Carl Palmer

Through the fields that have changed with time
The spirit still grows stronger
I can see the boy inside
I can feel the hunger

But there's a shadow that is thrown upon us
Like a thief come in the night
They still try and put us down
We stand and fight

I believe
We're gonna rise and steal the thunder
I believe
We're gonna hold this flame forever
I believe

Like an arrow from a burning bow
It's aim once born of anger
Like a river that forever flows
The years our only danger

The water washes over me
But I still can breathe the fire
Oh Lord, I'm just a man
No longer giving it all away

I believe
We're gonna rise and steal the thunder
I believe
We're gonna hold this flame forever
I believe

You give your innocence so easy
All too soon you'll know
Lose your fragile independence
Then you're on your own

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

I keep on searching ever more
For what I just can't see
Now I look and find the answer
Right in front of me

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

Invisible sun cast your shadow over me
As wind cuts like a knife
Catapulting me from life with you
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

Down corridors of rocks and sand
It's littered and it's torn
The wear and tear from dusk till dawn
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

This treasure can be anyone's
To believe in only one
It's not a foolish thing, there's no comparison
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins

This time, you know just what I'm saying
But you could never give a damn
Or so it seems

It's a fine line with this game that you're playing
And you could always turn around
Go running for home

Chorus
Alibis, little lies
Procrastination
Secrecy, duplicity
The end of your alibis

Something I could always believe in
Then suddenly just disappeared
It's all over now

Chorus

Goodbye your tiny whispers of comfort
Never the victim of circumstance
You had me deceived

So, Jodie, maybe this is the last time
That I will ever speak your name
I'm going home

Chorus

Chorus

A perfect day, or so I say
From where I'm standing
This rollercoaster ride, fate will decide
The ending

Love everlasting, or lost on the way

The smiles and the frowns, the ups and downs
Of fortune turning
The twists and turns, the lessons learned
The bridges burning

Nights to remember and never forget

CHORUS
Go, seize the day
Wake up and say
This is an extraordinary life, oh
Enjoy today
Come what may
This is an extraordinary

I gave it all, my cards have fallen
But I'm still alive
And in the end, believe my friend
I will survive

Glory or heartache and some of the joy

CHORUS

All of the good times, all of the bad
Responsibility is totally mine I know
I rightly stand accused
But I believe that I can change
Yes, I can change my world

CHORUS

CHORUS

I hold the razor blade up to my face
I feel the pulse beneath my skin
The crimson line describes the outer trace
Of my broken heart within

I thought I was invincible
Until the sky fell down on me

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
My heroine, my lover to the end
You give me life again, you are my heroine

I turn my mind back not so long ago
When I was cast upon the ground
Then utter chaos rained into my life
What I had lost could not be found

And I thought I'd live forever
My time on Earth had ceased to be

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
The gentle waves of rolling sea
Washing my demons from me
You are my heroine, all that matters to me

I may have loved you for a thousand years
But then you've known that all along
I always saw you as an eagle high in the sky
So tell me why
Only you hold the key to set me free

And I thought I saw eternity
With my own eyes too blind to see

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
My heroine, my lover to the end
You give me life again with peace you send
The gentle waves of rolling sea
To wash all the demons from me
You are my heroine, all that matters to me

Somewhere I'll see you again
These words are true
Inside I carry a flame
It burns for you

Sometimes I reach for you
But you're not there
The place you take me to
I know not where

CHORUS
In dreams you come to me
I'm never free
For I know wherever I go, whatever I do
I will remember you

Locked in my memory
Your silhouette
The only face I see
I can't forget

CHORUS

BRIDGE
And if I should light a candle
For all the others I've known
No matter how I try
You're there before my eye
And the thought will never subside forever
I will remember you
These streets and these houses
All of the places I've seen
If I run from you, no matter what I do
The fire will always survive
The embers are still alive, and
I will remember you

BRIDGE

I saw the universe, I held it in my hand
The planets and the stars, merely grains of sand
The darkness that I knew, it is no more
The Sun will shine for me, of that I can be sure
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence

Chorus
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I dishonour anyone
Never again will I wish evil on another
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers

The age of Gemini, a dazzling creation
A new enlightenment, a great illumination
Dark acts of history must never be repeated
I know I must treat you the way I'd be treated
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence

Chorus

Never again
Never again

I'm climbing now, I'm gaining altitude
And now my hands can feel the grip
My head is spinning with a synergy
The power that takes me up and

Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I spill blood of any mother's son
Never again, oo
Never again, ah
Never again, oo
Never again, ah
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I dishonour anyone
Never again will I wish evil on another
Never again will I spill blood of any mother's son
Never again

Hold on to life, for in moments it can fade away

Last night, I roamed in San Francisco
Tomorrow ,Shibuya is my home
I will be waiting in the darkness in the pouring rain
And always I'm alone

Walking the streets of New York City
Light years away from where I'm born
I study the faces of the people while I'm standing
In the shadows of their final dawn

Chorus
You know that nothing's forever, it's just for today
Can't live for the future, forget yesterday
And hold on to life, for in moments it can fade away

