Stratovarius : Black Diamond : the Anthology

Melodic Power / Finland
(2006 - Sanctuary Records / Noise International)
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Disc 1


FUTURE SHOCK


I saw it in a dream the day that changed our history. I still can hear the screams swear it was no mystery. In the heat of the blast Houses fell down into the

ground. This happened so fast Mankind disappeared without sound.

Now the world lives in shadow of atomic fear. Can we win the fight for peace or will we disappear? Future Shock

I saw it on the screen The day that changed our lives and history. There goes our dream Nuked into the sky don´t know why. In the heat of the blast Watch the

beauty of the mushroom cast. It won´t take long You won´t live till the end of this song.

Now the ...


BREAK THE ICE


Why do you stare at me? It's hard to please when you're feeling ill at ease. Hey let it go, You have feelings inside let them show.

Grim craven mind, Timid all the time. Can't come out of your shell. It's Hell.

It's time to break the ice.

Shame on you, There ara so many things that you could do. Hey can't you see? Love is a stream that endlessly flows in me.

Grim craven mind, Timid all the time. Can't come out of your shell. It's Hell.

It's time to break the ice.


THE HANDS OF TIME


The time is running. It's running so fast that you don't notice Years are passing by. And you're growing older. What happened to all your dreams? Did they become

true at all.

We cannot undo the deeds of the years. They leave you on your own with all your deepest fears.

Don't look for the future. Don't live in the past just take it day by day 'case life goes fast. The minutes the hours the days and the years will fly so live still when you

have the time.

We cannot undo the deeds of the years. They leave you on your own with all your deepest fears.

Wheel of the time, Turns again tonight, Eternally decides our destiny. Wheel of the time, Turns again tonight, Without reason or rhyme the hands of time.


TWILIGHT TIME


Danger zone. I look into the mirror see my face again I hear myself preaching. You are getting bold, Growing old Skin turns cold.

You're to blame but I will fing the way to be myself again. I break the mirror with the noise. Stop preaching me, Teaching me, Leave me be.

There's no way to stop me now. My end is in sight. I reach for the light, Tonight.

Twilight Time, It's twilight time. Reaching for the morning light. Twilight Time.


OUT OF THE SHADOWS


Out to the light from the mist from the shadows I go. Facing the new world the odd things the places unknown. Far away, I sail away today.

Seeing the new face impression the moment the thought. Unarmed and naked defendless my mind is caught. Far away, I sail away to stay.

Out of the Shadows we go, There's no reason to hide anymore. Out of the Shadows we go, Into the new horizon Towards the new shore we go.


Since you were born pushed into corner and left all alone. Told what to do, obey all the rules. Be just like everyone else those fools.

Day at the school, teacher's a bully you're mobbed as a rule. Nothing from TV your folks are away, you are trapped inside this house you must stay, Home.

Now it's time for you to move on, leave the shadows of your past.
Don't let them haunt you forever.

Hold on to your dream, somewhere there's a beam of hope which is guiding your way through the dark. This is your chance, Your love, your romance.
Hold on to your dream and never give up in your life.
Hold on to your dream.


DREAMSPACE


Looking back through time through my childhood days. I used to have a place where I could escape reality. But lately things have been so difficult for me. Trying to

reach for the light, in the fall of darkness.

Waiting watching my life, I'm wasting my time, I'm losing grip from life.
Going back to my dreamspace leavin it all behind.

Soon the things will be alright, when I get there.

Am I safe in here, nothing left to fear.
I will close my eyes and float away with stream.
Wandering here in this eternal darkness.
No signs of light anywhere.
I am going insane.
Now I am leaving this life, no hope left I want to die!


ABYSS


I'm out on the open sea, the wind is embracing me. I'm watching the setting sun, far far away from you.

There's not much that I could do. Do you know what's the only way for me.

Into the depths I fall, into the unknown darkness I go.

Down down down
Falling into the Abyss

A morning of no recall, no memory nothing at all. The sun is blinding my eyes. The pain I feel in my head, I think I'll go back to bed or should I have just one more.

