@ALBUM: Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
 
*%    5:08     Anywhere Out Of The World
@     3:30     Windfall
*&    4:14     In The Wake Of Adversity
*&    6:16     Xavier
^     2:06     Dawn Of The Iconoclast
^     6:58     Cantara
^L    5:55     Summoning Of The Muse
^     6:36     Persephone (The Gathering Of Flowers)
 
          CD5 UK 4-A-D CAD705CD
 
& = In Progress
% = Finished
* = Lyrics in English
^ = Lyrics in unknown language
L = Lyrics in Latin, most likely
 
@SONG: ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD:
 
                                   We scaled
                              the face of reason
                                   to find 
                               at least one sign
                               that would reveal
                              the true dimensions
                                  of life...
                                lest we forget.
 
                   And maybe it's easier to withdraw from life,
                   with all of its misery and wretched lies,
                                away from harm.
 
                                    We lay
                             by cool, still waters
                                   and gazed
                                 into the sun.
                              And like the moth's
                             great imperfection,
                                   succumbed
                              to her fatal charm.
 
                And maybe it's me who dreams unrequited love,
                         the victim of fools who watch
                       and stand in line away from harm!
 
                             In our vain pursuit
                          of life for one's own end
                            will this crooked path
                             ever cease to end?
 
 

@SONG: IN THE WAKE OF ADVERSITY
 
Dave: [I don't think it's Sacred Priests, doesn't sound right]
Bud: [ It does fit the song's meaning, if not the precise sound
      though.  Pious priests, with their "narrow ways," wouldn't
      care at all to argue with you or I because they know they
      are right.  And of course, the angels they pretend to 
      know so much about, in reality, favour "us".  But, these
      priests cannot see the inner man.
 
      But the song begins with the sound, "ey" or "hey".  Comical.
      What do you think?
 
			Sacred priests don't cry....(?)
                        [____-tries] don't cry
                          they've no reason to argue
                                    at all
                              they don't realise
                    that the angels surround you with light
                             they don't understand
                their narrow ways defeat them where they stand
                              they don't realise
                 you hide the sadness beneath a painted smile.
 
                                  Ignorance,
                   that line of fools steers a wayward path
     and set the course upon which we sing into the night of uncertainty.
                              Following the stars
                      that make their way across the sky
                               valuing the love
                         that land brings to our eyes
                                  We sail...
 
 
@SONG: XAVIER
 
                                Fair Roseanna,
                        your vagrancy's a familiar tale
                             fraught with danger,
                    the lives you led were judged for fame
                              hatred enfolds us, 
                     inculpates the minds with it's heresy
                              laymen enfold us, 
                       clemency arrives to set you free!
 
                                    Fate...
                          Although Xavier has prayed
                       that life-giving waters may rain
                           down on the souls of men
                          to cure them of their pain.
 
                     These were the sins of Xavier's past
                   hung like jewels in the forest of veils.
 
                 Deep in the heart where the mysteries emerge
                     Eve bears the stigma of original sin
                 freedom so high when we all are bound by laws
                   etched in the scheme of nature's own hand
              unseen by those who fail in their pursuit of fate.
 
                          Although Xavier has prayed
                       that life-giving waters may rain
                           down on the souls of men
                          to cure them of their ways
 
                       And as the night turns into day 
                        oh the sun, the moon, wish away
                  although your nightmares come home to stay
                         Xavier's love lies in chains
 
                     These were the sins of Xavier's past 
                    hung like jewels in the forest of veils