Maybe I'm following too closely
Sometimes you feel you've had enough
Making the most of what you have today
Just hope and pray for those you really love

Chorus

Nothing's forever

Chorus

You know that nothing's forever, it's just for today
Can't live for the future, forget yesterday
Nothing from nothing is nothing, amen, so I say

Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever

Don't taint this ground
With the colour of the past
Are the sounds in bloom with you?
'Cause you seem like
An orchard of mines
Just take one step at a time

CHORUS
Oh, and you seem to break like time
So fragile on the inside
You climb these grapevines
Would you look now
Unto this pit of me on the ground?
And you wander through these
To climb these grapevines

Vines

I'll say it to be proud
Won't have my life turned upside down
Says the man with some gold-forged plan
Of life so incomplete
Like weights strapped around my feet
Tread careful, one step at a time

CHORUS

BRIDGE
To know, to feel
To play me once again
Do you denote
From what we feel?
Do you not know?

BRIDGE

I see you've played the game
Do you denote?

If our only chance was in today
Let it lift us up above some way
As the evening shadows fall
I'll confide in you once more

Over, over and over again
We will resolve our true destiny
Only through Love, our passage guaranteed
Let it lift me up above

We are on a journey, to where we can't be sure
When we are as one, it opens every door
I don't want to take you across the great divide
This horizon's nearer, much easier to find

Let it lift me up above

> Theres a vision I see
A reflection of me
In a fragment

That is frozen in time
On a luminous line
For a moment

And somewhere deep in the night
Theres a girl
And she feels how I feel
Cause were living in PARALLEL WORLDS

Seems like shell never know
How my solitude grows
And I shudder

To think I cant touch
What Im craving so much
For I love her

Somewhere deep in the night
Theres a girl
And she feels how I feel
Cause were living in PARALLEL WORLDS

Words trip from my tongue
Saying, "be strong, always be strong"
Scenes flash past my eyes
Telling me here is the where we belong

If you believe what I believe
Then we're home, yeah, we're home

CHORUS
I should have seen it coming
I could have worked it out
Your feminine mentality
Reveals the things I cannot see
I should have seen it coming
I could have worked it out
The danger signs have left my mind
It's way beyond a shadow of a doubt

So it won't be long
Stay with me now, where you belong
It's our right to fly to the stars
Just for one night this world is ours

If you believe what I believe
Then we're home, yeah, we're home

CHORUS

CHORUS
CHORUS

It was a lie
Nothing was real
Just a disguise you're using
You're using still

When you meet preaacher man
Remind him of your fear
Over which you operate
Operate control

When the truth is recalled
The evidence resound
It's the price you'll pay
On the rebound

CHORUS
Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from
Wish I'd now all along
You can't choose between weak or strong

But you're not there
To turn the key
On your own two feet
Two feet on the ground

Get a grip right on
To the situation
Try to choose what
You choose to ignore

CHORUS

Your time has come
It's not too late
Don't hesitate
Hesitate
Hesitate

Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from
Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from

When the present destroys the past

CHORUS

When the present destroys the past
When the present destroys the past

Lead me from tortured dreams
Childhood themes of nights alone,
Wipe away endless years,
Childhood tears as dry as stone.

From seeds of confusion,
Illusions darks blossoms have grown.
Even now in furrows of sorrow
The dance still is sung.

My life's course is guided
Decided by limits drawn
On charts of my past days
And pathways since I was born.

I carry the dust of a journey
That cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
For I breathe it every day.

You and I are yesterday's answers,
The earth of the past came to flesh,
Eroded by Time's rivers
To the shapes we now possess.

Come share of my breath and my substance,
And mingle our stream and our times.
In bright, infinite moments,
Our reasons are lost in our rhymes.

Doubles faces dark defense
Talk too loud but talk no sense
Yeah I see those smiling eyes
Butter us up with smiling lies

Talk to creatures raise the dead
Fate you know sure got fed
Trained apart from houses of stone
Hour of horses pick the bone

Come forth, from love spire
Born in life's fire,
Born in life's fire.
Come forth, from love's spire

In the burning, all are yearning,
For life to be.
And the pain will (must) be gain,
New life!

Stirring in, salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams.

They were, sent from (to) the gates
Ride the tides of fate,
Ride the tides of fate.
They were, sent from (to) the gates

In the burning of our yearning,
For life to be.

There's no end to my life,
No beginning to my death
Death is life!

Lead me from tortured dreams
Childhood themes of nights alone,
Wipe away endless years,
Childhood tears as dry as stone.

From seeds of confusion,
Illusions darks blossoms have grown.
Even now in furrows of sorrow
The dance still is sung.

My life's course is guided
Decided by limits drawn
On charts of my past days
And pathways since I was born.

I carry the dust of a journey
That cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
For I breathe it every day.

You and I are yesterday's answers,
The earth of the past came to flesh,
Eroded by Time's rivers
To the shapes we now possess.

Come share of my breath and my substance,
And mingle our stream and our times.
In bright, infinite moments,
Our reasons are lost in our rhymes.

