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Caesar saw it in a dream
All those many years ago
Great is the fall
With rocks and stones they built it up
Towering castles in the sky
Imperial walls
Shaking the stones from the earth
Rome is burning
The whole world is turning
Don’t know if I will survive
Rome is burning
History is learning
What goes up won’t come down alive
Nero played on as it burned
Like a million fireflies
Lighting the night
A minuet before the fall
Underneath an ashen sky
In crimson twilight
Shaking the stones from the earth
Rome is burning
The whole world is turning
Don’t know if I will survive
Rome is burning
History is learning
What goes up won’t come down alive
Don’t turn around
Keep your eyes upon the road
Hear the deafening sound
Where the river meets the sea
One more down
All the castles turn to sand
Never to be found
A thousand years have come and gone
Aged as the time gone by
Remember it all
It echoes in the ocean still
Memories of better times
Before the fall
Shaking the stones from the earth
Rome is burning ...
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I let evil
Into my house
I let evil
Turn me to stone
Ancient evil
Talking backwards
Ancient evil
Should’ve been left alone
Came from nowhere
Out of shadow
Came from nowhere
Time cannot tell
Trapped in darkness
Blood of angels
Prince of darkness
No soul to sell
They seem so glamorous
Beautiful and vain
But once they have your trust
They’ll leave you out in the rain
Beware the Vampires
They feed on the power of the good that you do
Beware the Vampires
They darken the light of the life within you
Nether regions
Is its homeworld
Nether regions
Sun never shines
Neverending
Star of darkness
Out of Eden
Serpent on the vine
They rise out of the dust
Driven by the vein
Beware the succubus
Doesn’t feel the pain
Beware the Vampires
They feed on the power of the good that you do
Beware the Vampires
They darken the light of the life within you
Beware the Vampires
They feed on the blood of the good that’s in you
Beware the Vampires
Their evil is greater than we ever knew
They seem so glamorous
Beautiful and vain
But once they have your trust
They’ll leave you out in the rain
Beware the Vampires
They feed on the power of the good that you do
Beware the Vampires
They darken the light of the life within you
Beware the Vampires
They feed on the blood of the good that’s in you
Beware the Vampires
Their evil is greater than we ever knew
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I couldn’t wait for it to be
Finally over
They’re gonna turn me back to stone
It doesn’t mean that much to me
It’s an illusion
I’ll be on board the train for home
I can tell you what it means to be
Just one of the machines
But I can’t tell you what it means to me
I’m just one of the machines
This is the new theology
The building of empires
It’s gonna turn your heart to stone
They brought me to the factory
The silicon bonfire
So out of date this flesh and bone
I can tell you what it means to be
Just one of the machines
But I can’t tell you what it means to me
I’m just one of the machines
Oh I can tell you what it means to be
Just one of the machines
But I can’t tell you what it means to me
I’m just one of the machines
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Mariner - live 2003
07:54
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I travel deep blue oceans
Far from fields of green
I long for lack of motion
I dream for a change of scene
Dark are the days
Cold are the nights
Deep are the oceans below
But strong are the winds
That carry me home
I sing you the mariner’s song
I leave from ports familiar
Set sail to points unknown
To pierce the heart of darkness
Where the seeds of nightmares are sown
Dark are the days
Cold are the nights
Deep are the oceans below
But strong are the winds
That carry me home
I sing you the mariner’s song
Dark are the days
Cold are the nights
Deep are the oceans below
But strong are the winds
That carry me home
I sing you the mariner’s song
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Lost Highway - live 2003
05:13
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It was windy and warm
And I’d had my fill of the summertime
Think I’ll stop off for a glass of wine
And sit it out ‘til the fall
Too long out on the road
I needed a change of scenery
Looking for some kind of greenery
In the west Texas sun
But over the blue horizon
A song of yesterday
Out on the lost highway
I was headed back home
Movin’ out west through New Mexico
Me and my old sense of vertigo
Draggin’ the chains of the past
But into the heart of midnight
A song of yesterday
Out on the lost highway
It was just after dawn
Comin’ up fast on oblivion
In a haze of delirium
Highway 10 stretches on
But out of the misty morning
A song of yesterday
Out on the lost highway
