1. HALLOWED BE THY NAME

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time
'Cause at five o'clock they take me to the gallows pole
The sands of time for me are running low... running low...

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be there's been some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream

Somebody please tell me that i'm dreaming
It's not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when i try to speak

Tears flow but why am i crying
After all i'm not afraid of dying
Don't i believe that there never is an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Somebody cries from a cell "god be with you"
If there's a god then why has he let me go?

As i walk all my life drifts before me
And though the ends is near i'm not sorry
Catch my soul 'cause it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that i have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion

Yeah... hallowed be thy name (x2)


2. THE TROOPER

You'll take my life but i'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but i'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand, there's no turning back

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horse breath
As i plunge into a certain death

[Chorus]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh !
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh !

The horse he sweats with fear, we break to run
The mighty roar of the russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near, yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day

[Chorus]

We get so close, near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pull the trigger and i feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below

And as i lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as i lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear i draw my parting groan

[Chorus]


3. WASTED YEARS

From the coast of gold
Across the seven seas
I'm travellin' on, far and wide
But now it seems
I'm just a stranger to myself
And all the things i sometimes do
It isn't me but someone else

I close my eyes
And think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain't it funny how it is
You never miss it 'til it's gone away
And my heart is lying there
And will be 'til my dying day

[Chorus]
So understand... don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up... make your stand and realise you're living in the golden years

Too much time on my hands
I got you on my mind
Can't ease this pain, so easily
When you can't find the words to say
It's hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry
And throw my hands up to the sky

[Chorus] (x3)


4. WRATHCHILD

I was born into a scene
Of angriness and greed
Of dominance and persecution

My mother was a queen
My dad i've never seen
I was never meant to be

Now i spend my time looking all around
For a man that's nowhere to be found
Until i find him, i'm never gonna stop searching
I'm gonna find my man, gonna travel round

'Cause i'm a wrathchild
Well, i'm a wrathchild
Yeah, i'm a wrathchild
I'm coming to get you, oh yeah, yeah !

Some say i shouldn't matter
Ain't nothing gonna alter
The course of my destination

But i know i've gotta find
Some serious peace of mind
Or i know i'll just go crazy