Edguy - Kingdom Of Madness (1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tobias Sammet - Lead Vocals, Bass, Piano, Keyboards Jens Ludwig - Guitars Dirk Sauer - Guitars Dominik Storch - Drums Chris Boltendahl - Some Lead Vocals on "The Kingdom". Produced by Edguy & Erik Grösch. Recorded at Phoenix Studio, Herne, Germany. Engineered by Erik Grosch and Ralph Hubner. Mastered at DMS. Layout by Peter Fahl, Fulda. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Paradise (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 6:24 2) Wings Of A Dream (Sammet) 5:24 3) Heart Of Twilight (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 5:32 4) Dark Symphony (Sammet, Ludwig) 1:05 5) Deadmaker (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 5:15 6) Angel Rebellion (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 6:44 7) When A Hero Cries (Sammet) 3:59 8) Steel Church (Sammet, Ludwig, Storch / Sammet) 6:29 9) The Kingdom (Sammet) 18:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Paradise (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 6:24 I've just returned to give you fears To bring you pain as much as tears You'll never know what's in my mind It's an invitation to my way Pray to me or you will pay When I'm smiling what's behind I'll be tearing down your paradise I'll be bringing you down No warning - I'm pawning Repeat Now let us open up the gate Leave your way before it's too late Into the heart of dark insanity As black as hate but even white It must be the dragon that i ride Something burning my reality. Repeat Solo: Jens Repeat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Wings Of A Dream (Sammet) 5:24 This is my day- soldiers are coming to take me away may justice be done I hold on to pray but no god seems to hear me the pain i will face is my price for disgrace for things that I've never done The toll of the bell and the flight of the raven they open my cell and i feel it's too late there's no need to yell they don't want to hear me the morning has come is seems like my work's been done. today I'll be the one Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene cause when I'm close to the end I've got always a friend on my lonesome way to the final decay I listen to a voice telling me now dream away - follow me astray to a world that we can reach on wings of a dream Repeat I've got the key to the end of the nightmare to leave all the dreams of bane and despair the life I redeem has got the price of insanity that you just can't get cause you're not even mad you only trust in your eyes Repeat Solo: Jens Once upon a time there was a noble man like me he only cared about the things he saw one dark night without a moon he loved the dog of his queen thinking is was her he enjoyed the life in the raw Repeat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Heart Of Twilight (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 5:32 Tell me why can't I understand The feelings deep inside Why do I try to scratch away the stains Deep in my heart I feel there's a place Where love and hate collide But is everybody who asks for reasons Destined to go insane I don't know if I'm right or wrong The heart of twilight is much too strong Leaving the pride so I'm stopping to stride I only dare to hide Dying, dying! My mind is what I've lost My head is dying cold Dying, dying! My mines is what I've lost The heart of twilight knows An old illusion of understanding Is fading day by day The apparation of a future vision is black Everytime I dive in depressions The colors of life are gray Father forgive me if I decide to come back ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Dark Symphony (Sammet, Ludwig) 1:05 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Deadmaker (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 5:15 I can't feel, and I can't see I'm falling down what's going on with me Lord in heaven why am I here Do I live to rise or rise to fall to shed another tear One more time I fell that I'm alone I can't describe it cause it's better to be shown Feel the darkness covering the spite Hear me screaming when it's pounding deep inside Forever I'll be a poisoned thorn I'll be haunting among your lives The moment I was born it was time for him to rise Deadmaker, deadmaker Why don't you realize That he can paralyze you all My sorrow created by you And even me cause I'm a self-destroying fool I feel the spirit growing deep inside I don't expect your comprehension Cause even I don't know why Repeat Solo: both Repeat Repeat Solo: Jens Repeat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Angel Rebellion (Sammet, Ludwig / Sammet) 6:44 In the silence there's a fear It's growing stronger with every breath I take A fire inside that drives me mad A haunt of darkness that makes me stay awake But is it just