Magnum Album

Pray to they future, look to the past
Face the accuser, freeze in our tracks
When so many children have fallen from grace
The doors should be open, no scorn or disgrace

Keys have been stolen, treasure is lost
Lesson is golden, hearts have been crossed
So here's to the heroes, come one and come all
Without them, well who knows? Who knows at all?

In these days of no trust, evermore hostility
We're all living under the same old sky
'Cause we're all living, we're telling the same old lie
In these days, in these days, in these days of no trust

And music recorded might influence dreams
But headlines are courted by stretch limousines
Pictures of plenty, stuck to the walls
For heads that are empty, brains on the floor
Can't take any more

Someone is shouting revolution is here
But he'll climb any mountain for his selfish career
The truth's not a curtain, to be drawn back and forth
It's a flame that keep burning, everlasting torch

Wild swan, follow the river
Don't fly through dangerous skies
On and on, from bow and quiver
Ride over mountains so high

Over fields and the ruin of castles
Into the evening we soar
City lights begin to sparkle
Like diamonds thrown to the floor

Fly home, it's just me and you, your only son
Fly home, I've been waiting to, the time has come

Out to sea on the wings of heaven
Where silver cuts like a knife
Say farewell to the ships of the ocean
We travel into the night

Just another broken heart
Any fool can see
Though we're living worlds apart
You're still next to me

I'm never going to give you up
Never want to make you cry
Never going to give you up
Never going to say goodbye

It's just another lonely night
I'm missing you again
Nothing ever turns out right
So when's it going to end?

When you start talking love
You know that I'd run through the night to be with you
Talk about love
It's a walk from the dark to the light to be with you
Start talking love
Talk about love

You left me with a broken heart
Any fool can see
Now we're living worlds apart
Guess it was meant to be

Rainy day, stormy night
She couldn't stay, it wasn't right
She never cried, she's very strong
I always tried when it went wrong

It's nothing new, when you lose
But getting through's no pleasure cruise
She never lied, I heard them say
She hit the slide and fell away

Well, it must have been love that let her down
It must have been love pushed her around
Looking for love she never found
Must have been love
Must have been love
Must have been love

She spends her time on an endless search
And it's a crime, keeps getting hurt
She never learns, takes it day by day
Then she gets burned and turned away

On narrow streets old men lie
In the doorway sleeping
While working girls comb their hair
See the young men peeping

Different worlds
Only a walk across the street
Different worlds
You never know what you might meet

No stain sheets on your bed tonight
How you feeling?
While running feet always disappear
From sirens screaming

Some of us take what we want
Some of us take what we need
Some of us break
Some of us bleed

Where velvet gloves and your diamond rings
Lose their meaning
For those we love, if they really care
Keep on dreaming

See you like the water's edge
The taste of fear is in my heart and in my head
I've never seen a power so strong
Nor silver moon, just like a medal being hung

Feel your touch, your brand of fire
And your magic weave is more than I require
I've never seen this place beyond
I live in this world, yes, I know where I belong

Time has no respect for man's vanity
We hold the keys, we are the caretakers of insanity
We've been down this road before
Learned the lesson, on the surface it's been scored

One step away, away form you
One step away, away form you

Your many faces, I can't trust
I'll walk alone, I'll take my chances, won't be pushed
You promise all the things I need
I'd have to change my ways and all that I believe

Pray for the day
This city's wall
Concrete for chains
Will crumble and fall
Pray for the day

On top of the world
Nothing breaks in
Cross after cross
They have to dig in
Where to begin

Remember at the border
Where the blood ran like water
Murdered for escaping
While the world looked on shaking

And they crowned you with pain
And emptied your head
Your rescuers came
And left you for dead
Now it has to be said

And all across that land
Keys of freedom jammed

It was the day that war broke out, everyone seemed excited
While young men boasted and talked of great times
Dark clouds gathered on the maginot line

Sisters and fathers, mothers and sons
All said goodbye, it seemed so much fun
We'll be finished by christmas, back home by the fire
Perish the distance, the bombs and the wire

Don't wake the lion
Don't wake the lion
Don't wake the lion

There's a firework show tonight, everyone's been invited
There's mud on faces with frightened white eyes
And some won't make it through the thunderous noise

Powerful and angry, answer the guns
All through the night, relief never comes
It's a criminal deception, sets man against man
Indicting reflection, a devious plan

Hear what they're saying, come the freeze
You'd better hold on tight
And while you're praying on your knees
Prepare to stand and fight

Someone keeps saying it's written in a book
So keep yourself in line
But you're betraying with every nervous look
That now it's killing time

And from the morning till the night, we try
They said it all would turn out right, but they lied
Yes, they lied

Too old to die young, too big to cry
Too old to die young, to say goodbye
Too old to die young, too big to cry, mama
Too old to die young, to say goodbye

Above the raging evening sky
Will never be the same
While necks are straining those hidden eyes
Shoot out another flame

While the angels sleep tonight, some of us will be hoping
That someone understands who started this fight
Thrown down on foreign shores, so far out of sight

Maybe tonight
Remember to think of the years
When wrong equalled right
And someone else cried all your tears
All roads are rough
Don't matter that much
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight

Maybe tonight
You'll think of the rules that god broke
Try as you might
Surrounded by fools that still hope
Judgement in haste
Locked in this place
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight

Angels may grace your table
I want those angels to rock your cradle
Angels bring you the morning, bring you the morning
Angels hear you calling

Learn the secrets, of kings and queens
Famous lovers, interpret dreams
Powerful nations return to the dust
Fearful passion, unbridled lust

Trace the borders, so many lines
Maps and orders, land for our lives
Wild adventures and daring escapes
Paid assassins and the widows they make

Sail away, say goodbye
C'est la vie, don't you cry
Sail away, say goodbye
C'est la vie, don't you cry

Sound of fury, their battle cry
Brave or crazy, they surely will die
Another child lies in his mother's arms
Warm and cosy, no need for alarm
Don't be alarmed

Cold and ragged with icy feet
On these supposed golden streets
Where eyes pillage the answers of time
Rise determined to answer their cry

You're old enough to stand and face the truth
Through all this crying
Has a little bit of kindness shaken you
So you keep on trying (keep on)
Your eyes are like the windows to your soul
Through all this dying
As adventures shared by many young and old
So you keep on trying

Till the tears come falling down

It's crying time, it's crying time
It's crying time, it's crying time
It's crying time, those tears don't lie
Those tears you cry, those tears you cry

However things uncertain might appear
Don't walk it, blindness
And a single word of magic in your ear
Lights up inside us (light up)
On many nights your step is strong and sure
So close behind us
Cried out for help, from many distant shore
Soon reminds us

And the tears come falling down, falling down