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1. |
Just Imagine
04:34
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Just imagine things beyond the chains of understanding
Beyond reason, beyond logic, beyond fear
Believe the inconceivable, feel the unbelievable
Don't bother asking Is this real??
Just imagine meaning in the things you never dreamed of
Like your leaders, your lovers, and your songs
Natural Order's changing, in effect
Giving everyone a cause
Dreamer dreaming in a seeming sleepless land
Just imagine
Just imagine something inside nothing
Like a child in emptiness
Or a dreamer in the dark
Creative cryogenics -a mind
A candle yearning for a spark
Dreamer dreaming in a seeming sleepless land
Just imagine
Just imagine peace where there was none before
Under virgin skies
Just imagine children with hope
Again in their eyes
Just imagine
Just imagine people really caring
And not just saying they do
Just imagine nations really talking
Like me and you
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2. |
Crossing the Border
03:12
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Barbed wire and barriers are holding me
Though the barricades are only in my mind
I can't seem to break through the walls
Even though I am made of steel
Like steel to a fire I weaken and bend in the wind
Create the desire for crossing the wire
I'm laying it all on the line
Crossing the border
Leaving the sadness far behind
Surrounded by anger and fear
I'm the eye of the hurricane
Like a leaf on a tree in the wind
I yearn to break free
Create the desire for crossing the wire
I'm laying it all on the line
Crossing the border
Leaving the sadness far behind
I'm crossing the border
Fleeing the echoes of my mind
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3. |
Screaming
03:54
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When the light starts to dim in the evening
When the day starts to fade
Your body echoes an uneasy feeling
You know you're feeling afraid
You don't know where you're going
Or where you've been
You try to run- but it's too late
You've stumbled in
-Now you're
Screaming, 'cause you're afraid of the dark
Screaming toward the light
Screaming, 'cause there's a fear in your heart
Screaming into the night
On your face I can see that you're worried
On your face I see fear
Is this the time that you said you'd run lady?
From your darkest fears
You don't know where you're going
Or where you've been
You try to run- but it's too late
You've stumbled in
-Now you're
Screaming, 'cause you're afraid of the dark
Screaming toward the light
Screaming, 'cause there's a fear in your heart
Screaming into the night
It's too late to run now
I'm right behind
You're over now- I see you
Screaming into the night
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4. |
Alone Again
03:51
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Here I am in a spotlight
Alone all over again
And you are home by the firelight
With someone else, instead of me
The words seemed so real
And baby that's why I feel
Alone again
I swore you were my friend
Now I'm all alone
All alone again
The rhymes I could make
If my heart wasn't breaking
In two over you
Oh I'm the fool
For believing in things
I can't hold in my hands
I don't understand
The words seemed so real
And baby that's why I feel
Alone again
I swore you were my friend
I'm all alone
All alone again
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5. |
Cacophony of Anger
04:12
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Somehow, somewhere, someone
Sold me the wrong set of dreams
Like a rag doll in careless hands
I come apart at the seams
Like a willow I'm bending -an actor pretending
The script I've been given is true
Like a child that is force-fed
I'm throwing this shit back at you
Anger and fury my anger and fury my
Anger and fury my anger and fury my
Wall of anger -My cacophony
(spoken)
...Thus the antediluvian quest of mind over matter
is bequeathed to my benighted self...
Bedaubed and besmirched, the panglos eventually concedes
to the necrosis of hard realities, shrieking in anger -and then silent.
Finding no other course, I laugh at the Sisyphean punchline
at the end of another day...
Neon and screens were my feeling machines
No wonder I feel like a fool
I'm a fire of resentment with media methane as fuel
My soul and the soles of my shoes both have holes
Still somehow I get through the sorrow
Two pairs of socks and a shot in the arm 'til tomorrow
Wall of anger -My cacophony...
