Trans-Siberian Orchestra Album

Here believe a night enchanted seen
Here the hopes of Gods are planted, dream
Remember, remember all we do not see
Surrender, surrender all we wished to be

Lost and forgotten like our Akhenaten
Body and spirit, no one can hear it, lost in eternity
Forever hear us, forever hear us, forever hear us
Forever where our hopes have never ceased to be

Death will embrace us, hold and encase us
Time may deface us, will God retrace us?
Time speaks through seasons, God speaks through reasons
Kindness, compassion not random fashions
Yet to be, yet to be, yet to

Child of the night, dreams there alight
Anyway your heart does want to know that they will walk with thee
Each grain of sand falls as was planed
And within each precious moment are the things yet to be

Night in it's whispers, dreams all his gestures
Stars fear no distance, fear no distance
For they will always guide you through eternity

Here believe a night enchanted seen
Here the hopes of Gods are planted, dream
Remember, remember all we do not see
Surrender, surrender all we wished to be

Lost and forgotten like our Akhenaten
Body and spirit, no one can hear it, lost in eternity
Forever hear us, forever hear us, forever hear us
Forever where our hopes have never ceased to be

Death will embrace us, hold and encase us
Time may deface us, will God retrace us?
Time speaks through seasons, God speaks through reasons
Kindness, compassion not random fashions
Yet to be, yet to be, yet to

(erasmus)

late in summer
staring out the window
only seven
tell me what could she know
the world would never understand
but they don't see what she still can
what does she see
what does she know

and must she ever just let go
as childhood dreams
childhood dreams

what is childhood
something we remember
rarely
barely
sometimes in decembers
but then it's known to catch our eye
and dare us all to
once more try
and with a childhood faith believe
and that magic to retrieve
as childhood dreams

childhood dreams
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
dreams

softly
fading
tell me where the years go
i am aging
but she does not think so
her world of possibilities
as far as childhood
eyes can see
and must one day

she just decide
to step off of this
childhood ride
as childhood dreams
childhood dreams

only seven as she
sits and wonders
late at night as
the world it slumbers
but suddenly inside the dark
she sees the magic
of the sparks
and so she knows
she must go down
to see this world
that she has found
as childhood dreams

childhood dreams
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
childhood
dreams

[Drug Dealer]

Lines
Of a tale
Cut in the face of a crowd
Sentenced no bail

There
In the night
Deep in the back
Through the black
Beckons a life

Time
Moving in a straight line
But then at a whim
A change in the wind
A story begins in its mind

For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks

Sparks

She
Has been steeled
Standing there looking so tight
Taut and high-heeled

One
Of a kind
The kind of a girl
That only a dream
Could design

Time
Seen through glasses of wine
Never reveals
The why or the when
How this story will end
As you find

That deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks

Sparks

Come on
Conjure up a reason for living
Take me round
And around
And around
And around
And again

Come on
Do it in the name of living
For if not tonight
Tell me when

For if not tonight
Tell me when
Ahhhhh

Hearts
Can confuse
That messed up bundle of nerves
That tends to bruise

Still
Lay it bare
It's better to bleed than to need
And never have dared

Chance
A move based on a glance
A move based on no more than feel
In this unreal circumstance

For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks

[No lyrics]

(lieutenant)

i have been this way before
check each window
every door
for a passage through
this night
this night

but each hallway
ends the same
every door's been
checked in vain
for a way to reach that light
that light

as i move in deeper
towards this castle's keeper
every stair seems steeper
am i risking my own life
my life

then a falcon in the air
looking down
returns my stare
while she's circling around
around

then she dives straight towards a wall
then she isn't there at all
and is gone without a sound
no sound

i have no choice but to follow
what was solid now is hollow
stairways hidden behind curtains
realizing nothing is certain

suddenly up stairs i'm climbing
then through hallways twisted, winding
this falcon on her endeavor
do these stairs just go forever
on

and in that room
an old man sitting there
he's writing notes
and drops them in the air

somewhere outside
upon an ocean breeze
which takes them out
past where the eye can see

Sleep, don't turn away
You are the safest way into tomorrow
Dreams if you will stay
Or at least the best parts that are sorrow
Days are counted til they are gone
Nights are meant to carry on

Morpheus is at your side
Offering the wings to fly and be there
Free from Earth to sail across this night
Where stars are all eternal
And the mind is the evening sighs
So close your eyes and tell me what you see?

