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Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy (2005)


1. King For A 1000 Years

[Music: Deris / Weikath / Gertsner / Grosskopf / Loebl, Lyrics: Deris]

Wouldn't it be nice
To plunder with your eyes
Whatever there's for you to see
Is yours to be
Let me be there
Just tell me you don't care
Just say you pay me afterlife
However high the price

I know your secrets
I know it all

I know your secrets
I see the hidden without light
I am your sickness
Bitting you right behind your eyes
Don't try to kill me
I cannot die, a death you know
You and I will be
Heaven above and hell below

Brother, believe me
Father, conceive me
Perceive me

Time will be a turning wheel
We shove or retard
Time will a toy
Time we will enjoy
Say you want to live forever
Minus one day
Say you will obey and I

I will show - I will show
I will show your Reich of gold
And I will show - I will show
I will show you friend and foe

Wouldn't it be nice
To reign and to decide
Whatever there's attracting you
Will give its due to you
Let me be there
Just say you want to share
A power no one will withstand
Just be my human hand

I know your secrets
You want it all

I will show - I will show
I will show you Reich of gold
And I will show - I will show
I will show you friend and foe

[Solo: Sascha / Sascha / Weiki / Sascha / Weiki / Markus]

Alienation, elimination, chaos, no exoneration
No believers, all deceivers, no illusion, executions

[Melody: Sascha]

We are King For A 1000 Years
We are king of a million tears
We're the ones who bring desire
Binding their greed and fears
We are king of fallen men
We are keepers of the damned
Turning hope into obsession
We are the king
We are The King For A 1000 Years

Ages of fire - Aeon of darkness, fear and hate
Wake up my creatures
Stand up you bringers of man's fate
No one can kill us
We cannot die, a death one knows
Mankind is sleeping
My victory near, their end so close

I know their secrets
I know it all

[Solo: Both / Sascha / Weiki]

Goodbye sorrows
Borrow me your hand to turn the key
Release me - Believe me
Goddbye sorrows
Never more you have to fear futurity
Goodbye sorrows
Borrow me your hand to turn the key
Conceive me

Time will be a turning wheel
We shove or retard
Time will a toy
Time we will enjoy
Say you want to live forever
Minus one day
Say you will obey and I

I will show - I will show
I will show your Reich of gold
And I will show - I will show
I will show you friend and foe

We are King For A 1000 Years
We are king of a million tears
We're the ones who bring desire
Binding their greed and fears
We are king of fallen men
We are keepers of the damned
Turning hope into obsession
We are the king
We are The King For A 1000 Years

[Outro melody: Sascha]


2. The Invisible Man

[Music & Lyrics: Gerstner]

I am the one who wants to show
You a secret of your cheating world
Wherever I will go - No one can see me
'Cause I'm the invisible man

I'm a creature with one goal
Rise up to heaven when the time has come
I have no body but a soul
Gods law is written on my way, forever

Time by time I think it's over
The malediction I have got
When the world was young
I've been captured in the name of god
To save people, but who cares?
Since a thousand years
Until the holy land will come

Here I am the invisible man
A lost fallen angel helping mankind where I can
My memories are there to save your world
For you I'm just the invisible man

[Solo: Both]

There's the destiny you don't know
I'm a guardian angel and whatever you'll go
You fight through your life not alone
You can't hear me, nor see me
But trust the holy flow

[Solo: Sascha]

Here I am the invisible man
A lost fallen angel helping mankind where I can
My memories are there to save your world
For you I'm just the invisible man


3. Born On Judgment Day

[Music & Lyrics: Michael Weikath]

My mother died close to me
And while I lie sobbin' here
This world's going down with fear
Armies of minions is all I see
Creatures in anguish no place to flee
Living their nightmares the fall from grace
And so I'm standing here

I was born on judgment day
And I have no words to say
Don't know good or bad
Kinda feel so sad
But still, I sing this song for you

There's no one beside me
I'm shuddering wearily
Utterly destitute and all
Nobility has let mankind
Turned into vultures, bewildered eyes
Shoved to the abyss, a twisting whirl
Under the blood red sky

I was born on judgment day
And I have no words to say
Don't know good or bad
Kinda feel so sad
But still, I sing this song for you

[Solo: Both / Weikath / Loebl / Grosskopf / Gerstner / Both]

I was born on judgment day
And I have no words to say
Don't know good or bad
Kinda feel so sad
But still, I sing this song for you

[Written on September 15th 2004 and dedicated to all people in Brasil.]


