THE FINAL FRONTIER

(2010)

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SATELLITE 15...THE FINAL FRONTIER

(Smith/Harris)

I try to call the Earth's command desperation in my voice, I'm drifting way of course now with very little choice

The loneliness is hard to bear I try to calm my fear, just hoping any second now some contact filters through

Desperate calls, signal back from satellite, as my life flashes before me

Try again, must get through, hear me now for I've very little time

Not much time, hear my call, please get through I am here

I'm stranded in space, I'm lost without a trace, I haven't a chance of getting away

Too close to the Sun I surely will burn, like Icarus before me or so legend goes

I think of my life reliving my past, there's nothing but wait 'til my time comes

I've had a good life I'd do it again, maybe I'll come back some time afresh

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

If I could survive to live one more time I wouldn't be changing a thing at all

Done more in my life than some do in ten I'd go back and do it all over again

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them that one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

There isn't much time must say my last rites, nobody is here to read them to me

Must say my goodbyes if only a line, a message to tell them in case they might find...

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them that one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

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EL DORADO

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

Gotta tell you a story on a cold winters night

You'll be sailin' for glory before you know what is right

So come over here now I got a vision for you

It's my personal snake oil it's just something I do

I'm the jester with no tears and I'm playing on your fears

I'm a trickster smiling underneath this mask of love and death

The eternal lie I've told about the pyramids of gold

I've got you hooked at every turn your money's left to burn

You'll be wanting a contract you'll be waiting a while

I'd like to give you my contact but that isn't my style

Well you only get one chance and it's too good to miss

If I gave a lot to ya then I wouldn't exist

Greed lust and angry pride it's the same old same old ride

The smoke and mirrors visions that you see are just like me

I'm a clever banker's face with just a letter out of place

I know someone just like you knows someone just like me

El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold

See my ship is over sold you've got one last chance to try

So gone is the glory and gone is the gold

Well if you need a story I've come it has to be told

Well you can say I'm a devil and I wouldn't say no

But out here on the dark side hey on with the show

So now my tale is told big and bad and twice as bold

The ship of fools is sinking as the cracks begin to grow

There is no easy way for an honest man today

Which is something you should think of as my life boat sails away

El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold

See my ship is over sold you've got one last chance to try

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MOTHER OF MERCY

(Smith/Harris)

Sitting waiting in the falling rain, getting ready to begin again

Wounded lying crying bodies moving dying, all around there is a smell of death and fire

Here the planes are coming hear the soldiers running killing on a scale to comprehend

Why are we here in this place here to kill

Please God forgive us for what we have done

I always thought I was doing right, as of now I'm not feeling so sure

I'm at a place of where I give no grace, I'm a soldier of war

I sit waiting for my darkest hour to come, I cannot think of all the things that I have done

It shouldn't take a fool to see that I believe, accept the consequence repent for what I've done

You tell me what is certain but I'll tell you what is true

You tell me what is honesty, when all around is death and cruelty

The making of a man is fire, not giving in to our desires within the truth that lies within the only thing

Mother of mercy, Angel of death, desire

Mother of mercy, taking my last breath of fire

Mother of mercy, Angel of pain

Mother of mercy, taking my last breath

Some say you are a lost cause some say you're a saint, just being here's an act of suffering and restraint

Walk down the long dark road to ruin panic not, I'll die a lonely death of that I'm certain of

Rivers flow with blood there's nowhere left to hide, it's hard to comprehend there's anyone left alive

Sick of all the killing and the reek of death, will God tell me what religion is to man

I don't hold with bad religion understand what's underneath it, now I come to think of it I just don't hold at all you know it

You say you are a holy man but what is it you do, from where I stand is nothing but a hollow man I see

Mother of mercy, Angel of death, desire

Mother of mercy, taking my last breath of fire

Mother of mercy, Angel of pain

Mother of mercy, taking my last breath

Mother of mercy, taking my last breath

I'm just a lonely soldier fighting in a bloody hopeless war, don't know what I'm fighting who it is or what I'm fighting for

Thought it was for money make my fortune now I'm not so sure, seem to just have lost my way

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COMING HOME

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

When I stand before you shining in the early morning sun

When I feel the engines roar and I think of what we've done

Oh the bittersweet reflection as we kiss the earth goodbye

As the waves and echoes of the towns become the ghosts of time

Over borders that divide the Earthbound tribes

No creed and no religion just a hundred winged souls

We will ride this thunderbird silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

Curving on the edge of daylight 'til it slips into the void

Waited in the long night dreaming 'til the sun is born again

Stretch the fingers of my hand cover countries with my span

Just a lonely satellite speck of dust in cosmic sand

Over borders that divide the Earthbound tribes

Flown the dark Atlantic over mariners stormy graves

We will ride this thunderbird silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

Coming home far away when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

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THE ALCHEMIST

(Gers/Harris/Dickinson)

