Trans-siberian Orchestra

[FATE] LAY YOUR HEAD DOWN AND SLEEP ON MY SHOULDER LAY YOUR HEAD DOWN AND START A NEW DREAM AND FOR TONIGHT THE MOMENT IS OVER DRIFT IN A LULLABY HERE WHERE THE STARS RESIDE AND ANGELS ARE ALWAYS SEEN AND LAY YOUR HEAD DOWN THE STARS THEY HAVE WHISPERED HEAR...

[GHOSTS] PRIUSQUAM PRAESENS DAMNATUS SALVENS : HIC HOMO NESCIENS. QUAE FUTURA EST ? EST PLANE VANUM? MAGNIFICANDUM? ERROR AUT SANUM? O FORTUNA EST! QUA? THE PAST AND PRESENT LOSS AND REDEMPTION A MAN'S INTENTIONS ALL THINGS YET TO BE A LAST ILLUSION TIME'S...

[1.] God rest ye merry gentlemen God rest ye merry gentlemen [simultaneously - add a new stanza each second time] [2.] There up in the sky a star to follow There up in the sky a star to follow There up in the sky a star to follow [3.] All Await the coming o...

[THERESA] TIME ONLY TIME COULD NEVER TAKE ME AWAY FROM YOU AND WHY SHOULD IT TRY TIME NEVER CARES JUST WHAT WE DO IT JUST SITS ON A STAR AND GAZES DOWN DROPPING ITS MOMENTS ALL AROUND AND IF I COULD WISH UPON THAT STAR I WOULD FIND WHAT YOU DREAM AND THEN A...

An angel came down One night to the Earth A mission from God To find out the worth Of everything that His children had done Since that winter night The birth of his son And then a sound filled the night In the cold winter air And in the midst of his...

An angel returned That night through the sky But time it was short He had to decide And so as he flew Back over the land A gift for his Lord Was there in his hand It was the glow of a light It was the heart of a song It was the tear of a child Where they nev...

Deep inside this Christmas Eve Watching as the hours leave Gently drifting in the air Shadows of an angel's share Christmas lights On Christmas nights With peace for every nation Stable scenes And evergreens With snow still glistening Angels grace...

On this night of hope and salvation one child lies embraced in a dream where each man regardless of station on this night can now be redeemed where every man regardless of his nation ancestral relations on this night the past can fly away and that dre...

(Lieutenant) SO YOU’RE CAUGHT IN THE NIGHT OF A NEW FIREFIGHT IN A JUNGLE THAT’S SO HOT THAT IT STEAMS AN EXPLOSION JUST AHEAD DOES ANNOUNCE THE NEWLY DEAD IS IT RIGHT TO CALL A NIGHTMARE A DREAM AND THE TRACERS PROBE ON ‘TIL A CLOSE FRIEND IS GONE AND YOU...

Time standing all alone i bled for you i wanted to each drop my own slowly they depart but fall in vain like desert rain and still they fall on and on and on got to get back to a reason got to get back to a reason i once knew and this late in the...

So after all those one night stands You’ve ended up with heart in hand A child alone On your own Retreating Regretful for the things you’re not And all the things you haven’t got Without a home A heart of stone lies bleeding And for all the roads you followe...

Hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away Christmas is here bringing good cheer to young and old meek and the bold Ding dong, ding dong, that is the song with joyful ring all caroling, one seems to hear words of good cheer from e...

Child of the night Dreams dare alight Anywhere your heart does wander Know that they will walk with thee Each grain of sand Falls as was planned And within each precious moment Are the things still yet to be Night in its vespers Dreams are its gestures Stars...

(Erasmus) Late in summer Staring out the window Only seven Tell me what could she know The world would never understand But they don’t see what she still can What does she see What does she know And must she ever just let go As childhood dreams Ch...

Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings This night We pray Our lives Will show This dream He had Each child Still knows...

This night we pray Our lives will show This dream he had Each child still knows This night we pray Our lives will show This dream he had Each child still knows We are waiting We have not forgotten We are waiting We have not forgotten On this night, on this...

Somewhere beyond where the light rarely goes somewhere beyond where the dark barely breathes somewhere this night where the dark only knows she awaits ever patient she awaits rarely seen but her moments are taken for in the dead of the night gathering...

