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NOTRE DAME LYRICS
"Coming Soon to a Théatre Near You" (1998 EP)
1. Bells of Notre Dame
2. Vlad the Impaler
3. A Misconception of the French Kiss
4. Daughter of Darkness
5. Sisterhood
1. Bells of Notre Dame
From afar by the breezes carried through the dense and
impenetratable fog rings a church bell so dull and eerie,
towards the sound draws nightly stroll at this hour
is someone getting married?
As I come nearer chamber music I hear
behind the shrine there's a hidden stair case,
the moment I enter the music stops,
in the chamber stands an old church organ
with wax candles and pipes that reaches all the way up
In the web buried dust of the ages,
which is weird after what I've just heard
Hello, don't be afraid, I don't need to hide in the shadows no more
These are my ladies, aren't they beatiful,
each one speaks with a lovely voice
I call them the belles of Notre Dame
Bells of Notre Dame
Bells of Notre Dame
"Ring, Ring, I said Ring for me
Let them ring for the shallow beauty, but for whom?
If only walls could speak, every stone has a different story
Grey in shade to your poem epique, listen
The Bells of Notre Dame
The Bells of Notre Dame"
2. Vlad the Impaler
Once upon a time in a place not far from here
lived a prince in a castle with his lovely fiancée
One day she got bit by a bat and grew paler and paler
She died later that spring in the arms of Vlad the impaler
Outcast from the arch only fools dare to whisper his name after dark
Vlad is the devil, that´s what they say but he is
so very generous on Fangs giving day
Vlad the impaler sings a lullabye for naughty naughty children
The time has come to... die
Vlad has a hole his heart ought to be
he knows "the life at stake" process by heart
see Vlad the impaler crawls out his den
like itsy bitsy spider he crawls back again
If Vlad would have a penny for every time he´s bad
Then Vlad would have plenty but no no
Vlad has bad breath caused by tooth decay
when stalking his victims bad breath gives him away
But he was more known as... DRACULA!
3. A Misconception of the French Kiss
Excouse moi madame, "L´Arc de triomphe?"
La tour eiffel ou Notre Dame – un tourist demande
A devil in disguise – fangs madame voila
Krumlour of Paris it´s beau and romantique who are you?
She then ask – first pious then grotesque
If this is all there is then it must be some mistake
Is this what I think it is a mistake
Is this what i think it is, a mistake of the world famous kiss
With etiquette and finesse – I ask for some adresse, then - en touriste?
Oui oui – I show no mercy
4. Daughter of Darkness
[Act 1]
Do not worry my dear, it s going to be just fine, I hope
You shouldn´t blame yourself it wasn´t your fault
Ooh it´s the first time for me too you know
And I am just as nervous and afraid as you are
so just hold my hand and we make it together as always
She pushed and she pushed but the baby was stead fast
I passed out when she needed me the most
no omen or vision beats a womens intuition
When her motherly instinct is on but what if
Will be like in "Rosemary´s Baby" a monster freak or a
beast
Awoke as I screamed from my blood curling dream
Oh God help me, what have I done
I have a feeling there´s something wrong
I could have swore I heard an angel sigh
Some force don´t want this child to be born
I dreamt of a raven, could that have been an omen
We who sailed the seventh seas of rhye nonchalantly
I thought that nothing could ever stop us
I would do anything, anything for you
wish there was something I could do Ooh Vampirella
[Act 2]
"I want you to know that whatever, however, whoever
this
turns out you should know that I´ve always loved you,
and I promised you a son, didn´t I?
So listen carefully, I feel I can´t go on much longer please
let me finish,
I wouldn´t say this if it wasn´t for real, I don´t have much
time left"
The baby is stillborn lay quiet and still
through the storm hear the howling of wolves…
I look at my love who´s grown weaker and weaker
our love child becomes her death
now something connects them like glowing magnetism
it´s a transmigration of souls then deafening silence
It kind of froze for a moment like the entire world held it´s
(breath)
Why did it had to be this way at first I felt such anger that
I
Couldn´t look at her, I rushed up the stairs to the
pinnacles top
My lady is dead, you newborn murderess, there held the
bundle high
Overhead unto the wind, only thunder gods witness
My daughter was baptized in the rain of memory of her
mother I gave her the name...
VAMPIRELLA!
5. Sisterhood
He sought cover on that rainy Sunday night
Where no-man had sat his foot for a long, long time
A lonesome chapel on a desolate moor
shortly after he slept by the fire-place
awoke as god has made him there on the floor
by a female falsetto at the BREAK
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