1. FIRST IN LINE

Once again we behold the future behind the cloud
It scares you
Grown as a beauty, stained with tainted paint
Once-born is the last of us and the skies are fallen
Lead me
Into the brightest light, never ending dawn
We'll build us a wonder, gone through the maze in days
In hindsight
Cloudy ahead, the skies always clear behind

We shall not scare the children
Cast our hope, beat us atop their joy of life

Every generation's every book
Every place is getting drawn on, hurt
But we can save this world if we move time slower
Every open window, we are giving to a child
That's how we buy ourselves out of time
We'll learn, all the world will burn

All the future is built on maybe, albeit the whitest of lies
White lies
They have the value, serving the purpose
When we guide our children, the future's blinding light
You can't leave, no
They hope one day you'll live in a lighthouse

We shall not scare the children
Cast our hope, beat us atop their joy of life

Every generation's every book
Every place is getting drawn on, hurt
But we can save this world if we move time slower
Every open window, we are giving to a child
That's how we buy ourselves out of time
We'll learn, all the world will burn

We bring rocks into the dark
In hopes they hit a mark
One day you'll know this blindness
The views and fears of the unknown
We hide what we don't know
But we should not tell you, there's a party in the black hole

Yet we don't know

Every generation's every book
Every place is getting drawn on, hurt
But we can save this world if we moved on slower
Every open window, we are handing to a child
That's how we buy ourselves out of time
We'll learn, all the world is burning

Every generation has a premise
In the circle getting drawn on, hurt
Yet we can save this world if we moved on slower
Can't let all the serious pull, maybe we should solve the problems
Now we're the first in line
This world, like a plot, we'll let unwind


2. CALIFORNIA

So, you think you now have found yourself a game
With smiles and lies you climb the walls
To every heart, far apart
The seer’s thousand faces share a name
A thousand tales, unfolding now within a day, everywhere

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
The birds know the way and fly away, if one day
California falls into the sea
You’ll never find the way, the key
To lock me down, I’m free

Now, as you have failed to hear me out, again
Made deaf by your own open mouth…
I think it’s only fair I live my life
Enjoy the day, go find my beach
And have my moments in the sun

Scars keep score
The broken pieces, gold on the floor
For you, love’s a game, a chore
Counting the rounds like a revolving door I’m yours on the day when

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
The day you find a way to lock me down

California falls into the sea
California falls into the sea
You wait for
California to fall into the sea
I cannot find a tongue you speak
I’ve tried them all, can you leave me be?

Preeeeego!

When California falls into the sea
When California falls in to the sea
It’s safe to say
We’ll never see the day


3. SHAH MAT

Temperature falls, soon the hills are frozen
The pawns and the noble alike must bow
The gates to the north availed in blue
Warm is the ring hidden in my hand

Turned has the flow and the sides are chosen
We've bent the rules 'till they all were broken
Bonfire warming the cooling hearts
The game we've played ain't over yet

So take your time
As no one's gonna win tonight
You can see me in the dark
Hidden on the lighter side, on frozen land
I will thrive, now make your move

While unfrozen, there is but one thing
You seem to make your own rules
Why my every move's a sacrifice
How to end this game without letting it go

Snow falls, the frozen leaves are left behind
Tattered on the mound
Every time we move one piece
We lose one way to a common ground

Walking away with a sense of reason
Feels like a victory, tastes like treason
We're in a stalemate you call a resolve
The easiest thing in the world, being difficult

Gone is the golden day
Clear the table for the new
Maybe you can write yourself the roles anew
And one day, someone lets you

Take your time
Maybe you will find your rhyme
And embrace light in your life
Queen of the dark, with me you're out of time
Out of time, this game, dead, futile


4. DARK EMPATH

So, you told everyone
You're falling in love
With this wonderful guy
The kind you all have to see

Touching your soul
Reaching to your heart
Knowing your needs
Making you beautiful

Walks on the beach
Calling you
Mon chéri

Dancing tonight
Holding you close
Scanning your pains
Naming them, learning them

Feeding the love
Sent from above
You think when I claim
You are my everything

Little too much, little too soon, you think sometimes
Soon you will learn that my love is
A riddle, I´m a mourning dove
Turning brittle, you shall become
What I need you to feed me, love

Intimidated, weep
Love me, feed me pain so deep
While I still need to hear you
Call me your love

Stand in the rain, alone in the dark
Wait for a train you know will never come

Hip-hip hooray, you can´t wish me away
Now that I have the key
And know when you´re home alone

I have never let you know me,
My love,
Changing the locks, changing your name,
I´m a riddle, I´m a mourning dove…

Love, always, lonely,
Feed me love, feed me pain,
Weakness you have shown me
Fills my dark, bruise-black heart
Always, only mine, you are
Perfect life
Perfect, I

HA!

