Helloween - Better Than Raw (1998)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andi Deris - Lead Vocals Roland Grapow - Guitars Michael Weikath - Guitars Markus Grosskopf - Bass Uli Kusch - Drums Jorn Ellerbrock, Tommy Hansen - Keyboards. Jutta Weinhold, Ralf 'Fummel' Maurer, Christina 'Biene' Hahne - Backing Vocals. Produced by Helloween and Tommy Hansen. Recorded at Chateau Du Pape Hamburg, and Mi Sueno, Tanerlife in 1997. Mixed at Chateau Du Pape, Hamburg. Mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis. Sound Engineer: Michael Tibes. Studio Assistant: Stefan Thiel. Cover Paintings and Pumpkins: Rainer Laws. Artwork and Booklet Design: Henjo Richter. Photography by Simon Fowler. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period In Z (Kusch) 1:45 2) Push (Kusch / Deris, Weikath, Kusch) 4:45 3) Falling Higher (Weikath / Deris, Weikath) 4:46 4) Hey Lord! (Deris) 4:05 5) Don't Spit On My Mind (Deris, Grosskopf / Deris) 4:23 6) Revelation (Kusch / Deris) 8:21 7) Time (Deris) 5:41 8) I Can (Deris, Weikath / Weikath) 4:38 9) A Handful Of Pain (Kusch / Deris) 4:47 10) Laudate Dominum (Weikath) 5:10 11) Back To The Ground (Kusch / Deris) 4:36 - Japanese bonus track 12) Midnight Sun (Weikath) 6:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period In Z (Kusch) 1:45 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Push (Kusch / Deris, Weikath, Kusch) 4:45 They're spending millions for your thrill Collective desperate overkill Wrapped up in harmless words that grin Forbidden games you'll never win The more you see the more you know Intended media mind control Shut down and see how Beautiful life can be This is the prime if your lifetime You'll see through eyes of someone else More than the half of your lifetime Is just a tale in a storybook Push Enforce your independence Push Your Real intention Face Your unconscious addiction Push Your Private fiction Push It's getting sicker frame by frame You're always staring at the same What is a lie, what is the truth? Incredible disgusting news The world is rough, the end is near Just calculation with your fear Without a shame nor least respect The operators stand erect This is the prime if your lifetime You'll see through eyes of someone else More than the half of your lifetime Is just a tale in a storybook Push Enforce your independence Push Your Real intention Face Your unconscious addiction Push Your Private fiction Push Take it This is the prime if your lifetime You'll see through eyes of someone else Push Enforce your independence Push Your Independence Push Solo 1: Roland Solo 2: Michael Solo 3: Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Falling Higher (Weikath / Deris, Weikath) 4:46 I thought that I felt alright with my world Now what I knew seems taken by someone Probing me, waiting if I take the bait Surrender, step into the line We won't give into the false We are not as dull as taken Some hold out if they can They must kill us if they want us to fall When we unite We're falling higher When worlds collide We'll stand straight In turmoil and fear No harm coming near Hungry forever since we took a glance Feared that the world was taken by someone We realized by the look in your eyes Metal will never Die With magic in our hands We are lost-and-found contenders For a kingdom of a stand Come together no surrender at all When we unite We're falling higher When worlds collide We'll stand straight In turmoil and fear No harm coming near We're falling higher With magic in our hands We are lost-and-found contenders For a kingdom of a stand Come together no surrender at all When we unite We're falling higher When worlds collide We'll stand straight In turmoil and fear No harm coming near We're falling Higher Solo 1: Michael Solo 2: Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Hey Lord! (Deris) 4:05 (Spoken): What is it all about? Pleasure or pain Cold or fire Love against disdain Hope or dispair Truth or liar Normal or insane Do you know what to choose? It can't happen you lose Like the stars need the light No left without right Hey, Lord Life is striking As you taught Hey, Lord Time is running Time is short Hey, Lord What is it all about? Good or profane Odd or even All is face to face Sinner and saint Serve each other Life is called this place Do you know what to choose? It can't happen you lose Like the stars need the light No left without right Hey, Lord Life is striking As you taught Hey, Lord Time is running Time is short Hey, Lord Life is striking Life is short Hey, Lord Time is running Time is short Hey, Lord Why you wanted us so wayward? Hey, Lord Life is striking As you taught Hey, Lord Time is running Time is short Hey, Lord What is it all