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Christmas time in the middle of a city Seeking its salvation With every string of lights That suddenly appears Children stare with new found wonder No one dares to break the trance Every wish is carefully numbered And God has granted all a second chanc...

Carolize understand turn it up christmas jam the band played on and on with no one looking at their watch and just when you thought it couldn't get any better they would turn it up a notch 

Just another night in new york city snow comes down looks real pretty don't know how but suddenly there you are with jelly roll morton playin' for the bar inside here, lights are low but each song has its own glow as he floats them through that smokey a...

[THE MUSES] FEEL THE DARKNESS SMILING EVERY NOTE IS DYING SILENCE IS REFINING EVERY THOUGHT IN HIS HEART STILL THE FATES ARE WEAVING EVERY NOTE THAT'S BLEEDING AS HE SITS THERE SEETHING ALL ALONE IN THE DARK ALONE IN THE DARK ALONE IN THE ... BUT IN THE NIG...

Dream, child as childhood wants to do dream all this night will allow dream, child dream with an angel's view out there safe in your clouds wait for me now i will be there for you no matter what tomorrow may bring this i will vow i will be there...

In the night Was the dark In the dark Was the dream In the dream Was the Child And myself There unseen In the book was the word In the word there was truth In the truth there was age In the age there was youth And I said to the Child Do your han...

(Lieutenant) IN A CITY AFTER MIDNIGHT NEATH THE HALO OF STREET LIGHT WHERE THE DREAMS DIE AS THE BLOOD DRIES ON THE WOUNDS WE KEEP HIDDEN FROM VIEW IN THE SAFETY OF THIS DARKNESS AS IT HIDES ALL TIME HAS TARNISHED THE FORBIDDEN UNFORGIVEN ARE SECURE HERE WHE...

[Tran-Do] The silence (in Khmer) Don't go Does it have to be this way? Can't we have just one more chance? Those who know They will not say Must this be the final... Dance in our lives? As time just moves on Yesterday's years Are too quickly gone All visio...

[GHOSTS & SPIRITS] FAITH AND BELIEF AND RETREAT WHEN YOU'RE STANDING ALL ALONE WITH YOUR DREAMS IN THE DARK NEVER KNOWING WHAT IS REAL IN THE SHADOWS YOU MEET NEVER KNOWING WHAT IS TRUE IN THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK NEVER KNOWING IF FATE SHE HEARS ME FATE STA...

(Mrs. Cozier) YOU WERE THE DREAM THAT SURVIVED LOST IN THE DARKNESS OF ETERNITY YOU WERE THE HOPE KEPT ALIVE EMBRACED BY TOMORROWS THAT WE ALL COULD NEVER QUITE SEE YOU HAD A BEAUTY DENIED YOU WERE THE MOMENT BUT HERE IN THIS NIGHT WHERE YOUR DREAM CARRIES...

He believed in the things That he always thought he knew And had done all the things That he always wanted to do Collecting Each thing reflecting his worth But now he pondered How he had wandered this earth For we all seem to give our lives away Sear...

In a stable in a manger in the cold winter's air in the arms of his mother a child's lying there in a city in a village though the years have gone by the child still remains with the dream still close by and each year on this night that child reawa...

I wasn't sure what you were thinking i saw a distance in your eyes the passion we once had is fading into the whirlwind of our lives but you sit right there like you don't care if we try real hard we'll get somewhere 'cause it's all about the lovin'...

Joy to the world The Lord has come Let earth Receive her king Now it was long ago When it all began Back in Bethlehem In the promised land When a single star Appeared in the sky And three kings saw And they each asked why Asked why... And they checked the b...

[THERESA] LOST IN YOUR DARK I SEE YOU THERE WHAT DO YOU SEE BEYOND YOUR STARE AND YOU BELIEVE THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN KNOW WHAT IS THIS THING YOU KEEP INSIDE OUT OF THE LIGHT AND WRAPPED IN PRIDE ALWAYS AFRAID THAT ONE DAY IT WILL SHOW I'LL KEEP YOUR SECRETS I...

The next letter that she found Was by a ribbon gently bound To the key for a small music box And she placed that key into its lock And the melody that it had learned Once again began to turn And as that tune it filled the air She opened the letter that...

