1. Afterlife

оригинал: MullMuzzler

In the aftermath of an afterthought we come to terms
In a moment no hostile termination
Just reflection on the facts (on the facts)
(as I see them)
All that I, all that I have tried to do is be honest
with myself (yeah)
Now my agenda is shifting focus
Running against the tide of time
In an ocean of complexity and confusion
In the afterimage I've created for myself
In my afterlife – I've come of age
A generation late – my essence and my rage
A state of being here – my spirit soars
After time – after more

Laughter in the left field
Hanging on the ledge of what is real
I think it's gonna be all right
And I know you hear me
'Cause we're not that far apart
Now that I can see beyond myself

Last trip on a strange, strange ride
Every head a big world inside
Hey, it's my turn
Jawbreaker – jawbone
When the truth is finally shown
Now that I can see beyond myself
Now the truth is stranger than fiction
In my revolution of resistance
(now that I, now that I can see)
In a manic manipulation only contradictions follow
No exoneration in my afterimage I've created....

In my afterlife – I've come of age
A generation late – my essence and my rage
A state of being here – my spirit soars
After time – after more

In my afterlife – a soul of years
Beyond the frame of man
The boundaries and the years
In my afterlife the language grows
Feast on purpose – afterglow

2. Red Barchetta

оригинал: Rush

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside

3. Shores Of Avalon

оригинал: MullMuzzler

I never saw it coming
Somehow the heat of battle
Sure dulled my senses to the real world
Or was I dreaming?
She held my hand and knew me
She looked right through all I knew

Lie quiet, let the rain wash over me now

Inside the royal chambers
She's staring out her window
Tears well hidden by a crimson veil
This is the poison
Clutching a Turkish dagger
By the moonlight I feel it begin

I'm wounded, let the pain wash over me now

Loneliness again
Sits here alongside of me
Gotta make my way
To where the waters heal my wounds
I know this is where I'll stay
Too jaded by her deception
A trust I thought to believe
I just wanna rest
And live out the best of my days
When I reach Avalon

Walking to my window
I'm feeling weak and so betrayed by all I've lost
I'm left here
To comprehend this strange barrage of lies

By the dawn's early light
The war had raged through the night
I turned to her I thought I heard her crying
I could see by her face
Before she laid to me waste
That there was someone she's dying for
Someone else out there besides me

I'm fading, let the fear drain away from me now

My fear's been broken
As the healing waters poured over me
And I begin to feel
Feel its magic strengthen me
I know this is where I'll stay
Can't take anymore deception
I just want peace in my heart
This calm I am feeling
I've never known until
Until I reach Avalon

Lie quiet, let the pain wash away from me now

No beginning or end
All of the roles we pass on through
I looked inside and I saw
My soul's my guide, I need to walk with you
I know this is where I'll stay
The world I've left behind
Has no place in my heart
I can finally rest
And live out the rest of my days
I'll never leave Avalon

4. Vertebrates

оригинал: Explorers Club

I challenge you to challenge me
In a test of truth and free will,
Now you make your moves and I'll make mine,
We'll then debrief and just unwind,
There will be no fear of what we say,
And no pretenses on this day
Standing face to face,
Yet we still won't say what we believe

Revealing what we want and who we are,
Admitting what we have become,
Just spineless mammals adrift at sea
In an evolution still to come
Standing face to face,
Yet we still don't say what we believe
We just avoid, we cave in, we lie

You robbed me of a chance to engage you on the same page,
Now all I here is lies, no wonder I can't reach you
I'd like to speak the truth, if you don't mind,
I need to get this out, I better do this quick,
While there's still some time left here,
I want to tell it straight, if you don't mind

You robbed me of a chance to engage you on the same page,
Now all I here is lies, no wonder I can't reach you
I'd like to speak the truth, if you don't mind,
I need to get this out, I better do this quick,
While there's still some time left here,
I want to tell it straight, if you don't mind

Let's be vertebrates, let's be... mmm...
Let's be vertebrates, let's morph into vertebrates

You robbed me of a chance to engage you on the same page,
Now all I here is lies, no wonder I can't reach you
I'd like to speak the truth, if you don't mind,
I need to get this out, I better do this quick,
While there's still some time, well?
I'd like to speak the truth, if you don't mind,
I need to get this out, I better do this quick,
While there's still some time, well?
You need to hear this straight, if you don't mind

5. A Time And A Place

оригинал: Emerson, Lake & Palmer

There is a place, a time and a space
Just no one can trace, that non one can trace.

Somewhere a hill, where things are still
Rain water spill, just rain water spill.

Sleep in a dream of butter milk cream
You dance on a beam, dancing on a beam.

Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.

Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.

Rest in shade, no sound his made,
Where silence is played, sound of silence played.

6. This Time This Way

Leonardo: Calling out to you
I know you're listening
I've spent the last year in Milan

I haven't heard from you
Did my letters make it there?
I need to ask you, is something wrong?

Mona Lisa: My friend, I will say this good
and loud, "everything's all right"

I can't wait till I get back there
If I could, I would leave tonight

Leonardo: This time I'm afraid to say it
This time there won't be words
This time, this day
I wnt our love a 'different way'
Have you ever felt that way before?

This time, this way
I'd like to be there when you say
that you've always known this day
would come...

This time, this day
I want our love a 'different way'
Have you ever felt that way before?

Mona Lisa: It's what you hope to learn
But you'll never find the soul
'The rule and limits of everything'

You've reached the threshold
of our human experience –
Divinity has drawn a veil

My friend, I will say this good and loud
'everything's all right'
I can't wait till I get back home
If I could I would leave tonight

Are you listening? Think I'll leave tonight.

