Helloween - The Time Of The Oath (1996)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andi Deris - Lead Vocals Michael Weikath - Guitars Roland Grapow - Guitars Markus Grosskopf - Bass Uli Kusch - Drums Jorn Ellerbrock, Tommy Hansen - Keyboards. 1995 Recorded and Mixed at Chateau Du Pape, Hamburg. Produced and Mixed by Tommy Hansen. Second Engineer: Michael Tibes. Cover Paintings by Martin Zeissler. Artwork and Pumpkins by Frederick Moulaert. Photography by George Chin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In memory of Ingo Schwichtenberg. Together we have been through both beautiful and rough times. Your place in Helloween's history will be forever. Our memories remain as well as our gratitude. - Helloween - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Rain, blood, milk, famine, sword, plague. In the heavens shall be seen a running fire with long sparks. Death comes out of snowfall whiter than white." - Nostradamus - anno domini 2000 The Time Of The Oath ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) We Burn (Deris) 3:06 2) Steel Tormentor (Weikath / Weikath, Deris) 5:42 3) Wake Up The Mountain (Kusch / Deris) 5:04 4) Power (Weikath) 3:31 5) Forever And One (Neverland) (Deris) 3:54 6) Before The War (Deris) 4:34 7) A Million To One (Kusch / Deris, Kusch) 5:11 8) Anything My Mama Don't Like (Deris, Kusch / Deris) 3:46 9) Kings Will Be Kings (Weikath) 5:09 10) Mission Motherland (Weikath, Deris, Grapow, Grosskopf, Kusch / Weikath) 9:02 11) If I Knew (Weikath) 5:31 12) The Time Of The Oath (Grapow / Deris) 6:59 13) Still I Don't Know (Grosskopf / Deris) 4:11 - Japanese bonus track 14) Take It To The Limit (Kusch / Deris) 4:04 - Japanese bonus track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) We Burn (Deris) 3:06 Climb down my pile and again to the beat of my heart You're so exciting Take all the soul, I will give you as much as you want Control my feelings Chorus 1: Higher, much higher Unbounded fire Closer, much closer Close to the core We burn, we burn I contaminate you, I like to pollute you with my G-g-generations Look in my eyes and we melt into on yearning mind We climb the stages Chorus 1 Chorus 2: We burn, we burn Insanity, insanity Never set me free We burn, we burn Chorus 1 & 2 We burn, we burn (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Steel Tormentor (Weikath / Weikath, Deris) 5:42 Headless Pulling the machine down Coming to the low sound Feeling like a real man, yeah Racing Flashing from down under Flesh and blood and thunder Trembling wheel in cold wheel in cold hand Faster, much faster What a human speed disaster Deeper, much deeper On through the void I cast'er I'm a steel tormentor And I speed 'round ev'ry curve I'm a mean imperator Of my intimate machine Turkey Near to devastation Losing all my patience Cannot make this kit fly, yeah Danger Muscular contradiction Out for satisfaction Mere intoxication Nightide, it's nightride Try to catch my taillights So sad, I'm so sad But you won't ever suck my steel bride I'm a steel tormentor And I speed 'round ev'ry curve I'm a mean imperator Of my intimate machine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Wake Up The Mountain (Kusch / Deris) 5:04 Some people die and even never realize Man's growing blind is seeing only with eyes We think we're strong Believe we never could be wrong But we are fools Because we are dying by the rules Though I cannot change the world we're living in I can always change myself One more to count in Wake up the mountain All colour's slowly turning to gray Our world is darkling Wake up the mountain And we will find it once more again Cash and careers built on countless sums of fears All good of life begin to vanish behind tears How do we know Why did we choose the way we follow Why do we hurt Why do we hurt the ones we love Though I cannot change the world we're living in I can always change myself One more to count in Wake up the mountain All colour's slowly turning to gray Our world is darkling Wake up the mountain And we will find it once more again Once more again We made the rules and we can change them (Spoken): Break down the orders on by one We made the laws and we can break them Break down the mountain Stone by stone by stone by stone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Power (Weikath) 3:31 Can you imagine someone being true Turn 'round and put himself in front of you Sometimes it's fun but then you never know How far a thing like this might go All my life I've waited for a chance to get right out of here And when I had it in my hands I could not let it go We've got the power, we are divine We have the guts to follow the sign Extracting tension from sources unknown We are the ones to cover the throne Try if you can to come where we have gone You may achieve what can't be simply done Look back and there you are where we have been And still there's so much in between All those years I've traveled 'round this world Now I am standing here to ... make you sing these tunes And know they'll never let you go We've got the power, we are divine We have the guts to follow the sign Extracting tension from sources unknown We are the ones to cover the throne We've got the power, we are divine We have the guts to follow the sign Extracting tension from sources unknown We are the ones to cover the throne We've got the power, we are divine Yeah yeah