BRITISH LION LYRICS

1. City of Fallen Angels

Out in the day where you walk in the rain
And the driving cold wind hits you dead in the face
And the eye of the storm brings you peace, but just for a while

And then back in the race can you keep up the pace
Out of the black well a memory comes back
But you want to forget too many regrets from your past

Well, everyone talks about changing the world
But nobody talks about changing themselves
I feel the coming, the rising of something that's good

Now the innocent gone disappeared in the flame
It's repeating itself again and again and nothing will stop me
Cause I will find beauty in this

I'll leave it all behind, the future's still untold
Don't let it pass me by, because only love can judge me now
This blood runs through my veins, mixed up and left for dead
Don't let it pass me by, cause only love, only love can judge me now

In the garden of Eden there's blood on the ground
Hiding like stealth, never making a sound
You wait for a moment, a moment that just never comes

And you say you're reliable as you read from the bible
But I got to leave, this means nothing to me
I want to see a faith in humanity born

I'll leave it all behind, the future's still untold
Don't let it pass me by, because only love can judge me now
This blood runs through my veins, mixed up and left for dead
Don't let it pass me by, cause only love, only love can judge me now

And when the silence gets too loud, there's an aching in your soul
I pray for you with all my might, you are my best friend
You say you're at peace right now and there could be no other
You are just like a brother, you are just like a brother to me

I'll leave it all behind, the future's still untold
Don't let it pass me by, because only love can judge me now
This blood runs through my veins, mixed up and left for dead
Don't let it pass me by, cause only love, only love can judge me now

2. The Burning

There's a place that I come from
Where the disenchanted live alone
And it rains all day and the nights are cold
Would you dare to wish for something more?

I have turned laughter to tears, punched my way to get here
Stole the fruit, bruised the skin from the heart of the innocent
Still you forgive

Where would I be without you
I couldn't live without you
You are the reason that I breathe

I won't look down, my eyes are fixed ahead now
No words of pain will pass between my lips
A thousand miles starts with a single footstep
No regrets, it's my time, can't forget my lifeline
As for me I'll make my peace on earth

Church bells ring, sound like a song
Of a time, we knew long and gone
I'll break away in the dead of night
And all that I knew, I'll sever that line

There is a riot inside, torn between truth and my pride
Will I have to learn to compromise?
Don't look back or for revenge
To the point where you descend
Stand at your post while the weak pass by
Show the world how a man should be

I won't look down, my eyes are fixed ahead now
No words of pain will pass between my lips
A thousand miles starts with a single footstep
No regrets, it's my time, can't forget my lifeline
As for me I'll make my peace on earth

3. Father Lucifer

The Indian way, this is my truth
I found myself, I confess to you
The bells are ringing, the ripper is back
Jokers and Nazi's, can't you feel what's going down

You just can't explain it, can you
Father Lucifer

Sister of mine, shut down twisted and bitter
She loved to play with lives
We buried her that way
The big blue is rising, I'm embracing my horizons
Don't blow your brains out
Make peace with your loved ones

You just can't explain it, can you
Father Lucifer

My Jezebel, a perfect creation
My beautiful bride, a master of disguise
Titanic sails today as we board the London train
Made heroes of the Krays
John Merrick on show again

You just can't explain it, can you
Father Lucifer

You just can't explain it, can you
Father Lucifer

4. Elysium

All the years gone to waste
Are nothing to the tears I taste?
We all need a friend to guide us
Life is hell when you're alone

A river running from your eyes
We're all searching for a prize
Caught between a life's addiction
Bordering a crucifixion

Yet still I'm amazed and I have to gaze
As the sun sets today, sets fire to my pain
And I must believe as you say these words to me
I'll take another risk, it's all that I know

All I have witnessed in my life
Don't let forgiveness walk on by
Pay the price for the things we do
Elysium, that's where I'm bound
Where I'm lost, where I am found
Keep you close to my side
Still I find a reason to believe

Black clouds gather from the past
Release me from the stone I cast
Wonder stands in front of me now
I can see such beauty inside you

Only made of skin and blood
Hold on to the things we love
Walk the line, but walk it straight
Elevate yourself to new horizons

Yet still I'm amazed and I have to gaze
As the sun sets today, sets fire to my pain
And I must believe as you say these words to me
I'll take another risk, it's all that I know

All I have witnessed in my life
Don't let forgiveness walk on by
Things we do to the ones we love
Elysium, that's where I'm bound
Where I'm lost, where I am found
Keep you close to my side

All I have witnessed in my life
Don't let forgiveness walk on by
Things we do to the ones we love
Elysium, that's where I'm bound
Where I'm lost, where I am found
Keep you close to my side
Still I find a reason to believe

