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1. |
The Journey Within
07:38
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Instrumental
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2. |
Silent Windows
09:03
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COUPLET 1
Back to the streets we used to roam
And turned into our playground,
The only town we knew as boys
Growing up side by side.
I used to speak your voice
And saw the world through your eyes.
I hardly knew the difference
Between your thoughts and mine.
I know you’re waiting for me, Miles,
I know you’ll never let me down.
PONT
On every doorstep, every corner,
Every game we played, every story shared,
Every bruise from every kids' fight,
Every treehouse,
A flood of memories coming back.
In every street and every garden,
Every cigarette shared in silence,
Every stolen kiss, every school day,
Every secret den,
A flood of memories coming back.
REFRAIN
Through a haze of foggy daydreams
I kept hearing you call.
Through a maze of broken memories
I kept seeing you fall.
COUPLET 2
Between the hated blank walls
I used to call my prison,
They fed me pills at nightfall
To quiet haunting visions.
All through my sleepless nights,
Your voice remained my beacon,
Soothing me like a lullaby
Singing of memories long gone.
Tell me, who slept the longest, Miles?
Who wept the longest through the nights?
PONT
On every street and every corner,
Empty houses, silent windows,
Dying trees and broken streetlamps,
Rusty railings,
Where’s the town we used to know?
On every street and every corner,
Dirty walls and lonely schoolyards,
Whispering waters, rustling shadows,
Faded sunlight,
Where’s the town we used to know?
REFRAIN
Through a haze of foggy daydreams
I kept hearing you call.
Through a maze of broken memories
I kept seeing you fall.
PONT 2
Free at last to go,
Free at last to join you now,
Free at last to walk
In this dead husk of a town.
Free at last to roam
Across this decaying shrine,
This landscape of things gone
To waste away with time.
The old school is boarded up
All our dens are empty now.
But across the pavement,
A trail of painted footsteps
Beckons me, Miles,
Beckons me to follow
To the heart of town,
To the bridge, the river,
Like the ghost of a blood tie
Calling out to me, calling out to me,
Pleading me to join you there
PONT 3
Once we were boys, once we were brothers,
Once we shared secrets and games alike.
Once we were boys, once we were brothers,
Now I must walk without you by my side.
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3. |
A Price To Pay
05:39
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COUPLET 1
Staring out from darkened corners,
A silent crew prowls in the gutters,
Like mangy rats seeking shelter,
Skinny bodies, hooded features,
Hollow eyes, gleaming embers,
Leering faces, pointing fingers,
Quiet rage, accusing whispers.
A woman calls, tall and slender,
Coiling muscles, crouching tiger,
Knowing grin, wicked laughter.
PRÉ-REFRAIN
The woman:
Hope to find your brother Miles?
Look through your conscience first.
The dead are unforgiving
But the living are the worst.
REFRAIN
The woman:
For every promise you betray,
Remember there’s a price to pay.
Some say you let your brother down,
Be wary not to go astray
Craving for the light of day
From the deepest reaches of your night,
COUPLET 2
Shiny coin in her fingers.
She says “This is yours to deliver.
It will lead you to your brother.
If you make it to the river,
Take a look into the waters
As you would in a mirror.”
PRÉ-REFRAIN
The woman:
Hope to find your brother Miles?
Look through your conscience first.
The dead are unforgiving
But the living are the worst.
REFRAIN
The woman:
For every promise you betray,
Remember there’s a price to pay.
Some say you let your brother down,
Be wary not to go astray
Craving for the light of day
From the deepest reaches of your night,
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COUPLET 1
Every step of the way you walk beside me,
Every step of the way your shadow whispers.
Memory’s a burden when stories entwine
And the one that’s ended stays rooted in yours.
What if I join you there by the river?
Can we still change what’s been written in stone?
PONT 1
Every family gives you a part
That’s forever yours to keep and play.
You don’t get to choose,
For such are the rules,
There’s no turning back once they give you a name.
COUPLET 2
You’ll be the one who gets all the credit,
I’ll be the one who gets all the blame.
You’ll be the good brother, I’ll be the lazy one,
Bad seed, black sheep, coward, loser.
COUPLET 3
Why should I carry your weight on my shoulders?
Why should I turn into my brother’s keeper?
What if I join you there by the river?
Can we still change what’s been written in blood?
PARTIE CALME
Now you’ll remain forever the perfect one,
Frozen in time
I’ll be the one locked up
Straining to hear your voice at night.
Alternate endings to this sorry tale.
We could be heroes
Make up new rules to play this game.
REFRAIN
This is a call in anguish and sorrow
From a brother to a shadow.
Can you forgive me, can you forget,
Will time ever soften the blow?
This is a call in anguish and sorrow
From a brother to a shadow.
Will you forgive me, will you forget,
Will time ever soften the blow?
PONT 2
Your voice is the flow that runs through my veins,
I walk every step to the beat of your heart,
Driving me forward to cross every line
That kept us apart for so many nights.
