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Rating: An introduction to Carmina Burana takes us by the hand and guides us in listening to "Vain Glory Opera," the album that in my opinion, despite the maturity not yet fully acquired at the time, can be defined as the best from the young Germans.
It’s the usual, overused power-metal, but in this album, Edguy showcase a remarkable performance, thanks also to well-written songs. Above all stands the sweet ballad "Scarlet Rose," but the initial tracks "Until we Rise Again" and "How Many Miles" also manage to be appreciated for their mood, melodic just enough. Important in this album is the collaboration of Hansi Kürsch from Blind Guardian in "Out of Control" and in the title track. Hansi's husky voice is firmly counterbalanced in these tracks by Tobias's delicate one, making these two tracks truly unique in Edguy's entire discography. Scrolling through the tracklist, the seductive "Tomorrow," the concluding "But Here I Am," and "Hymn," a very well-crafted cover of Ultravox, are noteworthy.
An album that in my opinion is essential for fans of melodic power. Forget today's Edguy: "Vain Glory Opera" is indeed a rather carefree and more monochord album than its successors. This is where the band's rise in the metal scene began and I believe that even out of curiosity, one should listen to the album at least once.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Until We Rise Again (04:27)
2080 - Our world is an empty domain
Emotions have died
Men bleeding oil are the heroes for children today
Drinking the blood of the weak dictators bring pain
But they show us a smile
Feelings and love are kept hidden in a Madhouse cave
It's a mad revolution
And the spirits will die
Oh escape the confusion
Take my hand
Now take my hand
Take me now
Take my hand
We won't be so free
Until we rise again
Eden is mad so enjoy it and fly to the sun
Don't you return
Your breath and your heartbeat are gifts
You've been given for life - oh yeah
Oh our deepest emotions
Are a sign of our life and our love
No robot can stop us
Take my hand
Now take my hand
Take me now
Take my hand
We won't be so free
Until we rise again
...yeah...
03 How Many Miles (05:38)
Oh yeah...
Watching a face and a smile and a light
When you`re walking alone in the street
I know your look always gives you the might
Many miles from your ass to your feet
And I dream- what I`ve seen
Is what I want it to be - selfmade reality
How many miles to the gate of reality
How many steps left to go to my dreams
How many miles to the land where my dreams come true
Dreams which come true just have died
Look like a queen but you talk like a pawn
And I know you`re a fool in disguise
Godfather tell me how to carry on
Blinded by fantasies of lies
And I dream- what I`ve seen
Is what I want it to be - selfmade reality
How many miles to the gate of reality
How many steps left to go to my dreams
How many miles to the land where my dreams come true
Dreams which come true just have died
I see your smile, a golden masquerade
And I know my dream will be my fate
Time has stolen my fantasy
Cause it has become a pale reality
05 Out of Control (05:04)
Into a place of darkness, he was born to live alone
He got one big desire, one day he'd get the crown
Hey devil, come on help me now
Be the one to pull my string
Let me be your slave to serve you
To let me be the king
Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind
Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate
Wherever I may roam there will be hate and pain
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, respect is what I gain
I look up to Mr. Crowley, evil powers: now unite
I will be your darkest nightmare
My life's a fatal fight
Just give me a sign
Take on my mind and let me stay blind
A victim of life too weak to be kind
Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown, here is my fate
Listen up my friend: you just cry for a hand
But you only pretend that you're bad - now
Well, take on my mind
Out of control
My life is a chamber of tears, fear and hate
Out of control
Help me to gain the crown
06 Vain Glory Opera (06:07)
The prayers have been spoken
May the gods be on my side
May they join my way to bring me victory
Seven at one stroke
My triumph and my pride
They will be history
But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
What's hell without a paradise
What's the night without a day
We would think it's bright
What's a fall if we can't rise
What's a hero at a play
Without a fool to fight
But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
But behind my enemy's eyes
A soul in disguise
Not only lies
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
We live to fight the hand of doom
We got the pride to strike a fool
Vain glory be my wicked guide
07 Fairytale (05:11)
yeah...
Giants of stone build up my desire
No one could tell us the secret of fire
The hunger for wisdom deep in your heart
You can`t accept that you`re liveing apart
Water runs down through the river
Lord you are the only to deliver
Night: stay night
In the night`s nothing is white
Now a knowledge not a light
Lord, will you tell me why someday
Fairytale - life is one big fairytale
A book of seven seals
Someone tell me why and how
I`m always told to kneel down and pray
What shall I do to stay on my way
Questions borrow through my brain
Pound and disturb and drive me insane
Lost in visions of knowledge I`ll never owe
Night to night
(Choir of the damned smurfs of death)
In the night`s nothing is white
Now a knowledge not a light
Lord, will you tell me why someday
Tell me what is time - yeah...
10 No More Foolin' (04:55)
Fair sex paralyzer. Lipstick in a face
spirit analyzer, not one human trace
no need to cry
role the fuckin' dice, I'm a loser in a game
gonna hurt my feelings, your only real I am
feels like I die
You can play nice you get satisfied when you win
I see a smile of truth but I can`t stare within
riot in your soul
No more foolin`
you will save all your love
no more foolin`
you will save all your love
Say goodbye - say goodbye
you never know that I was strong enough to stand
All alone on my own I don`t need your hand
Got your weapons loaded, your target in your sight
why don`t you only tell me, that i shall fuckin' die
Looking so attractive, wanna get me active
but you never realized that i have got the tactics
I`m much too cool, much too large to be fooled
by your lies
You can play nice you get satisfied when you win
I see a smile of truth but I can`t stare within
riot in your soul
No more foolin`
you will save all your love
no more foolin`
you will save all your love
Say goodbye - say goodbye
you never knw that I was strong enough to stand
All alone on my own I don`t need your hand
No more foolin`
you will save all your love
no more foolin`
you will save all your love
Say goodbye - say goodbye
11 Hymn (04:52)
Give us this day all that you showed me
The faith and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
When they say that in our time
All that's good will fall from grace
Even saints would turn their face
In our time
And they told us that in our days
Different words said in different ways
Have other meanings from he who says
In our time
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
And they say that in our time
We would reap from their legacy
We would learn from what they had seen
In our time
And they told us that in our days
We would know what was high on high
We would follow and not defy
In our time
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Faithless in faith
We must behold the things we see
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storyies you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the stories you told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes
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By Rockardo
The best album by Edguy and there’s no arguing about it.
Shivers down the spine when listening to the fourth track: "Scarlet Rose" My goodness!!! What a song!!!