Sleep, don't turn away
You are the safest way into tomorrow
Dreams if you will stay
And carefully erase the sorrows
Letting sleep embrace its task
Placing sadness in the past

Morpheus is at your side
Offering the wings to fly and be there
Free from Earth to sail across this night
Where stars are all eternal
And the mind is the evening sighs
So close your eyes and tell me what you see?

Be there
Be there
Be there
Be there now

The evening sighs,
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see?

[No lyrics]

[Lieutenant]

So you're caught in the night
Of a new firefight
In a jungle that's so hot that it
Steams

An explosion just ahead
Does announce the newly dead
Is it right to call a nightmare a
Dream

And the tracers probe on
'Till a close friend is gone
And you find yourself embracing
Ground

And the foe is as near
As the silence you hear
As he stops to load in another
Round

Battles raging
It's all staging
'Till you realize...
Another way you can die

Still you know they're out there
Feel their eyes, feel their stares
Though there's not a single life
Can see

But you now fire back
For their tracers leave tracks
Pointing out the places where they
Must be

Though a gun is taken out
There's another have no doubt
And so you must continue the game

And you know in this fight
That the value of life
On the other side is not quite the
Same

Battles raging
It's all staging
As your mind denies
Another way you can...

I see a figure in my rifle sight
Who does not know that he's there
And as I hesitate to take his life
The ground explodes

My blood it flows
My heart is racing
Times escaping
As I feel it slowly scraping by

[No lyrics]

[No lyrics]

In a city after midnight
Neath the halo of a street light
Withered dreams die
As the blood dries
All the wounds we keep hidden from view

In the safety of this darkness
As it hides all, time has tarnished
The forbidden, unforgiven, are secure here where no one pursues

But the night fades away and gives way to the day
For what else is the night to do?
As the dark steps aside, with the hopes we confide
And never believes that the dream we conceived would ever not, ever come true

Is life different, after midnight?
With its new dawn, and its new light
Inconsistent, and indifferent, to the things we were so sure we knew
As we stood there, in the night air
With such beauty, that the stars stare
From their distance, you are different
Like a dream that no one could refuse

But the night fades away
And gives way to the day
For what else is the night to do?
As the dark steps aside with the hopes we confide
And never believes that the dreams we conceived would ever not, ever come true

As you stand all alone at your station
What if God doesn't know where you are?
As you said all your prayers for salvation
But afraid that they don't go that far
So you wait all alone in your darkness
And there's a train that drives on through the night
And if everyone's on it except us
Will it return for that single light?

In a city after midnight
Neath the halo of a street light...

[Mother]
Remember what Confucius taught,
Always be kind.
[Son]
Yes, Mother.
[Mother]
Always help the weak and the old.
[Son]
Yes, Mother. I understand.
[Mother]
And always help those less fortunate than yourself
[Son]
Yes, mother. Always.

[A jet passes by in the distance and the apparition of his mother fades away.
The child turns towards Tran-Do in a non-judgmental but puzzled voice.]

[Son]
How did I become you?

There was a life
Was there before?

But somehow here upon this night it means more
And all those words
She tried to say
But now forgotten or they have some how slipped away

And now in this darkness,
Is there salvation,
Is there forgiveness,
For hesitation?
Can someone tell me
Can someone say when,
The writer of this story will just tell us how it all will end?

And somewhere on this night there is a wave
On the ocean that crashes on shores where no one can see
The tides and the currents decide every motion
From where they are now to where they will be
It craddles them all for they all are it's children
If one drop disappears it was instantly missed
And after a drain has joined up with the shore line
It returns to the sea for that is it's one wish.

There was a light,
Was there before?

But in the darkness of this night it now means more
To be so close,
To be so near,
To see the water there within a young child's tear.
And to her blindness
To me who've onworked
And cling to the lights
That we have harbored
We could not have it
We were mistaken
But if we don't do it now,
Dear God could you please come down here and tell me when?