about? Solo: Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Don't Spit On My Mind (Deris, Grosskopf / Deris) 4:23 Every lie will win a prize Love sold by a whore Calculated sacrifice Death without a war Aftermath and alibies Straw-doll-chess to please The poor Don't tell me of any wonders shitting gold Don't tell me of a hard way we have to go through Still we pay your warmth out of the cold Do you really think we're that blind? Don't spit on my mind Don't spit Every form of government Has a black sheep part But the brave will never know What the black sheeps start In the name of country-love They enrich themselves Apart Don't tell me of any wonders shitting gold Don't tell me of a hard way we have to go through Still we pay your warmth out of the cold Do you really think we're that blind? Don't spit on my mind We are the people, we are the masses you are for We give the power and our desire must be your law Don't think I'm standing here all alone, one of a kind Don't think because you're still there means that we are all blind Don't spit on my mind Don't spit On my mind Don't spit on my mind Don't spit Solo 1: Michael Solo 2: Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Revelation (Kusch / Deris) 8:21 Now we chase the end of time Afraid what we will find Once again since Jesus Christ The stars look down on mankind Revelation Overcome creation What's false? False illusions Fade and die Whatever we awaited Charity or hatred Whatever we awaited Will arise Power and prosperity It won't be like before Name, rank and authority Not counting anymore Revelation Overcome creation What's false? False illusions Fade and die Whatever we awaited Charity or hatred Whatever we awaited Will arise It's revelation Bemoan your words Bemoan your deeds Repent your thoughts of lies Attain your sword Attain your shield Defend the sense of life Bemoan your hate Repent your greed Improve your rotten seed Pray for the child Though born just by a fraud and a whore Pray for the child Who won't know what it's crying for Revelation Overcome creation What's false? False illusions Fade and die Whatever we awaited Charity or hatred Whatever we awaited Will arise It's revelation Solo 1: Roland Solo 2 & 3: Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Time (Deris) 5:41 Feel it running off So strong and clear An age is over fast And disappears Help him if you can His hour will come soon Push away his fear He'll see Elysium It's time Guard his little while And calm his shiver Wash and dry his tears And cool his fever Take the Bible's words Speak it pure his soul Lay love in his mind He's close to the final goal It's time To go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in Pray strong Pray to the higher Turn your back on the Devil's fire Time to go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in Time is passing by When his mind was clear He called you, "Brother" Now his brain is dazed It's resigning rather Mother take his hand Say a last good-bye We're not gifted to Turn water into wine It's time To go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in Pray strong Pray to the higher Turn your back on the Devil's fire Time to go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in It's time to go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in Pray strong Pray to the higher Turn your back on the Devil's fire Time to go Time for the freedom Time to face what we all believe in Pray strong Pray to the higher Turn your back on the Devil's fire Time is passing by Solo: Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) I Can (Deris, Weikath / Weikath) 4:38 May I take you higher? Feed well your desire? We won't be forgotten Foes left slain and rotten I will have my way as once before Others stand in awe can't scorn at all I can Make it all again I don't wanna lose Don't wanna go down I can Make the call again Fulfill my dreams Until I'm cured I can Will I be the flyer? Keep you more inspired? Some will leave here shattered Wish us tarred and feathered Show me anyone who doubts our ways I will laugh out loud and I will say I can Make it all again I don't wanna lose Don't wanna get drowned I can Heed the call again Can attain everything To leave you sure I can I I can Leave me waiting years or strike today Trample down the walls and pave your way I can Make it all again I don't wanna lose Don't wanna go down I can Make the call again Fulfill my dreams Until I'm cured I can I I can Solo: Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) A Handful Of Pain (Kusch / Deris) 4:47 (Spoken): I believe what we called a game is more than just a handful of pain I still remember every hour Every second has been ours Far away from any burden We