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IRON SAVIOR
Piet
Sielck - guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass guitar
Thomen Stauch - drums
and percussion
Kai Hansen - guitars
and vocals
Guest
Musicians:
Hansi Kursch - vocals
Dirk Schlachter - bass
guitar
Henne - additional
backing vocals on "Riding On Fire"
Produced
by: Piet Sielck
Co-produced by: Kai
Hansen and Thomen Stauch
Recorded by: Piet
Sielck and Kai Hansen
Oct '96 - Feb '97 at
powerhouse, Hamburg and Hansen Studio, Hamburg
Mixed by: Piet Sielck
at Hansen Studio Feb. '97
Assistant Engineer:
Rüdiger Beissert
1) The Arrival
2) Atlantis Falling
3) Brave New World
4) Iron Savior
5) Riding On Fire
6) Break It Up
7) Assailant
8) Children Of The Wasteland
9) Protect The Law
10) Watcher In The Sky
11) For The World
12) This Flight Tonight
13)The Rage
THE ARRIVAL
Music Sielck
2108. An unknown vessel of
magnificent dimensions enters the solar system and heads straight
to earth where it remains in the
planet's orbit. After 350.000 years the Iron Savior returns.
ATLANTIS FALLING
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
Empires and entire civilisations
may die but life itself cannot be eliminated.
It will find a way to rise again
and again.
A flash of
destruction
cut through and blinded the night
The heavens caught fire
they were glowing in unholy light
A sudden attack
broke all the dreams of unification
The hunger for power
it's the lash of civilisation
dispaired and in pain - all seems so
in vain
Fires in the sky
defenceless we stand tonight we will
die
Shaddows of the end
the Kingdom will fall life it will
finally decent
percieve what you've done and repent
Careless we thought
all you do is to bark at the moon
But in the grip of fury
you have conjured
the dawning of doom
is this our fate - wiped out by your
hate
Fires in the sky
defenceless we stand tonight we will
die
Shaddows of the end
the Empire will fall life it will
finally decent
Goddess of the seas let us rest in
peace
In her cold embrace we will find our
graves
Solo Piet - Solo Kai
Silence will set in - will existance
begin - again
Fires in the sky
helpless we stand
defenceless we'll die
Shaddows of the end
the Kingdom will fall
life will decent
Fires in the sky
helpless we stand defenceless we'll
die
Shaddows of the end
Atlantis will fall life it will
finally decent
decent... for evermore
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
A futuristic vision of a world
ruled by computers and machines who dictate mankinds way of
living and control the genetic
codes in the name of peace.
Just like a machine
programmed and build to obey
serving the system in devotion
faithfully day after day
Feels you do not know an unpolluted
mind
In a world free of distress
disturbing emotions of any kind
The perfect system to maintain mankind
the department of thoughts it watches
your mind
Brave, brave new world
of biogenetic design
where the perfect people life perfect
lifes
and individuals get pulverized
Brave, brave new world
where mankind is down on its knees
to the masterplan of insanity
slaves of science in agony
Brave, brave new world
Genetic engineering created your DNA
codes and patterns lay down your life
define you to obey
Escape the nightmare
you can't even dream
Your nature is human you ain't no
machine
Brave,brave new world
Solo Piet
Break the chains and free your spirit
start to be alife
Be an individual and rise
And rise!
Brave, brave new world
Brave new world
of biogenetic design
in this brave new world
no emotions of any kind
brave new world
you're down to your knees
in this brave new world
the masterplan of insanity
Brave, brave new world
IRON SAVIOR
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
The ancient machine runs an
analysis and draws a fatal conclusion.
Out of the cold
you've been given birth
made out of steel to protect and serve
build for eternity you're
indestructable
free of emotions a robot miracle
Now you're up there above the clouds
reading your sensores trace
programmed to correct the errors
of the human race
Iron Iron Savior - Godness in the sky
we can't hide from your cold, staring
eye
Iron Iron Savior - Godness in the sky
deadly and dangerous you'll never die
You gave us hope the Savior machine
you were supposed to be a millions
dream
Circuts, chips and bits and bytes
detecting the failure
result of analyses
the human behavior
(I must get control)
Iron Iron Savior - Godness in the sky
Solo Kai
The Savior knows what's wrong or right
he made up his artificial mind
Now mankind's fate is in his hand
will he ever understand
Iron Iron Savior - Godness in the sky
Iron Iron Savior -
look what you have done
cant you see your assesement might be
wrong
Iron Iron Savior - robot of the law
end this illfated devistating war
RIDING ON FIRE
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
Before Atlantis died a small group
of men escaped the upcoming catastrophy in the hope to find
a better life out in space.
