Symphony X

What's become of the world - the colors unfurl revealing a blackened haze Conditioned to fear the voice that we hear - calling an end of days Millions of souls under control like pawns to a king, led by a string, to the final hour Oh - Empire of the Sea,...

A Lesson Before Dying A chill grows near you're faced with fear a darkened day you'll see it clear your shadows call while you stand tall watch before me while you fall Times are changing, rearranging where's the answer we've all been looking for transient...

A Winter's Dream - Prelude (Part I) Although your words are empty, I can hear now, what you feel inside The night is drawing closer, you fell you have to hide. Your fears are never wrong or right Everything is either black or white. It's time to close you...

A Winter's Dream - The Ascension (Part II) Still in bed an hour past, I'm drifting through the void. As fallen star divides the sky of divinity. Taken on a journey, and enlightened to the past. And if I wake, if I wake, will it embrace me? Awoke at dawn to...

Now at my feet, the dying voice of Balance - nevermore shall there be a way to fly, a way to fly on wings of Divinity, as words of wisdom fade away The Law of One will fade and die The rising Moon will crush the Sky So falls the Night - the darkest ho...

Absinthe And Rue In your time of dying don't call my name so you see me as evil it's just the same Through the windows in my mind now you're cast in flames Absinthe and Rue twisted wings of paranoia twilight runs through eyes of ignorance Afflicte...

On a cold and misty night, a ring of torches light the hallowed ground where his father's laid to rest In the reflection of the sword he sees his destiny and he swears up to the sky - "You will not have died in vain" On the field - with sword and shiel...

Needless to say, another day has passed away Yet everything, and nothing, has changed Awake I lie, my thoughts get lost up in the sky Needless to say, nothing will change... Maybe a mystic - with fortunes to tell... Surrender my coin at the old wishing w...

You can be all you desire An honest man - a vicious liar Seek out the Light or seek the Dark You can honor or desecrate Sympathize or manipulate Carved in your flesh - embrace the Mark Enslaved and hypnotized - Chained to artificial lives You are the...

Candlelight Fantasia Just one more night One more score Another question in my mind, can't take no more Kissing the tears form my face as they fall To the ground in silence in twilight and faded time Spirits cold, with no love Bells ring a lonely chime Candl...

Through me you pass - just take my hand The ferryman whispers my name The course has been set - lord of the damned To the banks, over river of pain We rise and fall - with the tide On through the gates, where shadows await See the glimmer of gold in his eye...

Screaming at the walls around me - Broken and alone Fighting with my inner demons is all I've ever known All I am - I give to you All my dreams and nightmares, too Disconnected life of anguish - The mirror fades to black Feels like I'm sinking deep in...

Church Of The Machine Bow down in the platinum maze Twilight cathedrals spread the system plague Forging sacred thrones in the void unseen Merciless judgement in the church of the machine I'm the master, looking down from the edge of space and time Flesh an...

All we know, now has come undone Balance lost between the Moon and Sun Hear out prayers - Keepers of the Skies Divine Upon us all - let your wisdom shine Losing faith as the madness prevails in us all we are searching for a reason, a need to calm the s...

Tap the vein - Inject my brain And let the poison flow Torn apart - You’re ripping out my heart It's painless, let it go Come on, hit the switch - You son of a bitch I'm devoured, broke in two You take control and resurrect my soul Becoming something n...

Domination [Lucifer]: All alone the waste and wild Legions of lost scream in pain A million shattered destinies all slowly drowning in tears of flame Break the chains around your necks lick your wounds you Dogs of War Raise your banners ever high a...

Dressed To Kill Dark desires of the cynic queen laugher echoes her name He feels his breath decay Opens the past to an empty page Watch his life drain away Arrival - dressed to kill, scarlet memories Watching and waiting for curtains to fall Arrival - dres...

Endless sands of Alnantees - etched in gold, a city lost in time and from the Sea - A Child speaks of things unseen, before the King - a teller of the Rhyme Five align - hidden in the word a message locked in time find the Key - it draws the final line...

You liberate me, separate and set me free You release my spirit to the wind For evermore your name will soar inside of me Let the reign of steel begin Oh, how the prophets of the people were so blind As one by one, all the kingdoms fall in line Hail th...

Eve Of Seduction [Lucifer]: It's alright - no need to question Taste the night - just close your eyes it just takes one bite All you need's in my possession Just believe - come take my hand, tonight and trust your dreams I'm falling all to pieces, s...

Born from the light - journey into the moment, delivered from thought and sky He will be one, one with the land - Lord of wind and the sea and the sands The one - The bringer of life "All will bear a part of me - let this hollow shell set your free to...

