1. |
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VAGABOND CHILD
He had hidden so much within his heart
yes, so much behind a smiling exterior
the other kids never knew
they didn’t have to
his mummy loved him
she said so, most nights
before she put to bed.
He left her home to walk the streets
he saw the whores and all the thieves
he saw the death
in the gutters and streets
it showed him his way.
He fought with dogs an slept with rats
the only friends he had in this world
he sold his arse to pump his veins
the only way.
Memories they took him back
but he could drag himself away
he found a home,
and family and friends
they showed the way.
They don’t want me, I don’t want me
thought it would come so easily
it was never you, ‘twas me.
Hello mum, thanks for living
and giving me this chance of life
but I’ve got my own ideas
you got to let me live my life
the best way I know how.
Hello mum, thanks for giving
and I must thank my dead father, too
this troubled child
never knew what life was
until it had him down
and kicked him in the teeth.
In the parks I saw the children play
it brought a smile, but so many tears
I turned away but it wouldn’t stop
I saw your smile
and felt all my fears
oh my mama
you gave me this sweet life
you gave me a smile
but so many tears
I turned away
but that was not enough
it’s all too much for me
so many fears...
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2. |
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THE SUNDAY RISING
In this chamber’s shade
I lie here with my lady love
alone in our lie
near purpled by a passion’s press
your wings unfurled
then furled round me
oh sable turtledove,
upon dorsums down
I soared within your darkness
But I fear the night has run
before the old man’s wake
the old gent that be the sun
will come our time to take
he’s always there yes he always follows
he’s at my door and at my window
stupid old fool
why d’you think yourself so great
the king he rides, you can’t be late.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual
has come too soon
he’s always there, yes he always follows
he’s at my door and at my window
stupid old fool
why d’you think yourself so great
the king he rides, you can’t be late.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual
has come too soon
we have a curtain
that won’t succumb to him
but unexpected and uninvited he comes
peeping in my window…
In this chamber’s shade
I lie here with my lady love
alone in our lie
near purpled by a passion’s press
your wings unfurled then furled round me
oh sable turtledove
upon dorsums down
I soared within your darkness.
But I fear the night has run
before the old man’s wake
the old gent that be the sun
will come our time to take
our humble curtain won’t succumb to him
but he finds ways out there to be looking in.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual has come too soon
we have a curtain that won’t succumb to him
but unexpected and uninvited he comes
peeping in my window
bringing me another sunday
bringing me another day.
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3. |
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|
TEENAGE SWEETHEARTS
Teenage Sweethearts
is it your whims that control you
childish desires for sparkle and flash
to satisfy your peers and compensate your-
selves
in body and mind
You there - crying in utter despair
of weeping acne and cursed fat ankles
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games yes you play in pain
your fiendish games, no thought for the hearts
of the slain
You grasp at perfection
beautiful faces, beautiful bodies,
beautiful people
Oh, pretentious princess, you laughed
in your riddle
while you watched me burn
and still came back to turn the spit
and fan the miserizing flame
Cruel Ceasaria, my Neronia in wicked kind
what leadened cup kissed your lips
what fickled fancies tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to a teenager’s mind.
No answers that I can find
you had no hope of finding such a paradise
such places you should have known
only exist in the novice mind
you always demanded the next best thing
and mummy always came through with the
diamond ring,
and all you really needed, and all those
other things
but not this time, this time is mine
and sweety-pie you’re going to find
that I’ve planned my sting, I’ve covered
everything
so daddy’s little princess
you can crown your new king.
So I fell from heaven yes I fell from grace
tried to take what I deserved and I lost
my place
but now revenge is mine
and the taste of it’s sweet
and I’m going to make you suffer
you’ll burn in your defeat
Little angel your wings are mine
I’m the bearer of your light
yes I’m your morning star
save your sympathies for yourself
cause I’m you lord Lucifer
and I’m going to rip the wings
I’m going to rip the wings off this butterfly
You can’t fly away, you’ll never fly away
but I’ll throw you away, when I’m finished
with you.
What now? I’m here all alone, so cold.
I jumped upon a dreamboat
my childish exploits, my fantasies all abord.
Look at me, sweet sixteen, my crying heart
you leave me, I hate to cry on my own
my childish exploits, my dreams
are crashing down on the shore
I admit in the beginning I couldn’t get over you
now I see the light
something’s rising through me.
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games, yes you play in pain
your fiendish games
no thoughtsfor the hearts
what fickled fancy tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to the teenager’s mind
none such
and so much for the teenage sweethearts
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4. |
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WHERE THE RIVER RUNS
Hello
this is the real world
can you hear me
can you see?
Where we lived
where the river runs
now it’s gone, it’s gone,
and where are we?
I cannot
offer you
labyrinths in Egypt
pyramids on Mars
no frozen fancy
in this offering of mine.
