[Pre-Verse]

[Verse 1]

Hey redeemer now what`s become of me?
Taken in by promise, awakening in grief
Collecting us like puppets you instrumentalize
A frigid trepidation in a million puppet eyes

[Pre-Chorus]

God gave His word just to let us down, where is He now?

You’ve been facing heaven
You were lost and left alone, you’re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand, come into the promised land

[Pre-Verse]

[Verse 2]

You scratched my back and I scratched yours
It’s you who makes decisions, I just open up the doors
Whining in the gutter they forget their sanctity
Welcome to my clockwork vanity machinery

[Pre-Chorus]

You gave your word, you let me down what am I now?

You’ve been facing heaven
You were lost and left alone, you’re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand, come into the promised land

Oh as far as the eye can see
They’re bent in submission, empty inside
An army of scarecrows like me, thousands of broken dreams
Thousands of tragedies tried to run from their destiny
Oh, like moths to a flame, driven by vanity
They’ve been off to Jerusalem, chasing a dream, calling on me
We’re just trading in needs

[Pre-Verse] in place of the guitar solo

x2

You’ve been facing heaven
You were lost and left alone, you’re welcome to my home and
Found another heaven
It was you who took my hand, come into the promised land

Avantasia
Angel Of Babylon (2010)

Tuning: Standard EADGBE

(Intro)

C Am Em G x2

I sold my soul for diamonds
And reason for acclaim
Been begging for white angels
To blow my mind away

Been growing funny flowers
Where roses never grew
I stayed awake all night
When I woke up from dreams
Of me and you

I tried to take the sun and I went blind
God help me to erase you from my mind
I’m growing cold

And the night is yet to come
Anyone tell me is this

(Chorus)
The way it’s meant to be
Lost and isolated
I’m way too complicated
For you to lean on me

I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I’m blowing out the flame

Self-pity gave me shelter
I always hid away in vice
Dyslexic, torn and tattered
I tried to read the signs

You never tried to take a look
At the one I’d have died to be
Now it seems you don’t see me at all

Was it all worth it
Visions holding sway
When the real thing got lost along the way
Yes anyone tell me is this

(Chorus)
The way it’s meant to be
Lost and isolated
I’m way too complicated
For you to lean on me

I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I’m blowing out the flame

(Solo)

Yes anyone tell me is this

(Chorus)
The way it’s meant to be
Lost and isolated
I’m way too complicated
For you to lean on me

I play a losing game
I cried in desperation
Mental devastation
I’m blowing out the flame

Intro: Eb Bb F Gm



A lonely boy, a handful of dreams
Cold wind blows through a heart wired-in
Open skies he would explore
No there ain’t no mastery
Of a passion and a deep blue love
Yearn to see far away places
One day he’d feel two hearts collide
In his eyes tears and desire
But he prays and he swears every night
One day scales will fall from her eyes
(Just with a dream)
Just with [(G)]a dream and with a song
On my own I may stumble and fall
It don’t matter at all when you’re blessed with
Just what’s yet to come, what’s yet to come

Chorus:
Burning feet on the ground
Got my head in the clouds
You’re out to find Arcadia
And you know you will stand
What you can’t comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more I’ve seen I[(C)] understand
That there ain’t nothing that I know
As I awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show

Dogs run barking
And I don’t hear no sound
And the sky is as blue
As eyes have never seen it
Then I remember
What I’d have been dying for
Faith rescue my dream
From a role that I’ve been put in
On their screen

(Your eyes)
And as I’ll look into your eyes
We’re at the crack[(F)] of dawn[(C)]
Life will stop telling lies
And destiny will know
It’s just you and I

Chorus:
Burning feet on the ground
Got my head in the clouds
You’re out to find Arcadia
And you know you will stand
What you can’t comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
The more we see we u[(C)]nderstand
That there’s a lot that we don’t know
As you awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show

Far from the eye but close to heart
No matter how we try
Can’t repel the counterpart
Our common bond we can't defy
Solo: Sascha Paeth (Oh, wishing on an angel)

I’ve seen them standing at the crossroads
When they were waiting for a sign
And they unlearned to face the silence
As they unlearned to turn inside
You’re turning to the sky
And you’re dying for an angel
If you want it bad enough, see those eyes
That’s where two glances collide

Learn to breathe, learn to crawl
Learn to stand, walk and fall
Learn to lose and to love, to believe, to rise above
Love is more than to love

Solo: Bruce Kulick


[(F5] [G#5)]
Burning feet on the ground
Got my head in the clouds
You’re out to find Arcadia
And you know you will stand
What you can’t comprehend
Journey to Arcadia
(Tobias Sammet)
The more I’ve seen I understand
That there ain’t nothing that I know now
As I awake on padded ground
The final curtain of the show