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Sunday, March 27, 2011
SHADOW GALLERY Lyrics
Legacy
(2001)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Legacy
or buy CD:
1. Cliffhanger 2: Hang On
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp and Brendt Allman]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
There I was I was hanging around
Two Fingers down one to go
Then suddenly from below she emerges
Sultry swingin' from a rope
"You've got something I need so just give me your hand"
Trust is something that I just got to give into
My Black widow or friend?
Well? In the blink of an eye systems deploy
And we are off baby off on the run
Bullets raining on down
Wind driven snow here we go
Amidst the fury I was clinging onto her
As our tether slid down the cliff
She wouldn't answer pressed a
Poison tip dagger to the base of my neck
"how bout we strike a deal all your secrets for your life"
She was good and she was getting better
Might just hafta hang on for a while
Fighter planes start to dive
A barrage of gunfire
Rips through the snow
Snipers bearing on down
She turns to me
But we're not lost
We're just going with the of another busy day
Hey baby welcome to my crystal palace
Just what did you expect
I turned in time to see the avalanche start
A freight train right at my head
2. Cliffhanger 2: The Crusher
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
3. Destantion Unknown
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Picture home years ago and tell me it's you
Of all the roads a man could take
How mine has lead form you
And like a lighthouse
Set on a rocky coast amidst the storm
Your touch was warm and real
Looking out your window
Just what might lie ahead
Dreams still blow in the wind
And here we are memories run deeper and true
I'll always take you with me when I
Freefall Freefall
And the whole world goes to sleep
As a child the grand expanse the future must hold
Days to night waves washing over and over
And over your experience you
Lived each day like it's your last
Oh we never know how it goes
Oh we never know
And I won't leave you don't leave me but then again
Just who can stop falling over fall into the
Mystery predestination brings
YOu wrote your epitaph
With every move
Thru your love
Thru your love
4. Colors
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Mike Baker, Gary Wehrkamp]
Out of the blue
Everything seemed so new
The sun rising lights up my face
Fading from green
No more thoughts to deceive
For seasons of lost hope may change
Ahh - so many different colors
Ahh - The colors are changing
Moments in time
When the words didn't rhyme
Unsure what the future would hold
As days turned to nights
I chased rainbows of light
Finding no gold
No magical fountain of gold
Ahh - So many different colros
Ahh - The colors keep changing
So many different ways to look at things
I turn around I'/m upside down again
If nothing ever changes it's my point of view
That I can't lose
The skies fiery red
I will journey ahead
To show you how far I have flown
New day in my life
Flashing hope by design
I've finally found my way home
Ahh - So many different colors
Ahh - Now my world is slowly changing
So many different ways to look at things
If you've fallen down you gotta get back up again
So many different shades of everything
Now I see with open eyes a brighter world within
The skies forever changing that's the point of view
I just can't lose
This new born wisdom guides me through
Feel the cool winds of heaven
In the blue of your eyes
Dreams of you and I together
A love we cannot deny
Feel the tide of the ocean
On and on 'till I see your light
And the warmth of the sky
On and on
Passion breathes wtih emotion
We will soar
We will soar with wings on high
On high
On high...
So many different ways to look at things
If we've fallen down we gotta get back up again
So many different ways the colors change
Every time I turn around we're hanging on the edge
Our skies forever changing that's the point of view
I give to you
I know that time will see us through
I hope the colors soon find you
5. Society Of Mind
[Music: Brendt Allman, Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Brand new day
Somewhere so far away
A global village awakes and starts to crack the open airway's
Cause the tiger's escaped
He tore right out of his cage
It's like a spark to a flame
Assimilating it's collective on the way
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
The engines's tuned and clean time for man and machine to join
Society of the mind
School today
A sea of seething rage
And on the menu in the lunchroom we got Ritallin and Prozac
So I can concentrate
On my next level in Quake
Where I can shoot them I can kill them
And dehumanize the cancer in my veins
Online you gotta sell your virtual as hell
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or withing my dreams?
And do you think it needs your soul once your inside it's mind
Once your inside the mind of the world
The Code is running lean time for mand and machine to join
Society of the mind
Are you waiting for the strike
New Religion overload
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
There's lightning on the screen now watch man and machine will join
Society of the mind
6. Legacy
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Future's here
The time has come to pass the torch
Now go and touch the sky every time that you breathe
I hope you've learned
To covet not the evil ways
Live your life
Free free
From carnal lust
Hedonistic decadence and lies
Are you strong?
Turn from heathen ways?
Will you ride?
Ride with me the open road
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Many days will pass you by
And you'll still hear these words to you
Many things to realize
The hope I give sustaining you
Wear the armor of righteousness each day
Then forever in glory we'll remain
Will you bend?
When the hammer falls?
Are you steel?
Inquisitions search you out
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Part of you is now part of me
Our legacy it's how we live on
Relational bonds
Not just wayfaring souls set to fly
Away
7. First Light
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James, M. Baker, Gary Wehrkamp]
From the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
On my journey towards the stars
Will I know when I reach the other side
The earth so blue it's like I'm dreaming
Now I'm on my way
Tainted shadows fall like rain
Through the dark vast weight only silence lingers on
The origin of existence lies somewhere far far beyond
I feel unattached tranquility
A hand from the heavens guiding me
And wondering where this path will lead
In a dream I'm lost and
Floating through the atmosphere
Searchig for significance against
Infinity eternity
I've been taken by the vast and
Humbled by the weight of what I've seen
You know they called for heros
Cause heros carry on
In know the world is fading
So from the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
Now I pray for a better life
For all the ones I love
We search beyond our reach
And turn our gaze above
I hope that it's the way
To fill our basic needs
And my sacrifice not vain
And I'll return again
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there just must be a place
We will carry on
Where our children can be free from the pain
The human race
It must be somewhere out in space
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there must be a place
It Must be somewhere out in space
Silver moonbeams relfect the sun
Martian Landscapes worlds beyond
I touch down with no trace
No sign of life on this place
Now I feel a surge of energy
The deepest passion burns in me
Somwhere there is a world not left
To die
The stars will shine their light down unto me
Illuminating
The stars will shine their light and I will see
Will I find my way?
So back to the darkness I fly
In search of a hope in the sky
I should have known right from the start
I'll not return home
It seems so surreal as I go
The knowlesdge of science alone
Can't save all the people I know
That I've left behind
The sun I know is growing smaller
I drift for days on endless hours
And what's there to fear now!
No messages are getting through
I fall into the black abyss of night
I'm gone
The pioneering spirit charges the unkown
Accept the consequence of risk
I'm all alone here
Don't know if I'll return and
The fate of life is on my heart
I left a dying world behind
On my way oh
Where s our oasis in the sky
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see there's no
Heaven bound oasis in the sky
Only dreams
I've got no destination
Helpless I drift on
The weight of silence how it's eating at my soul
And yet I sense a stirring
Something so spiritual
I wonder if the fate of mankind
Is in the hands of a higher power calling to us all
I left a dying world behind
On my way only
God can stop the spiral down to hell
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see only
Heaven's the oasis in the sky
It's my dream
~#~
Legacy
(2001)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Legacy
or buy CD:
1. Cliffhanger 2: Hang On
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp and Brendt Allman]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
There I was I was hanging around
Two Fingers down one to go
Then suddenly from below she emerges
Sultry swingin' from a rope
"You've got something I need so just give me your hand"
Trust is something that I just got to give into
My Black widow or friend?
Well? In the blink of an eye systems deploy
And we are off baby off on the run
Bullets raining on down
Wind driven snow here we go
Amidst the fury I was clinging onto her
As our tether slid down the cliff
She wouldn't answer pressed a
Poison tip dagger to the base of my neck
"how bout we strike a deal all your secrets for your life"
She was good and she was getting better
Might just hafta hang on for a while
Fighter planes start to dive
A barrage of gunfire
Rips through the snow
Snipers bearing on down
She turns to me
But we're not lost
We're just going with the of another busy day
Hey baby welcome to my crystal palace
Just what did you expect
I turned in time to see the avalanche start
A freight train right at my head
2. Cliffhanger 2: The Crusher
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
3. Destantion Unknown
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Picture home years ago and tell me it's you
Of all the roads a man could take
How mine has lead form you
And like a lighthouse
Set on a rocky coast amidst the storm
Your touch was warm and real
Looking out your window
Just what might lie ahead
Dreams still blow in the wind
And here we are memories run deeper and true
I'll always take you with me when I
Freefall Freefall
And the whole world goes to sleep
As a child the grand expanse the future must hold
Days to night waves washing over and over
And over your experience you
Lived each day like it's your last
Oh we never know how it goes
Oh we never know
And I won't leave you don't leave me but then again
Just who can stop falling over fall into the
Mystery predestination brings
YOu wrote your epitaph
With every move
Thru your love
Thru your love
4. Colors
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Mike Baker, Gary Wehrkamp]
Out of the blue
Everything seemed so new
The sun rising lights up my face
Fading from green
No more thoughts to deceive
For seasons of lost hope may change
Ahh - so many different colors
Ahh - The colors are changing
Moments in time
When the words didn't rhyme
Unsure what the future would hold
As days turned to nights
I chased rainbows of light
Finding no gold
No magical fountain of gold
Ahh - So many different colros
Ahh - The colors keep changing
So many different ways to look at things
I turn around I'/m upside down again
If nothing ever changes it's my point of view
That I can't lose
The skies fiery red
I will journey ahead
To show you how far I have flown
New day in my life
Flashing hope by design
I've finally found my way home
Ahh - So many different colors
Ahh - Now my world is slowly changing
So many different ways to look at things
If you've fallen down you gotta get back up again
So many different shades of everything
Now I see with open eyes a brighter world within
The skies forever changing that's the point of view
I just can't lose
This new born wisdom guides me through
Feel the cool winds of heaven
In the blue of your eyes
Dreams of you and I together
A love we cannot deny
Feel the tide of the ocean
On and on 'till I see your light
And the warmth of the sky
On and on
Passion breathes wtih emotion
We will soar
We will soar with wings on high
On high
On high...
