hahahahaha! listen to me. children, listen to what I say. you're all here to find the truth. to find God and your duty. so when I say kneel. you'll have to kneel and speak to God.
you can speak as a man. you can walk as one. can be proud of your past. and the things you've done. all I read from your lips. is sweeter than gingerbread.
way up, way down and no way to return. mankind that never learned. just talk 'bout love and respect but just lie in fact. I tell you that's the way you act.
people are coming to take me out of my house. don't understand the angryness of the crowd. bursting windows raining down the floor. don't realize what they are reaching for.
...right after the robbery the murderer tries to escape, the police search. teams hard on his heels. He's soon cornered and arrested.... . Sirens wailing.
[music: eilen]. [lyrics: eilen]. [arranged by eilen]. . now here i stand, i've got no eyes. got no hands, no arms to embrace. the darkest day, crossed man's way.
This concept album tells the fictional story of a man sentenced to death. awaiting his execution on death row. This is an emotional story of violence.
now we face the end of 1999. like rats they leave the sinking ship. the higher-class mankind. tearing down the walls of inhumanity. the crowd stands up with powersaws.
...facing death he feels foresaken by God and his country. He never lived. a christian life but it's the irony of his fate that he - like Jesus -. will be executed. And didn't Jesus also say: "God, you failed!"....
...during his first hours in the death house he is painfully overcome by. the emotional memories of his family and childhood.... . I close my eyes and see it passing by.
the butterfly moves 'round and 'round. around the fire that burns so bright. the attraction he can't resist. the mystic sight is draging it. into the light.
my apartment's 'round the block. downtown there's not much you've got. it was my last day at work. don't ask me if it does hurt. . I've got to walk. 'cause they damaged my car.
[music: breitenbach - zur heide - eilen]. [lyrics: eilen]. [arranged by WARHEAD]. . incident of shame. the pope and his slaves want to tame. other points of view.
[music, lyrics and arrangement by eilen]. . ... with his last words in the death chamber he swears, he would never kill again .... . I swear, I'd never fail again.
...with his last words in the death chamber he swears,. he would never kill again.... . I swear, I'd never fail again. I swear, I'd never fail again. I swear, I'd never fail again.
[music: breitenbach - eilen]. [lyrics: eilen]. [arranged by breitenbach]. . a little room with a lattice window. here i live there's nothing more. outside concrete, grey and cold.
...years later: The day of his judgement is now certain. The execution of. a fellow inmate inflames his hate towards the prison and guards.... . The sun rises, the light is warm and bright.
[music: eilen - breitenbach]. [lyrics: eilen]. [arranged by WARHEAD]. . the black door of a big neglected building. they call it papermill, we call it excess.