Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child lyrics
Tracks 01. The Wolves Die Young
02. Running Lights 03. Take One Breath 04. Cloud Factory 05. Blood 06. What Did You Do In The War, Dad? 07. Half A Marathon Man 08. X Marks The Spot 09. Love 10. Larger Than Life 11. No Pain 01. The Wolves Die Young
Weather's getting colder
Winter claims the land It is said the Queen is dressed in The warmest gown in the whole land They say it is a wonder A dress is made of thunder, The Wolves, who cannot see it Will one day dethrone the Queen The citizens all cover The beauty of the power Makes them see a flower Bloom in the Winter Wonder Land The walls keep getting closer Breath fear in your cage, From the Queen will hear today The reason in the rhymes Children play The Queen is naked And no one sees her amber eyes Now the innocent kneel down And ask forgiveness for their lies The court, The meek, Will obey the tyrant Queen Bring us their heads for... This is the day when the wolves die young They'll never see a new midnight sun I'm gonna make sure the prophecy is undone Find out where those children have run Mutiny is rising Against the wall of fear Mirror, miror of the fall Sees her final spiraling Downfall The Queen is naked And no one sees her amber eyes Now the innocent kneel down And ask forgiveness for their lies The court, The meek, Will obey the tyrant Queen This is the day when the wolves die young They'll never see a new midnight sun I'm gonna make sure the prophecy is undone Find out where those children have run This is the day when the wolves die young They'll never see a new midnight sun I'm gonna make sure the prophecy is undone Find out where those children have run Find out where those children have run Find out where those children have run 02. Running Lights
The sunset will make the night,
He feels the road with the headlights He's one of the wilder kind, In his yellow and red skyline Young man... and... his... fast car Squeezing... the wheel... Knuckles white Speeding, turning, sliding, drifting Deeper in his bucket seat, Running all the lights with the girl of his dreams And they enter the night when The young ones need no sleep Laughing at the lights they keep running When the song on the Radio sings "Such a perfect day" Tomorrow slowly fade away The world only ends once in one life time These night of the young last forever Around and around, with the clearing smoke These days drift away altogether The peak of the perfect skies The sunrise always runs the night Racing... for one... final kiss Drifting... away... don't touch... the wheel! Turn left slide right, Initial G-feel Deeper in the redline, Screaming louder underneath And they enter the night when The young ones need no sleep Laughing at the lights they keep running When the song on the Radio sings "Such a perfect day" Tomowwor slowly fade away World only ends once in one life time These night of the young last forever Around and around, with the clearing smoke These days drift away altogether Once in a while night's a full lifetime These nights of the young last forever Around and around, with the clearing smoke These days drift away in the shades of time 03. Take One Breath
New human has seen the dawn of day,
Overcame the limitations Of evolution by learning to apply S-C-I in fi, you cry silence! Science is blasphemy! My brainchild, intermingle, Come foretoken of trans-human Already supersedes men like you and me Transcending the old human... silence! Sci-fi human, sci-fi human Has arrived Once upon a dream I was to fall deep in a goldmine I had a world within my reach I had to choose between my life And something, I can't even see Standing at the gates of the evolutionary endpoint Reaching for they key we cannot yet see High above the all seeing eye of this reality The lines we learn to fear Dream safely in the distance Sloly we become the new species of tomorrow Mankind lives or dies by its boundless dreams Once upon the future, We're gonna blame our evolution For the lack of light far behind in the sun As we try to rise on our self made burning wings Take on breath, just take... One breath away, the future, today Take on breath, one breath... Slip away from the dream, you're awake Take one breath One last breath, Prophesy, sci-fim pigs that fly Take one breath, One last breath, Not faraway, Pre-order your future today 04. Cloud Factory