Let’s make this town forever a clean slate,
A blank page to write a new tale upon.
Let’s be new brothers with no parts to play,
No more stupid Gavin, no more clever Miles.
Let’s go back in time, it’s never too late.
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5. |
No Town Of Mine
09:01
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COUPLET 1
This is no town of mine, this is an echo
Of a place I used to know, in a fading grey light.
Behind the misty veil lies a realm of blurry shapes.
The scenery changes with every step I take.
This is no town of mine, this is a border
Between what I used to be and what lies ahead of me.
This is no town of mine, this is the kingdom
Of things forgotten and memories rotten.
PRÉ-REFRAIN 1
A dreamlike reflection
Of familiar places,
A space with no time
Caught between day and night.
The paintings on the walls tell of a story
That would rather not be,
That should never have been.
REFRAIN
City speaks a language
Written on the walls
In rusty letters
And signs of woe.
City bears the secrets
Of a thousand guilty minds
Tattooed on fences
And empty houses.
City speaks in tongues
From a thousand faces
With staring eyes
And grinning features.
City’s eyes are watching
From every crumbling wall.
This is a judgment,
This is a call.
Among those faces one looks like yours,
Pale as the moonlight,
Hooded in shadows.
COUPLET 2
This is no town of mine, this is a fresco
Of shifting patterns and countless faces.
This is a gathering of painted strangers,
A trail of staring eyes and grinning features.
This is a secret gate to the bridge and the river.
A black feral shape lies across the road.
A growling wild dog baring shiny fangs.
Its breath is fetid, its eyes are human.
PRÉ-REFRAIN 2
A dreamlike reflection
Of familiar places,
A space with no time
Caught between day and night.
The paintings on the walls tell of a story
That would rather not be,
That should never have been.
REFRAIN
City speaks a language
Written on the walls
In rusty letters
And signs of woe.
City bears the secrets
Of a thousand guilty minds
Tattooed on fences
And empty houses.
City speaks in tongues
From a thousand faces
With staring eyes
And grinning features.
City’s eyes are watching
From every crumbling wall.
This is a judgment,
This is a call.
Among the strange faces one looks like yours,
Pale as the moonlight,
And hooded in shadows.
PONT 1
Beyond the gate, more paintings await,
The glint of a knife, the shape of a hand,
A man on his knees, yelling in pain.
A scream, a fall, a cry for help,
Splashing water, bleeding flesh,
One brother dying, one running scared.
PONT 2
I walk to the dog, coin in my hand.
Shiny silver glints like a blade.
This is the price to pay for my shame.
The dog leads me beyond the gate.
This is the bridge, this is the place
Where it all starts, where it all ends.
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6. |
Run Away In Fright
06:54
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COUPLET 1
Way too late at night
To cross this side of town.
Wrong path, wrong time,
Silly way to lose your life.
Too drunk to think straight,
Too stunned to realize.
Their hands looked so strong,
Their knives looked so sharp.
Once the light goes out,
The world turns a blind eye
To the midnight streets
And to their petty crimes.
PRÉ-REFRAIN
Feels like I did it,
Feels like my own fingers
Held the knife, grabbed you and
Stabbed you and slaughtered you…
The coin burns my palm,
My guilty palm,
My bloody palm,
My helpless palm.
REFRAIN
Run away, you coward,
Run away, you traitor,
Run, you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run away you coward,
Run away you traitor,
Run away you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run, Run, Run
COUPLET 2
The bridge was empty,
The silence was loud.
I didn’t mean to run,
Seek shelter in the night,
But the coward rose in me
And he was terrified.
When I came back in shame,
They’d thrown you in the river,
Leaving you to drown,
Leaving you to die.
PRÉ-REFRAIN
Still feels like I did it,
Feels like my own fingers
Held the knife, grabbed you and
Stabbed you and slaughtered you…
The coin burns my palm,
My guilty palm,
My bloody palm,
My helpless palm.
REFRAIN
Run away, you coward,
Run away, you traitor,
Run, you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run away you coward,
Run away you traitor,
Run away you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run, Run, Run
PONT
They shed your blood for nothing,
Just a handful of change
And a cheap thrill of power.
COUPLET 3
The one who stays alive
Carries the one who died.
Forever his burden,
Forever his crime.
The voice that speaks at night
Is neither yours nor mine:
A web of lies and hopes,
My own guilt in disguise.
DEMI PRÉ-REFRAIN
The coin burns my palm,
My guilty palm,
My bloody palm,
My helpless palm.
DOUBLE REFRAIN
Run away, you coward,
Run away, you traitor,
Run, you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run away you coward,
Run away you traitor,
Run away you lousy brother,
Leaving Miles to die.
Run, Run, Run
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7. |
Distant Shores
03:27
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COUPLET 1
So here you stand,
Still and pale,
Decaying flesh
In endless sorrow,
With a fading light
In your silent eyes,
A muted light,
A dying glow.
