ARENA LYRICS

1. Bedlam Fayre

Crawling through the poison pool
Hiding eyes with bleeding hands
Every step another fool
Kings and Queens of sand

Over there an angry god
Violent brow and negligence
Making waves that can't be stopped
Unafraid of consequence

Chosen faith's a lottery
Heaven sent down forgeries
Miracles and travesties
Irreligion sows that seed

Staring through the Judas Hole
See what I can see?
Every covenant of souls
Drum roll payments paid to me...

Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares!
Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around

This place - So far gone
Darker than hell - A stagnant field of dreams
That face - Speaks to me
So much to say - But nothing’s what it seems
You're only human - Just mortal to me
You're only human – Just an earthbound disease!

Those eyes – Madness reigns
Acid tears – A constant stream of pain
That life – wasted here
Nothing left – No mourners, no name
You're only human - Just mortal to me
You're only human – Just an earthbound disease!

Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares!
Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around
Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares!
Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around
Bethlehem to Bedlam Fayre - No one helps, no one cares!
Let the people mock and stare - See them run around, around, around

2. Smoke And Mirrors

Do you hear the voice?
Shouting down the Midnight Friend
Do you hear the voice?
An empty requiem

Tell me who you are
To treat me like a fool, can’t you be
Honest from the start
Explain these tainted rules

Calm me down
A siren’s crown
Graceful sounds
Ease me round

More than smoke and mirrors
Can't you see me on the stage?
More than misdirection
Don't you let me fade away!

Spinning out your web
You planned to bring me down – Wrong again!
You crawled inside my head
Corrupted what you found – Wrong again!

Lead me on
A siren’s song
Draw me in
Break my wings

More than smoke and mirrors
Can't you see me on the stage?
More than misdirection
Don't you let me fade away!

More than smoke and mirrors
Can't you see me on the stage?
More than misdirection
Don't you let me fade away!
More than smoke and mirrors
Can't you see me on the stage?
More than misdirection
Don't you let me fade away!
More than smoke and mirrors
I’m more than smoke and mirrors!

3. The Shattered Room

Scooping the moon from a starlit pool
It ripples and breaks into luminous jewels
And shards of light float through the night
Moonbeams of magic shining like eyes

Shooting the breeze as the clouds roll by
A face in the rain and a voice in the sky
Showering wisdom like newly formed pearls
That fall to the ground in this innocent world

Here in this Darkest House - Living with these ancient wounds
Here in this Darkest House - Trapped inside those shattered rooms

So many lies - blighted ambitions
Caught in a race - a certain collision
Stumbling over the paths of depression
Too scared to search for the answers to questions

Lost in this Darkest House – Living with these ancient wounds
Lost in this Darkest House – Trapped inside those shattered rooms

Hide brother hide – Veiled in disguises
Circle of spies - Fighting for the highest prize
Offer a culture - Must now divide them
Melt into every crowd - Bringing our defences down

Lost in this Darkest House - Living with these ancient wounds
Lost in this Darkest House - Trapped inside those shattered rooms

I see the shadow of this lupine condition
Howling in the mountains with a wolverine heart
He's always running from this state of aggression
Given half a chance he can tear you apart
No mercy for you! No sleep for the doomed!

I see the shadow of a vampire’s obsession
Eternity's a curse that will drive him insane
A life of guilt and such violent confession
Don’t look away; he'll drain the last drop of blood from your veins

Lost in this Dark House – Watch your back and stay awake
Lost in this Dark House – Sleep would be a cruel mistake
Lost in this Dark House - living with these ancient wounds
Lost in this Dark House - Trapped inside these cold and shattered rooms
Lost in this Darkest House - Lost in this Darkest House
Living with these ancient wounds - Trapped inside these cold and shattered rooms

4. The Eyes Of Lara Moon

There in a dream – More than it seems
A Morbid theme - Through the eyes of Lara Moon

Back from the grave – A twilight state
Help came too late - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

No chance to change - What came before
The senseless rage - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

And so we wait - Night after night
To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

You saw it coming - But you did nothing
You just kept watching – Through the eyes of Lara Moon

It's hard to fight
When you're struggling for breath
And it's hard to smile
Noble in the face of death
There's no defence
To quell a greater force of will
One desperate flight
But needlessly their blood is spilt

