Lightbringer, rise for us today
We're lost in the shadows
Lightbringer, help us find the way
Trace our trajectory
Predict our approach
Hurling mindless, matter, power, force
We're just passive riders
In orbit, no way to change the course
No frame of reference
No guiding light

What agent yet has shown a path
Worthy of walking
No ruler, saint or psychopath
All misguided impulses
All wrongful belief

Bringer of light
A wild and wondrous sight
Bringer of light
A beam of light that shines on through the night
So bright
And keeps us all safe while we hurl
On through the void

Bringer of light
A wild and wondrous sight
Bringer of light
A beam of light that shines on through the night
So bright
And keeps us all safe while we hurl
On through the void

Find compassion, love in every way
An ideal for living
The dark maneuvers and mind games we all play
Are just the pointless practices
Of delusional fools
It's easy, smile and make a friend
The small things all matter
Misguided you stop and start again
Keeping your promises
Killing the lies
Venus, Lucifer
The darkness dies

I don't believe in conquest
I don't believe in war
I don't believe in rulers anymore
I don't accept their reasons
They all just reek of lies
Of greed and of ambition
And of demise

I don't believe in leaders
They're only human too
No slaves and no masters
Just me and you
So blame me for my actions
I'll make my own mistakes
I'll try to sort the real from the fake

All in a dream
All in a dream I dreamt so long ago
All in a dream
All in a dream until tomorrow

Leave me out of your delusions
And I'll leave you out of mine
Let's just accept each other and be kind

[Verse 1]
I wanna see the stars tonight
The winter moon and the northern lights
I wanna feel alive again
And go paint the town with my favourite friends

[Chorus]
Tonight's the night
You can fly me as a kite
I'll be alright, I'm that light-headed
If someone would just kiss me
I could feel like Paul Stanley

[Verse 2]
I wanna see your face again
It's been too long, I can't maintain
The feelings you evoke in me
Without your smile to set me free

[Chorus]
So tonight's the night
You can fly me as a kite
And I'll be alright, I'm that light-headed
But launch me right
I'll wanna sail all night
I'll be the rocket launched to soar intrepid

[Verse 3]
I wanna see the stars tonight
The winter moon and the northern lights
I wanna feel alive again
Paint the town with my favourite friends
Tonight's the night

[Verse 1]
There is always another one
An undiscovered special one
There is always a second chance
One more lovely, one last dance

[Chorus]
Well, it ain't over
Until it's over

[Verse 2]
Stepping into my sailing shoes
I can kill those young man blues
I can rule my own world again
Not be Abel, but be Cain

[Chorus]
And I will bounce back
And make my comeback
'Cause it ain't over
Until it's over

[Verse 3]
Sitting here in my lonely room
I can hear the bells of doom
I can hear their clarion call
I see the writing on the wall

[Verse 4]
Let me dream all my nights away
Let me sing what I cannot say
Let me peel all the years away
What I was is all I have today

[Chorus]
And I will bounce back
And make my comeback
'Cause it ain't over
Until it's over

So they will bury his shell today:
Take his sad, used up body away
Someone will sing his song

It will be beautiful and real sad
They will all talk of good times they had
Then he'll be all beyond

You always hope that it will go on
Cause you are never totally done
And it's that next thing you love

But I will miss him because I can
Both the idea and the man
That I am blessed to have known

Balthazaar

Noone will never ever hear it quite that way
Noone will really ever get it anyway
If they deserve to get it, serve it
Hard and fast, push on past, use that greed - let 'em all bleed

Noone will never ever want to hear you lie
Noone will never want to watch you sob and sigh
The humble joker, power broker
Tells no lie, flies on by, shows the hole, nourishes the soul

Balthazaar

Please no more statues, and no more saints
No portaits lathered in gaudy paints
But let us love them all

‘cause it is all over when they are gone
There's no more fresh starts for anyone
It is all over

Balthazaar

[Verse 1]
This isn't Venus, this isn't Apollo
It's not the advent of the bringer of light
The tides are pulling us deeper and deeper
Into the chaos of darkness and night

[Chorus]
The cracks are showing, man the boats
Darkness is growing, put on your coat