And somewhere on this night there is a wave
On the ocean that crashes on shores where no one can see
The tides and the currents decide every motion
From where they are now to where they will be
It craddles them all, for they all are it's children
If one drop disappears it is instantly missed
And after a drain has joined up with the shore line
It returns to the sea for that is it's one wish.

In the dead of the night,
Tell me what do you see?
Will you close your eyes child,
And just listen to me
And remember this now
Hear these words that I say
As your story appears
At the end of the day

For my meeting with death
Though it has been delayed
I have run my hands over
The end of it's blade
Though that cut wasn't fatal
Even though it was deep
Well that wounds never healed
And that blood it still seethed

Aren't you scared of your life?
Are you scared of your death?
Though that day will arrive
Well it hasn't come yet
So the days turn to months
And the months turn to years
As I see them all now
Through a prism of tears

But don't fear tomorrow,
And don't fear the night,
Its where God reparis sorrows that enter your life
Through the remains of your life
The remains of the day
They'll protect every hour
Don't give them away
For each evening we sleep
And each morning we rise.

But you're not the same man
Thats the way its divised
For theres parts of yourself
The soul decides to keep
And theres parts of yourself
That the sould does release
With some changes of small
They can not be seen
But death is like sleep
Within our dreams

Aren't you scared of your life?
Are you scared of your death?
Though that day will arrive
Well it hasn't come yet

As for all those mistakes
That you've made in your life
Must they stay as they are?
Or can we make them right?
On this night take my hand
Keep me near, keep me close
And if I should die first
Could I not be your ghost?

But if later in life
We should happen to meet
Would you keep me so near
You could hear my heart beat?
There are reasons to live
There are reasons to die
But the ends not the end
Cause you're still alive, alive, alive

While you're still a...

There was a life
Was there before?...

[No lyrics]

[Lieutenant]

What child
This night
Whose dreams
Take flight?

What child
Somewhere
Sleeps
Unaware?

What life
That yet
Has no
Regrets?

What child
Who knows
What dreams
I've closed?

Time floats on
As I write these letters
That you'll never see

Still each one's gone
Placed in a bottle
So tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee

What child
This night
Whose wings
Take flight?

On evening
Winds
What dreams
Begins?

Each day
Begets
Its own
Regrets

Do I
Dare wait
Or joust
With fate?

Time floats on
As I write these letters
That you'll never see

Still each one's gone
Placed in a bottle
So the tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee

the silence (in khmer)

don't go

does it have to be this way?

can't we have just one more chance?

those who know
they will not say

must this be the final…

dance in our lives?
as time just moves on
yesterday's years
are too quickly gone

all visions fade
as worlds fall apart
decisions are made
but there in this dark now
there in this dark now

somewhere on this night
a life is out there
and can someone tell me how

here on this night
so far away
bits of starlight
fall where they may

i never wanted to go
i never wanted to stay
i never wanted to be afraid
but still
childhood sees what childhood will
but nothing ever stays the same

i fear the night
i fear the dark
i need this light
that distant spark

i know that…

somewhere

someone's looking to deceive and

somewhere

young men die and children bleed and

somewhere

some have too much while others need and

somewhere

someone's looking to believe and…

somewhere
somewhere
somewhere
somewhere

and the night and the dark
and the hopes and the dreams
as we all play our parts
while ignoring the screams

so we lie to ourselves
and we just carry on
never stop, never turn
don't admit what is …

gone in to this twisted story
all these things so clear before me
every path we've ever taken
can't admit we were mistaken

in this night
of my devising
never live
and never dying

each escape
i've never taken
never dream
and never waken…

somewhere

someone's looking to deceive and

somewhere

young men die and children bleed and

somewhere

some have too much while others need and

somewhere

someone's looking to believe and…

(tran-do sees himself as a snake oil salesman selling the same lies that he was sold in a carnival barker's voice.)

come one come all
welcome to the world's greatest entertainment since the fall of rome
life, death
victims, voyeurs
the best of society
the lowest of plebeians
and to keep it all in extremely interesting, today's patrons
could very easily be tomorrow's entertainment
all compliments of the ultimate showman fate
all that's missing is the coliseum

(tran-do turns away from the apparition of himself as a snake oil salesman, and once more looks into the abyss.)

