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Shackled in darkness
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- the forbidden portrait confined to it's frame
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Unbroken silence
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- a total misfortune and shame
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Ragin obsession - this mask of oppression
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it hides your agression from view
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This tearing suture renounces
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the love he once knew
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Your sacrifice this paradise of innocence
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Trust the lie - you falsify the line of truth
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You disguise your insolence
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Don't deny insanity - mediocrity
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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Kings and fools die in ridicule (save us)
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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A fallen fortress sees him beneath starless skies
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Subsiding deeper - the final farewell in his eyes
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Unspoken hero
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- distrusted and thrusted within surmise
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Seizing intrusion to unveil his clever disguise
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Your sacrifice this paradise of innocence
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Trust the lie - you falsify the line of truth
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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Kings and fools die in ridicule (save us)
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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[solo]
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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Kings and fools die in ridicule (save us)
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Save us from this masquerade of lies
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2. A Winter's Dream - Prelude (Part I) (3:03)
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[Music: Romeo, Pinnela, Miller, Rullo and Allen]
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Although your words are empty,
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I can hear now, what you feel inside
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The night is drawing closer,
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you fell you have to hide.
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Your fears are never wrong or right
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Everything is either black or white.
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It's time to close your eyes now,
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begin your fantasy - what does it mean?
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Wake your dreams (commence now...)
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into reality.
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Your fears are never wrong or right
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Everything is either black or white.
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In a Winter's Dream - I'll be there for you
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In a Winter's Dream - I'll be there for you
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3. The Damnation Game (4:32)
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[Music: Romeo, Pinnela, Miller, Rullo and Allen]
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Forever cursed by this game, he who plays with sin
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Incantations summoned up our creations
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We're players cast in this tale, believe it
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stranger than fiction
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This justice thunders our condemnation
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Falling into innocence by a shadow's kiss
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He speaks what mortals dare to say, will he betray?
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If you dare play the game - your descent preordained
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from their fiery thrones screaming,
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cursing your name
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On the terror it breeds - breathing fire and gree
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watch him jest as you bleed...
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Screaming enter the Damnation Game
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We can not keep our heads clear,
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or our tongues from evil
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by this sword, certain death at our own hands
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To have no wants is divine - untrue!
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platinum waves tainted gold, we can only watch from
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the shores
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Falling into innocence by a shadow's kiss
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He speaks what mortals dare to say, will he betray?
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If you dare play the game - your descent preordained
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from their fiery thrones screaming,
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cursing your name
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On the terror it breeds - breathing fire and gree
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watch him jest as you bleed...
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Screaming enter the Damnation Game
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[solos]
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If you dare play the game -
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your descent preordained
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from their fiery thrones screaming,
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cursing your name
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On the terror it breeds - breating fire and greed
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watch him laugh as you bledd...
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Screaming enter the Damnation Game
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[SOLO]
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[Chorus]
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[Chorus]
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Masquerade '98
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| Symphony X |