For every child there dawns a day
They wonder from where they come Why is the sky so pink tonight How fast do clouds fly by And so you come up with stories you tell Eyes are open wide when you tell them about the sky 'N all that beneath resides There is a factory clouds are made in They make'em big and blue The factory eats you, it swallows you whole It fills you with conceit And never lets you leave If you ever dream, at the end of the day That you're gonna live as a free man There's no hook, no sinker, no line And you will never leave The cloud factory If you join the same brigade I did when I was young You will never see beyond the skyline of this town Take my word, my son, and run While your dreams fly free Have them write my story down Like silence breaking sound There is a factory clouds are made in They make'em big and blue The factory eats you, it swallows you whole It fills you with conceit And never lets you leave If you ever dream, at the end of the day That you're gonna live as a free man There's no hook, no sinker, no line And you will never leave The cloud factory It's sad if you never leave you believe what you see And you follow the lead, but the eyes, they deceive There is nothing to see but cloud factory dreams? But hey, isn't it fun at the end of the day When everyone looks like me? Swallowing pints of stale apathy Having dreams where I would be without the factory If you ever dream, at the end of the day That you're gonna live as a free man There's no hook, no sinker, no line And you will never leave The cloud factory There is a factory clouds are made in They make'em big and blue The factory eats you, it swallows you whole It fills you with conceit And never lets you leave If you ever dream, at the end of the day That you're gonna live as a free man Irony shall be the justice you find In case you ever leave The cloud factory 05. Blood
At first you kindle life
You place it in a man This man, he has a heart That's filled with fire The man will have a wife The wife creates the home They multiply and so Their hearts are filled with fear The man creates a wall He arms, defends them all This fear becomes his fall "Blood is a bodity fluid in animals that Delivers necessary substances such as Nutrients and oxygen to the cells and Transports metabolic waste products Away from those same cells" The color of life and arrow of fear made flow Auburn rivers in the snow dance the death Of fading peace of mind Kept awake by the night Of the twilights cold, sad sweeps What the child of Orion Has sown his cube will reap The fire is out And there's an ominous silence But he can see them in the dark Under the moon, the shadows find them Wolf - stares in your eyes Blink first and die Beauty and fear, of wolves and of people There's a cave on the hills, In the woods not so far away Never once had he seen the descent Of majestic gray coming this way Now he can see those blue eyes Burning through the darkened night "He knows the fur, he used to love her" Ready or not, there will be blood! Life is a gift you have no lease for anymore There will blood! You will buy our blood with your own blood You will buy our blood with your own blood The last thing you'll see is a Wolf - stares in your eyes Blink first and die Beauty and fear within Who's more of a beast A king or a priest What do you believe? Wolves or the people things we fear Wolves or the people Wolves fear the fear of the people Think, how one fearful man can destroy this world At first you kindle life, you place it in a man This man, he has a heart, that's filled with fire The man will have a wife, the wife creates the home They multiply and so, their hearts are filled with fear Maybe men cannot live when their hearts are not Filled with fire instead of love For fear is a powerful thing Maybe only the might and The power of fear maintains our life We function when it's controlled by denial The wolf in your eyes blinks first and dies Beauty and fear, the wolves and the people Those hills have no eyes, but they hear your cries Beauty and fear, the blood, the wolves and the people 06. What Did You Do In The War, Dad?
Dad, what did you do in the war?