Doubles faces dark defense
Talk too loud but talk no sense
Yeah I see those smiling eyes
Butter us up with smiling lies

Talk to creatures raise the dead
Fate you know sure got fed
Trained apart from houses of stone
Hour of horses pick the bone

Come forth, from love spire
Born in life's fire,
Born in life's fire.
Come forth, from love's spire

In the burning, all are yearning,
For life to be.
And the pain will (must) be gain,
New life!

Stirring in, salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams.

They were, sent from (to) the gates
Ride the tides of fate,
Ride the tides of fate.
They were, sent from (to) the gates

In the burning of our yearning,
For life to be.

There's no end to my life,
No beginning to my death
Death is life!

Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea,
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me,
My face spill so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.

Shread of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.

Sadness on your shoulders like a wornout overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope.
The daybreak is your midnight; the colours have all died.
Disturbing the waters of our lives, of our lives, of our lives, lives,
lives, lives...
Of our lives.

Every day I see a nwe cloud coming
There's one more hole in space
Every time I walk across the street
I feel the gas blowing in my face
We never learn even deserts burn
And all politicians lie
They don't do nothing till we reach high noon
Black moon

Ain't nobody gonna walk on water
When it falls like acid rain
Nobody gonna fake you out
Every poison stains
We're all struck here right in the middle
We never call the tune
If we don't get active we'll become immune
Black moon

In the night see the red sky burning
There's fire on the mountain
Oil slicks on the sea
The black moon is rising
How long will it be

you take a look around the world
The future never waits
We're skating on the thin ice
And we're in the hands of fate
What we need's a little redirection
To find our blue lagoon
You know it wouldn't come a moment too soon
Black moon
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Every day I see a nwe cloud coming
There's one more hole in space
Every time I walk across the street
I feel the gas blowing in my face
We never learn even deserts burn
And all politicians lie
They don't do nothing till we reach high noon
Black moon

Ain't nobody gonna walk on water
When it falls like acid rain
Nobody gonna fake you out
Every poison stains
We're all struck here right in the middle
We never call the tune
If we don't get active we'll become immune
Black moon

In the night see the red sky burning
There's fire on the mountain
Oil slicks on the sea
The black moon is rising
How long will it be

you take a look around the world
The future never waits
We're skating on the thin ice
And we're in the hands of fate
What we need's a little redirection
To find our blue lagoon
You know it wouldn't come a moment too soon
Black moon
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C"est La Vie Have your leaves all turned to brown
이것이 인생입니다..
당신의 물든 단풍잎들을 가지고 있나요?
Will you scatter them around you
당신주위에 그것들을 뿌릴건가요?
C"est La Vie Do you love
이것이 인생입니다.. 사랑을 하나요?
And then how am I to know
그리고 그런다음 어떻게 나는 알까요?
If you don"t let your love show for me
만약 당신이 내게 보여줄 당신을
사랑을 보내지 않는다면.
C"est La Vie C"est La Vie,
C"est La Vie
이것이 인생입니다
이것이 인생입니다 이것이 인생입니다.
Who knows,who cares for me
누가 알까요? 누가 날 걱정 할까요?
C"est La Vie
이것이 인생입니다

In the night
밤에..
Do you light a lover"s fire
당신은 연인의 열정을 밝히나요?
Do the ashes of desire for you remain
갈망의 재들이 당신을 위해서 남겨져있나요?
Like the sea There"s a live too deep to show
바다와같이.. 삶이 있답니다..
보여주기엔 너무 깊은
Took a storm before my live flowed for you
태풍을 갖고있어요
나의 인생이 당신을위해 흐르기 전에..
C"est La Vie
이것이 인생입니다

Like a song Out of tune and out of time
노래와 같이 음을벗어나고, 시간에서 벗어나요
All I needed was a rhymw for you
난 당신을 위한 리듬 밖에 필요없습니다
C"est La Vie Do you give
이것이 인생입니다.. 당신은 주나요?
Do you live from day to day
하루하루 살아가나요?
Is there no song I can play for you
내가 당신을 위해 연주할 곡은 없나요?
C"est La Vie
이것이 인생입니다.

Oh~~ C"est La Vie.
오~~ 그것이 인생이겠지
Oh~~ C"est La Vie.
오~~ 그것이 인생이겠지
Who knows, who cares for me?
누군가 내게 마음 기울이는 것을
C"est La Vie.
오~~ 그것이 인생이겠지.

There might have been things I missed
But don't be unkind
It don't mean I'm blind
Perhaps there's a thing or two
I think of lying in bed
I shouldn't have said
But there it is

You see, it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning

Maybe I might have changed
And not been so cruel
Not been such a fool
Whatever was done is done
I just can't recall
It doesn't matter at all

You see, it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning

There might have been things I missed
But don't be unkind
It don't mean I'm blind
Perhaps there's a thing or two
I think of lying in bed
I shouldn't have said
But there it is

You see, it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning

Maybe I might have changed
And not been so cruel
Not been such a fool
Whatever was done is done
I just can't recall
It doesn't matter at all

You see, it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning