Higher It's what I expect from my life It's like a wire That holds me back down to the ground Oh, I hear you say "That is the way of the world" No, hear what I ...

[words by Michael Weikath] Here I stand all alone Have my mind turned to stone Have my heart filled up with ice To avoid it's breakin' twice Thank to you, my ...

(Kiske) There is no place for me And no one to set me free There is no way to go There is no place for me Where it´s warm and where I can be At least there is n...

[Gabriel:] I remember it was long ago But when I think of her I fell it grow Something begs me to come home again Something I can hardly stand But I'm to defy...

[Gabriel] Open my eyes and see my bleeding wounded hands Feeling the pain too hard to stand To stand Caught in the 'now and here' while they are on the way Hid...

I've been told in the name of something I've got to know what it means to play the game Too many faces around they're talking They play their parts oh, so well...

Hey you! Don't you get tired - Tired of being everybody's dick? Hey you! Don't you feel sick of - Sick of playing the target for their kicks? Hey you! Don't you...

[M&L - Kiske] I came down But my head went up I had no doubts And hope there was not Break it loose Spread the news Get it out Make it loud Sing it! I got it...

Well it's one for the money Two for the show Three to get ready Now go cat go But don't you Step on my blue suede shoes For you can knock me down, step in my f...

[Lugaid] Don't wait my friend We better don't think twice Time to fell the prison guard you gotta realize: No turning back again Therefor it's all too late New...

(Taraxes) Black winds and blue waters A universe of sounds Emptiness and sunshine It´s all the same She dreams about flowers And opens up her mind When she is n...

[Gabriel:] Ah - Hugh ! Show me the way to he hallways below Rome, I will be there I've seen them burning in fire They all bear too much to bear [Elderane:] W...

[M&L - M Kiske] And they walk by - feelings mutual If I would try - I'd try to watch those trys to move a little closer to the try I get my handshake - it hur...

My little crazy cat took a train to meet his gang downtown They played Black Jack Fritz played his false game too far A guy got up and started a gunfight He's ...

[M&L - Taraxes/M Kiske] You pretend that you own the stars And all of your days are free You believe that you fill the hours And you size how far to see! Tell ...

Ice cold Metalmonster creeping Through the darkest night Heart of gold and steel Because I don't know what to write Pins and chains and bullet-bells round my me...

(Kiske/Taraxes) I once was a blue eyed I once dreamed I was free I once dived in a life spending sea And heard the voice of the priest I once heard the angels S...

You hide, won't fight Avoid the daylight Give in, won't win No try to make it right Why don't you stop crying Stop your painful dying Why don't you give your l...

[Music + lyrics: M Weikath] Once they killed his monster when it went into a trap now he's making better ones on a higher step [Bridge:] On a warm summer day...

[Music + lyrics: M Weikath] People are in big confusion they don't like their constitutions everyday they draw conclusions and they're still prepared for war S...

[M&L - M Kiske] It's so easy - to hurt It's so easy - to hateIt's not easy - to take the pain Don't deny, don't you cry, There's a lift somewhere Deep within (...

(Michael Kiske/Michael Weikath/Ingo Schwichtenberg) Kiske: Well, Japan We've been there, I think, two times now, and it's always been a great fun playing ther...

[Gabriel] Days had come, winters had gone, and we gamboled like siblings in Paradise I was your knight, holding you tight as a brother when I saw your crying e...

Will you first time Will it be I think of someone like me ? Makes me wonder, I can show you'd neverthought you'd see You're like sunshine, I can feel your heat ...

If you're out there all alone And you don't know where to go to Come and take a trip with me to Future World And if you're running through your life And you don...

I can't tell you how it happened So I guess we'll never know I'm always late and running out of time So I must be very slow Someone must have smoked too much O...

Strong and invincible, they know every rule, Seems inconceivable anything they do They made us their slaves - we weren't unified, Ever since we paid for selling...

You think I could be the one to look inside your mind I don't think we'll have the time, so let us get in line Another town another bed, another thing to go By...

Masquerade, masquerade, Grab your mask and don't be late Get out get out well disguised Heat and fever in the air tonight Meet the others at the store, Knock on...

There are some fellows soft and mellow Sitting in the field and play like hell No one knows the way it goes But all the songs they play they sound so well Toni...

A lot of things occur each day We've got to live with on our way There's so much misery on the screen With commercials in between And the Russians won't be so l...