did you ever walk up
to the edge of a cliff
stare into the abyss
as your mind wonders if

you should take one more step
further into that night
well your mind says you won't
but your heart says you might

would you fall through the dark
feel the wind in your hair
would you embrace the ground
and end your life right there

or would god reach his hand
and that moment you fly
or if he chanced to blink
and then, that moment you die
you die
you die
you die ...

stare into the dark
as the abyss keeps calling
try to take a step
but then the mind keeps stalling

can a single question
just go on forever
as a single thought goes on
it's now or never

stare into the dark
as the abyss keeps calling
try to take a step
but then the mind keeps stalling

can a single question
just go on forever
as a single thought goes on
it's now or never

never really took much
never really had to
only had a small crush
problem was that it grew

never really took much
never really had to
only had a small crush
problem was that it grew

be who you are
what you were
what they see

from eternity's view
tell me
which one is me
can you…

be who you are
what you were
what they see

from eternity's view
tell me
which one is me

on this night
keep me close
on this night
breathe my air

on this night
hold me tight
feel my heart
beating there

on this night
keep me close
on this night
breathe my air

on this night
hold me tight
feel my heart
beating there

on this night
keep me close
on this night
breathe my air

on this night
hold me tight
feel my heart
beating there…

did you ever walk up
to the edge of a cliff
stare into the abyss
as your mind wonders if

you should take one more step
further into that night
well your mind says you won't
but then this all is your life

your life
your life
this all is your life
your life
your life

this all is your life
your life
your life

this all is your life
your life
your life
this all is your…

is your life
is your life
is your life
is your...life

Bach's Lullaby

Sleep little one go to sleep
Mother is here by thy bed
Sleep little one go to sleep
Rest on thy pillow thy head
The world is silent and still
The moon shines bright on the hill
And creeps pass by my windowsill
Sleep little one go to sleep

Oh sleep, go to sleep

Sleep little one go to sleep
So peaceful the birds and the sheep
Quiet are meadow and trees
Even the buzz of the bees
The silvery moon beams so bright
Down through the window give light
O'er you the moon beams will creep
Sleep little one go to sleep

Good night, good night

Sleep little one go to sleep
Mother is here by thy bed
Sleep little one go to sleep
Rest on they pillow thy head
The world is silent and still
The moon shines bright on the hill
And creeps pass by my windowsill
Sleep little one go to sleep

Oh sleep, go to sleep

you were the dream that survived
lost in the darkness of eternity
you were the hope kept alive
embraced by tomorrows that we all could never quite see
you had a beauty denied
you were the moment
but here in this night
where your dream carries on
never quite there but it's never quite gone
you are the star that is wished upon
forever
you were the one that believed
long past when belief was a memory
the child time would never concede
faith and tomorrow and all of the things that might be
you had a beauty denied
a glittering moment
but here in this night
where your dream carries on
never quite there but it's never quite gone
you are the star that is wished upon
forever
do you believe in night
does it hold you close
when you're at your last card
pray hard, father, son & holy ghost
still the night rolls on
brings you to your knees
when you look back that far
each scar, suddenly just starts to bleed
the night it keeps burning
while twisting and turning
its way to tomorrow
its joys and its sorrows
our secrets beneath her
we drive each stake deeper
then offer to barter
but each deal is harder
the cloaks we keep changing
while gliding through weddings
of nights to their morning
of dreams to their dawning
while reaching for moments
the world has forbidden
the kindness inside them
so carefully hidden
the pages keep turning
but no-one is learning
they feed them to pyres
to stoke up their fires
of ignorance, apathy
forbidding charity
the flames they grow higher
could such be desired
and christ and confucius
are all their words useless
we quote them in fractions
but not in our actions
aurelius, and hugo
auden and gibran
the words they have written
seem so quickly gone
for somewhere there's dirt
that was once reddish mud
from soaking up liquid
that was a man's blood
but both earth and god
they have deemed to forgive
so each year in the spring
new flowers do live
and of all the authors
your favorite was wilde
with each timeless story
all penned with such style
of fairytale kingdoms
where ogres save children
and no gardens have walls
so all children might use them
and since that's the ending
you valued the most
you cling to that card
father, son & holy ghost
father, son & holy ghost
father, son & holy ghost
father, son & holy ghost
father, son & holy...
but here in this night
where your dream carries on
never quite there but it's never quite gone
you are the star that is wished upon
forever