4. Pleasure Drone

[Music & Lyrics: Sascha Gerstner]

There's an abyss in your life
'Cause a good love's gone bad
You've lost someone for now and forever
She was the best you've ever had
Just let me go it's a hopeless endeavor
Don't stick your head in the sand
Don't you cry so much, it doesn't help
Not with her picture in your hand

Just when you lose your smiling face
Gonna bring you to a special place, 'cause I'm a

Drone, pleasure drone
And I wipe your tears away
Drone, pleasure drone
I'm gonna make you a perfect day

I'm made for sensing your mood
No reason for despair
Can you hear mechanical noises
When I buzz thru the air
To get you up I'll hand you presents
From my telescopic arm
No matter they're no hands
But my claws won't do no harm

And wherever there's bad vibes
I will detect them with laser eyes, cause I'm a

Drone, pleasure drone
And I wipe your tears away
Drone, pleasure drone
I'm gonna make you a perfect day

[Solo: Gerstner / Weikath / Both]

Drone, pleasure drone
And I wipe your tears away
Drone, pleasure drone
I'm gonna make you a perfect day
Drone, pleasure drone


5. Mrs. God

[Music & Lyrics: Andi Deris]

Mrs. God, am I right?
That's your real address?
This time it's you
Ready to confess?
Free the masculine world
Cancel their humility

Mrs. God, can it be?
Can you be alike
One dressed to kill?
Walk on, high-heeled bride
This would state and explain
Why men are sometimes stumbling

Mrs. God are you there
Laughing at us is not fair
Mrs. God can't you see
All that shit you've done to me (and us)

Mrs. God, may I say
As wild card of my kind
We were so deceived (yeah)
You'd better left us blind

Mrs. God we are cool
We take it with a smile
But don't be cruel
Let's add it to the file
And in some 100 years
God has always had beard

Mrs. God are you there
Laughing at us is not fair
Mrs. God can't you see
All that shit you've done to me (and us)

[Solo: Gerstner]


6. Silent Rain

[Music: Sascha Gerstner, Lyrics: Andi Deris]

He is God and he is light
He means everything in life
To her awaking mind
He's the one of two she loves
He's the one of two she snogs and hugs
In blind faith

But in the recent dead of nights
There was wonder, there was fright
Daddy's coming for a secret playing
Secret playing

Silent giants
Silent rain
Silence cover shame
Lying colours
Lurking bane
Under the silent rain

Daddy told her not to speak
Not to wail and not to weep
A promise she won't keep
Saw her mother at the door
Starting craven to the core
She won't care no more

So in the endless coming years
There was sorrow, there was fears
Daddy's coming for a secret playing
Secret playing

Silent giants
Silent rain
Silence cover shame
Lying colours
Lurking bane
Under the silent rain

[Solo: Gerstner / Weikath / Both]


7. Occasion Avenue

[Music & Lyrics: Andi Deris]

What you sight you have seen
Where you go already been
The again you go through
Occasion Avenue

Sister, the day you sell your skin
(The gold of night is the gold of the blind)
Sister, that day your soul gives in
(You'll never find what you left behind)
Oh, oh, no matter what they do
Oh, oh, you got to go straight through
Occasion Avenue

Brother, dare not look left or right
(Coaxing your eyes, poisoning your mind)
Brother, don't stop or you must fight
(No indulgence or its death you find)
Oh, oh, you may not leave with doubt
Oh, oh, you may no take it to
Occasion Avenue

Follow your heart - Follow your truth
Follow the path that shines for you
On Occasion Avenue
How far you go - How good you do
Uncovers the prize or rebears you
To Occasion Avenue

Domini, domini - Occasion Avenue - Domini Sancti
Satani, satani - Occasion Avenue - Satani mundi

Will there be tomorrow - Will there be the stars
Will there be a future - time beats in our hearts
Or will there be the fire - branding us his mark

I pray for all us people
Trying to solve the riddle
I don't know where we're going
I don't know if we're being true
On Occasion Avenue

[Solo: Gerstner]

Precious is your tasking
For a little bit of faking
For a tiny slight deception
For some insincere affection
(TV: ...sentenced to 16 years for
Marriage imposture and order
Of murder to his current wife whose
Life assurance's worth one million pounds.)

Much will be your power
By the essence of a flower
By seducement and cold rapture
By abusing mother nature
(TV: ...murdered close to
Old Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie.
Police assumes just one more execution
By competing drug-cartels).

