Roland Grapow - The Four Seasons Of Life (1997)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland Grapow - Lead Vocals, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Sitar Markus Grosskopf - Bass Ferdy Doernberg - Keyboards Uli Kusch - Drums Axel Rudi Pell - Lead Guitar on "The Winner". Ralf Sheepers - Some Lead Vocals on "Searching For Solutions". Produced, Engineered, Recorded and Mixed by Roland Grapow at Crazy Cat Studio, Hamburg. Design and Art Direction: Hugh Gilmour. Photography: George Chin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Lisiting 1) Prelude No. 1 / Presto (instr.) (Doernberg, Grapow) 1:32 2) The Winner (Grapow) 5:50 3) No More Disguise (Grapow) 4:43 4) Show Me The Way (Grapow) 3:46 5) I Remember (Grapow) 4:33 6) Dedicated To ... ? (Raimond Burke, Grapow) 4:33 7) Searching For Solutions (Kusch / Grapow) 4:43 8) Strange Friend (Grapow) 5:36 9) Bread Of Charity (Grapow) 4:56 10) The 4 Seasons Of Life (Grapow) 9:30 11) Finale De Souvenir (Grapow, Doernberg) 1:07 12) Release Your Mask (Grapow) 4:15 - Japanese bonus track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Prelude No. 1 / Presto (Doernberg, Grapow) 1:32 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) The Winner (Grapow) 5:50 We all have to climb a ladder Don't use the one-way street to hell Friends deceive without cold sweat Tell me what we're fighting for Kicking chums like wretched sinners Praise ourselves to the highest point God said He would send the Messiah But Satan closed the door No more compromise, we pay the price Make everything undone We're ready for sacrifice Chorus: Reach out your hand, you'll be the winner Let's try to catch the caravan of lies If you stay so blind, you'll be the sinner We have to change to be born again Like a sniper fire of demons When we're merging our souls We shed the blood of our saviour Blind leading the blind Here we stand as reborn brothers No more chasing our tails Try to find the kingdom of perception Nut no one sees the sign No more disguise, let's realize Let's go against the grain and try to optimize ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) No More Disguise (Grapow) 4:43 They tell me what's wrong and what's right They tell me to stop and to hide They know everything better than me Even much better than me They think they're so clever and smart They don't care to break my heart They'd better take one last look ... before I disappear Chorus: I like to fly, higher and higher No more disguise, escape from hellfire Oh, oh, oh, oh... I'll never forget what you've done to me They injure my passion and pride Which passes on painful delight The trail I tread left or right Too faraway from their own way Why can't you give me a chance? No reason to misjudge my competence The goal which I personally strive for Wouldn't impress you at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Show Me The Way (Grapow) 3:46 I know the future will become past But I will give my very best To make my life really strong Ain't no doubt tomorrow has come Chorus: Lord, tell me how Which way I have to go An answer to my prayers Before I come home to you Who knows what tomorrow will bring Maybe some answers, it's all in the asking Someday maybe someone will know Which path the right one's to go ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) I Remember (Grapow) 4:33 Through the mists of eternity I have found you again The passion in your eyes brought back the memories Of the daybreak of our time I had never lost my hope Longing makes me crazy I missed you really so much that I almost despaired Previous times gave us a clue To find a pact for our love Now we're not separate anymore That's what I always wished for before Chorus: I remember that first time Green emerald eyes and the sweetest smile You are the colour of my life I pray I'll never lose you again Until my final end We found our way through Green fields in summer days And along stony paths in winter's cold When the shadows are closing in I showed you how to fly No one can trim our wings Or the angels will forever cry And when you whisper my name I wish you would never stop There's no money in the world That can buy me your precious love ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Dedicated To... (Raimond Burke, Grapow) 4:33 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Searching For Solutions (Kusch / Grapow) 4:43 We won't see horizons Behind the wall of doom Won't find any guidance Much too late for illusions Everything we did with carelessness Pollution is what we pass on Chorus: Don't lay your heads deep down in the ashes Or float in the stream of vagueness Cause we can't hold one, hold on any longer Or else mankind must die, there'll be no goodbyes Searching for solutions See the visions clear Disaster is heading our way Oh we just don't really care Let's stare problems right in the eyes Our globe needs more than help We're all guilty: because of pollution Acid rain, green house effect, atomic tests We're not immortal We don't need the lies of politicians ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Strange Friend (Grapow) 5:36 I saw strange friends dying in vain Dressed in blood red robes Only ID tags will remain Nobody asks why they fought Now I'm standing here not alone In the middle of the battlefield The smell of blood still in my nose But my eyes can't see enemies It's hard to understand Why do we kill each other, friend When I look into your eyes I see myself and cry Chorus: Why do our children cry for us When we kill children And women rape, without any hate Cause they tell us, "Dig your grave" He softly whispers They tell us this war is right We must kill each other on this night Slaughter friends like animals There is no way back from hell It still angers me when they tell us We're the only who have the right Is it luck, a chance of fate That we stand here still alive It's hard to understand Why should I shoot you, friend When I look into your eyes I see myself and cry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Bread Of Charity (Grapow) 4:56 In your life was no tenderness, oh no Never a sunrise without fear Nasty violence is your breakfast And death will be your holy communion You learned to fight, you learned to kill But no one showed you how to cry Chorus: Taste the bread of charity Between hell and poverty Which he's fighting through Where did you come from, where do you wanna go? You brought disaster wherever you went Now you're gabbling with the law But you don't care anymore Where have you hidden your soul? Cause no one can help you anymore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) The Four Seasons Of Life (Roland & Sylvia Grapow) 9:30 I gaze into a crystal ball, see an old man cry Behind misty images, tears in his eyes He's watching 80 years gone by Not much left, his time is ticking Chorus: The four seasons of life Mystic hands guiding through dark and light An adventure you can't deny As the sun melts the ice The four seasons of life The Spring Of Life was our birth you can't grow up on your own Mom showed how to go Learn from experience very slow Summer Has Come Live your life on the road The rules aren't really clear Learn to fight for your right, fist love is very near Young and wild, in the best condition But you don't have a clue what's left or right The Soft Dying Autumn touches everyone Life can be like a thunderstorm Somebody won't see the rainbow Sun and mists, warm and cold, good and bad Love and hate, black and white, laugh and cry Give and take, peace and war, live and die Winter's Coldness is near at hand Hear voices loud and clear, I look into my glass and See my wasting skin and wish it had come to pass my Heart and shrunk as thin! But it doesn't and my body fades away The Fifth Season brings the darkness The crystal balls says, take your chance, 'cause the end is near It's along way back to Earth Now it's time to lend a hand to life, don't waste life, Don't think twice The four seasons of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Finale De Souvenir (Grapow, Doernberg) 1:07 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Release Your Mask (Grapow) 4:15 - Japanese bonus track I wanna feel when your time is over I won't see tears in your soul You can't accept there are different ways You're too proud to cry Yeah, he thinks he's so clever But I know he's a mean guy Words of wisdom but nothing said Stay on your soil! Chorus: All I want, let it go Or you'll be stricken bound You can run and you can hide Break away Surrender your ego, release your mask Don't tell me lies when the truth is clear You'd better watch you don't loose face Hold it right there Break away You've been spinning lies too many times Why don't you give it a rest You don't have to find another reason Your lies I see in your eyes You close the door and keep the world outside You don't mind at all If there's a God or any kind of justice Just turn yourself and drop your blinder ------------------------------------------------------------------------