Formed in: 2000
Genre: Symphonic Power metal
Formation:
Tobias Sammet - Vocals, BassSascha Paeth - Guitars
Michael "Miro" Rodenberg - Keyboards, Orchestration
Eric Singer - Drums
Guests:
Bruce Kulick - Guitar (on tracks 1, 5 and 11)Oliver Hartmann - Guitar (on tracks 1, 2 and 3)
Henjo Richter - Guitar (on track 10)
Felix Bohnke - Drums (on tracks 4, 6 and 8)
Alex Holzwarth - Drums (on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 11)
Jens Johansson - Keyboards (on track 2)
Simon Oberender - Organ (on track 9)
Vocalists:
Jørn Lande (on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11)Michael Kiske (on tracks 1 and 10)
Russell Allen (on track 1)
Bob Catley (on track 11)
Cloudy Yang (on track 8)
Jon Oliva (on track 4)
Tracklist:
| 01. Stargazers | [Lyric] |
| 02. Angel Of Babylon | [Lyric] |
| 03. Your Love Is Evil | [Lyric] |
| 04. Death Is Just A Feeling | [Lyric] |
| 05. Rat Race | [Lyric] |
| 06. Down In The Dark | [Lyric] |
| 07. Blowing Out The Flame | [Lyric] |
| 08. Symphony Of Life | [Lyric] |
| 09. Alone I Remember | [Lyric] |
| 10. Promised Land | [Lyric] |
| 11. Journey To Arcadia | [Lyric] |
Lyrics:
1. STARGAZERS
You turn off the light
And you won't make no difference
You hear the echoes fade away
When the cries of despair
Turn to a sound in distance
The road ain't divine
Black are the wings that will carry me home
Tower in the night, up to the sky
Carry our remains angel of light
To the dark side of Paradise
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
I feel how I faint as I'm crossing the Acheron
Wash away my innocence
Was I losing my away
When the sky has been blackened
This short cut of evil
Where do they drive me, where will I go
Days gone by time after time
I'm going insane, losing my mind
To the dark side of Paradise
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
On wings of fire to the back side of light
From Babylon to Paradise I crawl
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
Venus guiding to the back door of love
From Babylon to Paradise I'm drawn
On through shadows, I've seen iniquity galore
Been worth a detour and some more
The snake in the backyard of heaven
2. ANGEL OF BABYLON
We have roamed the plains a million years
Gathered at the shore
When we had run out off all fears
We have come from everywhere
Crumbling worlds behind
Reason is what we're gonna give
To be given peace of mind
Crimson is the pavement
Blood is dripping from our dreams
To the sound of smashing yesterdays
We dance in ecstasy
Oh craving devour me, take me away
Oh to infinity, take me away
Take me away
Oh yeah take me away
Far away
Don't you turn your face to the night sky
Said the fainthearted one
You may see through the charades
An instant that won't come undone
I can feel the ease of my pain
Decline of the blood reason level
Gazing in awe bystanders scream
Mentally critical fettle
We're sailing on gentle waves
We read the sky
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
Infinity
Reason left behind
Where are you detecting the wrongs
Spirit that always denies
I've gone insane
Release me from waiting
For the sparkle to rise
I can see they're nailed to the cross
Cannot live till they're gone
Immortal they cry on terrestrial embers
While they laugh at the clown
You feel a chill as if time stood still
There's no way out
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
For a lucid dream
You'll leave the world behind
Oh craving devour me
Release me, please, take me away
To infinity, oh take me away
Craving devour me
Take me, take me away
Stargazers, stargazers
Behold the key
Stargazers, stargazers
Infinity, reason left behind
When the sun rose to wake another day
they were gone, gone without a trace
Babylon, craving in lucidity
Babylon, the fire will remain
And the sun razes from their memory
What the dark had cyphered in the sky
And the flame's burning their lucidity
Babylon, rise up to the night
Oh, let us wander
let us wander between the worlds
We override their principles
Abrogate horizons
Abandon mental gravity
Oh, we overrule the eye
Compromise your sanity
To heaven
To hell
3. YOUR LOVE IS EVIL
Day after day I see her smile
If you could see her through my eyes
You wouldn't call her a little boy's fever dream
How can you tell my feelings wrong
How can't you see it's growing strong
Silicone angel you are my fantasy
Your eyes are cold
Pale are your skin and your lips
Pale is your desire
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
You are the rain
I'm the parade
Though your love is evil
I feel how you watch my every move
Why do you lie to me and you
Your languidness shining through a crystal wall
Nobody would touch you like i would
Nobody would stop us
If I could reach out through the glass
Pretend you don't hear my call
Your eyes are cold
Pale are your skin and your lips
Pale is your desire
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Cause your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
under your spell
And you look away
Though your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day I'm under your spell
And you look away
Your love is evil
You are the one
Day after day
You are the rain
Still I'm the parade
Though your love is evil
4. DEATH IS JUST A FEELING
Living in the darkness
What a cold and lonely night
Voices in the darkness
Sing a sweet sweet lullaby
Something's coming nearer
Anyone to join in game? A game
