Vain Glory Opera

 

1. Overture

2. Until we rise again

3. How many miles

4. Scarlet rose

5. Out of control

6. Vain glory opera

7. Fairytale

8. Walk on fighting

9. Tomorrow

10. No more foolin`

11. Hymn

 

A noter sur cet album l'apparition de Timo Tolkki a la guitare -on l'entend bien quand c'est lui-, Ainsi que Hansi Kurch (Blind Guardian) au chant -la aussi on remarque.

 

Paroles

1. Overture

 

Nowhere yo run

Nowhere to go

Welcome to life damnation

Welcome to fun

Welcome to hope

Here is your invitation

 

Welcome to the gate

To the unknown fate

Waiting for a better day

Jesters dance around

Slowly growing old

Having party while they stay

 

Nowhere to run

Nowhere to go

Welcome to life damnation

Welcome to fun

Welcome to hope

Here is your invitation

 

2. Until we rise again

 

2080 -our world is an empty domain

Emotions have died

Men bleeding oil are the heroes for children today

 

Drinking the blood of the weak dictators bring pain

But they show us a smile

Feelings and love are kept hidden in a madhouse cave

 

It`s a mad revolution

And the spirits will die

Oh escape the confusion

Take my hand.

 

[chorus]

 

Now take my hand

Take me now

Take my hand

We wont be so free

Until we rise again!

 

Eden is mad so enjoy it and fly to the sun

Don`t you return

Your breath and your heartbeat are gifts

You`ve been given for life - oh yeah!

 

Oh your deepest emotions

are a sign of our life ad our love

No robot can stop us

Take my hand

 

[chorus]

 

[solo: Jens]

 

[chorus]

 

3. How many miles

 

How many miles Oh yeah...

Watching a face and a smile and a light

When you`re walking alone in the street

I know your look always gives you the might

Many miles from your ass to your feet

 

And I dream- what I`ve seen

Is what I want it to be - selfmade reality

 

[chorus]

 

How many miles to the gate of reality

How many steps left to go to my dreams

How many miles to the land where my dreams come true

Dreams which come true just have died

 

Look like a queen but you talk like a pawn

And I know you`re a fool in disguise

Godfather tell me how to carry on

Blinded by fantasies of lies

 

And I dream- what I`ve seen

Is what I want it to be - selfmade reality

 

[chorus]

 

I see your smile, a golden masquerade

And I know my dream will be my fate

Time has stolen my fantasy

Cause it has become a pale reality

 

[Solo: Jens/ Jens & Dirk]

 

[chorus]

 

4. Scarlet rose

 

The moment when you held me tight

won`t come back any more

And at the end of that night

you slammed the door

 

My dream it died away

just when I saw red

And nothing but a memory

is left inside my head

 

Nothing is forever in life

But a memory believe it`s true

And when I gaze in the rain

i`m crying just for you

 

[chorus]

 

The scarlet rose has died

Lost inside the night

Left in my mind like a dream and full of pride

The scarlet rose has died

 

The one and only way to catch the

beauty of a dawn

Is to take a picture

of the growing sun

 

I got that experience

no one could steal away

One moment of your life is mine

I remember day by day

 

Nothing is forever in life

But a memory believe it`s true

And when I gaze in the rain

i`m crying just for you

[chorus]

 

[solo:jens]

 

[chorus]

 

5. Out of control

 

Into a place of darkness. He was born to live alone

He got one big desire. One day he`d get the crown

Hey devil come on help me now

Let me be your slave to serve you

To let me be the king

 

Just give me a sign

Take on my mind and let me stay blind

A victim of life too weak to be king

 

[chorus]

 

Out of control

my life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate

Out of control

help me to gain the crown, here is my fate

 

Wherever I may roam there will be hate and pain

eye for eye, tooth for tooth. respect is what I gain

I look up to Mr Crowley. evil powers now unite!

I will be your darkest nightmare

my life is a fatal fight

 

Just give me a sign

Take on my mind and let me stay blind

A victim of life too weak to be king

 

[chorus]

 

[solo:jens&dirk/timo tolkki/ jens, timo tolkki]

 

[Hansi]

 

"listen up my friend you just cry for a hand

 

but you only pretend that you`re bad. Now!"