You will learn how deep a bruise can be
You will learn my name, unriddle me
Once upon, guess I was made this way
Beauty, trusting love, my fuel, my prey

Tell me you're merely token,
My love
Tell me you're forever broken

Riddle, I´m a mourning dove
Turning brittle, you shall become
What I need you to feed me, love

Intimidated, weep
Love me, feed me pain so deep
Cause I still need to hear…
Still need your pain, keep feeding me, love


5. CURE FOR EVERYTHING

Stories told, made real in life, unfold in many ways
It may feel cruel when painted maps have colors I can't see
When those days come, you see me dwell in suffering
I know the ways worlds may melt down

I hear the songs that give me all the power
I will need for the day
The notes and the lines, all fill me at the same time
Strike the chords I believe in

We all, we all need songs we can believe in
Feel the power and we have a cure for everything
We all need songs we can believe in
Feel empowered, let go of the songs you cannot sing

You're not too old to play
I'd love to see a smile adorn your face
Light my days, "o sole mio"
A song to light the stars, one day you'll need them

Yet there are days we feel the need for power
To help us fly across the day
The notes and the lines, all fill you at the same time
When your songs are living

And we all, we all need songs we can believe in
Feel the power, then we have a cure for everything
We all need songs we can believe in
Feel empowered, sing out all the songs you're holding in

We all need songs we can believe in
Feel the power and we have a cure for everything
We all need songs we can believe in
Feel empowered, learning all the songs you cannot sing

We all learn to fly
We're eagle-like creatures in the sky
Light my days, "o sole mio"
A song to light the stars, you have the freedom to sing


6. A MONSTER ONLY YOU CAN'T SEE

Far in the skies
Where the stars attach to the strings
You have seen angels fall, when a monster clips their wings

Darkness tonight
Someone whispers in the void
The loveliest things in your ear
You’ve been warned, you must avoid

When you hear the bells, heed the call
Tread without a fear, my friend
On your shoulder we behold
A monster only you can’t see

Anymore
Can we keep the rain abay
Once, you were sliding away
All the way down, without a rail, you

Tried a new way
Driving everyone away
Your eyes cannot lie like your face
There is no glory in disgrace, but

Friends are near
We are here
We still carry all those
Things you believed in, asshole

We have bent the rules
We have lied
Loved and known you’ll rise again
Friends will do all this for you

Child is aborn
Oh so feeble in this place
You are the guide they adore
Hopelessly lost within a maze, but

Friends are near…
We have bent the rules…

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Help you, we will win tonight
Spread your wings and you will rise

Sure, your mind weighs like a boulder
There’s a monster on your shoulder
Words and phrases, meanings, faces
Virtues, vices,
Your luck’s based on balanced dices

We are you, you are us
Always, you’re one of us
Respect, asshole
You don’t know just how much
We sometimes have sacrificed to be there for you

Your keys and the keyholes once will be found
Dreams and reality, aligned
You’ve grown and found things you thought were left behind
Smile and you will see this world smile back at you

We’ve bent rules for you
We have lied
Loved and known you’ll rise again
Friends will do it all for you

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Help you, we will win tonight
Spread your wings and you will rise

We will bend the rules
We will fight
Love and know you’ll rise again
Friends will do all this for you

We will bend the rules...


7. TEARDROPS

Once again
Teardrops are racing down
Engraving the lines of life
The teardrops are racing down
Again

Oh, sometimes
Love's like a thistledown
It flies away at times
One tear can bring it back down

Swirling winds, sails torn to pieces
Leading the old Ghost Love Boat aground
Can you see me?

Time can't make weakness a power
Turning the Old Ghost Love Boat around
Sewing the sails
I'm chasing the storm's

Sweet embrace
The night has a beautiful face
Stranger censes numb my senses
May I taste your tears?

Salt can make my heart grow harder
How come I always find myself taking your place?

Again
Teardrops are racing down
Engraving the lines of life
The sails lay torn on the ground
And I'm asking

Why me?
Help me

Roses dried hung on the ceiling
Maybe one last time, sails I'm a-heaving
Engraving the words on skin, wood and steel
My Old Ghost Love Boat plows the sea

Oh, sweet embrace
The night has a beautiful face
Stranger censes numb my senses
May I taste one tear?

One more rose cut, dead and dry on the ground

Again
Teardrops are racing down
Engraving the lines of life
The sails lay torn on the ground

And I'm asking why again
Dry roses keep me afloat
I'm seeking My Old Ghost Love Boat
Waiting for me on the shoals of love never found


8. ANGEL DEFILED

Guardians of many faces
Howling at the waning moon
Crying for the dying daisies

Messenger, a divination
Ravenously flying back
Has a thousand tricks up his sleeve

Guiding you across the river
Takes you to the other side
Once a fable, now a common myth

Teaching one a way of living
Another what they must unlearn
To become a witch they cannot burn

Oh, they cannot climb up all the walls
That you have left behind
Oh, you have to fly across the sky again to not become a prey

You can see the evil in their eyes as they sing
You were made for hungering, you and all the beasts
Fear and all the ignorance will fuel their fire