Welcome to the attic
Hospitality is my name
Eyes so alive
I've been feeling pretty dead
For quite a while
Gimme a smile
Dead-and-alive
Come a little closer
You and I:
Affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I swapping finitude
And love for diamonds
I'm just a little pale
Don't hesitate to sign right here
Don't be afraid to come with me
Specialized in temporizing
Dead to faulty love and time
Faulty time
We'll be dancing right here
Forever and a while
Day by day
Dead-and-alive
Come a little closer
You and I:
Affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I swapping finitude
And love for diamonds
Value by value
I'm gonna turn into breath after breath
Love we trade in for silver
Defy what they use to call death
And dust covered treasures will shine again
An unseen accolade
Larger than life, a memory
Death will be just a charade
Dead-and-alive
Come a little closer
You and I:
Affiliates forevermore and I'm alive
Death is just a feeling
You and I swapping finitude
And love for diamonds
I'm just a little pale
5. RAT RACE
There'll be fireworks tonight
Everybody's on their knees
Admiration for the one
Riot in a dead-end street
Don't be afraid to hear his voice
Tells you lies you wanna hear
You just listen and obey
Got the ticket in your hand
A new religion for the mob
For everyone to understand
We're all just clockwork toys tonight
And salvation is drawing near
The snow covered opera tonight
Enchanted with dilated eyes
Living in a rat race
Dying in a rat race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Living in a rat race
Living in a rat race
I got sulfur in my veins
Devil watching through my eyes
I got beauty I got brains
And there's no one to defy
I've got the power in my fingers
And the opera in my hands
The onset of winter tonight
The mirror it gives me a smile
Living in a rat race
Dying in the rat race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Speeding in the rat race
Bleeding in the rat chase
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Living in the rat race
Dying in the race
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
Speeding in the rat race
Bleeding in the rat chase
Burning in the stream again
Why should I dare to break away
6. DOWN IN THE DARK
All of a tremble
You can feel their poison arrows
Have left their mark
Higher and higher
Wanna seize the day
While you're waiting for the dark
You're running from the disdain
You know this time
You won't turn around
Chasing an illusion, disillusion
Desire leading, downward bound
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
Down in the dark you'll be crossing the line
I'm a believer on the receiving end
Of the bat they hold with grace
Dead to the voices of the anxious
Timid of him who must not be named
Enticing me away now as the sun sets
To the truth that lies beyond
I'm chasing an illusion, an illusion
Revelation I'm coming home
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
Down in the dark you'll be crossing the line
You turn your back on the one
Willing to make up his mind
No you never stood in my shoes
Evil versus divine
You're feeling drawn to purity
Like a moth to the flame
Light at the end of the tunnel
Strange how the voice of the savior
Roars like a train
Into the black
You are tracing the riddle
Where no man's been
No turning back
No more lost in the middle
Never again, never again
Once you have opened your eyes
Down in the dark you'll be crossing the line
7. BLOWING OUT THE FLAME
I sold my soul for diamonds
And reason for acclaim
Been begging for white angels
To blow my mind away
Been growing funny flowers
Where roses never grew
I stayed awake all night
When I woke up from dreams
Of me and you
I tried to take the sun and I went blind
God help me to erase you from my mind
I'm growing cold
And the night is yet to come
Anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
Lost and isolated
I'm way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I'm blowing out the flame
Self-pity gave me shelter
I always hid away in vice
Dyslexic, torn and tattered
I tried to read the signs
You never tried to take a look
At the one I'd have died to be
Now it seems you don't see me at all
Was it all worth it
Visions holding sway
When the real thing got lost along the way
Yes anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
I'm lost and isolated
Way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I'm blowing out the flame
Yes anyone tell me is this
The way it's meant to be
Lost and isolated
I'm way too complicated
For you to lean on me
I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I'm blowing out the flame
8. SYMPHONY OF LIFE
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Heal me, heal me
Yes in the darkness of the night
I know there's someone near me
I can't explain but it's all right
As long as this won't leave me
I give to you my sacrifice
My virgin creed, my passion
I'm torn in two but all my life, my life
My life I'll wait for you
To near me
And reveal me
Rush tonight
We play the darkest of all symphonies
And in a flash of light
Then it'll all become the symphony of life
Of life, my life
Heal me
And in the deepness of my dreams
I know it's you that haunts me
In blood I swear my purity
And save my treasures for you
I give to you my sacrifice
And lay my burden down
Am I deranged that all my life, my life
My life I wait for you?