Nothing much to speak of
Since my love has gone
Guess I’ll be movin’ on
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Arrival - live 2001
01:52
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Neurosaur - live 2001
05:27
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I couldn’t believe it
The sights I been shown
My head explodes with ancient mysteries
Seems like yesterday
But in my heart I know
We sailed across a thousand centuries
I tried to take it slow
But it roars in my mind like thunder
Heavy metal symphony
Stars rain down on the deep blue sea
I gave you my will, and you set me free
Heavy metal rain down on me
We started in Berlin
And made our way out west
Played every hall ‘cross the seven seas
We hit all the hot spots
And broke down many walls
Defied the laws of gravity
I tried to see the signs
But it roars in my mind like thunder
Heavy metal symphony
Stars rain down on the deep blue sea
I gave you my will, and you set me free
Heavy metal rain down on me
I tried to brave the storm
But it roars in my mind like thunder
Heavy metal symphony
Stars rain down on the deep blue sea
I gave you my will, and you set me free
Heavy metal rain down on me
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Fly - live 2001
07:35
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There is a place where you program the sunshine
And listen to rain as it falls from above
Where silently I paint a private utopia
Where lion and lamb lie with eagle and dove
I think of old times when I look in your eyes
Remember the days we walked hand in hand
Now you live your life like a sole survivor
A madman wandering the desert sand
I will fly like the wind ‘cross the sea to be near you
And my doubts, like the sun, they will fade through the night
Fly like the wind, vowing love in the shadows
Under moons crystal white and the waters midnight blue
Wondering back to the summer of madness
Flying away through the sheltering sky
Wishing that somehow we could remain ageless
But days get shorter as years roll by
I will fly like the wind ‘cross the sea to be near you
And my doubts, like the sun, they will fade through the night
Fly like the wind, vowing love in the shadows
Under moons crystal white and the waters midnight blue
I follow three stars in the hovering darkness
For it is well known there’s no map of this land
The forest is deep and the journey is endless
I’m finding my way however I can
I will fly like the wind ‘cross the sea to be near you
And my doubts, like the sun, they will fade through the night
Fly like the wind, vowing love in the shadows
Under moons crystal white and the waters midnight blue
Fly back to you
Fly back to you
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This time next year we’ll be looking at our yesterdays
See how far we’ve come from here
All of our fears are the history of future days
Climb the mountain, touch the skyline
If you know that change is constant
You’ll find it’s nothing new
Don’t be surprised when you realize it’s happened to you
There’s a storm on the horizon
It’s coming here to stay
It’s a one way ride through the silicon sky
Oblivion days
The road is clear down the neverending motorway
From the brink of fleeting time
Along the banks of the river turning night to day
Climb the mountain, touch the skyline
If you know that change is constant
You’ll find it’s nothing new
Don’t be surprised when you realize it’s happened to you
There’s a storm on the horizon
It’s coming here to stay
It’s a suicide dive through the hurricane’s eye
Oblivion days
This time next year we’ll be looking at our yesterdays
See how far we’ve come from here
The sound you’ll hear ‘cross the ocean land of far away
Climb the mountain, touch the skyline
When you know that change is constant
You’ll find it’s nothing new
Don’t be surprised when the compromise is all about you
You can read it in the headlines
It’s close in every way
When the holes in the sky just multiply
Oblivion days
When you’re standing at the crossroads
So far from hallowed ground
The high road ends just ‘round the bend in a flash of sight and sound
There’s a storm on the horizon
It’s coming here to stay
It’s a one way ride through the silicon sky
Oblivion days
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Space: 1999 - live 2003
04:55
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Erik Norlander California
ERIK NORLANDER is a progressive rock keyboardist, composer, producer and active live performer based in Northern California. In addition to his many solo albums, Erik works with vocalist Lana Lane (his wife), his band, Rocket Scientists, and The Bob Moog Foundation. Erik has worked extensively with ASIA Featuring John Payne, Last in Line, Big Noize (with Joe Lynn Turner) and many other artists. ... more
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