Alone I walk, among the twisting shadows tempted by the ancient magic, the Power of Five My desire to mirror my own image - and I will offer you no soul - offer you no soul Tonight Darkness will shadow the Light - Symmetry divine, there's no force gre...

Sailing across the seas far and wide We alone pierce the gloom of the night We search for answers to riddles all this time And with the sunset, our land fades from sight Heading out (we are) Far from home (and we) Seek to conquer the great unknown (the...

I have led the lamb into the slaughter Ice flowed through my veins I was my own worst enemy, still hellish memories remain. I have shown the serpent into the garden And wore the Mark of Cain. Take a look in these eyes, where the past evil lies – And feel my p...

The human infection Soaring on winds of woe and pestilence Remove imperfection - Parasites with lives of little consequence, Even though we know the sky is falling Still we choose not to believe, On your knees... Heretic - devil in disguise Never qui...

Rise of the One - The dark iconoclast Forging a cult of fear With legions unsurpassed Shouting the word - With vicious tongues of fire Born of illusion and deceit Fiendish soul of a liar The chaos unseen rips The midnight sky Infernal machines arise...

I’ve been betrayed By the angel of death And the serpent who stole her last breath. Feeding the flame Though I pray for the best, I prepare for the worst, just the same. Dominator – Subjugator Locked in an apocalypse gaze Desecrator – Devastator Set my world...

Through eerie reach of ancient woods where lumbering mists arise I journey for nines moons of the year to where a land of legend lies Deep within a stony lamp-lit hall under falling grains of sand Magic eyes glance magic pages turned by magic hands A...

Welcome to the Anarchy Enigmatic entity The grand illusion - destitution infecting one and all Forces they're oppressing me Lords of mediocrity an iron will shall break the still some will rise and some will fall Oh... yes, we ride through stormy ski...

Into The Dragon's Den Placid skies, through crystal gazing eyes Slaves to our desire, in a ring of smoke and fire The dungeons call, two faces on the wall Candles light the way, for a moonlight serenade Through the nights and days, we will find a way A way...

I awake - without the sun encased in walls of steel terror so real - it blinds me Rancid darkness steals my breath The Pit - on the edge of death The wells of Hell know not my name I slip away...into black I fade away Terrified - to the left and to t...

Realms of desolation - where phantom frighten beasts Through fiery rain, the screams of pain, eternal, never cease Hell's abomination - boundless chains of woe With mighty stride, the horsemen ride in a sable blackened glow Into night - into fury Horse...

Lady Of The Snow Garden of ice, ivory trees dimly glow Maiden in white, led by lanterns of stone Captured-by the light of moon Diamonds and Jade-dressed in ashen blue From the North, a mistress dressed in silvery blaze The feel of her kiss steals my breath...

Steal away through the land of the dead – Where angels fear to tread Over mountains, the sky, and the sea. Feel the light bleeding from a new moon – Escape from the hands of doom I never thought I could change what would be. Break the chains of fear I won’t...

Have you lost all your senses? Oh, why did you have to go tempting fate? Blinded by your ambitions Oh, why can't you see the chaos you create? Oh, have we gone too far, too fast? My dying eyes scream with pain All my hopes and my dreams drown in flames...

Masquerade Shackled in darkness - the forbidden portrait confined to it's frame Unbroken silence - a total misfortune and shame Ragin obsession - this mask of oppression, it hides your agression from view This tearing suture renounces the love he once knew...

From the skies, Across the sea of lies, To the dungeons of the damned Scourching winds blazing thunderclouds raging, Here I make my stand The viper's venomous bite has brought on the night Swept away, Like a bird of prey Now there's hell to pay From...

Of Sins And Shadows Passing through the void The darkest grand illusion Chaos is riding on the wind Destroyed in agony They create a maddened lair Summon all to heed their cry Innocence fading away - the dying eyes of prey Desperate cries, hail of fire dec...

Orion - The Hunter Child of the oceans I am, walking on the waves Stirring the pools, I silence and calm the tides to a glaze Touched by a vision of love, her beauty recognized Elusive to me, progressions are now violence in disguise On a quest for light, an...

Out Of The Ashes In the house of my master Beyond the chains there is a bed of snakes where evil lays Oh, I hear laughter I forged the iron bars that someday will imprison me Ooh, mother will you help me Mother will you help me To find a reason to go on Out...

Paradise Lost In the cold misty morning gleaming rays awake the dawn Here I stand - a stranger in this land does your conscience betray you? falling from grace - feel the sun on my face does desire still hold true? Mystified by her beauty - does the...

Pharaoh Ancient lands, lost in time Storms of sand, walls of lime Surround this mask of death I wear Awakened by intruder souls The jackal screams as my stone gods behold Desecraters of Ra Pharaoh's curse upon you Who dares to invade his sacred ground Gods...