Stranger than the comet as it streaks across the sky

Stranger than the truth I know before my open eyes

I have dealt in mysteries and trickery of light to entertain

Looked into the abyss called it by its name

I have plundered time itself put the world inside it

I'm the mysteries day and night divide it

A plague of wonders on your knees beside me

Know the secrets you shall not deride us

My dreams of empire from my frozen queen will come to pass

Know me the Magus I am Dr. Dee and this is my house

Gather round the aimless and the feckless and the lame

Hear the master summon up the spirits by their names

I curse you Edward Kelley your betrayal for eternity is damned

Know you speak with demons you cannot command

Even as I looked into the glass then I was blinded

Burning by the Mortlake shore my house my books inside it

You have taken up my wife and lain beside her

Now the black rain on my house the timbers burning

My dreams of empire from my frozen queen will come to pass

Know me the Magus I an Dr. Dee and this was my house

I was the keeper of the books I had the knowledge of the scrolls

But now through ignorance and fear I cast a shadow through the years

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand chain up the demons set free

Strange alchemy

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand chain up the demons set free

Strange alchemy

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand restore the knowledge memory

Strange alchemy

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ISLE OF AVALON

(Smith/Harris)

I can hear them floating on the wind immortal souls their weeping saddens me

Mother Earth you know your time is near awaken lust the seed is sown and reaped

Through the western isle I hear the dead awaken rising slowly to the call of Avalon

The cauldron of the head of Annwyn laced with envy dark around its edge with pearl and destiny

All my days I've waited for the sign the one that brings me closer to the Isle of Avalon

I can feel the power flowing through my veins my heart is beating louder close to Avalon

I can hear you can you hear me ?

I can feel you can't you feel me ?

Fertility Mother Goddess

Celebration sow the seeds of the born the fruit of her body laden

Through the corn doll you will pray for them all

The image of Mother Goddess

Lying dormant in the eyes of the dead the sheaf of the corn is broken

End the harvest throw the dead on the pyre

I hear her crying the tears of an angel the voices I hear in my head

Blessed the fruits are the corn of the earth Mother Earth holy blood of the dead

Mother Earth I can hear you sacrifice now united

Rising levels of the tidal lakes protect them Keepers of the Goddess in the underworld

Holding powers of the Mystics deep inside them nineteen maidens guardians of the otherworld

Mortal conflict born of Celtic legend that apart from seven none returned from Avalon

Mother Earth I can feel you my rebirth now completed

Fertility Mother Goddess

Celebration sow the seeds of the born the fruit of her body laden

Through the corn doll you will pray for them all

The image of Mother Goddess

Lying dormant in the eyes of the dead the sheaf of the corn is broken

End the harvest throw the dead on the pyre

To have the belief of others looking for the isle to show them a sign

Fertility of all mothers stood in silence waiting now for their turn

The gateway to Avalon the island where the souls of dead are reborn

Brought here to die and be transferred into the earth and then for rebirth

I hear her crying the tears of an angel the voices I hear in my head

Blessed the fruits are the corn of the earth Mother Earth holy blood of the dead

The water in rivers and rhymes rises quickly are flowing and flooding the land

The sea shall return once again just to hide them lost souls on the isle of the dead

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STARBLIND

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

Take my eyes the things I've seen in this world coming to an end

My reflection fades I'm weary of these earthly bones and skin

You may pass through me and leave no trace I have no mortal face

Solar winds are whispering you may hear me call

We can shed our skins and swim into the darkened void beyond

We will dance among the world that orbit stars that aren't our sun

All the oxygen that trapped us in a carbon spiders web

Solar winds are whispering you may hear the sirens of the dead

Let the elders to their parley meant to satisfy our lust

Leaving Damacles still hanging over all their promised trust

Walk away from freedoms offered by the jailors in their cage

Step into the light star tripping over mortals in their rage

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We are the light that brings the end of night

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We are one with the Goddess of the sun tonight

The preacher loses face with Christ religion's cruel device is gone

Empty flesh and hollow bones make pacts of love but die alone

The crucible of pain will forge the blanks of sin begin again

You are free to choose a life to live or one that's left to lose

Virgins in the teeth of God are meat and drink to feed the damned

You may pass through me and I will feel the life that you live less

Step into my light star tripping we will rage against the night

Walk away from comfort offered by your citizens of death

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We are the light that brings the end of night

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We're one with the Goddess of the sun tonight

Take my eyes for what I've seen I will give my sight to you

You are free to choose whatever life to live or life to lose

Whatever God you know he knows you better than you believe

In your once and future grave you'll fall endlessly deceived

Look into our face reflected in the moon glow in your eyes

Remember you can choose to look but not to see and waste your hours

You believe you have the time but I tell you your time is short

See your past and future all the same and it cannot be bought

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We are the light that brings the end of night

Starblind with sun the stars are one

We're one with the Goddess of the sun tonight

Take my eyes for what I've seen I will give my sight to you

You are free to choose whatever life to live or life to lose

Whatever God you know he knows you better than you believe

In your once and future grave you'll fall endlessly deceived

The preacher loses face with Christ religion's cruel device is gone

Empty flesh and hollow bones make pacts of love but die alone

The crucible of pain will forge the blanks of sin begin again

You are free to choose a life to live or one that's left to lose

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THE TALISMAN

(Gers/Harris)

When I stand and look about the port and contemplate my life

Will I ever see my countrymen again ?

