Night Castle
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Merch Store (CD)- Night EnchantedLyrics
Night Enchanted
Here
Believe
A night
Enchanted
Seen
Here
The hopes of gods are planted
Dream
Remember
Remember
All we do not see
Surrendered
Surrendered
All we wished to be
Lost and forgotten
Our Akhenaten
Body and spirit
No-one can hear it
Lost
In
Eternity
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Where our hopes have never ceased
To be
Death will embrace us
Hold and encase us
Time may deface us
Will God retrace us
Time speaks through seasons
God speaks through reason
Kindness compassion
Not random fashions
Hear
Yet to be
Hear
Yet to be
Hear
Yet to
(Cassandra)
Child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Anywhere your heart does wander
Know that they will walk with thee
Each grain of sand
Falls as was planned
And within each precious moment
Are the things still yet to be
Night in its vespers
Dreams are its gestures
Stars fear no distance
Fear no distance
For they will always guard you
Throughout eternity
(Greek Chorus)
Here
Believe
A night
Enchanted
Seen
Here
The hopes of gods are planted
Dream
Remember
Remember
All we do not see
Surrendered
Surrendered
All we wished to be
Lost and forgotten
Our Akhenaten
Body and spirit
No-one can hear it
Lost
In
Eternity
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Hear us
Forever
Where our hopes have never ceased
To be
Death will embrace us
Hold and encase us
Time may deface us
Will God retrace us
Time speaks through seasons
God speaks through reason
Kindness compassion
Not random fashions
Hear
Yet to be
Hear
Yet to be
Hear
Yet to
Be - Childhood DreamsLyrics
Childhood Dreams
Late in summer
Staring out the window
Only seven
Tell me what could she know
The world would never understand
But they don’t see what she still can
What does she see
What does she know
And must she ever just let go
As childhood dreams
Childhood dreams
What is childhood
Something we remember
Rarely
Barely
Sometimes in Decembers
But then it’s known to catch our eye
And dare us all to
Once more try
And with a childhood faith believe
And that magic to retrieve
As childhood dreams
Childhood dreams
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Dreams
Softly
Fading
Tell me where the years go
I am aging
But she does not think so
Her world of possibilities
As far as childhood
Eyes can see
And must one day
She just decide
To step off of this
Childhood ride
As childhood dreams
Childhood dreams
Only seven as she
Sits and wonders
Late at night as
The world it slumbers
But suddenly inside the dark
She sees the magic
Of the sparks
And so she knows
She must go down
To see this world
That she has found
As childhood dreams
Childhood dreams
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Dream - SparksLyrics
Sparks
Lines
Of a tale
Cut in the face of a crowd
Sentenced no bail
There
In the night
Deep in the back
Through the black
Beckons a life
Time
Moving in a straight line
But then at a whim
A change in the wind
A story begins in its mind
For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks
She
Has been steeled
Standing there looking so tight
Taut and high-heeled
One
Of a kind
The kind of a girl
That only a dream
Could design
Time
Seen through glasses of wine
Never reveals
The why or the when
How this story will end
As you find
That deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies
Of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks
Come on
Conjure up a reason for living
Take me round
And around
And around
And around
And again
Come on
Do it in the name of living
For if not tonight
Tell me when
For if not tonight
Tell me when
Ahhhhh
Hearts
Can confuse
That messed up bundle of nerves
That tends to bruise
Still
Lay it bare
It’s better to bleed than to need
And never have dared
Chance
A move based on a glance
A move based on no more than feel
In this unreal circumstance
For deep in her eyes
Beneath the lies of the dark
Leaving marks
Sparks - The Mountain
- Night CastleLyrics
Night Castle
I have been this way before
Check each window
Every door
For a passage through
This night
This night
But each hallway
Ends the same
Every door’s been
Checked in vain
For a way to reach that light
That light
As I move in deeper