Linger on the sky above to gather the crowds
The sign to rid their daughters and their sons of all doubt
Keeping them company while gazing at the sky
The Witch holding their hand is but an Angel defiled

Hide away what you may, in the dark
The gleaming eyes see you anyway

One more night the town may dream in their sleep
Days to come may bring nightmares

Every waning moon the Witch will bring you one lost memory
Dancing with her groom, growing wings to cross the sky

You can see the evil in their eyes as they sing
You were made for hungering, you and all the beasts
Fear and all the ignorance will fuel their fire

Linger on the sky above to gather the crowds
The sign to rid their daughters and their sons of all doubt
Keeping them company while gazing at the sky
The Witch holding their hand is but an Angel

Like a Witch
Amongst you
Angel Defiled
Angel Defiled


9. THE BEST THINGS

Oh, I live for your smile
Gain power from the flowers you're gathering
And when the hour is blue
I see you feeding a blackbird by the pool

Feel asking for more would be greed
I can but surrender
I think you have given me everything

Now every hour I confess
You're the best thing in my life

I have nothing to gain
By running around, because suddenly
The house is full of it all
The racket and reasons we are all here for

Feel asking for more would be greed
I can but surrender
You've given me everything

Now every hour I confess
You're the best things in my life
Nothing can beat this life we have
You are the best things I have in my life
Every night I thank the stars above
For all the best things in my life
For all the best things in my life

I have nothing to win
When everything's splendour
It will only take some time

Every hour these moments in the sun
These are the best things in my, In my life
Every hour we fly around the sun
These are the best things in my life
Every night we fly around the sun
We walk around the moon, sometimes

Every hour these moments in the sun
These are the best things in my life
Every night I thank the stars above
For all the best things in my...
In my...
In our...
Life


10. CLEAR COLD BEYOND

It's hard to fill open pages and close the book for the day
When the daylight, come tomorrow may elude you
Find your room in the rubble, clear the floor of your past
Can you now believe what your own hands could also do?

Sometimes lips can start a a war
And sometimes a kiss can save you...

Dream of flying, soar amongst storm clouds
You, you have to go and save your peers from the man-made God
Dream of flying, far above the front-line
Dreams are only dreams
But sometimes dreams are all we have

Hope to see a reaction, touch a cloud with your lips
Be a picture of a moment someone holds, one day
Have to find a connection for words that weight like a whale
Watch the faces that behold you slowly turn pale

Love can kill and sometimes lips can end a war

Dream of flying, soar amongst storm clouds
You, you have to go and save your peers from the man-made God
Dream of flying, far above the front-line
Dreams are only dreams
But sometimes dreams are all we have

Sometimes lips can start a a war
And sometimes your kiss can save a life
And sometimes dreams are all we have
And sometimes dreams will make things clear

Cold beyond
When we go
Far beyond

Clear Cold Beyond
Far beyond
Far beyond

Clear Cold Beyond
You believe in your dream

Clear Cold Beyond
Let's believe, in a dream...
Believe in peace


BONUSTRACKS

11. A BALLAD FOR THE BROKEN

I know I'm not the first one
To grieve after the first love
To walk away the pain and find myself

I don't know how I'm feeling
When I was just believing
That you would be the one made for me

Guess I need some time for healing
Find one day my sense of self

So I can fly high when the skies are blue
My thoughts always trail back to you
You may say I'm the one, the first to touch your heart
Just like in the past, I doubt I'm the last

Leaping on a new train
Knowing well it's all in vain
I must accept that healing takes some time

Tears will come while I am kneeling
Sense of relief, I'm alive and well

Now I can fly high when the skies are blue
My thoughts always drift back to you
You may say I'm the one, the first to touch your heart
Just like in the past, I doubt I'm the last

To reach out to a friend in time of need
To reflect myself and share the feelings, how I am
I will be fine, every day feeling less alone
I cannot allow myself to fall apart,

I let the stone like tears fall
Sense of relief, I'm alive

Now maybe I can
Fly high when the skies are blue
My thoughts always trail back to you
You may say I'm the one, the first to touch your heart
Just like in the past, I doubt I am the last to

Fly high your skies so blue
My trials have brought me back to you
You may say I'm the one, the first to touch your heart
Just like in the past
Just like in the past
Just like in the past, I doubt this will last


12. TOY SOLDIERS (MARTIKA COVER)

Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers

It wasn't my intention to mislead you
It never should have been this way
What can I say
It's true, I did extend the invitation
I never knew how long you'd stay

When you hear temptation call
It's your heart that takes, takes the fall
(Won't you come out and play with me)

[Chorus]
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers

It's getting hard to wake up in the morning
My head is spinning constantly
How can it be?
How could I be so blind to this addiction?
If I don't stop, the next one's gonna be me

Only emptiness remains
It replaces all, all the pain
(Won't you come out and play with me)

[Chorus]
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers

Only emptiness remains
It replaces all, all the pain
(Won't you come out and play with me)

[Chorus]
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers