1. AFTER THE WAR

So many came before you
The prisoners of fate
A history of bloodshed
A legacy of hate
But where will you be standing
When the battles have been won?
Inside your lonely fortress
The battle's just begun.

After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the war is over
After the fire
Is burning to its dying embers
After the war.

A letter from the draft board
Put pain to all your dreams
You're just another number
In military schemes
They marched you in a uniform
You wore against your will
With lies of hope and glory
They taught you how to kill.

After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the war is over
After the fire
Is burning to its dying embers.
After the war.

After the war
You thought you'd be a hero
After all that you survived
If hell was meant for heroes
You'd surely have arrived.

After the war
After the war.

After the war
who will you be fighting for?
After the war
who will you be fighting for?
After the fire
is burning to its dying embers
After the war.


2. THIS THING CALLED LOVE

I saw you standing at the corner of the street,
You look so fine
I don't care what it is your sellin'
I wanna be the next in line
You're dressed to kill,
You look good enough to eat
I'm tellin' you
There's just one thing you can't beat.

This thing called love
This thing called love.
Ooooh

That long, blond hair, those eyes of blue
Those ruby lips and legs so long, baby
You've got the goods,
You're holdin' big time
There's no way you can go wrong
You knock 'em dead
When you're walking down the street
I'm tellin' you
There's just one thing you can`t beat.

This thing called love
This thing called love.

Looking for love on a summer`s night
I got you right in my sight
I`ve been looking for love since the break of dawn
Hey baby, come on

This thing called love.
This thing called love.

I`ve been looking for love on a summer`s night
I`m lonely and you right in my sight
I`ve been looking for love since the break of day
Hey baby , what you say

This thing called love
This thing called love
This thing called love
This thing called love.


AUSTRIA VERSION

1. AFTER THE WAR (12" EXTENTED VERSION)

(See lyrics on track 1)


2. THIS THING CALLED LOVE

(See lyrics on track 2)


3. EMERALD

Down from the glen came the marchin' men
With their shields and their swords.
To fight the fight they believed to be right,
Overthrow the overlords.

To the towns where there was plenty
They brought plunder, swords and flames.
When they left, the town was empty,
And the children would never play again.

From the graves I heard the fallen
Above the battlecry.
By that bridge near the border,
There was many more to die.

And onward over the mountains,
And out towards the sea.
They come to flame the emeralds,
Without it they could not leave.


4. THUNDER RISING (LIVE)

They looked out from the
Fortress on the hill
There came a single warrior
Returning from the kill
The spoils of war hung
From his horses mane
The bloody heads of enemies
That he had freshly slayed

They saw the face
The eyes so sullen
Could only be the
Young C Chullain

Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Early in the morning
Cities burning
The world keeps turning
Thunder rising
Early in the morning

The son of Lugh MacEithleen knew no fear
For just one blow at any foe
To tell his end was near
So many tried to mock this Celtic son
They taunted and they teased him till
He slayed them one by one

And so they came
And so they've fallen
at the hands of
Young C Chullain

Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Early in the morning
Cities burning
The world keeps turning
Thunder rising
Early in the morning

Long ago the legend has it
How the mighty Ulster men
Battled with the King Of Connacht
Fighting to the bitter end
No one knew what foolish reason
Caused this skirmish to begin
Was it treachery or treason
Or just the idle threats of drunken men?

Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Early in the morning
Cities burning
The world keeps turning
Thunder rising
Early in the morning

Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Thunder rising
Early in the morning
Young men are dying
The widows are crying
Thunder rising
Early in the morning


JAPANESSE VERSION

1. AFTER THE WAR

(See lyrics on track 1)


2. THIS THING CALLED LOVE

(See lyrics on track 2)


3. OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

They came for him one winter's night
Arrested, he was bound
They said there'd been a robbery
His pistol had been found.

They marched him to the station house
He waited till the dawn
And as they led him to the dock
He knew that he'd been wronged
You stand accused of robbery
He heard the bailiff say
He knew without an alibi
Tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom

Over the hills and far away
For ten long years he'll count the days
Over the mountains and the seas
A prisoner's life for him there'll be.

He knew that it would cost him deer
But yet he dare not say
Just where he had been that fateful night.
A secret it must stay
He had to fight back tears of rage
His heart beat like a drum
For with the wife of his best friend
He'd spent his final night of freedom.

Over the hills and far away
He swears he will return one day
Far from the mountains and the seas
Back in her arms again he'll be
Over the hills and far away.

Each night within his prison cell
He looks out through the bars
He reads the letters that she wrote
One day he'll know the taste of freedom

Over the hills and far away
She prays he will return one day
As sure as the rivers reach the seas
Back in his arms again she'll be

Over the hills and far away
He swears he will return one day
As sure as the river reach the sea
Back in his arms is where she'll be.

Over the hills and far away
She prays he will return one day
As sure as the rivers reach the seas
Back in her arms is where he'll be.

Over the hills
Over the hills and far away.

Over the hills
Over the hills and far away.