A Matter of Life and Death (2006)

A Matter Of Life And Death (2006)
1. Different World
2. These Colours Don't Run
3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
4. The Pilgrim
5. The Longest Day
6. Out Of The Shadows
7. The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
8. For The Greater Good Of God
9. Lord Of Light
10. The Legacy
1. Different World
[Smith / Harris]
You lead me on the path

Keep showing me the way
I feel a little lost
A little strange today
I think I'll take a hold

Of whatever comes my way
Then we'll see what happens
Take it day by day
I though I had it all

I had it all worked out
Just what my future held
That there would be no doubt
But then the card came up

And I took another turn
But I don't know if it's
Fulfillment that I yearn
Tell me what you can hear

And then tell me what you see
Everybody has a different way
To view the world
I would like you to know

When you see the simple things
To appreciate this life
It's not too late to learn
Don't want to be here

Somewhere I'd rather be
But when I get there
I might find it's not for me
Don't know what I want

Or where I want to be
I'm feeling more confused
The more the days go by
2. These Colours Don't Run
[Smith / Harris / Dickinson]
It's the same in every country

When you say you're leaving
Left behind the loved ones
Waiting silent in the hall
Where you're going lies adventure
others only dream of
Red and green light this is real
and so you go to war
For the passion, for the glory

For the memories, for the money
You're a soldier, for your country
What's the difference, all the same
Far away from the land of our birth

We fly a flag in some foreign earth
We sailed away like our fathers before
These colours don't run, from a cold bloody war
Here is no one that will save you

Going down in flames
No surrender certain death
You look it in the eye
On the shores of tyranny you
Crashed the human wave
Paying for my freedom with your
Lonely unmarked graves
For the passion, for the glory

For the memories, for the money
You're a soldier, for your country
What's the difference, all the same
Far away from the land of our birth

We fly a flag in some foreign earth
We sailed away like our fathers before
These colours don't run, from a cold bloody war
3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
We are not the sons of God

We are not his chosen people now
We have crossed the path he trod
We will feel the pain of his beginning
Shadow fingers rise above

Iron fingers stab the desert sky
Oh Behold the power of man
On its tower ready for the fall
Knocking heads together well

Rise a city build a living hell
Join the race to suicide
Listen for the tolling of the bell
Out of the universe a strange love is born

Unholy union trinity reformed
Yellow sun it's evil twin

In the black the wings deliver him
We will split our souls within
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

Unholy union, trinity reformed
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Bury your morals and bury your dead

Bury your head in the sand
E=mc squared you can relate
how we made God
With our hands
Whatever would Robert have said to his God

About how we made war with the sun
E=mc squared you can relate
how we made God
With our hands
All the nations are rising

Through acid veils of love and hate
Chain letters of Satan
Uncertainty leads us all to this
All the nations are rising
Through acid veils of love and hate
Cold fusion and fury
Divide and conquer while ye may

Others preach and others fall and pray
In the bunkers where we'll die
There the executioners they lie
Bombers launch whit no recall

Minutes warning of the missile fall
Take a look at your last sky
Guessing you won't have the time to cry

Unholy union, trinity reformed
Out of the darkness

Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Holy Father we have sinned
4. The Pilgrim
[Gers / Harris]
The keys to death and hell

The ailing kingdom doomed to fall
The bonds of sin and heart will break
The pilgrims course will take
Quelling the devils might

And ready for eternal fight
Aching limbs and fainting soul
Holy battles take their toll
Liberty and hope divine

Changing water into wine
So to you we bid farewell
Kingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy, life eternal

Raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset
Onward journey begun
To courage find and gracious will

Deliver good from ill
Clean the water clean our guilt
With us do what you will
Then will my judge appear

Bear no false angel that I hear
For only then I will confess
To my eternal hell
Now give us our holy sign

Changing water into wine
So to you we bid farewell
Kingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy life eternal

Raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise pagan sunset
Onward journey begun
5. The Longest Day
In the gloom the gathering storm abates

In the ships gimlet eyes await
The call to arms to hammer at the gates
To blow them wide throw evil to its fate
All summers long the drills to build the machine

To turn man from flesh and blood to steel
From paper soldiers to bodies on the beach
From summer sends to Armageddon's reach
Overlord your master not your god

