Michael Kiske - Readiness To Sacrifice (1999)++ 46:43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Kiske - Lead Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards Ciriaco Taraxes - Guitars, Keyboards Jens Mencl - Bass Jurgen Spiegel - Drums Kai Rudi Wolke - Drums on "Philistine City" and "Watch Your Blue" Produced by Michael Kiske. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Could Cry (Kiske) 4:41 2) Ban 'Em (Kiske) 6:37 3) Philistine City (Kiske) 4:31 4) Crosstown (Kiske, Taraxes) 3:36 5) Where Wishes Fly (Kiske, Taraxes) 5:28 6) Watch Your Blue (Kiske) 4:16 7) Out Of Homes (Kiske) 4:13 8) It (Kiske) 4:08 9) Easy (Kiske) 5:47 10) Shadowfights (Kiske) 3:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Could Cry (Kiske) 4:41 And they walk by, feelings mutual If I would try... I'd try... to watch those trys to move a little closer... to the try I get my handshake, it hurts the bone I Leave the debate... long before the debate kills the... conversation that was talk Chorus 1: I could cry I could feel so lonely I could cry for me Is it good... Or is it even better Would you cry for me, me? If that's your vow, let's hear your prayers! It suits us now... but now is gone and little's won if... yesterday feels better now Give a sign - a sign of giving Show your spine - We kill the beast for liberty will... liberty help to... kill the beast? Chorus 2: I could cry I could feel so lonely I could cry for me Is it good... Or is it even better Would you cry for me I kiss the end still in touch with the start I'm coming down with the eyes on the up I drink the sun and I eat the smart When I got all mine! (2) Chorus 2 & 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Ban 'Em (Kiske) 6:37 Hey you! Don't you get tired... Tired of being everybody's dick? Hey you! Don't you feel sick of... Sick of playing the target for their kicks? Hey you! Don't you feel anger... sometimes The anger of being a wimp with no possible win? Hey you! Don't you feel empty... enough... To close that human hole from your stomach to your chin? Creeps crawl by and seek... a taker for their needs You lose your face and bleed An easy chance to... feed... some hate Ban 'em out of your heart! Infection's lifetaking! They tear your world apart! All settlement's mistaking Inhaling stays heart When rotten's the air that you breathe... and freedom's sweet! Chorus: We shimmer and die on Shimmer and cry on We shimmer and die on... Along with our needs Don't shimmer and die on Shimmer and cry on Don't shimmer and die on... Along with your needs It all falls down for better days Aha aah! She goes crazy Aha aah! Don't go crazy Keep 'em off Ban 'em out of your heart! Hey you! Tell me can you hear me? Tomorrow don't exist when today was never true! Hey you! Just tell me can you hear me? Fuck all securities! Losing spine won't do! You search for wings to fly You'd like to fly so high! But no one knows the sky... And you forgot to buy... some time Trapped in your fears! Lost in frustrations! You die through the years! A hopeless sensation! Start it all from here... before it eats all that you've been! Let your heart sing! Chorus (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Philistine City (Kiske) 4:31 On our long uneasy way, never there, never stay We please ourselves, eat ourselves, it gets us through the day Maybe we should pray 'cos we all are gonna pay... For the arrows for others that we shoot up today All senses are numb The candle grows cold In questioning hours all answers are sold The bitter taste on your tongue You wash it down with some cheap fun The arrow cuts deeper, the cheating gets done I don't know! (2) Deep down within... we all feel the sin From darkness we raise... but it still hurts them too We all save our piece... just begging, 'Oh, please Make it go away...' all thinking 'bout those who bleed out here It's a myth when we say: 'Give love' It's meaningless, meaningless that sounds like the croak of frogs We preach out in the blue but never change anything we do Our words have no weight and our wisdom won't do I don't believe in your American dream No more, no way, it's all not what it seems We always hear them pray thanking the Lord for the money days And the anger grows stronger in those who failed the play I don't know! (2) Deep down within... we all feel the sin From darkness we raise... but it still hurts them too We all save our piece... just begging, 'Oh, please All thinking 'bout those who freeze out here Changing colors, changing facades Changing fashions, changing masquerades New generations Oh! with whole new conceptions So it won't go away... that caricature... of a... man Aah... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Crosstown (Kiske, Taraxes) 3:36 You pretend that you own the stars... And all of your days are free You believe that you fill the hours... And you size how far to see! Tell me what it means to be! Show me what it means to feel! I know that you think that you're real! Chorus: Sooner some will get the matter! Sooner one will tame forever! Sooner than you know, you know what you are! Sooner one will match your limit! Sooner one will soon regret it! Sooner than you know, you know who you are! You believe that you know the cure Born with a golden arse! This poem has been heard before! But some seek the new, God bless! Give me a word that means! Show me a truth that feeds! And sell me some more than you see! Chorus When you search turn your head to tomorrow! While you awake clean your heart tasting sorrow! You can go! (2) Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Where Wishes Fly (Kiske, Taraxes) 5:28 Some say the prize is paid Some preach eternal pay Where you go... nobody knows! Before you came to me Life was light and clean Where we go... nobody knows! No, no! Forget... tomorrow! We have... today! If we can steal the night? A good try will show! Can we go and... leave... it? Words alone won't do! When their lights get dim, let's see what still glows! Will you stay with me... when HE can't set me free? Will you love me... when nobody knows my name? Would you see me through... when I'm just a burden for you? Can I catch you... when nobody knows your name? Say we're... together! We stop... the time! These feelings come... from where spirits fly! Come see... our treasures! Let's tolerate! These spirits come... from where wishes fly! From where wishes fly! (3) Aah... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Watch Your Blue (Kiske) 4:16 Now you're well educated All you speak sounds so well All class is demonstrated There's really not much to tell With perfect look and perfect smell, with perfect style, all perfect well: Watch your blue if your precious black! Nothing you do could bother All that you wear looks clean You satisfy your father In everyway life looks green No one ever makes it better, no one ever beats you, never: Watch your blue if your precious black! But I... it seems I don't mind I'm wasting a lifetime to bring down what could wear that crown My head... grows heavy instead A heart made of stone Potential unknown! In darkness we kill our partners In darkness we speak our minds Don't let us look inside there! Who knows what we might find? Get it on and get it all, no one wins by thinking small: Watch your blue if your precious black! And I... it seems I don't mind I'm wasting a lifetime to bring down what could wear that crown My head... grows heavy instead A heart made of stone Potential unknown! Stay what's to stay! Say what to say! Pray when you pray! Fear when you fear! Here comes the feeling lonely And here comes the feeling blue Innocence's lost so truly Innocence's gone, that's true I... it seems I don't mind I'm wasting a lifetime to bring down what could wear that crown My head... grows heavy instead A heart made of stone Potential unknown! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Out Of Homes (Kiske) 4:13 I was the one to shout... When my shoes were tight Now I'm doing better babe I've changed parts of my strategies Still I'm shooting straight I swallow what goes wrong, yeah There's no in-between... And nothing's ever what it seems And it always seems alright Yeah yeah I still come down after fights Yeah yeah Chorus 1: I'm alone on the streets tonight I am lost but I will get it right Silent anger chews my heart to mush And you always gotta see me again! No longer cursed with doubts Yes, that would be a life! But life won't take our lessons babe It takes its prisoners when it dates Yeah yeah I've seen, you've packed your things... For what tomorrow brings Yeah yeah I doubt preparing's possible... For something so untouchable And I always seem alright Yeah yeah I still come down after fight Yeah yeah Chorus 2: I'm alone on the streets tonight I am lost but I will get it right Silent anger chews my heart to mush Dirt stains on me like a skin And you always gotta see me again! Yes it always seems alright... Chorus 1 & 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) It (Kiske) 4:08 When you say your love is outrageous... I'm not trying matching with you Fear eats through the ages... Swallows all good that we do Chorus 1: When IT comes close tonight I grab as much of IT as I can get my hands on The sound gets clear and bright And bitterness is far Chorus 2: I understand: time demands pain And constantly we kill all youth In unison we sing in vain... If we don't care for truth Still we paint our intentions blue-ish Life-fakes get colored pink It's the days of the foolish... Where men steal the sky with a blink When IT shows what's inside We take IT or leave IT or just roll on with our lives Superficialized We can't hear when IT calls Chorus 2 Our leaves in brown Our live is touch of sin Let's pretend the circle is cornered... and stones will turn into gold Let's try to make the sea turn red... or to grow up before we get old Chorus 1 I understand: time demands pain And constantly we kill all youth In unison we sing in vain... If we don't care... If IT is IT, IT saves the day If IT is not we earn our pay Is IT was IT has seemed to say We get IT anyway! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Easy (Kiske) 5:47 Chorus: It's... so... easy... to hurt It's... so... easy... to hate It's not easy... to take the pain Don't deny, don't you cry There's a lift somewhere Deep within, yes, it's giving that shows we care If life gets too tough... And you give it all, that's enough If blind is your love, it will carry your pain But you got to show! We had it all... and we gave it all away Tears we will hide... all those years we learned to hide Ooh! Chorus Lay your head on me! Lay it all on me! Lay your head on me! Put it all on me! Lay all worries on me! Lay all fears on me! Lay all pain on me! Lay it all on me! (You can fly, you sure can fly... Lay all load on me! Just lay all weight on me! ...with all weight off of your heart) Put it all on my shoulder! Long is the road... that lead's out of cold A Second will carry all fortune at once A second can show! Embrace the world! You got arms, embrace the world! We run out of time Yes we're bad, bad out of time Ooh! It's... so... easy... to hurt It's... so... easy... to hate It's not easy... to love ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Shadowfights (Kiske) 3:19 Sun-breeze comes down on me The air is so clean.. and good There's no rush and it's understood: No place for doubts in this neighborhood Chorus: Dreams... can... fly I heard it said, I heard it cried A moment of use... will... fade A minute from here, we're all too late... And Mr. Man is afraid! If even the stars could fall down Where to run if they hit town? When faith disappears, when you drown in your tears... Will you call for the gods you don't fear? Like birds we sing songs out here I even saw you... flying out there When the night sings a song of hope... To kill sounds like these we wouldn't dare Then we die One lived in pain, one lived in pride She didn't ask... look... find He never saw... what was on her mind Cold spirits, illusions in time If even the sun will burn out When all love you've found cheats you loud When truth runs from you, nothing real's left to do Will you fall into mentally blue? When they come fly... They come from high! Reveal all lie! All hell comes to end! Chorus 1 If even the stars could fall down Where to run if they hit town? When faith disappears, when you drown in your tears... Will you call for the gods you don't... fear? ------------------------------------------------------------------------