Lyrics
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Mesmerized by fantasies
Dreams of money, fame and power
You’d do anything to reach your goal
Ready to pay the price
Without hesitation
You signed along the dotted line
Sold your soul to change your life
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
You’re in Devil’s Heaven
You will learn to play the game
Renounce every kind of morals
Play humanity like worthless pawns
Heading blindly to
Your own damnation
You signed along the dotted line
Sold your soul to change your life
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
You’re in Devil’s Heaven
You signed along the dotted line
Sold your soul to change your life
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
You’re in Devil’s Heaven
You signed along the dotted line
Sold your soul to the master of lies
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Now you’re in Devil’s Heaven
(Music: Patrick Hemer)
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Imprisoned in haunting old memories
Tormented by regrets and guilt
Dwelling on what is no more
You’re feeding the pain
Eating you up from the inside
Suspended in a time gone forever
Unable to leave it behind
Replaying things in your head
Again and again
Until it’s driving you crazy
Don’t let the past steal your future
Stop looking back, you're not going that way
Break free from yesterday’s burden
Get back into life - And embrace it
Don’t let the past steal your future
Stop looking back, you're not going that way
Break free from yesterday’s burden
Get back into life - And embrace it
Replaying things in your head
You’re feeding the pain
Eating you up from the inside
Don’t let the past steal your future
Stop looking back, you're not going that way
Break free from yesterday’s burden
Escape this quagmire
Don’t let the past steal your future
Stop looking back, you're not going that way
Break free from yesterday’s burden
Get back into life - And embrace it
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
You didn’t see it coming
Building up day by day
Slowly taking control
Shaping your mind
Old fears and conditioning combined
You forged the chains that bind you
And chose to have no choice
Trapped in a mental prison
You renounced your life
To be a slave to yourself
Now you live like a robot
Free thinking lost for good
Locked into the system
In need to conform
Submitted to what you call the norm
You forged the chains that bind you
And chose to have no choice
Trapped in a mental prison
You renounced your life
To be a slave to yourself
In self-inflicted shackles
All humanness denied
You keep your slow death march going
Obedient and blind – So blind
You forged the chains that bind you
And chose to have no choice
Trapped in a mental prison
You renounced your life
To be a slave to yourself
You forged the chains that bind you
And chose to have no choice
Stuck in this mental prison
You renounced your life
Making you slave to yourself
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
Losing our freedom and rights
To a paradigm of blandness
So fearfully careful
Not to carry a social badge of shame
If we don’t share the prevailing views
We’ve been embracing Newspeak
Empty words and self-censorship
In the name of a so-called moral truth
Tacit dogma - Sick rules
PC mania let loose
Losing our freedom and rights
To a paradigm of blandness
Language control in disguise
Oppression of thought
Until no one dares to speak their mind
Manipulative notions
Hidden behind a mask of tolerance
Demonizing unwelcome beliefs and ideas
Managed media - Mass hype
Propaganda gone wild
Losing our freedom and rights
To a paradigm of blandness
Language control in disguise
Oppression of thought
Until no one dares to speak their mind
Tacit dogma - Sick rules
PC mania let loose
Losing our freedom and rights
To a paradigm of blandness
Language control in disguise
Oppression of thought
Indoctrination
Losing our freedom and rights
To a paradigm of blandness
Language control in disguise
Oppression of thought
Until no one dares to speak their mind
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
Incessantly
You dispense your truth
Your right and wrong
Like I just need
To live by your rules
And make them my own
You go great lengths, you struggle
Though you don't stand a chance
You took up a losing battle
A hopeless fight
'Cause it's in the blood
In the blood
It's in the blood
In the blood
Relentlessly
You keep on trying
Again and again
Harassing me
With all this preaching
You pour out in vain
How can you expect to change
What makes me who I am?