[Verse 2]
I turn my back on these agents of chaos
I hate their smell and I don't trust their words
They come with doubt, with hate and suspicion
A wolf pack circling, and you are the herd

[Chorus]
The cracks are showing, man the boats
Darkness is growing, put on your coat

[Verse 3]
I think the speed is making us shallow
Easy answers are never the best
The hole just seems like it keeps getting deeper
Y'all failin' the acid test
Why choose to do the work of the devil
What would you reap from sowing discontent
They've lit a fire in the bed of roses
Now flowers die in flaming arguments

[Chorus]
The cracks are showing, man the boats
Darkness is growing, shit sure floats

L
Leg of toad, wing of bee
There’s two for you
And three for me
In the pot, bubbly stew
There’s some for me but more for you
Stir the cauldron, stir…

Eye of newt, lock of hair
A cup of lust, a pinch of fear
In it goes, lovely brew
Now here’s a riddle just for you
What new beast will rise
Spawned from what new lies
A darkness bringer
Shrouded in what guise

Ll
The day will come when The Beast is here
And everything will turn
The earth will tremble, the ground will shake -
Your towers will all burn
Oh
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O

What strange beast woken
Will march again
The horsemen all ride out
The walls will tumble as trumpets blare
Locusts, plague & drought
Oh
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O

There’s no beginning, there is no end
Only seasons change
Two thousand years to be born again
The hour seems so strange
What beast awoken is on it’s way
What force will be revealed
Turning & turning, the widening gyre
Our fates will all be sealed

Oh
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O


The second coming is here at last
Centuries have passed
A new redeemer is on his way
His minions are amassed
A change is coming, a new day’s here
It’s hours filled with wrath
There is no hiding, no safe space left
What burning bitter broth…

Oh
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O
E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O

In just a glimmer it was there again and I recognized
The one I knew a million years ago, the one I idolized
I had forgotten, I had quite ignored just how it felt
Ah, but time is passing slowly
And you never change your mind

It made me look again at all of this, it lit the dark
A little fragment of a memory, just a little spark
Sometimes that's all it takes to make it all feel real again
Ah, but time is passing slowly
And you never change your mind

Less than expected, just some respect and attention
Less than expected, please no more condescension
Less than expected, just for someone to take notice
Less than expected, just want to see your smile

The pathways never taken
Options you dismissed
So confused and shaken
The choices that led to this
Oh, but the memories remain close
Oh, and the feeling never goes

There is a sparkle and there is a gleam behind the veil
There is a knowledge and a memory that's not for sale
I sometimes wonder and I sometimes dream but I never ever act
Ah, but time is passing slowly
And you never change your mind

I wonder what happened to you (Yeah)
Never forgotten, you don't remember me do you
Never forgotten, my memory stays forever
Never forgotten, just thought I saw that smile

[Verse 1]
Countdown commencing
Psychonaut standby
Rockets ready
Ignition time is nigh

[Chorus]
Liftoff impending, metal ascending
Payload, three frightened monkeys

[Verse 2]
Sunup, sundown
Beyond earth, the sky
Clearing orbit
To escape, to fly

[Chorus]
Liftoff impending, metal ascending
Payload, three frightened monkeys

[Verse 3]
Surfing lightning
We soar the sky sublime
Travel the spaceways
Until the end of time

[Chorus]
Liftoff impending, metal ascending
Payload, three frightened monkeys

[Verse 4]
An endless horizon
No more geocide
Eternal newness
Worth the bumpy ride

[Chorus]
Liftoff impending, metal ascending
Payload, three frightened monkeys
Liftoff impending, metal ascending
Payload, three frightened monkeys

[Verse 1]
It's not as if I failed to try
I found I couldn’t run and I wouldn't lie
Slow to anger, built to last
Feeling tense and wired and fading fast

[Chorus]
So tired
Sun arise, I'm
So tired now
The dead of winter

[Verse 2]
Winter days so dull and grey
Somehow they aren’t lived, they just fade away
All life known will wax and wane
It will live and die to live again

[Chorus]
So tired
Sun arise, I'm
So tired
Bring the light, I'm
So tired now
The dead of winter

[Bridge]
What goes around
Sure comes around

[Verse 3]
To the sun the world looks black
At this depth the abyss stares back