Into the depths I fall, into the unknown darkness I go.

Down down down
Falling into the Abyss.


SHATTERED


I worked so hard to get my aim, pulled out wrong card, is this my last game. Too fast too soon, you know it takes time, hasty deeds spoilet the chances of mine.

I'm burning inside outside seems allright, try not to think about it much, It's hard to say, when I will play again.

Shattered
My hands are shattered
Shattered
My life is shattered

I'm dressed to kill and ready to score. 3rd pain pill and there's pain no more. I can't break out. Out of these walls, walls that sometimes the skull is called.

I'm burning inside outside seems allright, try not to think about it much, It's hard to say, when I will play again.

Shattered
My hands are shattered
Shattered
My life is shattered.


AGAINST THE WIND


Once again I tried to make things work, facing all the power of society. Searching all the answers of the life I'll never make it on my own. Was I meant to fail every

time? Seems to me that's my destiny.

Is it all that's left for me, confusion and bad memories.

But now my time has come, no more running in the dark. I want much more than this, I really want it all.

Against the wind we run to every place under the sun.
We got so much power inside we will never give up.
Against the wind we go, towards the new shore.
Together we forget the sorrow it's forever gone.


DISTANT SKIES


Went into the plane was scared like hell. Tried to relax for awhile. But when we took off, I feared we would fall, waving goodbye to this life.

I'm flying through winds tonight. No sign of the dawn or light.

Silhouettes in the sky, Wings are carrying me through the night.
Silhouettes in the sky, Destination unknown

Distant Skies

After a while, I tried to sleep, but watched two movies instead. The fear struck again, How I hate this plane, I hope this would come to an end.

I'm flying through winds tonight. No sign of the dawn or light.

Silhouettes in the sky, Wings are carrying me through the night.
Silhouettes in the sky, Destination unknown

Distant Skies


TWILIGHT SYMPHONY


I'm entering into the woods. I left everything behind. I have to follow my heart. Don't know what I'm looking for. Starlight's guiding my way to old black oak where we

meet. Now it's full moon.

Other side is calling me.
Singing dancing this is no dream.

Twilight Symphony

The feast is going on. Rapture never seen before. The fury is taking us to a new level soon. Hearing voices everywhere telling me what to do. Giving me answers.

Other side is calling me.
Singing dancing this is no dream

Twilight Symphony

The spirits are calling me
I only wish to die, there is no question why...anymore.


SPEED OF LIGHT


Today is just another day of my life too short to live. I should have somekind of meaning a destiny to believe in before I go to sleep.

I find some pictures of a time when everything was still so fine. Although the years have passed by.

I will give it all I have inside...everything.

I'm away lost in my thoughts, everyday my life goes by at the speed of Light.


FATHER TIME


Walking down the path that lead me to my memories. Facing all the way without a care in my stride. Where are the friends of my yesterday, have they moved on

with their lives. Can we still laugh and joke about things like before.

There's no need to hide the past that I have left behind. It's a good resource somewhere to reach out. It shouldn't be all up to them, keeping in touch ain't that easy

but I'll have to try.

Where have all the years gone that's what I am asking now.
What have I learned so far tell me Father Time - tell me now.

Now I understand I'll take from time what I need And I store it inside it's there for me to find I can't deny that the years will pass by but it won't bother me. Coz now

I will set out to realize my dream.

Where have all the years gone that's what I am asking now. What have I learned so far tell me Father Time - tell me now.


Disc 2

WILL THE SUN RISE?


Throwing my dreams out of my mind casting them into the sky. Canceling tasks I've delayed for so long now it's do or die.

I can't be seen I can't be heard but I am here and I am wondering.

Will the sun rise tomorrow will it light up my sky.
Can I wake up with no sorrow awaiting.
Will the sun Rise tomorrow, will I still see the dawn and not worry 'bout the future at all.

