WISH Monochrome 1. Balance 0:40 2. Ten Bridges Burning 6:00 3. Rain 6:12 4. Thelena 5:40 5. Elsewhen 6:52 6. Judas Kiss 6:11 7. Gentle Nova 5:29 8. Monument 8:03 Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change Courage to change the things I can And the wisdom to know the difference Monochrome is dedicated to Greet v.d. Ven Love is eternal BALANCE (Instrumental) TEN BRIDGES BURNING The leaves were falling early, the year fortune looked away Gold and green looked brighter then, gold seems grey today The hands of the clock never went my way, nothing ever did So in the arms of indifference is where I'm going to stay Set the burning sails (horizon) Time weighs more than gold (a heartbeat) More than shoulders can bear All the years aflame (we're yearning) Burnmarks never fade (though we are) Going nowhere fast Have I lost you for the first time, it won't be the last For I'll lose you everytime my dreams fall apart, to dust I may have questions, I may have answers but I sure don't have you No one shakes an empty hand, let alone embrace the man Set the burning sails (horizon) Time weighs more than gold (a heartbeat) More than shoulders can bear All the years aflame (we're yearning) Burnmarks never fade (though we are) Going nowhere fast Never walk away Never turn your back on me Never walk out on me Set the burning sails Time weighs more than gold More than shoulders can bear All the years aflame Burnmarks never fade Going nowhere fast Breathing barely audible while I watch you fighting sleep But somewhere in the empty land, wolves among the sheep And all the promises I've ever made seem to break at first touch But that was then and all we've had is shattered for ever Never walk away Never turn your back on me Never walk out on me RAIN And I was so much younger then, there where the young men were I had it all and more... so much more... Until the clouds came in And I watched from a distance how they touched the shore Of my island, of the laughing sea I saw them climb my walls and I was frightened And I gained nothing besides the rain... Write my name in dust, write my name in heaven Alas the sun always shines too late Write my name in dust, write my name in heaven Alas the sun always shines too late Where have all the poets gone since the clouds have stayed I had it all... Now that the summer's gone Will they stay with me, will you stay with me Through times and lives and rain and shine We'll meet again, like we have met before Maybe I'm wrong but all seemed better Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, jesters day Echoeing through an empty world And I gained nothing besides the rain... Our dreams mean nothing once you're not here I swear I'll never dream again without you to stop the rain Like circles in the water I know you'll be a wave once you'll reach the shore And I promise I will try to catch you there, please stop the rain If I could give the world, you know I would, just to see you one more time So many things that are left to say, goddamn the rain... THELENA So many stars were out there but none of them did fall I guess none wanted to carry the burden of it all A time to cry, so much time to cry, little time to say goodbye And I would tell you I'll be brave and you'd know that it's a lie And the days'll turn weeks and the weeks'll turn years and I'll know that you were wrong There's nothing at the rainbows end but just another song So close and yet so far away is the mask she wears today It seems the open hand is closing, some things shell never give away Thelena, wear the crown of golden thorns Thelena, nail your hands onto your kite No spotlight on your self-made cross but your eyes come shining through Is desire just temptation or do angels long too? Don't need wings to be an angel, just the wind to pull you up No strings, no wings, no songs to sing as we dance into the sun Thelena, wear the crown of golden thorns Thelena, nail your hands onto your kite ELSEWHEN Snakes come crawling through the sand, you don't see them from where I stand But you'll hear them speak, two tongues Like tears their words fall down, it you lay your ear down to the ground You'll hear them touch the floor Their voices never silence, they'll stay with me until the end Forever, forever and again... and again Wastelands, deserts, I've seen it all, where the dead seeds of our dreams will fall In love, in time, elsewhen Masked faces and masquerades, nothing is new and all's facade Wear the darkest face, hide in shades I've seen the angels and talked to some, I've met the demons and walked with them I have yet to see the truth Tell me where your desert lies, where your inspiration and imagination dies I know that you can show me, everyone can Some things change and many don't, some may try and others won't They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions I've seen too many days turn night, ghosts mean more than man alive Because no one gets out of here alive I've seen it all too many times, shut the door while it's open wide No one reaches out for more once they've touched the end Embraced the end, once they've seen the end Through wavelenghts, frequencies, I know you're there, zero's and one s through stars transmitting In sleep, in your nightmare and in your dreams Call me a devil and count me down, call me a saint and kiss my walking ground But I still don't think that you know who I am 'Cause I've slept with angels and walked away danced with the devil and did the same Because I still haven't seen the difference in their game So close and far So soft and hard Why don't you tell me what's your game, elsewhen on a higher plane The trail of the snake will lead us to another century or more A crown upon it's head and poison in it's tongue W ill make you hear the end Two yards thick and seven miles long, I'll be your