드림 시어터와 함께 프로그레시브 메탈 계를 이끌었던 실력파 밴드 섀도우 갤러리의 최신 앨범 1998년 발표되어 많은 인기를 얻었던 앨범 [TYRANNY]의 뒤를 잇는 완벽한 컨셉트 앨범으로 어느 때보다도 수려하고 서정적인 멜로디와 완벽한 연주력을 담은 탁월한 음악성을 보이며 밴드의 모든 역량을 쏟아부은 작품이다.
I look into your blue eyes deep pools I had no idea I know hunted down from coast to coast Circumstance prevailed it was hard on us both I've run hard I'm so tired from the chase So desperately I'm aching The waning of the starlight Embers turn to ash as I fade
And now you're next to me I beg you baby please don't go End of the road for me I'll just hold you close Just hold you close End of the mystery a gift from heaven on this day Your touch to comfort me Just comfort me
Your sheltering soul not a moment too soon You're a sweet tourniquet For my soul lies rife with open wounds And yes I thought as I closed my eyes I saw phantom apparitions dance And are we really safe and on our own Or are they out there watching Right now I don't want to care at all Just like a silent song Just reach out your hands and take hold Take hold When the limit of your pain Exceeds the mercies of your love It's time to cease and release and just fly
And now you've come to me a sanctuary borne of love Honest sincerity I'll just hold you close Just hold you close It's in the way you move A phoenix risen on this day Your touch to comfort me Just comfort me
I disrobe my burdens and lay them at your feet So much about this world I'd just as soon they keep Their faces melt reflections on the wind Or are they out there watching As time stands still this Christmas day
Lying by a dying flame Drifting off to sleep She drops the black leather journal She's been clutching tight She's a bio-engineer, harzard level four She works the hot zone all day
The demon seed smallpox weapons grade Bought from Israeli intelligence Gone rogue for a price Decode the genome right down to the DNA You break the code and you just might save the day
A serpent rising genetic weaponising There's a portent of pure evil Lying out there in the dark The hand of terror stands poised To ride out on the wind Can we counter this undeserved hated Through our science and our research and the wisdom of our age Or are we doomed to suffer at the hands of the Andromeda Strain
Microscopic warfare the demon will retreat From breakthrough after breakthrough Using her own rare blood type the serum came to lufe Time to publish and go clinical trial But wait, a secret document sealed slipped through A most insidious plot unfolds Limited release to drive the need through the roof The guaranteed supply secures the deal it's been approved Assuring the quarter and the year
A serpent rising genetic weaponizing What kind of twisted mind turns terror into cash Sends the innocent to their death You try to fight it but criminals united Pharmaceutical injustice is a terror on it's own For want of power and love of the bottom line They'll unleash the Andromeda Strain
A serpent rising genetic weaponizing Script the sequence of the serum incorrectly to lead them on Steal the formula destroy the seed and run Need to fight back this undeserved terror Through our science and our research and the cunning of our ways Or we're sure to suffer at the hands I'll disappear underground Prepare to fight the next round The Andromeda Strain
Early morn I was up long before dawn I watched you sleep I counted every beat of your heart Now we both know we'll never go back there again Guilty as charged that's all
Fallen snow - cover me Wash me pure - Hold me tight What else is there left for you and for me? The life we once held on to caught in a riptide out to sea
I left with innocent eyes to a nation so poor I felt humanity cry from the ravage of war I infiltrated the machine and it broke me in two I wish for amnesty now and I find it in you I make this vow
The road to this place under a thundering sky It's a long walk to heaven Lord knows I've tried Just look around wind and snow and ice are all I see Save for you my queen
Pounding rhythms Distant footsteps Echo fear And drive my pain I am crying out for love and for life eternal I am witness I've been purchased with blood So many souls will burn out The call requires an answer
I've chased material gain it's the emptiest dream I've watched it turn back to dust and it don't mean a thing The spirit found its way in and it changed my whole life I'm offering you my hope with the gift of this light Please take my vow
Let's pack away all our memories of home Never look back Certainly never return Begin anew you and I and snow and wind and ice Will you surrender all your all to me?
