[00:03.44]Avantasia
[00:16.98]Promised Land
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[00:25.89]Hey redeemer
[00:27.63]Now what's become on me
[00:30.42]taken in by promise
[00:32.37]awakening in grief
[00:34.82]
[00:35.38]Collecting us like puppets
[00:37.25]you instrumentalize
[00:39.43]A frigid trepidation
[00:41.78]in a million puppet eyes
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[00:45.55]God gave his word just to let us down
[00:49.90]Where is he now?
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[00:54.77]You've been facing heaven
[00:58.43]You were lost to left alone
[01:00.92]You re welcome to my home and
[01:04.20]Found another heaven
[01:08.58]It was you who took my hand
[01:10.28]Come into the promised land
[01:16.09]
[01:18.16]You scratched my back and I scratched yours
[01:22.62]It s you who makes decisions
[01:24.65]I just open up the doors
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[01:27.62]Whining in the gutter
[01:30.01]They forget their sanctity
[01:32.44]Welcome to my clockwork
[01:34.16]Vanity machinery
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[01:37.85]You gave your word
[01:40.18]You let me down
[01:42.50]What am I now
[01:46.15]
[01:47.35]You've been facing heaven
[01:50.80]You were lost to left alone
[01:53.76]You re welcome to my home and
[01:57.11]Found another heaven
[02:00.66]It was you who took my hand
[02:03.05]Come into the promised land
[02:07.32]
[02:08.28]Oh as far as the eye can see
[02:14.24]They re bent in submission
[02:19.22]Empty inside
[02:23.50]An army of scarecrows like me
[02:28.38]Thousands of brokens dreams
[02:33.20]Thousands of tragedies
[02:37.66]Tried to run from their destiny
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[02:42.51]Like moths to a flame
[02:47.49]Driven by vanity
[02:51.63]They been off to Jerusalem
[02:56.93]Chasing a dream
[02:59.23]Calling on me
[03:01.63]We re just trading in needs
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[04:00.97]You've been facing heaven
[04:04.65]You were lost to left alone
[04:07.34]You re welcome to my home and
[04:10.22]Found another heaven
[04:14.28]It was you who took my hand
[04:16.59]Come into the promised land
[04:21.84]You've been facing heaven
[04:23.73]You were lost to left alone
[04:26.40]You re welcome to my home and
[04:29.79]Found another heaven
[04:33.57]It was you who took my hand
[04:36.26]Come into the promised land