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EDGUY LYRICS
"Burning Down The Opera" (2003 Live album)
1. Welcome to the Opera (Intro)
2. Fallen Angels
3. Tears of A Mandrake
4. Babylon
5. Land of the Miracle
6. Painting On the Wall
7. Wings of A Dream
8. The Headless Game
9. The Pharaoh
1. Welcome to the Opera (Intro)
(Instrumental/No Lyrics)
2. Fallen Angels
Sun going down, she opens her eyes
It's dark in the belfry and cold
Whispers of rain, wind in the sky
So long it's been all she's been told
Dream child, you're all alone
Roaming though the night
Scream child, lost and ashamed
For all the tears you cry
You're a child in sadness
A chessboard nightmare to go
Hear that silent symphony
Calling you up to the shore and you'll see us
As we sail away, moonstruck and astray
We're fallen angels
We're the scary tale to scare your mind away
From fallen angels
[solo: Both]
So many days wasted in haze
You're free, oh so free on their strings
Illusions of life, they say you can fly
They laugh and they cut off your wings
Night child, they give you steel
And make you believe that it's gold
Lies child, all that you're told
Is just what you shall know
When they 'know' we are evil
We're strangers
And danger and fire,
The dark and the light
We are eyes in the night
Lost souls' they curse
For we've found it inside - oh
[repeat chorus]
[solo: Jens]
Ohhh, yeah...
[solo: Jens/Both]
When they say you're a fossil
When their eyes nail you to the cross
Take their curse and join our way
Welcome my frien on the ship of the damned - oh
[repeat chorus]
3. Tears of A Mandrake
Gaze at the leaving clairvoyant
Predicting invasions and pain
A child cansee through the stranger...
The Watcher's eye, the noble liar
It's time for the merchant and his help for sale...
Blades to cut wicked flesh
On a merchantman he counts his money
Then he sails away
The sea he'll cruise is blood and fire
Oh father I can't see a lane
They make you a pawn in the game
For we all are deaf, dumb and blind
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feel as they graze
After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chains
When you're off to the hall of the serpent
See the cynic who's counting his gold
While gun runners, priests and clairvoyants
Are dancing around the rising demon
You are taught to eat up all the crap they shit
Parading your nuts on a silver plate
Kill your brother by the blade they sell
For you don't unite
They reap your bondage sowing evil
There's no use to tell what I've seen
They know how to make you believe
Just what they want you to know
[repeat chorus/ solo: Jens/both/Jens/both]
Tears of a mandrake - yeah...
[solo: Jens/Both]
[repeat chorus]
Drown in the tears of the mandrake
Pawn in the game - Drown in the tears of a mandrake
4. Babylon
Yeah...
In a world of hate pollution
We can't breathe anymore
We've to leave and this time you
The pawn, have won
On our quest for nowhere island
We set off to the sea
You call surrender what we call
Acalm before the storm...
Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return! I don't live my life for you
It's too short to get burned
Stand upright and face the wind!"
Time to go back where I belong...
No one can prevend me from
Raising towers in Babylon
Time to go back where I belong...
No one can accuse me
For I do not fear Babylon, Babylon...
You only can love me if you can convert me
To attitudes of your brain
You blame us for doing things
That you don't know, you tell me what you'd do
If you were me but you are you and I am I
Lucky you, but this time I say: "No!"
Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return! I don't want to hurt you
But you'll have to learn: you are you and I am I!!!
Ooohhh...
Oh yeah...
5. Land of the Miracle
Blinded by the fire and the sorrow of the day
I come knocking at your door to dry the tears away
The eventide is calling me to take a look into your eyes
Pull me on and make me mesmerized!
Riding on the wings of light
Dreaming dreams and holding tight:
Leaving all my sorrow far behind
Your eyes are the gate
To the land of the miracle where our love can make us fly
Make us fly
In the land of the miracle
We can can find a reason why and how we can fly
Open up the book up madness read the page of life!
Who's the one to tell you what to do and how to rise?
And if the stars would fall one day I'd climb up to the sky
To put them back for you to save your smile
...Take a look onto the book of fantasy and poetry and
you will see: what you can feel is everything you
need to heal your crying mind, the soul behind and
everything that you may find inside your head...
...A million years have passed away to make us head
for the decay and to unlearn just what yearn for
all day long: Right to be strong and stick to our
ideals, are they for real and do we just have lost the
thread!
... I believe in miracles they happen everyday
In your arms a dream comes true for me...
