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Возвращайся, блудный сын -
обретешь покой и мир
не бывает в мире грез
боли, горя и слез

Я сумел подняться над суетою
Оставляя шумный мир за собою
Я хотел увидеть, что там – за стеной из снов?

When I Was Very Young So Many Songs Were Sung

So Much Wasted Time On An Uphill Climb

But You Where Always There, a Feeling in the Air

There Was Nothing to Fear You Were So Near

You say it's time to stay behind
All I wanted was to hold you
All I wanted was to touch you

No need for blame cause we're not the same
All I wanted was to love you
That's all I wanted

The mist of time is still concealing
The vision that I seek
Those who died have all borne witness
If only they would speak
Yet I saw it all inside me, for a moment
Were you with me?
Have we done it all before, is there really so much more?

Audio-Visions-1980

1. Relentless (Kerry Livgren) – 4:56
2. Anything for You (Steve Walsh) – 3:58
3. Hold On (Livgren) – 3:53
4. Loner (Walsh) – 2:30
5. Curtain of Iron (Livgren) – 6:12
6. Got to Rock On (Walsh) – 3:21

Used to think about what I would grow up to be
Good or bad, right or wrong, it was no harm to me
Was a time in my life when I wish I'd have known
You can't gamble with fate, you might end up alone

(Chorus)
Meet me where the feeling is high, let the sound surround you
Meet me at the top of the sky, where the colors fly around you

Oh, I cannot tell you to make up your mind
And gather together the best of your kind
The prophets have spoken the words of ill fate
Your childhood has ended you've taken the bait
You've got the power it's there deep inside
Just look around and you'll know what you've tried
So much relies on the course that you take
The fool and the wise man both burn at the stake-ah

Her letters gave me purpose,
Her letters gave me pride
Armies far across the ocean
Guns and letters by our side
It was someone else's homeland
It was someone else's war
But at the line of the 38th parallel
It was her I fought them for

Well it looks like it might rain but rain ain't what we need
Sunshine and a war machine I'm gettin' ready for another stampede
Grease the gears with blood paint it black as night
Ride through the city like a Trojan horse
Convinced what you're doin's all right

Hold on 'til the river goes down the river goes to the sea
Hold on the rive's comin' down on me

Thirty days have September
In a jailhouse I remember
Well, I got caught with too much soul
Bringing it back from Mexico
Bringing it back from Mexico

Spanish lights and pretty faces
Trip you out to where the place is

Saturday, a last September
In a jail house I remember
Well, I got caught with too much soul
Well, I tell you what I was bringing it back from Mexico
Yes I was bringing it back from Mexico
I bring it on down

Tell you about the nice lights and pretty faces

City resting on a hill
Can your walls repel the tide of change
Under Pantocrator's rule
Did your golden domes reveal
The frailty of the consequence
The conqueror was real

Where the Emperor once reigned

At every glance, you steal from me
I catch your eyes still offering
Ill-got desire bought with deceit
'Cause borrowed love ain't never free

I vainly swear in my starved mind
To crave your look only one more time
And pray not to reap what we might sow

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher

Продолжай, мой блудный сын,
Будет спокойно, когда ты устанешь.
Дай отдых своей уставшей голове,
Не плачь больше.

Однажды я поднялся над шумом и суетой,
Что бы лишь увидеть проблеск надежды.
Никогда я не взбирался так высоко,

Some of you may know me and many of you won't
I am just a player in the band
Some of you will listen and some of you will hear
Some of you may laugh at me and some of you will cheer
'Cause all of us, we are an audience
Looking for evidence, to help it all make sense

(Chorus)

From the mountains to the sun, Life has only just begun.
We wed this land and pledge our souls to meet its end,
Life has only just begun
Here my people roam the earth, in the kingdom of our birth,
Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun
We are mighty on the earth, on the earth

You have come to move me, take me from my ancient home,

Sweet child of innocence
Living in the present tense
Father Time will take his toll
Rack your body and steal your soul
What became of all the years
Are you drowning in your tears
Who will catch you when you fall
Who will hear you when you call

Once carried through the current, and being swept away
The king is in his closet, he's hiding from today
And though he owns all fortunes, this room is where he'll stay
And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey
Gazing out the window of the forty-second floor
He is separate from all others, no one knocks upon his door
And it might as well be raining, 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes
And his ears will never hear the children's cries

Underneath the sky of blue, it's a time of choosing
Everybody's holding on, to what they're losing
But it all works out okay, if you give your life away
To the one who's holding fast, it's a promise that will last

You're caught in a crossfire
Of a greater love than man has ever known
Caught in a crossfire

close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.

