JORN LYRICS

1. Life On Death Road

I speed into the future
Rolling like a rock
Down this road of changes
We race against the clock
Closing in on the day when we cannot stay
And the world keeps moving
On and on and on and on without us

Tumbling round in this wheel of compromise
Shot down by the flame of sacrifice
But the phoenix rises

The life on death road - It makes me burn
Fighting my way through the fire
Screaming as I yearn
The flights on death road
I flew them all
Gazing with vision eyes
Beyond each blinding wall

Dreams have turned to ashes
Some are lost then found
We're ploughing through the ages
Here comes another clown
Holding on to the line when the words don't rhyme
And the pain keeps pouring down like arrows

Was there a time when earth was paradise
Without winds of war that paralyze and traumatizes

The life on death road - It takes a man
So raise your shield of faith
The powers in your hands
The time on death road
We can't rewind
Passing another age
In the history of the blind... Ooh

The lights on death road
A life on death road... Ooh

Pilot of the death machine
Rev your engine make it scream

Hey midnight
Your dark is alright
The light I know I found deep down in your black
Shadow dream child
The beast inside you, you can ride into the sky
Beyond the lie

I used to hang out down at the record store
Just a young boy ready to explore and live it all
No rest for the warrior at the barricades
I'll be a fortress till the end of days
And do it my way

Spotlights on death road - They made me turn
Slamming my hammer down
On the fame I used to yearn for
This life on death road
Don't ask me why
Just fight with sword and armor till the day you die
We can make the vision fly

2. Hammered To The Cross (The Business)

They tell you what to believe in
But you don't need the mask they wear
In a world so deceiving
Stealing dreams to kill your flair

I see lies inside your brain
Telling you that you're gone insane
When all you did was step out of the rain
The sun was better than the pain
Capitalistic shadow over paradise
Political drama breeding sacrifice

They're all in it for the business
But me I'm in it for the heart
I'll never sell my soul for the greed
I'll take the nails and bleed
Hammered to the cross, yeah
Led up to the cross

My mind is chaos, but I got the beat
I'm the rhythm and melody
What's my own picture and what's the flame?
But now I'm tired of playing this game
My wings of darkness still keep trying to fly free
Someone take the pressure down this storm inside of me
I saw you there in the paper standing next to a faker
And it blew my mind
You and me never meant to be
But how could you be so blind

You were in it for the business
When you left and broke my heart
You were just a deceiver
And I was the bleeder of love
Hammered to the cross
Crying on the cross

Like a candle in the frozen night
I'm the flame of the lonely light
Burning fast in these times of hate
Crucified in this ancient place
Slowly dying from the things I learned to love

We're all swallowed by the business
Under the eye that steals their heart
Even now we give a smile and pretend for a while
All in it for the business
Everybody's in the business
I'll never let it drown my soul
And kill my rock 'n roll

They were in it for the business
When they stabbed him in the side
Sent down to the earth over lies
To take our sins and die

Hammered to the cross, yeah
Bleeding for the lost
God help all of us

3. Love Is The Remedy

Creatures of the darkness we have shadowed every land
Chaos an disorder it's the endless curse of man
Living with the pressure it gets harder every day
Never liked to compromise but it's the only way

Pouring demons from the fountain
In my brain they won't let go
I'm slaying devils from below
I'm just a climber on a mountain
Dragging questions through deep snow
The answers never show but one thing I know

That never to believe in love
Never to believe in peace is a crime
The crime of the century
People in this broken home
You must let the warm winds roam in your heart
Love is the remedy
Ooh... let love sing your melody

I cannot see the future but I hear the judgement bells
Racing down this one way street it's leading straight to hell
Guess I'm not the only one to think the world's gone blind
Horns are growing out of heads, the devil rules our time

Calling out for freedom in our moral of decay
Hear the money talk, see the bullshit walk away
We're running out of time inside this labyrinth of blame
The hate remains the same and war is just a game

But never to believe in love
Never to believe in peace it's a crime
Crime of humanity
Have to rise from the dark we grow
To change the world we know
So come on and set love forever free

Hey now mr righteous so you think you own the land
Clever with the business but your heart is in a jam
You may tell me I'm a loser and that I ain't got no clue
But unlike you I read the signs before I make my move

Everybody slaving for their money trying to maintain
Fighting bitterness that's eating in our brains
How can we prevail in time when blinding all our shame
If we don't see the pain only evil shall remain