Hey all you
I’ve dragged myself from the ash
from the sidewalk
of this world
from your frontyard
I want no part of it
I want to go back
to where the river runs.
I cannot
offer you
labyrinths in Egypt
pyramids on Mars
no frozen fancy
in this suffering of mine.
Where the river runs
there’s no offering of
labyrinths or pyramids
where
the river runs!
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5. |
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(instrumental)
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6. |
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|
DAYS GONE BY
You pull me up and push me down
when you’re around
just for talking
you refuse when I reach out my hand
I can’t understand
what’s going on in your mind
no, I don’t want to share you
cause I fear I could loose you
totally.
Time went by without a chance
to rearrange the situation
we spent months to find a way
not to astray
but we can’t find one
then you come to say goodbye
eye to eye
to watch me crying
to watch me dying
to watch me fall on my knees
to beg you please
to stay here with me
for the rest of my life
You were glued at my side
you don’t allow me to run my own things
you sucked dry my mind
you spit me out like a pit
bitter taste
seems you got no time to waste
was it all for nothing
don’t want to fight for an illusion
seems it don’t matter anyway
For so many years
we blindly strayed across thin ice
don’t solve our problems
but get lost in deepest night
not knowing what we carried
always in our minds
with traces
leads so far before our time
So all we do ends up in pain
it’s no use to remain
it’s all over
Now
shake off your sweaty chains
go that step too far
don’t waste precious time
The bleeding ceased
the wound screams out and on
damned in an everlasting fire
we can’t undo what’s already done
that’s not a question of desire
I slowly start to realize
there’s a life here on my own
my
and mine I need to live
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7. |
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|
FOREVER LOST
She saw, she said
the coming of the end
when I would look into her dead eyes
or she in mine and what to find.
Two bodies as cold as snow
both our hearts as still as stone
and memories long forgotten
our treasure thrown away
Now, my love, be it at any cost
we must love now - or be forever lost.
Let us grab these seconds
these minutes and these hours
with both our hands
squeeze what we can from these moments
into our thirsting hearts
before time’s hands tear ours apart
Heartbeats trap us in time
lost within these moments
between each thumping pound
it’s all the distant sound from you and I.
She saw, she said,
the loosing of a friend
when she would look into my dead eyes
to know my mind - and what to find.
Lost to this world
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8. |
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|
FREEDOM WILL BE MINE
Never left alone to find my own way
given things to see them taken
the picture of Christ’s crucifiction transfixed
in my head - now gone.
All thrown at me what’s considered good
truths all truths they said
ah but to an easy mind muted heart or dead
soul
they were here - now gone
Yes from them
but in me
and I will always decide
to whom I will give my allegiance
let me now - carry on
You demand to know more
then please hold your tongue
and your questions I’ll answer
but not in few words
my lady’s patience will give her reward
truth’s here deception has gone
So please listen to me
please listen to me.
You have the time
because you want to know
and I have the will to conform now
listen now and know my sin
because now I have to tell you.
I won’t be freed
they won’t concead
cause I dared and disagreed.
Save me
from the fire
they’re giving me
touch me
please touch me
I feel I’m going down
into the darkness
of some submission
please touch me
please hold me
love me
don’t let them break me down
Nooo!
See them
trying to screw me
racking me down
dragging me down there to that fall
no not me
not going down there to fall
no no not me
my life’s worth more than this absurd frame
I’ve spat in death’s face
and my arms rip these chains
from these dark mortered walls
and my fists will punch a hole
through these slime covered stones.
I fall into the daylight running
got to keep running faster, running faster
running faster
got to keep running across
this hostile ground
I got to keep running faster
running faster, running faster
got to keep running.
My limbs only swing now
my feet drag the ground now
sweat burns my eyes now
but my heart drags me on
across the rocks and broken branches
through the wilds of this night
across a lifetime of pain
through the darkness of night
a tortured heart drags me on
to my freedom, my freedom
I can see it now
my freedom’s beaming light.
Lying and floating in this small wooden boat
peace upon this cool flowing river of hope
it’s current cushions my spirit’s spine
while bumping ferned banks of the river’s
wind
waters splash peace in the cool night air
shadows of willows blank out my despair
my eyelids slow collapse
but no sleep to keep
the night is pitch and no moonlight glow
the escape is safe until the morning crows
drift to dream
I drift drift to dream
dreaming!
Save me
from the fire
they’re giving me
touch me
please touch me
I feel I’m going down
into some darkness
of my submission
please touch me
please hold me
love me
love, what is love
Dawn, daylight, wait,
I can see the swathy steed
tied to a broken tree by the river bank
it’s there
just as planned
I jump to the leather of this black beasts back
and grab it’s belly with my knees and heels
grabing reins and snorting air
I ride
screaming!