Something to answer for? You say too young I am to know Dad, I've heard you cry at night Mournful and desperate blight Where did you learn that song you sing "War is in me! I was the war! And your praying brings back the suffering No, please, don't start to cry I only pray you'll never know The things I see every time I close my eyes Angels still have faces" What did you do in the war, dad, tell me Why can't you smile when the children sing Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings And your soul is now torn, unlike mine Do you fear yesterday will in someway Define the life of your child? Dad, I know what you did in the war Deeds devils would abhor Did you filfil the oath you swore? Dad, did you do it for me? Their blood for my life to live In the hollow without reprieve, without you "War is in me! I am the war! Don't you force me to live the nightmare again! I'm sorry Please, don't make my cry My son, you never ever want to know How when guarding your sleep serene I hear The silence of the children who sang" Far and beyond the stars there's A place where all the love, All the goodness we could have still resides But we choose life away from the light You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your Beautiful child 07. Half A Marathon Man
An 89 year old man learned how to run
And as he passed me by, he said "Come on, son!" I really thought my bones weighted a ton As I dragged them up and down the block Now a couple of weeks have passed Gone are the makings of a lazy man When I saw the usher of change Her flaming hair in slow-mo Gliding past my window I had to trace her down "You look like a really nice guy But can you keep up with me?" Away she ran I'm doing everything I can To be half of a marathon man How many things can life conceal Deep in the mist everything is unreal If you believe in me, I can Become your own half a marathon man I am half of a a marathon man Yea-yeah Good morning, somebody kill me right now I've never felt this kind of a burning cold I read it somewhere, running is like a drug As for the second day, I can say it is not It's bright white burning pain Bring it on, baby! 10 miles and I fell hellbent I'm gonna make sure this rainbow has an end I seem to have hit an invisible wall Trying to find out if this here endless tunnel is really A cave So here I run between the fields I am half of a marathon man Follow the river down from the hills If I can do it, then anyone can Now her eyes reflect my skies You can hear love in the 21 cries Of half of a marathon man It's a beautiful day, it's a beautiful day, It's so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful It's a beautiful day, it's a beautiful day, It's so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful It's a beautiful day, it's a beautiful day, It's so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful It's a beautiful day, it's a beautiful day, It's so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful So here I run between the fields I am half of a marathon man Follow the river down from the hills If I can do it, then anyone can Now her eyes reflect my skies You can hear love in the 21 cries Of half of a marathon man It's a beautiful It's a beautiful It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day It's a beautiful It's a beautiful It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day It's a beautiful It's a beautiful It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day 08. X Marks The Spot
You are a man of impeccable taste
And you know when the X marks the spot We all need a map for the trail of your thought Where to go, the X marks the spot You seem to have a misgiving Hell yeah, you make a living Don't add bricks to what we're heaving We would so much Rather enjoy beach, beer and a fire You think something somewhere Has a copyright for the world And you've signed where the X marks the spot You join a cult, fill the void that you've got Deep within where the X marks the spot There you stand, talk and holler How dark were all your colors When you paint another sunrise You leave out the sun Birds like you fly straight to heaven, heaven Or they slowly float away How well do you know those you're calling your own? I mean... come on dude! Your starving soul in your house of skin and bone You're an island, the X marks the spot There you stand, talk and holler... Birds like you fly straight to heaven, heaven Or they slowly float away... You are a circus, but where is the clown? There's no map, still the X marks the spot There you stand, talk and holler... Birds like you fly straight to heaven, heaven Or they slowly float away down Into the night with senior John Barleycorn Heaven, heaven Or they float slowly away 09. Love
Oh I love the face you try to hide in your hands, we are in love
Oh I love the snow angels we make hand in hand, we are in love Give me the stone you're hiding within Shimmering, frozen, all it does is make me feel the cold Rules don't apply, gravity lies The moon gently smiles when we silent by sway while I sing How long we have been dancing? You are all I see... Oh I love the smile you're to hide in your hands, we are in love Oh I love the sand angels we make hand in hand, we are in love summer in bloom, lovers in swoon Never believed I also could walk in the air like a fool The greatest of stories, heavenly bliss and forever may sometimes end with no kiss Now we wonder are we both crazy getting into this Oh I love the face you try hide in your hands, we are love Love the way you get older with me day by day, we are in love Oh I love the Snow angles we make hand in hand, we are in love And I love how this love makes us strong day by day, we are in love 10. Larger Than Life