To cease me
And release me
Rush tonight
We play the darkest of all symphonies
And in a flash of light
Then it'll all become the symphony of life
Of life, my life
You haunt me, chase me like a beast
And with a taste so bittersweet
You love me, grieve me till I'm mad
Now is the moment
9. ALONE I REMEMBER
I've been walking down this orad
With a suitcase full of dreams
I've seen my demons come and go
To show me what I need
Madness, walking dynamite
Been dancing on the edge
They got me by the fuse
Smiling with a match
I wanted love, I wanted life
Been striving for a new direction
I wanted out, I wanted more
I wanted to forget the damage left behind
But I recall the dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
Raise your head
Got stars above and emptiness below
Think of what you'd never had
And would have never known
You wanna turn your back on me
Condemn this pleasure dome
Make sure you won't forget
Mistaking friend for foe, no
You're at the dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
Oh and I recall I used to have a dream
I won't forget that moment of glory
But I recall the dream I had
When I kept moving on
Can't stand to remember
I recall
No turning back
Now I'm moving on
Alone I remember
I recall the dream I had...
10. PROMISED LAND 2
Hey redeemer
Now what's become on me
taken in by promise
awakening in grief
Collecting us like puppets
you instrumentalize
A frigid trepidation
in a million puppet eyes
God gave his word just to let us down
Where is he now?
You've been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
Come into the promised land
You scratch my back and I scratch yours
It s you who makes decisions
I just open up the doors
Whining in the gutter
They forget their sanctity
Welcome to my clockwork
Vanity machinery
You gave your word
You let me down
What am I now
You ve been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
Come into the promised land
Oh as far as the eye can see
They re bent in submission
Empty inside
An army of scarecrows like me
Thousands of brokens dreams
Thousands of tragedies
Tried to run from their destiny
Like moths to a flame
Driven by vanity
They been off to Jerusalem
Chasing a dream
Calling on me
We re just trading in needs
You ve been facing heaven
You were lost to left alone
You re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand
Come into the promised land
11. JOURNEY TO ARCADIA
A lonely boy, a handful of dreams
Cold wind blows through a heart wired-in
Open skies he would explore
No there ain't no mastery
Of a passion and a deep blue love
Yearn to see far away places
One day he'd feel two hearts collide
In his eyes tears and desire
But he prays and he swears every night
One day scales will fall from her eyes
Just with a dream
Just with a dream and with a song
On my own I may stumble and fall
It don't matter at all when you're blessed with
Just what's yet to come, what's yet to come
When dogs run barking
And I don't hear no sound
And the sky is as blue
As eyes have never seen it
Then I remember
What I'd have been dying for
Faith rescue my dream
From a role that I've been put in
On their screen
Your eyes, and as I'll look into your eyes
We're at the crack of dawn
Life will stop telling lies
And destiny will know
It's just you and I
Burning feet on the ground
Got my head in the clouds
Journey to Arcadia
And I know I will stand
What I can't comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more we see we understand
That there's a lot that we don't know
As you awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show
Far from the eye but close to heart
No matter how we try
Can't repel the counterpart
Our common bond we can't defy
I've seen them standing at the crossroads
When they were waiting for a sign
And they unlearned to face the silence
As they unlearned to turn inside
You're turning to the sky
And you're dying for an angel
If you want it bad enough, see those eyes
That's where two glances collide
Learn to breathe, learn to crawl
Learn to stand, walk and fall
Learn to lose and to love, to believe, to rise above
Love is more than to love
Burning feet on the ground
Got your head in the clouds
You're out to find Arcadia
And you know you will stand
What you can't comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more I've seen I understand
That there ain't nothing that I know now
As I awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show
