Andeavor : Once Upon Time

Progressive Metal / USA
(1996 - PMM Records)
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1. DEJA VU

The strangest feeling has come over me
Mere words cannot explain
A foretold past has found its way inside my head
Subconcious thoughts repeat another day's reality
I've felt these things before
I've heard these words before
I've had these thoughts before
But when...

Is this happening again?
Is it real or just a dream?
Maybe a prophecy has risen from my dreams
Retelling past, predicting future times ahead of me

I've felt these things before
I've heard these words before
I've had these thoughts before
But when...
I never can be sure
I've seen this place before
I've seen your face before
I've unlocked some kind of door
In my head that only disappears too soon
Deja vu...


2. SPOTLIGHT

Look into the spotlight
Lost within a dream
Reach for a memory
Of what you wish to be
You follow idol footsteps
A candle in the dark
A fiery inferno
You've grown from a tiny spark

You feel the need inside you
Hear the voice that guides you
Pray to God he'll never take it all away

Forget the past, don't be afraid
Look to the light ahead
Forget the future you must face
Look to the light ahead

Forget the past, don't be afraid
Look to the light ahead
Forget the future you must face
Look to the light ahead

Look into the spotlight
You're lost within your dreams
You're reaching for a memory
A memory of what you used to be

Not afraid

Feel the need inside you
Hear the voice that guides you
Pray to God he'll never take it all away
Take it all away, take it all away, take it all away...

Forget the past, don't be afraid
Look to the light ahead
Forget the future you must face
Look to the light ahead

Look to the light ahead

Look!


3. HEAVEN'S GATE

Don't call 'til Easter
Don't bother me
I'm looking to the sky
The stars are taunting me
Dressed in black, searching for a light
Behind the mass of nothingness and
Stardust, stardust
Waiting for the spaceship to arrive

Celibacy, sobriety
Cosmic salvation beckoning
Us to their world, a new level

Cleanse the mind, cleanse the soul
Soon to leave the body we called home
For all this time
Soon the doorway to the future will be mine

Arrive!

To sleep perchance to dream
I must kill myself to live
To sleep perchance to dream
I must kill myself to live

To sleep perchance to dream
Should I kill myself to live
To sleep perchance to dream
I must kill myself to live

To sleep perchance to dream
To sleep perchance to dream
To sleep perchance to dream
To sleep perchance to dream


4. ONE MORE DAY

I just read tomorrow's news today
It was just as bad as yesterday
Maybe worse, I don't know...
Woke to shattered silence
Slam the clock, I snooze again
Don't want to face the coming day

Push and shove, reach for the top
I only wish it all to stop
One step ahead, two in reverse

The cell in which I live doesn't have to be
Locked inside my mind, I'm searching for the key

One more day
I can't take it, I gotta get away
One more night
Another fight

Today it was worse
My mind's confused even more
So much more...

Life always leaves me a dollar short
Or one day too late
But am I far too late
Or am I too far gone?

Can't you see it in my eyes?
Can't you feel it in my cries?
You still fill me full of lies!

Behind the walls I see no opening
This death that I live don't mean a thing to me

One more day
I can't take it, I gotta get away
One more night
Another fight

One more day
You people are driving me insane
One more night
I'll be alright

They say our time is short
While we're here
Well I'm beginning to believe they're right

My days are locked behind the bars within my mind
The cell in which I live doesn't have to be
Locked inside my mind, I'm searching for the key

One more day
I can't take it, gotta get away
One more night
Another fight

One more day
One more day
One more night
I'll be alright

Will we get
Just one more day...


5. JIGSAW

Where've I been? Where've I gone? Where am I going?
Who am I? Who is this man that you see in me?
What've I done? What can I do? What will I become?
When all the pieces come crashing down
When all my life's laying on the ground
A jigsaw puzzle for all to see
When you put it back together
Will you find me?
Who are you? What'd I do? What am I doing here?
Why'd I say what I said? It's no longer clear
What can I do? What've I done? What have I become?
When all the pieces come crashing down
When all my life's laying on the ground
A jigsaw puzzle for all to see
When you put it back together...
Can you put it back together?
Will you put me back together?

Who am I? Why've I been here so long?
Why am I? What've I done so wrong?
Falling apart! I used to be so strong!
Now my whole world is facing down
A million pieces all around
A jigsaw puzzle for all to see
Will you put me back together?
Can you put me back together?
When you put it back together...

Will you find me?


6. CRIMSON TEARS

The blood's still drying on my hands
As I wipe the sweat from my brow
Clutch my breast for a cigarett
Crimson tears all over me now
Gaze upon the work we've done
My nightmare is their desire
Turn to wretch into clenched fist
Wonder who I am, where are they now?

This is not me, this is not me!
Not me! The me I know is dead
This is not me, this is not me!
Not me, voices is my head!

Try to sleep, they're calling still
Scream for help to no avail
Pain subsides but not until
Their thirst is quenched with brutal kill

This is not me, this is not me!
Not me! The me I know is dead
This is not me, this is not me!
Not me, voices is my head!


7. FACE PAINT

Why must we falter?
Why must we live in fear?
Why must we masquerade?
Yet drown in our own tears...