(MEPHISTOPHELES) All of you life now You have denied There'd be a time When you'd ever die Still it's been rumored this thing must be Why is it then that you act surprised When I appear now to be your guide Why do you hesitate to follow me See it r...

[BEETHOVEN] IN EVERY LIFE IT HAS BEEN SAID THERE COMES A TIME TO JOIN THE DEAD ADMIT THERE IS NO SECOND CHANCE AND JOIN DEATH IN A FINAL DANCE ACROSS THE FLOOR ETERNITY UNTIL THE FINAL MOMENTS BLED AND IN THE DARK TO TAKE HIS HAND ACCEPT THAT IT IS TIME TO W...

AND IN THE DARK HE SITS ALONE TO WATCH HIS FINAL HOURS BLEEDING WHILE UNCONCERNED UPON THE WALL THE CLOCK IT TICKS AWAY THE TIME NO NEED FOR WORDS FOR IN THE DARK ALL WORDS HAVE LONG SINCE LOST THEIR MEANING STILL WHEN THEY WHISPER IN HIS EAR HE TRIES TO READ...

[MEPHISTOPHELES] THERE IS A CHILD AND SHE SLEEPS IN THE GUTTER DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SHE'S EASY TO SEE SHE IS NOT YOUR CHILD SHE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER'S AND THOSE YOU ABANDON THEY ARE LEFT TO ME AND KNOW I WILL IMPALE HER LIKE A KNIFE LEAVE HER TWISTING DAY A...

Remember last Christmas Eve When we sat next to our first tree Ornaments reflected light Of a candle in the night And I gave you a music box Back then that seemed like so much We watched it go round and round As the melodies unwound But all these thi...

(Lieutenant) I HAVE BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE CHECK EACH WINDOW EVERY DOOR FOR A PASSAGE THROUGH THIS NIGHT THIS NIGHT BUT EACH HALLWAY ENDS THE SAME EVERY DOOR’S BEEN CHECKED IN VAIN FOR A WAY TO REACH THAT LIGHT THAT LIGHT AS I MOVE IN DEEPER TOWARDS THIS CAST...

(Greek Chorus) HERE BELIEVE A NIGHT ENCHANTED SEEN HERE THE HOPES OF GODS ARE PLANTED DREAM REMEMBER REMEMBER ALL WE DO NOT SEE SURRENDERED SURRENDERED ALL WE WISHED TO BE LOST AND FORGOTTEN OUR AKHENATEN BODY AND SPIRIT NO-ONE CAN HEAR IT LOST IN ETERNITY...

Cold cash quick dash don’t have nothing else i can say cops come can’t run lawyers just gotta delay what crime? Sunshine can’t be anything that i did i was used so confused debts would mount couldn’t count but i never did nothing i hid gotta...

I heard a note in the dark where it slipped into my mind and somehow still remains time comes and goes ebbs and flows and somehow that single note still rings on and sustains for i need someone not just anyone for when all is said and done anyone...

In an old city bar That is never too far From the places that gather The dreams that have been In the safety of night With its old neon light It beckons to strangers And they always come in And the snow it was falling The neon was calling The music was low A...

There is an ornament Lost inside the night There on a Christmas tree With a thousand lights No one can see her She's standing all alone Somewhere she glistens where no one can see I don't believe I can say what had happened All of those words that we put in...

[On a late night in the spring of 1827 the city of Vienna is experiencing the largest lightning storm in its long history. Within a large disheveled room, Ludwig Von Beethoven is slumped over his piano and on the piano sits the just completed manuscript for hi...

Last night dreamt i was falling a new born through the years long before i knew sorrow long before i knew fear i tried not to awaken clung to this childhood’s sleep afraid all might be taken but sleep like childhoods cease childhoods cease a street...

There comes a time to decide there comes a time to choose sides for in a world in the dark a single thought is a spark that ignites and it burns as it spread across the night it detects and protects as its light it calls forth Einstein And Edison...

Christmas time On a cold December morning All is calm And the world is still asleep Christmas lights That have been caught without warning Gently glitter on Stars to wish upon All the world is at peace Christmas time and the year will soon be leaving Cloaked...

Remember remember remember long ago on a night with a gentle falling snow falling snow falling snow can i offer you what christmas dares to know? 

