Intermission - 2001

1. Will My Soul Ever Rest in Peace?
2. Falling into Fantasy
3. The Curtains Are Falling
4. Requiem
5. Bloodstone (Original by Judas Priest)
6. Kill The King (Original by Rainbow)
7. I Surrender (live) (Original by Rainbow)
8. Keep The Flame
9. Why Are We Here?
10. What Can I Say?
11. Dream With Me
12. When The Night Meets The Day
13. It's A Mystery
14. Cold Winter Nights
15. Hunting High And Low (live)
Freedom (demo) (Ltd.Ed)
Neon Light Child (demo) (Ltd.Ed)

Timo Tolkki: gitárok
Timo Kotipelto: ének
Jari Kainulainen: basszusgitár
Jens Johansson: szintetizátor
Jörg Michael: dobok

1. Will My Soul Ever Rest in Peace?

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Tolkki

I've been searching for an oasis
In the desert for so long
To pretend I'm strong
In my weakness trying

I've been holding on
To things that I have left behind
I've been scared and lonely
I'm crippled inside.

Bathing my soul in the starlight
Healed my wounds in the sun
Screamed my pain to the forest
Asking the question why?

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

I've been washed in pain
Haunted by the ghosts of years ago
They won't leave me be
They keep coming back for more

Will there come a time for me when I find peace of mind
Will I always have this feeling like I'm last in the line
I will climb up the mountain and light up a candle and ask:
"Will my soul ever rest in peace?"

My crippled soul is yearning to be free.

2. Falling into Fantasy

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Kotipelto

I'm sitting by the calm lake
And watch the setting sun
My feet are in the water
The journey's just begun
In the mist there is a boat and it's heading towards me
On the deck the lady's holding her hand and I agree

I'm falling into fantasy
The dream goes on

We are traveling in the nightfall
Until we stop somewhere
Descending into water
On dark and hazy stairs
Now she's leading me to the golden palace that lays ahead
She tells me I'm the one in her dreams and on her bed

People may come and people may go
But dance of time is eternal.
What is the meaning of this cosmic play?
Will we see another day?

I'm falling into fantasy
The dream goes on
I'm falling into fantasy
Drifting alone

3. The Curtains Are Falling

Zene: Johansson - Szöveg: Johansson

I'm back in the air, but I've nowhere to go
I nervously glance at the mountains below
Two hours of sleep, seven more 'til the show
I pray to the codess of coffee to keep me alive.

The crew's getting wasted, we're back in the sky.
I join in the fray, 'coz the rules don't apply
"who cares anyway - when we're all gonna fry!-"
But somehow we manage to land and we all have survived...

And the curtains are falling and the legions are calling tonight.
And the curtains are falling and the legions are calling tonight.

Have to fly away, though I'd rather stay
That's the price you pay, that's the game we play.

When roaring to life the engines are loud.
The mem'ries of you and the sound of the crowd
They're fading away as we break through the clouds
But I don't complain when we're back on the ground and alive...

4. Requiem

Zene: Tolkki

Instrumentális

5. Bloodstone (Original by Judas Priest)

Zene: Tipton/Halford/Downing - Szöveg: Tipton/Halford/Downing

I've been trying
There's no denying
It's sending me
Out of my mind

I've seen reason
Change to treason
It's losing it's sense
Of all kind

How much longer will it take
For the world to see
We should learn to live
And simply let it be
Bloodstone, bloodstone

In the night time
Wake in fright
I'm so scared of the game
That's being played

Start to wonder
What's going under
And how many deals
Have been made

How much longer will it take
For the world to see
We should learn to live
And simply let it be
Bloodstone, bloodstone

Bloodstone
I can't take it
You got me living
On a bloodstone
I don't want that bloodstone

6. Kill The King (Original by Rainbow)

Zene: Blackmore - Szöveg: Dio

Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill
There's a stranger, stranger and life about to spill
Oh no move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the king
Tear him down

Kill the king, yeah
Strike him down

Power, power it happens every day
Power, power all along the way
Oh no, move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
And fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the king

Treason, treason, the spectre looms again
Treason, reason, the realm is safe and then
Oh no, move away from harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the rainbow
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the king
Tear him down
Kill the king, yeah
Got to take his crown
Crown

Kill the king
He'll rule no more
Strike him dead
The people roar

Kill the king, yeah
Take his head
Down, down, down, down
Oh, kill
Oh, kill
Oh, oh

7. I Surrender (live) (Original by Rainbow)

Zene: Ballard - Szöveg: Ballard

I surrender to your heart babe
do anything that you want me to do
please be tender I'm in your hands girl
this is a feeling I never knew
you know I tried to make it on my own
that's not the way it was meant to be
spend my time waiting by the phone
oh darling come back to me

I surrender, I surrender
I'm giving up the role of pretender
oh be tender, girl be tender
can't you feel the love that I send you
I surrender

I remember, seems like a lifetime
can't believe it's a matter of days
since you left I'm near to heartbreak
I want you so bad don't turn away
what does it take to stay by my side
you know I'll do what you want me to
don't take away this feeling inside
I'm still in love with you

I surrender, I surrender
I'm giving up the role of pretender
oh be tender, girl be tender
can't you feel the love that I send you
I surrender

I surrender, I surrender
darling now won't you be tender
surrender, oh surrender
feel the love that I send you
I surrender

8. Keep The Flame

Zene: Johansson - Szöveg: Johansson

The shadow falls
On me today
Oh why can't it fade into the distance?
And darkness calls
No other way
I wage at the riddle of existence

The days almost gone
But you carry on
Can you keep the flame for me?

