Ghost Opera

Won’t say why... may your sorrows have a name
And day is dark as night, no remorse and no redemption
Close the door, can you hear the crowd is waiting
For the last encore, screaming out for my attention

Chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera
Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra
Like a crescendo of gratitude erases my soul

Like the dead I am on the other side
They have been in my head, there’s no remorse and no redemption
Hush my dear; let the music put the night
Until it’s all we hear, screaming out for my attention

Chanting my name, chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera
Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra
Like a crescendo of gratitude

Don’t wake me until it’s over
I… I may be drifting away

Chanting my name, chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera
Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra
Welcome all to curtain call at the opera
Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra

The Haunting (Somewhere In Time)

Merely the sound of your voice
Made me believe that you were her
Just like the river disturbs
... my inner peace
Once I believed I could find
Just a trace of her beloved soul
Once I believed she was all
Then she smothered my beliefs

One cold winter's night
I may follow her voice to the river
Leave me for now and forever
Leave while you can

Somewhere in time
I will find you and haunt you again
Like the wind sweeps the earth
Somewhere in time
When no virtues are left to defend
You've fallen deep

I was a liar in every debate
I rule the forces that fuelled your hate
When the cold in my heart leaves
It comes to an end
And quietly I'll go to sleep

How could that first time recur
When memories linger on and on
What made me think you were her
Helena is dead to all
Nothing can bring her to life
Don't pretend that I'll be loving you
Once I believed she was gone
But I'm corrupted from within

Leave me for now and forever
Leave while you can

Somewhere in time
I will find you and haunt you again
Like the wind sweeps the earth
Somewhere in time
When no virtues are left to defend
You've fallen deep
I was a liar in every debate
I rule the forces that fuelled your hate
When the cold in my heart leaves
It comes to an end
And quietly I'll go to sleep

[Ariel]
Follow me into the light
Leave me tonight
I've gone too far to begin all anew
With someone like you

[Marguerite]
Like ice on a lake of tears
I'll take you through
Life fades in anew
With someone like you

A Feast for the Vain

[MEPHISTO:]
Everyone is here
The feast can soon begin
Vanity we celebrate
My favourite of sins

[ARIEL:]
Chandeliers so grand
That heaven sees the shine
And my friend declares
Everything I look at could be mine
It's a miracle
Life till now has been a waste
You have proved to me
By your hand I'm truly graced
Unbelievable
Gold and glitter blinding me
So adorable
All these women from my fantasies

[MEPHISTO:]
Come with me my little ones
Let's revel for the free
Raise your glass and praise the fact
How easy life can be

[ARIEL/EVERYBODY:]
In the splendour of the night
I've found company
Once again I feel that life's begun
All the wrongs seem to be right
Drowned in ecstasy
Every star is like a newborn sun

May the life I knew be gone
I accept the deed
But one point we have to modify
If I wish to linger on
In a state of still
Only then I'm yours the day I die

A Sailorman's Hymn

can you hear the sirens resound?
from the coastline of Ireland tonight
it's the song of a promising heart
of the souls that the ocean unite

and she stands by the window alone
staring into the rain
she is trying to guide his way home
from the waters that keep them apart

so she lights up a candle for hope to be found
captive and blind by the darkness around
firm as a mountain, she never will mourn
timeless awaiting the break of dawn

can you hear the sailorman's hymn?
as it comes with the rise of the tide
it is sung where the rainbow begins
as a comfort for tears she has cried

she remains by the window alone
staring into the rain
she is trying to guide his way home
keeps on praying for god to protect him

she lights up a candle for hope to be found
captive and blind by the darkness around
each wave a promise, a new hope reborn
sunrise consoles at the break of dawn

Abandoned

Once my life was plain and clear
I recall
Once my ignorance was bliss
Nightfall came
Like a serpent's kiss
To my troubled mind

Why my God
Have you abandoned me
In my sobriety
Behind the old facade
I'm your bewildered child
So take me cross the river wide

Binding promises were made
On my soul
Grand illusions lead astray
Ice cold winds swept my heart away
Bring me back to you

