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01. Tower ONE

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
She'll walk me slowly thru burning spears
She'll be my shelter - no sign of fears
She'll walk me slowly thru halls of light
She'll be my shelter - she'll be my eyes

Man has turned his face in anger
Cold confusion now reign supreme
So will the center hold much longer
in this point-blank industrial scream?

Broken promises in shielded towers
Broken wingspan - disturbing dreams
Down the all now familiar walkways
Angels play-dust has lost its sheen

The spy who watch us while we move in imperfection
his lies brings comfort to the king & his nation
Like fools we just stare at the sun
Don't we all shine on?

Broken promises in shielded towers
Broken wingspan - disturbing dreams
Down the all now familiar walkways
Angels play-dust has lost its sheen

Angel eyes now look down so restless
From frail glass towers and rising steam
A major impact will turn us over
To mold a nightmare from dreams surreal

The spy who watch us while we move in imperfection
his lies brings comfort to the king & his nation
Like fools we just stare at the sun
Don't we all shine on?

She'll walk me slowly - thru burning spears
She'll be my shelter - no sign of fears
The roaring thunder of worlds below
We walk and wait for the final blow

I might have turned away from wonder
I left all that I once held dear

How can I turn away from anger?
How can I turn away from fear?
Now will I be the last surrender?
I'll know just when the end is near

So you dream of a new independence
while they tighten the grip around your neck
So the state has become the offender
To a point where there's no turning back

She'll walk me slowly - thru burning spears
She'll be my shelter - no sign of fears
In a world that I once knew
Descend in ashes - Her words ring true

She'll walk me slowly - thru halls of light
She'll be my shelter - she'll be my eyes
And in a world that we once knew
She gives me hope - Her words ring true

02. Sleeping Bones

Music by Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold, Hasse Fröberg, Tomas Bodin, Felix Lehrman
Lyrics by Roine Stolt
We're the 3rd from the sun
We're a long way from home
We are between land and sea
We are blessed and we're green

We're just killing some time
With a tune and a rhyme

It's a game
It's a shame
It's insane

Life is in the making
and death is just the same
The snapshot of the camera lens
of warriors with no name

In the silent soil of Eden
Lies the bones of a predator
From the sun and the stars
From a dreamless penitentiary

03. Desolation Road

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Be sure to meet your enemies with open eyes
When you answer drums of war - with a lullaby
When battlefields they come alive - you know you cannot hide
But he who knows your fears - is the man inside
Walk a beaten track - knock on any door
There are no glittering prices for you to score
As if there was an hourglass where time was running out
You hurry seeking shelter from the angry crowd

In silent graveyards - they look for saviors -
a promised land beyond the prayers
A land where all the suffering is gone - and nothing will bring you down
While the road to desolation lingers on

People turn to hatred for what's hard to understand
No love for he who's different than the common man
With the echoes of the ancient bouncing down the aisle
In dark forgotten corners you found saints - kepp crying

In silent graveyards - they look for saviors -
a promised land beyond the prayers
A land where all the suffering is gone - and no one will bring you down
While the road to desolation lingers on
But the road to desolation lingers on

04. White Tuxedos

Music by Jonas Reingold
Lyrics by Roine Stolt
Silence & cries - of far away laughter
Dead eyes of a raven - spell global disasters
Stiffs in a row - to a world gone hereafter
In the final of rifts - where there's only one master

Man-machine & predator comes in for the kill
Mother take children under ground
Black fog - dog eat dog
Howling at the rebels - soon enough you're dressed up in white

The prices you've paid - you blackhearted bastards
The roll of the dice - now spinning much faster

Man-machine & predator comes in for the kill
Mother take children under ground
Black fog - dog eat dog
Howling at the rebels - soon enough you're dressed up in white

In good Gods we trust & in the nation of our fathers
We're equal they say - in arms we are brothers
But lines on this map will pull us apart now
They're killing us off and we find no safe quarters

