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Die Idee für dieses Crossover aus einem Morricone-inspirierten Italowestern-Soundtrack und einem progressive Rock-Track kam mir, als ich darüber nachdachte, was ich mit einem unvertonten Text anfangen könnte, der von meinem letzten Album übrig geblieben ist. Es geht in ihm um eine Gruppe von Männern, die in einer wilden und lebensfeindlichen Umgebung in ihrem einsamen Außenposten auf Ablösung warten, die nicht kommt. Da fiel mir ganz spontan eine klagende Mundharmonika ein, und der Rest ergab sich dann von selbst.
It’s been a year since they’d sent us here
To sign the contract seemed a brilliant idea
We’ve been a good team, we’ve got along fine
Wages were high and we met the deadline
But we didn’t recognize the signs
Nobody came for the shift handover
Connection’s down – so we are alone
Can’t leave our base in this hostile land
We’re on our own and my heart is pounding
Weird phantoms scurry the surrounding
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the foes from this cursed land
Canon 2x
The voices they haunt me
The voices in the night
The voices around me
Are creeping toward my light
As of late my mates behave strangely
As if their minds were mentally deranged
They stare at me with a lifeless glance
As if the were in a state of trance
As if they were in a state of trance
Bridge 1
Feel suspicious, don’t trust them any longer
Do they gang up on me? My fear is getting stronger
So many malfunctions in this small outpost
I think they sabotage the life support system
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the traitors who had been my mates
Bridge 2
“Persecution mania” – they shake their heads about me
“Pull yourself together, man! There is nothing out there
Besides some rocks and loads of sand – nothing worth to fear from
You mistook the wind for cries. Solitary’s got you
You’re a little overstretched. See – you need to rest now
They will not forget us, friend. Soon they will take us home.”
But I don’t believe to their fraudulent appeasement!
They just try to lull me into false security
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the traitors who had been my mates
Woke up with handcuffs at my wrists
I grit my teeth and I clench my fists
They have imprisoned me as if I were
A dangerous criminal – that’s unfair!
Awoken but still caught in the nightmare
They told me I had caused a bloodbath
Had killed three of them in a crazy wrath
Had gone ballistic in my madness
Their solemn faces full of sadness
Oh – my memory reawakens!
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
My haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed, try’n to understand
Waiting for my judgement with my bloodstained hands
Canon 2x
The voices they haunt me
The voices in the night
The voices around me
Are creeping toward my light
To sign the contract seemed a brilliant idea
We’ve been a good team, we’ve got along fine
Wages were high and we met the deadline
But we didn’t recognize the signs
Nobody came for the shift handover
Connection’s down – so we are alone
Can’t leave our base in this hostile land
We’re on our own and my heart is pounding
Weird phantoms scurry the surrounding
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the foes from this cursed land
Canon 2x
The voices they haunt me
The voices in the night
The voices around me
Are creeping toward my light
As of late my mates behave strangely
As if their minds were mentally deranged
They stare at me with a lifeless glance
As if the were in a state of trance
As if they were in a state of trance
Bridge 1
Feel suspicious, don’t trust them any longer
Do they gang up on me? My fear is getting stronger
So many malfunctions in this small outpost
I think they sabotage the life support system
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the traitors who had been my mates
Bridge 2
“Persecution mania” – they shake their heads about me
“Pull yourself together, man! There is nothing out there
Besides some rocks and loads of sand – nothing worth to fear from
You mistook the wind for cries. Solitary’s got you
You’re a little overstretched. See – you need to rest now
They will not forget us, friend. Soon they will take us home.”
But I don’t believe to their fraudulent appeasement!
They just try to lull me into false security
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
The haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed with a gun in my hand and I’m
Waiting for the traitors who had been my mates
Woke up with handcuffs at my wrists
I grit my teeth and I clench my fists
They have imprisoned me as if I were
A dangerous criminal – that’s unfair!
Awoken but still caught in the nightmare
They told me I had caused a bloodbath
Had killed three of them in a crazy wrath
Had gone ballistic in my madness
Their solemn faces full of sadness
Oh – my memory reawakens!
Chorus
A cold-faced moon makes the shadows creep around
My haunting ghosts keep me alert and daunted
Suddenly the night has fallen
And an eerie voice is calling
Sitting on my bed, try’n to understand
Waiting for my judgement with my bloodstained hands
Canon 2x
The voices they haunt me
The voices in the night
The voices around me
Are creeping toward my light