The days almost gone
But you carry on
Can you keep the flame for me?

A broken plan
A fleeting past
Oh how do we always keep on trying?
A tired man
Is free at last
Oh what would the purpose be of lying

My life's almost gone
But still carry on
Can you keep the flame for me?

My life's almost gone
But please carry on
Could you keep the flame for me?

Will you keep the flame for me?

9. Why Are We Here?

Zene: Johansson - Szöveg: Johansson

When the stars are gone forever
and planets are turning to dust
It's a good escape to lie in the haze

In the past above the answer
were music and drinking and lust
Waiting for the end and counting the days

But I want to find an answer
Wanting my turn of dice
And I want to find an answer
Looking your eyes

Why are we here?
Maybe you hold the answer
Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer

Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer
Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer

When the skies are dark
and winter has hidden the city in snow
I remember summer's not far away

And it seems the days are shorter
and hours are passing so slow
It's a nice escape to roll in the hay

But I want to find an answer
Wanting my turn of dice
And I want to find an answer
Looking your eyes

Why are we here?
Maybe you hold the answer
Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer

Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer
Why are we here?
Maybe you know the answer

10. What Can I Say?

Zene: Kotipelto - Szöveg: Kotipelto

Sometimes it's not that easy finding all the words
For how I feel when you are near
The more we are together makes me realize
All I ever wanted is you

What can I say?
You make all my dreams come true
And every day I want you right here by my side
To take my hand and hold me tight
I never want to be alone again

Oh my love

The days are shorter now
I'm reaching for some light
And I find it in your eyes
Brighter than the sun it filled me up with love
Don't ever close them for me

What can I say?
You make all my dreams come true
And every day I want you right here by my side
To take my hand and hold me tight
I never want to be alone again

Oh my love

Yes I know baby
It takes a world to keep what we have
And not let go
I was lonely
Before I met you
But you wiped away all the sorrow

What can I say?
You make all my dreams come true
And every day I want you right here by my side
To take my hand and hold me tight
I never want to be alone again

What can I say?
You make all my dreams come true
And every day I want you right here by my side
To take my hand and hold me tight
I never want to be alone again

Oh my love

11. Dream With Me

Zene: Kotipelto - Szöveg: Kotipelto

Now it is time for you to close your eyes
They've seen much pain it's slowly filling your mind
Pretty as they are but now so pale
You better leave all your worries far behind

Not long ago when you had the Fire
Burning inside of you brighter than any flame
You were the one that I believed in
Keeping our hopes up high where are you now?
Where do you aim?

Let me take you there
To the place you know
Why don't you Dream With Me
The answers will be found

No it is time to open your eyes again
See how all the sorrows have disappeared faded away
I am right here waiting for your call
If you still need me to guide your pace
Through the day

Let me take you there
To the place you know
Why don't you Dream With Me
The answers will be found

12. When The Night Meets The Day

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Tolkki

Look around there's no time to waste
Life goes on nothing's gonna change
Feel the winds of life blowing cold
It won't take so long you are growing old
There is no answer to be found
It is so easy to fall without a sound

Days of loving and gold
Kept me from feeling so old
Times I'll always recall
When the night meets the day
Gates of heaven I saw
While flying through the misty dawn
Those days I'll always recall
When the night meets the day

I don't wanna let you out of my sight
But here I'm lost and alone in the night

13. It's A Mystery

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Tolkki

In the middle of the jungle.
There are ruins of temples build along ago
Stone by stone.
They were made by the Mayas.
A tribe that is not so well known.
Each pictures on the wall.
Recorded history.
They were gazing at the sky.
On the year monuments marked time.
But altars meant death and fear.
Worshipping gods now gone long time ago.
The population grew new cities were found.

What happened then?
Was it strange decease that wiped away almost everyone.
These things died right the way almost everyone.
Or it might have been starvation caused by drought and a scorching sun.

It's a mystery.
The way they disappeared.
It's now history.
We will never know.

14. Cold Winter Nights

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Kotipelto

Summer's gone a while ago
The daylight dims away
I'm watching here how the snow begins to fall
Yesterday's like a dream
A memory in my head
Like the life's gone behind the winter wall

I'm lighting up the candles and lock the door
Sitting by the fire
It's time to dream some more

I have to find a way how to survive
I am surrounded by the starlight
I have to find the path
How to escape from the Cold Winter Nights

And in the morning there's no trace of the sun
Just gray fog hanging above my head
All the birds are quiet hiding in the woods
Can't see no movement are they all dead?

15. Hunting High And Low (live)

Zene: Tolkki - Szöveg: Kotipelto

I feel the wind in my hair
And it's whispering, telling me things,
Of the storm that is gathering near
Full of power I'm spreading my wings

Now I'm leaving my worries behind
Feel the freedom of body and mind
I have started my journey, I'm drifting away with the wind
I go

I am Hunting High and Low
Diving from the sky above
Looking for, more and more, once again
I'm Hunting High and Low
Sometimes I may win sometimes I'll lose
It's just a game that I play

After the storm there's a calm
Through the clouds shines a ray of the sun
I am carried from all of my harm
There is no-one that I can't outrun

Now I'm leaving my worries behind
Feel the freedom of body and mind
I have started my journey, I'm drifting away with the wind
I go

I am Hunting High and Low
Diving from the sky above
Looking for, more and more, once again
I'm Hunting High and Low
Sometimes I may win sometimes I'll lose
It's just a game that I play

Freedom (demo) (Ltd.Ed)

Neon Light Child (demo) (Ltd.Ed)