yeah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Forever And One (Neverland) (Deris) 3:54 What can I do? Will I be getting through? Now that I must try to leave it all behind Did you see what you have done to me? So hard to justify Slowly it's passing by Forever and one, I will miss you However, I kiss you Yet again way down in Neverland So hard I was trying Tomorrow I'll still be crying How could you hide your lies, your lies Here I am Seeing you once again My mind's so far away My heart's so close to stay Too proud to fight I'm walking back into night Will I ever find someone to believe? Forever and one, I will miss you However, I kiss you Yet again way down in Neverland So hard I was trying Tomorrow I'll still be crying How could you hide your lies, your lies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Before The War (Deris) 4:34 Come take a look up to the constellations Take the book of God, you will find your relations If you understand you will know the solution Things will fall back to the constitution I'm a son of a distant future I'm the last of the seven troopers And I came here for the seventh war I'm a child of the stars, the blaster of the gods Ad I have seen it all before - Before the war Cold-hearted earth, I'm the master of the universe And I have seen it all before - Before the war Nature sets a limit on your millenary Turning every place into a cruel mean scenery All will get a chance to shun the holy file But you will be few getting under the wire I'm a son of a distant future I'm the last of the seven troopers And I came here for the seventh war I'm a child of the stars, the blaster of the gods Ad I have seen it all before - Before the war Cold-hearted earth, I'm the master of the universe And I have seen it all before - Before the war Mind the seventh war Mind the seventh war Yes I came here for the seventh war ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) A Million To One (Kusch / Deris, Kusch) 5:11 Born into somewhere unseen and unknown Just like a wonder so small and alone Take me away into your innocent dreams Maybe I'd see what it all means A million to one You will lose it all A million to one You'll be falling Down to where I am An unholy man A million to one You'll be falling It's so sad and so true but what can I do Only a few years then it's up to you To care for yourself, I hope I gave good advice For all your life, how to survive A million to one You will lose it all A million to one You'll be falling Down to where I am An unholy man A million to one You'll be falling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Anything My Mama Don't Like (Deris, Kusch / Deris) 3:46 I'm no believer I just listen to my own head I'm no believer I just call you liar instead Keep all your sorrows Words might be pathetically vain Life is a fire Light it and you can read your name I'm the king of the night generation I'm anything my mama don't like I'm a slave of perverted nation Anything my mama don't like I am a flyer Rising in the wake of my dreams I am a tumbler Life can be as good as it seems I'm a child playing chess with tomorrow I'm anything my mama don't like I'm a clown and I beg, steal and borrow Anything my mama don't like I'm the king of the night generation I'm anything my mama don't like I'm a slave of a perverted nation Anything my mama don't like ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Kings Will Be Kings (Weikath) 5:09 All you have said is still in my ears You must have thought you're infallible Oh no oh no You're not gonna say that much anymore Welcome to my peculiar dream Fact is that I'm here I'm the master of reality Hard to see? But it's real and you will read me So many ways to go Before we're sanctified Few will be chosen ones Until we fade and die Kings will be kings Pawns will be pawns Aeons of tears Wild and severe Blessed be the young Strong enough to bear What before long will come Will be, might never disappear I know that pride's before the fall How can I fall if there's none left at all Tell me tell me How far can one fall from down below? It's either time or ev'ryone round To show us what or who might be exchangeable Disposable In the game of life we're playing Close to eternity I spread my wings and fly Like from a distant age I rule and you obey Kings will be kings Pawns will be pawns Aeons of tears Wild and severe Blessed be the young Strong enough to bear What before long will come Will be, might never disappear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Mission Motherland (Weikath, Deris, Grapow, Grosskopf, Kusch / Weikath) 9:02 So far from our system we came here through space To leave poisoned spheres for your race Our knowledge we trade for the time shared on earth To take and give for what it's worth On, our screens we've been shown your world Plead for your welcome, you won't get hurt Mission motherland Another chance ... with sunlit soil and air to breathe Is there any place for us to live To grow descendants to be free You gave us resources You gave us advice To deal with the unknown To get humanized We've shown you dimensions And brought you on ways You've never seen yesterday Hand in hand we will march through time So much more to research and find Mission motherland Another chance ... with sunlit soil and air to breathe Is there any place for us to live To grow descendants to be free When you hear these words We've taken cold refuge In