Lyrics

1 In the name of

 

New born child, monument of innocence

Tabula Rasa, no trace of any god

Soon it will learn all the myths of its people

Soon it will learn who to love and who to hate (Who to hate)

 

Growing up, learns to kneel and pray

Baptized and raised in the name of the lord

Soon it will learn how to fight for its people

Soon it will learn how to fight and how to hate (How to hate)

 

Go retrieve the promised land once lost

Crusaders cross all borders, spread the word (The holy word)

A holy god destroys their temples, steals their fate

Cause they’ve listened to the wrong gods for too long (Way too long)

 

Allah is the mighty god and we are the chosen ones

This is our promised land, so go!

God bless my country and my war, that is what we’re fighting for

You know we are the chosen ones, so go!

Allah is the mighty god and we are the chosen ones

Bless my country and my war, that’s what we are fighting for

 

Let me go, take a breath, your truth not mine

Wanting love, need no lies, let me speak out and be like a child

Let us all, live in peace, and set aside, the years of pain

Real love, start us to praise, all one on earth, let’s keep that in mind

Ohh oh ohhhh ohh ohhhh oh ohhhhh

 

-- Narration ---

There’s a football game on the tele. Little men in uniform sinking on their knees to pray to their god. The shirts are red, the trousers white. On the other side of the same field, same sort little man with long socks, blue shirts and black shorts are kneeling for their lord. All 22 men are praying to the same god to help them win this game. If this god exists, if this god cares about football and if this god has nothing better to do with his time.

If indeed he has nothing better to do than to watch this game and make some legs run a little faster, make some feet kick a little harder and make the goalkeeper’s arms stretch a little longer so he can get a hold of more balls, than I ask you this question: How does this god decide? Which team to unite? How does he choose? The ones who pray loudest? The ones that pray more in this example? The ones who are ready to die for their god? Silly, isn’t it? People walk and talk and play football in the name of their god. People suffer and kill in the name of their god. People live and die in the name of their god…

 

People are good at ignoring first to take blame

It's hard to believe it is not justice of faith

Don't keep on playing pretend, no

You pretend in the name of

Hide and seek in the name of your God

 

 

(Lyrics: Mirella van Leeuwen)

2 Flashback

 

Is this an illusion? A fantasy?

Or is my mind just playing tricks with me?

It seems this happened to me before

An image in my head I can’t ignore

 

The mayhem around me, the closing gate

Frustrations growing as I am too late

So why have my instincts abandoned me

I’m not as sharp as I am used to be

 

Bridge:

Be with me, I wish you’d hear my cry

(Will you be here, How do you feel

What do you need, Can't see you bleed)

I'm afraid, can I just close my eyes?

(Don't break your vow, don't close your eyes now)

 

Chorus:

As the dusk is arriving, can’t fight my memory

(Dusk arriving, can’t fight my memory)

With the darkness surrounding, too dark to see

(Dark surroundings, too dark to see)

Untill dawn we’ll be struggling as with a felony

(Dawn, be struggling, as with a felony)

Master plan, as it comes out, it’s killing me

(Plan, it comes out, it’s killing me)

 

I’m out in the open, fully exposed

This vulnerability I hate the most

Got nothing to worry, nothing to hide

It’s as if you can see me from inside

 

Repeat Bridge

 

Repeat Chorus

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

Repeat Bridge

 

So is this a nightmare, is it my life?

I guess there’s no one there to tell me why

I am a stranger, I feel alone

Don't leave me here as I don't know what's going on

 

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Chorus

 

 

(Lyrics: Maarten Heeringa)

3 Clockwise

 

Plenty of time

Got time on my side

Now is the moment, I am ready for my ride

The first in line

Last of Mohicans

The fastest of furies cut the magic of time

 

Always too early

Never late

Hours can wait

Always too early

Never late

Why make me wait

 

(Tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc) - Keep on ticking

(Tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc) - Time is running out

 

Time paves the road

The road to get closer

A quantity shifts towards the next tomorrow

 

What is the use

To live in the future

Hours to come may pass me by forever

The first in line

The last of Mohicans

The fastest of furies cut the magic of time

 

(Tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc) - Keep on ticking

(Tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc) - Time is running out

 

Where should I go?

What is my purpose?

Is that called my destiny?

 

---- Instrumental break ----

 

Where do I go?

What is my purpose?

Is that what they call your destiny or something?

 

Time paves the road

The road to get closer

Is it just a blueprint of my past or is it my present that reflects my future that can’t stop me wondering what I’ve become!

 

 

(Lyrics: Maarten Heeringa)

 

4 Just a man

 

'I'm just a man'

That's what you say, oh when you lie to me

But you're half of it

That's the part that I can see

 

How can you wake up

With that weight you carry on your back?

You say “It's okey, no worries”

Then another heart attack

 

You know me well, it's not a lie

So why are you running away from my side?