(Kiske/Taraxes) Did you ever ask yourself About the way things might have been? Did you ever blame yourself About the mess that now you´re in? God I hate you! B...

Give me two strong arms to fight my enemies, Give me two eyes to see the truth Give me two legs I think I have to run, And fill my heart with faith that I won't...

You took me up and you took me down You managed not to make me frown I met some dogs, they looked me down And said: "You're not her only man in town" Don't you...

Hey, brother, I miss you so - you knoked on heaven's door, And we won't see you anymore - it must be crazy what we're living for 'Cause God's stopped keeping yo...

[Music + lyrics: K Hansen] From our lives' beginning on we are pushed in little forms no one asks us how we like to be in school they teach you what to think b...

You, you say, you have lost the way Got no aim, just livin' for today Look up to the sky above And see the morning sun again You got so much power inside So cry...

Thunder, flash and lightening is working on my back The tables in the kitchen are tryin' to break my neck All the late night memories are leaning in my shoes M...

[Tree of Knowledge:] Coming from the wastelands Full of reason, common sense Where their principles are blocking minds And you don't understand Giving you beli...

In the night I'm calling you - be my guide, help me through, In the night i call your name - you're the light in times of shame The songs I sing, all my love - ...

[Anna:] Heading for another life In a new world far away Why not me, oh Lord Why did Vandroiy have to die, why [Gabriel:] Dreamers come and go But a dream's ...

[M&L - M Kiske] When you say your love is outrageous I'm not trying matching with you Fear eats through the ages Swallows all good that we do When IT comes clo...

[Music + lyrics: M Weikath] Make the people hold each other's hands and fill their hearts with truth you made up your mind so do as divined Put on your armour ...

Another day is passing by Nothing feels the same anymore I see it clear without fear Complete order in my life As i look into the blue sky I feel so much alive ...

We poison our hearts We poison our seas We burn down the paradise We're stoppin' good waves We're losin' our trees The future looks bright ahead I don't wonder...

Somewhere in desert of the void Beyond the wall We're the last survivors We're the ones who'll never fall Men inside the circle, leave the night! Darkness all a...

Come hither to this place and let your mind fly free For that's the only way how everyone should be We all need something that we can keep on livin' for No one ...

Feelings come and go - I've never known, Something longs to grow - won't let go Spirits around my head - are whispering, I turn inside instead - of wondering D...

Here is all mankind so proud of their achievements There is a stone that is warmer than you Look how we stand in the stream of illusions No one says a word He...

[Music + lyrics: Kai Hansen] [Solo: Kai] Hours of lust, hours of tears passing by before my eyes today, tomorrow, yesterday one life days of joy, day of sadn...

[Falk:] Oh, I dare not to sleep anymore Cause I see her face in every nightmare In all the windows of my haunted house And when I dream a dream of flowers I wa...

When I was a young boy I had no aim, Neither experience - it wasn't a shame Most of the time it satisfied me, But some day I realized - music is like a rising s...

[Bishop:] Cought in neverland, no purpose to be seen There's no point of destination Neverending wastelands, such a wicked odyssey Don't know what we have done...

[M&L - Smith/Kiske/Hansen] My heart is burning In my head it's turning Can't open my eyes Till I'm really myself I got a fever, A reason to move on, A reason t...

[Lugaid:] Mental vigour's been right on the egde To a 'stupefying' hole of no return Now we dance a holy war is won But there must be more we got to learn [Ga...

Each time when one more year was over You refused to hear heavven's bells sound And the happiness in you heart's been set lower You were searching for friends b...

[M&L - M Kiske] I was the one to shout When my shoes were tight Now I'm doing better babe I've changed parts of my strategies Still I'm shooting straight I swa...

[M&L - M Kiske] On our long uneasy way Never there, never stay We please ourselves, eat ourselves It gets us through the day Maybe we should pray `cos we all a...

Some people are much too smart They know everything before it starts Eating wisdom with the pail No wonder when it sticks In your darkest hour I will sing thi...

[Gabriel] Lord above - why don't you tell me why I'm here in agony? I've been serving, I've been praying now I'm caught in misery I've been praised by friar J...

Well,I think it's really time again for a revolution, Not to destroy at all costs but have a look at what's there Can you remember a time when water was still w...

[Music + lyrics: M Weikath] Once a singer sang 'bout bullshit everyone could see him fall and be sure it's been his last hit he's never been seen at all Some d...

