HammerFall - Never, ever (Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken, 2005)

Sitting in my room, staring at the wall,
I can't believe it's happening
Once so wonderful, now,
life's a twisted kind of reality, a fantasy
Don't know where to begin

Saw your love for me vanish in a single moment of stupidity
Nightmare this may be, but it is not a dream, ooh
I want to scream; a broken heart still bleeds

Never ever talk, never ever smile
Knowing that my life won't be the same
Never ever touch, never ever feel
I will never hear you call my name…again

In my dreams I see, see you come to me; a memory of times of old
Waking up, I realize Hell's as cool as ice
and the touch of sin did get me in
Nothing burns like the cold

Never ever talk, never ever smile
Knowing that my life won't be the same
Never ever touch, never ever feel
I will never hear you call my name...again

As we sin, so do we suffer
I've fallen from grace, want to turn back time and make it undone

Guitar Solo

Never ever talk, never ever smile
Knowing that my life won't be the same
Never ever touch, never ever feel
I will never hear you call my name
Never ever talk, never ever smile
All I see: a future full of fear
Never ever touch, never ever feel
I can never whisper in your ear…I'm sorry

Seether - Tonight (Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray, 2011)

I'm not gonna waste this
This opportunity's mine
I'm sick of complaining
About a beautiful life

How did we get here?
Did we forget all the things inside?
And how do we stay here?
Do we embrace all the things denied?

I feel so alive tonight
You got me feeling sublime
I want to yell it from the rooftops down
Until it's over, and we're older

For my entertainment
You tell a whimsical lie
To keep me complacent
You knock me down with a smile

How did we get here?
How do we pretend everything's alright?
And how do we stay here?
Do we erase all the fear inside?

I feel so alive tonight
You got me feeling sublime
I want to yell it from the rooftops down
Until it's over, and we're older

Like sugar and cyanide
These worlds are gonna collide
I want to yell it from the rooftops down
Until it's over, and we're older

So take me, but go slow
Let me hide somewhere I know
And let this seed grow
Until we finally call this home
So take me, but go slow
Let me hide somewhere I know
And let this seed grow
Until we finally call this home

If I was to die tonight
Would it tear you apart?
Would you yell it from the rooftops down?
Until it's over, and you're older

I feel so alive tonight
You've got me feeling sublime
I want to yell it from the rooftops down
Until it's over, and we're older
Like sugar and cyanide
Our worlds are meant to collide
I'm gonna yell it from the rooftops down
Till it's over, and we're older

P.O.D. - It can't rain everyday (When Angels and Serpents Dance, 2008)

This little one tries as hard as she can
Do anything just so she could fit in
She wants a friend so bad she'll do whatever they tell her
To make them smile she would misbehave
But all the while they would laugh in her face
She begins to cry because she thought that they liked her

Even though you feel all alone
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever
Your sunshine may be gone but i know
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever

He works hard everyday of his life
For his son on the way and his beautiful wife
But today he got a call from his job they got something to tell him.
They laid him off now he's out on the streets
He's got to do what it takes so his family can eat
He can't even look at his wife because he feels like he failed them

Even though you feel all alone
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever
Your sunshine may be gone but i know
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever


It don't rain...
It don't rain forever
It can't rain...
It don't rain forever!


Reign down! reign down! reign down! so let it reign down!
Reign down! reign down! reign down on me now!

A young lady's been lost for awhile
But that's ok now she's having a child
She finally got what she wants. she's got someone who loves her
But this morning she woke up in pain.
Nobody had to tell her because she knew right away
So she started to cry because she won't be a mother.

Even though you feel all alone
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever
Your sunshine may be gone but i know
It can't rain everyday
It don't rain forever

It don't rain...
It don't rain forever
It can't rain...
It don't rain forever!

Reign down! reign down! reign down! reign down on me!
Reign down! reign down! reign down!

Avantasia - Memory (The Metal Opera Part. II, 2002)

[Falk:]

Oh, I dare not to sleep anymore
Cause I see her face in every nightmare
In all the windows of my haunted house
And when I dream a dream of flowers
I wake up in my hand a bloody rose

'Blood shall come upon you'
So she spoke to me
Never knew she'd come back
Now she's on my dreams
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream
Or just a wicked memory ... Oh

Now I see her coming on her besom...
The smell of brimstone
And the mark of the beast
From the open window
Is it just a dream
As she's pulling out the dagger to stab
A thousand times into my hurting breast

Wake up from the nightmare
Screaming when I see her stand
with the face of Jakob
A bloody dagger in her hand

From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory
As foretold in their prediction
From the faces in my dream
They are coming back for me
As it was told in their prediction
Is it just a dream

[Gabriel:]

Maybe his conscience
Will send him a dream in his dreams
If I only knew - oh Anna -
If his soul also came free
Or maybe if Jakob
Would talk to the bailiff for you
I can't come for you

I don't know how many souls were set free
To start a rebellion, don't know if I'll still have to flee

[Solo: Jens Ludwig]

Oh that faces in my dream...
From the faces in my dream
From an evil memory...

Avantasia - Avantasia (The Metal Opera Part. I, 2001)

[Gabriel]

Open my eyes

and see my bleeding wounded hands...

Feeling the pain too hard to stand. To stand...

Caught in the 'now and here'

while they are on the way.

Hiding imagination, leading us astray...

[Lugaid]

Use your mind!

You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.

Sanity can be the toll -

leading to the core of your soul.

[Gabriel and the voices in his head]

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.

We are the kingdom of light and dreams,

gnosis and life: Avantasia!

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.

We are the kingdom of light and dreams,

gnosis and life: Avantasia! - Avantasia...

Walking along the icy gallery of pain.

Tell me now: What can keep the flame alive?

Lack of imagination - raising up the tower

where they hold our souls

to take away the tower.

[Lugaid]

Use your mind!

You will leave the flesh dimensions behind.

Sanity can be the toll -

leading to the core of your soul.

[Gabriel]

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.

We are the kingdom of light and dreams,

gnosis and life: Avantasia!

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy.

We are the kingdom of light and dreams,

gnosis and life: Avantasia!

Oh - Avantasia

Oh - I hear the voices

Oh - into the light

Oh - Avantasia...