Please wake up from your sleepless slumber
Please end the sorrow
Let your shattered heart be taken far away
Hate to begin another day

A thin disguise to hide the sorrow
A veil of lies to hide the truth
A mask of hope made to forget
A memory that once was you

The brilliant colors
Play tricks within the light

Gentle strokes over crimson, black and blue
Your mood is seeming bright

But the mirror never lies
Secrets come to view
No, the mirror never cries
The stains come from deep inside of you

Your secrets come to view

A thin disguise to hide the sorrow
A veil of lies to hide the truth
A mask of hope made to forget
A memory that once was you

A thin disguise to hide the sorrow
A veil of lies to hide the truth
A mask of hope made to forget
A memory that once was you

Paint your face
Cover up the pain
Brush away the cracks
Floods from years of rain

Why must we falter?
Why must we live in fear?

Why must we masquerade?
Yet drown in our own tears...

You've got to wake up from your sleepless slumber
Please end the sorrow
Let your shattered heart be taken far away
Hate to begin another day

A thin disguise to hide the sorrow
A veil of lies to hide the truth
A mask of hope made to forget
A memory that once was you

A thin disguise to hide the sorrow
A veil of lies to hide the truth
A mask of hope made to forget
A memory that once was you


8. THE LONG WALK

I'm walking, hundreds walk beside
A thousand souls... one goal
A deadly game I'm playing just the same
One by one we fall as soldiers take aim
Though my legs are aching
I think I can, I know I can

Light becomes dark becomes light
Comrades are we or foes
Halucination, another world before my eyes
A shot rings out, another down
The competition shouldn't cry

Though my legs are breaking
I think I can, I know I can

One... you're on your hands and knees
Two... All that you feel is gone
Three...A bullet frees your soul
For you the deadly race is done.

One... you're on your hands and knees
Two... All that you feel is gone
Three...A bullet frees your soul
For you the deadly race is done.

Though my soul's been taken
I think I can, I know I can

One... you're on your hands and knees
Two... All that you feel is gone
Three...A bullet frees your soul
For you the deadly race is done.

One... you're on your hands and knees
Two... All that you feel is gone
Three...A bullet frees your soul
For you the deadly race is done.


9. ANYBODY'S GUESS

Sometimes it's hard to walk the course
Life seems to steal your fill of course
Yet lurks a dominant force
Behind the soul and heart
A feeling always near
A thought inside you, sometimes fear
An instinct that you hold so dear
Yet rips your mind apart
How can it be so easy to fall?
Why do you jump, so quick to heed the call?
Do you find love in unexpected happiness?
What lies behind the door is anybody's guess
Unlock the door to wonders not enough
Happiness in the key to find the road, the road

So you've been dealt a losing hand
Fate's called the bluff upon your plan
In your power, you've done all that you can
To shy away
Just let nature take her trail
Let the dice fall where they will
If it's in your heart you'll not fail
What's locked inside will drive you

How can it be so easy to fall?
Why do you jump, so quick to heed the call?
Do you find love in unexpected happiness?
What lies behind the door is anybody's guess
Unlock the door to wonders not enough
Happiness in the key to find the road, the road


10. FALSE PROFIT

Something's wrong, I just can't go on much more
Doctor please tell me what I'm to do
My world spins faster than before, faster
Can't keep up, faster, can't slow down
The tears of pain roll down my face
Racing, my head's killing pace
Not growing young, no time to waste
I see no future, not a trace

Something's wrong, I just can't believe all this
Waste time, inexpensive care
You test me while I pay your fee
But there's nothing wrong with me or so you say

The dollar signs flash in your eyes
Greed is blind to impatient cries
Not a care, only despise
Fault unfound, tell only lies for profit
False Profit

I deserve the truth, I've paid my dues
Doctor wins, I still lose
Wonder why life's so confused
Fault unfound, your word abused for profit
False Profit


11. HOUSE OF RAGS

Sitting in a cardboard shelter
On the streets forever
Daily news to lay my head
The future seems like never
Holes in my pockets, holes in my soles
Chewed out by neighbors
Four-legged theives steal my daily bread
That last week lost its flavor

Baptised in the morning rain
I scrub away a month's debris
But never rinsing out the pain
Cannot recall what once was me

Holes in my memory, holes in my soul
Chewed out by what I believe
Begging, wishing, hoping, stealing
Knowing I can never leave

Sleeping on a bed of stone
Living in a house of rags
Nothing else to call my own
Dying for a house of rags

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray to God I never wake up

Sleeping on a bed of stone
Living in a house of rags
Nothing else to call my own
Dying for a house of rags


12. MIGRAINE

The aches are getting stronger
The pain is lasting longer
The pounding in my head
Grows louder day by day
The fight is getting tough
I think I've had enough
And I feel that I'm losing
Losing my way
Sometimes when I wake up
I still recall my dreams
Where everything is perfect
Yet nothing's as it seems
Swallowing the bitter pill
Only numbs the pain
I can't destroy my demons
Returning again and again

It all began so long ago
Was it just today
Been so long I must believe
I've always been this way

The aches are getting stronger
The pain is lasting longer
The pounding in my head
Grows louder day by day
The memories go hazy
The madness eases in
It permeates the mind
I lose again...

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