Duet: This time, this way
You know the answer, so you say
We have always known this day would come

Let's just admit it now...

This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before?

This time, This way
You know the answer so you say
Have you ever felt this way before?

This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before?

This time, This way
You know the answer so you say
Have you ever felt this way before?

This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before?

This time, this way...

7. His Voice

оригинал: MullMuzzler

Nostalgia plays through me
Along with the radio
A taste, a scene, a sound
A touch is not enough

If only I
Had known his fear
So torn and feeling frighened

15 years have passed
A sour taste still curls my tongue
In despair, he danced the air
A life became undone

If only I
Had recognized
A silenced cry of sweet lies

Ma, you know you can't hold me now
Ma, would you like to hold me now

I heard his voice
The trace of tears
Still live within that moment

I heard his voice
He lost his will
One's fate revealed that moment
I heard his voice
The moment ends
So much was said in silence

Ma, you know you can't hold me now
Ma, would you like to hold me now
And if I could I would
If what had happened then today
I hold you close
Not turn away

8. As A Man Thinks

оригинал: MullMuzzler

First, the bad news...
Face the music
Mind over matter
In other words...
My imagination run amuck
Give and take with inspiration, information, innovation, impossible situation?
Worsening aggravation
Change, Every change, every step, every moment defined
As a man... as a man... as a man thinks

Shell game in a strait jacket
12 gauge
In a shotgun racket
Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
Got to do this all alone
Wait
Better slow it down and think about it

Embracing this moment
Enslave or free my soul
Just to play the game
With no guarantee
Is what I'll do for now
My life's a requiem playing
Out of key with no 'absolutes' at all
Who promised tomorrow?
Tomorrow may not even be here

How long am I blameless
'Undecided' in a frantic world?
My velocity screaming fast
From this truth I fear
Where did I hear:
'As a man thinks
So is he'?
But this man thinks
'Till his moment's gone'

Scapegoat to the end, dig it?
Whiz-bang
In a whirlwind minute
Voodoo – take a turn
Why not
Nuke my head – feel it burn?
Wind up where you were
If you think about it
Shell game in a strait jacket
12 gauge
In a shotgun racket
Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
Got to do this all alone
Wait
Better slow it down and think about it
Better slow it down
Take a moment right now
Let a man think
As a man thinks
What a man thinks...

(Hey there Budapest)
(What about... let's just give it a rest)

Scapegoat to the end, dig it?
Whiz-bang
In a whirlwind minute
Voodoo – take a turn
Why not
Nuke my head – feel it burn?
Wind up where you were
If you think about it
Shell game in a strait jacket
12 gauge
In a shotgun racket
Shinbone, shindig, shimmy for the Shinto
Got to do this all alone
Wait
Better slow it down and think about it
Better slow it down
Take a moment right now
Let a man think
As a man thinks
What a man thinks...

Bottom line?
Get it in
Get it off
Get it out
Get away
Get a buck
Get a clue
Now he just wants more

And he feels it
Now...
No more indecisions here
No more time to figure things out
No more lies
No mortal sin
He'll pay up square
But he won't get in
Too many opportunities
Too many reasons
Too many travesties
Now for the good news
It's gonna get...
Gonna get wild
When you wake up and realize
You've still got it all

(Hey there Budapest)
(How about next time we do our damn best?)

9. A Simple Man

оригинал: MullMuzzler

A thousand years of sleep
I've missed the rising sun
Wish I could change this
Always the same
With each one, every night
I'd watch as the light
Slowly fades from their eyes

Ohh so long
Long ago
What he took
Then gave to me
There is no end
It's not what I thought it'd be

Left drained felt impaired
The eyes drew me inside
Hypnotic waltz from his stare
Letting go

Ohh I still love
With the night will arrive
The cobblestones
Light misty air
The brief carress
Our sweet affair

Ohh so long
Long ago
I was just like any of you
A Simple Man
There was nothing I could do

But I've grown so tired
There's no need to hold on
If you hear me
Just wanna be
Be the man I was

Please believe
If I could
I would change
One thousand years
And still I am
Looking like the day
This all began

Ohh so long
Long ago
What he took
Then gave to me
Take it back
And give back the man in me

I'm going on my way
I'm going where there's no desire
Goin on where I'll stay higher than now

I want what you have taken
My life has been forsaken
Many nights I lay torn I'm breaking down
Why all this began
What's there to care for
Fade away

10. No Returning

оригинал: Explorers Club

Just call me Mr. Dark – Mr. Negative
I'm pessimistic, fatalistic, with an attitude
That's turned ballistic

No rhyme or reason
No symmetry and no excuse
Let it go – flow with the chaos
Hold tight 'cause I can't refuse
Fate speaks, Fate speaks loudly

Can't you see there's no returning
Once you've started down this road
You've lost everything you have
And life is over
No impact 'til you make it stronger

Can't you see there's no returning
Once you've started down this road
You've lost everything you have
And life is over
No impact 'til you make it stronger

Fate speaks, Fate speaks loudly
Fate speaks, Fate speaks loudly
Fate speaks, Fate speaks loudly
Fate speaks, Fate speaks loudly...

Can't you see there's no returning
Once you've started down this road
You've lost everything you have
And life is over
No Impact 'til you make it stronger

Can't you see there's no returning
Once you've started down this road
You've lost everything you have
And life is over
No impact 'til you make it stronger...