And in the comfort of my arms both noble and strong I'll guide you safely through the storms I will make you my song Remaining steady and true for the rest of your life I offer you up my hand wanna make you my wife Please take this vow A passion purer than gold or the night's brightest star My love for you only grows It knows no earthly bounds The time is right for us now just believe what I say I take your hand in my hand And I promise you the world Promise you the world Promise you the world I make this vow Please take this vow
And now you've gone away I begged you baby please don't go Away and leave me here I am broken I am broken And I know Winter is bearing down On wings of Angels so your soul Is in the hands of God My tears on the wind
Broken window broken dreams, nothing but a trail of tears Oh my God my little lady, where have they taken you - I never heard you scream
Strange how pain etches patterns on your heart Just like frost grows on the window pain And cold's no elixir, the fractals well veiled My eyes gone black, they've pierced my hands and side
I've searched high and I've searched low, damn the motive I don't know Another child torn from her father, where have they taken you - I'm praying for your soul
Show your face, tell me why it must be her You faceless evil shake me to my core And what do you do? With faith and belief When tragedy buries me, buries me, buries me alive
Hold your hands up high, lift them toward the sky When all I have - Is torn Down down down, meet my pain tonight
Something wicked this way came, just ghosts and demons from my past Are they trying to draw me out, vendictivly I'm recompensed - No shadow of a doubt
Hold your hands up high, lift them toward the sky When all I have - Is torn Down down down, meet my pain tonight
Somewhere out there lies a girl, stolen by a broken world Can't escape my frozen past, shattered like a rock through glass I'm Torn
So I set out early morning Through the forests deep and wide I am vested and determined To go bring her back alive As I knife my way through dense fog In the silence of the field Stands a soldier like a statue With a crossbow trained on me
Don't move from my crosshairs I bring news from home The deadly pox is in the wrong hands But this I'm sure you know Your wife's blood filled with secrets Hand sequenced DNA Attempts to re-create the serum Have failed until today
My wife dead and buried and my daughter dragged away
Do you not find coincidental That your two rare blood types are the same Intelligence from Israel found her here Heavy with the blood pure child They shot your wife with pox tipped blow dart, got that human trial underway
Your daughter carries plasma, essential to vaccine Development required the sample Her blood now holds the key, a grand scheme of deception for one world government But the rogue Mossad stole blood at her birth So now we too hold the key
Outbreak around the whole world Sets the stage for the main event
Contingent on the bio terror New World Order rises and it stays A lone detachment of US Special Forces sends me here to set it right You'll aid the underground rebellion, Your country needs you for counterstrike
I was taken to a town well hid Back room of a library rather well equipped Guarding stands the Archer outside my door And through the pain It strikes me strange what life prepares you for Day and night I'm crafting Sleepless as I shape encrypted lines, night after night
Serum formula code and key Separated "Room V" and "Tyranny" Hidden from the watchmen in plain view From underground the word of mouth Can spread what we must do Synchronized and time aligned Decyphered serum spills into the world
You'd better worry better listen and take heed There's a storm on the horizon Clouds are black and deadly mean Be on the watch so when the victims start to fall You can harvest out a demon When the plague begins we'll fight to win Apply genetic sequence away
You'd better worry better listen and take heed There's a storm on the horizon Clouds are black and deadly mean All you in labs in college all around the world It won't be long until we're ready And he took the disc and nod his head And turned and walked away into the night
Not long ago a plan was conceived, where all could be revealed Critical info delivered in secret, but kept out in plain sight
We're underground 'cause we have enlisted Got data in our groove, yes they gave us the guns They made us the pilots, a battalion of six Inside out it's all for one and one for all
Here we are, we're the band, we got your marching orders It's in the music and the words that we sing Sing along, sing out loud, and you'll join the answer We will rock with the thunder of a thousand mighty horses
Beijing to New York City, and everywhere between Lies the heart of the good, the will of the people Now shake your cages, shake your cages In the fields - Now hear us, In the cities - Hear us Bend don't break, you can ride out the storms It's time to fight or die, deliver us from evil All around the world, you're not alone, we'll be right here And coming to your home from Room V
Here we are, we're the band, we got your marching orders It's in the music and the words that we sing Sing along, sing out loud, and you'll join the answer We will rock with the thunder of a thousand mighty horses
Left on my own don't know where I should begin to look it's involuntary instinct Controls my every footstep, westward through haze The voice of shadows whispers in my ears Alaskan forests to the sea
Keeping all faith alive I fall into the rain Let me go, let me go Oh my soul drenched in the rain - the rain
I light two candles in the window of my mind The wind that threatens I've no words left to describe Resisting the fates When mercy comes to shelter me Over and over I am witness to the signs Evil's more focused as we near the end of times Praying so hard that your shelter comes to cover me
What kind of world is this that It should come down to this oh Each day the pressure building In Biblical proportion I've seen extremes from love to war They both are walking here And echoing prophetic song
Plagues and famine and hate All fall into the rain, let it go, let it go The whole world floods in the rain - the rain
We lose horizons they just vanish as we run Chess moves in silence glacial patience under gun The marching of time When mercy comes to shelter me Fragments of truth are out there blowing in the wind I cry for loved ones and removal of the sting I just can't let go Your shelter comes to cover me
In desperation we make moves and never know Their antidote is poison and my blood runs cold Stoking the flames When mercy comes to shelter me You want the truth but do you want insanity? Peering 'round corners paranoid calamity Hold on to what's real Your shelter comes to cover me
Finally in death do you become as once in life Evil for evil do you pay the highest price Just let it burn When mercy comes to shelter me My flesh and blood it's all that's left my heritage From life to death to dust so through the woods I search Complete disconnect Your shelter comes to cover me