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The Flower Kings - Waiting For Miracles lyrics



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01. House Of Cards

Music by Zach Kamins
[instrumental]

02. Black Flag

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
We have come to pray for wind
One more wild adventure to begin
There's a hundred million stars
A thousand grains of salt upon my skin

And the seagulls pave the way
As we lost the track of days
There's a full hand of enemies
But no allegiance to majesties
As the sweet sound of cannons roar

When the bells and whistles sounds
We set sails for another town

Just a bunch of wayward souls
Hunting for the treasure-troves

You can see where the black smokе is rising
We just boarded another schoonеr
Looking death straight in the eye
You will never feel that much alive

There is nothing like a clean good fight
As we're the kings of the open water
Leaving nothing and no one there
That thunder is a lifelong love affair

You can see where the black smoke is rising
We just boarded another schooner
Looking death straight in the eye
You will never feel that much alive
There is nothing like a clean good fight
As we're the kings of the open water
Leaving no one and nothing there
That thunder is a lifelong love affair

03. Miracles For America

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Look at what you have
Show some greater love
Holding up is tough, more is not enough
Gold is holding you ransom as dust turn to dust
You can hear them thinking...

I'm a simple mind
I look for what might shine
And the bells might ring
A fool is a fool there is no schooling

Save your miracles - for America
Tell your brothers they must go carry on!

So - you got to give, endless is the river
There's enough for all 'round that waterhole
The sun beats down on YOU like all the rest!
Can you hear them calling?
You think you can manage on your own?

Savе your miracles - for America
Tell your brothеrs they must go - carry on
Play your miracles!
Pray for miracles!

Save your miracles - for America
A bright and radiant new America
Just one more miracle
Save your miracles - for America
In your mind - you beg for time
Reason may just look for rhyme

04. Vertigo

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Conceal the night - the world goes 'round
You're feeling helpless - goes round & around
You feed the blind - the grid goes down
You feed the rages - to hell we're bound

Heat it up - you knew what was coming
Even days you're not asking for much
There'll be days when you have to be honest
You feel lost at the end of the day
As you keep forgiving it
As you keep forgetting it
You let nothing stand in your way
So don't you judge a book by the cover
Find your way out of dismay

You're fine by night - but find a good reason
As vertigo hits you again
Flying your rockets into the wasteland
Fear means nothing - with nothing to gain

Shame will find its minister
And all the world will know his name
As the world embrace the sinister
You keep on dragging that ball and chain

You're fine by night - but find a good reason
As vertigo hits you again
Flying your rockets into the wasteland
All or nothing - but nothing remains

Conceal the night - the world goes 'round
You fear the darkess it's all around
You fly the rockets into the night
The sky keeps falling - before your eyes
The sky keeps falling - before your eyes
You fear the darkness it's all around

05. The Bridge

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
One soul on a bridge between the light and dark
Two hands reaching out waiting for that spark

Once a man on a ledge waiting for the flight
One step - leap of faith brings a different light

How long now will you wait
I'm swaying on a fence
How long before we stand
Before the end of days

Those who will follow have God on their side
The river is darker - as I feel inside
Waiting for miracles

One soul on a bridge with angels on each side
This river ain't deep enough
So slowly sink and hide

Those who will follow have God on thеir side
The river is darkеr - as I feel inside
Waiting for miracles

06. Ascending To The Stars

Music by Zach Kamins
[instrumental]

07. Wicked Old Symphony

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Aww - when you see the rising violence
You confine yourself in silence
And you build your fences higher
In your dream - your afterlife is waiting you
Inner thoughts are shaping you
You know where to go to find me

I looked for you
Make believin' - without you
Something wicked about you
But we all have our blinders on
You played for me - this wicked old symphony
Thinking always about you
And the things that has gone before

Huh - there's a cynic rising fences -
While we come back to our senses
We go building fences higher
In your dream - the afterlife is awaiting you
Inner thoughts are shaping you
You know where to go to find me

I looked for you
Make believin' - 'without you'
Something wicked about you
But we all have our blinders on
You played for me - this wicked old symphony
Thinking always about you
And the things that has gone before

High flying birds - do you ever learn?
Showing some concern - while flying
High flying birds - do you ever learn?
While the engines burn - I'm flying

You played for me - this wicked old symphony
Thinking always about you
And the things that has gone before

08. The Rebel Circus

Music by Mirko DeMaio, Roine Stolt
[instrumental]

09. Sleep With The Enemy

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
You may look for feathers white
And a distant halo
Like a second coming - waiting to rise
What arrives in thunderclouds
May not be 'the promise'
Will the finest hour
Bring you the light you're awaiting

It's a scary world out there
If you know what's coming
It's the same old darkness
That has come to pass - once more

You can hear it in the wind -
A dark and distant humming
And that age of wonders
Don't seem to last that long

Sleep with me
'Cause tomorrow I'm the enemy
Stay with me - and I'll hand you this world
You're just that boy but you claim the stars
Burning like fever

Grave old arms of grief and pain
Waiting to embrace (surround) you
Bury all the deepest thorns in your heart
Find your friends in war & peace
But close the doors behind you
Our loyalty can shift in hours of need

Sleep with me
'Cause tomorrow I'm the enemy
Stay with me - and I'll hand you this world
Afraid of thee - in the sharpest light of vanity
So drown with me
And I'll hand you this world
You're just that boy but you claim the stars
Burning like fever

You're just a boy but you claim the stars
Claiming forever

10. The Crowning Of Greed

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Two souls on a bridge
Between the light and dark
Two hands reaching out
Waiting for that spark

11. House Of Cards Reprise

Music by Zach Kamins
[instrumental]

12. Spirals

Music & lyrics by Zach Kamins, Roine Stolt, Mirko DeMaio, Jonas Reingold
Call on miracles - For America
Call on miracles - For America

13. Steampunk

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Guide me thru the darkest waters
Guide me thru the darkest waters
Greet me like a friend
Wash me up the silver shallows
Make me whole again

Stand down now the waves of time
The salty seas and plains
Another glorious end...

14. We Were Always Here

Music & lyrics by Roine Stolt
Ride on - to the horizon
Fly home - from this island
Come back to your senses
Look straight thru the lenses
There's lots to understand
This evolution of man

It's so simple in its purity
All that genius - life energies
Like forgotten springs of melody
We were always here

All these lines of illusions
Hide them - or use them

It's so simple in its purity
All that genius - life energies
Like forgotten springs of mеlody
We were always hеre
We were always hеre

It's so simple in its purity
All that genius - life energies
Like forgotten springs of melody
We were always here
We were always hеre

15. Busking At Brobank

Music by Roine Stolt
[instrumental]