 

We`ll take on my mind

 

[chorus]

 

6. Vain glory opera

 

The prayers have been spoken

may the gods be on my side

may they join my way to bring me victory

seven at one stroke

my triumph and my pride

will be history

 

but behind my enemies eyes

a soul in disguise

not only lies

 

[chorus]

 

We live to fight the hand of doom

we got the pride to strike a fool

vain glory be my wicked guide

 

[repeat]

 

what`s hell without a paradise

what`s the night without a day

we would think it`s bright

what`s a fall if we can`t rise

what`s a hero at a play

without a fool to fight

 

but behind my enemies eyes

a soul in disguise

not only lies

 

[chorus]

 

[repeat]

 

[solo:jens]

 

[hansi]

 

but behind my enemies eyes

a soul in disguise

not only lies

 

[chorus]

 

7. Fairytale

 

yeah...

giants of stone build up my desire

no one could tell us the secret of fire

the hinger for wisdom deep in your heart

you can`t accept that you`re liveing apart

 

water runs down through the river

lord you are the only to deliver

night: stay night

 

in the night`s nothing is white

now a knowledge not a light

lord, will you tell me why someday

 

[chorus]

 

fairytale - life is one big fairytale

a book of seven seals

someone tell me why and how

 

[repeat]

 

I`m always told to kneel down and pray

What shall I do to stay on my way

Questions borrow through my brain

pound and disturb and drive me insane

 

Lost in visions of knowledge I`ll never owe

night to night

 

[chorus of the dammed smurfs of death]

 

in the night`s nothing is white

now a knowledge not a light

lord, will you tell me why someday

 

[chorus]

 

[repeat]

 

[solo:tobias/jens]

 

Tell me what is time - yeah

 

[solo:jens/jens&dirk

 

[chorus]

 

8. Walk on fighting

 

The ivory is cold. Where is my desire

In a cage of gold, not a trace of fire

Ice cold as ice. I`m heading for tomorrow

I am tired of waiting. IŽl beg and steal and borrow

 

Life is to short to be wasted

So why do I sit around

Dance on the edge of a razor

Get off the ground and I`ll never return

 

[chorus]

 

Walk on fighting

Don`t look ever back

Walk on fighting

Don`t you look back to your cries

 

[short fill: Jens&Dirk]

 

The phone it waits in silence. No message left by you

There is no use in crying. I know I`ve been a fool

Now it is too late. No words left to say

I gotta call it fate, forget and look away

 

Life is to short to be wasted

So why do I sit around

Dance on the edge of a razor

Get off the ground and I`ll never return

 

Walk on fighting

Don`t look ever back

Walk on fighting

Don`t you look back to your cries

 

[solo:jens]

 

Walk on fighting...

 

[chorus]

 

9. Tomorrow

 

Another day is coming

a new day has begun

An eagle is rising slowly to the skies of no return

disappearing in the growing sun

 

so proud and so beautiful

thinking about tomorrow with tears in his eyes

Once a lot of brothers spread their wings to join his way

Now he`s left alone in a world of lies

 

[chorus]

 

Cry for tomorrow

Why don`t we hear the eagles cries

Living in sorrow

Why don`t we help him to survive

 

Once a dignity- a mighty sign of pride

Strong and proud and free

A symbol of eternity. why don`t we see

we can`t survive, if we don`t realize

our world is a place that can`t be created twice

 

[chorus]

 

10. No more foolin`

 

Fair sex paralyzer. Lipstick in a face

spirit analyzer, not one human trace

no need to cry

rool the fuckin` dice, im a loser in a game

gonna hurt my feelings, your only real aim

feels like I die

 

You can play nice you get satisfied when you win

I see a smile of truth but I can`t stare within

riot in your soul

 

[chorus]

 

No more foolin`

you will save all your love

no more foolin`

you will save all your love

 

Say goodbye- say goodbye

you never knw that I was strong enough to stand

All alone on my own I don`t need your hand

 

Got your weapons loaded, your target in your sight

why don`t you only tell me, that i shall fuckin` die

 

[short fill:jens]

 

Looking so attractive, wanna get me active

but you never realized that i have got the tactics

I`m much too cool, much too large to be fooled

by your lies

 

You can play nice you get satisfied when you win

I see a smile of truth but I can`t stare within

riot in your soul

 

[chorus]

 

Say goodbye- say goodbye

you never knw that I was strong enough to stand

All alone on my own I don`t need your hand

 

[solo:jens&dirk/jens]

 

[chorus]

 

Say goodbye- say goodbye