met eyes without a curtain Headless into a new sensation Weather brain nor fear nor patience Careless we had a game to play You crossed my way for twenty days Why don't you just feel The yearning that I feel? Hey What we called a game Is more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain We're different colours, different nature Both of us like pupil and teacher It's a puzzle with two pieces Still not done 'cause one still misses Helpless I go through unknown stages A chapter of life which has missing pages Torture's not only physical It pains unbound, way, way down Why don't you just feel The yearning that I feel? Hey I believe what we called a game Is more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain More than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Cause I believe We go the wrong way Cause I believe it's more than just a handful of pain We go the wrong way Solo 1: Michael Solo 2: Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Laudate Dominum (Weikath) 5:10 Halleluja, homines (Rejoice, humans) Gaudete de domino (About the Lord) Qui donat vita omnes, (Who gives everyone life) Quod amat nos! (Because he loves us!) Halleluja, mi deus, (Rejoice, my God,) Tu vivis omnipotens, (You live omnipotent,) Tu es semper benignus, (You are always benign,) Tu amas nos (You love us!) Pater noster in caelis (Our father in Heaven) Totum orbem terrae regnat (Rules the whole world) Et vincit diabolum timorem (And defeats diabolic fear) Et omnium hominum (Of all humanity) O laudate dominum! (O praise the Lord!) Praedicate deum (Boast of God) Amate creatorem, (Love the creator,) Qui creavit mundum (Who created the Earth) Oh, laudate dominum! (Oh, praise the Lord!) Ecce, et te vult Jesus (Look, Jesus always wishes to) Liberare, ducere, (Liberate you, your) Per vitam tuus amicus, (Friend wishes to lead you through life,) Gaude tu! (Praise him!) Amici, dimittite (Friends, dislodge evil) Mente malam pravamque! (And wrong from the mind!) Anima accipite (Accept into your heart!) Salvam fidem! (Sound faith!) Jesus Christus in cruce (Jesus Christ on the cross) De vita decessit dolens (Sadly retired from life) Sed de morte resurrexit (But his death resurrected) Lux mundi nova (A new light) O laudate dominum! (O praise the Lord!) Filium Jesum Christum (The Son Jesus Christ) Omnium redemptorem (Redeemer of all) Et spiritum sanctum! (And the Holy Spirit!) O laudate dominum! ... (O praise the Lord! ...) O laudate dominum! (O praise the Lord!) Praedicate deum (Boast of God) Amate creatorem, (Love the creator,) Qui creavit mundum (Who created the Earth) Oh, laudate dominum! (Oh, praise the Lord!) Solo 1: Michael Solo 2: Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Back On The Ground (Kusch / Deris) 4:36 - Japanese bonus track We can race over the mountains Sail over the spheres We can ride under the oceans But we can't fight our fear Something's wrong with the world today Do you know what it is? We believe to govern nature Find ways to lengthen our life And we go through digital stages Still the children cry Chorus: Something's wrong with the world today Do you know what it is? The planet could be a better place if we spot the miss But I guess I would see a start and I will sing it loud Won't put your feet back on the ground We explore the existence of aliens Try to conquer the space We refine nuclear science Still to die in the haze Chorus Solo: Roland / Michael / Roland Something's wrong with the world today Do you know what it is? The planet could be a better place if we spot the miss But I guess I would see a start and we'll see the light Won't put your feet back on the... Won't put your feet back on the ground ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Midnight Sun (Weikath) 6:20 Tried so hard to understand all of your feelings Tried to cope with your insanities Come to think about too many ways of healing What we lost or maybe never had One small step into the hidden decoy One more word is help and one will destroy I woke up In the midnight sun So aware Damage has been done Agony or sanctuary Only fate will show the way From the bright of day into the yaw of darkness One is shoved a victim of a lie Friendly face turning to a fiery grimace Suddenly feelings learn to die Used up sympathy no chance to return To a world one knew but wounds that will burn Spent more time In the midnight sun Still aware Of what else has gone Agonized and hypnotized When will I be shown the way? Fell asleep And no midnight sun Still aware Justice has been done No more doubts but disbelief When the night was day Celebration Miracle And fate Did show the way Solo 1: Roland Solo 2: Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------