No matter what you're doing
You're bound to fail
'Cause it's in the blood
In the blood
It's in the blood
In the blood
You go great lengths, you struggle
But you don't stand a chance
You took up a losing battle
A hopeless fight
'Cause it's in the blood
In the blood
It's in the blood
In the blood
(Music: Patrick Hemer)
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
Turmoil, sheer confusion
Conflicting data clashing in your head
Tearing you both ways
They’ve been playing games with your sanity
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Either way you can only go wrong
Caught in a double bind
You’re in a dead end nightmare
In a double bind with no way out
Unless you take back the power you gave them
No-win, no-solution
Perverse dilemma killing you inside
Awful paradox
And you can neither ignore nor escape it
When they say you’re the one to decide
You feel like you’re losing your mind
Caught in a double bind
You’re in a dead end nightmare
In a double bind with no way out
Unless you take back the power you gave them
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Either way you can only go wrong
Caught in a double bind
You’re in a dead end nightmare
In a double bind with no way out
Unless you see a third option
And break the vicious circle
By taking back the power you gave them
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
In a time so long ago
Before any history we know
They were already learned and wise
Living by simple natural laws
Respectful of what their world was
Enjoying freedom and peace of mind
In perfect harmony
With the universe around them
They mastered physics, chemistry
Mathematics, astronomy
And used to travel and explore
Holding the secrets to existence
Spirituality linked to science
Endeavoring to enrich their souls
They flourished for millennia
Until all suddenly ended
The few survivors
Made their way to other lands
Spreading out across the Earth
Their whole civilization was gone
But their knowledge had to live on
Set in stone
In monuments, pyramids or temples
What they taught
Is there for who wants to see
And learn what we really are
They were called Angels,
Giants, Heroes, sometimes Gods
Bringing wisdom to ancient tribes
Encoded through symbols and metaphor
They showed mankind what to reach for
Set in stone
In monuments, pyramids or temples
What they taught
Is there for who wants to see
And learn what we really are
Today, perhaps more than ever
Humanity is in the dark
Confused and disconnected
Fallen away from its heritage
Messages preserved for the future
Devoted to instructing man
Providing answers to the seeker
Throughout the ages until the Lifting of the Veil
Their whole civilization was gone
But their knowledge had to live on
Set in stone
In monuments, pyramids or temples
What they taught
Is there for who wants to see
And try to understand
Set in stone
In monuments, pyramids or temples
What they taught
Remains for who wants to see
And learn what we really are
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
Swore you’d quickly get to the top
Pushed by a drive that nothing could stop
A man on a mission with well thought-out schemes
Eagerly playing for the highest stakes
Devoid of scruples, you just do what it takes
The end always justifies the means
But all the success you can find
Never feeds your appetite
You’re gnawed at by this
Burning hunger
-Deep inside-
You can’t satisfy
‘Cause the more you get, the more you need
A burning hunger
-You can’t fight-
Possessing your mind
While your soul is consumed with greed
You think you must either kill or be killed
And no feelings could weaken your will
When you crush whoever stands in your way
You see friends as potential stepping stones
There’s no-one you wouldn’t trample on
To soothe your craving to own more every day
Your morbid obsession with gain
Is slowly wasting your brain
You’re dying of this
Burning hunger
-Deep inside-
You can’t satisfy
‘Cause the more you get, the more you need
A burning hunger
-You can’t fight-
Possessing your mind
While your soul is consumed with greed
A burning hunger
-Deep inside-
You can’t satisfy
‘Cause the more you get, the more you need
A burning hunger
-You can’t fight-
Possessing your mind
While your soul is consumed with greed
(Music & Lyrics : Patrick Hemer)
Plundering exploitation
Wiping all wildlife out
Waters flooded with poison
And bleak radioactive grounds
Ruined biosphere
The end draws near
Self-blinded fools on a course for disaster
Architects of our own downfall – Impending doom
Men playing God and toying with fire
Arrogance leading to chaos
Sorcerer’s apprentices
Tinkering with DNA
Mass destruction devices
Set to unleash Judgment Day
Mankind’s death knell
Welcome to hell
Self-blinded fools on a course for disaster
Architects of our own downfall – Impending doom
Men playing God and toying with fire
Arrogance leading to chaos
Sapiens on the brink
Of going extinct
Self-blinded fools on a course for disaster
Architects of our own downfall – Impending doom
Men playing God and toying with fire
Arrogance leading to chaos
(Music: Patrick Hemer)
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Heedless to obvious warning signs
I took a wrong turn and got trapped inside
A ghastly wasteland of nothingness
I had to fight to get back on my way
Free myself from what had led me astray
And escape this world of madness
I paid the price for my mistakes
But what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger
Once the page is turned the wounds stop hurting
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m springing back to life and tomorrow’s calling
Feeling born again
Fresh blood pumping in my veins
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m rising to the light of a new beginning
Leaving the past behind
‘Cause I learned my lesson but I’m not looking back
My mind’s long been locked in a cell
And I was going crazy in this hell
Ruled by ignorance and meanness
Deliverance revived my weary soul
Got me restored and back in control
Resurrected from the darkness
No more monkey on my back
No more ball and chain to fetter me
Now the future is mine for the taking
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m springing back to life and tomorrow’s calling
Feeling born again
Fresh blood pumping in my veins
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m rising to the light of a new beginning
Leaving the past behind
‘Cause though I won’t forget the lesson I learned the hard way
I’m movin’ on without looking back
I paid the price for my mistakes
But what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger
Now the future is mine for the taking
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m springing back to life and tomorrow’s calling
Feeling born again
Fresh blood pumping in my veins
Up from the ashes of yesterday
I’m rising to the light of a new beginning
Leaving the past behind
‘Cause though I won’t forget the lesson I learned the hard way
I keep movin’ on without ever looking back – No!
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
I had to put up with so much bullshit
Wasted more than enough time
Trying to believe what you were saying
‘Till we reached the end of the line
Don’t wanna hear no more
I couldn’t care less
Don’t even wanna tell you
Things you can’t understand
’Cause you’ll never learn anyway
Too much for too long
You had become a thorn in my flesh
But now indifference is all that I feel
You’re not worth any grudge
I’d rather clear you from my mind
Double dealer, bald-faced liar
You were master of all trades
Backstabber, promise breaker
Today I’m through with your low-down games
Don’t wanna see you fall
I just call for your absence
Don’t even wanna get even
And give you some importance
You sure don’t deserve
Too much for too long
You had become a thorn in my flesh
But now indifference is all that I feel
You’re not worth any grudge
I’d rather clear you from my mind
Too much for too long
You had become a thorn in my flesh
But now indifference is all that I feel
You’re not worth any grudge
And I’m just gonna erase you
Too much for too long
You had become a thorn in my flesh
But now indifference is all that I feel
You’re not worth any grudge
I’d rather clear you from my mind
(Music : Patrick Hemer, Lyrics : Patrick Hemer & Keith Boyce)
For years I've been tryin'
Tryin' so hard to find clues to explain
The reasons for all this chaos in your mind
You know, I've been searchin'
On and on but I still don't understand
What's in your head or what you can feel inside
When Jekyll turns to Hyde
You're such a two-sided enigma
Reeling between extremes
Prone to crazy fits of behavior
The other part of you fears
Personalities at war
On the battlefield of your tortured mind
Blurring your senses
In this fight
But tell me
Why can't you pull through
And put an end to this misery?
You're walking a fine line
On the edge of insanity
You try to keep your deeds under control
But as soon as you lose ground
Then you switch to your dark alter ego
And let your demons out
A struggle within yourself
Your worst enemy hides inside your head
Destroying your life
Day by day
So tell me
Why can't you pull through
And put an end to this misery?
You're walking a fine line
On the edge of insanity - Insanity
Personalities at war
On the battlefield of your tortured mind
Blurring your senses
In this fight
But tell me
Why can't you pull through
And put an end to this misery?
You're walking a fine line
On the edge of insanity
When will I pull through
And get out of this misery?
I'm walking a fine line
On the edge of insanity - Insanity – Insanity
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Knowing each other
For much longer than it seems
We have met again once more
Guided through destiny
By something we both feel
And by all that we have lived before
In different times and places
We have learned to understand
What leads our respective paths
To converge over and over again
For all eternity
We are traveling together
On our never-ending journey
Twin souls bound forever
Meant to join as one
Beyond the course of time
For all eternity
Attracting one another
Throughout shifts of our history
And after darkness comes the light
For night is but the herald of a new dawn
We spanned eons of wandering
Until we got where we are now
And raised our awareness to the truth
Finally freed from the fears
The questions and the doubts
We can see our future bright and pure
In another time and space
We will still be side by side
United all along the way
By the power of our immortal ties
For all eternity
We are traveling together
On our never-ending journey
Twin souls bound forever
Meant to join as one
Beyond the course of time
For all eternity
Attracting one another
Throughout shifts of our history
And after darkness comes the light
For night is but the herald of a new dawn
(Music: Patrick Hemer)
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Always quick to speak his mind
High omniscient judge and jury
Delivering the truth to any audience he could ever find
With a handful of jesters for a court
Whose faith helps soothe his craving for recognition
He’s the great pretender of what he would have been
In the life of his dreams
Prince of fake
The Godfather rules in losers’ land
Much too proud to understand
Why he’s doomed to be a failure
He needs to taste an illusion of this grandeur he’s never had
Sleazy nightlife places are his home
Where he plays his part to get some cheap compensation
He’d rather reign on skid row than accept to face
The way the real world sees him
King of fools
Lord of the lame
The Godfather rules in losers’ land
Shattered dreams of glory turned him sour
And there’s not much left of all his great expectations
But he keeps hanging on to what allows him to forget
He’s alone and going nowhere
King of fools
Desperate man
The Godfather rules in losers’ land
The Godfather rules
King of fools
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
In a world drowning in superficiality
Prefabricated thoughts and tastes have become the norm
Leading us to alienation of personality
Through a relentless consumer culture
That shapes our judgment
And seals our future
Enslaved by trifling shallow desires
Same ideal for all – Panem et circenses
Numbed in the comfort of a fool’s paradise
We’ve lost the real meaning of life
In a world of institutionalized lies
Manipulated minds keep voting in the same old crooks
Giving them power on promises of blissful times
Welfare checks and mass entertainment
To stay fat, dumb and happy
Ready to re-elect them
Enslaved by trifling shallow desires
Same ideal for all – Panem et circenses
Numbed in the comfort of a fool’s paradise
We’ve lost the real meaning of life
Enslaved by trifling shallow desires
Same ideal for all – Panem et circenses
Numbed in the comfort of a fool’s paradise
We’re prisoners of our carefree blindness
Enslaved by trifling shallow desires
Same craving for all – Panem et circenses
Numbed in the void of our fool’s paradise
We’ve lost the real meaning of life
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Got to be the main attraction
Wherever you go and whatever you do
Looking down on other people
Like nobody could ever compare to you
God’s greatest gift to mankind
So full of yourself you can’t hear the laughter behind your back
High on ego nonsense
Lost in fantasies
Locked in self-importance
Pride and vanities – you’re a
Legend in your own mind
Too conceited to see
That your pathological narcissism
Has turned you into a social misfit
Shamelessly taking advantage
Of any fool you’d manage to mesmerize
Arrogant and condescending
You don’t give a damn about anybody’s life
The world revolves around you
But who’s gonna love you if you can’t love in return?
