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Stage Fright
02:38
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House Of Shadows
07:12
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Lyrics:
No sleep in the house of shadows
No time to cry when the house of shadows fall
Rooms to play in the house of shadows
Nowhere to pray when the house of shadows fall
Faces cry in the house of shadows
All hopes die when the house of shadows fall
Beneath the stones in the house of shadows
Buried hopes & bones when the house of shadows fall
In the house of shadows
All the damned rise when the house of shadows fall
No mercy shown in the house of shadows
No one to call when the house of shadows fall
Can't hide in the house of shadows
Where secrets lie when the house of shadows fall
She roams the halls in the house of shadows
Forevermore 'til the house of shadows fall
Secrets kept in the house of shadows
Truths buried there when the house of shadows fall
Paintings sigh in the house of shadows
All the walls burn as the house of shadows fall
In the house of shadows
All the damned rise when the house of shadows fall
No mercy shown in the house of shadows
No one to call when the house of shadows fall...
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3. |
Nightmare Castle
04:56
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Lyrics:
A candle burning bright
A castle in the night
A lady cast in fright
The villain's fortress tight
Two lovers locked in lust
A secret sordid touch
The breaking of the trust
As the torture chamber rusts
Music in the depths
The spider weaves it's web
And there with bated breath
The long black hair of death
Discovery with hate
For them there's no escape
And evil never waits…
When madness rules the night
Hatred burns so bright
Shadows cut the light
And passion wins the fight
Blood spilled on the chains
The lady screams again
But evil casts a curse
And vengeance will be hers
As thunder cuts the skies
The dead will rise tonight
Evil casts a curse
But vengeance will be…
The hero takes the bait
For one night he will wait
In a house of shame
With restless souls in pain
His passion it will yearn
Her beauty it will burn
But blood will yet run cold
For beauty has no soul
Screaming from the depths
The spider weaves its web
And there with bated breath
The long black hair of death
Discovery with hate
For them there's no escape
And evil never waits…
When madness rules the night
Hatred burns so bright
The shadows cut the light
And passion wins the fight
Blood spilled on the chains
The lady screams again
But evil casts a curse
And vengeance will be hers
As thunder cuts the skies
The dead will rise tonight
Evil casts a curse
But vengeance will be hers
When madness rules the night
Hatred burns so bright
But evil casts a curse
And vengeance will be hers...
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4. |
Grave Is In The Heart
04:56
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Lyrics:
For every line set beneath every eye, grave is in the heart
Every smile from a twilight surprise, grave is in the heart
For all the hearts of sullen sublime, grave is in the heart
Just remember your time is every time, grave is in the heart
For every dawn in a moorland sky, grave is in the heart
For all the warmth every friendship provides, grave is in the heart
For every child who is dreaming of pride, grave is in the heart
For every victim and every suicide, grave is in the heart
With every kiss our love multiplies, grave is in the heart
Whisky sunsets, dawn with red wine, grave is in the heart
Beating drums and guitars chime, grave is in the heart
The only glory is living to survive, grave is in the heart
For all the ones with tears in their eyes, grave is in the heart
There'll come to a time when our dust will rise, grave is in the heart
Look to the sun as the raven flies, grave is in the heart
Just remember that hope never dies, grave is in the heart .
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5. |
Ectoplasmic Dreams
04:32
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Lyrics:
When the night comes
Wind blows and dark hums
Circles of time show
Thoughts caught and sweat grows
When the night comes
Eyes bulge and pulse drums
Rooms shrinks, prayers hail
Floors creaks and skin pales
Two souls in firefight
Stronger than twilight
Desperate and mourning
In dreams she is calling...
When the night comes
Heart stunned and blood crawls
Fear drives from night shade
Drums beat from love's grave
Two souls in firefight
Stronger than twilight
Desperate and mourning
In dreams she is calling...
Fading to ground cold
Walking to threshold
Harness and dust
Magic and light, lost
Two souls in firefight
Stronger than twilight
Desperate and mourning
In dreams she is calling...
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Lyrics:
In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace—
Radiant palace—reared its head.
In the monarch Thought’s dominion,
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair!
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow
(This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago)
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A wingèd odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two luminous windows, saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute’s well-tunèd law,
Round about a throne where, sitting,
Porphyrogene!
