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One of the ultimates from DD: Save a Prayer

Enters the synthesizers and the chill on your arm.

and Depeche Mode with Never Let Me Down Again...

Sing! I'm taking a ride with my best friend...(I thought it was a gay thing...but maybe it's drugs)

After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ S O'Hara

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You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

So when your waiting for the next attack

You'dbetter stand there's no turning back

The bugle sounds the charge begins

But on this battle field no one wins

The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath as I plunge on into certain death

(Chorus)

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh x2

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The horse he swaets with fear we break to run

The mighty roar of the russian guns

And as we race towards the human wall

The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground

And the russians fire another round

We get so near yet so far away

We wont live to fight another day

(Chorus)

(Solos)

We get so close near enough to fight

When a russian gets me in his sights

He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow

A burst of rounds takes my horse below

And as I lay there gazing at the sky

My body's numb and my throat is dry

And as I lay forgotten and alone

Without a tear I draw my parting groan

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some lengthy masterpieces..

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner

See his eye as he stops one of three

Mesmerises one of the wedding guests

Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.

And the music plays on, as the bride passes by

Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale.

Driven south to the land of the snow and ice

To a place where nobody's been

Through the snow fog flies on the albatross

Hailed in god's name, hoping good luck it brings.

And the ship sails on, back to the north

Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.

The mariner kills the bird of good omen

His shipmates cry against what he's done

But when the fog clears, they justify him

And make themselves a part of the crime.

Sailing on and on and north across the sea

Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm.

The albatross begins with it's vengeance

A terrible curse a thirst has begun

His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner

About his neck, the dead bird is hung.

And the curse goes on and on at sea

And the curse goes on and on for them and me.

'Day after day, day after day,

we stuck nor breath nor motion

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean

Water, water everywhere and

all the boards did shrink

Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.'

There calls the mariner

There comes a ship over the line

But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide.

See... onward she comes

Onward she nears out of the sun

See, she has no crew

She has no life, wait but here's two.

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Death and she life in death,

They throw their dice for the crew

She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.

Then... crew one by one

They drop down dead, two hundred men

She... she, life in death.

She lets him live, her chosen one.

'One after one by the star dogged moon,

Too quick for groan or sigh

Each turned his facce with a ghastly pang

And cursed me with his eye

Four times fifty living men

(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)

With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,

They dropped down one by one.'

The curse it lives on in their eyes

The mariner wished he'd die

Along with the sea creatures

But they lived on, so did he.

And by the light of the moon

He prays for their beauty not doom

With heart he blesses them

God's creatures all of them too.

Then the spell starts to break

The albatross falls from his neck

Sinks down like lead into the sea

Then down in falls comes the rain.

Hear the groans of the long dead seamen

See them stir and they start to rise

Bodies lifted by good spirits

None of them speak and they're lifelesss in their eyes

And revenge is still sought, penance starts again

Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.

Now the curse is finally lifted

And the mariner sights his home

Spirits go fromhe long dead bodies

Form their own light and the mariner's left alone.

And then a boat came sailing towards him

It was a joy he could not believe

The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit,

Penance of life will fall onto him.

And the ship sinks like lead into the sea

And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins.

The mariner's bound to tell of his story

To tell this tale wherever he goes

To teach god's word by his own example

That we must love all things thaat God made.

And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man

And the tale goes on and on and on.

'my son ask for thyself another

Kingdom for that wich I leave

Is too small for thee'

(king philip of macedonia - 339 b.c.)

Near to the east

In a part of ancient greece

In an ancient land called macedonia

Was born a son

To philip of macedon

The legend his name was alexander

At the age of nineteen

He became the macedon king

And he swore to free all of asia minor

By the aegian sea

In 334 b.c.

He utterly beat the armies of persia

Alexander the great

His name struck fear into hearts of men

Alexander the great

Became a legend 'mongst mortal men

King darius the third

Defeated fled persia

The scythians fell by the river of jaxartes

Then egypt fell to the macedon king as well

And he founded the city called alexandria

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By the tigris river

He met king darius again

And crushed him again at the battle of arbela

Entering babylon

And susa treasures he found

Took persepolis the capital of persia

Alexander the great

His name struck fear into hearts of men

Alexander the great

Became a God 'mongst mortal men

A phrygian king had bound a chariot yoke

And alexander cut the 'gordian knot'

