ORCHID LYRICS

1. Mouths Of Madness

Spiraling in shadows down
Searching for your prey
Spiders of deception weave
The web in which you play
Sadness reaching to other minds
Cracked perception shall soon unwind
Insanity is all you know
Drowning in the poison of your lies to yourself

Can you tell me mother
Tell me where this road you walk unwinds
Tell me all the answers spoken by the wicked
Mouths of madness
The mouths of madness

Insanity is taking hold
Poisoning your brain
Voices whisper thoughts untrue
The songs of the insane
Sadness reaching to other minds
Cracked perception shall soon unwind
Delusional reality
Seeing life through cyber optic eyes
You live through

Can you tell me mother
Tell me where this road you walk unwinds
Tell me all the answers spoken by the wicked
Mouths of madness
The mouths of madness
Oh yeah
The mouths of madness
Oh yeah
The mouths of madness

The frozen images you're living through
The lives you've chained within your mind, yeah
The changeless smiles that you said you knew
Controlling all the ties that bind, yeah

The mouths of madness
Oh yeah
The mouths of madness
Oh yeah
The mouths of madness
Oh yeah
The mouths of madness
Oh yeah

2. Marching Dogs Of War

Thunder breaks the silent ground, lightning cracks the sky
Children clutching mother's hands as fathers prepare to die
Nobody knows the reasons, nobody seems to care
Echo of boots on the frozen ground
Death on the move everywhere

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
From those marching dogs of war
Oh yeah
Marching dogs of war
Oh yeah

Doors are standing splintered
Walls set burning down
Mindless beasts that roam the land
The hatred machine turning round
They never question the reasons
They never question who dies
Dogs on the move through the frozen night
Blood in their merciless eyes

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
From those marching dogs of war
Oh yeah
Marching dogs of war
Oh yeah
Marching dogs of war
Nowhere to hide
From those marching dogs of war
Nowhere to run
From those marching dogs of war

Oh yeah
Marching dogs of war
Oh yeah
Marching dogs of war
Nowhere to hide
From those marching dogs of war
Nowhere to run
From those marching dogs of war

3. Silent One

Searching in darkness through the circles of time
Folding dimensions part his way
Lurking in shadows as he silently waits
To open the door unto his day

He hears the children of the future
Calling Satan's son
Singing songs of his return
Say, Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One

Cosmic destroyer swallowing dreams
Black wings shall shadow out the day
Eyes with no mercy from this blackest abyss
Ravenous beast watches his prey

He hears the children of the future
Calling Satan's son
Singing songs of his return
Say, Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One

Black drums of relentless stride
Call him from beyond
Voices echo on the sea
Sing songs of devil's dawn
He who's lived ten million lives
Shall shadow out the sun
Slipping past all space and time
Rise, rise Silent One
Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One
Rise Silent One...

4. Nomad

High above the earth I find my way
Running from tomorrow's yesterdays
Drinking all the sadness from my head
Soaring through the darkness like the dead

Nomad, Nomad
Chase the sun again
Nomad, will this ever end?

Falling from the sky we touch the sand
Strangers to a new and stranger land
Nameless faces move across my eyes
A single story told a thousand times

Nomad, Nomad
Chase the sun again
Nomad, will this ever end?

Somewhere out on the horizon
There's a part of me that's free
Moving far beyond the silence
Only gods and monsters know the nomad's dream

Moving in the shadows like a ghost within a dream
Pushing through the madness in my mind
Feet that move without me like a puppet on a string
Longing for a place I left behind
God I know I can't get free
The nomad's me, oh yeah
God I know I can't get free
The nomad's me, oh yeah
The nomad's me, oh yeah

Ragged winged and faded engines burn
Home to love and laughter I return
Hours soon turn to days that never end
The restless nomad dreams his dream again

Nomad, Nomad
Chase the sun again
Nomad, will this ever end?
Nomad, chase the sun again
Nomad, will this ever end?

5. Mountains Of Steel

I reach for your hand as I'm swallowed by tides of illusion
I've become cosmic, I slip through the eye of my soul
I am reborn of this world as a child of the future
Visions of beauty and love, I transcend what is known

Falling through astral seas
To places unreal
Flying in plasmic skies
On mountains of steel
Mountains of steel
Mountains of steel

You smile in my eyes as we pass through the portals of starlight
Crystalline walkways that lead us to rivers unreal
I am transformed, I return to the womb of creation
Conscious is fading, I become one with all time

Falling through astral seas
To places unreal
Flying in plasmic skies
On mountains of steel
Mountains of steel
Mountains of steel

I know, yes I know
All these feelings deep inside
I know, yes I know
All these feelings I can hide
The life that I've lived in this world
Is passing through control
Revealing the child that was once
Slipping from my soul
I try to get back to the truth
That once was so easy to find
The laughter and love
That once was mine

Mountains of steel...
On mountains of steel...

