DAVID SHANKLE GROUP LYRICS

1. Ashes To Ashes

There she walks, touching your soul like holy fire
Heaven knows, heartache to your ears, madness disappears
She's kissing the flame of desire
Yesterday's pain, illusions are on fire

Lightning strikes when she walks by
Ashes to ashes
Lust to lust, dust to dust

Tears she cries, touching your heart like holy water
When she sighs, magic to your ears, madness disappears
She's fanning the flame of her desire
Yesterday's pain, illusions are on fire

Lightning strikes when she walks by
Ashes to ashes
Lust to lust, dust to dust

The way she cries, grabbing your soul with blind ambition
Nothing remains but her illusion

Lightning strikes when she walks by
Ashes to ashes
Lust to lust, dust to dust
Lightning strikes when she walks by
Ashes to ashes
Lust to lust, dust to dust

2. A Raven At Midnight

An ebony heart, housed in a demon well-versed in his arts
Sins a la carte, wielding terror no sane man conceives
A righteous facade, defies social order for the sake of his god
Hell's fusillade, his dementia has sired the grief

Crusaders of peace
Locate his lair and tighten the squeeze
Bring him down to his knees

Hell-spawned parasite
Flees the international searchlights
Like a raven at midnight

A plague for mankind, a social disease in a fanatical mind
Equally blind, the minions who firmly believe
Wickedly sly, recruiting the lemmings who gratefully die
An eye for an eye, for a grievance no sane man conceives

Champions of good
Drive a stake through his black heart and his servanthood
He's so misunderstood-ha!

Hell-spawned parasite
Flees the international searchlights
Like a raven at midnight

Woe is the curse upon us all
He's frightfully due his curtain call
How many will die before he falls?
Beware the raven:

A righteous facade, defies social order for the sake of his god
Hell's fusillade, his dementia has sired the grief

Crusaders of peace
Locate his lair and tighten the squeeze
Bring him down to his knees

Hell-spawned parasite
Flees the international searchlights
Like a raven at midnight
Hell-spawned parasite
Flees the international searchlights
Like a raven at midnight

3. The Widow's Grief

A woman sits and cries for her loss
Counting the tears, estimating the cost
She's blaming herself for letting him go
Instead of defending the rights of her home
Now her grief cuts deep like a knife,
A knife made of guilt, and the loss of a life

A woman sits and dies more each day
Little by little life slipping away
Wishing it soon will be her time to die
Lying in peace with him by her side
Not a thanks for the price they have paid
A family lost with so little to say
The widow's grief

4. The Widow's Peak

You involve us in actions that are not our concern
Repeating the history - you just never learn
No thought to the families, no thought to their fate
Playing the war games against those you hate

How dare you place the blame at the widow's peak?
Faceless apologies for the words that you speak
False atonement with the tears that you weep
At the height of the widow's peak

Designing the costumes in war widow black
And practicing feelings, those you lack
With delusions of grandeur-illusions of fame
Your pointing the fingers and leave out your name
It's not your son who's sent to die
Proving a point with omissions and lies

How dare you place the blame at the widow's peak?
Faceless apologies for the words that you speak
False atonement with the tears that you weep
At the height of the widow's peak

You justify actions with plans to attack
Concealing intentions and twisting the facts
Magnanimous promises take the extreme
Praise be to you, praise be your needs

How dare you place the blame at the widow's peak?
Faceless apologies for the words that you speak
False atonement with the tears that you weep
At the height of the widow's peak
At the widow's peak

5. Calling All Heroes

In the days of old
Stars disappear, nights are growing cold

Oh, heroes of our schemes
Reaching out to someone, someone of their dreams

When the lighting strikes
When the children sigh
When the magic dies
Calling all heroes
When the voice decays
When the death remains
When the music fades
Calling all heroes

In these days of old
Heroes appear, fantasy unfolds
Stories untold
Voices of the heart, magic of the soul

Oh, heroes of our schemes
Reaching out to someone, someone of their dreams

When the lighting strikes
When the children sigh
When the magic dies
Calling all heroes
When the voice decays
When the death remains
When the music fades
Calling all heroes

It's calling out to me
Fantasy or reality, love can never be
Oh, solidarity
Deny the cheap insanity, you're reaching out to me

When the lighting strikes
When the children sigh
When the magic dies
Calling all heroes
When the voice decays
When the death remains
When the music fades
Calling all heroes

6. Curse Of The Pharaoh

In these days of confusion, in these nights of strife
The past comes back to haunt you
In this kingdom of madness, you fight for your life
Tempestuous storms of deja vu

Silver and gold, souls bought and sold
Curse of the Pharaoh
Sky full of dreams, a fortune in schemes
Curse of the Pharaoh

Beware of the prophets with self-serving rules
They are not your saviors
The modern-day hero becomes yesterday's fool
And this you must remember

Blood in the sand, toil through the land
Curse of the Pharaoh
Chains rattle on, a new Babylon
Curse of the Pharaoh

You suffer the sinner, forsake the lost
May the strong survive
You cast out the demons whatever the cost
Keep the dream alive

Silver and gold, souls bought and sold
Curse of the Pharaoh
Sky full of dreams, a fortune in schemes
Curse of the Pharaoh
Blood in the sand, toil through the land
Curse of the Pharaoh
Chains rattle on, a new Babylon
Curse of the Pharaoh

The chains rattle on
In this new Babylon

7. The Tolling Of The Bell

The path to unknown glory, the road to unknown fate
The never-ending story, a prophet or a snake
Being doomed from the start, transgression a la carte
Theories state the sadness to the human mystery
Temptation to the madness that plagues society
Strapping crosses to our back, we brace for the attack

