Stratovarius - Dreamspace (1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timo Tolkki - Lead Vocals, Guitars Jari Kainulainen - Bass Antti Ikonen - Keyboards Tuomo Lassila - Drums Produced, Mixed and Engineered by Timo Tolkki. Recorded at Rauhala Estate, Sibelius Academy, Soundtrack Studios. Cover by Markus Itkonen. Logo by Susanne Nokelainen. Photography: Lasse Lehtiranta. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Chasing Shadows (Tolkki) 4:36 2) 4th Reich (Tolkki) 5:52 3) Eyes Of The World (Tolkki) 6:00 4) Hold On To Your Dream (Tolkki / Tolkki, Lassila) 3:38 5) Magic Carpet Ride (Tolkki) 5:00 6) We Are The Future (Tolkki) 5:23 7) Tears Of Ice (Tolkki) 5:41 8) Dreamspace (Tolkki) 6:00 9) Reign Of Terror (Tolkki) 3:33 10) Thin Ice (Tolkki / Lassila) 4:31 11) Atlantis (Tolkki) 1:09 12) Abyss (Tolkki / Lassila) 5:06 13) Shattered (Tolkki / Lassila) 3:30 14) Wings Of Tomorrow (Tolkki) 5:15 15) Full Moon (Tolkki) 4:50 - Japanese bonus track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Chasing Shadows (Tolkki) 4:36 I have been sailing across the oceans flying across the blue sky Without never finding the answer the answer to the question why just when you think you reach it, it's gone Chasing Shadows, Chasing shadows Chasing Shadows, all your life Harder you try to fix things in your life Faster you know it's in vain Searching for loving from strangest places Nothing is left but the pain Chasing Shadows, Chasing shadows Chasing Shadows, all your life ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) 4th Reich (Tolkki) 5:52 Sign of the times and writings on the wall they show me it's time has come Order of a new kind we will all find stronger than never before Things are pretty much the same like in the year thirty eight oh won't we ever learn This time is't gonna be different so let's all join our hands And let the children sing for the last time 4th Reich is rising can't you see the signs 4th Reich is rising for the last time Let's just press more money don't worry about the inflation we got to have more weapons to carry on Unemployment and sorrow cannot be avoided at this point but thins will be so different when they are ruling the world 4th Reich is rising can't you see the signs 4th Reich is rising for the last time what will be left to our children is this our final destiny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Eyes Of The World (Tolkki) 6:00 Everywhere I go I see people staring at me It makes me feel so strange why won't they just leave me be So take a look in the mirror and maybe you'll see all the things that happened while you were looking at me Am I really so different In the Eyes of the world you are no different to me In the Eyes of the world is it so hard to see now Everything we do is running to the sand And who is to take the food away from the children's hand We all could be friends now and it's not a crime But we have to be quick now because we don't have much time Are we really so different In the Eyes of the world you are no different to me In the Eyes of the world is it so hard to see now ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Hold On To Your Dream (Tolkki / Tolkki, Lassila) 3:38 Since you were born Pushed into corner and left all alone Told what to do, obey all the rules Be just like everyone else those fools Day at the school, teacher's a bully You're mobbed as a rule Nothing from TV, your folks are away You are trapped inside this house you must stay - home Now it's time for you to move on Leave the shadows of your past Don't let them haunt you forever Hold on to your dream Somewhere there's a beam ... of hope which is guiding your way through the dark This is your chance Your love, your romance Hold on to your dream and never give up in your life Hold on to your Dream ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Magic Carpet Ride (Tolkki) 5:00 Let me take you to the far away places Where you've never been to the orient lands Soon you will notice the mountains and forests We're flying over them now Don't you be afraid, just take my hand as we race with four winds Welcome to the land of mystery Welcome to the land of secrets This is no ancient history We are flying through the gates of Babylon Allah is speaking us all with his mighty voice Bowing to his power as we go down This magic carpet ride is not a dream to us It's really happening ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) We Are The Future (Tolkki) 5:23 What is wrong with a man Destroying the land Our planet is full of waste Sheltering ozone layer Is no more a shield the temperature is rising up Now it's time to stop this madness preventing increasing sadness Let's put end to all this while we can Man agains another man How somebody can Judge by colour of the skin See the signs make up your mind Now it's time for the change It is not too late Now it's time... Chorus: Save us we are the future Lead us in to the better world now Show us the way to reality No more injustice or cruelty Save us we are the future Lead us in to the better world now Show us the way to reality injustice is all gone Fast, fast stop this course now Last, last or we won't last Past stop living in the past or you will die End, end of our time Time our