Dream the dream of a
distant place
sheltered and hidden from the human
race
Long ago leaving everything behind
out in the coldness to find peace of
mind
Leaving ground destination is unknown
into the darkness and far away from
home
Will your dream come true and what
will you find
when fate is your guide
Riding on fire - touching the sky
Riding on fire - take you up so high
Riding on fire - with tears in your
eyes
Riding on fire - and your heart it
dies
Holy wars and tyrannies
Death and destruction but no one can
see
Sanctuary in a ship made out of steel
This deadly wounded world will not
heal
Up to the stars to escape this living
hell
Pain and opression you're wishing all
farewell
Will the tyrant survive 'til the day
that you'll return
let him burn
Riding on fire
Solo 1 Piet
Dreams where did they go
reflections
of thousand lightyears ago
Sadness and fear
seems the end is near
Up to the stars to escape this living
hell
pain and opression you're wishing all
farewell
The tyrant will die on the day that
I'll return
he will burn
Riding on fire
Solo 2 Piet
Riding on fire - riding
BREAK IT UP
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
For a friend.
(Kai)
Out of money and out on the streets
this wasn«t your dream
thought you'd make it high to the top
but stumbled inbetween
wanted to catch a piece of the action
you couldn«t resist
bought a ticket to another dimension
where troubles don't exist
Unleashing the creature that rules
your mind
it hits you like thunder draging you
under
can't you see you're loosing controll
(Piet)
Dangerous joys - shot right through
the brain
gonna crack you up drive you insane
Dangerous joys - running through your
veins
gonna wrack you up please break it up
Break it up
(Kai)
Flying high on borrowed illusions
you«re playing with fire
Being dominated
by obsessing desire
(Piet)
The fever is rising it's like a
desease
can't you see you're down on your
knees
(Kai + Piet)
Dangerous joys
Solo Piet
Dangerous joys
ASSAILANT
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
Spirit over matter. Opression will
not outlife resistance.
Right out of nowhere
you came
ghostlike appeared in the sky
But all our welcomes were shot down in
flames
Superior power - invincible arms
a faulty assessment, a fatal
misjudgement
but why you won't percieve
you won't percieve
Obeydience you claim devotion you ask
opression is all that you give
preserving the law the law of the lost
defining the way that we life
Assailant - lash of the world
ruling a throne - of ashes and dirt
We will arise like a Phoenix
again and again - forever we'll be
Enslave us and chain us
but then you will see
in the end the spirit is free
We never did you no harm
in peace we have lived united and free
you have turned our world into debries
a heep of debries
It seems we're defenceless in anguish
we suffer
the raider that came from the stars
But we won't surrender with fury we'll
strike
'cause this is the war of the wars
Solo Piet
Assailant - lash of the world
CHILDREN OF THE WASTELAND
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
Another vision of earth's future.
The battle against the machine has been lost. In the orbit
thrones the Iron Savior,
unreachable for the survivers of mankind who barely exist in the
afterworld of an atomic war.
The war is over our
life is not the same
Atomic fallout and clouds of acid
rains
Above the world in a fortress made of
splendid steel
you are the artificial knight you
don't care about what we think or feel
Be the guardian to guide us
Be the savior to saveÉ
We're the
Children of the Wasteland
Sadness in our eyes
Children of the Wasteland
Frustrated hearts cold as ice
We cannot life we cannot die
in the land of the dammned
holy keeper of law and order
let us life or let us end
Be the leader to lead us
Be the savior to save
We're the
Children of the Wasteland
Solo Piet
Solo Kai
Be the leader to lead us
Be the savior to save
Children of the Wasteland
PROTECT THE LAW
Music & Lyrics - Sielck
To uphold the law and without mercy
prosecute any violation is another directive of the
Iron Savior.