Man-machine & predator comes in for the kill
Mother take children under ground
Black fog - dog eat dog
Howling at the rebels - soon enough you're dressed up in white

Man-machine & predator comes in for the kill
Mother take children under ground
Black drone - hit more homes
Targeting at the rebels - soon enough you're dressed up in white

"We want peace as much as you do"

05. The Resurrected Judas

Music by Roine Stolt, Tomas Bodin, Jonas Reingold, Hasse Fröberg, Felix Lehrman
Lyrics by Roine Stolt
Moon is at the window
Ice upon the lake
Calling from the meadows
it's black and wide awake

Different kind of creatures
has entered state of play
In the kingdom of the great unknown
they move without a trace

So if you follow - go look beyond the lies
A brand new kingdom will brighten up the skies
Close to the sea the river's getting wider
Take off the blinders & life will take you higher

Will you deny me - will you defy me
Will you be tempted in secret crucifying me?
Will you go down with sweet angels by your side
Or slip away just like ghost into the night?

The resurrected Judas
he came here for the trade
They're putting all the pieces back
they're messing with his head

For those of you who hunger
let nothing be obscured
For those of you who follow me
the answer lies aboard

So if you follow - go look beyond the lies
A brand new kingdom will brighten up the skies
Close to the sea the river's getting wider
Take off the blinders & life will take you higher

So if you follow - go look beyond the lies
A brand new England will brighten up the skies
For those of you who follow me the answer lies aboard

06. The Silent Masses

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
So you think you can rule all the fools
Stayin' cool when the walls are coming down
Got the world on a string, but your bird cannot sing
All these men in the factory lines
All the angels who fell from the skies
You try to say hello - but they say goodbye

We are just the silent masses
The things we do are out of fashion
And that sunday clock keeps ticking out of time

When the time is near and you close your eyes
Fear is distant - and not to be found - you are bright as the sun
When the time is up and you leave in silence
You're flying in angels embrace - like a sound bursts thru space
That's how this story ends

So you think you've got so much to give
But the way you're controlled leaves you stiff
You're a tool of the trade 'til the day that you die
All these men in the factory lines
All the angels who fell from the skies
So you try say hello - but they say goodbye

When the time is near and you close your eyes
Fear is distant - and not to be found - you're bright as the sun
When the time is up and you leave - in silence
You're flying in angels embrace - like sound bursts thru space
That's how this story ends

So you think you can rule all the fools
Stayin' cool when the walls coming down
All these men in the factory lines
All the angels who fell from the skies

07. Last Carnivore

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Like a nightmare becomes real
You have fallen from your towers
With those penetrating wheels
Keep crushing thru the hours

When man is not a man
but a hostage to machinery
Will they ever let you out
from this dreamless penitentiary
Man turned his face
to the sun and the stars
In pride, lust & greed
He set off for a lost carnivore

7 matches 7 - when the moon eclipse the sun
Like a sleepwalker's heaven
You can never climb back down
7 becomes 7 - when man spell out what he found
Like in a mindwalker's heaven
7 miles off the ground

Life is in the making
and death is just the same
With the thunders of the underworld
She'll walk me thru the pain
In the silent soil of Eden
Lies the bones of a predator
In the cold stark light of madness
We're all digging up the sinister

7 matches 7 - when the moon eclipse the sun
Like a sleepwalker's heaven
You can never climb back down
7 becomes 7 - when man spell what he found
Like in a mindwalker's heaven
7 miles off the ground

08. Dark Fascist Skies

Music by Jonas Reingold, Roine Stolt, Tomas Bodin, Hasse Fröberg, Felix Lehrman
Lyrics by Roine Stolt
Here's the news for your king and the nation:
There's an offer that is hard to refuse
"There's a plan for a swift integration
We collect all the keys from you fools"

So the state has become the offender
To a point where there's no turning back
So you dream of a new independence
While they tighten the grip 'round your neck

Time after time you're pulled back to the ground
As an outcast you'll last 'til tomorrow
Lie after lie - there's just dark fascist skies -
You're a brick and a fool - where a new future's dawning