Great will be your status
When you know how to lick anus
When you lie and swindle ruthless
And your biggest hero's Judas
(TV: ...commited suicide in his
New York Penthouse.
He leaves no dependant
So stay tuned for the latest news of
"where do all the millions go").


8. Light The Universe

[Music & Lyrics: Andi Deris, Featuring Candice Night]

In a house up the hill
Lays a boy, he's sleeping still
And the time's creeping by
Till the world prepares to die
Then again out of dust
Will arise what ended last
And the boy will awake
Give his dream a little brake

And the story now goes on and on and on
As the old has died the new arises
And a child will

Light the Universe
Light the Universe
We got blind, we can't read the signs
Light the Universe
Light the Universe
We don't find what's hidden in our mind

Under sand in sea
Covered with eternity
Beats a heart with no fame
Quietly whispering my name
When my time has run out
I will hear it very loud
Telling tales I once knew
But forgot by losing you

And the story now goes on and on and on
As the old has died the new arises
And a boy will

Light the Universe
Light the Universe
We got blind, we can't read the signs
Light the Universe
Light the Universe
We don't find what's hidden in our mind

[Solo: Gerstner]


9. Do You Know What You're Fighting For

[Music & Lyrics: Michael Weikath]

Day by day you work off your claws
The line of fate in them
My not pay your loans
You got to keep goin' and goin' on
Strive day by day

Do you know, uh, do you know, do

Do you know what you're fighting for
The seed is sown
But we don't know the score
They will rule us, this breed of futility
You won't make an escape
'Cause we will still be alive

Disenchantment, alienation
A slog to feed future estranged generations
And, retired, will you get rewarded
Your brave restraint?

Do you know, uh, do you know, do

Do you know what you're fighting for
The seed is sown
But we don't know the score
They will rule us, this breed of futility
You won't make an escape
'Cause we will still be alive

Do you know what you're fighting for
The seed is sown
But we don't know the score
They will rule us, this breed of futility
You won't make an escape
'Cause we will still be alive

Uh, will they need you
Will they pay you

[Solo: Loebl / Weikath / Gerstner]


10. Come Alive

[Music & Lyrics: Andi Deris]

It don't get better if you're locked behind your door
It don't get better if you're hiding more and more
It may get better if you fight
It may get better if you'd wear a mask and scream
On Halloween

Come alive - Come alive
Rise and see - Rise and be for me
Come alive - Come alive
From the blue - Make it true for You
Come alive

It don't get better if you're acting fro a while
It don't get better if you drown in self denial
It don't get better without pain
It don't get better if you turn around and flee
To ecstasy

Come alive - Come alive
Rise and see - Rise and be for me
Come alive - Come alive
From the blue - Make it true for You
Come alive

[Solo: Gerstner


11. The Shade In The Shadow

[Music & Lyrics: Andi Deris]

You're reaching out in the dead of night
Searching for my hand
Your know I'm there in the waste of shadows
I'm your pain and friend

I hear your silent cries
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
I know your secret lies
I'm the Shade in the Shadow

I ban the light and I leave you blind
If you try your eyes
I am enemy or a trusty fellow
In yuor wailing mind

I hear your silent cries
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
I know your secret lies
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
I hide behind your shame
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
Crying out loud your name
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
The Shade in the Shadows of you

There I cry for you - In the shadows
As I always do - in the shadows
You may oust me there - in the shadows
But I'm always there - in the shadows
In the shadows

I hear your silent cries
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
I know your secret lies
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
I hide behind your shame
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
Crying out loud your name
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
The Shade in the Shadows of you

There I cry for you
In the shadows
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
As I always do
In the shadows
I'm the Shade in the Shadow
The Shade in the Shadow of you


12. Get It Up

[Music & Lyrics: Michael Weikath]

A little thing you sure will know
Why you came here tonight
And not to those other places
I could imagine there's PCs and DVDs
And TV shows
And sex in cars what else you like
Now right here is the place I got to be
Tomorrow I'll be far away
If you got time and nothing else to do now
Together we can change the world

Let's get it up
Rock's here to stay
With the best years of our lives we paid our share
Yeah, yeah
Now tell me what is in our way
To push this right in the face everyday

We spread it further on the town
Now, what'd ya know we're good
To incite a few more disciples
No time to waste makin' haste we're movin' on
Where we'll suspend another night

Do I see grinning faces all round here?
...and is this due to my words
Come treat me nice, y' know, I wasn't raised here
But I mean everything I say