At the end of each day I promise myself, I'd better start to live. Coz sooner or later I'll find out there's so much I can give.

I can't be seen I can't be heard but I am here and I am wondering.

Will the sun rise tomorrow will it light up my sky Can I wake up with no sorrow awaiting.
Will the sun Rise tomorrow, will I still see the dawn and not worry 'bout the future at all.


FOREVER


I stand alone in the darkness. The winter of my life came so fast. Memories go back to my childhood to days I still recall.

Oh how happy I was then, there was no sorrow there was no pain. Walking through the green fields sunshine in my eyes.

I'm still there everywhere, I'm the dust in the wind.
I'm the star in the northern sky.
I never stayed anywhere I'm the wind in the trees.


THE KISS OF JUDAS


I hear footsteps dosing in recognizing them from my early days. The times are different the image remains the same, repeating back flashes remembering the

name, approaching visions of things. I can't recall, a familiar smile awakes the pain.

Unkept promises, the night awaits, the act of confidence.

The kiss of Judas haunts me once again.

In your private chamber, you're all done. The well earned silver pieces falling to the floor. The flame of the candle costing movements to the wall, your eyes filled with

guilt keep staring at the door.


BLACK DIAMOND


Again I see you standing there watching me. Your gaze, those eyes are tantalizing openly.

Inviting me to get close to you, can't help myself. There's fascination in the air.

I try to fight this strong sensation but there's no chance to escape from this temptation.

Feels like I've known you before, repeating phrases, but I yearn for something more.

I know I can't stay by your side forever, but I know I won't forget your beauty,
my Black Diamond.


FOREVER FREE


They try to give me answers to questions I've never asked. I'll have no part in their conspiracy. I guess I am the kind of guy that will never stray.

The thing I need is privacy, some guiding, depriving, misleading and combining. They're watching our every move.

They can try to bind our arms, but they can't chain our minds or hearts. We will keep our faith inside our souls and never let it go

-We're Forever Free-

You see them making headlines, new pictures tell old stories, explaining what they have said and done. Media's new illusion, creating more confusion but I know that

they'll soon be gone.


PARADISE


Late at night I find myself again wondering and watching tv. I can't believe what's on the screen, something that I wouldn't like to see.

Many rare species will perish soon and we'll be short on food. Why do we have to be so selfish, we've got to change our attitude.

I know that I am no the only one that's worried, why don't we all wake up, and realize.

Like the birds in the sky we are flying so high, without making any kind of sacrifice. We've got so little time to undo this crime or we'll lose our Paradise.

It seems to me that there's no sense at all, nobody cares it's always the same. Mother nature's crying out in pain I know we're the one's to blame.


S.O.S.


I'm waiting for the rain now, to settle the dusty air. Clearing up my emotions. Facing it all if I dare.

I've been thinking, I've been trying but I've always been denying. Wasted days are still inside of me, it's time to set them free.

Why don't we see what is going on? There are not so many years to be wasted until the damage is done and the beauty is gone.

Save Our Souls.
What is the price that we pay?
Save Our Souls.
Do we have nothing to say?


NO TURNING BACK


So long I have been accepting what I've seen, never really speaking my mind. Now the heat's leaking out. I'd like to scream and shout. I want to leave it all behind.

There's no one else to turn the wheel, I've got my own life to steer.

No Turning Back, coz I wanna know who I am and I want to live my life.
No Turning Back, tomorrow's awaiting, I'm on the way.

Hard to find the right words and not to make it worse. A choice that has to be done, it is just my life. Can't make no compromise and to stop what has begun.

There's no one else to turn the wheel, I've got my own life to steer.

No Turning Back, coz I wanna know who I am and I want to live my life.
No Turning Back, tomorrow's awaiting, I'm on the way.

I have all the strings in my hands. The choices that's been laid for me. I am not taking more commands, coz now finally I'm free.


4000 RAINY NIGHTS


These empty days are filling me with pain. After I left it seems my life is only rain.

