Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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

2. Childhood Dreams

[Erasmus]

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
Dreams

3. Sparks

[Drug Dealer]

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

4. The Mountain

Instrumental

[Lieutenant]

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

6. The Safest Way into Tomorrow

[Erasmus]

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 signs
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
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


7. Mozart And Memories

Instrumental

8. Another Way You Can Die

[Lieutenant]

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
'Till a close friend is gone
And you find yourself embracing
Ground

And the foe is as near
As the silence you hear
As he stops to load in another
Round

Battles raging
It's all staging
'Till 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

9. Toccata - Carpimus Noctem

Instrumental

10. The Lion's Roar

Instrumental

11. Dreams We Conceive

[Lieutenant]

In a city
After midnight
Neath the halo
Of a 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 we 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


12. Mother and Son

[Mother]
Remember what Confucius taught,
Always be kind.
[Son]
Yes, Mother.
[Mother]
Always help the weak and the old.
[Son]
Yes, Mother. I understand.
[Mother]
And always help those less fortunate than yourself
[Son]
Yes, mother. Always.

[A jet passes by in the distance and the apparition of his mother fades away.
The child turns towards Tran-Do in a non-judgmental but puzzled voice.]

[Son]
How did I become you?

13. There Was a Life

[Tran-Do]

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 shoreline
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 hear 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

14. Moonlight and Madness

Instrumental

15. Time Floats On

[Lieutenant]

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

16. Epiphany

[Tran-Do]

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...

[Tran-Do sees himself as a snake oil salesman selling the same lies that he was sold in a carnival barker's voice.]

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

[Tran-Do turns away from the apparition of himself as a snake oil salesman, and once more looks into the abyss.]

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

17. Bach Lullaby

Instrumental

18. Father, Son and Holy Ghost

[Mrs. Cozier]

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

[Then in a sudden, unexpected, visceral voice, she raged against all those citizens of apathy and willful ignorance who lived behind the sacrifices of others.]

We thought evil dead
Killed by our own sword
But evil is patient
'Til the future grows bored

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

19. Remnants of a Lullaby

[Mrs. Cozier]

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

20. The Safest Way into Tomorrow (reprise)

[Lieutenant William Cozier]

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

21. Embers

Instrumental

22. 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

23. 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

24. Nutrocker

Instrumental

25. Carmina Burana

[Latin]

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
mihi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

26. Tracers

Instrumental