[Mrs. Cozier]

There was a time
Now far away
That now belongs
To yesterday

But late at night
If you believe
There are still parts
You can retrieve

Beyond our memories
Past where the eyes can see

Well disguised
Waiting there
Dream devised

Safe from time's
Endless reach
Everything
A child can teach

What to keep
What to save
When to dare
An ocean's wave

There among life's memories
Remnants of a lullaby and thee

There was a time
Now long before
We found a way
To close each door

But in our minds
Through labyrinths deep
Late in our lives
Those doors we seek

And in our fantasies
We try to, find the keys

Reach the stairs
Follow them
Each to where

Scattered there
On the ground
Everything
Lost is found

Wished on coins
Childhood wings
Carousels
Still turning

Waiting there patiently
Remnants of a lullaby
And thee

[No lyrics]

[No lyrics]

Child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Anywhere your heart does wander
Know that they will walk with thee

Each grain of sand
Falls as was planned
And within each precious moment
Are the things still yet to be

Night in its vespers
Dreams are its gestures
Stars fear no distance
Fear no distance

For they will guard you
Throughout your life

For they will guard you beyond this night

There
As their own
As their own
And forever more
Forevermore

Their
Child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Never fear and never falter
For the stars can always see

Dreams that are sent
With the intent
To carefully be brought to life
For such is childhood's alchemy

Precious as stardust
Such is a child's trust
And in its seasons
In its seasons

For they will guard you
Throughout your life
For they will guard you
Beyond this night

There
As their own
As their own
And forever more
Forevermore

Their child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Anywhere your heart does wander
Know that they will walk with thee

So after all those one night stands
You've ended up with heart in hand
A child alone
On your own
Retreating

Regretful for the things you're not
And all the things you haven't got
Without a home
A heart of stone lies bleeding

And for all the roads you followed
And for all you did not find
And for all the dreams you had to
Leave behind

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night

I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams

Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand

I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe

Your childhood eyes were so
Intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
The grown-up wings you needed

But when you had to add them up
You found that they were not
Enough
To get you in
And pay for sins
Repeated

And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you hide
And for all the fears you had to
Keep inside

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night

I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams

Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand

I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe

I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I wasted my time

I never wanted to go
Always wanted to stay
'Cause the person I am
Are the parts that I play

So I plot and I plan
Hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night
Filled with unfinished dreams

And I'm holding on tight
To a world gone astray
As they charge me for years
I can't pay
Yeah

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night

I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams

Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand

I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you

Believe

[No lyrics]

O Fortuna (O Fortune)
Velut luna (like the moon)
Statu variabilis (you are changeable)
Semper crescis (ever waxing)
Aut decrescis; (and waning;)
Vita detestabilis (hateful life)
Nunc obdurat (first oppresses)
Et tunc curat (and then soothes)
Ludo mentis aciem, (as fancy takes it)
Egestatem, (poverty)
Potestatem (and power)
Dissolvit ut glaciem. (it melts them like ice.)

Sors immanis (Fate - monstrous)
Et inanis, (and empty)
Rota tu volubilis, (you whirling wheel)
Status malus, (you are malevolent)
Vana salus (well-being is vain)
Semper dissolubilis, (and always fades to nothing)
Obumbrata (shadowed)
Et velata (and veiled)
Michi quoque niteris; (you plague me too;)
Nunc per ludum (now through the game)
Dorsum nudum (I bring my bare back)
Fero tui sceleris. (to your villainy.)

Sors salutis (Fate is against me)
Et virtutis (in health)
Michi nunc contraria, (and virtue)
Est affectus (driven on)
Et defectus (and weighted down)
Semper in angaria. (always enslaved.)
Hac in hora (So at this hour)
Sine mora (without delay)
Corde pulsum tangite; (pluck the vibrating strings;)
Quod per sortem (since Fate)
Sternit fortem, (strikes down the string)
Mecum omnes plangite! (everyone weep with me!)

[No lyrics]