Don't forsake me now
Don't leave me on my own
Need you more than I can say
So afraid to feel this way

5. Lightning

Hello old friend of mine
Hope that you are doing fine
Heard that you were in that place
I see that look upon your face
Come home and return to us
Come home and let us fix you again

I came across a man today
He stopped me in my tracks to say
Said that he'd been sent to us
Spread the word about the one
I looked at him, he at me
Could see the pain deep within
He just turned and walk away
And in a flash was gone

How far we've come
How far we'd go

Come talk to me
Let's pretend it's make believe
As I breathe in your soul
It's you and me over gold

They say a saint will have a past
A sinner a future that will last
May you shine, forever glow
May you reap what you sow
The future is for those who believe
In the beauty of their dreams
My ancestors long and gone
But you can see them in my eyes

How low we go
To reach so high

Come talk to me
Let's pretend it's make believe
As I breathe in your soul
It's you and me over gold

To reach so high

Come talk to me
Let's pretend it's make believe
As I breathe in your soul
It's you and me over gold

To reach so high

Come talk to me
Let's pretend it's make believe
As I breathe in your soul
It's you and me over gold

There's life in your eyes
And your truth cuts through these lies
You show me the way
I choose life over gain

They say a saint will have a past
A sinner a future that will last
May you shine, forever glow
May you reap what you sow
The future is for those who believe
In the beauty of their dreams
My ancestors long and gone
But you can see them in my eyes

6. Last Chance

I can see it in your eyes
Though your tongue is telling lies
And the hypocrisy cuts me right through
Cause this world of ours' gone wild
Am I acting like a child?
When the faithlessness cuts me right through

What do we say, what do we do?
You know we are nothing without life
Is this the end, don't say it is
Can we give it one more try?

It's the last chance for life
Got to give it our best shot
It's the last chance
We can work it out, we can say goodbye
I don't want to let life die
I'm going to stand up and fight

Remember when we were both young
Seventeen, running from home
We were blood on blood and hard as stone
In the night we swore on life
With a cut our blood was one
Indestructible our hearts were bound

Now I look at you, you look at me
It ain't the way it used to be
Is this the end, don't say it is
Can we give it one more try?

It's the last chance for life
Got to give it our best shot
It's the last chance
We can work it out, we can say goodbye
I don't want to let life die
I'm going to stand up and fight

Last chance
Last chance
Last chance
It's the end for me, oh no

Now I look at you, you look at me
It ain't the way it used to be
Is this the end, don't say it is
Can we give it one more try?

It's the last chance for life
Got to give it our best shot
It's the last chance
We can work it out, we can say goodbye
I don't want to let life die
I'm going to stand up and fight

It's a last chance
I don't want to let it go
Don't walk away

7. Legend

As I walk through this valley
A river below
The sky is a fire
The city's aglow
A life in the making
About to unfold

As your feet hit the sand now
The crashing of waves
Don't know where you're heading
But you can't turn away
Got a heart full of dreams now
And here's where you'll stay

It's where the river's running fast
There're legends of the past
Your future written in the stars long ago
Can't be bought, can't be sold
Worth much more than diamonds and gold
You got the heart, you got the soul, a flame

Well, a storm brings the fire
The rain burns the ground
But a storm will blow over
A lost soul can be found
You say that you'll meet me
Where the blossom lies wild

It's where the river's running fast
There're legends of the past
Your future written in the stars long ago
Can't be bought, can't be sold
Worth much more than diamonds and gold
You got the heart, you got the soul, a flame

It's where the river's running fast
There're legends of the past
Hear the ticking of the clock, ticking away
Can't be bought, can't be sold
Worth much more than diamonds and gold
You got the heart, you got the soul, a flame

And when the colors start to fade
You're running for a better day
Right here is where you'll stay, a home

You can't be bought, can't be sold
You got the heart, you got the soul
Made of flesh, made of blood
A flame

8. Spit Fire

We used to run through golden fields
That sway like oceans on the morning breeze
And I would stand there looking up
Relive the stories how things used to be

Burning dark fires in the clouds
Thunder can't mistake that sound

You feel the dream, you live the pain
A never-ending fire in our veins
Been here before, open the door
The one that takes me back, to where you lie

Father, had so many dreams,
They took them away from him

Look away, look away, away from the storm
There's a sadness in your eyes
Look away, look away from the unknown
From the ashes a new son will rise

Where joined by fate, a bond by blood
You give me strength, can you feel my love
A flame will burn through mist and fog
A serenade I hear that siren song

I have so many dreams
Don't take them away from me

Look away, look away, away from the storm
There's a sadness in your eyes
Look away, look away from the unknown
From the ashes a new son will rise