The tolling of the bell, prophets do foretell
A soul to buy and sell, no sentence with reprieve
The tolling of the bell

Sanity of honor, insecurity of shame
Rounding of the corner to a street that bears your name
A destiny in doubt, a spinning roundabout
The sanctity of knowledge, a thunderstorm of tears
A future now acknowledged, the facing of your fears
At the end you'll pay the cost for the game you've played and lost

The tolling of the bell, prophets do foretell
A soul to buy and sell, no sentence with reprieve
The tolling of the bell, the spirit leaves the shell
Magic of the spell created to deceive
The tolling of the bell

Cleansing of obsession, a soul hung out to dry
Bleaching of confessions, excuses, alibis
False redemption of the heart, false reality is art
Holidays in Babylon will finally end one day
You'll testify to goings on, a lifelong resume
The mirror's coming clear, revealing yesteryear

The tolling of the bell, prophets do foretell
A soul to buy and sell, no sentence with reprieve
The tolling of the bell, the spirit leaves the shell
Magic of the spell created to deceive
The tolling of the bell, prophets do foretell
A soul to buy and sell, no sentence with reprieve
The tolling of the bell, the spirit leaves the shell
Magic of the spell created to deceive
The tolling of the bell
The tolling of the bell

8. Secrets

I've seen your face before somewhere in my dreams
Years and tears cannot erase
I know the time is right, fate has intervened
Lonely souls can now embrace

Somehow I sense you still remember
Somehow I feel that you still care

Steeped in the mystery
Secrets of you

I've played your heart before, hidden by the past
Memories returning strong
Magic of deja vu justified at last
Destiny can't hold out for long

Somehow I sense you feel the yearning
Somehow I feel that you still care

Steeped in the mystery
Secrets of you
Uncharted history
Secrets of you

I know the time is right, fate has intervened
Lonely souls can now embrace

Somehow I sense you still remember
Somehow I feel that you still care

Steeped in the mystery
Secrets of you
Uncharted history
Secrets of you

9. Madness

Silently still, the wrath of ubiquitous gods
Sanity wills, the manmade destruction to come
Is it the full moon that summons the madness to grow
Stealing the heart from mankind?
Are the heroes and saints, the souls who create
Fated to run out of time?

With destiny calling it's moonshine
With empires tumbling it's...

Moonshine and madness
Headlines leading to sadness

Madness gone wild, destruction now rains from the sky
Pity the child, tears flooding millions of eyes
Will this new wave of madness be nurtured or slain?
What will we favor to preach?
Will the lessons of old grow toxic with mold
Poisoning all within reach?

With empires tumbling it's headlines
With destiny calling it's moonshine
When towers go crumbling it's...

Moonshine and madness
Headlines leading to sadness

Will this new wave of terror find converts or foes?
What will we favor to preach?
Will the lessons of old grow toxic with mold
Poisoning all within reach?

With destiny calling it's moonshine
With empires tumbling it's headlines
With destiny calling it's moonshine
When towers go crumbling it's...

Moonshine and madness
Headlines leading to sadness
Moonshine and madness
Headlines leading to sadness

10. Back To Heaven

Experience of lifetime, lessons of our past
The mist of total knowledge lifted now at last
A universal college, we learn from our mistakes
Achieving understanding, achieving grace

The legions of fate warn when it's time to move on
The march of the saints teach us one by one

A new inventory, a fresh shot at glory
Then it's back to heaven
A new range of feeling, a ripe time for bleeding
Then it's back to heaven

Each try gives us courage, each try gives us strength
Each try tests the borders of our growing faith
Lives of observation, choices are retraced
Achieving the wisdom, achieving grace

The beacons at night signal the right time to go
The guardians of light rearrange your soul

A new chance for freedom, a dream to believe in
Then it's back to heaven
A new time for learning, a fresh heart for burning
Then it's back to heaven

The legions of fate warn when it's time to move on
The march of the saints teach us one by one

A new inventory, a fresh shot at glory
Then it's back to heaven
A new range of feeling, a ripe time for bleeding
Then it's back to heaven
A new time for learning then it's heaven
It's back to heaven

11. Masquerade

Hidden beneath a fanciful sheath
A mistress of mayhem and strife
With the promise of heavenly bliss you'll forfeit your sight
Sheltered below this sham curio
Meticulous in its design
There in your dream, a poisonous rose on the vine

She's got a:
Evil heart - drawing you into her web
Evil mind - you might just be better off dead

Masquerade
Tailoring charms to persuade

Many you know have lost all control
Entranced by her comic ballet
Look to the flash in her eyes, it gives her away
Passions will rage, mimic a cage
Enwrapping you into her spell
Prepare for the fight of your life in love's citadel

She's got a:
Evil heart - drawing you into her web
Evil mind - you might just be better off dead

Masquerade
Tailoring charms to persuade
It's a masquerade

12. The Magic Of The Chords

Her verse is formed by the light in her eyes
She's taking control, moving my soul with her bridge of sighs
Her chorus is love's counterpart
Her teardrops can sing to my heart
Her song grows intense by the hour
And her power is in the magic of the chords

Her whispers of love shape a sweet flowing melody
Her heartbeat at night, her breath of life in our symphony
And when the orchestra plays
Sinfonia concertante
Causing my soul to devour
All the power is in the magic of the chords

Her stanza of hope
Perpetual rhythm and majesty
Her song gives life
Weaving my dreams in her tapestry
Lord, she's baring her soul to me

Her promise of love strummed on a gentle mandolin
Her concerto's embrace composed with the grace of a violin
When the finale arrives
I'll fight with the will to survive
Her song has the strength to empower
Because her power is in the magic of the chords

13. Voice Of Authority

DAVID SHANKLE GROUP LYRICS