 

Why, oh why this selfishness?

Show me mercy, please, show me regret

You’d better keep your mouth shut, block that twisted mind

You should know that you’re a psychopath

 

Excuse me sir: are we over now?

You look so sweet but you drag me down

 

What is it you see each day?

When you look into the mirror’s face?

Why is it I see a different side of you,

Images I wish I could erase?

 

You say you're just a man – just a simple man

Wondering what to do with life – oh

You wrote a song where you say you're selfish, cold as ice – cold as ice

and that's the easiest way to not face reality as it is – uh

So why is it that bad to love? – love

You've got the proof: i'm still into you...

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

What is it you see each day

When you look into the mirror’s face?

Nothing fancy’s ever coming back to you

Cannot wait to meet the one to take my place

 

Excuse me sir: are we over now?

Should I give up or freak you out?

 

 

(Lyrics: Laura Martìnez & Maarten Heeringa)

 

5 Flight from Terra

 

All races finally united

A few of each: men, women, child

On our way to some place new

These new chances, a new life

 

We’re leaving, destroyed homelands

Empty dead oceans, polluted seas

The earth survived millennia, millennia without mankind

But mankind took a minute and ruined it all

We went and left no life behind

Doesn’t she seem small?

 

Chorus:

Now we’re on a Flight from Terra

On a search for fertile land

The future’s in our captain's hands

Brutal sun burns down the sky

The water raced above our heads

 

Hope, faith, new earth

 

Search between the stars, between planets

The world’s children sought under the sun

Another world, another chance to

Live your life and make the same mistakes again

 

Repeat chorus

 

--- instrumental break ---

 

Off voice:

The brutal sun burns down our sky

The water raised way above our heads

Do you really expect someone else to make it right

Are you ready for take-off, now?

 

We’re leaving destroyed home lands

Empty dead oceans and polluted seas

The earth survived millennia, millennia without mankind

But mankind took a minute and ruined it all

We went and left no life behind

Doesn’t she seem small?

 

Now we’re on a Flight from Terra

On a search for fertile land

The future’s in our captain's hands

 

 

(Lyrics: Mirella van Leeuwen)

 

6 Final chaos

 

What - what are you thinking

Or - have you been drinking

While - spewing your filthy stuff

How – did you acquire

Your – status as a liar

Now - now you're a big hot shot

 

What's in your head

Are you braindead

How did you get that

 

Chaos - In your head

Chaos - Schizophrenic

 

Mind - mind over matter

Thoughts - that have been shattered

Think - you are the messiah

Don't - see your narcistic

Or - plain egoistic

Sure - megalomania

 

What's in your head - Are you braindead

How did you get that sad

What's in your head - Are you braindead

How did you get that

 

Chaos – Final Chaos

In your head – Chaos

Schizophrenic mind, wasting my time

With verbal crime, can't stand to look at

(Your face - disgrace – replace)

(Erase) - the tacit borders of

(Of grace) - take advantage of the rat

(Rat race) - no one is awaiting your

(Embrace) - subvert events that will take

(Take place) - things you say are just a dis

(Disgrace) - want to tell it to your

(Your face) - pollutes the image of the world

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

Chaos, in your head it's

A final chaos, in your braindead mind

A schizophrenic psycho

 

Chaos - final chaos - final chaos - final chaos - final

Chaos in your twisted head

Spreading the words you once said

Pretending you are Jesus Christ

 

Words that come out with your breath

Wishing you were living death

That can't be much of a surprise

 

What's in your head - Are you braindead

Why is it you are that bad

What's in your head - Are you braindead

Did you inherit that

 

Chaos - In your

Mind, wasting my

Time, with verbal

Crime, can't stand

Retorical speeches that

Sprout from your

Mind, with verbal

Crime, wasting my

Time, I’m not that blind

 

 

(Lyrics: Maarten Heeringa)

 

7 Puppet on a string

 

I come to you in the middle of the night

You toss and turn, you feel I’m there

I slowly enter, look around, I’m hiding in your mind

Awaiting my time

 

Beware of your dreams

Watch your mind, who you are and what you are thinking of

They say all thoughts are save and free

But I’m a great guesser, you see

 

I whisper in your ear with softly voices,

need you to do these special things

You’ve lost your will, you have no choices

You’re a puppet on my string

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

You’re down below and fighting, paralysed and scared to death

In the dungeons of your soul

I am up here, I’m very frightening

You are under my control

 

Beware of your dreams, for they might one day come true

Watch your mind, who you are thinking of

They say all thoughts are save and free

But I’m a great guesser, you see

 

Take care of all my dreams, my dear, so one day they’ll come true

Please, read my mind and sense my soul, take control

To my inner self, my mind , you hold the key

My thoughts, my love, all for free

 

 

(Lyrics: Mirella van Leeuwen)

 

8 Odd to get even

 

Friend:

Did you like what you did today?