Let's get it up
Rock's here to stay
With the best years of our lives we paid our share
Yeah, yeah
Now tell me what is in our way
To push this right in the face everyday

[Solos: Weikath]


13. My Life For On More Day

[Music: Markus Grosskopf, Lyrics: Andi Deris]

Listen my teachers
Listen my preachers
Let the world know he broke out
Mankind has failed just to see
What was inevitably
Satan has taken
And hidden painstakin'
One of the seven of fate
Out of the sea he has buried it
Under the mountain of greed

Stone by stone
You must carry off stone by stone
On and on
Until the final blinding light shows it's too late
Too late

There is a chance for everyone
Needs time but can be done
Fight the darkness
Don't be afraid my friends
The last key you have to find
And so will save mankind
Keep on trying when I give away

My life for one more day
My life for one more day
My life for hours you must find the way
My life for one more day

You, who will find it - You, who will bind it
And throw it back into the sea
Will be successor and follower
Of all my unowned might
Reckon with treason
For just one reason
Reckon with envy and hate
Too many people will always believe
In the sermon of night

Stone by stone
You must carry off stone by stone
On and on
Until the final blinding light shows it's too late
Too late

There is a chance for everyone
Needs time but can be done
Fight the darkness
Don't be afraid my friends
The last key you have to find
And so will save mankind
Keep on trying when I give away

My life for one more day
My life for one more day
My life for hours you must find the way
My life for one more day

[Solo: Gerstner / Weikath / Both]

Now I must leave
Now I must leave
Banish the evil
Trust and believe
Trust that you need
Nothing but love

There is a chance for everyone
Needs time but can be done
Fight the darkness
Don't be afraid my friends
The last key you have to find
And so will save mankind
Keep on trying when I give away

My life for one more day
My life for one more day
My life for hours you must find the way
My life for one more day


14. Run

[Music: Sascha Gerstner, Lyrics: Andi Deris / Sascha Gerstner]

You think you're awake, the night was long
Don't be afraid, a new day is born
Just open your eyes and look around
You can't see a thing but still hear their sounds

Rememeber if you ask for release
Say the words and you'll be free

Run, run, run
Say the name of your enemy
Run, run, run
Lost and blind for eternity
Remember the words and you'll be free

Toss and turn, your sheets soaked with sweat
The poison of fear already reigns your head
The longer you wait the deeper you fall
Down to the demons you once dared to call

Remember if you ask for release
Say the words and you'll be free

Run, run, run
Say the name of your enemy
Run, run, run
Lost and blind for eternity
Remember the words and you'll be free



INTRO:

Forgotten in his reich from shadows-
Banned forever, one thought-
The Lord of evil was given name and place
Of the seventh sea, shelter of the seventh key
Who was betraying us? I guess you know
There would be more than one name to name
Now he, whose name is many, searches for the one...
The one strong enough to survive as his terrestial hand
enticement and promise will crown a king-
A puppet on a string- for a 1000 years,
...so they sing...
Totul a început în Hamburg, în 1978, când Kai Hansen şi Piet Sielck au format trupa Gentry. În 1981 vin în formatie Ingo Schwichtenberg şi Markus Großkopf, care cantasera in formaţia Traumschiff, iar trupa este redenumita Second Hell. În 1982 Piet Sielck părăseşte trupa, iar numele se schimba din nou, în Iron Fist de data aceasta. Tot în acest an vine în trupă Mickael Weikath care canta în Powerfool.
În 1984 formaţia debutează pe o compilaţie de la Noise Records, aţături de Running Wild, Dark Avenger şi Hellhammer. Nemultumiţi de numele Iron Fist, acesta este schimbat în Helloween, schimbă litera "o" cu un dovleac şi acesta devine mascota trupei.
În 1985 apare mini LP-ul Helloween, iar în octombrie 1985 albumul Walls of Jericho. Acestea au avut succes, iar in 1986 Helloween pleacă în primul turneu, în care Kai Hansen îşi dă seama ca nu poate face şi vocea şi chitara şi se decide aducerea unui solist vocal. Astfel este recrutat Mickael Kiske de la Ill Prophecy şi formaţia intra în studio pentru un nou album.
Cu albumele Keeper of the Seven Keys I şi II (1987 şi respectiv 1988) Helloween s-a consacrat pe scena Heavy Metal a sfârşitului anilor 80. Au apărut primele videochipuri ale formaţiei şi formaţia a plecat într-un mega-turneu european. De un foarte mare succes s-au bucurat aceste albume şi în America şi mai ales în Japonia. În viteza mai cîntau în acea vreme şi Running Wild şi Judas Priest, dueluri între chitări aveau şi Iron Maiden, melodie mai găseai la Europe, dar pe toate la un loc atât de reuşit combinate numai la Helloween le puteai găsi. Si mai era ceva ce puteai găsi doar la ei: pe Kiske, care la numai optsprezece ani a devenit celebru, nu numai prin vocea sa extraordinară ci şi pentru usurinţa cu care o manevra ca sa o facă să zboare pentru a tine pasul cu partiturile închipuite de colegii săi. Se poate spune ca aceaste două albume au fost cele mai bune din istoria formaţiei, şi pentru mulţi fani acest lucru este un adevăr. Sunt albumele cu care Helloween şi-au câştigat celebritatea şi fanii.

