Burning Down The Opera (live) Lyrics - 2003
[Sammet]
Yeah...
This is my day, soldiers are coming
To take me away - may justice be done
I hold on to pray
But no God seems to hear me
The pain I will face is the price for disgrace
For things that I've never done
The toll of the bell and the flight of the raven
They open my cell, I feel it's too late
There's no need to yell
They don't want to hear me
The morning has come
It seems like my work's been done
Today I'll be the one
Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene
'Cause when I'm close to the end
I've got always a friend
On my lonesome way to the final decay
I listen to a voice telling me
[Chorus]
Now dream away...
Follow me astray
To a world that we can reach
On wings of a dream
Now dream away...
Follow me astray
To a world that we can reach
On wings of a dream
I've got the key to the end of the nightmare
To leave all the dreams of bane and despair
The life I redeem has got the price of insanity
That you just can't get
'Cause you're not even mad
You only trust in your eyes!
Sometimes it's good to be schizophrene
When I'm close to the end
I've got always a friend
On my lonesome way to the final decay
I listen to a voice telling me
[Chorus]
[Solo]
Once upon a time there was a noble man like me
He only cared about the things he saw
One dark night without a moon he loved
The dog of his queen
Thinking it was her, he enjoyed
"Life in the raw...!"
[Chorus]