(Mrs. Cozier) There was a time Now far away That now belongs To yesterday But late at night If you believe There are still parts You can retrieve Beyond our memories Past where the eyes can see Well disguised Waiting there Dream devised Safe...

VOCA ME BENEDICTUM ! SANA MEAM ANIMAM ! VOCA ME BENEDICTUM ! SANA MEAM ANIMAM ! [Beethoven believes that if Theresa were to have discovered that he was becoming deaf she would most certainly have left him. Before this could happen, he ended their relationshi...

(Drug Dealer) LINES OF A TALE CUT IN THE FACE OF A CROWD SENTENCED NO BAIL THERE IN THE NIGHT DEEP IN THE BACK THROUGH THE BLACK BECKONS A LIFE TIME MOVING IN A STRAIGHT LINE BUT THEN AT A WHIM A CHANGE IN THE WIND A STORY BEGINS IN ITS MIND FOR DEEP IN HE...

Hey child out on your own you never looked back never called home you never turned ‘round tell me the games that you played night time wander the street you never give ground never retreat you’re always oz bound have all the dreams been betrayed...

[THERESA] COULD THIS NIGHT IT LAST FOREVER EVERY MOMENT HELD TOGETHER AS IF IN A PERFECT TRANCE AND SUCH A THING COULD BE NO ONE ELSE WOULD UNDERSTAND IT WE WOULD KNOW THE GODS HAD PLANNED IT AND FOR SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS THAT THEY GAVE MEMORY AND WE WOULD L...

In this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives Welcome, friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child Who spends this night in attics dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts And so it's here that...

on a street in the night in the cold winter's light a child stands alone and she's waiting and the light that's out there it just hangs in the air as if it was just hesitating and the snow it comes down and it muffles the sound of dreams on their way...

[BEETHOVEN] IN THIS WORLD OF CIRCUMSTANCE CHILDREN NEVER FEAR FOREVER AND THIS MOMENT THAT ENCHANTS SOMEDAY WE MAY BOTH REMEMBER THEN MAYBE THEN IF WE ARE STILL ALIVE THEN MAYBE THEN THIS MOMENT WILL SURVIVE THERE IS TIME IN EVERY WORD THERE ARE WORDS IN EV...

Remember last Christmas Eve When we sat next to our first tree Ornaments reflected light Of a candle in the night And I gave you a music box Back then that seemed like so much We watched it go round and round As the melodies unwound But all these things are...

The sun goes down the light it leaves the mind can’t imagine what the night conceives the siren wails she flirts, she calls promise nothing but she offers all she’s the chambered round in the magazine she’s the first one out but the exit’s clean...

In the middle of a forest There's a clearing by a stream Where a mother holds her newborn And the child begins to dream And he dreams of hopes unspoken When the tears of man will cease And his mother holds him closer For he is the Prince of peace Let the bel...

(Erasmus) SLEEP DON’T TURN AWAY YOU ARE THE SAFEST WAY INTO TOMORROW DREAMS IF YOU WILL STAY OR AT LEAST THE BEST PARTS LET US BORROW DAYS ARE COUNTED ‘TIL THEY’RE GONE NIGHTS ARE MEANT TO CARRY ON MORPHEUS IS AT YOUR SIDE OFFERING THE WINGS TO FLY AND BE T...

(Lieutenant William Cozier) SLEEP DON’T TURN AWAY YOU ARE THE SAFEST WAY INTO TOMORROW DREAMS IF YOU WILL STAY OR AT LEAST THE BEST PARTS LETS US BORROW DAYS ARE COUNTED ‘TIL THEY’RE GONE NIGHTS ARE MEANT TO CARRY ON MORPHEUS IS AT YOUR SIDE OFFERING THE WING...

A railway station On a long forgotten line No destination But it always leaves on time He buys his ticket As the train prepares to leave Don't want to miss it On this night Christmas Eve He stared into the night no expectations He watched the world...

O Holy night The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear savior's birth Now you all heard the story about Bethlehem How the child was born and the three wise men Heard the preacher tell it like the preacher does But let me tell you, child...

There was a cold winter night Where the dark went on forever And the world seemed like a Dream gone astray And somehow there on this night As the world huddled together There a child slept at the end of The day And he dreamed of another world In ano...