Premonition Unlock the doors of silence scanning eyes turn into stone pours the wine of hate and enmity Helpless minds dance in circles forever frozen within time then stare into unlit serenity Endless dreams are all encased in disarray Through the eyes of...

Perfection - one direction One voice, one mind Selection - mass dissection Rebuild, refine Creation - modification Becoming something more Mutations - bred to infect Erase, restore You made me strong, but you don't fear me No right or wrong, if you...

Rapture Or Pain A tearless stare encased by fear like a thread my heart is torn and ripped right from my soul with no control Suits in disguise then fades to red brings a blackened sky to fall and make you very cold while you grow old Gone whithout a trace...

A voice from the past echoes the fate - a tale of all things yet to come as it once was, so it shall be again modern day Children of the Sun Seek the hidden rhyme and there you'll find a new world order Feel the mystery - so much to see through the eye...

"...and on the Eye of Alignment the everlasting battle of Darkness and Light descends to another plane, but, on this material Earth, we must look to a crime remembered only by a collective resonance in the human consciousness... when Five where as One......

Scorn the Omen - Architects of Deceit Pulverized within the Jaws of Defeat Our ruin enginered, we've reached the Gates of Fear Forging vengeance in the City of Doom Ripping Death from Sin's unholy womb The riders on the storm, cursed the day they're born...

Revelation (Divus Pennae Ex Tragoedia) [Lucifer]: Against the wall - they see you nowhere to run, nowhere to hide Heroic Mask - The cracks are showing a Faceless God to shape the Perfect Lie Wounds of Hate have pierced so deep they never die - my rev...

I’m on the run, nowhere to turn, they’re on my heels Lost in the maze, where do I go? Am I insane, it’s just a game of life and death Stay the course and ride the flow. I cross the bridge, I’m at the gates I’m out of breath, chasing the clock, I’m out of time...

Savage Curtain Besiege me not for what I am a man with intent in the Devil's den for I know not what to believe yet mad I am not in trust I deceive Radical alterations in my temper grows worse day by day I will offer you extreme opposition Savage curtain cl...

Sea Of Lies Today I've seen the shallow face I wear Inside this shell, a living hell endures I'm held captive by my fear, decaying hope and wasted years The Knife of Time carves another line around these eyes Good and evil - lust primeval Dragging m...

Secrets Deep within a tiny box, shadowed truth under the locks Burns inside your heart - then it starts Your soul stretched on the rack the straw that breaks the back Watch the make-up crack... Got no peace of mind, now you're going blind Secrets within, li...

Set The World On Fire (The Lie Of Lies) [Lucifer]: God-like perfection reflect in these eyes reaching for my place - With stars on high Damn the betrayers Through twilight, I fall Headlong flaming - I curse you all There's no turning back falling d...

Seven Above all - high and mighty - will like a towering steed - a Web of Conceit that I weave More...wanting much more - grasping with Envious Eyes - dark desires lead to words that cut like knives Frozen in your tracks... No remorse Embrace the rack...

Shades Of Grey Seasons changing now - summer's come and I'll be on my own just bear another day I have wondered - if I can turn back hands of time I'll try, just try another way I don't know why my heart keeps calling, but I really don't want you to stay I...

Smoke And Mirrors It's all perpetual dreams, this hidden life ain't what it seems Walking dead we are Victims of misfortune and lies, and tortured bringers of demise Circling above like vultures They reap the harvest that we sew and take, like trusting fool...

I stand alone As my world comes crashing down Some things are never meant to be Accept your fate cause there's no second-time around "It´s not the stars or sky that shapes our destiny" Just a fateful glance Just a fleeting chance in the wind Gone forevermore...

Taunting The Notorious Don't give me reasons why you spread your disease like aplague Caught up in treason a faith that's misleading and vague It's so sad our world is breaking down feeling desires, desires are set in my mind Your corrupted ways my sarcas...

The Accolade Into the morning sun Down his chosen road he rides to save the world Cross of crimson, robe of white Sworn to the quest for the rest of his life Play shields and wooden swords Slaying dragons as a knight of Arthur's Court Trained to kill, to sin...

Mocking the ways of Justice - the Serpent's Dragon - Vultures ride Storming the Gates of Seven - no mortal man shall break our stride Our flames engulf your good works and our terror reigns supreme Dark beasts that do my bidding by thrashing, tearing do...

The Damnation Game Forever cursed by this game, he who plays with sin Incantations summoned up our creations We're players cast in this tale, believe it stranger than fiction This justice thunders our condemnation Falling into innocence by a shadow's kiss...

Lacrimosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus "..tainted memories of Balance lost, forever bury the truth of all unity..." 

