INSANIA LYRICS

1. Broken Hero

I'm so tired of all fighting
In the wars that I have been
It hurts to march all over killing fields to nowhere
Only sorrow you will find now
If you look into my eyes
I feel so disillusioned after all

Hey - hear me calling - now I know
Ain't no reason to follow their order to go

'Hero' I should be, a man forever free
But I'm the broken one, who had to fall
'Hero' all my life, a promised paradise
Now I'm the broken one, who's left alone

Once I was so proud of marching
Everywhere they sent me out
And me returning to my fatherland in glory
All my dreams now are empty
In my mind just loneliness
It's hard to lose illusions your once had

Hey - hear me calling - now I know
Ain't no reason to follow their order to go

'Hero' I should be, a man forever free
But I'm the broken one, who had to fall
'Hero' all my life, a promised paradise
Now I'm the broken one, who's left alone

Will there come a time for changing
And all the wars to turn to silence
Or is it just a dream for evermore?
Someday we will get the answer - and all the blood will turn to water
But here will be no winner anymore!

Will there come a time for changing
And all the wars to turn to silence
Or is it just a dream for evermore?
Someday we will get the answer - and all the blood will turn to water
But here will be no winner anymore!

Hey - hear me calling - now I know
Ain't no reason to follow their order to go

'Hero' I should be, a man forever free
But I'm the broken one, who had to fall
'Hero' all my life, a promised paradise
Now I'm the broken one, who's left alone

2. Pictures Of Yesterday

Rainy day, watchin' out of my window
Thinking of a time when the river did flow
And all the hills arose in pride
And all the seas awoke by morning-light

Pictures of yesterday - painted in my head
As longer as their colours change - I will go ahead

Full moon night, flowin' Ingo a new morn
Dreaming of a star that is soon to be born
While other worlds prepare to die
Or still have gone although we see their light

Pictures of yesterday - painted in my head
As longer as their colours change - I will go ahead

Like a wheel in the universe
Like a big machine you can't run away
Like a power of an magic source, (it's) gonna last forever
Like a neverending force

3. House Of Cards

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Clock is striking midnight, I'm sitting in my cell
So cold the walls, no beam of light here in this hell
I saw the fear inside the eyes of my own child
So cold my heart felt when its blood ran down the knife

He played the ruler, knocked me down just if he liked
Time healed my scars but not the wounds I had inside
He blew my mind I couldn't stand it anymore
I said good-bye no turning back no more

Cries surrounding me, voices I have heard before
Keep on haunting me
Why am I in here? I'm imprisoned in a lonely
Cell inside of me

I felt a force like beeing pulled right to a gate
Foresaw deliverance in the glimmer of a blade
But in the end I've got no freedom I looked for
I'm still a loner cannot turn no more

Cries surrounding me, voices I have heard before
Keep on haunting me
Why am I in here? I'm imprisoned in a lonely
Cell inside of me

she: What did you say? What does it mean?
... no regret? But, .... who's
actually callin'?

1st: Don't pretend! You know who I am!
It's me - I'm you!

2nd: Shut up and leave her alone!
She has to repent and
wait for her punishment.

1st: Oh no, she's done nothin' wrong.
What could she do? She got no choice!

2nd: She could have tried to be a much
better wife than before.
She really didn't give her best.

1st: Don't forget all the cruelty
she had to stand.

2nd: She got hit every day and beaten
every night. She was cursed like
a dog and sput in her face.
It must have been hell on earth.

1st: The tears she shed were even more
than all blood spilling that night.
The children cried.

2nd: The children, the children cried
even more.

1st: She began to tremble in fear,
fear of the pain. It all seemed
to become louder.

2nd: fear ... pain ...
louder, louder, louder...

Her flesh began to creep. She took
the knife and pushed it down. N O W!

1st: And suddenly there was nothing at all!

It's always in my heart a picture of a man
I knew and used to love
Was all we've said and done, our life,
no more than just a house of cards?

I took out of my heart a picture of a man
I could not understand
But all we built and shared has broken down
just like a house of cards!

All my love has gone away, all I feel is only hate
(You) gotta get away from me (I) gotta get you outta here
Never want you back again, I hate all of you!

Hate your arms and hate your legs
Hate your face and hate your back
Hate your look and hate your eye
Hate you even when you die
Even hate to love even hate to hate!