So many different ways to look at things
If we've fallen down we gotta get back up again
So many different ways the colors change
Every time I turn around we're hanging on the edge
Our skies forever changing that's the point of view
I give to you
I know that time will see us through
I hope the colors soon find you
5. Society Of Mind
[Music: Brendt Allman, Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Brand new day
Somewhere so far away
A global village awakes and starts to crack the open airway's
Cause the tiger's escaped
He tore right out of his cage
It's like a spark to a flame
Assimilating it's collective on the way
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
The engines's tuned and clean time for man and machine to join
Society of the mind
School today
A sea of seething rage
And on the menu in the lunchroom we got Ritallin and Prozac
So I can concentrate
On my next level in Quake
Where I can shoot them I can kill them
And dehumanize the cancer in my veins
Online you gotta sell your virtual as hell
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or withing my dreams?
And do you think it needs your soul once your inside it's mind
Once your inside the mind of the world
The Code is running lean time for mand and machine to join
Society of the mind
Are you waiting for the strike
New Religion overload
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
There's lightning on the screen now watch man and machine will join
Society of the mind
6. Legacy
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James]
Future's here
The time has come to pass the torch
Now go and touch the sky every time that you breathe
I hope you've learned
To covet not the evil ways
Live your life
Free free
From carnal lust
Hedonistic decadence and lies
Are you strong?
Turn from heathen ways?
Will you ride?
Ride with me the open road
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Many days will pass you by
And you'll still hear these words to you
Many things to realize
The hope I give sustaining you
Wear the armor of righteousness each day
Then forever in glory we'll remain
Will you bend?
When the hammer falls?
Are you steel?
Inquisitions search you out
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Part of you is now part of me
Our legacy it's how we live on
Relational bonds
Not just wayfaring souls set to fly
Away
7. First Light
[Music: Gary Wehrkamp]
[Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: Carl Cadden-James, M. Baker, Gary Wehrkamp]
From the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
On my journey towards the stars
Will I know when I reach the other side
The earth so blue it's like I'm dreaming
Now I'm on my way
Tainted shadows fall like rain
Through the dark vast weight only silence lingers on
The origin of existence lies somewhere far far beyond
I feel unattached tranquility
A hand from the heavens guiding me
And wondering where this path will lead
In a dream I'm lost and
Floating through the atmosphere
Searchig for significance against
Infinity eternity
I've been taken by the vast and
Humbled by the weight of what I've seen
You know they called for heros
Cause heros carry on
In know the world is fading
So from the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
Now I pray for a better life
For all the ones I love
We search beyond our reach
And turn our gaze above
I hope that it's the way
To fill our basic needs
And my sacrifice not vain
And I'll return again
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there just must be a place
We will carry on
Where our children can be free from the pain
The human race
It must be somewhere out in space
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there must be a place
It Must be somewhere out in space
Silver moonbeams relfect the sun
Martian Landscapes worlds beyond
I touch down with no trace
No sign of life on this place
Now I feel a surge of energy
The deepest passion burns in me
Somwhere there is a world not left
To die
The stars will shine their light down unto me
Illuminating
The stars will shine their light and I will see
Will I find my way?
So back to the darkness I fly
In search of a hope in the sky
I should have known right from the start
I'll not return home
It seems so surreal as I go
The knowlesdge of science alone
Can't save all the people I know
That I've left behind
The sun I know is growing smaller
I drift for days on endless hours
And what's there to fear now!
No messages are getting through
I fall into the black abyss of night
I'm gone
The pioneering spirit charges the unkown
Accept the consequence of risk
I'm all alone here
Don't know if I'll return and
The fate of life is on my heart
I left a dying world behind
On my way oh
Where s our oasis in the sky
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see there's no
Heaven bound oasis in the sky
Only dreams
I've got no destination
Helpless I drift on
The weight of silence how it's eating at my soul
And yet I sense a stirring
Something so spiritual
I wonder if the fate of mankind
Is in the hands of a higher power calling to us all
I left a dying world behind
On my way only
God can stop the spiral down to hell
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see only
Heaven's the oasis in the sky
It's my dream
~#~
SHADOW GALLERY Lyrics
Tyranny
(1998)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Tyranny
or buy CD:
1. Stiletto In The Sand
2. War For Sale
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Time came to leave
You know there's something
About the principle
Of what goes on behind the scenes
The military machine
The way they led me on...
Stiletto in the sand
Thrusted down in anger
Bloody to the handle
Diamond red
Machines of mass destruction
Well I helped to design them
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands
The word from the board room
Our boys in Tehran have scored
How long till we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
The bankers and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Big rockets and their profiles all the rage
Their business plan calls for ware for sale
Please understand
Until I saw all this
I never thought about the third world trampled under wheels
Out in the streets and in the fields
I simply questioned it all...
Stiletto in the sand
Fingers on the triggers
Tempers boiling over
Bleed them red
Machines of mass destruction
Oh why did I design them?
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands
Napalm and land mines
Nobody left alive
How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The market screams a recommended buy
The contract's in don't just sit there get your broker on the line
Big money left their morals far behind
Guess what we've got - we got war for sale
How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Then freedom's ring departed from today
There's just no doubt - we got war for sale!
3. Out Of Nowhere
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
Yesterday is over
Stripped of my clearance - fired
I don't know what to do
Haunted by empty faces
Victims of warring madness
If they only knew
Their world's a bloody mess
Some corporate bottom line
I tried to ask and they treat me like a threat
And they slammed the door behind
Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
So afraid our world today is just a house of lies
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
I melt into my busy day
Reaching out in my world
Becomes a matter of
Connections to the net
I've locked myself in real good
Investigative research
Looking for what is real
Welcome to the brave new world
No light inside my soul
The more I learn the deeper in I'm drawn
The deeper in I fall
Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
Ain't it strange how wars get raged to sounds of smashing dreams
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
One world
No Chance
Is this the new human race?
A faceless contact with life
Imaginary places stealing all of my time
Is this a test of my faith?
What's to become of my life
I used to see it so clear
But now I've lived to see it pass away
Before my eyes
4. Mystery
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Days at a time pass
In the dead of the night is when you come to me
You've got so much to say
Just spread your wings and ride
On the electric universe
Behind your computer
What do you picture when you read my
Words and thoughts and dreams?
Do they all come alive and breathe?
It's no wonder
This is a brand new world we're on
I'd really like to meet you somewhere along
The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a silver thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
Where you are I can only guess
Addictive screens
I just cannot turn away
Where are you anyway?
Those things you say seem so damn far from real
But I can tell you this
I have seen things for myself that just don't seem right
I have always been an honest man
I believed that the system
Worked for
You and for
Me but - no
You say it's just a show
And we've all been way too busy
Or too spoiled to even care who's got the wheel
I used to look behind the lies
Use to look for sunny skies
I learned so much since I've been
Hacking their computer systems
The truth had knocked me to the floor
That a boy now out the door
A little power and I'm
On my way to logging on the world
The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a endless thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
And your touch I can only guess
I lay here dreaming
We're so gone away
The way you come to me is such a mystery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
Just electric on a silver web
Ane every night you're here you are my mystery
And where you are I can only guess
Morning's rising
And it's dawn again
5. Hope For Us
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M.Baker]
Too late for us now?
I sat alone and I spoke out loud
On this darkened afternoon
The windows to my room
A solemn shutter on the world
Where I used to laugh and dream
For the first time in so long I make
My way down to the street and watch
The people as they pass
Outside I breathe the air
And all around fall shadows of despair
I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies?
I wonder is there hope for us
To lift me up I don't know when
I'll see the sun again
I'd like to feel alive
Just one more time
Headlines on the floor
Today's bitterness is the calling card
The commercial masquerade
The goods all on parade
The needs of life are charming toys
We've gone deaf from all the noise
WHen did the rich and powerful elite
Slowly and unnoticed
Come and steal our innocense?