The enemy coast dawning grey with scud
These wretched souls puking shaking fear
To take a bullet for those who send them here
The world's all right the cliffs erupt in flame

No escape remorseless shrapnel rains
Drowning men no chance for a warrior's fate
A choking death enter hell's gates
Sliding we go only fear on our side

To the edge of the wire
And we rush with the tide
Oh the water is red
With the blood of the dead
But I'm still alive pray to God I survive
How long on this longest day
'Till we finally make it through
The rising dead faces bloated torn

They are relieved the living wait their turn
Your number's up the bullet's got your name
You still go on to hell and back again
Valhalla waits Valkyries rise and fall

The warrior tombs lie open for us all
A ghostly hand reaches through the wall
Blood and sand we will prevail
Sliding we go only fear on our side

To the edge of the wire
And we rush with the tide
Oh the water is red
With the blood of the dead
But I'm still alive pray to God I survive


6. Out Of The Shadows
[Dickinson / Harris]
Hold a halo round the world

Golden is the day
Princes of the Universe
Your burden is the way
So there is no better time
Who will be born today
A gypsy child at day break
A king for a day
Out of the Shadows and into the sun

Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
Dusty dreams in fading daylight

Flicker on the walls
Nothing new your life's adrift
What purpose to it all?
Eyes are closed and death is calling
Reaching out its hand
Call upon the starlight to surround you




A man who casts no shadow has no soul
7. The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
[Murray / Harris]
Let me tell you about my life

Let me tell you about my dreams
Let me tell you about the things that happen
Always real to me
Let me tell you of my hope

Of my need to reach the sky
Let me take you on an awkward journey
Let me tell you why
Let me tell you why
Why should these curses be laid upon me

I won't be forgiven 'till I can brake free
What did I do to deserve all this guilt
Pay for my sins with the sale of my soul
Demons are trapped all inside of my head
My hopes are gone reach for heaven from hell
My sins are many my guilt is too heavy

The pressure of knowing of hiding what I know
I'm able to see things
Things I don't want to see
The lives of a thousand souls
Weigh heavy down on me
I know they're crying for help reaching out

The burden of them will take me down as well
The sin of a thousand souls not died in vain
Reincarnate still in me live again
Someone to save me
Something to save me from myself
To bring the salvation
To exorcise this hell
Someone to save me
Someone to save me
Something to save me from my hell
A destination
Away from this nightmare
Someone to save me
8. For The Greater Good Of God
[Harris]
Are you a man of peace

Or man of holy war
Too many sides to you
Don't know which any more
So many full of life
But also filled with pain
Don't know just how many
Will live to breathe again
A life that's made to breath

Destruction or defense
A mind that's vain corruption
Bad or good intent
A wolf in a sheep's clothing
Or saintly or sinner
Or someone that would believe
A holy war winner
They fire off many shots

And many parting blows
Their actions beyond a reasoning
Only god would know
And as he lies in heaven
Or it could be in hell
I feel he's somewhere here
Or looking from below
But I don't know, I don't know
Please tell me now what life is

Please tell me now what love is
Well tell me now what war is
Again tell me what life is
More pain and misery in the history of mankind

Sometimes it seems more like the blind leading the blind
It brings upon us more of famine death and war
You know religion has a lot to answer for

And as they search to find the bodies in the sand

They find it's ashes that are scattered across the land
And as their spirits seem to whistle on the wind
A shot is fired somewhere another war begins
And all because of it you'd think that we would learn

But still the body count the city fires burn
Somewhere there's someone dying in a foreign land
Meanwhile the world is crying stupidity of man
Tell me why, tell me why


For the greater good of God [x8]

For the greater good of God [x8]
He gave his life for us he fell upon the cross

To die for all of those who never mourn his loss
It wasn't meant for us to fell the pain again
Tell me why, tell me why
9. Lord Of Light
There are secrets that you keep

There are secrets that you keep
There are secrets that you tell to me alone
I can't reach things I can't see
You don't see this strange world
Quite the same as me
Don't deny me what I am
Nothing hidden still you fail to see the truth
These are things you can't reveal
These are things you can't reveal
We are part of some strange plan

Why the slaughter of the brotherhood of man
Infernal sacrifice of hell
Fire breathing lead the way
Mounds of bodies as they all burn into one
Revenge is living in the past
Time to look into a new millennium
Spiral path leads through the maze