Cries surrounding me, voices I have heard before
Keep on haunting me
Why am I in here? I'm imprisoned in a lonely
Cell inside of me

4. The Pretender

You've got a kind of friends I don't like
You've got a kind of friends I hate
You're only counting my mistakes
You're only talking 'bout my faults

You're treating me in such a badly way
You're nearly driving my insane
I cannot stand you anymore
Get outta my mind
Get outta my way

You are the winner and I'm still the fool
'Cos you play your game with your dirty rules
You're running away just to make me wait
So it looks you're in time and I'm too late

You're treating me in such a badly way
You're nearly driving my insane
I cannot stand you anymore
Get outta my mind
Get outta my way

You're treating me in such a badly way
You're nearly driving my insane
I cannot stand you anymore
Get outta my mind
Get outta my way

5. Eye To Eye

[A) DREAMS]

Still I have a dream of living in between
Two realities - confusion inside of me
Beauty but a beast, sinner but a priest
(like a) dream within a dream - and fate is calling me

No longer human, I only thought I can't come back
But I desire to be the one I left behind
I still recall this painful day
When death has cut our common way

[B) IT]

Like a shadow on the verge of darkness - IT appeared in the night
(As) if our spirits got together - (and) if only a body died
No one heard our cry, one shot - our blood
Gotta wait a year, gonna get'em here - get them here!

If IT shares death, the story is told
IT will come back, (from) out of the cold

Like a shadow still in black returning - I can see through IT's eyes
The avenger is coming nearer - and he's longing for your lives
No one hears your cry, (IT) wants ya- (IT) gets ya
Then IT disappears, leaving you in fear - got ya here!

If IT shares death, the story is told
IT will come back, (from) out of the cold

[C) EYE TO EYE]

Did not know what happened in the night when I awoke I heard IT's call (silent call)
(I) got to understand that I'm the one to take revenge for our love (our love)
World now just appears in black and white like in IT's eyes, (so) don't you know (you don't know)
It ain't just a game like run and hide but eye to eye and you're alone (all alone)

6. Awakening

7. Born To Lose

Child of tomorrow, you'd burn in a fire
You would inherit the pain of today

World of tomorrow, they call it a cage
Lacking an entrance or exit they say
I know for all that you will understand
I had to lead you onto you own way

It's really senseless to believe
A loser you were born
Oh little child, dry your eyes

Child of tomorrow, you'd burn in a fire
You would inherit the pain so they say

It's really senseless to believe
A loser you were born
Oh little child, dry your eyes

It's really senseless to believe
A loser you were born
Oh little child, dry your eyes

8. Big In Japan

[originally by Alphaville]

Winters cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That Id ever find a glimps of summers heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me, now its history I see
Heres my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight, its easy when your big in japan

When your big in japan, tonight
Big in japan, be tight, big in japan where the eastern seas so blue
Big in japan, alright, pay, then Ill sleep by your side
Things are easy when youre big in japan, when youre big in japan

Neon on my naked skin
Passing silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or shall I go and change my point of view for other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me, now its history I see...
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight, its easy when youre big in japan

9. The Silence

Don't you fear the silence, (it) ain't gonna hurt at all
A chance to think about you - who you are?
Take care of every minute, be aware of every day,
'cos life is far too short - to throw away.

Lay down your indifference, there's too much wasted time,
It's only up to you - you're alive.
Try to share a minute, it might become a day
'cos everything you share - it ain't away.

There is a rainbow in the end
Rising after a thunderstorm.

Don't you fear the silence, (it) ain't gonna hurt at all
A chance to think about you - who you are?
Take care of every minute, be aware of every day,
'cos life is far too short - to throw away.

There is a rainbow in the end
Rising after a thunderstorm.
I really hope you'd understand
Why I'm here and I sang this song.

10. Beyond The Other Side

So let me tell you now
What it is all about
If you sell out your soul
This is no game

The story began some hundred years ago
All of my life in fear of future
Some kinda warm when he was passing by
Something weird I couldn't understand

So far so near, world of fear
Beyond the other side

Never again I should see a dawn
Kill to survive my curse of future
I gotta pay for everlasting life
Felt abused by an only friend

So far so near, world of fear
Beyond the other side

I'm a fool in a world of the undead
Lost between the shores, like a ferryman
I've seen the wars, I've seen the black death
I can't forget the holocaust
Enola Gay at all

Thoughts of her over centuries
Feelin' damn depressed, there came a little girl
He stole again her blood and her mind,
he used her as a sacrifice
I couldn't stand it all

She, so cruel, was born for murder and
Liked the bloody game, 'til she realized
With all her might she burned out his face
But couldn't get the gift of life
It's been too late at all

There is no end, it's going on and on
Kill to survive, eternal future
Meet him again, maybe another time
Another place I'll never understand

So far so near, world of fear
Beyond the other side

But now I'm here, no more fear
I'm on the other side

Now you have heard it all
About my rise and fall
No way I lost my soul
This was no game

11. Exquisition

INSANIA LYRICS