Plecarea lui Kai Hansen de la sfârşitul anului 1988 a fost primul moment de cotitură din istoria formaţiei. El a fost înlocuit cu Roland Grapow, iar formaţia a lansat primul album Best Of, The Best The Rest The Rare.
În 1991, când, dupa nenumărate zvonuri legate de destrămarea trupei, lansează Pink Bubbles Go Ape. Albumul a fost un cumplit eşec atat comercial cat şi din punct de vedere critic, iar curand dupa, tensiunea începe sa apară între membrii formaţiei.
În 1993, Helloween lansează albumul Chameleon, un material cu influenţe pop, care ‘ajută’ trupa să-şi piardă mulţi dintre fanii înrăiţi. În perioada turneului Chameleon, Ingo Schwichtenberg, se îmbolnăveşte şi pe fonsul condumului de droguri este silit sa ia o pauză. Între timp, conflictele în trupă se înrăutăţesc, ducând la concedierea lui Michael Kiske, blamat pentru insuccesul trupei şi schimbarea stilului. Până la urmă a fost o mutare bună, deşi regretată de fani. Kiske a continuat cariera solo, dar s-a îndepărtat de stilul Helloween, experimentănd mai mult aria pop şi jazz decât metal.
Helloween revine în forţă în 1994 cu albumul Master of the Rings, cu un nou solist vocal în persoana lui Andi Deris (ex. Pink Cream 69) şi un baterist nou, Uli Kusch, fost la Gamma Ray, trupa lui Kai Hansen. Ambumul are succes şi încurajează trupa sa continue, iar în 1996 apare The time of the Oath, album dedicat lui Ingo Schwichtenberg care s-a sinucis în 1995 sin cauza schizofreniei şi a dependenţei de droguri. Este albumul care instrumental seamănă cel mai mult cu Keeper, dar vocea lui Deris este mult diferită te cea a lui Kiske. Cu ocazia trneului de promovare este înregistrat un album live, High Live şi un DVD cu acelaşi nume.
Urmează Better Than Raw (1998) , cel mai agresiv album am formaţiei, cu influenţe trash, un album în care Deris îşi dă drumul la voce, şi demonstrează încă o dată, că este o soluţie pentru vocalul trupei. În 1999 este înregistrat Metal Jukebox, un album de cover-uri, mai mult distractiv decât serios.
Cu The Dark Ride (2000), Helloween schimbă din nou stilul, acesta fiind un album întunecat ,apăsător, dar modern. Nu a avut foarte mare succes, şi ca urmare, s-au petrecut noi schimbări de stil şi de alcătuire a formaţiei. Astfel, Roland Grapow şi Uli Kush pleacă pentru a forma Masterplan.

S-au alăturat formaţiei Mark Cross (ex. Metallium) şi Sasha Gerstner (ex. Freedom Call). În 2003 apare Rabbit Don’t Come Easy, album pe care Mark Cross este înlocuit cu Mikkey Dee (Motorhead) din cauza unei boli. În turneul de promovare a cântat la tobe Stefan Schwarzmann. Atât albumul, cât şi turneul au avut succes si au pus bazele noilui stil Helloween.

Helloween avea nevoie de un baterist permanent şi este adus Dani Löble. Albumul care a urmat, Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy (2005) s-a bucurat de succes şi a fost promovat printr-un turneu mondial în urma căruia Helloween lansează un material live şi un DVD, Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006 - Live on 3 Continents.

În aceeaşi formulă lansează Gambling With The Devil (2007) şi pleacă într-un turneu mondial alături de Gamma Ray şi Axxis

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