[ti:Ashes of Dreams (Live)]
[ar:MONACA]
[al:]
[00:48.48]Once there were trees full of birds,
[00:58.22]Meadowlands vibrant with flowers;
[01:07.48]Carefree the songs our children once sang
[01:16.79]Gilding our minutes and hours.
[01:25.99]Clouds came and covered the sun,
[01:35.08]The breath of a baleful unease
[01:44.65]Turning to ashes flowers in their fields,
[01:53.49]Silenced the birds in their trees.
[02:02.83]Hidden so deep in veils of deceit,
[02:11.57]Imprisoned in twisting spells
[02:19.28]Are we the plaything of fiends,or merely the dreams
[02:30.10]That we're telling ourselves,telling ourselves?
[02:49.47]
[03:25.08]Strive till the phantoms are broken,
[03:33.96]Fight till the battle is done;
[03:42.80]The squadrons of night can't conquer the day,
[03:51.75]Nor shadows extinguish the sun.
[04:01.40]Stories of danger,fearless attack,
[04:10.02]Spectres of plague and pain.
[04:17.56]All of these ghosts of our own delusions come back;
[04:28.41]And we'll be hunted again,hunted again.
[04:42.60]For tho the storms are over and past,
[04:51.78]Tho the thunder's rage is quieted until the last
[05:01.07]While this nightmare's laid me down in the rags here to mourn,
[05:15.28]Here to mourn.
[05:20.66]The night has left us crippled with grief
[05:29.86]As we strive to keep alive our belief.
[05:39.18]But a loss so great,it clouds all over our hopes for the dawn.
[05:59.04]Hidden so deep in veils of deceit,
[06:07.91]Imprisoned in twisting spells.
[06:16.13]Are we the playing of fiends,or merely the dreams
[06:27.19]That we're telling ourselves,telling our-
[06:37.91]Stories of danger,fearless attack,
[06:47.06]Spectres of plague and pain.
[06:54.06]All of these ghosts of our own delusions are back;
[07:05.06]Have we been fighting in vain? Fighting in vain?