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Best album, lyrically
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Trans-siberian Orchestra: Beethoven's Last Night
What is Eternal
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And here in the night as I feel the inferno I stare in the dark thinking what is eternal The man or the moment the act or the reason These thoughts fill my head as I contemplate treason
Of dreams I have had and dreams I have pondered When late in the night my mind it would wander To things I have done and then quickly regretted While denying vices my life had selected
And I think what I've done or have yet to begin And the man I've become and the man that I've been Now caught in a waltz with the eternal dancer I'm courted by death but death isn't the answer I say
All I was meant to be Could I suddenly just decide Not a thought would survive Could it be my life's worth Ended there with my birth
If I could see someone who's been there before me And traded his soul for a moment of glory His penance or mercy by spirits debated While judged on a scale that's been heavily weighted
And what have I done could there be such a sin In this man I've become, in this man that I've been Now calling to God from the pit's very bottom I pray he forgives every sin I've forgotten this day
And who would've thought that my fate it would conjure This twist in the road on which I have wandered Each vision and dream now completely dismembered To give one's whole life and find nothing's remembered
And what good is a life that leaves nothing behind Not a thought or a dream that might echo in time The years and the hours the seconds and minutes And everything that my life has placed in it betrayed Betrayed, betrayed
The things I have done the places I've been The cost of my dreams the weight of my sins And everything that I've gathered in life Could it be lost, could it be lost in this Could it be lost in this night
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Who is this Child?
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Who is this child That I've never seen before? Who is this child That I've not seen till this day? Who dares to fall asleep Outside my door? If we should wait a while I'm sure she'll go away
To be involved with this Would surely not be wise For in the final word She means nothing to me I learned the trick is That we just avoid her eyes And the question What she means to
What is this life? There will be other lives Soon to arrive Surely some will survive She is but one And there are many more Each the same as any other Who is this child? What does she mean to me? I close my eyes And still her face I see She is but one Her kind is everywhere Can't you see there's no way I should care?
I need a moment now I have to clear my mind Is there a limit Lord Just to being kind? There is no way in life That each child can be saved Should I be looking with regret At every grave
There are no guarantees In life she should be warned I'm not responsible For this child being born I'm not responsible In any kind of way For every child that life can gather
What is this life? There will be other lives Soon to arrive Surely some will survive She is but one And there are many more Could this one life really matter? Who is this child? What does she mean to me? I close my eyes And still her face I see She is but one Her kind is everywhere Can't you see there's no way I should care?
And you see it in the night And you feel that it's out there It's the arcing of a life And it's hanging in the air Though I try to close my eyes And pretend that I don't know In my heart I just can't let it go There has to be another way for me A way that leads from this insanity A way that leads from my destruction as I say
Can you see it in the night? Can you feel that it's out there? It's the arcing of a life And it's hanging in the air Though I try to close my eyes And pretend that I don't know In my heart I just can't let it Go
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After the FallQuote:
Time only time could never take me away from you And why should it try time never cares just what we do It just sits on a star and gazes down Dropping its moments all around And if I could wish upon that star I would find what you dream and then ask god to grant it
I wanted to say this long before this dark would fall At night I would pray this then wonder if god heard at all For the chances I've had are now long gone And that star is no longer wished upon For on this night it seems too far away
Try I have tried to pretend that I don't care But then sleep arrives and in every dream I find you there But I don't want the past to be my life And I don't want to live inside this night But I don't want to see your shadow fade So I sleep and I dream though I don't understand it
I wanted to say this long before this dark would fall At night I would pray this then wonder if god heard at all For the chances I've had are now long gone And that star is no longer wished upon For on this night it seems too far away
You can live your life in a thousand ways But it all comes down to that single day When you realize what you regret What you can't reclaim but you can't forget If I could just fall back into my life And find you there inside this night and let eternity just drift away
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ViennaQuote:
Since I was a child I've seen her in a dream A captured fairy tale that echoes 'cross my life And though I've courted her, she's always stayed unseen Now all at once she glitters in the night
But that was yesterday and that all was before When she was far away, a silhouette of dreams But others whispered that she was so much more And suddenly I now know what they mean
Dreams change, years strain Lost illusion's last stands God's hand, absolution found
Fairy tale sins, visions by grim, all forgiven Lives spent in vain, never reclaimed take their final bows
Pictures and words, visions absurd Maddened poets all within sights Failures in life who'll never know it Lazarus cries there in his eyes Hope has risen, depth and facade all before me now Vienna
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What good this deafness? Quote:
What good this deafness That my whole life I have dread? What good this deafness With these voices in my head?
What good this deafness If this prattle I must hear? If I were blind I'm sure they wouldn't disappear
Did you really want to believe what you're saying? Did you really want to be here alone? Have I interrupted a moment of praying? While your life's decaying, your sins, are they weighing? While you've been carving your stone All on your own
Did you really want to sit here in silence? Could it be that brooding is part of your art? Is it an extension of artistic license A moody defiance of all of life's tyrants? While you've been searching your heart Alone with us in the dark
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Read the story behind the lyrics and the album concept here
A true composition- a story, with music, with voice, with philosophy.
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