king if you unlock the door In love, in time, elsewhen Call me a devil and call me a saint, call me every thing that you want me to be In sleep, in your nightmares and in your dreams The fires in the engines burn again, try to solve the riddles that come put of them In time, in dreams but before the end comes... JUDAS KISS It's been dark for hours now but still here I stand At the bottom of a grey wide river Somewhere, nowhere, neverland And I just saw a brave new world for the first time I was born The young god is bleeding colours while he's waiting for the dawn Go see the river runs wild again So wild now the damage is done Please take me to the riverside Someone, no one, anyone And I just live in memories, I'm the burden in your eyes It's the freedom that still brings you down but eventually it dies... Don't want you to follow me whenever I may follow on 'Cause I will wear my golden wings and I'll crash into the sun Someone has been here before, took my heart and walked away So I can't feel I'm growing cold Sometime, someday, anyday I've done time in isolation, silence is a king to me And in this kingdom only strangers remind me how I used to be Don't want you to follow me whenever I may follow on 'Cause I will wear my golden wings and I... I saw the sun burn... I saw the tide turn... I saw the whole world speechless, odd to me Like numbness wrapped it's arms around me Talking to myself I see how words will always disagree with me Or was it me...? GENTLE NOVA So the clock keeps ticking but I'm not moving to the sound of breaking hearts If I stand still then I'm not noticed, together silence and me How should it feel when the novelty is over down again, on my knees once more Should I believe that there is hope for us anyway but I don't know, I never did know Here we stand on the verge of falling, two alike but never the same Spinning down like the wheel that's turning round again without an end I believe in a true introspection and I believe in living a lie I've been caged and the cage is burning, the key is neatly tucked away Superstition, I keep learning, all my trust went up in smoke Sometimes when the world stops turning I know that I'm a world too soon Driven like the rain that's falling, down again, on our souls once more All these years I've been searching for shelter to save me from these gathering storms The clock's still ticking, time comes crawling, the sound of my solitudes metronome But it's always better than breaking hearts and to find out that you're the one to blame Still we dance in the house of the dreamer fire's eating the walls away But one glance at the world outside and I know that I would rather burn Down goes the sand slipping through our hands, round go the hands of our speeding clock But no time wasted when there's no time spent, no crystal ball to see where this all ends From the wheels of tragedy we never had a chance, to tear it all down and start over again Come closing in when you start closing down. I know you are, it's all coming round You closed the door while I kept it open, slammed in the face like a 2-by-4 Then came questions and then no answers, if I only could I would open the door again No words to keep our worlds together, we were always more strangers than dreamers But don't be surprised when sometime, someday a stranger may come knocking at your door MONUMENT Drifting over fields of gold, I'm a monument or at least that old The sun never shines on me, I'm a shadow myself and for others I might be Catch your stare before you turn your head from my appearance, but I saw you stare Afraid to see my face, afraid to see yourself reflected in my button-eyes In a field of straws I pick the shortest ones Harvest desire Beside the lamenting wind nothing ever moves me, we kiss without breath In the midst of a tight embrace, recall the famous phrase: "You too, my son?" Eye for an eye, a stake for a spine, I'm the mirror that stands before you Birds come picking at your eyes, come picking at your smile, just to remind you The world ain't a pretty sight In a field of straws I pick the shortest ones Sowing a wish Gazed into the sun For far too long Burned... My eyes Was I wrong to dream my dreams? I've been holding my breath so long that I don't know how to breathe Like an actor in a final scene, he falls down to the stage Never convincing though as the audience stands and leaves So no one ever sees that he never gets up again And the curtains of the night will fall upon the sun Bleeding with a smile, I try To think of all the lies he swallowed Pull the stake out of my heart I won't forget Never forgive No excuse No forgiveness Was I wrong to believe in the virtue of man? So blind that I never saw that the fields around me burned down to the ground So I stand tall in a withered field once more Rooted in the dirt, I'm bound Yet my arms stretch to the sky where I belong I belong... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monochrome was recorded on december 27-28-29 1994 Recorded at RS29 Waalwijk the Netherlands Produced by Wish Engineered by Oscar Holleman Mixed by Oscar Holleman and Wish on january 13th 1995 Mastered by Paul Adriaansens and Wish Words, music and visuals by Wish Female vocals by Nancy de Valk Pictures by Greet v.d. Ven Logo edit by Marloes Berends Booklet design by Wish Layout by Oliver Kraupa Thanks to Thomas and Frank for your efforts Lights: Ad Donninger and Frans v.d. Ven Crew: François and Raymond Werts WISH: Bart Smits Alwin Roes Micha v.d. Ven © 1995 MoonLight Records P.O. Box 2924 38019 Braunschweig Germany Phone: +49-531-509320 Fax: +49-531-509320 Wish Contact P.O. Box 53 5408 ZH Volkel The Netherlands MOON.001 =============================================== lyrics typed by Yevhen the Amok from the original booklet ===============================================