COUPLET 2
So here I stand,
Scared and broken,
My lips burning
With words unspoken.
Breathing still
Yet hardly living.
The weight of you
Is overwhelming.
COUPLET 3
What can be said,
What can be done,
When brothers meet
From different sides
Of that one night
Keeping us apart,
That single night
We can never take back.
COUPLET 4
So here we stand
In endless silence,
Face to face
From distant shores.
I’ll never reach
Your side of town,
You’ll never join
My side of night.
REFRAIN
Slowly you close your dead eyes,
Turn back then softly fade away
Into the hazy twilight,
Leaving my world just the same.
REFRAIN
Slowly you close your dead eyes,
Turn back then softly fade away
Into the hazy twilight,
Leaving my world just the same.
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COUPLET 1
Memories leave a trace
In the grain of your skin,
The shape of your thoughts,
The sag of your shoulders.
If I go back to living
I’ll spend my days
Carrying that weight around
To slowly make it mine.
I’ll learn to say your name
And remember your face,
Carry you like a keepsake
Of days forever gone.
Slide back into the world
Without you by my side,
And learn to reconcile
With the man in the mirror.
COUPLET 2
Memories leave a stain
In the fabric of time,
The folds of your name,
The twist of your mind.
I’ll learn to bend my conscience
To a shape I can hold
In the palm of my hand
And claim again as mine.
I’ll shed you like a skin
That stuck so long to mine.
I’ll learn to walk alone
And outlive your silence.
Slide back into the world
Without you by my side,
And learn to reconcile
With the man in the mirror.
REFRAIN
There’s a man in the mirror
Wearing my face,
He bears my conscience,
Speaks my silence,
Carries my skin
Like the hide of a beast
Has a path to tread,
A life to be lived,
I need to embrace
The man I’ve become,
To still that voice
That spoke at night,
To still that voice
That was mine all along.
PONT TERNAIRE
Now you live in my dreams,
Brother, shadow,
To sweet oblivion, deep and mellow.
Now I can leave you in peace,
Let your memory grow
And finally tame the sorrow,
Finally learn to let go.
COUPLET 3 ALTERNATIF
The streets awaken
From their delusion,
Slowly shaking
From their confusion.
The heavy mist
Is slowly fading,
Streets are stirring
To greet the morning.
This is the town, this is the place,
This is the life I must embrace.
REFRAIN ALTERNATIF
This is a new morning,
Casting a new light
On deeply buried fears,
On ever shifting lives.
A new day rises
On peaceful gardens,
On blue horizons,
And quiet waters.
Echoing voices
Bloom all over town
And call the wayward son
To his forgotten home.
This is a new morning,
Casting a new light
On deeply buried fears,
On ever shifting lives.
A new day rises
On peaceful gardens,
On blue horizons,
And quiet waters.
Echoing voices
Bloom all over town
And call the wayward son
To his forgotten home.
COUPLET 4 ALTERNATIF
The streets are breathing
With life remembered
And slowly waking
From their deep slumber.
The streets are shedding
Their misty shroud,
Their veil of bleakness,
Their nightly guise.
The city’s nightmares
Are slowly fading
To leave the landscape
Reborn and clean.
The streets are real
Under my soles,
So safe and solid
To tread upon.
This is the town, this is the place,
This is the life I must embrace.
This is my truth,
It may be cruel but it’s mine to face,
Mine to remember.
REFRAIN ALTERNATIF
This is a new morning,
Casting a new light
On deeply buried fears,
On ever shifting lives.
A new day rises
On peaceful gardens,
On blue horizons,
And quiet waters.
This is a new morning,
Casting a new light
On deeply buried fears,
On ever shifting lives.
A new day rises
On peaceful gardens,
On blue horizons,
And quiet waters.
PONT CHANTÉ
Here I come, here I walk,
Brotherless but alive,
Brotherless but sane,
I’m finally home
To stare at the mirror,
Listen to the mirror,
Find myself in the mirror.
I’m freed from that voice
That was never yours,
That deceitful voice,
That misleading voice.
I’m finally home,
Brotherless but alive,
Brotherless but sane.
REFRAIN
There’s a man in the mirror
Wearing my face,
He bears my conscience,
Speaks my silence,
He carries my skin
Like the hide of a beast
He has a path to tread,
A life to be lived,
I need to embrace
The man I’ve become,
To still that voice
That spoke at night,
To still that voice
That was mine all along.
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Elvaron Nancy, France
Formé en 1993 Elvaron est un groupe de metal progressif moderne baignant dans un univers littéraire fantastique. Elvaron se nourrit de nombreuses influences musicales des maîtres du progressif tels que Rush, Symphony X ou encore Dream Theater tout en conservant une approche plus agressive du thrash américain d’Overkill ou encore de Testament. ... more
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