For this landslide there is no protection
For the greatest of theft - no police
What's the odds that you'll fight back the system?
We're millions of Davids just looking for PEACE

So the state has become the offender
To a point where there's no turning back
Now you dream of your new independence
While they tighten the grip 'round your neck

Time after time you're pulled back into the crime
As an outcast you'll last until tomorrow
Lie after lie - there's just dark fascist skies -
you're a brick and a fool and a new future is dawning

09. Blood Of Eden

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
We're the 3rd from the sun
we're a beacon and a 7th wonder
We are green and we are glowing
We're the one and eternal mother

We're a fleet among stars
we're a homeworld in constant changes
We are stardust and we're sun kissed
we are brothers and still we're strangers

Is there someone out there - who rise above the stars
Who can tell us who we are
Are we blood of Eden - Ah no - What's our key to freedom?

With a king at your door
You were sleeping with one eye open
Now they're waiting in your backyard
No replacement for a lifeline broken

Is there someone out there - who rise above the stars
Who can tell us who we are
Are we blood of Eden - Ah no - What's our key to freedom?

Is the sun still out there - to rise above the stars
Take the wayward children home
To the banks of Eden - where Kings hold court
we're the key to freedom!

We are clueless and cold - hanging on a thread
We could be much more - but we're just not ready
So we're killing time and we close our eyes
We're that one trick pony - waiting on a sign
we're that one trick pony - looking for a sign

10. Silent Graveyards

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
In silent graveyards - they look for saviors
In silent graveyards - they look for saviors
In silent graveyards - they look for saviors
In silent graveyards - they look for saviors

A promised land beyond all prayers
A land where all the suffering is gone - and no one will bring you down
While the road to desolation lingers on...

11. Runaway Train

Music by Tomas Bodin, Hasse Fröberg, Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold, Felix Lehrman
Lyrics by Hasse Fröberg
I can't stay, now I have to get away, right into the storm
Leaving the ones I love - Bags are packed, getting out the door
What is hidden out there - I don't know
Like a new world rising - full of ice and snow

I can't play with those kind of cards you gave me right from the start
A brand new deal is what I need, a powerful hand & a tool to succeed
I'm just about to enter an open door
A long life behind me - not knowing what's in store

Nothing ever stays the same - Living like a runaway train - got no time to feel the pain
The world is going to change again - nothing but a runaway train - nothing ever stays the same

A damp light before my eyes, I don't know which direction I shall go
Like the hand of fate was touching me, pointing west towards the gold
A secret society - machine or man, I feel this turn is mine - I have the upper hand

Nothing ever stays the same - Living like a runaway train - got no time to feel the pain
The world is going to change again - nothing but a runaway train - nothing ever stays the same

12. Interstellar Visitations

Music by Roine Stolt
[instrumental]

13. Lazy Monkey

Music by Tomas Bodin
Lyrics by Roine Stolt
I thought that I was out of my head
I'll find my way back into the egg
Screaming, dreaming - a lie

I've got some flowers back in the shed
Just lazy like a monkey in bed
I'm greedy, needy as hell

I'm living but I thought I was dead
I can't remember all that was said

I thought I was a captain named Dick
I thought I was back home in my wreck
Screaming & dreaming the high

I thought I was a fireman on ice
I thought I was the biggest surprise
Swirling, whirling about

I thought that I was out of my head
I'll find my way back into the egg
Screaming, dreaming...

14. Psalm 2013

Music by Jonas Reingold, Tomas Bodin, Felix Lehrmann, Hasse Fröberg, Roine Stol
[instrumental]

15. The Wailing Wall

Music by Roine Stolt
[instrumental]

16. Badbeats

Music by Roine Stolt
[instrumental]

17. Burning Spears

Music by Felix Lehrmann, Jonas Reingold, Roine Stolt, Tomas Bodin, Hasse Fröber
[instrumental]

18. The Final Era

Music by Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold
[instrumental]