Theme- Music/Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery Lyrics [lyrics] #C.txt

[ Shadow Gallery - War For Sale ]
 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!
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Out Of Nowhere ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Mystery ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Hope For Us ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Victims ]
 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!
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Broken ]
 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...
***
[ Shadow Gallery - I Believe ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Roads Of Thunder ]
 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
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Spoken Words ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - New World Order ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Ghost Of A Chance ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Christmas Day ]
 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 - Cliffhanger ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Crystalline Dream ]
 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
 Forever they're turning away
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Warcry ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Deeper Than Life ]
 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
***
[ Shadow Gallery - Alaska ]
 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