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
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7. |
Ghost Story
05:55
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Lyrics:
saw a ghost
So beautiful my blood it froze
A dress of silver in repose
A jagged scar across her throat
She floats
Above the boards, above the world
Her blackened eyes burning stones
The depths of hell her only throne
Her skin the deepest vein of porcelain
Her lips the bloodied edge of discipline
Her hair fiery shades of everything
Her hard countenance demanding
She herself
Is a haunted house
A vacant lens where ghouls gaze out
No hope within, no home without
She spoke a wordless power over the air
Pulsating shards of magnet flares
No language need to understand
A leather whip within her hand
Her skin the deepest vein of porcelain
Her lips the bloodied edge of discipline
Her hair the velvet black of witch and sin
She, demanding lust, my everything
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8. |
Tombstone World
04:22
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Lyrics:
All the cities cry
For a dawn that does not end
But the graveyards are full
Of irreplaceable men
All my love and hopes
Dust across the tombstone world
All my dreams in vain
Lost in the void of the tombstone world
A child can rot
Waiting for the flood to stop
Deluge or bullets
Or decay are all we've got
One more heart,
Broke on the wheel of the tombstone world
Yesterday forgot
More cement for the tombstone world
All the banners fly
On the deathmarch in the tombstone world
Triumphs and tatters
Forgotten in the tombstone world
All my love and hopes
Just dust across the tombstone world
All my dreams in vain
Lost in the void of the tombstone world
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9. |
Monster Man
06:02
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Lyrics:
I, a monument
To apply the passions that I spent
I, a revenant
No secret sigh or repent
And I, back from the dead
A crown of dust upon my head
Take my vampire hand
I'll be your faded ham, monster man
And I, was all the rage
Held Yorick skulls on every stage
And I, stayed the same
Set my stone to every change
I fought, with all my might
Against all stakes and all tides
Take my cobwebbed bones from the sand
I'll be your comeback plan, monster man
You, the only show
The only pride that I know
You, beyond the sights
Your mirage bathed in twilight
Pour the brandy glass
Call any favour that you ask
Embrace my velvet sham
I'm your encore stand, monster man
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Lyrics:
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch’s high estate;
(Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him, desolate!)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh—but smile no more.
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Lyrics:
In her dead room the lady sits
The silk of death across her wrists
A fragrance hangs of sweet decay
A boy who brings the light of day
Give me one kiss to start the night
Give me new songs to start my heart
Give me new love to bring me home
With this flower I'll soon be gone
Her cards can tell what words can't say
A life not lived jas lost it's way
A child whose gifts and burden stay
Whose beauty's cold and bleeds away
Give me one kiss to start the night
Give me new songs to start my heart
Give me new love to bring me home
With this flower I'll soon be gone
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12. |
Kiss Of The Firebrand
05:48
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Lyrics:
What I'm thinking of is between me and God
The ecstasy of destruction, the agony of loss
All roads lead to victory, everything you're dreaming of
The agony of the undertow,
The kiss of the firebrand lies
The kiss of the firebrand burns
The kiss of the firebrand bites
The kiss of the firebrand stings
The kiss of the firebrand lies
Wild work for expert hands down in this underworld
No place to hide beneath a flag unfurled
We don't know where we're going, no transport made to last
Going nowhere fast
The kiss of the firebrand lies
The kiss of the firebrand burns
The kiss of the firebrand bites
The kiss of the firebrand stings
The kiss of the firebrand lies
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13. |
Stage Clothes
04:03
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Lyrics:
I stand all alone here
With the sting of silence in my ears
Maybe some shyness in old tears
The snap of cold pride that I hear
Here comes the night, the cold moonlight
Makes their blades gleam, hard and bright…
I'll be alright, I'll win the fight
Just as soon as I put on my stage clothes
Something about all this warpaint
And all the flowers I acquaint
Reminds me of nods that I fainted, well
I never did say I'm a saint…
Here comes the night, the cold moonlight
Makes their blades gleam, hard and bright…
I'll be alright, I'll win the fight
Just as soon as I put on my stage clothes…
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14. |
Hearse Road
08:08
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Lyrics:
On the hearse road, the cortege it rolls
With feathers black as stone, the horses shine like coal
The brass it howls and calls, a single drum it tolls
And where the hearse road goes, no one ever knows
Like actors on the stage, we take our public place
Preparing with due grace, our marks set out with tape
We get to make our stand, we get to make our case
But when the curtain falls we know there's no escape
Hearse road...
Away from everyone, our houses full to brim
Of souvenirs and tins that make our everything
The walls so black and stained, the bruising from our pain
One day the door will close, we won't go home again
Our ghosts at home do play, whilst reason is away
Tormenting us in sleep, our nightmares on repeat
All those broken hearts, never will depart
Our souls haunted will stay, never to get away
Hearse road...
So on the road we go, through the night we drive
For while we're still alive there's reason to survive
Remember as you feel the turning of the wheel
That it's only the bleeding that proves that you are real…
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