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Floodgate
07:30
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Oh well, never mind
I won’t ask you again
Just wanted to
Understand you a little bit more
You can’t go back but you want to
Don’t wanna be here don’t wanna be you
You know sometimes people just have to do what they’re meant to do
You know I’ll always be here for you
Don’t wanna be a saviour
But I wanna be with you
Til the end of time
Tune in to the right station
And let everybody know
Riots,people running like an earthquake
People, who have planned every minute
Just throw away the calender and run
Standing by the floodgate
Safe from the fire
We will let the water flow
No one really knows
And no one would believe us
We’re fading all together
No one's gonna save us
We’re falling with the rain
We need no sympathy
But time has come to get it done
Race against the rising tide
Cancer growing in everyone
Don’t hesitate, don’t be afraid of what they’re gonna do
Or maybe it’s exactly what we have to be afraid of.
Imagine a young girl with plans for the future
Imagine an old man with plans for the children
They sing for tor tomorrow
Without any sorrow
They should be afraid of us
Would they believe me if I was a
Rich and intolerable man?
I pretend to be somebody far away from here
Where I transform my energy
To starlight
I have seen a memory of places lost in time
Now I know we’re never gonna tell them
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Fear is the easiest thing to find and preserve
More deadly than anything in the world
Growing everywhere in the fields
Poisoning the minds of the weak
You say hello to your neighbour
But you know he’s obsessed with fear
He waits for a miracle
Meanwhile he’s a preacher
Spreading hate and bitterness
Waiting for the better days
Meditates in his own way
Don’t understand what happened to the
World he knew where he was safe
When he didn’t feel the fear
Make him stand in front of me
I’ll tell my story, he’ll believe
A sacrifice he’ll have to make
I’ll open up the box again
All of his fear is now taken away
Stored in a magical, mystery machine
He’s been a very brave boy
We stand before a long journey
To the center of the universe
Or is it closer than we think
Maybe just Venus
Maybe they have seen us
Maybe they will welcome us all
On the bottom of a black hole
I wanna know before we go
Armageddon is not the right word they said
It’s more like a new beginning you see
You have to collect all the perfections and the imperfections
The peace and the violence
Cause we can’t live without it
I said I can’t live without my friends
I can’t live without the sunlight in the morning
Everytime I wake up I feel fear, the end is near
It’s a part of me so please don’t take it away
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We went down to the marketplace
To find a sample of purest happiness and laughter
There is one in a million
A grain of sand in the ocean
Smaller than anything you can see
It’s not easy to find them
The pure hearted
The kind and innocent
We don’t have time
This could be our last chance to
Save the laughter
I wont let it die
The master tells you
Not to be good, not to be loved
It’s in your head
Kicking you out
Making you cry
Dismantle madness
Split it into sadness
And weakness
It is not what we are looking for
We walked in from the cold outside
We were tired and needed something else to think of
But there in the corner
Was a man in a wheelchair
He had eyes like the setting sun
We couldn’t resist
We walked towards him
And decided to ask if he could tell his story
”Maybe I can tell you later
But now it’s my turn to dance with the woman of my dreams
I’ve been waiting all day with a smile on my face, I’ll fly”
It’s time for us to make a choice
The box is now ready to be opened
It opens every time we’re finding what it needs
A key, a fingerprint and someone who believes
No mortal girl has never seen the light inside
It makes you weak but still it’s strengthening your mind
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A good start
01:39
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I wrote a story once
Created a world like a god
Once the prince disappeared
When he was riding into the forest
I didn’t care anyway
Cause sometimes you just have to follow what you believe
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What a lucky day!
06:06
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My dad was a traveller
He got lost on the ocean
He never came back
My mother taught me devotion
I lost my way
But my tounge was pierced and deadly
She made me a believer
But noone was believing in me
Now, then, forever
Everywhere, nowhere, here
I’ll go with you
In your footsteps
When I disappear from view
It is all I wanna do
Pieces of a dream
Another passage in between truth and magic
At last I found it
Life is just a scene
Or is it real
Now I’ve got something to hold on to
What a lucky day
Now I’m on my way
Gotta find the way to my treasureq
It goes over and over again
Somethings wrong I can’t find the magic potion
You drink it and you see all the passages around you”
I don’t understand
Maybe I’m not worthy
I lost my mind and suddenly I found it
I will travel far away
But my memories will stay
Open up the door
Walk into the dark
Waking up a ghost from a past life
Feel it in my flesh
Feel it in my bones
There is only only one way to find ou
What a lucky day
Now I wanna stay
I can hear their voices inside my head
We know it’s hard
it’s a curse but we know that
Your heart is pure
Your strength is endless
You still have a choice
Consider it a challenge
A world on shoulders
It’s not what you asked for
Choose a companion
Find a believer
Then make him follow
You better choose wisely
Cause oneday
He’ll be
The only one in
Your life
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First we'll go to Mars
06:03
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I said yes
And she took me home
I was sleeping on the couch
There was a bittersweet voice in my head
A scent of freedom
I was hyperventilating
when she looked at me and asked
If I had ever seen my thoughts float away like soft clouds in the summer
And into the sky
Disappear leaving a scar inside my soul
The windows open too wide
I am scared of falling down
There’s a secret she keeps in a jar behind a door
But who is it for
Is it meant for the common people
Or the living dead
Maybe it’s not worth trying
Maybe it’s just black magic
is it someone trying to say that the world is dying
Is it really my part
To be a good example
Would you be my companion
When we travel to the stars
Standing here on a trampoline
Dive into a dirty pool
Walk right up
With a fading scent of madness
No hesitation
No remorse
When I saw her standing over me
She made all my fear go away
Like rainbows in the desert
I don’t know why
When I think of home I only see the sky
In another life
We could have a good time
Laughing in the rain
Sleeping in the backyard
Waiting for the night
Kissing by the fire
Waking up too late making love again
We could take a trip to a place in the sun
We could see the stars lying on an empty beach
But we are changing slowly
And what will we become
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I’m so tired of this bloody war
I long for the times we had before
It wasn’t really great but I was home
Being myself not afraid to talk
My mind is set for the silver sky
My energy’s low and I don’t know why
Maybe it’s just a waste if time
They kicked me out did it all for love.
Into battle
Like my father
For believers
For everybody
If you wanna get back
If you wanna believe that everything will be just like before
They will hurt you again
They will hunt you down
And make you understand that you are dead
I killed again
He didn’t make a sound
When life was leaving him all alone
I broke the oath
I ran away
From everything
Even my own sanity
I am the sound of the pale moonlight
And I just wanted to go home
Take me to the time when it all began
It’s a long tradition that I have to break
I gotta prove that it’s all a fake
There’s a bullet in the barrel
Make no mistake
A radical mind with a heart of gold
It’s not worth anything from their point of view
I’m gonna pull the trigger in the afternoon
Gonna save everybody
Gonna cure my whole world too
Well
As you may know now
This song is about courage
To change something that is wrong
About making a hard choice
To not care if it will kill you
To rise above the voices
To stop and never follow
There’s a crossroad
In the forest
Choose the right path
And I will lead you
Throught the darkness
Cross the marshes
Over mountains
Close your eyes
You’re there
You’re safe
You’ll never die
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What happens when you love classic progressive rock, alternative rock and brilliant pop music? You make it very hard for yourself..... but despite that, PreHistoric Animals have gained huge success in all these areas. When they released their second album, The Magical Mystery Machine (chapter 1), they were praised by both the audience and the reviewers. ... more
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