precious time Crime, crime against mankind we have to pay In the course of mad destruction There'll be no coming back The nuclear end is in sight Soon there will be no one to fight with Take a look in to the sky It may be your last time The complete end is in sight Soon there will be no one to fight with me Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Tears Of Ice (Tolkki) 5:41 Tears of Ice falling down my cheeks forming a lake in it's surface I see you face and I watch it till it's gone There were times all I did was cry out your name only thing I feel now is pain Tears of Ice frozen heart icy drop fall to the ground forming stream golden dream that will lead me to your door There were times all I did was cry out your name only thing I feel now is pain Baby you should see what you did to me now I am crying tears of ice Baby you should feel like I felt in those days now I am crying tears of ice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Dreamspace (Tolkki) 6:00 Looking back through time to my childhood days I used to have a place where I could escape the reality But lately things have been so difficult for me trying to reach for the light in the fall of darkness Waiting watching my life I'm wasting my time I'm losing grip from life Going back to my dreamspace leaving it all behind soon the things will be allright when I get there Am I safe in here, nothing left to fear I will close my eyes and float away with stream Wandering here in this eternal darkness no signs of light anywhere I am going in sane Now I am leaving this life No hope left I want to die ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Reign Of Terror (Tolkki) 3:33 What the hell is going on Skijumpers making music that sells gold There's no talent in this game Hunting, hunting for the fame Publicity is all you need that's why it feels to me like Reign of Terror Everything costs so much nowadays An individuals vanish in the haze Entertainment for the masses saving, saving your own asses Rats are leaving sinking ship still it feels to me like Reign of Terror What the hell is going on everything is upside down Hunting, hunting for the fame terror, terror everywhere ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Thin Ice (Tolkki / Lassila) 4:31 I'm walking on a thin ice Lying paralyzed There's staying there's alone Reaching for the unknown In the mirror I see despair In the closet I smell death There's needles in my bed I've finally lost my head ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Atlantis (Tolkki) 1:09 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Abyss (Tolkki / Lassila) 5:06 I'm out on the open sea the wind is embracing me I'm watching the setting sun Far far away from you there's not much that I could Do you know what's the only way for me Into the depths I fall into the unknown darkness I go Down, Down, Down down, down, down falling into the Abyss A morning of no recall no memory no nothing at all the sun is blinding my eyes The pain I feel in my head I think I go back to bed Or should I have just one more Into the depths I fall into the unknown darkness I go Down, Down, Down down, down, down falling into the Abyss ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) Shattered (Tolkki / Lassila) 3:30 I worked so hard to get my aim Pulled out wrong card is this my last game Too fast too son you know it takes time Hasty deeds spoilt the chances of mine I'm burning inside outside seems all right Try not to think about it much It's hard to say when I will play againg Shattered, Shattered my hands are shattered Shattered, Shattered my life is shattered I'm dressed to kill and ready to score Third pain pill and there's pain no more I can't break out, out of these walls Walls that sometimes the skull is caled I'm burning inside outside seems all right Try not to think about it much It's hard to say when I will play againg Shattered, Shattered my hands are shattered Shattered, Shattered my life is shattered ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Wings Of Tomorrow (Tolkki) 5:15 New winds are blowing Over the world can you feel it Message is spreading among all the people Future is calling History is leaving behind Nobody is thinking about the past days If you want to have a look in future world If you have an open mind now it is your turn Come join our forces to this trip on the Wings of Tomorrow Consider that this world could be free from all this hatred There would be no borders no laws of any kind Still mankind is falling, planning it's ruin everyday But hey we can still stop this madness together If you want to have a look in future world If you have an open mind now it is your turn Come join our forces to this trip on the Wings of Tomorrow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Full Moon (Tolkki) 4:50 - Japanese bonus track Shining there in the sky light our way across the land Black clouds in front of you face fading into the haze In this prison of mine my soul lies in despair My mind wanders through time tell me what is my crime What is behind velvet lies heart as cold as the ice in this prison of mine my soul lies in despair Won't you set me free now I have to leave ------------------------------------------------------------------------