Edguy - Vain Glory Opera (1998) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tobias Sammet - Lead Vocals, Bass, Keyboards Dirk Saver - Guitars Jens Ludwig - Guitars Felix Bohnke - Drums Frank Lindenthal - Drums on all tracks (except "Walk On Fighting"). Ralf Zdiarstek - Additional Choir Vocals on "Overture", "Until We Rise Again", "Out Of Control", "Vain Glory Opera", "Walk On Fighting" and "No More Foolin'". Ralf Zdiarstek - Additional Choir Vocals on "Overture", "Until We Rise Again", "Out Of Control", "Vain Glory Opera", "No More Foolin'". Hansi Kursch - Additional Lead Vocals on "Out Of Control" and "Vain Glory Opera". Timo Tolkki - Additional Lead Guitar on "Out Of Control". Andy Allendörfer - Shouting Choir on "No More Foolin'". Produced by Edguy. Executive Producers: Andy Allendorfer and Nils Wasko. Recorded at Toxic Beat Studio in Fulda/Germany by Norman Meiritz. Mixed at Finnvox Studio in Helsinki/Finland by Timo Tolkki. Mastered at Finnvox Studio in Helsinki/Finland by Mika Jussila. Remastered at Studio Nord in Bremen/Germany by Bernd Steinwedel. Cover-Artwork and Layout by Adrian Maleska at Soft Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Overture (Sammet) 1:32 2) Until We Rise Again (Sammet) 4:27 3) How Many Miles (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:39 4) Scarlet Rose (Sammet) 5:10 5) Out Of Control (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:03 6) Vain Glory Opera (Sammet) 6:08 7) Fairytale (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:09 8) Walk On Fighting (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 4:44 9) Tomorrow (Sammet) 3:52 10) No More Foolin' (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 4:54 -11) Hymn (B. Currie, C. Cross, W. Cann, M. Ure) 4:53 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Overture (Sammet) 1:32 Nowhere to run Nowhere to go Welcome to life damnation Welcome to fun Welcome to hope Here is your invitation Welcome to the gate To the unknown fate Welcome to a better day Jesters dance around Slowly growing old Having party while they stay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Until We Rise Again (Sammet) 4:27 2080 - Our world is an empty domain Emotions have died Men bleeding oil are the heroes for children today Drinking the blood of the weak dictators bring pain But they show us a smile Feelings and love are kept hidden in a madhouse cave It's a mad revolution And the spirits will die Oh escape the confusion Take my hand Chorus: Now take my hand Take me now Take my hand We won't be so free Until we rise again Eden is mad so enjoy it and fly to the sun Don't you return Your breath and your heartbeat are gifts You've been given for life - oh yeah Oh our deepest emotions Are a sign of our life and love No robot can stop us Take my hand Chorus Solo: Jens Chorus Yeah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) How Many Miles (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:39 Oh yeah... Watching a face and a smile and a light When you're walking alone in the street I know your look always gives you the might Many miles from your ass to your feet And I dream - what I've seen Is what I want to be - self-made reality Chorus: How many miles to the gate of reality How many steps left to go to my dreams How many miles to the land where my dreams come true Dreams which come true just have died Look like a queen but you talk like a pawn And I know you're a fool in disguise Godfather tell you how to carry on Blinded by fantasies of lies Chorus I see your smile, a golden masquerade And I know my dream it will be my fate Time has stolen my fantasy Cause it has become a pale reality Solo: Jens / both Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Scarlet Rose (Sammet) 5:10 The moment when you held me tight Won't come back anymore And at the end of that night You slammed the door My dream it died away Just when I saw red And nothing but a memory Is left inside my mind Nothing is forever in life But a memory - believe it's true And when I gaze in the rain I'm crying just for you The scarlet rose has died Lost inside the night Left in my mind like a dream and full of pride The scarlet rose has died The one and only way to catch the beauty of a dawn Is to take the picture of a growing sun I got that experience No one could steal away One moment of your life is mine I remember day by day ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Out Of Control (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:03 Into a place of darkness, he was born to live alone He got one big desire, one day he'd