• 9-2-9
    We opened the door after midnight To step into a timeless world Angels and madness been flying around A crack in the voice of reason Something has taken over Pr...
  • All The Clowns
    When you're walking down the empty road Feel like creeping, crawling, cold and bare And you're afraid of Mistery Scary-face Don't turn around since you may find...
  • Angel Rebellion
    In the silence there's a fear It's growing stronger with every breath I take A fire inside that drives me mad A haunt of darkness that makes me stay awake But ...
  • Another Time
    The rain outside reminds me of your voice, like everything I hear since you're not there The distance doesn't leave me any choice than to meet you in a dream we...
  • Aren't You A Little Pervert Too?
    [This one is for our troops Who beat the shit Out of bad people And their families] Aren't you a little pervert too Just a little handcuff doesn't do Beat the...
  • Arrows Fly
    Faking the truth in their eyes smile but they really deride never give you shelter Lady all alone, naked to the bone make you bleed and melt into tears Down on...
  • Avantasia
    [Sammet] Open my eyes and see my bleeding wounded hands Feeling the pain too hard to standTo stand Caught in the now and here While they are on the way Hiding ...
  • Babylon
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Yeah In a world of hate pollution we can't breathe anymore We've to leave and this time you, the pawn, have won On our quest fo...
  • Behind The Gates To Midnight World
    Born alone, tiny soul Unknown looks to face from all around Caught in space and time A new apparel, different name We got another stowaway In life and who's to...
  • Blessing In Disguise
    Living in a screenplay she neve r read the end And no one else is to see The pain of abrasions covered with a smile No one's to look underneath In a lonesome ...
  • Breathe
    Tide me over Tide me over only one more night To a world of make-believe It's the diamonds and not the dusty rainbow That we ride across the wreckage of a drea...
  • But Here I Am
    Always listen to what they tell - Dreamer Crazy habits are a work of hell - Dreamer Dressed in black and ordinary suits - Dreamer All my life I have paid my due...
  • Catch Of The Century
    You do not know And you don't care And you may never learn I made approches You gave me teeth And got my hope injured Unprepossessing,that's what you say -don'...
  • Children Of Steel
    I have seen tears fallin'like some rain Hiding from nothing and noone but still I'm feeling pain Feeling bitter pain Bleedin' for nothing, tortured to be kind L...
  • Das Reh
    Das Reh springt hoch, Das Reh springt weit Warum auch nicht, Es hat ja Zeit Die Kuh springt hoch, Die Kuh springt weit Warum auch nicht, Sie hat ja Zeit Das s...
  • Dead or Rock
    No rules, no pain, no fear and no reason Full moon, we're insane Two-time and one big treason There is fire in the air tonight A wicked sensation Stick waving,...
  • Deadmaker
    I can't feel, and I can't see I'm falling down what's going on with me Lord in heaven why am I here Do I live to rise or rise to fall to shed another tear One ...
  • Down To The Devil
    Roaming the plains where a number is your name In a palace And you'll never find the door Oh look into the mirror Is it what you wanna see Or just a cuddle toy ...
  • Dragonfly
    Is it really the treasure of gold Or the dance in the rainbow itself Bound to a track Painting over the cracks In his dreams they'd put up on the shelf Little ...
  • Every Night Without You
    Waiting up all night I am lying by your side I can't close my eyes and slowly dream away I so need to feel you near The sight I'd see, the breath I'd hear Watc...
  • Eyes Of The Tyrant
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] In the eyes of the mighty domain and its evil Doctrines, there is no trace of romance But the fears that grow Noone can watch h...
  • Faces In The Darkness
    There in the distance You don't see anything And anything is what keeps me alive I am the mess inside your mind I am the black behind the light I'm the tail of...
  • Fairytale
    Yeah... Giants stone built up by desire No one could thell us the secret of fire The hunger for wisdom deep in your heart You can't accept that you're living ap...
  • Fallen Angels
    [Music & Lyrics: Sammet] Sun going down, she opens her eyes It's dark in the belfry and cold Whispers of rain, wind in the sky So long it's been all she's been...
  • Falling Down
    "No brain is left but here I got one more nail!" The master's final word, when he created a 'hero' like you, born to deride and to hurt You don't try to find a...