High on ego nonsense
Lost in fantasies
Locked in self-importance
Pride and vanities – you’re a
Legend in your own mind
Too conceited to see
That your pathological narcissism
Has turned you into a social misfit
High on ego nonsense
Lost in fantasies
Locked in self-importance
Pride and vanities – you’re a
Legend in your own mind
Too conceited to see
That your crazy stuck-up behavior reveals
Your repressed insecurity
High on ego nonsense
Lost in fantasies
Feeding on delusions
Dreams and certainties – you’re a
Legend in your own mind
Too conceited to see
That your pathological narcissism
Has turned you into a social misfit
(Music & Lyrics: Freddie Mercury)
See Queen’s “A Night At The Opera”
(Music : Patrick Hemer, Lyrics : Patrick Hemer & Dan McEnroe)
You look like you’ve got everything
Happiness, wealth and success
While you’re just a miserable man
Haunted by sordid secrets
Black demons creeping up behind
The bright façade you display
You wear a smile and live inside a lie
With the weight of these
Sins
You’re struggling to conceal
Hurting like wounds that never heal
Always torturing your mind
After all this time you’re still feeling
Guilty
Some say that you should be proud
Of your life’s great achievements
But none of them could know how
You live in constant torment
When you look around and see
All those who love and respect you
You think of how near the end would be
If they found out ‘bout these
Sins
You’re struggling to conceal
Hurting like wounds that never heal
A cross you bear every day
Crushing your soul and your conscience
Sins
That chain you to your past
In the dark shadow that they cast
Always torturing your mind
After all this time you’re still feeling
Guilty
(Music: Patrick Hemer)
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
As soon as she’s back home she’s gotta turn on the screen
To get her dose of fantasy and forget her daily routine
That’s how she learns what’s in, what’s out, what she must do to be cool
She also learns what she must buy if she doesn’t wanna look like a fool
Her life couldn’t be any different
Filled by all this magic she craves
Entertainment rules!
Brainwashed
For hours every day
She’s drowned in illusion
‘Til her consciousness slips away
Brainwashed
Out of touch and mesmerized
She’s force fed with data
Leaving no space for thought in her mind
He likes to claim he’s a responsible, well informed citizen
Society, politics, he’s an opinionated man
And since he’s gotta know what’s goin’ on all over the planet
He spends a lot of time watching the all-news channels
So proud to live in a land of freedom
No doubt could ever shade his certainty
Democracy rules!
Brainwashed
For hours every day
He’s drowned in illusion
‘Til his consciousness slips away
Brainwashed
And tricked by a pack of lies
His head’s crammed with data
Leaving no space for thought in his mind
Let’s face it, we’re all prisoners of the system
Dumbed down so that we never realize
Manipulation rules!
Brainwashed
For hours every day
We’re drowned in illusion
‘Til our consciousness slips away
Brainwashed
To keep our dreams alive
And prevent us from finding out
Who rules from behind
Brainwashed
Over and over again
In this world of make-believe
Truth would look quite insane
Brainwashed
Carefree, naive and blind
We’re saturated with data
Leaving no space for thought in our minds
(Music & Lyrics: Patrick Hemer)
Standing all alone, looking out of the window
Through a cold stormy night that I don’t even see
Lost in memories of a time gone forever
I’ve got to face the truth but it seems so unreal
A few days ago we were laughing together
We were young and we thought our lives had just begun
Who could have known that this time had no future
And that we were close to the end
Through the ups and downs, through the good and the bad times
We were sticking together and feeling so strong
Sharing what we had, giving trust all its meaning
Always there for each other when something was wrong
Then suddenly and without any warning
Fate has come between us and has dragged you away
So hopelessly that I may try to accept it
But I can’t admit that it’s the end
Oh it feels so strange to realize all the changes
There are so many things that will never be the same
If I look around, the whole world seems cold and empty
But I don’t want to surrender myself to the pain
Inside of me is growing this odd sensation
That some forces are stronger than what separates us
Somehow, someday, we’ll recognize one another
And we’ll meet again after this end