6. Painting On the Wall
Strong on your feet, you were blinded
Building up a towar on shaking ground
Once in a world full of colors
Back to see just ruins there to be found
And now you're falling, crawling
Diggin in the broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
Come into the painting on the wall
So the joker smiles
Come into the painting on the wall
No more crying
Illusions let you in from the rain
Follow Mr. Hopkins, get insane
Stories are told - wanna hear him
Talking from the picture to your head
Follow the call of a puppet
Led into a black room painted red
Where life is painless, brainless
You don't think of broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
[repeat chorus]
[solo: Jens]
Look at the picture
Point at the child there on the floor
Realize that it's a looking glass
[repeat chorus]
7. Wings of A Dream
Yeah...
This is my day, soldiers are coming
To take me away - may justice be done
I hold on to pray
But no God seems to hear me
The pain I will face is the price for disgrace
For things that I've never done
The toll of the bell and the flight of the raven
They open my cell, I feel it's too late
There's no need to yell
They don't want to hear me
The morning has come
It seems like my work's been done
Today I'll be the one
Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene
'Cause when I'm close to the end
I've got always a friend
On my lonesome way to the final decay
I listen to a voice telling me
[Chorus]
Now dream away...
Follow me astray
To a world that we can reach
On wings of a dream
Now dream away...
Follow me astray
To a world that we can reach
On wings of a dream
I've got the key to the end of the nightmare
To leave all the dreams of bane and despair
The life I redeem has got the price of insanity
That you just can't get
'Cause you're not even mad
You only trust in your eyes!
Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene
When I'm close to the end
I've got always a friend
On my lonesome way to the final decay
I listen to a voice telling me
[Chorus]
[Solo]
Once upon a time there was a noble man like me
He only cared about the things he saw
One dark night without a moon he loved
The dog of his queen
Thinking it was her, he enjoyed
"Life in the raw...!"
[Chorus]
8. The Headless Game
[Sammet]
Longing for silence
Always faster is the way that we go
Not a little patience
Higher, farer, better we grow.
The Beast is rising, it's tantalizing
Those who are taking the time.
Alienation, a revelation...
Straight to the end of the line...
The cold chill you feel
Is no dream, it's for real, we don't follow
[Chorus]
Fly! Riding away... Rising today...
No, we don't play the headless game!
We are alive and don't say goodbye.
Fly! Riding away... Rising today...
No, we don't play your headless game!
We are alive, don't say goodbye...
Cast out from Eden...
You don't like what we are in your eyes
We're leading the treason
On the race you run, the way of your life
I am danger, I'm a stranger
'Cause I don't give in to your call.
And not until she is satisfied
We can come and explode and we fall!
We're blowing the frame
Of your headless game, we don't follow!
[Chorus]
[Solo]
Longing for silence
Always faster is the way that we go
Not a little patience
Higher, farer, better we grow.
The cold chill you feel
Is no dream, it's for real, we don't follow
[Chorus repeats out]
Fly!
9. The Pharaoh
[Sammet]
From the cradle of silence and of light
It took a birth in human blood
Angels cried!
To the ages of violence and of hate
To explore the left hand path I came alive
Into my striding, the shell of a God in the cold
My soul is just hiding
My spirit haunting on to control
[Chorus]
Flame of the Nile, fire in the darkness
To swallow the light
Behold the ghost of a God
God from the Nile, eternally roaming
To swallow the light
Behold the spirit of a Pharaoh,
Pharaoh, pharaoh, no!
[Solo]
To the world of Spirits he's sailing on and on
Why magician don't you feel they broke the seal
Cyril's facing the tyrant everywhere
Far away from his grave, Seth is free
Roaming through ages
Begetting advice for your Kings, yow...
Leading the stages
Of history that's bound to my strings, no, no, no...
[Chorus]
[solo: Jens]
Don't you see that it's coming, it's near
The wise man screamed in the noble chamber
Just a parrot in a rich man's cage
He's a jester on the court
The wise man died and the seance went on
And the red one reigned in the noble chamber
In dreams of a masterplan
For a billion parrots in a big cage
Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness
You don't realize, afraid in the haze
You point at the man that grins in your nightmare
And don't realize the mirror you gaze into
You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries
[Solo/Instrumental Break]
"To the world of Spirits he's sailing on and on
Why magician don't you feel... they broke the seal
Cyril's facing the tyrant everywhere
Far away from his grave, Seth is free"
[Solo]
I guide your away I make you stay alive
My servants taught you know how to survive
The way of light is food for your soul
But it's your belly that's taken control
No guiding light would shine anymore
It's just the Red God replacing the core
He'll rise again to open up the gate
We have to learn for our future, our fate...
Ohhh...
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Ohhh...Yeah...!
The ghost of a God...
Slave to the pyramid...
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