  • Fire On The Downline
    No... no time to ponder Take your feet in your hands, swept by the sea Oh it's too late to wonder where we went wrong There's no time to win, to lose and to fee...
  • For A Trace Life
    [bonus track] [Music & Lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Don't know where I come from Don't know where to go Don't know if I know What is good to be known I wonder if ma...
  • Forever
    Sitting by the window Staring out into the night Waiting up for the light of day And the sound of silence The faintly flaring candle light Parting has got me Ar...
  • Frozen Candle
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet & Jens Ludwig] Crying on the pyre, feelin' all so strange When you took my mind to deteriorate, told Me that you like me, atroci...
  • Fucking With Fire [Hair Force One]
    I saw her coming in high heels Moving like a queen A little sweet angel but deep underneath A mean machine You're lying in wait to make me a fool You want me t...
  • Golden Dawn
    [Music: Sammet & Ludwig / Lyrics: Sammet] He was born into this world Living love but he got hurt And he sighed when he beheld The bleeding lam Blood and tear...
  • Hallowed
    Sacred - standing full of pride Spite on my mind, spite in my brain, guiding me to fight Enchained - you pray to be a slave Rules without sense, no little sense...
  • Heart of Twilight
    Tell me why can't I understand The feelings deep inside Why do I try to scratch away the stains Deep in my heart I feel there's a place Where love and hate coll...
  • Holy Shadows
    You're a child an old illusion, can't you hear it cry? You live your life to the exclusion of what they call a he The touch of evil it is getting stronger, you...
  • Holy Water
    Waiting all the time to erase it from my mind I feel like I've been left behind, my heart is frozen Punished to rush and fall and again I'm gonna crawl Is there...
  • How Many Miles
    Oh yeah Watching a face and a smile and a light When you're walking alone in the street I know your look always gives you the might Many miles from your ass to ...
  • Hymn
    [music & lyrics: Ultravox] Give us this day all that you showed me The faith and the glory, till my kingdom comes Give us this day all that you showed me The p...
  • I'll Cry For You
    Never deamed that I could fall But something's come over me Now I'm sitting staring at the wall Afraid for my sanity, yeah The sound of your voice The touch of...
  • Inside
    [Sammet] We're the little creatures Deep inside your mind Some call us their fantasy But some do never find We can teach philosophy But still we must commend T...
  • Jerusalem
    [Music: Sammet & Ludwig / Lyrics: Sammet] Cold in the wind, starless the night Rain pouring down when the last one arrives So many stories telling of pain Are ...
  • Judas At The Opera
    Darkness has covered the Opera house Something is wrong you can feel There's a devil in disguise A traitor has taken the dais Catalogue people spend a pityng ga...
  • Key To My Fate
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Am I totally blind this time when I'm dreamin' The dreams that I fear, some call it nightmare And some call it life, what is th...
  • King of Fools
    What do you think when you spit in my face How does if feel to accuse and to haze Now look at me, I'm not one of your kind And I prefer to stay behind And walk...
  • Land of Miracle
    Blinded by the fire and the sorrow of the day, I come knocking on your door to dry the tears away The eventide is calling me to take a look into your eyes, pull...
  • Land Of The Miracle
    blinded by the fire and the sorrow of the day i come knocking at your door to dry the tears away the eventide is calling me to take a look into your eyes pull m...
  • Lavatory Love Machine
    Oh if only Brazil was not so far far away I Would swim or walk or ride But never ever fly But all the noise of the maniacs there The sweat on my face it's worth...
  • Life And Times Of A Bonus Track
    Poor artist went to label, truckloads of money in mind Rich artist left the buildings Cause all the labels had been standing in line And so they signed Artist ...
  • Matrix
    I see your face in a masquerade I see your made up smile When the show is over what is left behind? Its in your eyes, it's in your hair How come they say opposi...
  • Ministry Of Saints
    When the lights go down you feel it come alive Driven by the dread of love that never passes by When the night unfolds a veil across the day Waiting for the flo...
  • Misguiding Your Life
    A dawn on the run, nowhere to hide in a life of Corruption, insanity has won, living in hate And preaching destruction I'm screaming tonight, my vengeance To fi...