take the crown Hey devil come on help me now Be the one to pull my string Let me be your slave to serve you To let me be the king Just give me a sign Take on my mind and let me stay blind A victim of life too weak to be kind Out of control My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate Out of control Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate Wherever I may roam there will be hate and pain Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, respect is what I gain I look up to Mr. Crowley, evil powers now unite! I will be your darkest nightmare My life's a final fight Solo: Jens & Dirk / Jens / Timo / Jens / Timo (Hansi): Listen up my friend, you just cry for a hand! But you only pretend that you're bad, now! (Tobias): Well take on my mind ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Vain Glory Opera (Sammet) 6:08 The prayers have been spoken May the gods be on my side May they join my way to bring me victory Seven at one stroke My triumph and my pride They will be history Chorus 1: But behind my enemy's eyes A soul in disguise Not only lies We live to fight the hand of doom We got the might to strike the fool Vain glory be my wicked guide What's hell without a paradise? What's the night without a day? We would think it's bright What's a fall if we can't rise What's a hero at a play Without a fool to fight Solo: Jens (Hansi): Chorus 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Fairytale (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 5:09 Yeah Giants stone build up my desire No one could tell us the secret of fire The hunger for wisdom deep in your heart You can't accept that you're living apart Water runs down the river Lord you are the only to deliver Night, stay night In the night nothing's white Not a knowledge, not a light Lord, will your tell me why someday Fairytale, life is one big fairytale A book of seven seals Someone tell me why and how I'm always told to kneel down and pray What shall I do to stay on my own way Questions borrow through my brain Pound and disturb and drive me insane Lost in visions of knowledge I'll never owe Night to night Solo: Tobias / Jens Tell me what is time, yeah Solo: Jens / Jens & Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Walk On Fighting (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 4:44 The ivory is cold, where is my desire In a cage of gold, not a trace of fire Ice cold as ice, I'm heading for tomorrow I am tired of waiting, I'll beg and steal and borrow Life is too short to be wasted So why do I sit around Dance on the edge of a razor Get off the ground and I'll never return Walk on fighting Don't look ever back Walk on fighting Don't you look back to your cries Solo: Jens & Dirk The phone it waits in silence, no message left for you There is no use in crying, I know I've been a fool Now it is too late, no words left to say I gotta call it fate, forget and look away Solo: Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Tomorrow (Sammet) 3:52 Another day is coming A new day has begun An eagle is rising slowly to the skies of no return Disappearing in the growing sun So proud and so beautiful Thinking about tomorrow with tears in his eyes Once a lot of brothers spread their wings to join his way Now he's left alone in a world of lies Cry for tomorrow Why don't you hear the eagle's cries Living in sorrow Why don't we help him to survive Once a dignity, a mighty sign of pride Strong and proud and free A symbol of eternity, why don't we see We can't survive if we don't realize Our world is place that can't be created twice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) No More Foolin' (Sammet, Saver, Ludwig, Bohnke / Sammet) 4:54 Fair sex paralyzer, lipstick in a face Spirit analyzer, not one human trace No need to cry Roll the fuckin' dice, I'm a loser in a game Gonna hurt my feelings, your only real aim Feels like I die You can play nice you get satisfied when you win I see a smile of truth but I can't stare within Riot in your soul No more foolin' You will save all your love Say goodbye You never knew that I was strong enough to stand All alone on my own I don't need your hand Get your weapons loaded, your target in your sight Why don't you tell me what I shall fucking die Solo: Jens Lookin' so attractive, wanna get me active But you never realized that I have got the tactics I'm much too cool, much too large to be fooled By your lies Solo: Jens & Dirk / Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Hymn (B. Currie, C. Cross, W. Cann, M. Ure) 4:53 ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------