1. CATCH OF THE CENTURY

You do not know
And you don't care
And you say never learn
I made approches
You gave me teeth
And got my hope injured

Unprepossessing,that's what you say
Don't get the essential point
What it came down to was you ain't got nothing
Here's to the wicked and here's to the odd

You got your chance going down the drain
You're dumping the catch of the century
You've had your chance but you're much too vain
To take it
The catch of the century

Nobody's waiting cause all the world seems like
It's already spoken for
A host of rivals-I'm out of vogue and
I'll be forevermore

You strut around sneer from on high
I'm on the road again
I'm going down with flying colors
Before I go down on somebody else

You got your chance going down the drain
You're dumping the catch of the century
And lady's luck got her ass in pain you're wasting
The catch of the century


2. SACRIFICE

Too much time to get lost in the maze
Tell me, isn't that strange
You bleed to get there - you were ready
To be a bird in a golden cage

Sweat is breaking on my brow
Where's the freak to ease my pain
Room is dark and big and empty
Silence driving me insane

Night has fallen - demons laughing
I'm waiting for the light of day
Here's the land of milk and honey
There you got the price to pay

Searching for shelter
Riding the pendulum to paradise
As I'm reaching higher - what a pure desire
I'm swinging back towards the edge

And I drift away - killing sacrifice
Here I go insane
What a price to pay - little sacrifice
I set off to Heaven and found bedlam

There's a part of me that has not been sold
Save me please embrace me hold me
Kiss my bleeding soul
You can't see below the creature

That's pounding, sitting in my neck
If you'd see inside my head
You surely wouldn't turn your back on me
I'm looking for shelter

Riding the pendulum to paradise
As I'm reaching higher - what a pure desire
I'm swinging back towards the abyss
And I drift away - killing sacrifice

Here I go insane
What a price to pay - little sacrifice
I set off to Heaven and found bedlam
Nothing remains the same

But still I hear those voices
Nothing remains the same
Where am I gonna go is it my destination
Or just a sick temptation

And I remember home when demons came
And I got swept away from me


3. BABYLON

Yeah...
In a world of hate pollution
We can't breathe anymore.
We've to leave and this time you,
The pawn, have won.

On our quest for nowhere island
We set off to the sea.
You call surrender what we call
A calm before the storm...

Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return! I don't live my life for you,
It's too short to get burned.
Stand upright and face the wind!"

Time to go back where I belong...
No one can prevend me from
Raising towers in Babylon.

You only can love me if you can convert me
To attitudes of your brain.
You blame us for doing things
That you don't know.

You tell me what you'd do if you were me but you
Are you and I am I
Lucky you, but this time I say: "No!"

Pounding thoughts of home they make me know:
"I will return!".
I don't want to hurt you but you'll have to learn:
You are you and I am I!!!
Ooohhh...
Oh yeah...


4. LAVATORY LOVE MACHINE

Oh if only Brazil was not so far
far away I Would swim or walk or ride
But never ever fly
But all the noise of the maniacs there
The sweat on my face it's worth to bear
But I don't wanna bounce and die

But then I see a lady in a tight blue dress
I close my eyes, I know what I would go for
Stewardess before the crash

Lavatory Love Machine
No fear can quell my steam
Lavatory Love Machine
No cabin fire burn my dream

I am at your disposal
I gotta get up to see what you ain't gotta hide
Wheeling junk along the aisle
Keep your seat belf fastened
You're whipping with an iron voice

You command
Uh mistress I am in your hands
And when she asks me what I'd like to eat
I realise the domina feels the same
And I reply: What about your pie?

Lavatory Love Machine...
Lavatory Love Machine
No broken wings to stop me steamry machine
Honey dou you like the way I cry?

Now if I gotta die
I'll have been stiff and smiling till the crash
Let them know I've been alive
Till I made my final splash
Lavatory Love Machine...

Don't hear the scary noises
From the turbine when you scream


5. LAND OF THE MIRACLE

Blinded by the fire and the sorrow of the day.
I come knocking at your door
To dry the tears away.
The eventide is calling me to take
A look into your eyes pull me on and make me mesmerised!

Riding on the wings of light,
Dreaming dreams and holding tight:
Leaving all my sorrow far behind.
Your eyes are the gate

[chorus:]
To the land of the miracle where our love can make
Us fly, make us fly
In the land of the miracle
We can find a reason why and how we can fly

Open up the book of madness,
Read the page of life!
Who’s the one to tell you what to do
And how to rise?
And if the stars would fall one day
I’d climb up to the sky
To put them back for you to save your smile.

...Take a look into the book of fantasy and poetry
And you will see: what you can feel is everything
And everything that you may find inside your head...

...A million years have passed away to make us head
For the decay and to unlearn just what we yearn for
All day long: right to be strong and stick to our
Ideals, are the for real and do we
Just have lost the thread?...

...I believe in miracles they happen every day.
In your arms a dream comes true for me...


6. TEARS OF A MANDRAKE

Gaze at the leaving clairvoyant
Predicting invasions and pain
A child cansee through the stranger...
The Watcher's eye, the noble liar

It's time for the merchant and his help for sale...
Blades to cut wicked flesh
On a merchantman he counts his money
Then he sails away
The sea he'll cruise is blood and fire

Oh father I can't see a lane
They make you a pawn in the game
For we all are deaf, dumb and blind

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Pawn in the game, invisible chains
Try to move, you'll feel as they graze

After the storm when the magic has gone
Drown in the tears of a mandrake
Fading away, the final decay
Try to move, break out from your chains

When you're off to the hall of the serpent
See the cynic who's counting his gold
While gun runners, priests and clairvoyants
Are dancing around the rising demon

You are taught to eat up all the crap they shit
Parading your nuts on a silver plate
Kill your brother by the blade they sell
For you don't unite
They reap your bondage sowing evil

There's no use to tell what I've seen
They know how to make you believe
Just what they want you to knon
Tears of a mandrake - yeah...

Drown in the tears of the mandrake


7. VAIN GLORY OPERA

The prayers have been spoken
May the gods be on my side
May they join my way to bring me victory
Seven at one stroke
My triumph and my pride
Will be history
But behind my enemies eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide

We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide

What`s hell without a paradise
What`s the night without a day
We would think it`s bright
What`s a fall if we can`t rise
What`s a hero at a play
Without a fool to fight

But behind my enemies eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

We live to fight the hand of doom
we got the pride to strike a fool
vain glory be my wicked guide

We live to fight the hand of doom
we got the pride to strike a fool
vain glory be my wicked guide

But behind my enemies eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies

We live to fight the hand of doom
we got the pride to strike a fool
vain glory be my wicked guide

We live to fight the hand of doom
we got the pride to strike a fool
vain glory be my wicked guide


8. DRUMSOLO

(Instrumental)


9. SUPERHEROES

City lights are calling
Slowly coming back to life
Speeding in the fastlane
Mama let us waste no time

Devil in the doorway selling any kind of hell
We're just coming out to play the game
We never cry for love - we're superheroes
We are back where we belong

We never cry for pain - we're superheroes
Make a stand where we belong
Way too long I've tried to be
What I could never be

For too long you've rolled the dice
But you can't control me
I ain't talking 'bout romance
You may fiddle I may dance
Anyway it's just a game we play..

We never cry for love - we're superheroes
We are back where we belong
We never cry for pain - we're superheroes
Make a stand where we belong we're superheroes

You gotta move to stay alive
We're gonna rock the bash tonight..
Cry for love-we're superheroes
We are back where we belong
We never cry for love...


10. FUCKING WITH FIRE

I saw her coming in high heel
Moving like a queen
A little sweet angel but deep underneath
A mean machine

You're lying in wait to make me a fool
You want me to bite
I'm gonna take the bait and the hunter for afters
I'll take you for a ride

I don't wanna play no games
Cause I'm a bad bad boy-all around
Let me be your Titanic before you know what's going on
I may go down..

