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Teachings of a False Prophet
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Song #51, completed 2/7/2003
The Stranger : Pattern 00h (29) 3:37
Introduction : Pattern 1Dh (14) 2:23
Wanderer : Pattern 2Bh (20) 3:23
Back in Time : Pattern 3Fh (30) 5:11
Arrival of the Prophet: Pattern 5Dh (26) 3:53
Crystal Ball : Pattern 77h (32) 5:27
Set Me Free : Pattern 97h (23) 5:08
In to the Light : Pattern AFh (21) 5:18
Forsaken : Pattern C4h (10) 2:33
Black and White : Pattern CEh (14) 4:20
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The Stranger
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Traveller, let me tell you my story
Stay here and take the time to listen to me
Once I was a good man, and I still possessed my pride
I was taken by evil, and I had no way to hide
I've walked this wasteland, wandering lonely as a cloud
Protected from the outside world beneath my darkened shroud
I haven't dared to show my face to ones who I may know
Now I am a nomad and I have no place to go
On this dark road, with the moon so pale
Listen as I tell my tale
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Introduction
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(Instrumental)
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Wanderer
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I went out in to the world, so confident and brave
Not knowing it would be the place my soul would find its grave
I wanted to be somebody, to make myself a name
To find my brave new world, gaining fortune and fame
I'm a wanderer - travelling the void
I'm a wanderer - lost and all alone
Wandering - on towards the future
Wanderer - to find the place called home
Travelling forever through days bright and nights so black
Pushing ever onwards, time I can't turn back
I'm a wanderer - travelling the void
I'm a wanderer - lost and all alone
Wandering - on towards the future
Wanderer - to find the place called home
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Back in Time
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Wandering the world, but where will I go
Out in to new lands and places I don't know
Until I find the place for my soul I'll travel on
Eventually I'll find the place to call my home
But I've left so much behind
Can I not go back in time
Oh, take me back in time, or tell me what I'll find
I wanted to be free, to shape my destiny
Take me back in time, to what I left behind
I need to go back to once again be free
But I've left so much behind
Can I not go back in time
I've found only so much pain
Give me my old life again
Oh, take me back in time, or tell me what I'll find
I wanted to be free, to shape my destiny
Take me back in time, to what I left behind
I need to go back to once again be free
So take me back in time, to when the world was mine
I wanted to be free, to shape my destiny
Now take me back in time, to what I left behind
Is someone else now there, living instead of me
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Arrival of the Prophet
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Prophet, I thought I was on the side of good
Show me how to live my life as you would
Now I can see that I've done so many wrongs
Under your command, I'll be shown where I belong
Belong
Oh Prophet, you took us all in
Showed us all there's a way to win
To you we're prepared to sacrifice
Take our souls, control our lives
Through him, I will find all the secrets of our lives,
He will give the truth to see
The world in a new way, to transcend beyond this plane,
Won't you follow him with me
Through him, I will find all the secrets of our lives,
He will give the truth to see
The world in a new way, to transcend beyond this plane,
Won't you follow him with me
Prophet, you took us all in
Showed us all there's a way to win
To you we're prepared to sacrifice
Take our souls, control our lives
Control our lives
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Crystal Ball
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Now I have these people under my command
Make them do my bidding, and they'll never understand
Chain them, enslave them, bind them to my will
Let me take their souls, and my Prophecy fulfil
Crystal ball, tell me their thoughts
Power of mine, show me their fears
Crystal ball, as I hold you now
Show me their actions, their joy and their tears
Everything that I wanted to forget
In the past he can see all my mistakes and my regrets
He'll hold them against me, I'm never pure in his eyes
Unless I follow him until the day I die
Crystal ball, tell me their thoughts
Power of mine, show me their fears
Crystal ball, as I hold you now
Show me their actions, their joy and their tears
False Prophet, you took us all in
Led us into a world of sin
What am I now, I'm not the same
I've been destroyed by your evil game
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Set Me Free
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You took me in, destroyed my soul
Still not satisfied, you want it all
My heart is numb, my will is drained
But we'll rise up against you, break our chains
I was blinded by you, but now I can see
Now it's clear that there's so much more to be
No longer a follower, my life is for me
I have to break out, set me free
Now I've brought you out, you have no power here
I can escape your will, there's nothing more to fear
You and I, we are the same
But I'll rise up against you, break my chains
I was blinded by you, but now I can see
Now it's clear that there's so much more to be
No longer a follower, my life is for me
I have to break out, set me free
I was blinded by you, but now I can see
Now it's clear that there's so much more to be
No longer a follower, my life is for me
I have to break out of here, set me free
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In to the Light
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I tried to leave you, to find a way to win
Instead, you all know my deepest sins
I went to find, not knowing what I saught
I tried to be something I'm not
My destiny wasn't to blindly follow
If only I'd known when I first chose to go
Don't hate me for my sins, I'm only human
Can't you forgive me for what I have done
I escaped the Prophet, but still you attack
I may have wronged, but I've come back
Back in to the light
Now I'm on the good side, can't you see
That I'm not what I used to be
Don't hate me for my sins, I'm only human
Can't you forgive me for what I have done
I escaped the Prophet, but still you attack
I may have wronged, but I've come back
Back in to the light
Don't hate me for my sins, I'm only human
Can't you forgive me for what I have done
I escaped the Prophet, but still you attack
I may have wronged, but I've come back
Back in to the light
Back in to the light
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Forsaken
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The people I'd forsaken wanted their revenge
But the Prophet rushed to my defence
Did he want to protect me, to let me go alone
Or instead, did he want me for his own
Prophet, are you enemy or friend
I'll stay with you till the end
We have to go on together
I'm destined to walk with you forever
Prophet, I wanted to be free
Instead, you control my destiny
You think I'm your servant, so faithful and true
But I'll never be like you
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Black and White
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Traveller, I came to warn you
Your path's on the edge of a knife
Don't just blindly follow on, that was my mistake
Choose your own path through life
Now I'm alone I can see
His power was passed on to me (I will become him)
But I will survive, my will to stay alive
Will outlive the power of evil
Traveller, I'll walk this road
Not knowing if I'm darkness or light
Perhaps I'm both, perhaps I'm neither
Evil or good, black or white
Now I'm alone I can see
His power was passed on to me (But I won't follow him)
And I will survive, my will to stay alive
Will outlive the power of evil
From those years, what I realised is this
That good and evil cannot coexist
You can't be on both sides, that was my regret
Can't both be good and evil, darkness amd light
Or black and white
Now I'm alone I can see
His power was passed on to me (But I won't follow him)
And I will survive, my will to stay alive
Will outlive the power of evil
Oh, now I'm alone I can see
His power was passed on to me (But I won't follow him)
And I will survive, my will to stay alive
Will outlive the power of evil
I will always survive, to stay on the good side
I'll outlive the power of evil
I will always survive, to stay on the good side
I'll outlive the power of evil
