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RISE parts 1 & 2
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RISE, Part One:
“Dream of Light” (The Tempering)
One small hand
One small life
Bend and fold the fire cold
Tempering the knife
One small whisper
One small voice
Amplify a truth denied
Tempering the choice
Rise to the occasion
Flow into the dream
A dream so fine
This dream is yours,
And mine
One small face
One small smile
Seek and find a quiet mind
Tempering the guile
One small word
One small sign
Soul denies a callous cry
Tempering the crime
Rise to fires flowing
Flow into the light
A light so fine
This light is yours
And mine
Sold out
Said the puppet with the velvet eyes
Silky skin
He's a soldier
But colder
So hold on
To the upside down as...
You're receiving the spell they're weaving
With a twinkle and a plastic smile
Humble or proud the crowd you cling to
Keeps on growing.
Deceiving you
Moving around the sound inside you
Keeps on flowing.
Forgive us this day as we trespass and try
Safe in the fold or free to fly high
Holding the pages of ages, the wages of sin.
Deliver us not from the flame of desire
The flowering story shall rise from the fire
Penance denied, temptation begins.
Lost in the dark here comes the spark
Imagination.
It's shifting you
The world is changing rearranging
Your creation.
Life is young as life is old
Life gives all that we unfold
Every roll and every turn
For life is living all we learn
Light is given, light is seen
Light is all and in between
Deep the story of your star
Light is never very far
One small gaze
One small blow
Pretty things and glamour wings
Tempering the show
One small token
One small fear
Cast aside the wounded pride
Tempering the tear
Rise to the occasion
Flow into the dream
A dream so fine
This dream is yours
And mine
One small question
One small nerve
Empathise with teary eyes
Tempering the curve
One small maybe
One small chance
Deep the well of mask and shell
Tempering the dance
Release the child growing
Grow into the light
A light so fine
This light is yours
And mine
RISE, Part 2:
“Trigger Finger” (The Spiraling)
Be the one
And be a stranger
Trigger finger (trigger yourself)
Trigger yourself (within)
Free-fall begin (into the flow, now)
So slow, now
Open the skin (open the skin)
Spiral and spin (spiral, release the spin)
It's all within (so deep within)
Ever the one (Trigger finger, trigger yourself)
Ever the stranger (Free-fall begin, so slow, now)
Open the skin (Open the skin)
It's all within (Spiral and spin)
Go deeper in
Go deeper (It’s all within)
Within
Be the one
And be a stranger
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“Sign of the Times” (The Calling)
The fear of falling comes ever closer
When you are watching you
A constant motion in every moment
And everything you do
A dilly dally of daily graces
Faces we wear
The day will come
Whenever we see the one
The day will come
The rush and race of the poker faces
Shoe shine and shuffle on
Slippin’ and trippin’ on untied laces
When you're already there.
The day will come
Whenever we see the one
The day will come
You feel it
We feel it
The day we see the one
Holding a moment or lost forever
Holding the hand of a fading treasure
Moonlight dreams of a misty morning
Bury the past and they all come calling
The fear of failing comes ever closer
When you're berating you
Eradication a naked notion
Afflicting all you do
Hustle and bustle a daily shower
The power of rain
The day will come
Whenever we see the one
The day will come
The rank and file denial bind-ed
Footloose and wrecking ball
Illusion asking the open mind
Are you Abel or Cain?
The day will come
Whenever we see the one
The day will come
Will you leave me here?
Will you? Leave me here?
Polarizing faces, polarizing rhymes
Back to back belligerence, poster boy chimes
Intervention wordplay, intervention crimes
Tropes evolving, so controlling
Sign of the times
Sign of the times
Sign of the times
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“Born Afraid” (The Binding)
Little Nightmare, little Sin
Giving over, or giving in
First of many, first or last
Beware the future, beware the past
Slow blade, lingers into the night
Ebony fingers, ivory white
Fading the host
Lost to the never was
Lost to the ghost
Little Sandman, little Grimm
Bind the dreamer, bind the skin
Into the outside, outside in
Slow burns the candle into the night
Bohemian winters, beautifully bright
Lighting the way
Lost for a lifetime
Lost for a day
Do you ever wonder?
(where you're going)
Do you ever ask yourself?
(are you still growing, everyday)
Slow burns the candle into the night
Bohemian winters, beautifully bright
Lighting the way
Lost for a lifetime
Lost for a day
Little shadow, little shade
Softly spoken, softly played
Beware the ending, beware the fade
Slow blade lingers into the night
Ebony fingers, ivory white
Fading the host
Lost to the never was
Lost to the ghost
Be the summer, feel the rain
Be the winter, born again
Be the question, feel the why
Be the answer, born to try
Be forgiven, feel betrayed
Be the darkness, born afraid
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“Sailing Home” (The Following)
In the land of reason, under the burning sun
Every passing day, lays in the gaze of the infinite one
Lost or alone - Follow me home
In the land of plenty, minds go roaming free
In the guise of a soldier holding a silicon sophistry
Lost or alone ...
Power in numbers, comes to understand
The world as a symbol etched in lines on the palm of a hand
Deeper attraction, still Hiding there
Calls out to the tower power lies in a single stare
Us and them, you and I
Journey on, alone
Sailors, sailing, home
Walking with the brave as one
Waiting for the wave to come
Walking with the brave as one
Waiting for the wave to come
Gifted monkey, bending spoons
Lost in the mesmerizing tide of a gibbous moon
Beggar in a goldmine, gobsmacked in a sparkling haze
Pretty lights of illusion muse to the call of halcyon days
Radium temples, looking for a simple way
Offering such confusion talking heads with nothing to say
Us and them, you and I
Journey on, alone
Sailors, sailing, home
Walking with the brave as one
Waiting for the wave to come
Walking with the brave as one
Waiting for the wave to come
Lost or alone
Follow me home
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Avalon (The Knowing)
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“Avalon” (The Knowing)
Hunky Dory, casting a spell
Into the quicksand, Hunky fell
All the Queen's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Hunky, together again...
together again...
together again...
together again...
Slow enough to linger, fast enough to fly
Into the dark
Into the night
Holding the sky
Far enough to wander, close enough to hide
Into the sea
Into the blue
Holding the tide
Time is flowing as a river over stone
Shifting moments, shaping days
In between the shimmer & the vast unknown
Life will light the way
Sing your song
Avalon
Old enough to feel it, young enough to run
Into the rain
Into the wind
Holding the sun
Time is flowing as a feather falls alone
Slowly drifting as we play
In between the shiver & the story shown
Life will light the way
Sing your song
Avalon
Life as a Fable old
Shifting sand or sifting gold
Only you can make it so
When you know you know...
You know.
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“Lifetimes” (The Remembering)
Fragile
Is sharing all that you don't show
Hold on, don't let go
Safer still
Hiding In the arms of all you know
Don't ever let go.
Shoreline night-time lovers, left alone
Staring slowly, into the great unknown
Fingers linger, stretching the great divide
Sure of the dark, nothing to hide.
So many other lifetimes
Remember, how could we ever know?
That every story entwines
Oh lover, forever make it so.
When you feel alone
And you can't, go on
I am always near.
Can you hear, songs we sing
Every note and bell they ring
Whispering
Of summers gone and winters cold
And yet our love is never old
Remember, and hold me in your heart
When the day is long
And you can't, move on
I am always near
Do you hear, songs we sing
Every note and bell they ring
Whispering of home
Hear me call and know me well
The pearl of ever changing shell
Of all the stories we would tell
Dreams in which we rose and fell
In thee the vision of the whole
And ever rest the summers stole
Walking in the past, no more
For now we walk on summers shore
We are home
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Isildurs Bane Halmstad, Sweden
Formed in 1976, Isildurs Bane moved quickly from the traditional prog via fusion to a more sophisticated
approach.
IB released collaborative efforts (Colours Not Found in Nature by IB & Steve Hogarth and In Amazonia by IB & Peter Hammill) that were highly praised by the press and fans alike, and raised awareness among international audiences that IB were a musical force to be reckoned with.
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