Compact Discs (2CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a lovely gatefold jewel case, with 32-page booklet incl. extra tracks, unseen photos, all lyrics and an 18-page inside view of the band, with original artwork by Friedhelm Kötter.
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The beginning of the piece and the final solo part were written very early on in 1991, in a phase when Ender and Mirko were still two in their room with an old white Hohner organ and an yellow Ibanez RG guitar, taking their first steps towards worldwide fame. Mirko remembers exactly the moment when Ender suddenly started to play the chords of the guitar solo that later formed the end of the song, which did not follow any unified chord scheme and already sounded very good on their own. They finished the complete song later, after they had met Thomas and moved into the Wiesbaden Musikpalast for rehearsals.
lyrics
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!
Produced and engineered by Clive Nolan & Karl Groom
Additional engineering by Steve Rispin
Recorded at Thin Ice Studios, London, England. January and April 1993
Remastered by Robert Zoom at Gorilla Sounds, Frankfurt, Germany, September/Oktober 2023
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Their debut album
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Freshly reunited, they are ready to resurrect the great legacy they left behind.
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