Am I right or am I wrong? Do I have to leave or do I belong - here? I always thought the things I do are strong I'm sorry for that all I got is this song - here...

You hear the people talking you walkthe wrong street Painting all things black and step on your feet Flabby stomach, styled hair, trousers full of air Their mor...

[Music + lyrics: K Hansen] Too late to call for the priest he is not here anymore we look at the age of the beast and we've seen its vast armies form hear our ...

[M&L - M Kiske] Sun-breeze comes down on me The air is so clean and good There's no rush and it's understood: No place for doubts in this neighborhood Dreams c...

[M&L - Kiske] I'm sick of finding there is no one you can trust I'm sick of hearing money making's a must I'm tired of seeing people slander behind backs I can...

[M&L - Kiske/Taraxes] When it gets to red No air to breathe Then I am thinking What if I go now? When I feel upside down The pain don't leave Then I am thinkin...

What keeps on telling me to stay on the way I chose What keeps on giving me all the strength to carry on Give me some time, can't sleep anymore at night I wann...

Time has come, start your search for tomorrow, No escape from that long trail of sorrow You don't know how it keeps going on Oh No Wake up out of misty dreams,...

[M&L - Kiske] Downstairs, left floor no one opens that door Next to the old man Some light now and then I do care, look everywhere And when I get a chance I su...

[M&L - Kiske/Smith] Well better it is when you can hold on to it When you keep the grip to push it higher The further you get the more you use it up You got t...

We're living in a constant fight Too much pressure everywhere And all around Don't let it pull you down Hold on tight Cling to your dreams Don't you depend on...

[Gabriel:] Staring into the lake, watching for heaven's sake faces screaming in fear Crying like at the stake, in the fiery waves I can see all the souls how t...

[Gabriel:] Drawn by the sound of that wild raving pound No one has told me I gotta know all about hell and below They never told me The quest for nexus In you...

[Believers:] Fire falling from the sky Rage of god is coming down Armaggeddon's drawing nigh Sinner cry ! Heathen die ! Hear the toll of pain, gloria, gloria I...

[Gabriel] Where do I go? Never had a very real dream before Now I got a vision of an open door Guiding me home, where I belong, dreamland I have come Oh wher...

Where will you be tomorrow? Really I don't care I have seen the future, rising everywhere Look into the mirror, tell me what you see Piece by piece you'll vanis...

[M&L - Wolke/Taraxes] Well I see all those faces Who'll never believe in this world Oh I, I've been wasting so much time Time to get into their minds Oh I will...

Well I see all those faces Who'll never believe in this world Oh I, I've been wasting so much time Time to get into their minds Oh I will never close my eyes Wi...

[Melody Solo Kai] [Insania 20 14] We'we thrown away our former gods Controlling our day We have created better ones So we control the way We are the ones with...

I was born in the rotten part of the town The biggest trap I had seen Wherever you'll go and wherever you'll get to Evil is around My mother's a bitch my fathe...

[M&L - M Kiske] Now you're well educated All you speak sounds so well All class is demonstrated There's really not much to tell With perfect look and perfect s...

[Music + lyrics: M Kiske] Don't turn your head back to the wall don't close your eyes and wait for your fall If you believe that you know in this time you've g...

Now it's time - to shake it all up, to be free, Now it's time - to make us some room to let us be Oh, it feels so bad, yes, if fells so bad, When everything goo...

WHEN YOU'RE DOWN ON YOU'RE KNEES THAT WHEN YOU'RE CLOSEST TO HEAVEN I don't believe what you're saying I don't believe a word You never did anything that was t...

[M&L - Taraxes/Kiske] Some say the prize is paid Some preach eternal pay Where you go nobody knows! Before you came to me Life was light and clean Where we go...

Time goes whenever you are, time is your guiding star, That shines all through your life, makes you feel and move My dreams are out in the far, so are yours a p...

[Music + lyrics: M Kiske] [Solo: both] When I hold the key to open heaven's door I will never make the mistake and give it back when I hold the key to open my...

To give what I got, to take what I need to live, it ain't easy for me, Darken my eyes, tell me lies, but all nice, tell me how I have to be, Get me in your fool...

Now there is this day, a lot of things are changing Can't just kick it away, got to get things right Sometimes it happens fast and nothin' seems to last The thi...