I’m handing in my guns now
I will stop slipping away like sand between your fingers
For better or for worse,
I yield to you

I will lay my armour down, claim the hunger and the words that were always on my mind
Any triumph breeds defeat
Any blessing holds a curse but for once I won’t let go

You laugh at all my twists and turns
The stories I tell find a home in your memory
And by now it is too late to run, so I yield to you

I will lay my armour down, claim the hunger and the words that were always on my mind
Any triumph breeds defeat
Any blessing holds a curse but for once I won’t let go

You see me like no other
And I have tired of staring it down, tired of turning to find it all too strong, too strong to let it go

Give (?) for things weґve done
Afterthoughts
Of past storms weathered before

Oh no! Oh no!
I watch the clouds roll in
Oh no! Oh no!
Itґs happening again

Iґll be

Watching waiting
Tremble shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Will lightning strike our sins away?

Watching waiting
Fallen shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Or is our future looking grey?

Aftermath
Much worse than it was before
Battle scars
Some are seen and some are not

Oh no! Oh no!
I watch the clouds roll in
Oh no! Oh no!
Itґs happening again

Iґll be

Watching waiting
Tremble shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Will lightning strike our sins away?

Watching Waiting
Fallen shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Or is our future looking grey

You canґt hide from the dark
Well I never thought itґd turn out this way
Yeah
You canґt hide from the dark

Watching waiting
Tremble shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Will lightning strike our sins away?

Watching waiting
Fallen shaking
Will the storm pass over us today?
Or is our future looking grey?

Believes in love but never lets it show
Holds back words that could bring so much more but
She believes there is love in sight
But still can’t make up her mind
Over the hills she went
Across the sea to sand
To search for what could mean so much more
So elusive that tainted lover

[Chorus]:
And what you want take your chances
And he’ll be standing there as a friend
(Repeat)

So you never got all the cards
You take a look and you see you’re holding everyone
Many sides to love in sight
But you still can’t make up your mind
Over the hills she went
Across the sea to sand
To search for what could mean so much more
So elusive that tainted lover

[Chorus]

Seems so easy to get all caught up in
What should be so innocent
You’ve been hurt and we know it’s tough friend
With what you want take your chances
He’ll be still standing there as a friend

Let them pull the wool over your eyes – no hope for the fallen
Misconceptions of a false paradise – these words are unspoken
The blind leading the blind but I decline – we walk the straight line
The one who holds the truth be divined – death is forever
The writings on the wall now the mighty fall
Divided we cannot stand bury your head into the stand
Killing the fat of the land an albatross across your neck- thorn in your side
Don’t be afraid of the dark you’re still held up by the stars
The light will carry us over
The dice have been cast & your position must be steadfast- we are the chosen
Let no man pull us under never deter- there is no contrast
You can’t always crucify what you don’t understand- beware of the vampire
& this time you’ll see who has the upper hand- the world is a wasteland
Don’t be afraid of the dark you’re still held up by the stars
The light will carry us over
When all this time has gone by you’ll stop & ask yourself why
The light will carry you over
Open up your eyes / read between the lines
However long the night the dawn will break
However long my eyes are closed I’m wide awake
Stand, stand, stand up & fight
It won’t be long before this candle burns again
Don’t be afraid of the dark you’re still held up by the stars
The light will carry us over
When all this time has gone by you’ll stop & ask yourself why
The light will carry you over
However long the night the dawn will break
However long my eyes are closed I’m wide awake
Stand, stand, stand up & fight

So I found myself in the sun, oh yeah
A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah
California, I’m fine
Somebody check my brain
California’s all right
Somebody check my brain
Check my brain anekatips.com

I walk these streets, I creep and I fall, oh yeah
When she sang I answered the call, oh yeah
California, I’m fine somebody check my brain
California’s all right somebody check my brain
Aaaaah tears have filled my bones
Aaaaah years expended gone

guitar

I hung my guns and put em away, oh yeah
The trick of the trade, and by the way, oh yeah
California, I’m fine somebody check my brain
California’s all right somebody check my brain

Aaaah tears have filled my bones
aaaah years expended gone
(Repeat)

Check my brain, check my brain …

Juliet
Sonata Arctica

“These are my final lines,
I’ve lived all my nine lives,
My nights are over, cannot feel your heart anymore”

I lived only trough you,
My scar, my heart, my truth,
I do not want to die,
But no more can I love you!!!

How hard it is to understand
My wish to die hand in hand?
This night’s like a dream
You will be the last thing I will see

I hold your hand, close my eyes all I love finally dies
Drank the poison most foul with you…
But why do you smile?

…Don’t smile
Don’t you smile
You were supposed to wither away with me, so, Juliette
Please don’t smile
I’m paralysed and you are still alive.

Life is but a long, sad game
Lifeless souls, avoiding shame
Two dead swans is all what we need
To pave the winding memory lane.

No hellos, no bad goodbyes
Wailing, distant, silent cries
You can live with my pain,
It’s your own you cannot take?