Fucking with fire-I'm coming to rock
Got my rocket on fire and I take what I want
Fucking with fire-loaded and cocked
You never miss it until you've begun
With the hair force one

Don't make no mistakes,don't you miss out
On the hell of a time
I'm a real go-getter and there's no doubt
That down the line

I know what you want and I know what you need
Your secret desire got the gloves of a man
The hands of a beast
And my pants on fire

And I don't wanna play no games
Cause I'm a nasty bad boy-all around, around
Let me be your Titanic, before you know what's going on
I'm going down...
Fucking..


11. SAVE ME

Waiting for a little sign
Seems like to no avail
Strolling down the pavement aimlessly
Waiting for someone

To snatch her bag of memories
How come you call it destiny
When the cross you bear is your only company?
Never seen you, I don't even know your name
But still I believe

That you are gonna save me
Somehow I got a notion
Just a little affection on this cold and windy road
Save me from a state of unemotion
Just a little affection on this windy road..

Why is it all so confusing?
Why does growing up hurt so bad?
We seek and we get lost
We get found and go again

And I don't know what's gonna be...
I won't make any promise I believe

[Chorus]
I don't know if I can
I don't know if I should
I don't know what is right and what's to come if you would
Here I stand in the rain

Here I stand in the cold
I'm reluctant to get another shot in my soul... no
I'm afraid of that hole...

[Chorus]

Save me, save me...
Lonesome road...


12. MYSTERIA

"Ladies And Gentleman - Welcome To The Freakshow"

Oh Yeah...

The world around is killing me
No thunder wind and rain
Eels are crawling everywhere
Compounding with the game

Grind the army, the living dead, without destination
The faceless crowd is out to kill all kinds of variations
You're trying to trample down my dreams
A shot in the dark

Mysteria - the spirit arising
Eldrich cries from the hill
Mysteria - fires are blazing
Their wicked feast is shattering the still oh

Seven days and nights a week
Spinning like a wheel
You try to buckle, band and break
And polish stainless steel

Raging fury in the sky burning with desire
Self-determination rising from the fire
You're trying to trample down my dreams
My disdained ideals

Beware of the difference
We're savage and mean - we're a...

Mysteria....

Evil is the dreamer to pit himself
Against the forces of the tide
You pay the see to portray
What you wanna hear what he has senn that night

Oh - unholy is the feast
Watch us dance around the the blazing hellfire
And Lucifer arises he appears at my desire
Mysteria...


13. OUT OF CONTROL

Into a place of darkness, he was born to live alone
He got one big desire: one day he'd get the crown:
Hey devil come on help me now
Be the one to pull my string
Let me be your slave to serve you
To let me be the king

Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind

Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate

Whatever I may roam there will be hate and pain
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, respect is what I gain
I look up to Mr. Crowley, evil powers: Now unite!
I will be your darkest nightmare
My life's a fatal fight

Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind

"Listen up my friend: You just cry for a hand
But you only pretend that you bad - now!"

Well, take on my mind


14. AVANTASIA

Open my eyes and see my bleeding wounded hands...
Feeling the pain too hard to stand...To stand
Caught in the now and here
While they are on the way.
Hiding imagination, leading us astray...

Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind
Sanity can be the toll
Leading to the core of your soul

[Chorus]
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy

We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!
Avantasia!

Walking along the icy gallery of pain
Tell me now... What can keep the flame alive?
Lack of imagination - raising up the tower
Where they hold our souls
To take away the power.

Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind
Sanity can be the toll
Leading to the core of your soul

[Chorus] (x2)

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams
Gnosis and life... Avantasia!


15. KING OF FOOLS

What do you think when you spit in my face
How does if feel to accuse and to haze
Now look at me, I'm not one of your kind

And I prefer to stay behind
And walk the wicked way

We don't wanna be like you
Don't you get that King Of Fools
We don't mind your life is trite
You are the King Of Fools.

We are never gonna be like you
We don't follow - King of fools
You're the blind to lead the blind

And I walk the wicked way
You feel at ease as you flock with the masses
What do you see with your heads in their asses

Keep on railing at what I believe
Call me insane and I am proud to be

And walk the wicked way
We don't wanna be like you
Don't you get that King Of Fools
We don't mind your life is trite
You are the King Of Fools.

We are not gonna be like you
We don't follow - King of fools
You are the blind to lead the blind oh