Never to believe in love
Never to believe in peace is a crime
Life's not the enemy
Shine on the darkest road, set fire to the heavy load
In your heart let love forever be
Yeah... set love forever free

4. Dreamwalker

I am a grinder of things I've seen
I walk the earth
And bleed inside this death machine
I am a riser out from the burn
My wings lift from the ashes
Black as coal but I still yearn
A new horizon I must learn

I'll glide away
Beyond the darkness and the sun
To shield my lonely fire
Till my days are done
My great escape
Behind the cobwebs of the mind
The vision that I find
A world where I'm not blind

Dreamwalker - My only way to go
Dream stalker - Like a drug I have to know
Dreamwalker

Here comes the climber up from below
Above this cloudy mountain rain will never show
I've known the drama, I've felt the pain
But I won't let my spirit die, my inner sky remains

Once I had a flower soul
Till it froze and fell apart
Now I grow my music
From the sorrows of the heart
Still I have dreams in the dark

Old memories they haunt
Like storms of heavy snow
I still keep my head up high
And face the trouble winds that blow
Soaring home holding on
I dry my tears and fly
As I sing my songs for you and I

Dreamwalker - The only way to go
Dream talker - With horns under my halo
Dreamwalker

5. Fire To The Sun

Here comes a storm of ice and fire
Hellborn demon with a strong desire
Heavens devil on this road to hell
A fallen angel in a wishing well

I'm everything and everything is me
I find myself in all I see
Hard to accept when wrong is right
Love and hate close like day and night

Built my ambition since I came to rock
I always had to be the master of the flock

Not sure I'm ever coming back
No time to waste so I attack
I'll be the fastest on the track
Cause I'm the leader of the pack
Turn up the flame until it's done
I'm coming so you better run
Shooting like a lazer gun
I set fire to the sun

She was a fast crate engine ready to go
He was a 460 big block overload
Yes, they had one thing in common deep in the soul
It was the hunger for love and rock 'n roll

Back alley creatures of the neon jungle
Wall street kings and queens losing numbers
One more down as the business crumbles
Still we roll the dice

The dark pressure on the brain is such a heavy load
World is a thermometer destined to explode

There'll be crying in the shame
A lot of trouble from the blame
It's the nature of the game
We learn to burn in the rain

All the songs I have sung
And every dream that I have spun
Till the end when all is done
I'll set fire to the sun... yeah

You better stay out of my way or I'll run you over

I'll be the stone that doesn't crack
I'm always ready to attack
Fastest train on the track
A leader wolf and his pack

You'll sing the songs that I have sung
And spin the wheels I have spun
Turn up the flame until it's done
And set fire to the sun

Ooh maybe we will never know
What comes after when we go
But there's one thing that I know
I'll set fire to the show

Some say I was a big mistake, I say I did it my own way
All you trolls of today, I set fire to your play
I set fire to the sun

6. Insoluble Maze (Dreams In The Blindness)

We gaze at the outline
See the stars in black and blue
While the unborn awaits the new
They have tried to ice me down
But I won't stop burning
I still let my firewind blow

You and I in a clouded sky
We try to see beyond the why
The rush of time pushing the mind
To look for signs and dreams in the blindness
No peace for the road in a game full of slyness
Born to burn my demon fire till it dies
When I say bye bye big lie
I'll go down with my flag held high

Like pain is a bleeder
We've been sliding down a blade
Countless numbers to the grave
What if God is a believer
But burning in the flames
And the devil owns every brain... yeah

In the corridors of hope, the hangman with a rope
Preparing his gallows with laughter
Ambitious like the wind, there's a wave blowing in
Another revolution and leader
Inside my sky the clouds that cry
Blocking the vision from my eyes
Insoluble maze for the human race
But still we chase and dream in the blindness
No rest for the soul in a world losing kindness
We are sailing on a sea of strain and darkness
No light to show the way
But I rock this ship of madness
As the crashing waves of death are passing by
Till the day I die going down with my flag held high

Is there an answer to this mystery
We came from far away but we lost the key...
How can it be
We wanna see...

