh, so it seems like this world always changes
But I know what's coming for me
I see with open eyes
How things should be
REPEAT CHORUS x2
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