Entranced - we danced their dance
The stage is set the crowd is on their knees
I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies
I wonder is there hope for us
We're stranded with no place to go
I'm feeling so alone
I'll try to make my way
Through one more day
6. Victims
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Downtown I walk
Through New York City so hot
The summer swelter melting
Got things on my mind right now
In the alleys that I take
They just don't give up an inch
I turned and saw it all
I watched him fall
I tried to catch him
But they knocked me out cold too
"Babylon" he cried
The cost in flesh and blood is rising high
Things are falling apart it all seems
Bleeding in the gutter
The waste of random acts of violence
Where's the Savior to resuce our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
We're victims of a world that's gone so wrong?
Hours later when I woke
I was lying in some darkened basement rescue mission
They're tending to my needs and wounds
They were such a sorry lot
The very bottom of the social ladder
I just caught myself before I cried
They've nothing at all
But they're the only ones there to help
Eden's sin's alive
Stalking me
Stalking everyone
Things are falling apart it all seems
Tears that speak in volumes
The eyes of all these hopeless people
Where's the Savior to rescue our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
On victims of a power hungry world!
7. Broken
[Music: G. Wehrkamp, Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
I am only just a broken spirit
All the things unseen right before my eyes
How could I have ever been so blind
To the truth behindbitter lies?
I feel so lost and so alone in this room tonight
Is nothing ever going to change?
I've lost my will
I need somebody
To help me write out the last page
Where I ride into the sunset
I race towards the dawn
I might have been a hero
A king and not just a pawn
But that's the way that the story goes you know
"It's not that way for me"
And I wake up cold and lonely
And stare into the screen...
8. I Believe
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, C, Cadden-James, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
Long ago a living story
Walked the whole world phrophesying
Told of days when the hand of God
Pulls away from the world
All hell starts breaking out
I see it clear
It pounds the cold into your life
It turns to gray what's black and white
I've torn their mask off
I can see them
What a bloody mess
That's our world!
My father's final moments
And I was there to catch his last breath
He spoke so eloquently
Said
"Listen boy the way it goes is soley
Up to you and you alone
To live your life in strength that's been passed on
Blood to blood."
So we come to a crossroad
I'm not sinking - do you see me?
I am standing where the strong of heart
Meet the wicked bad
Murals painted in the dungeons
Were the dreams that caused transforming
I am coming back to life again
Life again
A power's lifting me I journey to the light
Many secrets passed before my eyes
It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe
I've seen what comes of greed and money
I feel a growing call for action
We need changes now like never before
Never in this world
The more I think about it
I know a woman whoh just might set the course for me
Cause I believe
I believe in what she says
Sometimes this world is simply
Trembling - crumbling
Coming time to banish it for evermore
Evermore
The time for final judgement's close at hand
Four horsemen mount on high
Wake up in the morning to the sound of children dying
The latest technology mesmerize them
Love strong enough that it can pull you from the fire now
What about you?
What about you?
I am alive!
It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe
9. Roads Of Thunder
[Music: C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
[A) EMPOWERED]
Are your deeds so really bad?
Your secret life untold
Please tell me
Just try me
But you say goodnight and shut me down until tomorrow
When you come to life again
And reveal just maybe
What's going on inside of you
The real you
Strange feeling
Right now I want to look you in the eyes
And tell you how I feel
I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight
I'm tired of silent conversations
With a mystery
It's so strange
We both know
We've grown so close
It's like you're mine and I am yours
And that's where things go wrong
You're not meant to be invisible
Please speak to me with spoken words
And prove you're real
I never knew that I could feel with such conviction
And I just don't understand what separates our world
I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight
What if I cross the line
And I show you I mean business
Prove that we're alike
And send some rain on down?
Seems to me in these busy days
It's not just what you say
You gotta turn it back on them and fight!
I feel my life turning pages at the mercy of the wind
There it is now
The course for me to take
Embed a virus in the system
Send their money flying to the ground
Financially restrained
The network down in flames
It's gonna take all that I know
But in the end they'll be mourning
Their system as it bleeds and dies
[B) VIRUS]
[C) POWERLESS]
I've lived the life of a lonely man
Now there's no more time for waiting
What I've gone and done
I sent the rain on down
What happens next is now up to you
You gotta make a move
Don't leave me powerless tonight
I really mean it we've got to talk
This is something you believe in
Calling out to Heaven
Send your line on down
Now you know that I'm on my own
I'm waiting by the phone
You're not powerless tonight
10. Spoken Words
[Music: G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
There I was all alone all by myself
And you were just a ghost behind a screen
The few short months we spent
Long distance late nights just the two of us
I've grown to picture you
I've pictured you with me
There are things I've just not told you
Works of treason wrought by these very hands
I've been scared for me
Now I'm scared for you
And so it's best I say farewell
No no no
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
You listen close I've got to run and hide myself away
I think I may have brought them to their knees
There were your thoughts
Oh how they drew me in
I need to be with you
I've nowhere else to turn
All through my life I've had such an emptiness
That no one could ever fill
Some how your dreams they've touched my life
You see I think I'd like to try
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
Our only hope I would say
Is to rendezvous somewhere far away
Just decipher the location that I send
Now I think that they are on to you
Our time has come
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
11. New World Order
[Music: C. Cadden-James, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Good day my fellow citizen
I don't mean to intrude
But allow me to get right down to the point
We've monitored transmissions
We calculate your moves
Did you really think you're hidden from our sight?
Your name's been added to a list that's been compiled
Our agency considers you a risk
Secret power I can't believe
Growing stronger I feel them
Strengthening their grip
So there you are you crossed the line
You pathetic little man
Well rest assured the worst you feared is true
In the seduction of society we play upon desire
Spoiled and drunk that's you
Can this be happening?
This world is just a grand facade
You're just a simple man at heart
A victim playing out a part
Oh I just want my freedom
Where are the ones who back you now?
I feel abandoned fee like
Screaming at the walls
Too bad the walls have ears
This never ever should have been
But that's the way it is
This is the new world order
This is the corporate sponsored
Changing of the guard
The march is on
I can feel it - I can feel it's tyranny
It's all about the power
This rising new world order
Strong arm of the law
The march is on
I can see it - I can see it's tyranny
The point you fail to see is
The simple beauty of our subtle mind control
Brainwashing media is all we need to set the boundaries
Advanced communication
You're at our fingertips now
We own the TV stations
Entertainment, Publications
Wall street is our breeding ground
The sphere of our control extends through
Governments and leaders who will buy our arms
Yes buy our arms and run our evil wars
Run our evil wars run this evil world into the ground
This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life
I see through your disguises
Your rising new world order lies
You've no idea the power my new world order is alive
You don't really think you have a prayer
I don't know where to go to avoid your
Staring eyes and universal grasp upon all life
This world is mine!
This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life
It's all about the power
This rising new world order rise
12. Chased
13. Ghost Of A Chance
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Walking down some highway midnight North Dakota
Somewhere 'round late fall I knew that the time
Has come for me I'm willing a million stars above me
I tried to catch their fall I tried to catch their fall
Inside I felt so empty
A stranger to this world so lost
And as the winter draws I'm turning north
I'm leaving things behind I just don't need
The only things in life of worth are free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and walked away
I've traveled too long on my own
I've got a dream of home
Safe at last...
Where are all the answers
And visionary wisdom
From the stately and esteemed?
Just as I thought...
Disconsolate I ponder
The evil human nature
And what it really means
For the ones who paved the way
No bag of gold can save their souls
It's like they never feared
But now their end is near
The flames start leaping
Baby don't it drop you to your knees?
The only thing in life of worth is free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and run away
Despite this nasty world I roam
Imagine going home
Ghost of a chance
14. Christmas Day
[Music: C. Ingles, Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Outside the twilight rides high
And whispers of love sound deep in the night
Hope and promise of peace in our land
Is this Christmastime?
Dark winter watches our fire
And brings us promise of a new day
Distant eyes have gone a long way
Too far to see the snow that falls
The winds of change have come and gone
The cold has come I've been left out
I need your warmth you're all I have
If you're chasing a dream to nowhere
It's enchantment that leads the way
Just believe in yourself and go there
The gift of hope on Christmas day
If every eye holds a blank stare
After winter's gone away
Just believe in yourself and go there
You and I on Christmas day
There's a time when your doubts won't matter
There's a time all your fears can wait
All the times in the year for laughter
Oh Christmas day
~#~
Tyranny
(1998)
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1. Stiletto In The Sand
2. War For Sale
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Time came to leave
You know there's something
About the principle
Of what goes on behind the scenes
The military machine
The way they led me on...
Stiletto in the sand
Thrusted down in anger
Bloody to the handle
Diamond red
Machines of mass destruction
Well I helped to design them
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands
The word from the board room
Our boys in Tehran have scored
How long till we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
The bankers and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Big rockets and their profiles all the rage
Their business plan calls for ware for sale
Please understand
Until I saw all this
I never thought about the third world trampled under wheels
Out in the streets and in the fields
I simply questioned it all...
