Viper - Theatre Of Fate (1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andre Matos - Lead Vocals Felipe Machado - Guitars Yves Passarell - Guitars Pit Passarell - Bass Sergio Facci - Drums Produced by Roy M. Rowland. Executive Producer: Antonio D. Pirani. Recorded at BMG Ariola Studios, San Paolo, Brazil, August / September 1989. Mixed at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England, September / October 1989. Engineered and Mixed by Roy M. Rowland. Cover Illustration by Alberto Torquato. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Illusions (Pit Passarell) 1:51 2) At Least A Chance (Pit Passarell) 3:59 3) To Live Again (Pit Passarell) 3:28 4) A Cry From The Edge (Pit Passarell, Machado) 5:09 5) Living For The Night (Pit Passarell) 5:25 6) Prelude To Oblivion (Pit Passarell) 3:44 7) Theatre Of Fate (Pit Passarell) 6:17 8) Moonlight (Matos) 4:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Illusions (Pit Passarell) 1:51 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) At Least A Chance (Pit Passarell) 3:59 Four billion faces are searching for their dreams Fighting for a better way despite how hard it seems Oh! Do you remember those words from long ago That inspired us to progress to make our future grow Life goes on Its brutal lessons we must accept Even through the tears Maybe someday a hopeful light will lead all the people to lead better lives It will be like childhood dream, like cries in the silence But I'll have at least a chance Streets filled with tears are the picture of my life I've got someone to forget, some things that I can't hide The rain is so cold, it cuts me like the past And the scars deep inside me, how long will they last? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) To Live Again (Pit Passarell) 3:28 Prowling through the city Destination anywhere Passing through the windows of a million lives Drowning in depression Looking for some action An answer to the pain of my last thousand nights If I had a way To make some moments come back So true and real I will spend my life in memories of the past But nobody lives in dreams and nobody really cares If I'm really fuckin' tired of this fuckin' life So I head into a bar and I drown my emotions Forget the disillusionment I have inside If I had a way To make changes in the pages of my past Feelings are to share Everybody needs somebody, it's a fact Wrong choice but c'est la vie I am waiting for the dawn To live again The lonely shades of my days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) A Cry From The Edge (Pit Passarell, Machado) 5:09 Six a. m. and I'm still awake Living thoughts and words of yesterday But I'm too tired to think of what is right And I'm alone, I can't decide on my own Take me beyond the lies All the time you can stay by my side And if you show me A little and everyday Then you'll know that I can't find my way All you hear now Is a cry from the edge Hey my friends! You've got to bring me back We all began and now you hide the fact Illusions fly for those that understand Memories that keep me tired to my past Painful mystery to be alive Scary visions of my future life Time for change give me a better way Free me from the shadow over my eyes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Living For The Night (Pit Passarell) 5:25 Between dusk and day Before the sunrise The city will begin to live its crimes Millions if you ask It happens everywhere Every little corner has its tale Windows are the eyes That witness without soul Watching in the silence what is done I'm a part of this Violence is my friend Walking on the line of life and death Spirits walk the street Siren sounds alone Screaming out the lyrics of my song I have no other life Concrete is my cage All my disillusion turns to rage I'm living for the night though we have to fear it Where life is just a game that you have to win Living for the night When death surrounds you on and on All the time it's near I'm longing to be free He even knows my name He wants no waste of time I know that killing is his game and I am the prize Our footsteps sound alone I know he's just behind I feel the panic in our hearts beating very loud I turn my eyes to him The night is very dark He's got a knife and I know cause I saw the blade Between the light and shade Between the night and day Between my life and death I only feel the blade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Prelude To Oblivion (Pit Passarell) 3:44 Cruel reality Wears away our will to live All the world will look at me And hold his breath to hear my speech So when I leave this world unfair They will cry for me and understand I just can't find my way Or meaning to my life World will remember Not at all And take my example Not at all (4) No no no no Am I wrong? YES! Because the world won't take example from somebody Who won't fight for better days and hide away not facing problems in their life To be alive is the best way that we must show mankind we want the better world for all I ask all the world ... to follow the song ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Theatre Of Fate (Pit Passarell) 6:17 The crowd came to silence, the spotlights are shining The tale has to be told In any age all the world is a stage A play will now begin There once was a child with a dream in his mind And a thousand things to learn But with each passing day his childhood slips away How soon the first act ends All the dreams that we have are lost along the way Victims of real life Now the child is a boy and new dreams have evolved He strives to make them real Not the fear in his heart nor a past full of pain Will take away his hope But how cruel life is and although he resists New problems will appear So he'll loose one more chance, time destroys all his plans The second act is done We are looking for the meaning of our lives But our faults remain the same And the truth will be distant from our hearts Where our dreams will never end But our fate is in command Now the boy is a man though his visions remain He knows they have no chance A heart full of hate, all his hope driven away Life's worn down his defense How many lives in the world born and die In disillusionment Not allowed to have dreams and one day make 'em real This tale will never end ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Moonlight (Matos) 4:41 Lifestorm broke my anchors and like a wreck I've been Sea and sky were just one darkness Such a brilliant radiance you came I'm alive, I'm alive Just by the light From your eyes And I need you to be like the heaven I seek But clouds showed me And I saw You were just the moonlight And the moon belongs to no one No one ------------------------------------------------------------------------