Welcome to the new world order
Where everyone becomes the same
Soon there'll be no open borders
Only one culture shall remain
Every son and every daughter
Don't you know your hearts were sold
To the beast that made you a stalker
Of a life in material cold
And you dream in the blindness
We're losing kindness
Sinking slow in a deep black hole

7. I Walked Away

Once I was a rebel living in a dream
Breaking young girls hearts, I could be so mean
I used to be strung out and lost in a trance
Now I look back at those days like a bad romance
My life is loaded with those dark memories
And still I'm haunted by that cold winter's breeze
I was causing so much sorrow and pain
Until I found the sun and reached out of the rain

I had to walk away from the man I used to be
Yeah, I walked away from a life in misery
Had to clear my clouded heart to see a brighter day
I walked away... yes, I walked away

I remember the reverends daughter
Brought up on holy water
Hallelujah, such a sweet wild thing
I couldn't stop my desire so I set the woman on fire
Made her promises, but my love was a lie

I was loaded when she broke the news: she said
You are the devil that brought me the blues
That woman left me in a wicked state of mind
When I woke up next morning I felt half dead and blind

She had to walk away from the man she didn't need
Ooh she walked away from a love not meant to be
There was something wrong from the start
And she just could not stay
She walked away from me

Ooh... I had to walk away from the man I used to be
I walked away from a life in misery
Had to clean my blackened heart to find a brighter day
I walked away

I had to walk away... Walk away
It seems like only yesterday
Now I'm a better father, brother, friend, and lover

8. The Slippery Slope (Hangman's Rope)

You'll drink from the grail of passion if your heart feels dead
Temptation is the true revelation forget the rules you've read
It's in the hands of father time to seal the wounds you've bled
But it's the choice inside your mind to choose to live instead

Life is a lonely way
Born to dream and play
We have to seize the day and learn to stay

Are you turning your back on your broken will
Restore the power cause there's fire still
Never close your eyes on the roads of hope… oh no
Speeding fast away from the hangman's rope
Life is a slippery slope
It's been so hard to cope

You'll eat from the golden table
Howling with the wolves you're with
Once you were a child so innocent
Till someone broke your head

At the feast with the beast and all the lies
Dark roads wait up ahead
Then comes another new sensation
A revolution for the led

All the games we hate to play
But still we turn and stay
Got to go all the way
Let's burn another day

Are you turning your back on your broken will
Restore the power cause there's fire still
Never close your eyes on the roads of hope… no
Speeding fast away from the hangman's rope
Life is a slippery slope

Don't turn your back on your broken will
We can grow desire there's fire still
Hey. have you closed your eyes to the roads of hope?
Time to cut loose from the noose of the hangman
The hangman's rope
Keep swinging the hammer to break the ice
Break out of the coldness that makes you sacrifice
A new beginning under the sun
Life has just begun

9. Devil You Can Drive

We need a devil we can drive
To control the beast inside
Demon machine gonna lift us high
Our ambition is pushing us to the sky
Gonna burn and fly

Material man with his greedy mind
Breeding thoughts of the darkest kind
Building memories of a life in crime
You know his heart is mine

Burning strong my firewar
I am warrior to the core
Like the howling wind I scream on
Born on soaring wings of dreams
I'm a glider through the schemes
Taken over by machines
But my spirit stays unbroken
Aahh... And my dragon heart flies free... Yeah
It's the fire in me

The world is a digital spider
Spinning its bridges to hell
Sold our souls to the decider
Losing hearts to the wishing well
How can we break the spell

Give us a lifetime to appreciate
Away from trouble we still navigate
Steady on the wheel don't let your mind break
You'll know which way to take

On this road of compromise
We must burn and sacrifice
Eyes of vision skies that dream on... yeah
After clouds have gathered round
Pouring rain on every frown
There's a rainbow to be found
And your blackened heart will open
People preach about the light
And what they believe is right
But your heart will talk to you, don't let it die

One more bullet from a soldier's hand
Expendable troops fighting for the land
Another victory for the general in command
Sons and daughters
Sacrificed for the masterplan...
Bleeding in the sand

Eat theblame and stay alive
Swallow evil to survive
We all need a devil we can drive
To speed from the pain inside

Without a safety rope
We are hanging by the hope
Still believing as we stride on... yeah
And when the wolves are at the door
But you cannot give them more
Keep your faith and fight the war
Let the truth be spoken
Holding strong my firewall
I am fortress till I fall
And I'll sing my songs for you until I die
... you'll hear my cry

10. The Optimist

Some people sleep away this life
Dream away all the pain and lie
Playing safe in a lullaby behind their fences
Some people like to roll the dice
Live the risk to lose the fight
Gambling with no alibis
And close their eyes to consequences
What's up with those killing wars?
Hasn't there been enough before?
Do all the dead get to paradise
Or will the afterlife just go under
And will the answers ever show… oh