6. Leaving It All Behind

People may come and people go
The way that they have before
Woman you always held the line
A hand inside the door
Taking the joy inside my friends
And all that they have to give
But when it all comes to darkest times
You'd show me just how to live

I wanna thank you for myself
And what you've done my way
I wanna thank you for myself
And everything today
Oh my way, oh today, oh my way

A child of social graces not
A man up against the wall
You'd give to me everything you got
And then you'd give it all
Finding the love inside myself
I'd try as I make my way
Putting my fear upon the shelf
I'd try just to do what you say

I wanna thank you for myself
And what you've done my way
I wanna thank you for myself
And everything today
Oh my way, oh today, oh my way

Looking to find the truth inside I try to make my way
Slipping into the darkest times you always help me find a way
Trying to find the things inside you always said I'd be
Circles inside of spiraled lives, a ship that's lost without a sea

And in the end of the day, we're leaving it all behind
All we are slips away
And in the end of the day, we're leaving it all behind
All we are slips away
We're leaving it all behind
We're leaving it all behind
We're leaving it all behind
We're leaving it all behind
We're leaving it all behind

People they come living their day
But in the end we all just burn away
Burn away, we're leaving it all behind
Oh yeah
We're leaving it all behind

7. The Loving Hand Of God

I was born into this world on the seventh day of June
No sunshine broke the sky as I arrived
My father was a rector with a hard and heavy hand
My mother was thirteen and not his wife
She gave me to the sisters on the farthest edge of town
No one would be the wise or see my face
I became a man raised up by cemetery wolves
We earned our keep by digging beggar's graves

I guess that's just the way they showed me
The loving hand of God
Loving hand of God

When fifteen years had passed they put me out upon the stones
To make my way with gypsies and with thieves
A kindly hearted cropper took me on to till his land
I'd work until my fingers they did bleed
His daughter was a deaf and mute with kind and loving eyes
The color of the bluest summer sky
A love grew strong between us and I asked to take her hand
But the father said he'd sooner see her die

I guess that's just the way he showed me
The loving hand of God
Loving hand of God

And in the spring we stole away to find a life anew
With pennies and our bags to make our way
We found work with the magistrate tending to his land
And happiness was born again each day
And in the fall I married her and summer brought a child
In which there was no sign of me at all
And when I said that son of mine did have her father's eyes
She wept and said that he had come to call

I guess that's just the way he showed me
The loving hand of God
Loving hand of God

8. Wizard Of War

Breaking through the stratosphere into the realm of god
Sound escaping vision as he's killing nature's law
He was set upon this world a victim of his pain
Fugitive from space and time escaping from the grave

Wizard of war
Burning through the gates of heaven's door
Exile from the centuries a world which he was born
Wizard of war

Interstellar overlord who once was just a man
Transformed by wicked hatred he's an exile from his land
Eyes ablaze with malice as he drops in from the sky
Crashing down upon us, he's a madman born to die

Wizard of war
Burning through the gates of heaven's door
Exile from the centuries a world which he was born
Wizard of war

There is no mercy in his eyes
He looks at us with black despise
Reflecting all the lives he's lived
He know his day will come again

Wizard of war
Burning through the gates of heaven's door
Exile from the centuries of demons he was born
Wizard of war

Wizard of war
Wizard of war

9. See You On The Other Side

Hit the ground at a hundred and ten
Too fast to see my fall
Try to mend all the trouble I've caused
But there's no one I can call
Confusion in my mind
There's a voice but it just ain't clear
Hold my breath on the bottom again
But I know the end is near, oh no

Behind - the silver line is fading
See you on the other side
See you on the other side

Passing time with the devil inside
But he just can't keep from crying
Ashamed about the pain that I've caused
And I just can't wash it away
Want to run but there's nowhere to go
Cause I'm always right there waiting
Only happy when I'm burning it down
And the flames are all around, oh no

Behind - the silver line is fading
See you on the other side
See you on the other side
See you on the other side
Oh yeah
See you on the other side

Oh woman you're lying with the dead
There's nothing but sorrow is what I said
My love is the worst you'll ever know
This love is a shadow with no home, oh yeah

Woman that drowns within my soul
My self-destruction familiar endless hole
Silent deals we make inside but never said
Never said...
Laying with the love and truth that I betrayed
Oh betrayed

Behind - the silver line is fading
See you on the other side
See you on the other side
See you on the other side
See you on the other side
Oh yeah







ORCHID LYRICS