From an ancient past
I will bring you the law
To protect and to serve I was made for
My creators have vanished lost in
space and in time
I'm the savior device now their battle
is mine
When I'm looking down on you I see
a wasted land
and the reason is humanity
I must gain control
I protect the law - now and evermore
justice I'll defend - Guardian of the
land
Crime has to end
My directives are
simple peace and justice for all
your resistance is futile if you fight
me you'll fall
My systems are in
focus, locked on you
you cannot hide, I trace everything
you do
surrender and repent
I protect the law
Solo Kai
When I'm looking down on you I see
I protect the law
WATCHER IN THE SKY
Music & Lyrics - Sielck /
Hansen
The bio-unit is drifting on the
edge of madness unable to take action nor to get in control of
the
Savior-device
(Kai)
I'm watching the mountains
I'm watching the sea
observing the creatures
I am lost - set me free!
Across the heavens I made my way
I' ve seen empires rise and blown away
I have arrived my destiny
but after all there's just emptiness
in me
Out in the darkness - I am going mad
Where are the others - there's silence
in my head
'Cause I'm a watcher
in the sky
I've seen universes die
Out in the cold my systems overload
I'm here and lost in time
Watcher in the sky - sky
I am trapped in this nightmare
endless tortures and pain
milliniums have gone by
Uhhh, it drives me insane!
Who am I now?
I'm not a man - I'm not machine
I gave my life for it for the Iron
Savior dream
'Cause I'm a watcher in the sky
Solo Kai
(Piet)
Hooked - hooked to the circuts
of a lifeless, cold machine
Lost in a world of artificial means
Ripped - ripped out of my body
I'll stand the test of time
Am I perpetual - Am I devine?
Solo Piet / Solo Kai
(Kai)
I'm the watcher in the sky
My soul has drowned
in the tears I cannot cry
I'm the watcher the chosen one
but I am lost in time
I'm the watcher in the sky
I've seen the years gone by
I am the choosen one
out in the cold my systems overload
I'm here and lost in time
Watcher in the sky - sky
watching the mountains
watching the see
watching the creatures
You'll never be free
Watcher in the sky - sky
FOR THE WORLD
Music & Lyrics - Sielck)
The forces of resistance hide in
the underground and attempt to awake the bio-unit. It is their
desperate hope, that it will stop
the Iron Savior and give mankind peace
and freedom again.
(Hansi)
We're the defenders, we are the ones
Bleeding
For all the creatures, the land
and the seas
give us peace
And with the courage born in despair
Hopeless
we will resist your banners of pain
break the chain
(Piet)
Holy machine - creator of sorrows
Awake - wake from your dream
and redem
Rise from the ocean of darkness
where you've been so long
Cosmic insanity
regain your clarity
For the freedom
and for the world
Hope is our guiding light
it will shine
united we stand to fight
for the freedom
and for the world
For all - and for the world
(Hansi)
Sacred messiah, prophet in arms
Liar
blasphemious saint lost in the dark
Brave at heart
(Piet)
We will oppose, stand up against you
Return - and let your soul
take control
Come back to life
drive the demons of madness away
Cosmic insanity
Solo Kai / Piet / Kai / Piet
We will oppose, stand up against you
Return - and let your soul
take control
Come back to life
drive the demons of madness away
Cosmic insanity
Forever we'll be
United and free
For the freedom
and for the world
THIS FLIGHT
TONIGHT
Music & Lyrics Mitchel
Look out the left. the captain said
The lights down there
that's where you'll land
Saw a falling star burnin'
high above the
Las Vegas sand
It wasn't the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the
trailer
Not the early one
that you wish upon
Not the northern one
that guides in the sailors
You've got that touch so gentle and
sweet
but you've got that look so critical
Can't talk to you babe
you know I get so weak
Sometimes I think that
love is just mythical
Up there's a heaven - down there's a
town
Blackness everywhere and
little lights shine
Blackness, blackness dragging me down
come on light a candle
in this heart of mine
Starbright, starbright
You've got the loving that I like
Turn this crazy bird around
should not have got on
this flight tonight
Solo Piet
I'm drinking sweet champange
got the headphones up high
can't numb you- can't drum you
out of my mind
They're singing
"Goodbye baby, baby bye bye
Uhhh, love is blind!"
Up go the flaps - down go the wheels
hope you got your heat turned on baby
hope they finaly fixed your atomobile
hope it's better
when we meet again babe
Starbright, starbright
The Rage
Music & Lyrics
Halford/Tripton/Downing