I ride screaming across the followed fields
and full fields of flowing wheat and corn
through a whiley wind that dares to hold me
back
to the red hill
where I’ll see all.
Now upon the red hill looking down
and yes the ship awaits
it’s there
upon a cool blue windless sea
can I be free
allowed to leave
not allowed, but free to leave
this god forsaken land
of my father long gone
and at odds with
since my first grasp at reason
what they told me
what I was to accept
in the blindlessness of their mindless teaching
now no more
freedom will be mine!
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9. |
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|
TEENAGE SWEETHEARTS
Teenage Sweethearts
is it your whims that control you
childish desires for sparkle and flash
to satisfy your peers and compensate your-
selves
in body and mind
You there - crying in utter despair
of weeping acne and cursed fat ankles
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games yes you play in pain
your fiendish games, no thought for the hearts
of the slain
You grasp at perfection
beautiful faces, beautiful bodies,
beautiful people
Oh, pretentious princess, you laughed
in your riddle
while you watched me burn
and still came back to turn the spit
and fan the miserizing flame
Cruel Ceasaria, my Neronia in wicked kind
what leadened cup kissed your lips
what fickled fancies tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to a teenager’s mind.
No answers that I can find
you had no hope of finding such a paradise
such places you should have known
only exist in the novice mind
you always demanded the next best thing
and mummy always came through with the
diamond ring,
and all you really needed, and all those
other things
but not this time, this time is mine
and sweety-pie you’re going to find
that I’ve planned my sting, I’ve covered
everything
so daddy’s little princess
you can crown your new king.
So I fell from heaven yes I fell from grace
tried to take what I deserved and I lost
my place
but now revenge is mine
and the taste of it’s sweet
and I’m going to make you suffer
you’ll burn in your defeat
Little angel your wings are mine
I’m the bearer of your light
yes I’m your morning star
save your sympathies for yourself
cause I’m you lord Lucifer
and I’m going to rip the wings
I’m going to rip the wings off this butterfly
You can’t fly away, you’ll never fly away
but I’ll throw you away, when I’m finished
with you.
What now? I’m here all alone, so cold.
I jumped upon a dreamboat
my childish exploits, my fantasies all abord.
Look at me, sweet sixteen, my crying heart
you leave me, I hate to cry on my own
my childish exploits, my dreams
are crashing down on the shore
I admit in the beginning I couldn’t get over you
now I see the light
something’s rising through me.
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games, yes you play in pain
your fiendish games
no thoughtsfor the hearts
what fickled fancy tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to the teenager’s mind
none such
and so much for the teenage sweethearts.
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10. |
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|
THE SUNDAY RISING
In this chamber’s shade
I lie here with my lady love
alone in our lie
near purpled by a passion’s press
your wings unfurled
then furled round me
oh sable turtledove,
upon dorsums down
I soared within your darkness
But I fear the night has run
before the old man’s wake
the old gent that be the sun
will come our time to take
he’s always there yes he always follows
he’s at my door and at my window
stupid old fool
why d’you think yourself so great
the king he rides, you can’t be late.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual
has come too soon
he’s always there, yes he always follows
he’s at my door and at my window
stupid old fool
why d’you think yourself so great
the king he rides, you can’t be late.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual
has come too soon
we have a curtain
that won’t succumb to him
but unexpected and uninvited he comes
peeping in my window…
In this chamber’s shade
I lie here with my lady love
alone in our lie
near purpled by a passion’s press
your wings unfurled then furled round me
oh sable turtledove
upon dorsums down
I soared within your darkness.
But I fear the night has run
before the old man’s wake
the old gent that be the sun
will come our time to take
our humble curtain won’t succumb to him
but he finds ways out there to be looking in.
Alone we lie here in my room
and again Mister Punctual has come too soon
we have a curtain that won’t succumb to him
but unexpected and uninvited he comes
peeping in my window
bringing me another sunday
bringing me another day.
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11. |
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|
THE SOUL CREATION
There she stands in a moment of calm between
now and when?
Anticipation of the loneliness that will surround
her then,
There is no redeeming light, no hand to help
her,
She only knows the comfort of what been;
herself, her tormentor.
She looks around for something to tear down
and breaks what bends
Theres nothing left but this emptiness, why
make amends
She claws and rips and bites and spits, time
without end
Why has this world washed its hands of me?
Why am I alone again?
This room, her world painted pitch in her
temper’s torment
Her dripping brush is thrown blood-black at
her world of concrete
Dark time, no-love, untouched its bone had
tares her
But her heart is numb, her lips struck dumb
nothing seems to scare her
She looks around for something to tear down
and breaks what bends
Theres nothing left in this emptiness, why make
amends
She claws and rips and bites and spits, time
without end
Why has this world washed its hands of me?
Why am I alone again?
