1. THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Why don't you ever listen to me
Why don't you just take my good advice
Cause I decide the way things got to be
I'll take care of you all your life

Because I am
The one who knows best
What is good for you
Now open up your eyes
Accept the truth

This downward spiral tears me down but I
Will never take your hand
I'm feeling lost
I'll shut the doors and hide
I will close my mind from you

It's only for your own good,why can't you see
To keep you tightly reined, believe me
I know you'll show me gratitude someday
Until then you will obey

Because I am
The one who cares
For you like noone else
So don't deny
My good advice again

I've been suppressed, by you, obsessed
With finding a way to escape
So now - I feel I'm getting near
This secret door leading me deep
So deep inside

I's been for your own good
I gave all I could
And now you owe to me!!!!!

...Why can't you see

I've been suppressed, by you, possessed,
But I've made my great escape
I see - the bright, disturbing light, leading me deep inside
.... Swallowing me - whole and alive
No one can touch me deep in here
Here I am safe from all my fears
I've found a place to stay - forever safe!

Why can't you see you can't touch me now deep in here
On my knees I've prayed about being free
Now I did somehow escape from you
I have made my final bow
On this stage of life

So deep inside
So deep inside my mind
Where there's noone
Where only I'm - alive
Somewhere inside is the place where I'll hide
Inside I'm still alive


2. THE SLEEPER

So now I have come to be dead inside
And only a miracle could help me
I feel so blind and paralyzed
I wait for the tide
To wash me away

I will go on
Grab on and struggle
To find new ways here in this life
Waiting digging deeper 'til I find out how to survive

The clockhands are racing
The fuse set aflame
And burning my passions away
I'll choose to awake
I'll choose to glare
Before my light is drained

Before the light
Is drained from my eyes
I will choose to let it flow
I will choose to embrace this life
I'm not alone...!

And deep inside my weakened mind
The sleeper wakes from his slumber
To make the dream come alive
Change the ways and open up - my eyes

I awake…


3. FINAL QUESTION

As I lie awake at night, there's a feeling growing strong
Suddenly I've become aware that soon I might be gone

But this is not my time, I'm not prepared to die
Yet I see no escape, I close my eyes and
Silently I cry...

Beyond I see
Through my tears
All the ones that I have lost
In all these years

Remembering
Everything I've never said an done
An now Icant't beleiv e that I won't see
Another dawn

Though I am scared I know that I will find
The answer to this question still burning in my mind

Is there a life, a life after death,
I still wonder when I'm taking my last breath
Is there a life, a life after death
Still I ask for more ... when they bury me,
When they lay me down to rest

I feel the matter fading
My body drifts away
Asleep I'm only waiting
Shall I awake one day
That day again my body
And mind are reconsiled
Unconsciously I'm waiting
For that time

In the coffin I awake
Pure mind , one conscious thought

Then I'll search for another world
That only I can find
With no more sorrow, no more tears
I'll leave it all behind
Will I be reborn again
Among those that I left
Can I really find another
Life after death?

A journey without end
I will travel space and time
As my essence will ascend
Feel no more and I am drifting
Through a void beyond all means
Spread among the stars
I await to waken from my sleep,
I hear the silence of
All this infinite emptiness
But my quest for answers will never end end


4. GALLERY OF DREAMS

A picture of a knight
In shining blue and white
Holds the door to a world
Where the faces in the trees take your mind

A voice in the wind
A call from within
The secret land is rising
In my dreams

In the halls of the blind
Where we all will rise
From sleep again

There's a place
Where our dreams await to become reality
A place where we can come to find the energy we need

We've gathered here to see
Our gallery of dreams
All the things we never dared
To do when we're awake
All standing in a line
To watch with burning eyes
As the gallery of dreams
Opens wide for all to see now

Behind the wall of sleep
Is everything we see
When we close our eyes
Drift away and retreat

To the clearing
That lies inside
All play dead
In the brooding silence

In the halls of the blind
Where we all will rise
From sleep again

There's a place
Where our dreams await to become reality
A place where we can come to find the energy we need


5. GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD

Some call it fate some call it fair
I can't believe that fate does care
About mankind and all their plans
How else could this happen then?

There's a man who's dying from disease
And he turns his back with ease
To a world - cold and mercyless
Where except his pain - there is nothing left - anymore

There's a man whose heart has turned to stone
When he lost his beloved ones
When he's got no more tears to cry
He welcomes death and says

Goodbye, cruel world
I'll leave you now,
I think there's one thing you should know
Cruel world,
I'll say farewell
To a world that's become a hell

There's a child that never felt love
So he prays to god above
Please Lord let me get away
Save me now from this living hell
Down here

And I, I had to watch this all, I
Could not take it anymore
When my time has come to die
I'll welcome death and say goodbye

Goodbye, cruel world
I'll leave you now,
I think there's one thing you should know
Cruel world,
I'll say farewell
To a world that's become a hell

Goodbye, cruel world
I'll leave you now,
I think there's one thing you should know
Cruel world,
I'll say farewell
To a world that's become a hell

I'll die without any fear
For I know my ending has always been near
I'll shed no useless tear as
The vision of my salvation is becoming clear

So here we are we're not afraid to die
Anyway, we had already wasted our lives
And time just slips away every single day
And still we have to wait
I am dying free, now I am released
The time has come to wave the world goodbye