And we were born to ride the storm
But some of us, we walk alone
Hear the sound, a distant song
Through wind and rain, I walk alone

Look away, look away, away from the storm
There's a sadness in your eyes
Look away, look away from the unknown
From the ashes a new day will rise

Look away, look away, away from the storm
There's blackness inside your eyes
And men behind mask stealing our thoughts
From the ashes a new day will rise

Look away, look away, away from the storm
There's a sadness in your eyes
Look away, look away from the unknown
From the ashes a new son will rise

9. Land of the Perfect People

Just a young boy all alone
And he doesn't know the feeling of being loved in a home
Got a straight face, don't fit in
He's not one or the other and he ain't got no kin

Now a schoolboy, thin as a bone
Another fight in the playground, it's three onto one
Makes no difference, you'll get the blame
Then they'll send you away
And it all starts again.

Left in the wasteland, nobody knows where he came from
A girl all alone, a man from a faraway land
That's how he come about

They say: "Get out, get out
Don't come around here
We don't need your kind being around here
Don't care if you're hungry
We don't care at all"

"This is the land of the perfect people
You don't belong around here"

Life ain't simple
Life can be tough
When your face doesn't fit in
You spend your life on the run
You're not wanted anywhere
All you want in your life is somebody to care

Left in the wasteland, nobody knows where he came from
A girl all alone, a man from a faraway land

They say: "Get out, get out
Don't come around here
We don't need your kind being around here
Don't care if you're hungry
We don't care at all"

"This is the land of the perfect people
You don't belong around here"

You don't belong
You don't belong
You don't belong around here
You'd better run

Run, run, run away
Run, run, run away
Run away

"Get out, get out
Don't come around here
We don't need your kind being around here
Don't care if you're hungry
We don't care at all"

"Get out, get out
Don't come around here
We don't need your kind being around here
Don't care if you're hungry
We don't care at all"

"This is the land of the perfect people
You don't belong around here"
"This is the land of the perfect people
And you don't belong around here"

10. Bible Black

Make my world a better place
See the truth in your face
Pick me up when I fall to the floor
I have waited all my life
There's been times when I have cried
The last rites, but I came back for more

Black as the bible, black as a crow
Black as the sadness we all know
Let's the life we know spin out of control
Want to hear the words from your mouth again
See the smile on your face again
Feel the warmth rise up from within

Call my name, it is destiny
All things must change
Is this the end
In my universe I'll find you again

If I die before you grow
There's only one thing you need to know
You are my world, I'll never let you go
Always been a lion deep within
Bullets penetrate my skin
Try to brainwash me to the point of no return

If I disguise the pain
Act on weakness for your gain
Then I realize destiny's my own
And you and me, we're the same
Got the fire deep within
Don't ever let it slip away

Call my name, it is destiny
All things must change
Is this the end
In my universe I'll find you again

It is hard to comprehend
To want to leave your home and your friends
For a better life and who are we to judge

On a boat that's bound for peace
Run aground a storm unleashed
Hear the cries, an ironic twist of fate

As I look down from the plane
We run around like ants enraged
There are wonders that no one can explain
I bring myself back down to earth
I've been driven by my birth
And faith will guide me to the truth

Call my name, it is destiny
All things must change
Is this the end
In my universe I'll find you again
Save my soul
Take a lesson and learn how to grow
Is this the end
In my universe I'll find you again

11. Native Son

These words I give to you
When you feel the cold night closing in
My native son
These wounds I'll heal for you
When you feel the thorns that pierce your skin
I feel your hurt

This world can be cold
But this is all we have
I'm talking to you, my native son

When the day has overcome you
And the taste won't go away
You're a child of creation
And you were made this way

The blackness is close behind you
And with wickedness coming fast
You're a child of creation
All this will pass
You walk your path

This cold that bites your skin
It cuts like knives into your heart
Forever winter

These names that break you
We all have a side to us that can turn
Just watch me break

This world can be cruel
But this is all we have
I'm talking to you, my native son

When the day has overcome you
And the taste won't go away
You're a child of creation
And you were made this way

The blackness close behind you
And with wickedness coming fast
You're a child of creation
All this will pass
You walk your path

Don't be afraid to walk in the footprints
Where others have failed
Strangers surround you, taunt and betray you
Bring you down
These are the free words
These are the true words I give to you
Just walk in the footprints
Don't be afraid to stand your ground, my son

This world can be cruel
But this is all we have
I'm talking to you, my native son

When the taste has overcome you
And the pain won't go away
You're a child of creation
And you were made this way

The blackness close behind you
And with wickedness coming fast
You're a child of creation
All this will pass
You walk your path







BRITISH LION LYRICS