Endure the bleakest days
Light the visions crowding in
Identify the blame
Expose the guilty and the sinners
Vocation holds us here
Even to the end of days
There's no inaction
That will feed the hungry flames

And so we wait - Night after night
To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon
Nowhere to hide - Night after night
So dead inside - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

And so we wait - Night after night
To share that fate - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon
And so we wait - Night after night
So dead inside - Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

Through the Eyes of Lara Moon

5. Tantalus

Standing in water, but dying of thirst
This is my thanks and this is my curse
Try as I might, the fruit on the trees
All remain beyond reach, beyond wishes or pleading for
One last chance

Waiting for time to pass me by
Waiting for freedom, waiting to die
Where can I go, in a world without hope?
There is never a place for a soul that has broken so

Trust in no one - Trust in no one

Linking the chains that weigh down your reason
Nothing to blame, but the actions you choose
Driven insane by the conscience of treason
Running in vein from a life of abuse

The closer I get the further I am
The journey I make is the course of the damned
The distance I go is no distance at all
And I climb to the sky but find myself falling so

Trust in no one - Trust in no one

Quench my thirst - Fill my heart
Feed my mind - Don't leave me starving
Hold my hand - stay close by
Talk to me - Don't leave me crying here

Standing in water, yet dying of thirst
This is my thanks and this is my curse
Empty forgiveness for old indiscretions
And such condemnation for just one transgression

Find me now - set me free
Find me now - set me free

Waiting for time to pass me by
Waiting for freedom, waiting to die
Why do you smile at my timeless ordeal here
And why do you laugh at my hopeless appeal for your mercy?

Tear away the chains - Free me now
No one else to blame – Let me go
Tear away the chains - Free me now
Driving me insane – Let me go
Tear away the chains - Free me now
No one else to blame – Let me go
Tear away the chains - Free me now
Driving me insane – Let me go

6. Purgatory Road

From the first to stand on the fields of Waterloo
Through the two world wars and landing on the moon
The search to find forgiveness and to bury all my shame
Got to let this burden go, got to shoulder all the blame

One day, I will lie down
And rest here forever
Till then my heart beats – heart beats!

I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town
Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down
I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer
Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers

They fall at the hands of dark corruption
From saintly deeds to poisonous intentions
Living with remorse on Purgatory Road
Keeping me alive – watch the evil grow

One day, I will lie down
And sleep here

I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town
Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down
I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer
Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers

I'm here to stay - Till the Martians land on London Town
Won't fade away - Till the science world takes cancer down
I'm here to stay - Till they synthesise the ozone layer
Won't fade away - Going to follow all my prayers

I'm here to stay - Till humans walk the ocean floor
Won't fade away - Till man can find an end to war
I'm here to stay - Till the polar caps freeze up again
Won't fade away - Going to hold out for an answer to my prayers

7. Opera Fanatica!

Gather close my friends - Attend to my confusion
These thoughts till now have been too far for you to reach
Gather close to me - My students of delusion
Listen carefully to what I have to teach

So finally, you will walk with me - As an equal in the heart of my prophecies
No struggle now, and no falling down - No hiding from the attitudes and jealousies

The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me!

Then hand in hand, we will make that stand
I was once myself, but now I am another man

There's a sense of urgency - Flawed invisibility
The negative converge - feel the synchronicity
A union of consequence beyond this lost adversary

The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me!

There’s nothing more to fear - A question of a few degrees
From sane to maniac - We’re feathers on a dying breeze
You trust your life to float - Across the gentle ebb and flow
And on the random whims - A God that no one really knows

The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship...

There’s nothing more to fear - A question of a few degrees
From care to negligence - In freedom or captivity
Perhaps there is a place - Far outside these prison walls
Where I may live your life - A cleaner slate, a stronger cause

The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me!

So I exist in this fragile equilibrium
Which glues the substance of the universe to me
The stars they’re falling down, drawn to me in millions
Only I can set them free... set them free

Set them free! Only I can set them free!

You try to live without me by your side
You try to live without me now but
I will always be there, just a single breath away
And I will always be there – I will share your fate again

The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me!
The King is dead, so worship me - No voices in my head, so worship me!







ARENA LYRICS