1.- The Beginning

I walk along the way, I'm left alone again
But I believe that this is not the end,
You lied to me but you can know for sure
that by my life I swear I will never fall anymore.

No fear no weakness I prepare my mind,
If you are not so brave you can stay behind.
All your promises are broken I know,
I choose my own path wherever I go.

Now when my war begins
victory will belong to me!

To the fight I go, strong until the end,
ready to die alone.
If you are noy with me get out of my way
Now I'm on my own through this road...



2.- The Wicked Wheel (Rage On)

Guard your patch, crave the ground,
the lines I traced are before your yes...
To tempt you, to divide you
To shake the rust from the old art.

Then truce came and I laughed hard
At words that won't soothe your angry mind
Your fate is to be drawn in...
My game board's set and awaiting.

Mutual curse, war cry, both heralds slain
I can't help but taste this day of chaos.

RAGE ON, RAGE ON,
That the wicked wheel needs turning
RAGE ON, RAGE ON,
State you greatness
RAGE ON, RAGE ON,
That you think history will enshrine
One whole page for you.

This lad will die so lonely
When greed turns man to dust so soon
His name won't be remembered
Carved on a stone that's to erode.

Your great deeds make fine seeds
They lie beneath and are all alike
To please me, to release me,
The wheel prepares for a new turn.

Your guts and little glory
Are spread like compost in your last breath
You glimpsed me, when you realized
That no one's sorry for your death...

But I did give meaning to your days
Then you might just thank me for such service.



3.- The Dead End Verse

I was born with a mortal sin
I remember the same old story
Since I habe memory
I'm guilty beyond my will

In the name of the cross
I have learned that I should be sorry
With blind faith I must pay the price
Every day of my life

You tried to cloud my eyes with shame, I know
Until I understood that guilt is control

Without fear....Now I am facing your truth..........
Faith of Hell!!
Without fear....Now I am facing your truth..........
Faith of Hell!!

From rhe fraud of the creed
To the promise of hell or heaven
Herd of lambs, put to sleep
To the hum of a deadened verse

I'd rather sink my feet in burning oil
"the mind is the true cage"... that, I've learned on my own.

Right or wrong aren't to be read from an aging book...
Better have blank pages and my life to write.



4.- Reaper's Lullaby

Sinner in life, and redeemed just before death
Currents of time warn when they are close
So the dying can feel what is next

Judgement has come along with hit blade
Creeping the Reaper will rise
Whipping in flames smashing my head
Bringing shadows of those I have killed

Thied to explain but I burn in despair
Now he waits to sentence me and torture me in hell

Then I realize I must subjugate
Facing my acts and past crimes
I never knew what true fear was about
Til I felt I was next in the trival

With each passing second I'm further convinced
Nothing is granted all debts must be paid

Hey you spirits of the night
Is the tune afar the Reaper's Lullaby?
Hey you if i close my eyes
Will I wake to repair what I've been?



5.- Spoke The Firefly (Fate Called)

Far beyond the hills
Where the wind's no leaf to stir
Stillness cracked all hope

Hundted down like doe
Saw the murk uncharted dare
Our very pledge to endure

Had no choice, for I knew your wounds...
Unarmed I charged at the herd of wolves

When fate called, it found me fierce
Fate called - Million beings beheld me soar high
They pierce like white pikes the night
Fate calls for me!

Near the barley fields
Where I'd play at dusk as child
Where our ways were sown...

Followed you for hours
To your death on humid ground
Star-like boding in yellow

"For your kin", taught the firefly
I dwell in them, I burn in the sky

When fate called, it found me fierce
Fate called - Million beings beheld me soar high
They pierce like white pikes the night
Fate calls for me!



6.- All Souls Night (Loreena Mckennitt Cover)

Bonfires dot the rolling hills
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
Moving to the pagan sound.

Somewhere in a hidden memory
Images float before my eyes
Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires
And dancing till the next sunrise.

I can see lights in the distance
Trembling in the dark cloak of night
Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
A waltz on All Souls Night.

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
Held up tall as the flames leap high
The green knight holds the holly bush
To mark where the old year passes by.

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
And moving to the pagan sound.

Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me.



7.- Gone With The River

All that I was,
all that I ve lived,
everything that I can remember
lies in the past and will die in my mind.

Nobody can change what I ve done
Nobody can rewrite my story
There s no regret that can rebuild what is lost
and I know

that old good days will never come
back again

They re gone with the river,
never will return; gone with the river.
When all is gone with the river
there s nothing more to do except to get up,
carry on, and don’t look behind.

Lessons are learnt only with pain,
but you must not feel guilty.
Soon you will know that every wound is a chance.

Yesterday s gone.
All our deeds lie in the memories of people
and when it dies (at the end) it will be lost,
and I know

that old good days will never come
back again

They re gone with the river,
never will return; gone with the river.
When all is gone with the river
there s nothing more to do except to get up,
carry on, and don’t look behind.



8.- Paddy's Leather Breeches Set

(Instrumental)



9.- Born In The Dark Age

I saw a hawk willing to fly under blackened skies
Holding against a storm that came and's not turning back
I heard a cry fading out in the thickest numbness
Warning all of us never to be swallowed up by the void

Born in the dark age - with their fallen souls, fallen souls
Its in the dark age... that we drift on our own
Will we even spread our wings of gold over the landscape...
and restore what's lost.

Loners in packs, filling the streets, see through lifeless eyes.
Aching for coins, dullness resets with each passing sun...
Stumbling their way over bodies dead or dying...
Screwed to a routine that is able to squeeze the most of our souls

I heard a cry fading out in the thickest numbness
Warning all of us never to be swallowed up by the void



10.- Men Of Clay

You brought forth an army of clowns
Fit for the masses daft
It seems I'm always on the wrong side.

Three or four words that you repeat
If you ask me that's rather bleak
In this game I play the traitor

Wave the flag, take control.
Gobble up, then go for more
March on, men of clay
Are you selves or slaves?


Don't put strings on me
'cause I don't want to be
a puppet from your legion of fools
I am breaking the rules

I spit at your wind of lies,
It won't serve to change my mind
You preach, you shriek, you're weak
You hide it fine.

Where were they in times of war?
Are they proud they've missed the show?
The past, a day ago...
Look, they just forgot"



11.- Faking A War

Maker of the rules…
Leader of the men…!
Why do you send me straight to death?

Lying to the nations,
Spreading fear in all,
You played with the lives of millions.

To our backs you made an enemy
Now we have to pay the price of your greed.

FAKING A WAR
FAKING A WAR
FAKING A WAR

We are not just pieces on a board
who live under your whim at all.

Speak to the crowd…
tell them they will die…
for our homeland and our flag

I guess it must be easy
to sacrifice the lives of the others
in front of your eyes

To our backs you made an enemy
Now we have to pay the price of your greed.

FAKING A WAR
FAKING A WAR
FAKING A WAR

We are not just pieces on a board
who live under your whim at all.



12.- Flames At Twilight

(Instrumental)