IVORY TOWER LYRICS

1. One Life In Asia

People in the downtown streets
Selling food and unusual things
Drinking water eater rice
A young boy sitting with his mother
Silently endures the day
Bothers making it alright

But look in his eyes
All the hidden cries
He doesn't know the reason why

One life in Asia
Every day short on food
Right after birth reaching childhoods end
One life in Asia

Social disease, endless screams
Lost in decadence
Hunger and pain is all they gain
Filled up with fright and out of might
Never seen the light
Dependent on help

One life in Asia
Every day short on food
Right after birth reaching childhoods end
One life in Asia

Are we worthly?
Full of blindness?
A child around the corner is crying
Slowly dying, crying, slowly dying

An old man in the house of mud
Smoking an cigarett
A remaining piece of luck
A young girl searching for safety
Hope she'll realize
She's selling her heart

But look in his eyes
All the hidden cries
He doesn't know the reason why

2. A Distant Light

I don't know why I have to look at the sky
Always strive to reach that high

I don't know why everybody tries to fly
Do we need to be so high

From all directions the warnings are drawning near
Close to the bring of ruin

It's getting dark and lost souls
Don't know where they belong
Or where they are
Or where they're from

But somewhere there's a distant light
It's warm and nothing shines so bright
The moment is now to realize
No hope anymore when the light burns out

The spring of fame everyone is searching for
Is just a legend of a dreamer

The sense of life
A mystery like stars above
Borderland of mankind's mind

From all directions the warnings are drawning near
Close to the bring of ruin

It's getting dark and lost souls
Don't know where they belong
Or where they are
Or where they're from

The signs are here
The meaning is clear
We do wrong
We do right

A constant inner fight
Look somewhere beyond, look somewhere within

3. Alive

It follows me
Tries to divert me
It's going to break into my mind

Dark forces calling from above
From another side of life
Parasites gnaw at me
But I will always be

Alive
Always be alive

I see people walking
In shadows of themselves
Won't find their way home
And I hear them talking
But they don't understand at all
It's not their mind that talks

Dark forces calling from above
From another side of life
Parasites gnaw at me
But I will always be

Alive
Always be alive

I'm watching TV
"Don't do this, don't do that"
I switch off before I get mad
I'm reading the news
"Don't do this, don't do that"
I throw it away
And hope good mood returns

Dark forces calling from above
From another side of life
Parasites gnaw at me
But I will always be

Alive

4. Falling Leaves

Armies of butterflies
Whirling around my head
Senses I relied on just don't obey
It looks like paradise is near
Enjoy the moment and it will be here

Once I felt like this

I never thought that it could happen
That minds and thoughts would change this way
I tried so hard to cement our love

But how can we keep it together
When it lays in ruins at our feet

(Can't you see)
The leaves are fallin' down
Autumn's arrived
And it won't go away
It won't go away

How can we keep it together
When it lays in ruins at our feet

(Can't you see)
The leaves are fallin' down
Autumn's arrived
The leaves are fallin' down
Autumn's arrived
The leaves are fallin' down
Autumn's arrived

5. Spring

She stops her movements
And whispers to the trees
Secrets of her life
And how it's meant to be
Clouds look like mountains
She wants to walk on
No wall could be high enough
Would always be transcended

Dreams are lost in eternity
Sense is getting mad
Nothing to regret

That is the way she falls in love
She could never be alone
The way she moves
The way she smiles
She could embrace the world
And sprinh grows
Out of winter it flows
Right into her veins
Covers all her pains

Dreams are lost in eternity
Sense is getting mad
And there's nothing to regret

That is the way she falls in love
She could never be alone
The way she moves
The way she smiles
She could embrace the world

6. She

Wandering in thoughts
I remember her calls
Her voice and whisper
Silhouettes of my past
Increase all my sorrow
Who am I now
She leaves a memory
Embodiment of harmony
Beauty of a woman
I felt eternal life
But now just realize
Dreams are broken down

I won't forget her words
Whatever happens to our life
No one will surrender
And if I fall
Keep me from going under

I know we'll meet again
I'm on my long way to you

Time will pass my way
And I will follow
On broken wings of dreams
Only for you

Her voice echoes in the hall
I try so hard to recall
But the echo fades away

It takes only a lifetime
I must wait
Where am I now

I won't forget her words
Whatever happens to our life
No one will surrender
And if I fall
Keep me from going under

I know we'll meet again
I'm on my long way to you

7. Music

[Written by John Miles]

8. Blinded

Envy, greed and hate
Have left scars on me
Scars as deep as canyons
Now I stand here
Face to face with my fate

I absorbed the world around me
Compassion I've never known
I have paid the price
And I've lost my mind
Nowhere to go

It all comes back into my mind
The power and respect
So close at hand
I feel they're watching me
Both of them belonged to me
I was blinded
Like roses need the rain
Possessed me. Led enchanted me
I was blinded
So tasteful, so sweet
I gave myself up to a force
Tormented by remorse

On the run from shadows of the past
I regret all of what I said
I think I'm changing

The way I feel the way I think
No time to waste
It's time to part with the evil
If I had the chance to turn back
I would put right all I can
Learn to follow principles of life
Love is part os this advice
Oh, I try

If I had the chance to turn back
I would put right all I can
Learn to follow principles of life
Love is part os this advice
It's time to regret, it's time to respect
It's time to feel sympathy
With those who are victimized

Yes, I was blinded







IVORY TOWER LYRICS