  • Mysteria
    Spoken: "Ladies And Gentleman - Welcome To The Freakshow" Oh Yeah The world around is killing me No thunder wind and rain Eels are crawling everywhere Compoun...
  • Nailed On The Wheel
    Good intentions pave the way of the human child Heading for the fork as you walk the path of life A spell cast from the hiding woods, don't you close your eyes ...
  • Navigator
    The dessert in the blazing sun I feel my throat is burning The guard is incorruptable You name it vanity or yearning - oh Now - dusty into my face We gotta bui...
  • New Age Messiah
    Countless pointing fingers A nameless crowd too swollen to analyse Takes a rise out of the stranger Don't know where he's come from Bumfuck raises birds of para...
  • Nine Lives
    Silence - it ain't the kill but the thrill of the chase Same old story, same old song Only the names have changed Fair warning - I could have read your mind in...
  • No More Foolin'
    Fair sex paralyzer, lipstick in a face Spirit analizer, not one human trace No need to cry Roll the fuckin' dice, I'm a loser in a game Gonna hurt my feelings, ...
  • Nobody's Hero
    Alright! When they'd found him without name He was cries resounding from the waste He'd been thrown away He'd never speak but he could see Eyes of a child and...
  • Out Of Control
    Into a place of darkness, he was born to live alone He got one big desire: one day he'd get the crown: Hey devil come on help me now Be the one to pull my strin...
  • Out Of Vogue
    Jeer at him moving in slow-mo surrounded By a spirit-entourage so odd-inviting sneer You ride the spinning wheel that's getting faster Outside they saw the pass...
  • Overture
    Nowhere to run Nowhere to go Welcome to life damnation Welcome to fun Welcome to hope Here is your invitation Welcome to gate To the unknown fate Waiting for a...
  • Painting On The Wall
    [Music & Lyrics: Sammet] Strong on your feet, you were blinded Building up a towar on shaking ground Once in a world full of colors Back to see just ruins ther...
  • Pandora's Box
    God, oh please bear with me, as you're looking from above Elementary question: what do you take as love? Badlands all around me, I got animal inside God oh ple...
  • Paradise
    I've just returned to give you fears To bring you pain as much as tears You'll never know what's in my mind It's an invitation to my way Pray to me or you will...
  • Power & Majesty
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet & Jens Ludwig] (I am a) sacred king in a sacred kingdom You know me just as royality Lookin' kind so you don't see I wanna stea...
  • Reach Out
    When the spotlight is fading And everyone's gone When your thoughts come back to life And you think of what you have done Take a look in the mirror And then lo...
  • Return To The Tribe
    Road lies ahead And a long road lies behind me I see lights passing by And I know it's the time of our lives A million miles Lightyears I've been travelling To ...
  • Rise Of The Morning Glory
    I see an angel, fed up and pale You've been a sleeper You have been getting stale my friend Time to leave the vale again Back on the runway you accerlate Get o...
  • Robin Hood
    Ride across the endless woods Shadows got away Whispers from the fallen leaves? Moonlight falling through the boughs When horses The castle sounds revealing As ...
  • Rock Of Cashel
    Crossing these endless graze lands The rain wants to cloud remains of longing Or am I done becoming You say That life will go on Then you confine your heart to...
  • Rocket Ride
    I sought salvation but I found insanity Lost in a mess I return to profanity I've been reaching for the sky But I got stuck with my feet down in concrete Don'...
  • Roses To No One
    I'm feeling this time As bad as never before A bleeding wag is fading away Once you needed me For spending delight But below the funny mask There's a crying fa...
  • Sacred Hell
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Ravens in the air, noone in the streets Seems like the fiend he must be back Riding on his horse but also flying in the iar Lov...
  • Sacrifice
    Too much time to get lost in the maze Tell me, isn't that strange You bleed to get there - you were ready To be a bird in a golden cage Sweat is breaking on my...
  • Sands Of Time
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Seasons come and seasons go Here I wait for something to be Try to get as much as I can see Hungry for life But Have you see th...
  • Save Me
    Waiting for a little sign Seems like to no avail Strolling down the pavement aimlessly Waiting for someone To snatch her bag of memories How come you call it de...
