Edguy - Mandrake lyrics
Tracks 01. Tears Of A Mandrake
02. Golden Dawn 03. Jerusalem 04. All The Clowns 05. Nailed To The Wheel 06. The Pharaoh 07. Wash Away The Poison 08. Fallen Angels 09. Painting On The Wall 10. Save Us Now 11. The Devil & The Savant 01. Tears Of A Mandrake Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
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 Tears of a mandrake - yeah... Drown in the tears of the mandrake Pawn in the game - Drown in the tears of a mandrake 02. Golden Dawn Music by Jens Ludwig /Tobias Sammet Lyrics by Tobias Sammet
He was born into this world
Living love but he got hurt And he sighed when he beheld The bleeding lamb Blood and tears drip on the ground Dung the olives on the mount Love is crucified, made way For the greed of man There's no way out of here No we don't, don't wanna take it no more No we don't, don't wanna wait forever Golden dawn, a new age has begun Golden dawn, in every single one Don't you run away, don't say it's all too late Start to ring in the age... The golden dawn Killing brothers, sick ideals, TV-Show lie and reveal Poor philistine reasons why to hate a man It's so easy to give in, do your dirty trick and win Join those lemmings to the shore and fly but then Don't complain if you'll drown in the end Kill to eat, when you're the final one There's no one to compete Then find the time to think of a... 03. Jerusalem Music by Jens Ludwig /Tobias Sammet Lyrics by Tobias Sammet
Cold in the wind, starless the night
Rain pouring down when the last one arrives So many stories telling of pain Are told by the freaks they've been throwing away Ride out, set off to the sea Odd fellows, you and me Sail on to a world far away That might not exist, we must be insane Torn and feathered Put in the pillory my friend Accused as a fool marching on In quest for a place they don't know To Jerusalem The piper inside, can't you feel him calling You don't be afraid of the horizon To Jerusalem Don't you give in to their fingers pointing So don't be afraid, you won't crash at the horizon The dwarf and the giant, children who stray The dreamer who's walking far off their way A jester cast out, he can't laugh anymore Here comes the freakshow... Welcome on aboard Torn and feathered They'll never get what you say Kill what they don't understand Don't know and don't even try 04. All The Clowns Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
When you're walking down the empty road
Feel like creeping, crawling, cold and bare And you're afraid of Mistery Scary-face Don't turn around since you may find him there A fire of hope has turned into smoke, The child to a man It's nothing but grey painting your way And no one could ever tell... Tell me why all the clowns have gone Tell me where did they run Just when I close my eyes I can see them arise Fool tell me where did you go Foll tell me why did you go away, all the clowns On and on, tomorrow's yesterday No more tears allowed, you'll stand your pain The child inside will die for liberty Hope you don't mind that they will nail a frame A spark of a 'no' Rebellion and hope The fire of life I don't mind if you blame Don't feel ashamed Still I know them well Oh, all the clowns... 05. Nailed To The Wheel Music by Jens Ludwig /Tobias Sammet Lyrics by Tobias Sammet
Good intentions pave the way of the human child
Heading for the fork as you walk the path of life A spell cast from the hiding woods, don't you close your eyes The snake is waiting anytime to penetrate your mind Don't you hear voices whispering, incline to walk down Don't you see the shadow on the wall, angel eyes... the one cast out to fall Calling me to look up to the sky we follow but we never know oh why A vision revealing a child down where I've sure never been An angel who's touching the flame, oh the angel is me Nailed, nailed to the wheel - Nailed, let the cut run deep Nailed, nailed to the wheel - Nailed, I said go - let bleed! - Go, - let bleed! Feel it crawl, feel the magic coming over like a daze Welcome as the poison for the cornered snake Taste of sin, bitter sweet, never, never let us go But never, never, never is a price we'd pay to grow They call it original sin, some call it divine The moment the evil appeared... the chance to decide From children in cradles to hangmen who smile Lick up the blood from the blade of your knife Walk the stairway, leading down, ride on fire, take the crown Your mind could be strong but your flesh will be mine He's offering those kingdoms, they all could be thine Rising powers, tempting gold, but at what price would it be sold? It's all up to you... 06. The Pharaoh Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
From the cradle of silence and of light
It took a birth in human blood - angels cry - 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 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! To the world of spirits he's sailling 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... 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 count 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 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... The ghost of a god... Slave to the pyramid... 07. Wash Away The Poison Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
Here alone now I'm staring at the sea
Behind the far horizon Is there a better place for me? Afraid to drown, afraid to dive Scared by fears and the hot sunlight, yeah And I dance in the rain, dive in the pool of life Wash away the poison And I dance through this pain, my body in a starless night To wash away the poison from my soul, turn it to gold Between the devil and the deep sea I don't know how to carry on I only feel that inner force that's pushing me along The tides of life bring clarity for my tumbling mind I'll dive to see, set me free 08. Fallen Angels Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
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 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 Ohhh, yeah... 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 09. Painting On The Wall Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
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 Look at the picture Point at the child there on the floor Realize that it's a looking glass 10. Save Us Now Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
The sound of explosions, the children awake
The turn of the tide acts up, the ground it starts to quake A pile of dented steel, in fear I realize Behind the shuttle's windshield two evil shinig eyes Highspeed alien drum bunny - Highspeed alien drum bunny Handcuffed they take the stranded straight into their lab Examine him, his DNA, what you give is what you will get He takes his magic carrow, a bang and drums appear He starts to play like thunder, mandkind flee to save your hearing Highspeed alien drum bunny - Highspeed alien drum bunny Save us now, somebody - Save us now, someone From highspeed A.D.B. Save us now, somebody - Save us now, someone From highspeed A.D.B. Bum Bum Bunny B., life is a drag I can tell But let me count to four and then you play the roll of hell One, two, one, two, three, four... Highspeed alien drum bunny - Highspeed alien drum bunny Hi fish, alien drum bunny - Hasi, alien drum bunny This is alien drum bunnies' revenge - Resistance is futile!!! 11. The Devil & The Savant Music & lyrics by Tobias Sammet
When you cross the edge inside
reach out for the stranger As you sign the deal tonight Icarus's your only guide See the haggard child of sun To the tempting fires you run Pass the gate and realize Casting evil eyes Down at your dark lab you threw some tarot cards Reading the fiery truth alchemist you were right the vision's alive The devil and the savant Gaze away Far away Alchemist you're free inside of your prison The devil and the savant Take a light, Getting sight of a revelation forced: the chemical wedding day... He appears at your desire Does your bidding - always Lights the candle in the dark See the blood - oh - of us all Think you force him to expose All above and all below You're never able to unveil what you had to feel... Taming your seraph but who is in control You or the demon called curiosity, Mephistopheles... |