Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World (1990)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hansi Kursch - Lead Vocals, Bass Andre Olbrich - Guitars, Backing Vocals Marcus Siepen - Guitars, Backing Vocals Thomen 'The Omen' Stauch - Drums Piet Sielck - Backing Vocals, Effects Mathias Wiesner - Effects Rolfi Kohler - Backing Vocals 'Hacky' Hackmann - Backing Vocals Kalle Trapp - Backing Vocals Kai Hansen - some Lead Vocals on "Lost In The Twilight Hall", Solo on "The Last Candle", Backing Vocals. Produced by Kalle Trapp. Executive Producer: Charly Rinne for No Reomorse Records, GmbH. Recorded and Mixed by Kalle Trapp at Karo Musik Studios, Brackel, Hamburg, West Germany from March to May 1990. Second Engineer: Piet Sielck. Cover Painting Idea by Andreas Marshall. Pictures: Buffo / Charly Rinne. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Traveler In Time (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 5:59 2) Welcome To Dying (Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 4:47 3) Weird Dreams (Olbrich) 1:19 4) Lord Of The Rings (Siepen, Kursch / Kursch) 3:14 5) Goodbye My Friend (Olbrich, Stauch, Kursch / Kursch) 5:33 6) Lost In The Twilight Hall (Stauch, Siepen, Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 5:58 7) Tommyknockers (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 5:09 8) Altair 4 (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 2:26 9) The Last Candle (Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 5:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Traveler In Time (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 5:59 The Morning Sun of Dune (2) The holy war's ... waiting for The morning sun (4) The morning sun ... of Dune - there's no tomorrow the apparation of this land and it's dream makes me feel I've seen it before I can taste there's life everywhere you can find In the desert of my life - I see it again and again And again, again, again, again Dark tales has brought the Dijahd Like whispering echoes in the wind And I'm a million miles from - home Chorus: Traveler in Time Knowing that there's no rhyme Chorus The morning sun is near First light of dawn is here The morning sun is near again The Fremen sing that Their kingdom will come - and I'm the leading one Battlefields on our crusade filled with Sardokaurs Killing machines crying In raising fear they're hiding Where do we go now? So where is the way? When I'm a million miles from home Chorus The morning sun I feel - all pain and sorrow The apparation of my words in these days makes me feel I've told them ... before All my plans will come true I'll control destiny In the desert of my life - I've seen it again and again By my dreams I must find a way ... to stop the raging war I've to choose now - I will leave My body and seek And time will stand still When I've to leave ... my body and find A way back to the world I love When I'm a million miles from home Chorus Traveler in time ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Welcome To Dying (Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 4:47 Close to insanity Beyond the realms I've been At darkest places I'm crying "The dragon flies" Something ... savage ... is yearning for me I'm waiting afraid for the night what will be I've lost myself a few days ago It's touching my soul And a vision of past dreams comes true Chorus: Welcome to dying I don't let it out Welcome to dying - Look to the mirror it shows what I am Welcome to dying - This town must burn now Welcome to dying - Can't you see the dragon's seed .. bears in me The one who's been before Many times I terrorized this town Many times and here I start again Now I'm stronger and so cold Cold as ice Returning is my destiny Now I feel it's growing up in me Now I feel it's burning deep in me I'm not what I was before Could I stop this dream I'm a stranger to myself And I cannot control Welcome to dying I don't let it out Welcome to dying - Look to the mirror it shows what I am Welcome to dying - Can't you see the dragon's seed ... bears in me Welcome to dying - The dragon's breath, I don't let it out I'm a savage It's too late for me The other side's taking control and I know There's one way I can walk alone or the dragon will fly And a growing fear's all that I feel Chorus 1 Welcome to dying (7) (Can't you see the dragon's seed ... bears in me) Spread my wings and fly away I spread my wings and fly away (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Weird Dreams (Olbrich) 1:19 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Lord Of The Rings (Siepen, Kursch / Kursch) 3:14 There are signs on the ring Which make me feel so down There's one to enslave all rings To find them all in time And drive them into darkness Forever they'll be bound Three for the Kings Of the elves high in light Nine to the mortal Which cry Chorus: Slow down and I sail on the river Slow dawn and I walk to the hill Chorus And there's now way out Mordor (3) Dark land under Sauron's spell Threatened a long time (2) Seven rings to the gnomes in their halls made of stone Into the valley I feel ... down One ring for the dark lord's hand Sitting on his throne In the land so dark Where I have to go Chorus: Slow down and I sail on the river Slow down and I walk to the hill Chorus Lord of the rings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Goodbye My Friend (Olbrich, Stauch, Kursch / Kursch) 5:33 Who can tell me who I am Who I am my friend I'm an Alien so they say A risk to everyone No - Tell me what do they see No - Tell me what do they feel No - Tell me what do they fear No - Tell me what ... do they see I'm a dwarf but I ... know more than you And I'm the key to a ... better life From terror I could escape But I need your helping hand So far from home where I'm left alone Did you hear my crying? No! Did You hear my crying? Ooh! Chorus: Goodbye my friend - Goodbye I found you at the end I say Goodbye to all Goodbye my friend - Goodbye thanks for your helping hand I say Goodbye - Goodbye - to all my cries Just say Goodbye No returning nevermore (2) And I'll remember Communication to you is so strange You I trust to no one, no warmths reach your heart To you I'm the stranger but you're strange to me You distract all what is unknown to you We are together now And don't you know I'll come back ... again I must go now Chorus I will go home now (2) Much too long I'm forced to stay In visions I see So dark and so deep Mankind will distract all life See you again Woow I hope I will ... see you again ... at the end? My tortured soul cannot forget the pain Now I find my way back I will go home now (2) Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Lost In The Twilight Hall (Stauch, Siepen, Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 5:58 Awaiting my last breath The mirror calls my name It's showing me the way ... into the dark The bridge appears I jump into the dark side Hear the voice it's cold as ice "Welcome to reality" Where am I now? Darkness surrounds Can't ... go forward Can't go back Kai: Aah, I see planets dying Hansi: I fall into the light Kai: A new universe awakes ... Hansi: I'm a traveler in time... Kai: ... pray for the light Hansi: Where's the key... Kai: ... to the gate... Hansi: ... of a new life - Kai & Hansi: ... - no Hansi: I search for deliverance ... Kai: ... but I cannot find Chorus: Look behind the mirror I'm lost in the twilight hall Once I'll be back for a moment in time That's when the mirror's ... falling down Take me away ... from the place I've been To another life In another world A sign of life ... surrounds me now The bridge appears in the dark I'm free I fly alone Leaving this darkness now, forever? The memories of children And the wisdom of many lives burns deep in me Where will the light go to? (2) Is this deliverance? Is it the end? Chorus I'm back there's a new chance for me And all my memories are gone I can feel what's happening to me And the mirror will burst Chorus (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Tommyknockers (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 5:09 She's opening here eyes To find the thing, by a touch she is lost It's waiting for her ... a long time The kingdom's lost Cause there's one nail missing Playing with fire Turn of the light and she will fall down Playing with her life But she can't leave it, there's one rhyme in her brain Oh, last night and the night before Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocked at your back door Oh, last night and the night before Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocked at your back door Tommyknockers The pain in my head, the cycle awakes I'm on my way to Oz I want to drink and she wants to dig She's in trouble oh I know, there's something going wrong Tommyknockers on their way What's up in "Leighton Street"? Chorus: Oh, last night and the night before Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocked at your back door Chorus I'm the hero, I'm back ... with weapons and with magic spells I'll settle every task An old, ill and drunken guy The moon is full of blood I've found her not, not far from home I should - better get away from here She's on her way to be another one Playing with fire She can read my thoughts, it's too late Playing with her life Tommyknockers brought her trouble No The ship in the Earth I touch A vibration is filling me And music in my head Nose is bleeding and my fall down Filled me up with pain You'll be like a Tommyknocker, I will be like you But there's something going wrong, I read it in your face Chorus (2) Tommyknockers knocked at your back door (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Altair 4 (Olbrich, Kursch / Kursch) 2:26 At Hilly's show They didn't know That the Ending of "Being" is near I can feel their voices The old man cries "Please save the boy He's caught in a world far behind ... from home" Monster Anne is crying out "Feel my pain I can't escape" Bad chances for me Altair 4 (3) Chosen by their whispering words What is left behind when purple colours turn to black? Can you feel it? Is there time? Can you see it? Is there life? "Fly away and dream" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) The Last Candle (Kursch, Olbrich / Kursch) 5:59 Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the Blind (4) No Ha ha ha ha! Have you forgotten him? Far from the land ... where the sun is born Down in the wood 'Caledon' Do you know the place ... where the light is never seen And all the hopes are turned ... by the final cry Turned to stone (4) Whispering tunes in the wind Our hopes are gone with the night When the old man will never come back Remember his words and his songs We see the raven's flying in the distance (We feel the magic in the wind) But no wizard's singing his song Chorus: Somebody's out in the night I fly in time The last candle will burn There's hope for everyone When the last candle burns ... high Oh it's time for life The elves and gnomes have to hide When the moon is showing it's face and raging orcs will set their traps And the forest will burn They hate green trees and love the dark They won't understand That they're caught and left alone - They feel the magic in the wind They're just fear the old man's song Solo: Kai Chorus Corrupted old gnome, betrayer of all You know so much about all, what is your price "Too much, too much You cannot pay with your silver and your gold There's just a little chance to save the wizard's life There's just a little chance for all you fools Now pay" And so I walk across the land And hope to hear the wizard's song Chorus (3) Somebody's out there (I feel there's somebody) Somebody's out there (I feel there's somebody) ------------------------------------------------------------------------