My heart is longing to the better times. When everything was still so fine. I wonder why it happens so fast. You give your heart away knowing it might not last. I'm

still here waiting for the rain to fall and to see you once again.

4000 Rainy nights, 4000 Rainy nights I'd be with you, 4000 Rainy nights with you.

I keep your memory in my heart, you give me hope when everything is so dark. That thing nobody can take away, forever in me

4000 Rainy nights, 4000 Rainy nights I'd be with you, 4000 Rainy nights with you.


PLAYING WITH FIRE


Hunger grows stronger I feel it day by day. I need I desire her passion now. I see that look the shine in her eyes, can't let her go she's so divine. There's no on who

could stop me now, she'll be mine.

She's teasing I'm unfreezing wanting more and more. I'm dreaming just like streaming through the door. I see that look...

Playing with fire
Hiding inside the flames
Playing with fire
It's a dangerous game.


HUNTING HIGH AND LOW


I feel the wind in my hair, and it's whispering, telling me things, of the storm that is gathering near. Full of power I'm spreading my wings.

Now I'm leaving my worries behind. Feel the freedom of body and mind I have started my journey. I'm drifting away with the wind I go...

I am Hunting High and Low.
Diving from the sky above looking for, more and more.
Once again I´m Hunting High and Low.
Sometimes I may win sometimes I´ll lose It´s just a game that I play.

After the storm there´s a calm. Through the clouds shines a ray of the sun. I am carried from all of my harm there is no-one that I can't outrun.

Now I´m leaving my worries behind- Feel the freedom of body and mind I have started my journey. I'm drifting away with the wind I fly.


WILL MY SOUL EVER REST IN PEACE?


I've been searching for an oasis
In the desert for so long
To pretend I'm strong
In my weakness trying

I've been holding on
To things that I have left behind
I've been scared and lonely
I'm crippled inside.

Bathing my soul in the starlight
Healed my wounds in the sun
Screamed my pain to the forest
Asking the question why?

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

I've been washed in pain
Haunted by the ghosts of years ago
They won't leave me be
They keep coming back for more

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

My crippled soul is yearning to be free.


EAGLEHEART


All through the night he is lying awake
Wond'ring how much more can he take
Watching the walls where the shadows dance
Drifting away into a trance
And his eyes are blazing with fire

Dreams burnt to ashes so many times
Highest of mountains, still he climbs
Ready to fly, cause he just can't stay
Flame burning brighter with every day
And his eyes are blazing with fire
Longing for the deepest desire

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart

Fever is burning in his veins
Determined with courage, breaking the chains
Back against the wall under blood red skies
Prepared to fight until he dies
And his eyes are blazing with fire
Longing for the deepest desire

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart


I Walk To My Own Song

I'm walking the streets and i hear what you say
Advicing me tilling me how to play
I know your name it's called Mr.Mean
One thing i've learned you don't know beans

High i fly
I touch the sky
Far above the frozen minds
You can't kill my dreams
You can't kill my spirit
I was born to be free

I walk to my own song
Every day the power grows stronger in me
I walk to my own song
Head up proud
I'm the master of my own destiny

You think you know what is better for me
Holding me lectures of how i should be
Shrugging my shoulders i leave you behind
Anyway i look at it you are blind


MANIAC DANCE

This year has been a nightmare
I've been so low, i don't care
I've dwelled in dephts of darkness
Swam across the ocean of pain

I've fed the tabloids, the media
It's a bottomless pit, a redia
Front pages, gossips, knifings, drunken nights and day

Sadness, rage, hopelessness
I am nothing without you

Again the dance
I do the maniac dance
Just like in trance
I do the maniac dance

This demon serve me well
It want to send me to the depths of hell
A roller coaster ride it has beeen i can tell
I'm a walking miracle of medecine
A real catastrophe on legs
A proud member of human race know as the dregs

Xanax, Remeron, Therapy, Buspiron
Anger, Fear and Shame

Again the dance
I do the maniac dance
Just like in trance
I do the maniac dance


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