Stiletto in the sand
Fingers on the triggers
Tempers boiling over
Bleed them red
Machines of mass destruction
Oh why did I design them?
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands
Napalm and land mines
Nobody left alive
How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The market screams a recommended buy
The contract's in don't just sit there get your broker on the line
Big money left their morals far behind
Guess what we've got - we got war for sale
How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Then freedom's ring departed from today
There's just no doubt - we got war for sale!
3. Out Of Nowhere
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
Yesterday is over
Stripped of my clearance - fired
I don't know what to do
Haunted by empty faces
Victims of warring madness
If they only knew
Their world's a bloody mess
Some corporate bottom line
I tried to ask and they treat me like a threat
And they slammed the door behind
Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
So afraid our world today is just a house of lies
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
I melt into my busy day
Reaching out in my world
Becomes a matter of
Connections to the net
I've locked myself in real good
Investigative research
Looking for what is real
Welcome to the brave new world
No light inside my soul
The more I learn the deeper in I'm drawn
The deeper in I fall
Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
Ain't it strange how wars get raged to sounds of smashing dreams
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
One world
No Chance
Is this the new human race?
A faceless contact with life
Imaginary places stealing all of my time
Is this a test of my faith?
What's to become of my life
I used to see it so clear
But now I've lived to see it pass away
Before my eyes
4. Mystery
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Days at a time pass
In the dead of the night is when you come to me
You've got so much to say
Just spread your wings and ride
On the electric universe
Behind your computer
What do you picture when you read my
Words and thoughts and dreams?
Do they all come alive and breathe?
It's no wonder
This is a brand new world we're on
I'd really like to meet you somewhere along
The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a silver thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
Where you are I can only guess
Addictive screens
I just cannot turn away
Where are you anyway?
Those things you say seem so damn far from real
But I can tell you this
I have seen things for myself that just don't seem right
I have always been an honest man
I believed that the system
Worked for
You and for
Me but - no
You say it's just a show
And we've all been way too busy
Or too spoiled to even care who's got the wheel
I used to look behind the lies
Use to look for sunny skies
I learned so much since I've been
Hacking their computer systems
The truth had knocked me to the floor
That a boy now out the door
A little power and I'm
On my way to logging on the world
The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a endless thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
And your touch I can only guess
I lay here dreaming
We're so gone away
The way you come to me is such a mystery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
Just electric on a silver web
Ane every night you're here you are my mystery
And where you are I can only guess
Morning's rising
And it's dawn again
5. Hope For Us
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M.Baker]
Too late for us now?
I sat alone and I spoke out loud
On this darkened afternoon
The windows to my room
A solemn shutter on the world
Where I used to laugh and dream
For the first time in so long I make
My way down to the street and watch
The people as they pass
Outside I breathe the air
And all around fall shadows of despair
I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies?
I wonder is there hope for us
To lift me up I don't know when
I'll see the sun again
I'd like to feel alive
Just one more time
Headlines on the floor
Today's bitterness is the calling card
The commercial masquerade
The goods all on parade
The needs of life are charming toys
We've gone deaf from all the noise
WHen did the rich and powerful elite
Slowly and unnoticed
Come and steal our innocense?
Entranced - we danced their dance
The stage is set the crowd is on their knees
I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies
I wonder is there hope for us
We're stranded with no place to go
I'm feeling so alone
I'll try to make my way
Through one more day
6. Victims
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Downtown I walk
Through New York City so hot
The summer swelter melting
Got things on my mind right now
In the alleys that I take
They just don't give up an inch
I turned and saw it all
I watched him fall
I tried to catch him
But they knocked me out cold too
"Babylon" he cried
The cost in flesh and blood is rising high
Things are falling apart it all seems
Bleeding in the gutter
The waste of random acts of violence
Where's the Savior to resuce our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
We're victims of a world that's gone so wrong?
Hours later when I woke
I was lying in some darkened basement rescue mission
They're tending to my needs and wounds
They were such a sorry lot
The very bottom of the social ladder
I just caught myself before I cried
They've nothing at all
But they're the only ones there to help
Eden's sin's alive
Stalking me
Stalking everyone
Things are falling apart it all seems
Tears that speak in volumes
The eyes of all these hopeless people
Where's the Savior to rescue our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
On victims of a power hungry world!
7. Broken
[Music: G. Wehrkamp, Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
I am only just a broken spirit
All the things unseen right before my eyes
How could I have ever been so blind
To the truth behindbitter lies?
I feel so lost and so alone in this room tonight
Is nothing ever going to change?
I've lost my will
I need somebody
To help me write out the last page
Where I ride into the sunset
I race towards the dawn
I might have been a hero
A king and not just a pawn
But that's the way that the story goes you know
"It's not that way for me"
And I wake up cold and lonely
And stare into the screen...
8. I Believe
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, C, Cadden-James, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
Long ago a living story
Walked the whole world phrophesying
Told of days when the hand of God
Pulls away from the world
All hell starts breaking out
I see it clear
It pounds the cold into your life
It turns to gray what's black and white
I've torn their mask off
I can see them
What a bloody mess
That's our world!
My father's final moments
And I was there to catch his last breath
He spoke so eloquently
Said
"Listen boy the way it goes is soley
Up to you and you alone
To live your life in strength that's been passed on
Blood to blood."
So we come to a crossroad
I'm not sinking - do you see me?
I am standing where the strong of heart
Meet the wicked bad
Murals painted in the dungeons
Were the dreams that caused transforming
I am coming back to life again
Life again
A power's lifting me I journey to the light
Many secrets passed before my eyes
It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe
I've seen what comes of greed and money
I feel a growing call for action
We need changes now like never before
Never in this world
The more I think about it
I know a woman whoh just might set the course for me
Cause I believe
I believe in what she says
Sometimes this world is simply
Trembling - crumbling
Coming time to banish it for evermore
Evermore
The time for final judgement's close at hand
Four horsemen mount on high
Wake up in the morning to the sound of children dying
The latest technology mesmerize them
Love strong enough that it can pull you from the fire now
What about you?
What about you?
I am alive!
It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe
9. Roads Of Thunder
[Music: C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
[A) EMPOWERED]
Are your deeds so really bad?
Your secret life untold
Please tell me
Just try me
But you say goodnight and shut me down until tomorrow
When you come to life again
And reveal just maybe
What's going on inside of you
The real you
Strange feeling
Right now I want to look you in the eyes
And tell you how I feel
I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight
I'm tired of silent conversations
With a mystery
It's so strange
We both know
We've grown so close
It's like you're mine and I am yours
And that's where things go wrong
You're not meant to be invisible
Please speak to me with spoken words
And prove you're real
I never knew that I could feel with such conviction
And I just don't understand what separates our world
I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight
What if I cross the line
And I show you I mean business
Prove that we're alike
And send some rain on down?
Seems to me in these busy days
It's not just what you say
You gotta turn it back on them and fight!
I feel my life turning pages at the mercy of the wind
There it is now
The course for me to take
Embed a virus in the system
Send their money flying to the ground
Financially restrained
The network down in flames
It's gonna take all that I know
But in the end they'll be mourning
Their system as it bleeds and dies
[B) VIRUS]
[C) POWERLESS]
I've lived the life of a lonely man
Now there's no more time for waiting
What I've gone and done
I sent the rain on down
What happens next is now up to you
You gotta make a move
Don't leave me powerless tonight
I really mean it we've got to talk
This is something you believe in
Calling out to Heaven
Send your line on down
Now you know that I'm on my own
I'm waiting by the phone
You're not powerless tonight
10. Spoken Words
[Music: G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, M. Baker]
There I was all alone all by myself
And you were just a ghost behind a screen
The few short months we spent
Long distance late nights just the two of us
I've grown to picture you
I've pictured you with me
There are things I've just not told you
Works of treason wrought by these very hands
I've been scared for me
Now I'm scared for you
And so it's best I say farewell
No no no
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
You listen close I've got to run and hide myself away
I think I may have brought them to their knees
There were your thoughts
Oh how they drew me in
I need to be with you
I've nowhere else to turn
All through my life I've had such an emptiness
That no one could ever fill
Some how your dreams they've touched my life
You see I think I'd like to try
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
Our only hope I would say
Is to rendezvous somewhere far away
Just decipher the location that I send
Now I think that they are on to you
Our time has come
Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away
11. New World Order
[Music: C. Cadden-James, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Good day my fellow citizen
I don't mean to intrude
But allow me to get right down to the point
We've monitored transmissions
We calculate your moves
Did you really think you're hidden from our sight?
Your name's been added to a list that's been compiled
Our agency considers you a risk
Secret power I can't believe
Growing stronger I feel them
Strengthening their grip
So there you are you crossed the line
You pathetic little man
Well rest assured the worst you feared is true
In the seduction of society we play upon desire
Spoiled and drunk that's you
Can this be happening?
This world is just a grand facade
You're just a simple man at heart
A victim playing out a part
Oh I just want my freedom
Where are the ones who back you now?
I feel abandoned fee like
Screaming at the walls
Too bad the walls have ears
This never ever should have been
But that's the way it is
This is the new world order
This is the corporate sponsored
Changing of the guard
The march is on
I can feel it - I can feel it's tyranny
It's all about the power
This rising new world order
Strong arm of the law
The march is on
I can see it - I can see it's tyranny
The point you fail to see is
The simple beauty of our subtle mind control
Brainwashing media is all we need to set the boundaries
Advanced communication
You're at our fingertips now
We own the TV stations
Entertainment, Publications
Wall street is our breeding ground
The sphere of our control extends through
Governments and leaders who will buy our arms
Yes buy our arms and run our evil wars
Run our evil wars run this evil world into the ground
This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life
I see through your disguises
Your rising new world order lies
You've no idea the power my new world order is alive
You don't really think you have a prayer
I don't know where to go to avoid your
Staring eyes and universal grasp upon all life
This world is mine!
This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life
It's all about the power
This rising new world order rise
12. Chased
13. Ghost Of A Chance
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Walking down some highway midnight North Dakota
Somewhere 'round late fall I knew that the time
Has come for me I'm willing a million stars above me
I tried to catch their fall I tried to catch their fall
Inside I felt so empty
A stranger to this world so lost
And as the winter draws I'm turning north
I'm leaving things behind I just don't need
The only things in life of worth are free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and walked away
I've traveled too long on my own
I've got a dream of home
Safe at last...
Where are all the answers
And visionary wisdom
From the stately and esteemed?
Just as I thought...
Disconsolate I ponder
The evil human nature
And what it really means
For the ones who paved the way
No bag of gold can save their souls
It's like they never feared
But now their end is near
The flames start leaping
Baby don't it drop you to your knees?
The only thing in life of worth is free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and run away
Despite this nasty world I roam
Imagine going home
Ghost of a chance
14. Christmas Day
[Music: C. Ingles, Lyrics and Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Outside the twilight rides high
And whispers of love sound deep in the night
Hope and promise of peace in our land
Is this Christmastime?
Dark winter watches our fire
And brings us promise of a new day
Distant eyes have gone a long way
Too far to see the snow that falls
The winds of change have come and gone
The cold has come I've been left out
I need your warmth you're all I have
If you're chasing a dream to nowhere
It's enchantment that leads the way
Just believe in yourself and go there
The gift of hope on Christmas day
If every eye holds a blank stare
After winter's gone away
Just believe in yourself and go there
You and I on Christmas day
There's a time when your doubts won't matter
There's a time all your fears can wait
All the times in the year for laughter
Oh Christmas day
~#~
SHADOW GALLERY Lyrics
Carved in Stone
(1995)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Carved In Stone
or buy CD:
1. Cliffhanger
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: M. Baker, C.Cadden-James]
I remember there were
Fights and screaming in the streets that night
I had to run from the
Insinuations all about my life
It didn't matter I was
Armed and ready I was on the run
Up in the mountains I've got
Food and shelter I'm a loaded gun
Steal away into the hills
My world is turning
Secrecy becomes my mask
My cloak and dagger
I'm not so sure that I enjoy this journey
They've got their guns to my head
I turn myself into the black of darkness
They chase their shadows instead
That night my contact
Took me to the place where the preacher lived
He gave me serum
And he blessed my mission helped me get my grip
Back to the mountains for the
Codes and weapons and my boarder pass
10,000 foot the rocks are
Sheets of ice shards of broken glass
All alone I cannot rest
Hear them behind me
The hunt is on the chase is near
But I start sliding
I always thought this was a crystal palace
Could be my tomb instead
Three fingers cling to an icy cliff
Looks like some change ahead
2. Crystalline Dream
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Hold onto these
Memories I grant you
The gifts of our lives
Lost in the sands of time
Deserts forever
Relentlessly barren
I crossed them all
In the blink of an eye
I command light and solar winds
To transport me
The deepest assurance
I speak with my mind
Caves of glass
Shatter before me
The wheels are in motion
Forever they turn
And are carved in the great book of life
There in your room
Alone in the shadows
I smashed down the walls
And set you free
I carry the torch
That trembles the mountains
Seen visions of power
Beyond all belief
You close your eyes
I reach out and touch you
Reflections in pools
The deepest of dreams
Rumors of war
Rage in your heart now
The wheels are in motion
Together we turn them
Come down with fire
I want to love you want to take you into my heart
We'll cruise the starways
And from the moment that we touch our love turns into a crystalline dream
Fly where your dreams go
With open eyes it's the dawn and you're alive
No time or space here
I walk in castles of gold
Our love turns into a crystalline dream
3. Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
I must have stood for hours
The mist of dawn still rising
Brushing from my face
Cold tears of finally knowing
The world that we had twisted
The years of strength and glory
Were wicked and obscene
And there we stood so proud
What legends we must be
Really something to behold Lord
So irresponsible
With the powers of creation
A princess crowned in jewels
Robed in the finest cloth
Dauntlessly invincible
So perfect so unreal
In one great moment judgements fallen
Babylon no longer there
Gone are her streets her giant towers
Disappeared into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
It must have been my mood
I'm usually much stronger now
I know there's just one way
And this is how it has to be
There was poison in our thoughts
And there was hatred in our eyes
Suddenly something came
Something made it right
We purged our hearts and souls
And we saw through children's eyes
Not stifled by the pain
Not blinded by our
Human nature don't you see at all
The wisdom of our suffering
The lies behind our ways
The reasons for the end
From the moment I was raptured
Babylonia disappeared
I now return here a survivor
The rest have vanished to thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
The wind blows cold tonight
No lamplights from no windows
I am sure enough alone
And I am sure enough alive
So through eternity
The gift of light gets passed along
to those of us who saw
What the rest could never see
Born to a fallen world
Longing for a morning star
Held on high
For me
As this vision comes to close
The last footsteps ever wonder here
They echo in my mind
Never to return
All is done and slowly fading
Babylon she once stood there
I walked her streets I climbed her mountains
I disappear into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
4. Warcry
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Tonight I stood upon the crest and witnessed our decay
The land that was our fathers lay in ruins at our feet
And I dare not look out or into unseeing eyes
Of mankind's blind ambitions and desires
The wisdom of humanity is wasted on you all
You pushed us into corners of a tortured paradise
Your selfish pillaging is a treason to this earth
And in the end you are betrayed by your own deeds
Now every time I turn around it's just too late
To give back our mother earth a little dignity
I wish you'd set her free and give her love back to me
Cause our spirits are not weak like you
We're on our own
Pushed from our home
Our voices joining
Sacreligious and deceitful are your truces
Tattered paper poison letters bloody skies
I do my best to keep it all to myself
But now I fight for my name
5. Celtic Princess
6. Deeper Than Life
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
On the run from
Suicide
Love breeches
Temptation
On the edge boy
What's inside
You better look
You better run and hide
Storms coming
A hurricane
Tear the roof from the
The foundation
Crystal ball smashed again
It's all there in the balance
Hanging
Wrong time to not regret your actions
These are dangerous roads that we travel tonight
I'm tuning into you your eyes are faintly glowing
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
It's a strange dream and I know you're in it
Clinging to a rainbow by your fingernails
I'm shining bright as a star my thoughts become electric
Cause my soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life
No time
For real life
You're heading
For deep trouble
Star tripping
Red line
All engines
At full throttle
Lost balance
On such a dream
Wasted love on your
Precious money
Look around
Time to scream
You hit the skids
At the speed of light now
Fill all of that emptiness with the blood I've shed
It's the spirit of life
Don't build your dreams on the treasures of man
They'll drag you away
It's a deadly lie
Sad song why don't they ever listen
It's the gift of love that helps to keep us alive
You miss the point again and it's your last horizon
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
I'm a strong man yes I can see the future
And it's good or bad and nowhere in between
You can't just spin the wheel you've got to ride on lightning
Cause your soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life
7. Alaska
[Music: B. Allman, C.Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Remember I painted pictures of you
And I never found my way out
I spent a lifetime of dreams in the fields of your eyes
Lay me down when the rain covers you
And I'm afraid of the emptiness holding my thoughts
I see blue I see grey all the while
And when the night comes again I'll hold my hands to the skies
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And when the winter comes calling turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska
Your name is whispered with the breath of my soul
In a hope that I'll never let fade
Between the mist on the waves and the blue of the sky
I threw a rose to the sea in your name
Now listen
Somewhere tonight there are tears on the wind
Are they yours are they mine I don't know
I'm crying out to the sky
I hope you're with me tonight
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And now the earth is left wanting
Turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska
All through my life I stood tall as the sky
Hold to the things that I knew were so real
All I could feel
Strange how it goes how it comes to an end
Lord take your hand
Take you home once again
8. Ghostship
[Music: B. Allman,C. Cadden-James, R. Evans, C.Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
[THE GATHERING THE NIGHT BEFORE:]
Time has come
The dawn shall see us off again
Glory rides
The stars shall be our watching guide
We know
God is ready
And he's willing
To fill our veins it takes my mind away
Hot sun
Splitting thunder
Deafening
Violent storms
We sail atop the highest wave in search of our viking gold
And turn our backs into the night
We sail into the night
As the mighty desert wind blows through the mountains
Still she sails our trusty ship across the sea
And we raise our glasses high to this good life
See our torches brandish light upon the free
Cowards running to the hills no courage in their eyes
Shadowed terrors prey on them no mercy in their eyes
Their battle's over long before they have a chance to pray
But we shall stand steadfast our ground
Unmoved through the day
Let us drink to the spirit
That has given us the power
To rule with the mightiest of swords
Through all of the
Land
[VOYAGE:]
[DEAD CALM:]
[APPROACHING STORM:]
Our ship now listless drifting aimlessly through the tide
This calm before the storm screams over high
This must be madness cause the sky is growing blacker
Than the shadow of a dead star in regression of its power
If the darkness that surrounds you leaves you nowhere you can run to
I impolore you fall down to your knees
And pray these tentacles released their grip
[STORM:]
Well you and I do not belong here
Will we return
I cannot believe
Strong winds
Twisting and tearing our sails off
I'm hiding my eyes
You are fading away
[ENCHANTMENT:]
[LEGEND:]
Misfortune paints their lonely story
A thousand years shall endure
Unfold the tale of that dark day
Their mystics ship so far from sure
They sailed away
Into
Another sea
A mystery
To us all
Beware the waves
You sail upon
In ships so strong
It is our belief
This story's true
~#~
Carved in Stone
(1995)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Carved In Stone
or buy CD:
1. Cliffhanger
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: M. Baker, C.Cadden-James]
I remember there were
Fights and screaming in the streets that night
I had to run from the
Insinuations all about my life
It didn't matter I was
Armed and ready I was on the run
Up in the mountains I've got
Food and shelter I'm a loaded gun
Steal away into the hills
My world is turning
Secrecy becomes my mask
My cloak and dagger
I'm not so sure that I enjoy this journey
They've got their guns to my head
I turn myself into the black of darkness
They chase their shadows instead
That night my contact
Took me to the place where the preacher lived
He gave me serum
And he blessed my mission helped me get my grip
Back to the mountains for the
Codes and weapons and my boarder pass
10,000 foot the rocks are
Sheets of ice shards of broken glass
All alone I cannot rest
Hear them behind me
The hunt is on the chase is near
But I start sliding
I always thought this was a crystal palace
Could be my tomb instead
Three fingers cling to an icy cliff
Looks like some change ahead
2. Crystalline Dream
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James, C. Ingles Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Hold onto these
Memories I grant you
The gifts of our lives
Lost in the sands of time
Deserts forever
Relentlessly barren
I crossed them all
In the blink of an eye
I command light and solar winds
To transport me
The deepest assurance
I speak with my mind
Caves of glass
Shatter before me
The wheels are in motion
Forever they turn
And are carved in the great book of life
There in your room
Alone in the shadows
I smashed down the walls
And set you free
I carry the torch
That trembles the mountains
Seen visions of power
Beyond all belief
You close your eyes
I reach out and touch you
Reflections in pools
The deepest of dreams
Rumors of war
Rage in your heart now
The wheels are in motion
Together we turn them
Come down with fire
I want to love you want to take you into my heart
We'll cruise the starways
And from the moment that we touch our love turns into a crystalline dream
Fly where your dreams go
With open eyes it's the dawn and you're alive
No time or space here
I walk in castles of gold
Our love turns into a crystalline dream
3. Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember
[Music: B. Allman, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
I must have stood for hours
The mist of dawn still rising
Brushing from my face
Cold tears of finally knowing
The world that we had twisted
The years of strength and glory
Were wicked and obscene
And there we stood so proud
What legends we must be
Really something to behold Lord
So irresponsible
With the powers of creation
A princess crowned in jewels
Robed in the finest cloth
Dauntlessly invincible
So perfect so unreal
In one great moment judgements fallen
Babylon no longer there
Gone are her streets her giant towers
Disappeared into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
It must have been my mood
I'm usually much stronger now
I know there's just one way
And this is how it has to be
There was poison in our thoughts
And there was hatred in our eyes
Suddenly something came
Something made it right
We purged our hearts and souls
And we saw through children's eyes
Not stifled by the pain
Not blinded by our
Human nature don't you see at all
The wisdom of our suffering
The lies behind our ways
The reasons for the end
From the moment I was raptured
Babylonia disappeared
I now return here a survivor
The rest have vanished to thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
The wind blows cold tonight
No lamplights from no windows
I am sure enough alone
And I am sure enough alive
So through eternity
The gift of light gets passed along
to those of us who saw
What the rest could never see
Born to a fallen world
Longing for a morning star
Held on high
For me
As this vision comes to close
The last footsteps ever wonder here
They echo in my mind
Never to return
All is done and slowly fading
Babylon she once stood there
I walked her streets I climbed her mountains
I disappear into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember
4. Warcry
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James, C. Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Tonight I stood upon the crest and witnessed our decay
The land that was our fathers lay in ruins at our feet
And I dare not look out or into unseeing eyes
Of mankind's blind ambitions and desires
The wisdom of humanity is wasted on you all
You pushed us into corners of a tortured paradise
Your selfish pillaging is a treason to this earth
And in the end you are betrayed by your own deeds
Now every time I turn around it's just too late
To give back our mother earth a little dignity
I wish you'd set her free and give her love back to me
Cause our spirits are not weak like you
We're on our own
Pushed from our home
Our voices joining
Sacreligious and deceitful are your truces
Tattered paper poison letters bloody skies
I do my best to keep it all to myself
But now I fight for my name
5. Celtic Princess
6. Deeper Than Life
[Music: B. Allman, C. Cadden-James Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
On the run from
Suicide
Love breeches
Temptation
On the edge boy
What's inside
You better look
You better run and hide
Storms coming
A hurricane
Tear the roof from the
The foundation
Crystal ball smashed again
It's all there in the balance
Hanging
Wrong time to not regret your actions
These are dangerous roads that we travel tonight
I'm tuning into you your eyes are faintly glowing
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
It's a strange dream and I know you're in it
Clinging to a rainbow by your fingernails
I'm shining bright as a star my thoughts become electric
Cause my soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life
No time
For real life
You're heading
For deep trouble
Star tripping
Red line
All engines
At full throttle
Lost balance
On such a dream
Wasted love on your
Precious money
Look around
Time to scream
You hit the skids
At the speed of light now
Fill all of that emptiness with the blood I've shed
It's the spirit of life
Don't build your dreams on the treasures of man
They'll drag you away
It's a deadly lie
Sad song why don't they ever listen
It's the gift of love that helps to keep us alive
You miss the point again and it's your last horizon
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
I'm a strong man yes I can see the future
And it's good or bad and nowhere in between
You can't just spin the wheel you've got to ride on lightning
Cause your soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life
7. Alaska
[Music: B. Allman, C.Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Remember I painted pictures of you
And I never found my way out
I spent a lifetime of dreams in the fields of your eyes
Lay me down when the rain covers you
And I'm afraid of the emptiness holding my thoughts
I see blue I see grey all the while
And when the night comes again I'll hold my hands to the skies
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And when the winter comes calling turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska
Your name is whispered with the breath of my soul
In a hope that I'll never let fade
Between the mist on the waves and the blue of the sky
I threw a rose to the sea in your name
Now listen
Somewhere tonight there are tears on the wind
Are they yours are they mine I don't know
I'm crying out to the sky
I hope you're with me tonight
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And now the earth is left wanting
Turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska
All through my life I stood tall as the sky
Hold to the things that I knew were so real
All I could feel
Strange how it goes how it comes to an end
Lord take your hand
Take you home once again
8. Ghostship
[Music: B. Allman,C. Cadden-James, R. Evans, C.Ingles, G. Wehrkamp Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
[THE GATHERING THE NIGHT BEFORE:]
Time has come
The dawn shall see us off again
Glory rides
The stars shall be our watching guide
We know
God is ready
And he's willing
To fill our veins it takes my mind away
Hot sun
Splitting thunder
Deafening
Violent storms
We sail atop the highest wave in search of our viking gold
And turn our backs into the night
We sail into the night
As the mighty desert wind blows through the mountains
Still she sails our trusty ship across the sea
And we raise our glasses high to this good life
See our torches brandish light upon the free
Cowards running to the hills no courage in their eyes
Shadowed terrors prey on them no mercy in their eyes
Their battle's over long before they have a chance to pray
But we shall stand steadfast our ground
Unmoved through the day
Let us drink to the spirit
That has given us the power
To rule with the mightiest of swords
Through all of the
Land
[VOYAGE:]
[DEAD CALM:]
[APPROACHING STORM:]
Our ship now listless drifting aimlessly through the tide
This calm before the storm screams over high
This must be madness cause the sky is growing blacker
Than the shadow of a dead star in regression of its power
If the darkness that surrounds you leaves you nowhere you can run to
I impolore you fall down to your knees
And pray these tentacles released their grip
[STORM:]
Well you and I do not belong here
Will we return
I cannot believe
Strong winds
Twisting and tearing our sails off
I'm hiding my eyes
You are fading away
[ENCHANTMENT:]
[LEGEND:]
Misfortune paints their lonely story
A thousand years shall endure
Unfold the tale of that dark day
Their mystics ship so far from sure
They sailed away
Into
Another sea
A mystery
To us all
Beware the waves
You sail upon
In ships so strong
It is our belief
This story's true
~#~
SHADOW GALLERY Lyrics
Shadow Gallery
(1992)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Shadow Gallery
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1. The Dance Of Fools
[Music: C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Sometimes I've got a world on my shoulders
that cast long shadows cross my eyes
where traced out footsteps on the shores
of the sea of sorrow
reflect the changes in my life
Holding out in a darkened room
long before the fall of rain shall come
listen to me
for the last time that I was tempted to the dance of fools
closer to me
I crawled away a loser
I never knew it meant so much to hold a place of power
where only dreaming sets you free
I never thought that you could hold me so completely
you tore off my mask and I could see
All the people in the street
double crossed by their own lives
bring them to me
I want to take them to a new tomorrow of yesteryear
call them to me
let us live forever on
Tonight I shall cast a stone into the sea of sorrow
Its waves they crash beneath my feet
sorrow binds you to a life not worth living
unto that mortal life you cling
Stripped of all your earthly pride with the fools you dance
tonight
come unto me
send with great speed this message all across the land
listen to me
let us live forever on
Listen to me
tonight I turn my face
from the dance of fools
closer to me
I live to carry on my way
2. Darktown
[Music: C.Cadden-James, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Sun is low now in the sky
soon the cold will start to bite
and I'm kicking some old
empty can
down a barren street yah
step into a dark saloon
peer across the smoke filled room
I can feel her a mile away
she smiles and beckons me
Now we're dancing throught the mist
face to face I taste her breath
our gaze locks into a hazy trance I start to quiver
now she comes to comfort me I tell her I'm too blind to see
a warm bed and a fresh breath of air and you'll feel better
I know the feeling that you get
too bad it's only for a moment
lost in the shadows of the night
she turned and took my hand said
stay by my side, slip between the light
mirror my image we'll be alright
The key that opens up a thousand doors of mystery
unlocks a basement full of fears
start to unravel in it you might as well be blind
she saw my fright and closed her eyes
Don't fall in love it's a crazy nightmare
she looked at me and she winked an eye
it's too soon to say good-bye to this darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
refuse to look but I cannot deny
gotta make it out tonight of this darktown
Sorry to leave you in this crazy nightmare
she looked at and she winked and eye
that's too bad so goodbye to your darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
I turned to look but I closed my eyes
and I won't turn back tonight to this darktown
3. Mystified
[Music: C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
I was calling just to say I loved you
I know you're out there tonight
Long time ago I held you tight
My heart knows of a broken promise
I know of fortune that came and went
too far with my emotion
Who could ignore the cold
Every time you missed the love I sent I
scanned the windows won't forget I
curse the moment I felt you turn to stone
wakin' up to the sound to the sound of a broken heart
Ifound out it was time to say goodbye
Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding why
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It cuts me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go
All I wanted was a chance to say I think of you
she won't see me and she sure won't speak my name
she's all lost in a world so condescending
that's a price I cannot afford to pay
I was calling just to say I loved you
but I don't know if you're out there tonight
This scene slowly fading out of sight
no longer crying my tears of cold remorse
that distant place in my heart still hurts of course
I do believe I will turn and say goodnight
Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding why
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It scars me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go
4. Questions At Hand
[Music: W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, W.B.Allman]
Asked if I had ever known your name
I replied it sometimes slips away
Answers now like sand shall fill my hands
slipping through my fingers to the floor
and blown away
Somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand
Time survives and all that's left is dust
We respond to music of the earth
Our hands touch and to its tune we dance
Is our kiss just sand thrown to the wind
Where does it go!
Somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand
I, I could never find solace in another eye
and then you came into my life
Oh I, I've come out from the cold alone I walk a broken road
Through wind I heard you calling
Now my eyes can cut a path into your light
5. The Final Hour
[Music: C.Cadden-James Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Nightime falls around me
darkness closes in all the people who are
sleeping safe and soundly
content knowing we keep watch throught
each and every hour
power so unknown
won't stop the rain falling down my face
Sleep for hours eludes me drifting throught the wind
I feel an evil eye on me all the time
the likes of which could turn and twist us all
Lying by my side she waits for me like long ago
I touch her face she cries to me my ship is waiting I must go
My eyes burn windows through the walls closing in on me
The faces of my past life are looking back at me what do they see
the ones who hate our love will fall
but their face won't fade away tomorrow's not just another day
so hand in hand we climb the stairs our path well lit
the promise is fulfilled
6. Say Goodbye To The Morning
[Music: C.Cadden-James, C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
All alone and standing in the rain
early mornings whispering my name
seems so distant and cannot reach me now
flying high above you
I bring to you this word
for your love, for your life, for your song
Look around and see them fall to pray
troubled waters carry you away
and your memories say goodbye
We're not alone not alone looking down seeing all of us
screaming out in anger when they come, when they come
all along this empty lonely road____ Oh they have seen
you cried a thousand times____ what's to be
you wept to us ____what's a part of us
stalking out the winter's bitter cold
all alone, do you want me____for the fire
to be near you____in the night
as you wonder you must never____we are lost
walk alone____without light
You believe that time passes us by
fate alone will blow it all sky high
I've been torn into a world you don't believe
and I've seen souls that I once knew chained in burning steel
and I do not think they'll ever sing again
realize you're running out of time
my hand of fate is reaching out tonight
but I'll be going soon, going on my way
I know you want to some along with me
hand in hand we'll walk and never turn the road is open all the way
Say goodbye to the morning
say goodbye to the morning
say goodbye to the morning
Sy goodbye to the morning or rely on this warning
It's not over when you die so look out
7. The Queen Of The City Of Ice
[Music: W.B.Allman, C.Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
[Chapter 1:]
Long ago the skies turned gray
the fallen sun had gone away and left us cold
until one thousand years would pass and we'd sail away
Trapped within such misery
we'd seen a light we'd never seen all crowned with gold
through morning mist with tears of ice see her coming down
All upon our knees
Falling with the rain, with the rain
a queen has come before us
Falling with the rain, with the rain
I was alone, see how she took us all
By her side we'll stay
Shadows of love, blacken dawn, fill the empty skies with
Powerful her throne, oh my queen, upon this silent maze of ice
Oh how I love her so, yah I can't let go, she is all I need
In the ice I'll stay 'till my dying day
[Chapter 2:]
I have come here for so long I never have known why
only to have been shown away
There I saw you standing in the light for so long
knew you had something more to say
All my night times are full of dreams of you and I
and falling rain
Oh I know you so well
[Chorus:]
You are my queen of the city of ice
a frozen love has never left her eyes
Long live my queen of the city of ice
and alone her frozen love was carved in stone
[Chapter 3:]
I had a dream
something I believe in
Always knew the
day would come
and they would come
and they would go
and they would melt
away our home
and in my dreams
their fires burned
they tear my heart I
listen to the wind
listen to the wind
listen to the sad song
she is singing now
listen to the falling of the night
and see what she knows
it's written in her eyes
Lately I've had feelings
that are so hard to describe
like armies marching
from the South
and all the while she's blind
she's falling
[Chapter 4:]
So it came to pass that
no more rain
would fall to them
They come to
bring us to our knees
With mighty fires they built
around these city's castle walls
Our city melts into a sea
So we run into the hills and
far away to cry in vain
Oh no no my queen
[Chorus:]
You are my queen of the city of ice
the bringer of my life is fading fast
Goodbye my queen of the city of ice
and alone she slowly sinks into the sea
[Chapter 5: THE CITY MELTS (instrumental)]
Here I stand I'mall alone now, cursed by fate
I've burned my wings and I can't fly
all around a sea of ice, oh, could it be she waits for me
but I'm never going to find out am I?