Towards this castle’s keeper
Every stair seems steeper
Am I risking my own life
My life
Then a falcon in the air
Looking down
Returns my stare
While she’s circling around
Around
Then she dives straight towards a wall
Then she isn’t there at all
And is gone without a sound
No sound
I have no choice but to follow
What was solid now is hollow
Stairways hidden behind curtains
Realizing nothing is certain
Suddenly up stairs I’m climbing
Then through hallways twisted, winding
This falcon on her endeavor
Do these stairs just go forever
On
And in that room
An old man sitting there
He’s writing notes
And drops them in the air
Somewhere outside
Upon an ocean breeze
Which takes them out
Past where the eye can see - The Safest Way Into TomorrowLyrics
The Safest Way Into Tomorrow
Sleep
Don’t turn away
You are the safest way into tomorrow
Dreams
If you will stay
Or at least the best parts let us borrow
Days are counted ‘til they’re gone
Nights are meant to carry on
Morpheus is at your side
Offering the wings to fly
And be there
Free from earth to sail across this night
Where
Stars are all eternal and the mind dares
The evening sighs
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see
Sleep
Don’t turn away
You are the safest way into tomorrow
Dreams if you will stay
And carefully erase the sorrows
Letting sleep embrace its task
Placing sadness in the past
Morpheus is at your side
Offering the wings to fly
And be there
Free from earth to sail across this night
Where
Stars are all eternal and the mind dares
The evening sighs
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see
Be there
Be there
Be there
Be there now
The evening sighs
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see - Mozart And Memories
- Another Way You Can DieLyrics
Another Way You Can Die
So you’re caught in the night
Of a new firefight
In a jungle that’s so hot that it steams
An explosion just ahead
Does announce the newly dead
Is it right to call a nightmare a dream
And the tracers probe on
‘Til a close friend is gone
And you find yourself embracing ground
And your foe is as near
As the silence you hear
As he stops to load in another round
Battles raging
It’s all staging
‘Til you realize…
Another way you can die
Still you know they’re out there
Feel their eyes, feel their stares
Though there’s not a single life can see
But you now fire back
For their tracers leave tracks
Pointing out the places where they must be
Though a gun is taken out
There’s another have no doubt
And so you must continue the game
And you know in this fight
That the value of life
On the other side is not quite the same
Battles raging
It’s all staging
As your mind denies
Another way you can...
I see a figure in my rifle sight
Who does not know that he’s there
And as I hesitate to take his life
The ground explodes
My blood it flows
My heart is racing
Times escaping
As I feel it slowly scraping by - Toccata-Carpimus Noctem
- The Lion's Roar
- Dreams We ConceiveLyrics
Dreams We Conceive
In a city
After midnight
Neath the halo
Of street light
Where the dreams die
As the blood dries
On the wounds we keep hidden from view
In the safety
Of this darkness
As it hides all
Time has tarnished
The forbidden
Unforgiven
Are secure here where no-one pursues
But the night fades away
And gives way to the day
For what else is the night to do
As the dark steps aside
With the hopes we confide
And never believes
That the dreams we conceived
Would ever
Not ever come true
Is life different
After midnight
With its new dawn
And its new light
Inconsistent
And indifferent
To the things
We were so sure we knew
As you stood there
In the night air
With such beauty
That the stars stared
From their distance
You were different
Like a dream
That no-one could refuse
But the night fades away
And gives way to the day
For what else is
The night to do
As the dark steps aside
With the hopes we confide
And never believes
That the dreams we conceived
Would ever
Not ever come true
As you stand all
Alone at your station
What if God doesn’t
Know where you are
As you send out your
Prayers for salvation
But afraid that
They don’t go that far
So you wait all
Alone in your darkness
There’s a train that drives on through the night
And if everyone’s
On it except us
Would it return for
That single life
In a city
After midnight
Neath the halo
Of a street light - Mother And Son
- There Was A LifeLyrics
There Was A Life
There was a life
Was there before
But somehow here upon this night
It now means more
And all those words
She tried to say
I’ve now forgotten
Or they’ve somehow slipped away
And in this darkness
Is there salvation
Is there forgiveness
For hesitation
Can someone tell me
Can someone say when
The writer of this story
Will just tell us how it all will end
And somewhere on this night
There’s a wave on the ocean
That crashes on shores
Where no one can see
The tides and the currents
Decide every motion
From where they are now
To where they will be
It cradles them all
For they all are its children
If one drop disappears
It is instantly missed
And after each wave
Has joined up with the shoreline
It returns to the sea
For that is its one wish
There was a light
Was there before
But in the darkness of this night
It now means more
To be so close
To be so near
To see the water there within
A young child’s tear
And in our blindness
Do we move onward
And cling to the lies
That we have harbored
We could not admit
We were mistaken
But if we don’t do it now
Dear God could you please come down here
And tell me when
And somewhere on this night
There’s a wave on the ocean
That crashes on shores
Where no one can see
The tides and the currents
Decide every motion
From where they are now
To where they will be
It cradles them all
For they all are its children
If one drop disappears
It is instantly missed
And after each wave
Has joined up with the shore line
It returns to the sea
For that is its one wish
In the dead of the night
Tell me what do you see
Will you close your eyes child
And just listen to me
And remember this now
Hear these words that i say
As your story appears
At the end of the day
For my meeting with death
Though it has been delayed
I have run my hands over
The end of his blade
Though the cut wasn’t fatal
Even though it was deep
Well that wound’s never healed
And the blood it still seeps
Are you scared of your life
Are you scared of your death
Though that day will arrive
Well it hasn’t come yet
For the days turn to months
And the months turn to years
As I see them all now
Through a prism of tears
But don’t fear tomorrow
And don’t fear the night
It’s where God repairs sorrows
That enter your life
The remains of your life
The remains of the day
Well protect every hour
Don’t give them away
For each evening we sleep
And each morning we arise
But you’re not the same man
That’s the way it’s devised
For there’re parts of yourself
The soul decides to keep
And there’re parts of yourself
That the soul does release
With some changes so small
That they cannot be seen
But death is like sleep
With a longer dream
Are you scared of your life
Are you scared of your death
Though that day will arrive
Well it hasn’t come yet
As for all those mistakes
That you’ve made in your life
Must they stay as they are
Or can we make them right
On this night take my hand
Keep me near keep me close
And if I should die first
Could I not be your ghost
But if later in life
We should happen to meet
Would you keep me so near
You could here my heartbeat
There are reasons to live
There are reasons to die
But the end’s not the end
While you’re still alive
Alive
Alive
While you’re still a…
There was a life
Was there before - Moonlight And Madness
- Time Floats OnLyrics
Time Floats On
What child
This night
Whose dreams
Take flight?
What child
Somewhere
Sleeps
Unaware?
What life
That yet
Has no
Regrets?
What child
Who knows
What dreams
I’ve closed?
Time floats on
As I write these letters
That you’ll never see
Still each one’s gone
Placed in a bottle
So tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee
What child
This night
Whose wings
Take flight?
On evening
Winds
What dreams
Begins?
Each day
Begets
Its own
Regrets
Do I
Dare wait
Or joust
With fate?
Time floats on
As I write these letters
That you’ll never see
Still each one’s gone
Placed in a bottle
So the tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee - EpiphanyLyrics
Epiphany
The silence (In Khmer)
Don’t go
Does it have to be this way?
Can’t we have just one more chance?
Those who know
They will not say
Must this be the final…
Dance in our lives?
As time just moves on
Yesterday’s years
Are too quickly gone
All visions fade
As worlds fall apart
Decisions are made
But there in this dark now
There in this dark now
Somewhere on this night
A life is out there
And can someone tell me how
Here on this night
So far away
Bits of starlight
Fall where they may
I never wanted to go
I never wanted to stay
I never wanted to be afraid
But still
Childhood sees what childhood will
But nothing ever stays the same
I fear the night
I fear the dark
I need this light
That distant spark
I know that…
Somewhere
Someone’s looking to deceive and
Somewhere
Young men die and children bleed and
Somewhere
Some have too much while others need and
Somewhere
Someone’s looking to believe and…
Somewhere
Somewhere
Somewhere
Somewhere
And the night and the dark
And the hopes and the dreams
As we all play our parts
While ignoring the screams
So we lie to ourselves
And we just carry on
Never stop, never turn
Don’t admit what is …
Gone in to this twisted story
All these things so clear before me
Every path we’ve ever taken
Can’t admit we were mistaken
In this night
Of my devising
Never live
And never dying
Each escape
I’ve never taken
Never dream
And never waken…
Somewhere
Someone’s looking to deceive and
Somewhere
Young men die and children bleed and
Somewhere
Some have too much while others need and
Somewhere
Someone’s looking to believe and…
Come one come all
Welcome to the world’s greatest entertainment since the fall of Rome
Life, death
Victims, voyeurs
The best of society
The lowest of plebeians
And to keep it all in extremely interesting, today’s patrons
Could very easily be tomorrow’s entertainment
All compliments of the ultimate showman fate
All that’s missing is the coliseum
Did you ever walk up
To the edge of a cliff
Stare into the abyss
As your mind wonders if
You should take one more step
Further into that night
Well your mind says you won’t
But your heart says you might
Would you fall through the dark
Feel the wind in your hair
Would you embrace the ground
And end your life right there
Or would God reach his hand
And that moment you fly
Or if he chanced to blink
And then, that moment you die
You die
You die
You die ...
Stare into the dark
As the abyss keeps calling
Try to take a step
But then the mind keeps stalling
Can a single question
Just go on forever
As a single thought goes on
It’s now or never
Stare into the dark
As the abyss keeps calling
Try to take a step
But then the mind keeps stalling
Can a single question
Just go on forever
As a single thought goes on
It’s now or never
Never really took much
Never really had to
Only had a small crush
Problem was that it grew
Never really took much
Never really had to
Only had a small crush
Problem was that it grew
Be who you are
What you were
What they see
From eternity’s view
Tell me
Which one is me
Can you…
Be who you are
What you were
What they see
From eternity’s view
Tell me
Which one is me
On this night
Keep me close
On this night
Breathe my air
On this night
Hold me tight
Feel my heart
Beating there
On this night
Keep me close
On this night
Breathe my air
On this night
Hold me tight
Feel my heart
Beating there
On this night
Keep me close
On this night
Breathe my air
On this night
Hold me tight
Feel my heart
Beating there…
Did you ever walk up
To the edge of a cliff
Stare into the abyss
As your mind wonders if
You should take one more step
Further into that night
Well your mind says you won’t
But then this all is your life
Your life
Your life
This all is your life
Your life
Your life
This all is your life
Your life
Your life
This all is your life
Your life
Your life
This all is your…
Is your life
Is your life
Is your life
Is your...life - Bach Lullaby
- Father, Son & Holy GhostLyrics
Father, Son & Holy Ghost
You were the dream that survived
Lost in the darkness of eternity
You were the hope kept alive
Embraced by tomorrows that we all could never quite see
You had a beauty denied
You were the moment
But here in this night
Where your dream carries on
Never quite there but it’s never quite gone
You are the star that is wished upon
Forever
You were the one that believed
Long past when belief was a memory
The child time would never concede
Faith and tomorrow and all of the things that might be
You had a beauty denied
A glittering moment
But here in this night
Where your dream carries on
Never quite there but it’s never quite gone
You are the star that is wished upon
Forever
Do you believe in night
Does it hold you close
When you’re at your last card
Pray hard, Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Still the night rolls on
Brings you to your knees
When you look back that far
Each scar, suddenly just starts to bleed
The night it keeps burning
While twisting and turning
Its way to tomorrow
Its joys and its sorrows
Our secrets beneath her
We drive each stake deeper
Then offer to barter
But each deal is harder
The cloaks we keep changing
While gliding through weddings
Of nights to their morning
Of dreams to their dawning
While reaching for moments
The world has forbidden
The kindness inside them
So carefully hidden
The pages keep turning
But no-one is learning
They feed them to pyres
To stoke up their fires
Of ignorance, apathy
Forbidding charity
The flames they grow higher
Could such be desired
And Christ and Confucius
Are all their words useless
We quote them in fractions
But not in our actions
Aurelius and Hugo
Auden and Gibran
The words they have written
Seem so quickly gone
For somewhere there’s dirt
That was once reddish mud
From soaking up liquid
That was a man’s blood
But both Earth and God
They have deemed to forgive
So each year in the spring
New flowers do live
And of all the authors
Your favorite was Wilde
With each timeless story
All penned with such style
Of fairytale kingdoms
Where ogres save children
And no gardens have walls
So all children might use them
And since that’s the ending
You valued the most
You cling to that card
Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Father, Son & Holy...
But here in this night
Where your dream carries on
Never quite there but it’s never quite gone
You are the star that is wished upon
Forever - Remnants Of A LullabyLyrics
Remnants Of A Lullaby
There was a time
Now far away
That now belongs
To yesterday
But late at night
If you believe
There are still parts
You can retrieve
Beyond our memories
Past where the eyes can see
Well disguised
Waiting there
Dream devised
Safe from time’s
Endless reach
Everything
A child can teach
What to keep
What to save
When to dare
An ocean’s wave
There among life’s memories
Remnants of a lullaby and thee
There was a time
Now long before
We found a way
To close each door
But in our minds
Through labyrinths deep
Late in our lives
Those doors we seek
And in our fantasies
We try to find the keys
Reach the stairs
Follow them
Each to where
Scattered there
On the ground
Everything
Lost is found
Wished on coins
Childhood wings
Carousels
Still turning
Waiting there patiently
Remnants of a lullaby
And thee - The Safest Way Into Tomorrow (Reprise)Lyrics
The Safest Way Into Tomorrow (Reprise)
Sleep
Don’t turn away
You are the safest way into tomorrow
Dreams
If you will stay
Or at least the best parts lets us borrow
Days are counted ‘til they’re gone
Nights are meant to carry on
Morpheus is at your side
Offering the wings to fly
And be there
Free from earth to sail across this night
Where
Stars are all eternal and the mind dares
The evening sighs
So close your eyes
And spend this night with me - Embers
- Child Of The NightLyrics
Child Of The Night
Child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Anywhere your heart does wander
Know that they will walk with thee
Each grain of sand
Falls as was planned
And within each precious moment
Are the things still yet to be
Night in its vespers
Dreams are its gestures
Stars fear no distance
Fear no distance
For they will guard you
Throughout your life
For they will guard you beyond this night
There
As their own
As their own
And forever more
Forevermore
Their
Child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Never fear and never falter
For the stars can always see
Dreams that are sent
With the intent
To carefully be brought to life
For such is childhood’s alchemy
Precious as stardust
Such is a child’s trust
And in its seasons
In its seasons
For they will guard you
Throughout your life
For they will guard you
Beyond this night
There
As their own
As their own
And forever more
Forevermore
Their child of the night
Dreams dare alight
Anywhere your heart does wander
Know that they will walk with thee - BelieveLyrics
Believe
So after all those one night stands
You’ve ended up with heart in hand
A child alone
On your own
Retreating
Regretful for the things you’re not
And all the things you haven’t got
Without a home
A heart of stone lies bleeding
And for all the roads you followed
And for all you did not find
And for all the dreams you had to leave behind
I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don’t turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I’ll be right there
I’ll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe
Your childhood eyes were so intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
The grown-up wings you needed
But when you had to add them up
You found that they were not enough
To get you in
And pay for sins
Repeated
And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you hide
And for all the fears you had to keep inside
I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don’t turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I’ll be right there
I’ll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe
I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I wasted my time
‘Til time wasted me
I never wanted to go
Always wanted to stay
‘Cause the person I am
Are the parts that I play
So I plot and I plan
Hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night
Filled with unfinished dreams
And I’m holding on tight
To a world gone astray
As they charge me for years
I can’t pay
Yeah
I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don’t turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I’ll be right there
I’ll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe - Nutrocker
- Carmina Burana
- Tracers
In the seventh year of her life, a young girl was nearing the end of her seventh summer, at a beach house that her grandfather had built on the Pacific Ocean, long before she was born. It was a beautiful but simple house, constructed high atop the dunes, overlooking a seemingly endless stretch of pristine, sandy beach...
Released October 27th, 2009 [Lava/Atlantic]
Produced By Paul O'Neill
Co-Produced By Dave Wittman
Recording & Mix Engineer Dave Wittman
