Fire of unknown origin

Death comes sweeping through the hallway

Like a lady's dress

Death comes driving down the highway 

In its Sunday best



A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby away

A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby away



Swept her up and off my wavelength

Swallowed her up

Like the ocean in a fire

So thick and grey



A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby away

A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby away



Death comes driving

I can't do nothing

Death goes

There must be something

There must be something

That remains

There must be something

There must be something



A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby away

A fire of unknown origin 

Took my baby

Took my baby away

Home in the valley

Home in the city

Home isn't pretty

Ain't no home for me



Home in the darkness

Home on the highway

Home isn't my way

Home I'll never be

 

Burn out the day

Burn out the night

I can't see no reason to put up a fight

I'm living for givin' the devil his due

And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you

I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you

 

Time is the essence

Time is the season

Time ain't no reason

Got no time to slow



Time everlasting

Time to play B-sides

Time ain't on my side

Time I'll never know

 

Burn out the day

Burn out the night

I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong and what's right

I've seen suns that were freezing and lives that were through

And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you

I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars

I've been living on the edge so long

Where the winds of limbo roar

And I'm young enough to look at

And far too old to see

All the scars are on the inside

I'm not sure if there's anything left of me

 

Don't let these shakes go on

It's time we had a break from it

It's time we had some leave

We've been living in the flames

We've been eating up our brains

Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on

 

You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you

You blame me for my silence

Say it's time I changed and grew

But the war's still going on dear

And there's no end that I know

And I can't say if we're ever...

I can't say if we're ever gonna to be free

 

Don't let these shakes go on

It's time we had a break from it

It's time we had some leave

We've been living in the flames

We've been eating out our brains

Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on

 

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars

My energy's spent at last

And my armor is destroyed

I have used up all my weapons and I'm helpless and bereaved

Wounds are all I'm made of

Did I hear you say that this is victory?

 

Don't let these shakes go on

It's time we had a break from it

Send me to the rear

Where the tides of madness swell

And been sliding into hell

Oh, please don't let shakes go on

Don't let these shakes go on

Don't let these shakes go on

There walked a lonely man

Silent, mute, the only man

Not knowing how not knowing why

Was he the sole survivor

Why should he be alive

Breathing still while others died

And the only question

Why was he the sole survivor?



Sole survivor

Cursed with second sight

Haunted savior

Cried into the night

Sole survivor

Cursed with second sight

Haunted savior

Cried into the night



Wind blew across the sand

He stood alone he had no plan

And with the last rays of the sun

He screamed aloud began to run

In his tears he sees his face

"I am the end of the human race

When I'm gone there'll be no trace

For I'm the sole survivor"



Sole survivor

Cursed with second sight

Haunted savior

Cried into the night

Sole survivor

Cursed with second sight

Haunted savior

Cried into the night



One night when years had passed

The sky shook from a fiery blast

And there a starship - saved at last

To come rescue this survivor

They beckoned him inside

But only man he would not ride

Instead he found a place to hide

For he's the sole survivor



Sole survivor

Cursed with second sight

Haunted savior

Cried into the night

Into the whirlpool

Where matter vanishes

Degenerate star

Arm of Orion

An iron sun

The forbidden circle

Anti-matter is the 

Black horizon



Heavy metal

Black and silver

Fallen matter 

Of the sun

Pours itself 

Into a place

Where there was never

Never one



By starlight

The heaviest will rise up

Magnetic mirror

Scattered bodies slow

All chaos of matter

River of fire

A night sea crossing

The cosmic fluid flows



Heavy metal

Black and silver

Fallen matter 

Of the sun

Pours itself 

Into a place

Where there was never

Never one



Fallen matter

From the cross 

Freedom

That was never lost

Beyond being

Will be coming

Beyond time, space and control



Direction........Starlight

Creation.........Starbright

Foundation.......We forged the Einstein bridge tonight

Spans a river....Starlight

We call time.....Starbright

World............Light of darkness

Without end......Light of light



Heavy metal

Black and silver

Fallen matter 

Of the sun

Pours itself 

Into a place

Where there was never, never, never, never one

See them standing in the foothills

Waiting for the kill

On wings of fear the terror sweeps

Into the city beat



To defend

This is the pact

But when life's scorned

And damage done

To avenge

This is the pact



On wings of vengeance

Taarna finds them

Death for barbarians



To defend

This is the pact

But when life's scorned

And damage done

To avenge

This is the pact



Flying over the oasis

She is captured and they pull her down



Feeling pain

From the air

Close my eyes

And I am there

I feel I'm falling down in a deep dark pit



"Pull him down" the soldier said

"I'll put an arrow in his head"

But the bird 

Flew off instead

To save his master 

On his back she fled



Her time has come



Riding her bird

High in the saddle

She gets her chance to fulfil the pact now

As their leader 

Swoops from the clouds

She sticks him with her sword

Then she throws him down



The enemy shrivel and die

The enemy shrivel and die



To defend

This is the pact

But when life's scorned

And damage done

To avenge

This is the pact

What's that in the corner?

It's too dark to see

What's that noise I'm hearing

Who's that calling me?



Long ago and far away I heard your voice

But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice

Terror took control it told me what to say

And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way



After dark, I see you

After dark, I feel you

After dark, I want you

After dark, I need you



Of age there is no question

Death's shadow is undone

We only need each other

In shelter from the sun



Long ago and far away I heard your voice

But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice

Terror took control it told me what to say

And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way



After dark, I need you

After dark, I want you

After dark, I feel you

After dark, I see you



There's no turning back now

My fate is traced in blood

I've tasted true salvation

Your power is my drug



Long ago and far away I heard your voice

But once I heard you sing your song I had no choice

Terror took control it told me what to say

And let me loose I fear I've finally found a way



After dark, I need you

After dark, I want you

After dark, I feel you

After dark, I see you

After dark, I touch you

After dark, I do!

After dark

After dark

After dark

Junkies down in Brooklyn are going crazy

They're laughing just like hungry dogs in the street

Policemen are hiding behind the skirts of little girls

Their eyes have turned the color of frozen meat

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

 

Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara

They chain themselves to the axles of big Mac trucks

The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels

The fat lady laughs, "Gentlemen, start your trucks"

 

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

 

Christina

Mother's home

Christina

Come to mother

Christina

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

Joan Crawford has risen from the grave

Joan Crawford has risen

Don't turn your back

Danger surrounds you

Don't turn your back

To the dogs who hound you

Don't turn your back

Don't show your profile

You'll never know 

When it's your turn to go



Don't turn your back

On intuition

Don't turn your back

On superstition

Don't turn your back

To your jealous neighbor

He just might blow

And spoil the show



Don't turn your back

One chance to save her

Don't turn your back

Keep her out of danger

Don't turn your back

She'll return the favor

She wants you so

Don't say no.



Things are not always what they seem

She will always say what she means

You'll never know who your friends really are

You'll use that special option in your car.



Don't turn your back

Danger surrounds you

Don't turn your back

To the dogs who hound you

Don't turn your back

Don't show your profile

You'll never know 

When it's your turn to go