Down into the fiery underworld below
Fire breathing lead the way
Lucifer was just an angel led astray
Free your soul and let it fly

Give your life to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries

We are not worthy in your black and blazing eyes

We gather demons in the mirror every day
The bridge of darkness casts a shadow on us all
And all our sins to you we give this day
Others wait their turn their lives were meant to last
Use yours wisely as the light is fading fast
Mine was caught I couldn't try
Time returns again to punish all of us
We are cast out by our bloody fathers hand

We are strangers in this lonely promised land
We are shadows of the one unholy ghost
In our nightmare world the only one we trust


10. The Legacy
[Gers / Harris]
Tell you a thing

That you ought to know
Two minutes of your time
Then on you go
Tell tale of the man

All dressed in black
That most of them
Not coming back
Sent off to war

To play little games
And on their return
Can't name no names
Some strange yellow gas

Has played with their minds
Has reddened their eyes
Removed all the lies
And strange as it sounds

Death knows no bounds
How many get well
Only time will tell
Only time will tell
You lie in your death bed now

But what did you bring to the table
Brought us only holy sin
Utter trust is a deadly thing
To the prayer of holy peace

We didn't know what was lying underneath
So how could we be such fools
And to think that we thought you knew the answer
I can't begin to understand in all the lies

But on your death bed I can see it in your eyes
Just as clear as all the sweat upon your brow
It really makes sense I can see it clearly now
Tangled up in a web of lies

Could have been a way to prophesies
Unaware of the consequence
Not aware of the secrets that you kept
Nothing that we could believe

To reveal the facade of faceless men
Not a thing that we could foresee
Now a sign that would tell us the outcome
You had us all strung out with promises of peace

But all along your cover plan was to deceive
Can it be put to rights now only time will tell
Your prophecies will send us all to hell as well
Left to all our golden sons

All to pick up on the peace
You could have given all of them
A little chance...at least
Take the world to a better place

Given them all just a little hope
Just think what a legacy
You now...will leave
We seem destined to live in fear

And some that would say Armageddon is near
But where there's a life while there's hope
That man won't self destruct
Why can't we treat our fellow men

With more respect and a shake of their hands
But anger and loathing is rife
The death on all sides is becoming a way of life
We live in an uncertain world

Fear understanding and ignorance is leading to death
Only the corpses are left
For vultures that prey on their bones
But some are just not wanting peace

Their whole life is death and misery
The only thing that they know
Fight fire with fire life is cheap
But if they do stop to think

That man is teetering right on the brink
But do you think that they care
They benefit from death and pain and despair

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You lead me on the path

I think I'll take a hold

I though I had it all

But then the card came up

Tell me what you can hear

I would like you to know

Don't want to be here

Don't know what I want

2. These Colours Don't Run

[Smith / Harris / Dickinson]

It's the same in every country

For the passion, for the glory

Far away from the land of our birth

Here is no one that will save you

For the passion, for the glory

Far away from the land of our birth

3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

[Smith / Harris / Dickinson]

We are not the sons of God

Shadow fingers rise above

Knocking heads together well

Out of the universe a strange love is born

Yellow sun it's evil twin

Out of the universe a strange love is born

Bury your morals and bury your dead

Whatever would Robert have said to his God

All the nations are rising

Divide and conquer while ye may

Bombers launch whit no recall

Out of the universe a strange love is born

Out of the darkness

Holy Father we have sinned

The keys to death and hell

Quelling the devils might

Liberty and hope divine

Spirit holy, life eternal

To courage find and gracious will

Then will my judge appear

Now give us our holy sign

Spirit holy life eternal

5. The Longest Day

[Smith / Harris / Dickinson]

In the gloom the gathering storm abates

All summers long the drills to build the machine

Overlord your master not your god

The world's all right the cliffs erupt in flame

Sliding we go only fear on our side

The rising dead faces bloated torn

Valhalla waits Valkyries rise and fall

Sliding we go only fear on our side

How long on this longest day

How long on this longest day

6. Out Of The Shadows

Hold a halo round the world

Out of the Shadows and into the sun

Dusty dreams in fading daylight

Out of the Shadows and into the sun

Out of the Shadows and into the sun