Could it be wrong or is it OK?

Did he cheat on you? Were you honest too?

Have you been untrue?

 

Long before you realized

(Ex: Took some time for me to realize)

Did he get you hypnotized

(That this woman got me hypnotized)

Was his love that made your head

(She was clearly getting in my head)

Running over, make you mad

(Tryin' to run me over, make me mad)

 

In that magic night, did you feel alright

Set your soul alight

Promised paradise, you paid a heavy price

Left you just with lies

 

Never thought he could be so mean

Evil has a face now you’ve seen

Sad to say he won't regret his sheer

 

Lies, prevaricate, deceit

(Tell your fuckin' lies don't let me drown in your deceit)

Waste, bereavement and defeat

(I won't waste my time because I notice when you cheat)

Lies, prevaricate, deceit

(Tell your fuckin' lies don't make me drown in your deceit)

Waste, bereavement and defeat

(Tired of all your stories and your greed)

 

Me:

Let me get this sorted out

Payback time away from the crowd

Making plans nobody knows

Fierce revenge, anything goes

Quentin style, over the top

Rocking hard, until you drop

Making up, just like before

Compromise, not anymore

 

Sense the hurt, what does it take

Feel the pain, everything's fake

Then why should you bother

When you run into another guy

Revenge is soon forgotten

You will be the same girl as before

 

---- Instrumental break ----

 

Friend:

In that magic night, did you feel alright

Set your soul alight

 

Long before you realize

(Took some time for me to – I won’t waste my time because I notice when you cheat)

He won’t get you hypnotized

(That this woman got me - Tired of all your stories and of all your fantasies)

None will make you lose your head

(Tell your fuckin' lies don't make me drown in your deceit - in my head)

Doing things you might regret

(Tired of all your stories, all your fantasies and greed - Might regret)

 

Me:

Compromise, ready to score

Sensitive, just like before

No more pain, what does it take

Do you care whether it's fake

Why on earth would you bother

He is just like any other guy you've ever met

Guy you'll ever get

Guy out of your head

A guy you will forget

Guy that has managed to get in your bed

 

 

(Lyrics: Maarten Heeringa)

 

9 Fragile (bonus track*)

 

Clouds sprinkle their juice on the highlands

The ostrich fights his rivals to death

Caves have been hiding their secrets for ages

Visiting Ayers Rock must be contagious

 

(Aaaah)

 

Snow turns what you see into magic

Sand dunes slowly crawling ahead

Clouds of locusts are causing an eclipse

Dropping their contents as seasons greetings

 

(Fragile) - it's a sensitive balance

(Fragile) - has the decay begun

(Fragile) - let us take some precautions

(Fragile) - as there is only one

(Fragile) - to assure the survival

(Fragile) - of our delicate Earth

How long should you keep sticking your head in the sand?

 

Mountains rise as majestic giants

Dry land guzzles the river beds

Leopards that search for food at an oasis

Kalahari shows her rugged faces

 

Milford Sound revealing its beauty

Endless salty deserts unfold

Ozone protecting us from radiation

Amazon forests the river behold

 

(Aaaah)

(Fragile) - it's a sensitive balance

(Fragile) - as there is only one

(Fragile) - to assure the survival

(Fragile) - has the decay begun

(Fragile - Fragile - Fragile – Fragile)

 

(Fragile) - let us take some precautions

(Fragile) - for our delicate Earth

How long should you keep sticking your head in the sand?

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

--- Narration ---

Human population quadrupled in the last century

That’s even double the time that it took to exhaust natural resources

In the same period, CO2 level topped the maximum of the last million years twice

The southern hemisphere facing malnutricion, while adiposity rules the western world

Greenland’s ice sheet melting with over 60 cubic miles each year

The Great Barrier Reef is crumbling slowly, while the thrash fortex spans half a million square miles

 

--- Instrumental break ---

 

(Fragile) - it's a sensitive balance

(Fragile) - has the decay begun

(Fragile) - let us take some precautions

(Fragile) - as there is only one

(Fragile) - to assure the survival

(Fragile) - of our delicate Earth

 

Crocs will search for food in the city

Leaving foxes ready to die

The Mariana Trench pierces the ocean

Deeper than Everest reaches the sky

 

Hanging curtains from the Aurora

Tiny plankton feed giant whales

Comets come barging in though not invited

Lava erupts on a major scale

 

(Fragile) - it's a sensitive balance

(Fragile) - has the decay begun

(Fragile) - let us take some precautions

(Fragile) - as there is only one

(Fragile) - while the climate is changing

(Fragile) - and the science moves on

(Fragile) - such a specific problem

(Fragile) - with a simple approach

(Fragile) - to assure the survival

(Fragile) - of our delicate Earth

How long should it take to open up your eyes and see what’s going on?

 

 

(Lyrics: Maarten Heeringa)

 

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