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6. |
The Sound of Silence
04:07
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Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And a vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
-That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
-And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools, said I, You do not know
Silence, like a cancer, grows”
Hear my words, that I might teach you
Take my arms, that I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, The words of the prophets are
Written on the subway walls -and tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence
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7. |
The Haunting
05:33
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Memory- go away, I grow weary from my running
Hiding for so long I've lost my way
Morning lights' reminders painting colors in my prison
Daylight brightens every shade of grey
The pain never ending, and now its so cliche
Yesterdays are creaking doors and noises in the nighttime
Feelings, only chains across the floor
Voices on the wind, softly moan - I hear them whisper
Mirrors mock the man I was before
My mind slowly fading like paper in the rain
The haunting, it still remains
The haunting, it still remains
Turning and burning in my bed
A never-ending ghost that lives inside my head
Memory- go away, I grow weary from my running
Hiding for so long I've lost my way
Yesterdays are creaking doors and noises in the nighttime
Feelings, only chains across the floor
My mind keeps decaying like paper in the rain
The haunting, it still remains
The haunting, it still remains
Turning and burning in my bed
A never-ending ghost that lives inside my head
Memories remain of the haunting
Can't stop the pain of the haunting
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8. |
Two Hearts
05:22
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All the pieces seemed to fit today
The sky blue matched the city grey
The roads all led to somewhere
The words I heard were true
Everything seemed to fit but me and you
All the pieces seemed to fit today
Laughter came from children's play
Something came from nothing
One and one made two
Everything seemed to fit but me and you
We are two lost pieces to the puzzle
We are two forgotten words that used to rhyme
We will never fit together
We are two hearts beating out of time
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9. |
We, The People
03:08
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We, the people
Face the challenge of our lives
Apparent heirs of this domain
The time is short for us
To set a new priority
Or we will surely pay the price of the world
- Your world
- My world
- Our world
In the name of progress
We take more than we need
Respect for life exchanged
For corporate greed
Chemical waste destroys
Our land and sea
With no regard for the future
Of our world
We, the people
Face the challenge of our lives
Apparent heirs of this domain
We, the people shape our destiny
And the time is now to take care of the world
- Your world
- My world
- Our world
We must unite to survive!
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10. |
Young Forever
02:47
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Watching the setting sun
You feel the days gone by
Autumn is ending- with winter impending
Was summer just a lie?
But just like the seasons
You know you spring will come
You're young forever
Just like the setting sun
You'll rise again
You're young forever
Taking on time in a race
That you can't win
Down but not out it's clear you're wise
Beyond your years
Time is a ship that keeps on sailing
Despite our hailing tears
But just like the ship
The wind will fill your sails
You're young forever
Just like the setting sun
You'll rise again
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11. |
One Small Voice
06:19
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One small voice had a dream
Now he's seen the other side
One small heart ached for his people
His children, and his pride
Just one man
With one hope for the world
Just one man
And one small voice was heard
One small voice had a cause
So he lived in a cage
One small love that endured
Through his pain and his rage
Just one man
With one hope for the world
Just one man
And one small voice that was heard
One small voice
Just one small voice
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12. |
Decorated
04:51
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Hero, Warrior
Sit behind the lines and make the call
Leader, Believer
A vestal three-piece high above it all
But until you've walked the miles with the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain when the common people bleed
Fuhrer, Big Brother
Victimize the weak and make us strong
Teacher, Savior
Sanctify your answers, right or wrong
And until you've walked the miles with the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain when the common people bleed
You should be decorated
Adorned by scarlet bars
A celebrated General
To brandish blackened stars
You should be decorated
Your ribbons frayed and torn
Upon your paper pedestal
For the children to adorn
You should be decorated
...still you walk alone...
Leader, Believer
Victimize the weak and make us strong
Teacher, Savior
Sanctify your answers, right or wrong
And until you've walked the miles with the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain when the common people bleed
You should be decorated
...and you could have made a difference - if you tried...
You should be decorated
...but you never really cared, and so you lied...
You should be decorated
...and you could have made a difference - but you never really tried at all
Decorated - decorated
...never really cared
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13. |
The Fifth Season
05:49
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I looked unto the old one, in the sacred halls
I found him there amidst his grief, and crumbling walls
The tears that lined his face told the tale he tried to hide
Of castles made of sand, and of the tide
A whisper through his sobs, I heard him softly say
My kingdom for a wise man, yesterday?
Nothing can save us, no one can stop the end?
Not all your king's horses, or all your amens
There's no disarming, no forewarning
Morning is over, forever burns the night
Time's forever fused with the night
The passions of men -in a flash
Put an end to the light
-End the Light
There's no one that can save us now
Nothing can stop the end
Not all your king's horses, or all your amens
Shadows seething -darkness grips the sky
Ashes wreathing -fire burning on high
Suffocation -the light all gone away
In the end I've no final words to say
There's no disarming, no forewarning
Morning is over- forever burns the night
Time's forever fused with the night
The passions of men -in a flash
Put an end to the light
-End the Light
Shadows seething -darkness grips the sky
Ashes wreathing -fire burning on high
There's no disarming, no forewarning
Morning is over- forever burns the night
There's no one that can save us now
Nothing can stop the end
Not all your king's horses, or all your amens
Shadows seething -darkness grips the sky
Ashes wreathing -fire burning forever on high
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Heir Apparent Lynnwood, Washington
Pioneers of Power Metal in the mid-1980's; Progressive Metal in the late 1980's; and returning for a third studio album in 2018. From epic ballads to intense metal, Heir Apparent is known for excellent songwriting featuring amazing vocalists.
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