As the captain calls us on the deck I take my things and walk to the harbour side

I glance back one last time

Fleeing our nation our problems we leave behind

Ships by the ten fold sail out on the tide

We are pleased to be out and embracing the open sea

Free from our troubles and more free from thee

Inheritors unfilled reason behind us we flee from what is not what is will be

We flee the earth and face our harsh reality will death be low mist that hangs on the sea

We run from the evil tongues rash judgements selfish men

Never to be seen on these shores again

As we sail into oceamize and lose sight of land a face of contentment around in the air

We're off now to seek all our fortunes to the land of our dreams

Riding the waves and the storm is upon us

The winds lash the sails but the ropes keep them tight

Off in the distance a dark cloud approaching

None could imagine what there was to come

No there's no one going back

No there's not a second chance

As we strap onto the side we pray to God that we won't die

As we ride the rough seas as we soak from the ocean waves

I just hope for all our lives and pray that I survive

Four ships are lost in the stormy conditions

The spirits of the sunken crews their phantoms follow us

Spirits sails they drive us on through the all consuming waves

Cold mortality no weapon against these ever raging seas

Four leagues and ten and we hit storms again

We just can't get away from the eye of the storm

The birds out soar the raging storm but we cannot escape it

Abandoned earth that we now crave is many leagues from safe

Holding on for our dear lives and we're praying once again

Rotten luck or just jonahed the talisman is in my hand

Limbs fatigued trembling with cold blinded from the sea spray salt

Clasping anything we can hold heaven's rain upon us falls

Twenty days without a meal and ten without fresh water still

Those that didn't die in storms the scurvy rest did slaughter

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

We approach the other side of the ocean with the tide

In our favour just for once welcome greeting our new land

The elation in our hearts the excitement in our veins

As we sail towards the coastline of our golden promised land

Weary limbs fatigued away I have no life left in me

No more strength and nothing left to give must find the will to live

Never thought that we could make it truly sight of shores divine

The sickness I am dying from never wanted it to end this way

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

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THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

(Murray/Harris)

As he travels on the beast of burden moving up along the mountainside

As he gazes looking down the valley no regrets but his pride

As he journeys across mountain passes insignificance sweeps over him

His reflection of the beauty around him feeling empty inside

He is running from his wildest thoughts he is running from his everything

He is looking now to find something hoping he could be saved

He's searching for the answer now it's something that he's managed to avoid up 'til now

Real conviction that he craves he needs to find the answer sooner than later

Pushed himself to the limits he had to strive for all the harder things in life

But what the cost of giving now his life his time are the only things that he has

Life is not a rehearsal all he has is the one chance to get it right

Leaving really is the only way to know

Maybe one day they'll forgive him what he's done

But now the pain of lying too early in the grave

Destiny no good to hide away penance now will be his only way

Understand no good to run away penance now will be his saving grace

He tries to make his peace with God

All is forgivable but it's left a little late

Trying something that he's not is it possible to change such a lot

He's taken someone's life away there's not a day goes by

He regrets what he's done he should have found another way

But the good book says an eye for an eye

In reflecting on decisions that were made on the judgements that will haunt him 'til his grave

No one has the right to take another life but in his mind he had no choice so be it

Destiny no good to hide away penance now will be his only way

Understand no good to run away penance now will be his saving grace

Destiny no good to hide away penance now will be his only way

Understand no good to run away penance now will be his saving grace

Far far away the man who would be king

Far far away the man who would be king

So far away the man who would be king

So far away the man who would be king

Far far away the man who would be king

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WHEN THE WILD WIND BLOWS

(Harris)

Have you heard what they said on the news today

Have you heard what is coming to us all

That the world as we know it will be coming to an end

Have you heard have you heard

He sees them in the distance when the darkened clouds roll

He could feel tension in the atmosphere

He would look in the mirror see an old man now

Does it matter they survive somehow

They said there's nothing can be done about the situation

They said there's nothing you can do at all

To sit and wait around for something to occur

Did you know did you know

As he stares across the garden looking at the meadows

Wonders if they'll ever grow again

The desperation of the situation getting graver

Getting ready when the wild wind blows

Have you seen what they said on the news today

Have you heard what they said about us all

Do you know what is happening to just every one of us

Have you heard have you heard

There will be a catastrophe the like we've never seen

There will be something that will light the sky

That the world as we know it it will never be the same

Did you know did you know

He carries everything into the shelter not a fuss

Getting ready when the moment comes

He has enough supplies to last them for a year or two

Good to have because you never know

They tell us nothing that we don't already know about

They tell us nothing that is real at all

They only fill us with the stuff that they want

Did you know did you know

He's nearly finished with the preparations for the day

He's getting tired that'll do for now

They are preparing for the very worst to come to them

Getting ready when the wild wind blows

He sees the picture on the wall it's falling down upside down

He sees a tear drop from his wife roll down her face saying Grace

Remember times they had they flash right through his mind left behind

Of a lifetime spent together long ago will be gone

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