[Helena]
I remember a song
Like in a dream
Where September was long
And winter unreal

Why my God above
Have you abandoned me
In my sobriety
Behind the old facade
I'm your bewildered child
So take me cross the river wide

Across The Highlands

I've been witness to so many wars
that I'm blind to affliction
no ability left to remorse
it's my faith and conviction
wide awake
in this world
full of hate
I unfurl

but I am damned
if life itself is condemnation
I am immortal
thus my freedom is captivity

(chorus)
flying all across the highlands
searching for a way
to finalize my history
rising high above the mountains
reaching for the sky
closer to my sanctuary

all my life I've been trying to die
reach complete segregation
I am ready to open my eyes
to a new revelation

lost in time
there's no place
for my soul
in his embrace

for I am damned
if life itself is condemnation
I am immortal
thus my freedom is captivity
bound to live eternally
(chorus)

Alexandria

far across the sea
a piece of history
in Egypt's land
I'll build a city
beautiful and strong
beyond belief
a new metropolis
to redefine my destiny

rise and shine Alexandria
under protection of my name
pure, divine, and imperial

a place to watch the stars
the center of the earth
I see it all...my worlds converging
and to guide a king's armada through the night
I raise the seventh wonder to delight Poseidon

rise and shine Alexandria
under protection of my name
pure, divine, and imperial

make me the city of a living angel
casting shades all over Babylon
hailing me, a holy son of god
as a monument of time
and the goals that I achieved
make a sculpture of my mind

Birth of A Hero

He was a young boy
About to be a man
She loved him so
Oh please don't go
Down on his knees
The blade passed with ease
Shoulder to shoulder
As it pierces her heart
Out in the fields
The boy becomes a man
Taste of blood in his throat
Fell of death on his hands
He shall fall on this dark, misty night
As he falls he hears his loved one cry
Birth of a hero
Death of a man
She'll never understand
Why he left her hand
He was a young boy
She loved him so
She watched the sun set
And longed for his journey home
Flags fly low
The blade cut deep
Now she must bear the wounds
That memories bleed

Black Tower

Oh black tower, what is your power,
What makes men run and hide,
i have seen evil, in the dead of the night,
as the demons they dance in my mind.

Telling tales of horror,
in the splendour of their torture,
burning flames reach for the sky,
and the gates of hell are open,

whoaa, AAAH, AAAH, oh black tower,
oh-ohoh, black tower.

[mini-solo] blacktower

oh black tower,
why do you devour,
the souls asleep in the night,
casting your shadows, signs of no tomorrows,
why must i fear for my life,

telling tales of horror, in the splendour of their torture,
burning flames reach for the sky,
and the gates of hell are open.

whoaa, AAAHH, AAHHHH oh black tower,
oh-ohoh black tower

[beast solo] black tower

Now i know its the truth,
all the evil endoured,
they shall pay their dues,
nightmares tell the truth,

oh black tower, whoaa blacktower

[mini-solo]blacktower.

why must i take the chance, in my mind.

Center Of The Universe

Move slowly, beyond the colors of my eyes
Move slowly, into the corners of my mind
Rising like the pegasus
Each and every one of us released
Islands in the sea of dreams
Always searching harmony and peace

All we find
Reject our mind
Don't you wonder why

If the war by heavens gate released desire
In the line of fire someone must have known
That a human heart demands to be admired
Cuz in the center of the universe we are all alone

Show me sign of paradise
A place we all would like to go to
Tell me what to sacrifice
So there's a chance for me to want you

All I find
Reject my mind
And I wonder why

If the war by heavens gate released desire
In the line of fire someone must have known
That a human heart demands to be admired
Cuz in the center of the universe we are all alone

I have a tale to be told won't you listen tonight
Follow me into the core of the fountain of light
Ty to imagine that hope is our ship for the soul
[over the ocean the quest of your life lies ahead]
Mybe together we'll find there's a place for us all
[follow the star in your mind, sail along sail along]

If the war by heavens gate released desire
In the line of fire someone must have known
That a human heart demands to be admired
Cuz in the center of the universe we are all alone

Cuz in the center of the universe we are all alone
We're alone
We're alone