Intermission 2001

Jens Johansson - Keyboards
T.T. Oksala - Engineer
Mika Jussila - Mastering
Timo Tolkki - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Derek Riggs - Paintings
Padre Marcelo Rossi - Photography
Marc Villalonga - Photography
Jorg Michael - Drums
Jari Kainulainen - Bass
Timo Kotipelto - Vocals

Will My Soul Ever Rest in Peace?
Falling into Fantasy
The Curtains Are Falling
Requiem
Bloodstone
Kill the King
I Surrender (live)
Keep the Flame
Why Are We Here?
What Can I Say
Dream Wit Me
When the Night Meets the Day
It's a Mystery
Cold Winter Nights
Hunting High and Low (live)

WILL MY SOUL EVER REST IN PEACE?

I've been searching for an oasis
In the desert for so long
To pretend I'm strong
In my weakness trying

I've been holding on
To things that I have left behind
I've been scared and lonely
I'm crippled inside.

Bathing my soul in the starlight
Healed my wounds in the sun
Screamed my pain to the forest
Asking the question why?

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

I've been washed in pain
Haunted by the ghosts of years ago
They won't leave me be
They keep coming back for more

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

My crippled soul is yearning to be free.

FALLING INTO FANTASY

I'm sitting by the calm lake
And watch the setting sun
My feet are in the water
The journey's just begun
In the mist there is a boat and it's heading towards me
On the deck the lady's holding her hand and I agree

I'm falling into fantasy
The dream goes on

We are traveling in the nightfall
Until we stop somewhere
Descending into water
On dark and hazy stairs
Now she's leading me to the golden palace that lays ahead
She tells me I'm the one in her dreams and on her bed

People may come and people may go But dance of time is eternal. What is the meaning of this cosmic play? Will we see another day?

I'm falling into fantasy
The dream goes on
I'm falling into fantasy
Drifting alone

CURTAINS ARE FALLING

I'm back in the air, but I've nowhere to go
I nervously glance at the mountains below
Two hours of sleep, seven more 'til the show
I pray to the codess of coffee to keep me alive.

The crew's getting wasted, we're back in the sky.
I join in the fray, 'coz the rules don't apply
"who cares anyway - when we're all gonna fry!-"
But somehow we manage to land and we all have survived...

And the curtains are falling and the legions are calling tonight.
And the curtains are falling and the legions are calling tonight.

Have to fly away, though I'd rather stay
That's the price you pay, that's the game we play.

When roaring to life the engines are loud.
The mem'ries of you and the sound of the crowd
They're fading away as we break through the clouds
But I don't complain when we're back on the ground and alive...

REQUIEM

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BLOODSTONE

I've been trying There's no denying
It's sending me Out of my mind

I've seen reason Change to treason
It's losing it's sense Of all kind

How much longer will it take For the world to see
We should learn to live And simply let it be

Bloodstone, bloodstone

In the night time Wake in fright
I'm so scared of the game That's being played

Start to wonder What's going under
And how many deals Have been made

How much longer will it take For the world to see
We should learn to live And simply let it be

Bloodstone, bloodstone

How much longer will it take For the world to see
We should learn to live And simply let it be

Bloodstone, bloodstone

Bloodstone I can't take it
You got me living On a bloodstone
I don't want that that bloodstone

KILL THE KING

Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill
There's a stranger, stranger and life about to spill
Oh no, move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Strike him down

Power, power it happens every day
Power, devour all along the way
Oh no, move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King

Treason, treason, the specter looms again
Treason, treason, the realm is safe and then
Oh no, move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the rainbow
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Strike him down

Kill the King He'll rule no more Strike him dead

He'll rule no more
Strike him dead
The people roar
Kill the King
Take his head
Down, down, down, down
Oh, kill
Oh, kill
Oh, oh

I SURRENDER

I surrender to your heart babe
do anything that you want me to do
please be tender I'm in your hands girl
this is a feeling I never knew
you know I tried to make it on my own
that's not the way it was meant to be
spend my time waiting by the phone
oh darling come back to me

I surrder, I surrender
I'm giving up the role of pretender
oh be tender, girl be tender
can't you feel the love that I send you
I surrender.

I remember, seems like a lifetime
can't believe it's a matter of days
since you left I'm near to heartbreak
I want you so bad don't turn away
what does it take to stay by my side
you know I'll do what you want me to
don't take away this feeling inside
I'm still in love with you

I surrender, I surrender
I'm giving up the role of pretender
oh be tender, girl be tender
can't you feel the love that I send you
I surrender.

I surrender, I surrender
darling now won't you be tender
surrender, oh surrender
feel the love that I send you
I surrender.

KEEP THE FLAME

The shadow falls on me today
Why can't it fade into the distance.

And darkness calls, no other way.
I rage at the riddle of existence.

The day's almost gone but you'll carry on
Can you keep the flame for me.
The day's almost gone but you'll carry on.
Can you keep the flame for me.

A broken plan, a fleeting past.
How do we always keep on trying.

A tired man, is free at last.
What would the purpose be of lying.

My life's almost gone but you'll carry on.
Can you keep the flame for me.
My life's almost gone but please carry on.
Could you keep the flame for me.
Will you keep the flame for me.

WHY ARE WE HERE?

When the stars are gone forever and planets are turned into dust.
It's a good to escape to lie in the haze.
In the past I found the answer in music and drinking and lust.
Waiting for the end and counting the days.

But I want to find an answer, so what if my terror dies.
And I want to find an answer, I look in your eyes.

Why are we here?
Maybe you hold the answer.

When the skies are dark and winter has hidden the city in snow.
I remember summer's not far away.
And it seems the days are shorter and hours are passing so slow.
It's a nice escape to roll in the hay.

WHAT CAN I SAY

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DREAM WIT ME

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WHEN THE NIGHT MEETS THE DAY

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IT'S A MYSTERY

In the middle of the jungle.
There are ruins of temples build along ago
Stone by stone.
They were made by the Mayas.
A tribe that is not so well known.
Each pictures on the wall.
Recorded history.
They were gazing at the sky.
On the year monuments marked time.
But altars meant death and fear.
Worshipping gods now gone long time ago.
The population grew new cities were found.

What happened then?
Was it strange decease that wiped away almost everyone.
These things died right the way almost everyone.
Or it might have been starvation caused by drought and a scorching sun.

It's a mystery.
The way they disappeared.
It's now history.
We will never know.

COLD WINTER NIGHTS

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HUNTING HIGH AND LOW (LIVE)

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