  • Save Us Now
    [Music & Lyrics: Sammet] [solo: Shuttle-crash suite in F-Major, Marsian Traditional] The sound of explosions, the children awake The turn of the tide acts up,...
  • Scarlet Rose
    The moment when you held me tight won`t come back any more And at the end of that night you slammed the door My dream it died away just when I saw red And nothi...
  • Sex Fire Religion
    Hey there pal won't you gimme an ear Gimme your everything and keep your fear Godly voices telling me what to do They're out for palpitation Then leave you to y...
  • Speedhoven
    Welcome to this wonderworld Everybody take your sledges Winterland Plutocracy Down the slope don't fear the hedges Everybody in their box Waiting under rights ...
  • Spooks In The Attic
    [by Tobias Sammet] Always tried so hard to leave a tragic story It's tearing me apart you never really care Never met with your approval from your higher categ...
  • Steel Church
    Huh! What do you think when you smile into my eyes You say that you like me but I know that's one of your lies My love is abused my compassion misused Cause I a...
  • Superheroes
    City lights are calling Slowly coming back to life Speeding in the fastlane Mama let us waste no time Devil in the doorway selling any kind of hell We're just...
  • Tears Of A Mandrake
    [Music & Lyrics: Sammet] Gaze at the leaving clairvoyant Predicting invasions and pain A child cansee through the stranger The Watcher's eye, the noble liar I...
  • The Arcane Guild
    Rain pouring down from Beyond this grey shroud of mystery above The goblet of memories is filling Yet it can't appease your thirst for love Salutation - invoca...
  • The Asylum
    Crying in the still of the night A yearning for shelter Silence kissing your wounds Soothing your pain Darkness - And what do they know 'bout losing direction,c...
  • The Devil & The Savant
    When you cross the edge inside reach out for the stranger As you sign the deal tonight Icarus's your only guide See the haggard child of sun To the tempting fir...
  • The Headless Game
    [music & lyrics: Tobias Sammet] Longing for silence "Always faster" is the way that we go Not a little patience Higher, farer, better we grow The beast is risi...
  • The Healing Vision
    Lord of fate, I feel you deep inside my brain Is it really just a dream or the urge to survive? (And during an odyssey through the back of my mind A vision appe...
  • The Kingdom
    Watching the eventide, the sun will hide and sleep My heart's beat is slow I'm thinking about my belief Rain washing over me cleaning up my brain Till I questio...
  • The Pharaoh
    [Music & Lyrics: Sammet] From the cradle of silence and of light It took a birth in human blood - angels cry - To the ages of violence and of hate To explore t...
  • The Piper Never Dies
    Oh Yeah Thirsting for salvation You're off to find the stairway Novice on your never ending ride Whatever you may find dare to take it higher Here's your instig...
  • The Pride Of Creation
    I can't figure the Lord down in funeral gravity One finishing touch and the creature is coming alive As I kneel down and pray I know God is watching over me Is ...
  • The Savage Union
    Here I'm standing at the junction of my life So many ways, I don't know witch one is the right Do I wanna keep it up or throw it all away Or close my eyes, go o...
  • The Spirit
    Don't place your trust in foolish promises sworn Nor cryptic messages scrawled upon every wall Street corner justice beware The spirit will find you always be f...
  • The Spirit Will Remain
    A Scent of rain A healing breeze Is blown into my face To feel desire And raise my head To gaze at the sky And watch the setting sun Breaking through The darken...
  • The Unbeliever
    I am the madness carrying the torch, lighting the wheat in your fields I am the eyes staring out of the dark, I am the wear of your yields When you give respon...
  • Theater Of Salvation
    "I've heard voices in my dream, made me stand up, helped me see" aaah Visions called him to awake his mind, to find his horizon and find out what may be behind...
  • Thorn Without A Rose
    Walking a lonely road in the dark A scent of rain Under wings of a clouded sky Is it a losing game Running after pictures Slowly slipping away Trying to take h...
  • Tomorrow
    Another dawn is coming A new day has begun An eagle is rising slowly into the skies of no return Disappearing in the growing sun So proud and so beautiful Thin...
  • Trinidad
    Let me tell you a story about an ugly woman I know "Hello girls!" "Hello Tobi you hot little machine!!!" I'm a sight for sore eyes Oh, if your eyes would only...