There in this night There is a life Someone who waits for me Only a child Dreams and a smile Waiting to play And now she's found Snow on the ground Magic has been set free She's waited here All of this year Just for this day And then the night c...

(Tran-Do) THERE WAS A LIFE WAS THERE BEFORE BUT SOMEHOW HERE UPON THIS NIGHT IT NOW MEANS MORE AND ALL THOSE WORDS SHE TRIED TO SAY I’VE NOW FORGOTTEN OR THEY’VE SOMEHOW SLIPPED AWAY AND IN THIS DARKNESS IS THERE SALVATION IS THERE FORGIVENESS FOR HESITATIO...

So, tell me Christmas Are we wise To believe in things we never see Are prayers just wishes in disguise And are these wishes being granted me For now I see The answering To every prayer I've prayed She's coming home this Christmas Day So tell me Christmas Ar...

[BEETHOVEN] SOMETIMES SLOWLY TIME BRINGS REVELATION WAITING SOFTLY FOR SOMEONE TO BELIEVE THAT THE GHOSTS WE'VE HIDDEN OR LEFT TO DIE HAVE NOW ARISEN AND WILL ARRIVE TO SAY WHAT HAS HAPPENED SAY WHAT HAS HAPPENED SAY WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME AND WHO WOULD H...

Time and distance placed before thee hope and beauty have we duties as to what each moment’s given for stars have made us wonder lightning wed to thunder power glory fragile stories woven through eternity time refines us death resigns us and it’s...

(Lieutenant) WHAT CHILD THIS NIGHT WHOSE DREAMS TAKE FLIGHT? WHAT CHILD SOMEWHERE SLEEPS UNAWARE? WHAT LIFE THAT YET HAS NO REGRETS? WHAT CHILD WHO KNOWS WHAT DREAMS I’VE CLOSED? TIME FLOATS ON AS I WRITE THESE LETTERS THAT YOU’LL NEVER SEE STILL EACH ON...

[YOUNG BEETHOVEN] SINCE I WAS A CHILD I'VE SEEN HER IN A DREAM A CAPTURED FAIRY TALE THAT ECHOES CROSS MY LIFE AND THOUGH I'VE COURTED HER SHE'S ALWAYS STAYED UNSEEN NOW ALL AT ONCE SHE GLITTERS IN THE NIGHT BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY AND THAT ALL WAS BEFORE WH...

What child is this who laid to rest that i now find here sleeping? do angels keep the dreams we seek while our hearts lie bleeding? could this be christ the king whose every breath the angels bring? could this be the face of god, this child, the son i...

[BEETHOVEN] WHAT GOOD THIS DEAFNESS THAT MY WHOLE LIFE I HAVE DREAD WHAT GOOD THIS DEAFNESS WITH THESE VOICES IN MY HEAD WHAT GOOD THIS DEAFNESS IF THIS PRATTLE I MUST HEAR IF I WERE BLIND I'M SURE THEY WOULDN'T DISAPPEAR [TWIST] DID YOU REALLY WANT TO BEL...

What is christmas? tinseled fairytales day old stockings lined up in a row what is christmas could someone tell me that? what is christmas? surely, i don't know and everywhere these lights who needs to color night? could this whole thing be planned?...

[BEETHOVEN] AND HERE IN THE NIGHT AS I FEEL THE INFERNO I STARE IN THE DARK THINKING WHAT IS ETERNAL THE MAN OR THE MOMENT THE ACT OR THE REASON THESE THOUGHTS FILL MY HEAD AS I CONTEMPLATE TREASON OF DREAMS I HAVE HAD AND DREAMS I HAVE PONDERED WHEN LATE I...

All these days that lay before me all these days that lay behind does time just go on forever whose decision whose design death life wrong right pray will you tell me who decides dark night days light pray will you tell me who divides every yea...

[BEETHOVEN] WHO IS THIS CHILD THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WHO IS THIS CHILD THAT I'VE NOT SEEN TILL THIS DAY WHO DARES TO FALL ASLEEP OUTSIDE MY DOOR IF WE SHOULD WAIT AWHILE I'M SURE SHE'LL GO AWAY TO BE INVOLVED WITH THIS WOULD SURELY NOT BE WISE FOR IN T...