freezers to keep us alive What we didn't know Your central star called sun Sends lethal rays to earth Say how many of us died In the streams of light Faceless bodies, morbid cries Doomed our colonies Wake us when you've healed the world Save our souls When will we be as one again And fulfill what we understand as Mission motherland Another chance ... with sunlit soil and air to breathe Is there any place for us to live To grow descendants to be free ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) If I Knew (Weikath) 5:31 Loneliness seems like an evil dream Bur reality is life and life is here Once my heart was ruled by emptiness Harmed because of being too sincere But now that you've crossed my way Could it be found it again If I knew that I'm your only one I could live and make it through time But if one day you'd just be gone I wouldn't know how to ever get by How can I make you feel secure We're both the same, I'm king and you are queen Understand you Make me breathe again Tell me all your thoughts and I will see Take my hand and we'll be there Together, someday, somewhere If I knew that I'm your only one I could live and make it through time But if one day you'd just be gone I wouldn't know how to ever get by If I knew that I'm your only one I could live and make it through time But if one day you'd just be gone I wouldn't know how to ever get by I wouldn't know how to ever get by I wouldn't know how to ever get by I would simply break down and cry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) The Time Of The Oath (Grapow / Deris) 6:59 In a circle of fire On a cold winter night I spoke out my desire Made a promise I couldn't hide, no! In a dream He came along and told me "Your time has come Your mind belongs to me" It's the time of the oath My sweetest memories Die in the cold It's the time of the oath See me covered with sadness And I'll soon wish to die When that overcoming madness Is eating up my mind Here and now I look back at a good time No more lie - I slowly say goodbye It's the time of the oath The time of the oath My sweetest memories die in the cold It's the time of the oath In a dream He came along and told me "Your time has come Just slowly say good-bye" It's the time of the oath The time of the oath My sweetest memories die in the cold It's the time of the oath Latin: Di-es i-rae, di-es il-la Sol-vet sae-cium in fa-villa Quan-tus tre-mor est fu-tu-rus Quan-do ju-dex est ven-turu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) Still I Don't Know (Grosskopf / Deris) 4:11 - Japanese bonus track I'm asking here I'm asking there And we all seem to share Different gains for life Though we'll all arrive At the big end somewhere But we don't know what's more when it's over Is there heaven or hell? Chorus 1: I wonder if there's something when my time's run out in life Still I don't know (2) Wonder if there's music, rubbersex and a Mac Drive Still I don't know (2) All we know is here What we lone and fear It's a question of time When all is said and done When we're dead and gone We'll just disappear Yes, we don't know what's more when its over Is there heaven or hell? Chorus 2: I wonder if there's something where my life's run out of time Still I don't know (2) Wonder if there's smokers even in "Deutsche Bahn" Still I don't know (2) Wonder if there's something Like a cigarette or some wine Wonder if I'm lonely If I'll meet a friend of mine Chorus 1 & 2 Still I don't know (4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Take It To The Limit (Kusch / Deris) 4:04 - Japanese bonus track Been here just long enough to see what trip you're on Suffered from your ugly deeds, the way you're pushin' all, oh no Better watch out what you're doing Better take some rest or get right of here, oh yeah Haven't you hurt the people tryin' to be your friend You take it to the limit, you take it to the top You take it to the limit, until you get stopped You take it to the limit, you take it to the top Stop! Stop! You think you're somebody but you'll never be On the back of others you're just acting like a thief, oh yeah Better watch out what you're sayin' Better take your hat and get right out of here, oh yeah Didn't you lose all the people tryin' to be your friend You take it to the limit, you take it to the top You take it to the limit, til you get stopped You take it to the limit, til you get shot, stop it! Take it to the limit, take it to the top Take it to the limit, til you get stopped Take it to the limit, get out of my head! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Thanks from Roland to: ..., Ingo Schwichtenberg (in memory), Michael Tibes, ... . My favorite guitar players: Mike Farner, Yngwie Malmsteen. Special Thanks from Uli to: ... . "A Million To One" Dedicated to Kim. Special Thanks from Markus to: ..., Tommy, Henjo, Ingo (Easy Livin'), ... . Special Thanks from Weiki to: everybody on this and other planets of the universe. Special Thanks from Andi to: (see "Master Of The Rings"!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andi Deris uses Emagic Logic. Michael Weikath plays Gibson Guitars, Emagic Logic, ENGL Strings. Roland Grapow plays R. B. C. Guitars, Yamaha Guitars (APX & Pacifica), Fender Guitars, Marshall Amps, Elites Strings, Yamaha Picks, Emagic Logic, Steinberg Cubase Audio. Markus Grosskopf plays Ampeg Basses. Uli Kusch plays Tama Drums, Meinl Cymbals, Black socks + Halma.