How far to the top of the mountain
I'm standing strong on a ledge of the dream
Cloudbusting pushing weight off my shoulders
Cause I long to feel the sun again
Ooh… the optimist climbs my friend
Gonna rise till the end…ooh

Some people lay awake at night
Longing in the dead of light
Crying for the sacrifice and their long lost chances
Some people always raise their glass
Never worry if their life has gone astray
Cold indifferent eyes and false pretenses
See the boy on his bloody knees
Crying hard from the pain he bleeds
Maybe never gonna live to grow his senses
How can we save his heart with hope

I'm raining love from the core of my fountain
I let it run for the rainbow within
I'm dream catching in a world getting colder
Cause I've got to feel the sun my friend
Ooh. The optimist tries again
And never dies before the end

How far to the top of the mountain
Standing strong on the ledge of a dream
Cloudbusting pushing weight off my shoulders
Cause I long to see the sun again
The optimist climbs my friend
Gonna climb till the end

11. Man Of The 80's

I just wanna drift away and dream of miracles
But can't take my eyes off the road
My antenna must be switched on, and on alert
I have to focus and keep my brain at work

Growing up with my eye on the Americam Dream
Marilyn Monroe and James Dean
And I remember the day when Elvis passed away
"The king is dead" - that's what the headlines used to say
Now I know how I used to be blind

My knowledge grows, the vision shows
I've tried to learn from the highs and the lows

Man of the '80s turns the radio on
Takes him back when they play his favourite songs
Far from the future was a life of the past
Man of the '80s
I wish we could last

Yes, I was a young boy back in '79
FM stations and TV in it's prime
Mother Teresa and her angels won the Nobel Prize
Out of the Cold War hope began to rise

Berlin Wall fell and tears of darkness dried in the sun
No more hiding, no more on the run
Now it's out of fashion the predictions of our fall
Millenium supposed to be the end of us all

And so I raise another glass of wine
And drink to life
I'll take the strife
I'm still ready to push and go

Man of the '80s with his dream specs on
Chasing shadows long dead and gone
He might look rusty, but he still feels like new
Man of the '80s
My heart is you

We fought the winds that blew
Through all the years that flew away

Man of the '80s in the same old shoes
Reading the future and the same old news
Turning pages in the chapter he belongs
Man of the '80s
Still coming on strong

Man of the '80s
Man of the '80s
Man of the '80s

Hey...

Man of the '80s
Man of the '80s

Feel the fire so true
We're like one, we two

Man of the '80s
It's me and you

12. Blackbirds

We have been broken
Warm hearts are frozen
With every teardrop there's a song
We are believers
When the world deceives us
Born to rise above the cries

After all I know that I must go
To the other side where the ghostwinds blow
Once a dreaming child now I'm a flaming man
Burning in the shadows
With my rock and roll band, aah yeah, ooh

Just another old monday
Coming down that same long highway
Me and the boys out forcing the storm again yeah
It's just the lifestyle that we cherish
So we can tower and embellish
Blackbirds flying on our wings of rock

I've seen the generations turning
So many bridges they were burning
All the scars and all the lies, oh

Me and the blackbirds
Carry heavy load
Grinding memories of the secrets never told
We shook the grounds of our yesterdays
Pioneers of a golden age
Aah the blackbirds are coming
Still going strong, yeah

From Tokyo to New York City
They dream of fame and fortune looking pretty
Desperate minds that let the heart go blind
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I'm a stranger running in between
From the clouds that rain us down

There's no escape from the undertow
But I won't go down with my head hung low
Will never let the spirit die
Music is my revelation
I wanna be your new sensation
Let the song be you and I

Blackbirds rising in the dead of night
We come alive with the neon lights
But me and the boys we can not stay
Restless hearts going our own way
All the stories I have told from the life that I unfold
So many places I have been
But sill a stranger deep within

Take the sun and shine on everyone
Be the light and guide inside the darkest hearts of night

And the wheel it keeps on spinning
From the end to beginning
Life and death will never die

50 miles away from London town
Tower bridge and the royal crown
One more show and we're off to Paris
Blackbirds flying till the final vanish
When this movie is running out of breath
And there's no cinema playing in my head
You will remember my rock and roll
A blockbuster haunting in your soul
Aah. Blackbird is coming sill playing on, yeah
Blackbirds are calling
We're still laying strong







JORN LYRICS