You played the game and lost,
I wonder how you can,
Hold the cards for a dead man

The light and the clarity
Welcome change for the life in the darkness,
Sea of my sanity…

Lost in the vanity…
All I ever wanted; to be lost in you,
My burden, the hatred…

My own reality…
Mirrors and smoke
The final truth unfolds

…Your reality…
Mirrors my hopes,
Where you will need me…

They never find us again once the trail has gone cold
They never find us again once the trail has gone cold
I’m a restless soul, I’ll make the best ghost
All things good end into a…

Minute of silence!
- I get myself in line
One minute of silence
- To face my own demise
One minute of silence
- This is not what I signed for…
One minute of silence
- You double-crossing, filthy whore…

I sit with someone in the dark
I’m so afraid to see it’s me again…
You had a change of heart,
Now we’re all getting hurt…

Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to my life again
Walk with me, every curve, every bend
This promenade that seems to come to an end

You know what you meant to me,
Emptied the room in your life that I paid for
When I lost my sanity
I made a mess now I am here to clean

It is too late to regret anything tonight
After what has come to light
…You have played me for a fool, for all this time?
The story may rewrite itself after I’m gone
One more breath, the day will dawn

How hard it is to understand
My wish to die hand in hand?
These wounds stay open all night long,
You are the last thing I will see…

I lived only by you,
My scar, my heart, my truth,
My sole reason to die… for
There’s no life without you

These are my final lines, I’ve used all my nine lives,
My life is over, cannot feel your heart anymore

I lived only by you,
My scar, my heart, my truth,
Have no reason to live,
I can’t feel the love anymore…

This is… the end… Why…?
You’re closing my eyes…

It’s me I hate, not you at all
I am my own medicine,
Turned into a poison

I think I gave you a lot,
And not enough… I know
Tortured myself, same as you,
Without losing my sanity.
Where’s my applause?

I see no reason to live in Hell.
How can life make me feel so incomplete?

I had a weakness and my walls came down
My tears won’t reach the ground
Burn my new wound

I know I cannot feel regret for anything
If I was numb, I’d end this once and for all
I feel the burn, still…

I cannot face this day, my guards are down
I cannot love myself… weak, sad clown

I see myself, my fading color
I see no hope there… Where I always used to…

I fear your words, the things they mirror
Maybe that is all I am, just a reflection… please help me..

I see no reason to live in Hell
When you smile, you make me feel incomplete

But it’s all ending, the clock’s rewinding
We don’t mean anything to me. You think?
I killed this silence for us to make things right
The words are loaded.

Once connected,
One torso, one head
One solid reason, the pain…
If love’s the neck, kept us together, and apart…
Now it’s broken…

There is no cast, no real salvation
When it is broken, it will stay that way
Believe me when I say this
I would not if I did not care

Tears don’t mean anything
If we don’t know when we’re sorry
No one will win today we can’t play this game… this way

We cannot soar and still stay on the ground
Don’t wanna see me, hear me, hate me…

“Hate, hate, hate”

Jealousy’s a phantom,
Something that was never, ever meant to find me
But now its pale green eyes have destroyed everything

You know how it must hurt, and I know,
There is nothing you’ve done to deserve this.

Apology’s a policy,
Sometimes it really has to be, it’s kept me afloat thus far…

This sure nuf’s one nice
loose noose, perfect times…
Are we happy in this hell?
Is there someone who can measure…
Whose pain is bigger?

It all has ended, the clock’s rewinded.
We don’t mean anything to me. You think?
I killed this silence for you to end the night
The words are loaded

Unprotected, one torso, no head
One valid reason, the life’s suspended
If love’s the neck that kept us together, and apart…
Now it’s broken…

There’s no cast, no real solution
When it is broken, it will stay that way
Believe me when I say this
I would not if I did not care

Who needs who, when and what the hell for?
Who wants to suffer and be hardcore?
And who’s strong enough to peel off the dead skin…

I cannot face this day, my guards are down.

Deterioration accelerates
My kin a prisoner
Now the reaper awaits
A demon encased
Inside of human skin
A profiteer that feeds
A plague of addiction
There’s no option, There’s no recourse
There’s no other way
Every meth lab burned
To ashes
Every meth lab burned

Crimson flames
Against the darkened sky
The ultimate act of intervention
No other option left but to retaliate
Drawn to attack the source
The origian eradicated

Confronted with reptilian coldness
If not from me
Then someone else will sell this
Never accept that this
Is just an act of fate
The angers boiling down
Into absolute hate

Crimson flames
Against the darkened sky
The ultimate act of intervention
No other option left but to retaliate
Drawn to attack the source
The origian eradicated

Doused and set ablaze
Scales of justice raised

Crimson flames
Against the darkened sky
The ultimate act of intervention
No other option left but to retaliate
Drawn to attack the source
The origian eradicated

Welcome All, welcome all, welcome all my friends
welcome all, welcome all, welcome all again
Welcome all again!!

Waking the day all seems in order,
Sweet wine to taste, the world’s now starting

Yeah yeah yea
I’ve got the mountain foreground.
Yeah yeah yea
I’ve got the river deep down.

Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all my friends
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all again.

Nightime in bloom, it’s not so frightening,
Swim with the moon, that’s how we like it.

Yeah yeah yea
We’ve got the singer singing
Yeah yeah yea
We’ve got the drinker drinking.

Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all my friends
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all again
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all my friends

break

Welcome all my friends
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all again
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all my friends
Whoooo oooh oh, welcome all again

Im growing so distant
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
Im learning to resist
Becoming more than you ever were

Cant explain, whats come over me (come over me)
Cant explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.

Projecting all my anger
I cant seem to get this through to you
The walls are closing in
I dare you to walk in my shoes

Cant explain, whats come over me (come over me)
Cant explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.

Your side..
I wont see your side

Cant explain, whats come over me (come over me)
Cant explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.

Cant explain, whats come over me (come over me)
Cant explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.

I wont see your side.
YOUR SIDE