Punishment Divine
Blind Guardian
At Night At The Opera (2002)

it's warm and tender
but very soon it will turn cold
shadows stare down from the walls
out of the mist it's coming closer now
it never rains -
it pours on me
so let the saints set up the curtyard
the unpleasant cage
the obvious point is
I'm insane
was I aware
whom I had slain
I fear I was
the faceless
the nameless
the bush set on fire
no one ever dared to speak
"shame on me
I don't believe
the here and now
is all we're living for"

joyful it seems
but then suddenly
by one fals move
it's blown away
joyful it seems
but then suddenly
thier voices cease
it's gone away
vanished
to the point of no return
vanished
to the point of no return

witness my last breath
I do not regret
a word I've said
the strong will survive
the weak must die
and out in the mist
it's coming closer now
sinner and saints -
the grateful slaves

natures law instead of god in heaven

from far beyond
I can hear them sing
I hear angels sing
songs of innocence
I hear the angel sing
despite the facts are clear
it cannot be
what I can't see
I must admit
it sounds so sweet

joyful it seems
but then suddenly
by one fals move
it's blown away
joyful it seems
but then suddenly
thier voices cease
it's gone away
vanished
to the point of no return
vanished
to the point of no return

angels sing I hear angels sing
can hear them sing
far beyond I hear them sing
it's true, it's true
we don't exist
from far beyond I hear them sing
it's true, it's true
we don't exist

well we all know
there's no other side
it's good and evil
I know right between
there's no borderline
this is punishment divine

surrounded by night
I've been offered insight
there is no one but the sin of pride
am I wrong am I right
am I losing my sight
abandoning the superior mind

joyful it seems
but then suddenly
by one fals move
it's blown away
joyful it seems
but then suddenly
thier voices cease
it's gone away
vanished
to the point of no return
vanished
to the point of no return

right away I will be gone
gone I will be gone

through the valleys grey
through the shapeless land
I walk alone
I'm left alone

through the deepest void
a blackened paradise
I walk alone
I'm left alone