Babylon Vampyres - Avantasia

Aaron: A lot of good advice

nobody‘s keeping for themselves

If you‘re playing by the rules

you‘ll be a trophy on a shelf

Give in to the ordinary run of things

like it is meant to be

There‘s nothing left of me

Scientist I: Praying for salvation, floating with the tide

The very first temptation

drags you to the other side

You learn to walk and run

You fly until you fall as far as I can see

Aaron: The future ahead was not what it used to be

Scientist I: Blessed was the darkness — veiling hypocrisy

Babylon is burning, shining from afar

Babylon is burning

Aaron: From sunset to sunrise

Scientist I: Babylon is burning

and you‘re glowing like a fiery star

And no one can tell if we‘ve been for real

Babylon is burning

Babylon is burning

They say it‘s coming by the night

to engraft into the brain

what a scientific tongue won‘t recall

or even phrase

It‘s crawling up your spine

to breed a wicked freak of nature

We will be a new society

Aaron: A headless congregation, a vortex needing more

Scientist I: The road to good intentions is evil to the core

Aaron: The devil and the deep blue sea are waiting

Side by side for me

Aaron: The sweet scent of poison

hazing the dread away

This side of the moon I‘ll confess to…

another day

Scientist I: Babylon is burning, shining from afar

Aaron: Babylon is burning

From sunset to sunrise

Scientist I: Babylon is burning

and you‘re glowing like a fiery star

And no one can tell if we‘ve been for real

Yeah

Scientist I: Ever since I can remember

I’ve been shooting up that road with a dream

I saw gold at the end of the rainbow

I was given an idea of what life should be

What life should be

Aaron: Ain‘t there a light above the shadow

Ain‘t there blood in the machine

Ain‘t there flesh they’d been misleading

Ain‘t there a longing soul within?

Scientist I: I‘ve seen believers on the wayside

And I‘m afraid to say, I think just like you

That failed to pretend

they could cope with what they’d find

When they didn’t have a clue — just like you

Babylon is burning, shining from afar

Aaron: Babylon is burning

From sunset to sunrise

Scientist I: Babylon is burning

and you‘re glowing like a fiery star

And no one can tell if we‘ve been for real, oh

Babylon is burning, shining from afar

Aaron: Babylon is burning

From sunset to sunrise

Scientist I: Babylon is burning

and you‘re glowing like a fiery star

And no one can tell if we‘ve been for real