The Divine Wings Of Tragedy On the edge of paradise Tears of woe fall, cold as ice Hear my cry Renounce, have you, thy name Eternal is my pain Eternal is the pain that leads me to the thrones of temptation Eternal is the pain that leads me to the th...

The Edge Of Forever Pictures of what used to be, lie in pieces on the floor finds himself in an empty room, her voice calls out to him he opens the door, but there's no one there no one there... Draped in a silken glow of moonlight through the mist I see, a...

Bite your tongue The blackened sun Will curse the moon Skies of fire Nothing's worth a damn Calculate Anticipate Your every move Beware The ruthless hearts of man Feel my pain My words are in vain I believe it's the end of innocence Don't look a...

The Eyes Of Medusa Can you look into my eyes Tell me, now do you somehow still recognize this stare I wear Through crystal tears The light escapes my smile There is no likeness to be seen, it is so strange to me Awaken vindication The mirrors curse-it beset...

The Haunting Lightning flashes across the sky the hands of time keep falling like the pouring rain Soft voice call my name; I've seen this place before This whole thing is mad and still I can see that he awaits for me As the knife cuts to the vein am I going...

Forged in blood, carved in stone, Right before your eyes, you’ve always known See the truth inside yourself, see the world like no one else Oh, if only you were king, you could change everything. Can’t you see what they’re doing to you and me? We rule,...

[Part I Odysseus' Theme / Overture] [music / orchestration - Romeo] [instrumental] [Part II - Journey to Ithaca] [music - Romeo] [lyrics - Allen, Romeo] To the one that I love, my journey has begun When our eyes meet once more there will be peace Th...

The Raging Season From whom the Gods destroy they first make mad casting shadows on our fears Malicious designs built strong and iron-clad catostrophic conclusion, judgement closes near Chaos sets the stage bitter mouths of violent rage spinning webs of time...

The Relic Silver cross in ancient halls, deep inside the castle walls Bound to sleep, forever locked in chains Evil carved into the stone, ancient words they've never known A serpent's silent shroud still remains Come with me and I'll make all your wishes c...

The Sacrifice Your eyes, singing to me sweet lullabies while you lay there in submission Forbidden desire alone in the moonlight hearts afire - burn away our inhibitions When the stars lose their fire And night steals the morning away Forever and a d...

The Serpent's Kiss [Satan]: Covenant of Pure Corruption sink my teeth deep into you Solemn oath of sheer Destruction Nightmare, through and through In that hour - I'll devour Hope is swallowed up in Pain taste the venom - feel the Power coursing thr...

Lurking out of sight Night shall fall and feed my frenzy Beneath an eerie moon a change comes over me Eyes glow by candlelight a face divided in the mirror my psyche ripped by daggers of my alchemy Side by side with myself again As midnight's curse de...

The Walls Of Babylon [Satan]: Down the plains - come Hell Riders blood of ice and hissing breath Consumed by this lust - into battle staring down the Eyes of Death Skies of Red - Winged Thunder Breathing Lightning Fire - Invaders - Light slayers Cut...

The Witching Hour It was seven score and sixteen more A dreadful scene to behold Marble silhouettes, white statuettes Forever gaze into time (Caught in a web between life and death) Visions dance throughout the night In the pale moon light In the witching ho...

Thorns Of Sorrow Beckoning me through aeons of time - captured by you in dismay I try to elude these prisions of flesh - but return to shattered domains There's no image in the mirror Shattered glass impales my soul She's like thorns of sorrow - ripping th...

Through The Looking Glass [Part I:] Look to the other side, reach the undefined Curious to what she doesn't know Step through the empty air, reveal what wasn't there A fantasy-her looking glass world Is it as it seems? Or just a dream within a dream (dream w...

Treacherous words rise from the mist From envious eyes and poisonous cold, pale lips Gruttons of pleasure - Gluttons of pain Vengeance by sevens - My sweet curse, children of Cain Trashing and clashing with specters Hiding from light - demons of death Chaos a...

I believe... Nothing ever comes to light - Chasing shadows in the night In a starless sky and I wonder why I believe... We will never find a way - That darkness lights the day We never question why, still I wonder why? I close my eyes lost in a memory...

Whispers When all the angels cry sadness reigns upon us all white doves fade to black With the absence of the heart we could never smile we can feel the bitter tears Whispers from you - calling out from above visions I can't see, like the wind and your lov...

Alone I traveled through the mountains Led by a star fading west When I came upon an ancient ruin of a church and it was there I stopped to rest Then the black and gloomy night that chased my footsteps crashed down on me like a wave Whispering through t...

Flying into the storm Hanging on a broken wing Onto every life A little rain must fall Oh, the words I sing It's a greater thing To have loved and lost Than to never, ever Loved at all I've come undone Any fool can see What's become of me Someti...