And the legend said that who untied the knot

He would become the master of asia

Helonism he spread far and wide

The macedonian learned mind

Their culture was a western way of life

He paved the way for christianity

Marching on marching on

The battle weary marching side by side

Alexander's army line by line

They wouldn't follow him to india

Tired of the combat, pain and the glory

Alexander the great

His name struck fear into hearts of men

Alexander the great

He died of fever in babylon

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O God of earth and altar

Bow down and hear our cry

Our earthly rulers falter

Our peolple drift and die

The walls of gold entombe us

The swords of scorn divide

Take not thy thunder from us

But take away our pride

(G. k. chesterton: english hymnal)

Just a babe in a black abyss

No reason for a place like this

The walls are cold and souls cry out in pain

An easy way for the blind to go

A clever path for the fools who know

The secret of the hanged man - the smile on his lips

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The light of the blind you'll see

The venom that tears my spine

The eyes of the nile are opening - you'll see

She came to me with a serpents kiss

As the eye of the sun rose on her lips

Moonlight catches silver tears I cry

So we lay in a black embrace

And the seed is sown in a holy place

And I watched and I waited for the dawn

The light of the blind you'll see

The venom that tears my spine

The eyes of the nile are opening - you'll see

Bind all of us together

Ablaze of hope and free

No storm or heavy weather

Will rock the boat you'll see

The time has come to close your eyes

And still the wind and rain

For the one who will be king

The watcher in the ring

It is you

I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime.

Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time.

'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole,

The sands of time for me are running low.

When the priest comes to read me the last rites,

I take a look through the bars at the last sights,

Of a world that has gone very wrong for me.

Can it be that there's some sort of error?

Hard to stop the surmounting terror.

Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming,

It's not easy to stop from screaming,

But words escape me when I try to speak.

[ Ly ]

Tears fall but why am I crying?

After all I'm not afraid of dying.

Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard,

Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you".

If there's a God then why has he let me go?

As I walk all my life drifts before me

And though the end is near I'm not sorry

Catch my soul 'cause it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on

Please don't worry now that I have gone

I've gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand,

Maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down here is just a strange illusion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Hallowed be Thy name

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Hallowed be Thy name

Yeah

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Can't understand what is happening to me,

This isn't real, this is only a dream,

But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before,

I'm looking down on my body below,

I lie asleep in the midst of a dream,

Is it now could it be that the angel of death has come for me?

I can't believe that really my time has come,

I don't feel ready, there's so much left undone,

And it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away.

Chorus:

Heaven can wait,

Heaven can wait,

Heaven can wait,

Heaven can wait til another day.

[Reapeat chorus]

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I have a lust for the Earth below

And Hell itself is my only foe,

'Cause I've no fear of dying,

I'll go when I'm good and ready,

I snatch a glimpse of the light's eternal rays,

I see a tunnel, I stand amazed,

At all of the people standing there in front of me,

Into the paths of rightness I'll be led,

Is this the place where the living join the dead?

I wish I knew this was only just a nightmare.

[Chorus *2]

Take my hand, I'll lead you to the promised land,

Take my hand, I'll give you immortality,

Eternal youth, I'll take you to the other side,

To see the truth, the path for you is decided.

Oh Oh * lots.

My body tingles, I feel so strange,

I feel so tired, I feel so drained,

And I'm wondering if I'll ever be the same again,

Is this in limbo or in Heaven or Hell?

Maybe I'm going down there as well,

I can't accept my soul will drift forever.

I feel myself floating back down to Earth,

So could this be the hour of my rebirth?

Or have I died or will I wake from dreaming?

Into the abyss I'll fall-the eye of horus

Into the eyes of the night-watching me go

Green is the cat's eye that glows-in this temple

Enter the risen osiris-risen again.

Chorus

Tell me why I had to be a powerslave

I don't wanna die, I'm a god, why can't I live on?

When the life giver dies, all around is laid to waste.

And in my last hour,

I'm a slave to the power of death.

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When I was living this lie-fear was my game

People would worship and fall-drop to their knees

So bring me the blood and red wine for the one to succeed me

For he is a man and a god-and he will die too.

Chorus

Now I am cold but a ghost lives in my veins,

Silent the terror that reigned-maarbled in stone

Shell of a man God preserved-a thousand ages

But open the gates of my hell-i will strike from the grave.

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As the sun breaks above the ground

An old man stands on the hill

As the ground warms to the first rays of light

A birdsong shatters the still

His eyes are ablaze

See the madman in his gaze

Fly on your way like an eagle

Fly as high as the sun

On your wings like an eagle

Fly and touch the sun

[ Lyrics fr

Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears

Look the old man in his eyes

As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd

In the name of God my father I fly

His eyes seem so glazed

As he flies on the wings of a dream

Now he knows his father betrayed

Now his wings burn to ashes to ashes his grave

Fly on your way like an eagle

Fly as high as the sun

On your wings like an eagle

Fly and touch the sun

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