I climb up on the stage
Wearing an old mans face I've said those words a thousand times I memorized the lines of Paris, The Prince and Friar I might one day play them too To get here took its time, I forgot to make a life Between the scripted ones I knew When admiration grew I was only loved by few My true love and passion - everyone knew Hamlet in Lapland, King Lear died in Vienna Venice and Othello, Madrid I am Henry the 8th I am, I am We all shall one day become what we play The marvelous, magical, bewildering array Of trees and stones as we work our way up To become these icons of lust and what not "We live in the sin of self-indulgent... larger than life Yeah, that's what I am! I am a goddamn Peter Pan, maaaaaaan! But the one palace I won't grow up in staged a broken leg deep in my grave" When life becomes a play and I don't know the role I'm cast it's all wrong out I cannot escape before the Curtain call. One last time build myself a wall to cry on, To hide in plain view I will fall deeper into the role written In a drunken haze, it seems, by the Shakespeare in me Stage, film and television, Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm Larger than life... Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now Larger than life... The meaning of the fame is getting lesser by the day for me somehow Larger than life... My friends all have families Who now have their families I lived half a century aboding deep in vanities Am I now wise, when I've learned all the traits Of a fool? The mirror now cries, ageless mask fades to true life To taste the immortal grace I lived the role I played Alone in a golden cage Life is what we make of it sometimes, sometimes, Sometimes we just want to play So don't take life so seriously Play, love, have fun, leave misery be Regrets are built in a cold dark cage Where nothing ever happens Where nothing ever happens So don't take life so seriously Where nothing ever happens... Where nothing ever happens... Where nothing ever happens... I climb down from the stage Remove the young man's face And underneath reveal a sage "Young man, you play my role Breath life into that soul Prepare to live a thousand lives" Now when you think it's all over, you find love A flower starts to bloom, a chapter starts anew The greatest moment in life Mirror still lies, time's a cruel, silent landslide It builds you up within, destroys the shell you're in And everything will fall into place When life becomes a play And I (you) don't know the role I'm cast (you're cast) It's all wrong, but I (you) cannot Escape before the curtain call One last time, build yourself a wall to cry on, For anybody to see You will fall deeper into the role you wrote in a drunken Haze, it seems, with the Shakespeare within Stage, film and television, twenty four seven on the... 11. No Pain
What you are, and why today
All that's tragic, feels the same There's no feeling, there's no pain, cold, rain Cannot stay away from you, light Cause you are my cyanide If I can't feel, why is there pain? Give me my rest, cold, rain... From the darkness, into the light Face the demons, left and right If there's no wrong, can there be right? Only a thin, fading line Now everything here seems so wonderful, And different, and still In the boot of a soldier a tiny red pill Has a purpose to fill I am wasting my time, writing lines, That will never see your light Now my Dark Soul Distillery fills all the bottles, The essence of life Wow! I am running my fingers through pages of... Insanity, hair And I try to stay drunk as I walk back And forth on the flickering line I have lost all the ones and the twos, I'd take fifteen, if I can choose I can pass out and forget today Or then go back in time, face the pain Dream of me and let me go I am still my own worst foe Try to smile and face the light My starry sky, burning night When embers dance high in the air My demons die without an heir The sun I touch and do my share Why would you care, why would you care... I answer my own silent query, unwillingly, with a tear As I see the two ravens of yesterday Fly pass my window in fear I should take down these curtains today, They just seem to make things gray I will clean all the stains but I don't want to know how That window got smeared Wow! A new morning dawns, I am paralyzed, I lie awake, dead As that same stupid melody plays in my head, Not again, not again... I'm a ghost of that once scared young man Wake me up, please, if you can It's a nightmare, it's sick, I confess But I am needed, I clean up the mess What are you, and why today, All that's tragic, feels the same There's no feeling, there's no pain, Cold, rain From the darkness, into the light Face the demons, left and right If there's no wrong, can there be right? Only a thin, fading line Dream of me and let me go I am still my own worst foe Try to smile and face the light My starry sky, burning night When embers dance high in the air My demons die without an heir Maybe one day I will make a dance And the song will make some sence |