Arena - Pepper's Ghost lyrics
Tracks 01. Bedlam Fayre
02. Smoke And Mirrors 03. The Shattered Room 04. The Eyes Of Lara Moon 05. Tantalus 06. Purgatory Road 07. Opera Fanatica 01. Bedlam Fayre
Crawling through the poison pool
Hiding eyes with bleeding hands Every step another fool Kings and Queens of sand Over there an angry god Violent brow and negligence Making waves that can't be stopped Unafraid of consequence Chosen faith's a lottery Heaven sent down forgeries Miracles and travesties Irreligion sows that seed Staring through the Judas Hole See what I can see? Every covenant of souls Drum roll payments paid to me... Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares! Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around This place - So far gone Darker than hell - A stagnant field of dreams That face - Speaks to me So much to say - But nothing's what it seems You're only human - Just mortal to me You're only human - Just an earthbound disease! Those eyes - Madness reigns Acid tears - A constant stream of pain That life - wasted here Nothing left - No mourners, no name You're only human - Just mortal to me You're only human - Just an earthbound disease! Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares! Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares! Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares! Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around 02. Smoke And Mirrors
Do you hear the voice?
Shouting down the Midnight Friend Do you hear the voice? An empty requiem Tell me who you are To treat me like a fool, can't you be Honest from the start Explain these tainted rules Calm me down A siren's crown Graceful sounds Ease me round More than smoke and mirrors Can't you see me on the stage? More than misdirection Don't you let me fade away! Spinning out your web You planned to bring me down - Wrong again! You crawled inside my head Corrupted what you found - Wrong again! Lead me on A siren's song Draw me in Break my wings More than smoke and mirrors Can't you see me on the stage? More than misdirection Don't you let me fade away! More than smoke and mirrors Can't you see me on the stage? More than misdirection Don't you let me fade away! More than smoke and mirrors Can't you see me on the stage? More than misdirection Don't you let me fade away! More than smoke and mirrors I'm more than smoke and mirrors! 03. The Shattered Room
Scooping the moon from a starlit pool
It ripples and breaks into luminous jewels And shards of light float through the night Moonbeams of magic shining like eyes Shooting the breeze as the clouds roll by A face in the rain and a voice in the sky Showering wisdom like newly formed pearls That fall to the ground in this innocent world Here in this Darkest House - Living with these ancient wounds Here in this Darkest House - Trapped inside those shattered rooms So many lies - blighted ambitions Caught in a race - a certain collision Stumbling over the paths of depression Too scared to search for the answers to questions Lost in this Darkest House - Living with these ancient wounds Lost in this Darkest House - Trapped inside those shattered rooms Hide brother hide - Veiled in disguises Circle of spies - Fighting for the highest prize Offer a culture - Must now divide them Melt into every crowd - Bringing our defences down Lost in this Darkest House - Living with these ancient wounds Lost in this Darkest House - Trapped inside those shattered rooms I see the shadow of this lupine condition Howling in the mountains with a wolverine heart He's always running from this state of aggression Given half a chance he can tear you apart No mercy for you! No sleep for the doomed! I see the shadow of a vampire's obsession Eternity's a curse that will drive him insane A life of guilt and such violent confession Don't look away; he'll drain the last drop of blood from your veins Lost in this Dark House - Watch your back and stay awake Lost in this Dark House - Sleep would be a cruel mistake Lost in this Dark House - living with these ancient wounds Lost in this Dark House - Trapped inside these cold and shattered rooms Lost in this Darkest House - Lost in this Darkest House Living with these ancient wounds - Trapped inside these cold and shattered rooms 04. The Eyes Of Lara Moon
There in a dream - More than it seems
A Morbid theme - Through the eyes of Lara Moon Back from the grave - A twilight state Help came too late - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon No chance to change - What came before The senseless rage - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon And so we wait - Night after night To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon You saw it coming - But you did nothing You just kept watching - Through the eyes of Lara Moon It's hard to fight When you're struggling for breath And it's hard to smile Noble in the face of death There's no defence To quell a greater force of will One desperate flight But needlessly their blood is spilt Endure the bleakest days Light the visions crowding in Identify the blame Expose the guilty and the sinners Vocation holds us here Even to the end of days There's no inaction That will feed the hungry flames And so we wait - Night after night To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon Nowhere to hide - Night after night So dead inside - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon And so we wait - Night after night To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon And so we wait - Night after night So dead inside - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon Through the Eyes of Lara Moon 05. Tantalus
Standing in water, but dying of thirst
This is my thanks and this is my curse Try as I might, the fruit on the trees All remain beyond reach, beyond wishes or pleading for One last chance Waiting for time to pass me by Waiting for freedom, waiting to die Where can I go, in a world without hope? There is never a place for a soul that has broken so Trust in no one - Trust in no one Linking the chains that weigh down your reason Nothing to blame, but the actions you choose Driven insane by the conscience of treason Running in vein from a life of abuse The closer I get the further I am The journey I make is the course of the damned The distance I go is no distance at all And I climb to the sky but find myself falling so Trust in no one - Trust in no one Quench my thirst - Fill my heart Feed my mind - Don't leave me starving Hold my hand - stay close by Talk to me - Don't leave me crying here Standing in water, yet dying of thirst This is my thanks and this is my curse Empty forgiveness for old indiscretions And such condemnation for just one transgression Find me now - set me free Find me now - set me free Waiting for time to pass me by Waiting for freedom, waiting to die Why do you smile at my timeless ordeal here And why do you laugh at my hopeless appeal for your mercy? Tear away the chains - Free me now No one else to blame - Let me go Tear away the chains - Free me now Driving me insane - Let me go Tear away the chains - Free me now No one else to blame - Let me go Tear away the chains - Free me now Driving me insane - Let me go 06. Purgatory Road
From the first to stand on the fields of Waterloo
Through the two world wars and landing on the moon The search to find forgiveness and to bury all my shame Got to let this burden go, got to shoulder all the blame One day, I will lie down And rest here forever Till then my heart beats - heart beats! I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers They fall at the hands of dark corruption From saintly deeds to poisonous intentions Living with remorse on Purgatory Road Keeping me alive - watch the evil grow One day, I will lie down And sleep here I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer Won't fade away - Going to follow all my prayers I'm here to stay - Till humans walk the ocean floor Won't fade away - Till man can find an end to war I'm here to stay - Till the polar caps freeze up again Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers 07. Opera Fanatica
Gather close my friends - Attend to my confusion
These thoughts till now have been too far for you to reach Gather close to me - My students of delusion Listen carefully to what I have to teach So finally, you will walk with me - As an equal in the heart of my prophecies No struggle now, and no falling down - No hiding from the attitudes and jealousies The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me! Then hand in hand, we will make that stand I was once myself, but now I am another man There's a sense of urgency - Flawed invisibility The negative converge - feel the synchronicity A union of consequence beyond this lost adversary The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me! There's nothing more to fear - A question of a few degrees From sane to maniac - We're feathers on a dying breeze You trust your life to float - Across the gentle ebb and flow And on the random whims - A God that no one really knows The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship... There's nothing more to fear - A question of a few degrees From care to negligence - In freedom or captivity Perhaps there is a place - Far outside these prison walls Where I may live your life - A cleaner slate, a stronger cause The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me! So I exist in this fragile equilibrium Which glues the substance of the universe to me The stars they're falling down, drawn to me in millions Only I can set them free... set them free Set them free! Only I can set them free! You try to live without me by your side You try to live without me now but I will always be there, just a single breath away And I will always be there - I will share your fate again The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me! The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me! |