What’s heaven hold
For my tormented soul
After this hell
Has squeezed the life from it
My God, I’ll fear and worship
Shivering I’ll kneel and bow
To my tormented lover
Brother, sister, father, mother
My God and only friend
Shivering I will depend on you
My tormented lover
Mother, father, sister brother
You are my hopelessness
But my companion in loneliness
Alone, alone you come to me
Alone, alone I’ll always be
Your soul creation
My soul’s creation
My God, my God
Why has thou forsaken me?
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12. |
Days Gone By (1993 edit)
10:56
|
|||
|
DAYS GONE BY
You pull me up and push me down
when you’re around
just for talking
you refuse when I reach out my hand
I can’t understand
what’s going on in your mind
no, I don’t want to share you
cause I fear I could loose you
totally.
Time went by without a chance
to rearrange the situation
we spent months to find a way
not to astray
but we can’t find one
then you come to say goodbye
eye to eye
to watch me crying
to watch me dying
to watch me fall on my knees
to beg you please
to stay here with me
for the rest of my life
You were glued at my side
you don’t allow me to run my own things
you sucked dry my mind
you spit me out like a pit
bitter taste
seems you got no time to waste
was it all for nothing
don’t want to fight for an illusion
seems it don’t matter anyway
For so many years
we blindly strayed across thin ice
don’t solve our problems
but get lost in deepest night
not knowing what we carried
always in our minds
with traces
leads so far before our time
So all we do ends up in pain
it’s no use to remain
it’s all over
Now
shake off your sweaty chains
go that step too far
don’t waste precious time
The bleeding ceased
the wound screams out and on
damned in an everlasting fire
we can’t undo what’s already done
that’s not a question of desire
I slowly start to realize
there’s a life here on my own
my
and mine I need to live
|
||||
13. |
||||
|
TEENAGE SWEETHEARTS
Teenage Sweethearts
is it your whims that control you
childish desires for sparkle and flash
to satisfy your peers and compensate your-
selves
in body and mind
You there - crying in utter despair
of weeping acne and cursed fat ankles
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games yes you play in pain
your fiendish games, no thought for the hearts
of the slain
You grasp at perfection
beautiful faces, beautiful bodies,
beautiful people
Oh, pretentious princess, you laughed
in your riddle
while you watched me burn
and still came back to turn the spit
and fan the miserizing flame
Cruel Ceasaria, my Neronia in wicked kind
what leadened cup kissed your lips
what fickled fancies tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to a teenager’s mind.
No answers that I can find
you had no hope of finding such a paradise
such places you should have known
only exist in the novice mind
you always demanded the next best thing
and mummy always came through with the
diamond ring,
and all you really needed, and all those
other things
but not this time, this time is mine
and sweety-pie you’re going to find
that I’ve planned my sting, I’ve covered
everything
so daddy’s little princess
you can crown your new king.
So I fell from heaven yes I fell from grace
tried to take what I deserved and I lost
my place
but now revenge is mine
and the taste of it’s sweet
and I’m going to make you suffer
you’ll burn in your defeat
Little angel your wings are mine
I’m the bearer of your light
yes I’m your morning star
save your sympathies for yourself
cause I’m you lord Lucifer
and I’m going to rip the wings
I’m going to rip the wings off this butterfly
You can’t fly away, you’ll never fly away
but I’ll throw you away, when I’m finished
with you.
What now? I’m here all alone, so cold.
I jumped upon a dreamboat
my childish exploits, my fantasies all abord.
Look at me, sweet sixteen, my crying heart
you leave me, I hate to cry on my own
my childish exploits, my dreams
are crashing down on the shore
I admit in the beginning I couldn’t get over you
now I see the light
something’s rising through me.
A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games, yes you play in pain
your fiendish games
no thoughtsfor the hearts
what fickled fancy tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to the teenager’s mind
none such
and so much for the teenage sweethearts
|
||||
14. |
||||
|
FOREVER LOST
She saw, she said
the coming of the end
when I would look into her dead eyes
or she in mine and what to find.
Two bodies as cold as snow
both our hearts as still as stone
and memories long forgotten
our treasure thrown away
Now, my love, be it at any cost
we must love now - or be forever lost.
Let us grab these seconds
these minutes and these hours
with both our hands
squeeze what we can from these moments
into our thirsting hearts
before time’s hands tear ours apart
Heartbeats trap us in time
lost within these moments
between each thumping pound
it’s all the distant sound from you and I.
She saw, she said,
the loosing of a friend
when she would look into my dead eyes
to know my mind - and what to find.
Lost to this world
|
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Ulysses Germany
Progressive rock music project by the founding members of German prog rockers Ulysses.
Their debut album
Neronia, produced by Karl Groom (Threshold) and Clive Nolan (Arena), and the subsequent European tour with Pendragon propelled them immediately into the premier league of European prog rock bands.
Freshly reunited, they are ready to resurrect the great legacy they left behind.
Stay tuned!
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