So long, farewell, we are leaving
On our way now, new beginning
so long_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
farewell_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
we are leaving_____torn in the wind
_____with a shake and a spin
_____and I don't ever think I will
_____come here again
on our_____there's a hole in my life
_____carved it with ice
way now_____cause fate was a dealer
_____that didn't think twice
new beginning_____I'm so lost on my own
_____a statue of stone
_____carving your name
_____cause I'm falling I'm falling
_____I'm falling I'm falling
~#~
Shadow Gallery
(1992)
Download MP3 Shadow Gallery: Shadow Gallery
or buy CD:
1. The Dance Of Fools
[Music: C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Sometimes I've got a world on my shoulders
that cast long shadows cross my eyes
where traced out footsteps on the shores
of the sea of sorrow
reflect the changes in my life
Holding out in a darkened room
long before the fall of rain shall come
listen to me
for the last time that I was tempted to the dance of fools
closer to me
I crawled away a loser
I never knew it meant so much to hold a place of power
where only dreaming sets you free
I never thought that you could hold me so completely
you tore off my mask and I could see
All the people in the street
double crossed by their own lives
bring them to me
I want to take them to a new tomorrow of yesteryear
call them to me
let us live forever on
Tonight I shall cast a stone into the sea of sorrow
Its waves they crash beneath my feet
sorrow binds you to a life not worth living
unto that mortal life you cling
Stripped of all your earthly pride with the fools you dance
tonight
come unto me
send with great speed this message all across the land
listen to me
let us live forever on
Listen to me
tonight I turn my face
from the dance of fools
closer to me
I live to carry on my way
2. Darktown
[Music: C.Cadden-James, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Sun is low now in the sky
soon the cold will start to bite
and I'm kicking some old
empty can
down a barren street yah
step into a dark saloon
peer across the smoke filled room
I can feel her a mile away
she smiles and beckons me
Now we're dancing throught the mist
face to face I taste her breath
our gaze locks into a hazy trance I start to quiver
now she comes to comfort me I tell her I'm too blind to see
a warm bed and a fresh breath of air and you'll feel better
I know the feeling that you get
too bad it's only for a moment
lost in the shadows of the night
she turned and took my hand said
stay by my side, slip between the light
mirror my image we'll be alright
The key that opens up a thousand doors of mystery
unlocks a basement full of fears
start to unravel in it you might as well be blind
she saw my fright and closed her eyes
Don't fall in love it's a crazy nightmare
she looked at me and she winked an eye
it's too soon to say good-bye to this darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
refuse to look but I cannot deny
gotta make it out tonight of this darktown
Sorry to leave you in this crazy nightmare
she looked at and she winked and eye
that's too bad so goodbye to your darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
I turned to look but I closed my eyes
and I won't turn back tonight to this darktown
3. Mystified
[Music: C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
I was calling just to say I loved you
I know you're out there tonight
Long time ago I held you tight
My heart knows of a broken promise
I know of fortune that came and went
too far with my emotion
Who could ignore the cold
Every time you missed the love I sent I
scanned the windows won't forget I
curse the moment I felt you turn to stone
wakin' up to the sound to the sound of a broken heart
Ifound out it was time to say goodbye
Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding why
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It cuts me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go
All I wanted was a chance to say I think of you
she won't see me and she sure won't speak my name
she's all lost in a world so condescending
that's a price I cannot afford to pay
I was calling just to say I loved you
but I don't know if you're out there tonight
This scene slowly fading out of sight
no longer crying my tears of cold remorse
that distant place in my heart still hurts of course
I do believe I will turn and say goodnight
Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding why
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It scars me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go
4. Questions At Hand
[Music: W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James, W.B.Allman]
Asked if I had ever known your name
I replied it sometimes slips away
Answers now like sand shall fill my hands
slipping through my fingers to the floor
and blown away
Somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand
Time survives and all that's left is dust
We respond to music of the earth
Our hands touch and to its tune we dance
Is our kiss just sand thrown to the wind
Where does it go!
Somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand
I, I could never find solace in another eye
and then you came into my life
Oh I, I've come out from the cold alone I walk a broken road
Through wind I heard you calling
Now my eyes can cut a path into your light
5. The Final Hour
[Music: C.Cadden-James Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
Nightime falls around me
darkness closes in all the people who are
sleeping safe and soundly
content knowing we keep watch throught
each and every hour
power so unknown
won't stop the rain falling down my face
Sleep for hours eludes me drifting throught the wind
I feel an evil eye on me all the time
the likes of which could turn and twist us all
Lying by my side she waits for me like long ago
I touch her face she cries to me my ship is waiting I must go
My eyes burn windows through the walls closing in on me
The faces of my past life are looking back at me what do they see
the ones who hate our love will fall
but their face won't fade away tomorrow's not just another day
so hand in hand we climb the stairs our path well lit
the promise is fulfilled
6. Say Goodbye To The Morning
[Music: C.Cadden-James, C.Ingles, W.B.Allman Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
All alone and standing in the rain
early mornings whispering my name
seems so distant and cannot reach me now
flying high above you
I bring to you this word
for your love, for your life, for your song
Look around and see them fall to pray
troubled waters carry you away
and your memories say goodbye
We're not alone not alone looking down seeing all of us
screaming out in anger when they come, when they come
all along this empty lonely road____ Oh they have seen
you cried a thousand times____ what's to be
you wept to us ____what's a part of us
stalking out the winter's bitter cold
all alone, do you want me____for the fire
to be near you____in the night
as you wonder you must never____we are lost
walk alone____without light
You believe that time passes us by
fate alone will blow it all sky high
I've been torn into a world you don't believe
and I've seen souls that I once knew chained in burning steel
and I do not think they'll ever sing again
realize you're running out of time
my hand of fate is reaching out tonight
but I'll be going soon, going on my way
I know you want to some along with me
hand in hand we'll walk and never turn the road is open all the way
Say goodbye to the morning
say goodbye to the morning
say goodbye to the morning
Sy goodbye to the morning or rely on this warning
It's not over when you die so look out
7. The Queen Of The City Of Ice
[Music: W.B.Allman, C.Ingles, Lyrics, Vocal Melodies: C.Cadden-James]
[Chapter 1:]
Long ago the skies turned gray
the fallen sun had gone away and left us cold
until one thousand years would pass and we'd sail away
Trapped within such misery
we'd seen a light we'd never seen all crowned with gold
through morning mist with tears of ice see her coming down
All upon our knees
Falling with the rain, with the rain
a queen has come before us
Falling with the rain, with the rain
I was alone, see how she took us all
By her side we'll stay
Shadows of love, blacken dawn, fill the empty skies with
Powerful her throne, oh my queen, upon this silent maze of ice
Oh how I love her so, yah I can't let go, she is all I need
In the ice I'll stay 'till my dying day
[Chapter 2:]
I have come here for so long I never have known why
only to have been shown away
There I saw you standing in the light for so long
knew you had something more to say
All my night times are full of dreams of you and I
and falling rain
Oh I know you so well
[Chorus:]
You are my queen of the city of ice
a frozen love has never left her eyes
Long live my queen of the city of ice
and alone her frozen love was carved in stone
[Chapter 3:]
I had a dream
something I believe in
Always knew the
day would come
and they would come
and they would go
and they would melt
away our home
and in my dreams
their fires burned
they tear my heart I
listen to the wind
listen to the wind
listen to the sad song
she is singing now
listen to the falling of the night
and see what she knows
it's written in her eyes
Lately I've had feelings
that are so hard to describe
like armies marching
from the South
and all the while she's blind
she's falling
[Chapter 4:]
So it came to pass that
no more rain
would fall to them
They come to
bring us to our knees
With mighty fires they built
around these city's castle walls
Our city melts into a sea
So we run into the hills and
far away to cry in vain
Oh no no my queen
[Chorus:]
You are my queen of the city of ice
the bringer of my life is fading fast
Goodbye my queen of the city of ice
and alone she slowly sinks into the sea
[Chapter 5: THE CITY MELTS (instrumental)]
Here I stand I'mall alone now, cursed by fate
I've burned my wings and I can't fly
all around a sea of ice, oh, could it be she waits for me
but I'm never going to find out am I?
So long, farewell, we are leaving
On our way now, new beginning
so long_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
farewell_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
we are leaving_____torn in the wind
_____with a shake and a spin
_____and I don't ever think I will
_____come here again
on our_____there's a hole in my life
_____carved it with ice
way now_____cause fate was a dealer
_____that didn't think twice
new beginning_____I'm so lost on my own
_____a statue of stone
_____carving your name
_____cause I'm falling I'm falling
_____I'm falling I'm falling
~#~
Origin:
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Genres:
Progressive death metal, Melodic death metal
Years active:
1997−present
Labels:
Century Media
Website:
www.intoeternity.net
Current members:
* Stu Block − lead vocals (2005−present)
* Tim Roth − guitar, backing vocals (1997−present)
* Justin Bender − guitar (2006−present)
* Troy Bleich − bass, backing vocals (2004−present)
* Brian Newbury − drums (2011−present)
* Stu Block − lead vocals (2005−present)
* Tim Roth − guitar, backing vocals (1997−present)
* Justin Bender − guitar (2006−present)
* Troy Bleich − bass, backing vocals (2004−present)
* Brian Newbury − drums (2011−present)
| Into Eternity (2000) | ||
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| Dead Or Dreaming (2001) | ||
|
| Buried Into Oblivion (2004) | ||
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| The Scattering Of Ashes (2006) | ||
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~#~
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