a trace of evil Or is it the force to bring me down I feel like being chained by my noble reputation I feel like being killed by a square and boring nation It doesn't matter how but I know that I want out Take a trip with me, stay a dream on brocken Watch them play their game, noone here can stop it Walpurgis night is closer than every holy day Right now I will set my life on fire Now I'll satisfy my mad desires Back into hell - Angel rebellion Back into hell - Angel rebellion Solo: Jens / both / Tobias / Jens Solo: both ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) When A Hero Cries (Sammet) 3:59 Awake by that dreams of you Being all alone in the night Coldness in my empty chamber No one here holding me tight I could take a masquerade To show you I don't need to cry But I can let my tears run away To show you I'm as weak as a child so many times you make me cry But I got no reason to deny Because I'm here and still alive When a hero cries, emotions arise The tears in my face seem to be a trace of life When a hero cries It felt like heaven to me but it meant nothing for you You said that I should forget but it ran me through And I still can't deny that you still make me cry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Steel Church (Sammet, Ludwig, Storch / Sammet) 6:29 Huh! What do you think when you smile into my eyes You say that you like me but I know that's one of your lies My love is abused my compassion misused Cause I am too kind to despise, oh no You hear me you see me and use me but you neglect You like having me on your tail and show me your back Why do we praise an illusion of grace I know the way to survive Standing to fight the love that misguides The steel church is the savior of life Take me - take me to a church that accepts my hate Take me - take me to a church of steel on steel Take me - take me to a world I can lose my grace Take me - take me to a hell of steel on steel Maybe I'm evil but I take every chance When I can get more there's no time to waste for romance Show me how to maltreat to lie and to cheat To fight steel on steel Out of the light into the night That is what I wanna feel Much too long I really have been to kind Can't you tell me why could I be so blind Repeat Solo: both Repeat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) The Kingdom (Sammet) 18:23 Watching the eventide, the sun will hide and sleep My heart's beat is slow. I'm thinking about my belief Rain washing over me cleaning up my brain Till I question all my thoughts And clean up from stains Clean up from stains Clean up from stains, yeah Die free, yeah! Solo: Jens Welcome to the circle of those who know their way Welcome to those who've realized their needs Who don't need fear to pray and betray But they don't accept us living free Believing what we need Haven't heard anything about poetry They only know their painful greed Don't ever trust those who say they know Those who show and force you to bow I've done no wrong but to ask my brain To be free from pain built up by those who reign A mind in disguise - now I know It's better to hide my belief than feeding the crow A life on the run - now I know The kingdom of disguise is the last place to go In the eyes of the world I'm a master of heresy Swimming against the tide - endangering democracy I remember the day when I was young and bold When I thought that my mind was free Until the time that I was told Repeat Solo: Jens Out in the night they laugh about me and my knowledge and speak prayers our god don't want to hear. But listen: Wherever you are, I will get you! Well, you don't know who I am? I am the inquisition and I am your heretics barbarian end! Solo: both / Dominik / both Beware and be silent and follow the sign Keep the mission as a secret of your mind One out of a million is a friend of your line Don't forget there are evil eyes behind Solo: Jens Holding the candle she was found in the rain Bright eyes and blissful but they thought That she went astray Too late to escape, she seemed to be insane She got imprisoned because she got her own way Solo: both Inquisitor: Now can't you remember? What have you done? Accused: Believe me, I'm innocent. I've done no wrong! Inquisitor: But you are strange! You are guilty I guess! And after the torture you will confess......and burn! Ending in the flames, burning down her fame Prayers to the saints, their end of an evil game Run to your last refuge Maybe the silence of your voice Lie but be true to yourself Sometimes you've got no choice Follow a king called silence Live in his kingdom of disguise There is a temple of shelter Where god forgives you your lies. I can see it bright here in front of your eyes the apparition never dies Yes I see, yes I feel, yes I know it all ------------------------------------------------------------------------