Every day she gets a little weaker
The beauty she once knew has come and gone
We've murdered all her sons and all her daughters
The blood is on your hands, the time has come
And now she's gonna die

We've strangled all her trees and starved her creatures
There's poison in the sea and in the air

Why can't you see where we are going
Why can't you see where we have been
You tell me the pain is still growing you tell me tell me who'll win
I feel for you you know what I'm saying
But I've got to do what's right in my head

I've got to ride ride rocket ride
Carry me quick to the one's who've cried

On a night as I lay sleeping, in a dream I saw the shore
Of a distant land where promise lay in wait
And I heard the sound of voices of a million hungry souls
Now it comes to me to lead them to the gate
But I am just a man, not worthy of this plan
With a strength that's not my own, I must rise

And I will bear the light,

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher

I, I'm in a kind of foolish game I try to get rich quick
But I'm going insane
The kind of freaks that hang out on 42nd Street
They're all pimping Judy's and popping speed, well
It's a game of cat and mouse and I think it's got my soul
I think it's time for thinking 'bout a time to roll on
Down the road, so here I go

I close my eyes
only for a moment, and the moment's gone.
All my dreams
pass before my eyes in curiosity...

Dust in the wind...
all they are is dust in the wind...

I close my eyes only for a moment,
And the moment's gone.
All my dreams pass before my eyes,
A curiosity.

Dust in the wind,
All they are is dust in the wind.

from "Point of Know Return" (p)1977

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Закрыв глаза,
Только на момент, вновь открываю их.
И летят
Птичьей стаей надо мной мечты мои.

Пыль на ветру.
Все они лишь пыль на ветру.

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

eye of the tiger

Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory

There's a hole in the wall
With a light shining in
And it's letting me know to get up
It's time to begin

Oh there is nothing to lose
'Cause it's already lost
In a runaway world

Freak of nature fact or fright
Puts up with pain puts up with spite

Scarred up shoes have lost their sheen
It looks like better days they've seen

Chameleon man naive tycoon
Will eat the poor with silver spoon

(Steve Walsh / Steve Morse / Bob Ezrin)
There's tombstone in a snowy field
Close by an old ghost town
The epitaph's been weather-blown away
There's a belltower where petitions peeled
It's been half torn down
But it must have softened every soul that came to pray

Have you ever seen a miracle - you couldn't doubt or imitate
What's it really worth to you to shake the holy hand of fate
Well I did what I could to make ends meet
Been a gunrunner and a medicine man
In a Kansas town I was a rainmaker - there the hand of fate got out of hand

Rainmaker Rainmaker save this one horse town
Rainmaker pray to heaven

Look in the mirror and tell me
Just what you see
What have the years of your life
Taught you to be
Innocence dyin' in so many ways
Things that you dream of are lost
Lost in the haze

It's a strange aberration, this brainstorm of youth
Though it's lost in translation from fancy to truth
It's hopelessly human, both inside and out
A joyous occasion, there's no reason to doubt
It's easy somehow, what once was elusive is calling me now

I am waiting, I am patiently doing nothing, in a reverie
Climbing higher, seeing everything interacting, slowly spiraling

She strides down 7th street
Smokey night, summer heat
Commotion, concrete fires
Where neon souls are burning

His whole life, a hung jury
She was the crime, Wheel's gonna pay
She's got blue steel; cocked and locked

I can fly I really can wave good-bye familiar land
Catch the wind make my climb breathin in born again feelin fine
I can fly above distress I can fly to heaven no less
Leave the earth forget the time light as air I don't care feelin fine
Don't say I'm crazy don't say I'm out of my head
I might be crazy but one thing's for certain one thing's for sure
I can fly above the sea I can fly hey look at me
Without a net leave it behind

Need To Know

How do I know what you say is real
How do I know if that's the way you feel
You're the only one who's seen me
In the dark hours in the kitchen chair
Are you still there do you still care
That's all I really need to know

In the darkness I rise, long before
the dawn
I was dreaming of home and the life I
led
I can hear the sound, of the engines
roar
And I crave the embrace of my
empty bed

Early in the morning sunlight
Soaring on the wings of dawn
Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky
And I won't come down no more

Higher than a bird I'm flying
Crimson skies of ice and fire
Borne on wings of steel I have so much to feel

In Your Eyes

Seal no fate and hold no key
When all goes well spend some time remembering
Know by now that times have changed
But we feel each day can be deeper deeper

It might be raining now

The fire's inside me, the bridges burn
Love is the lesson but love never learns
And if it's all up to me, in a matter of time
All theses memories will return

Try to run a little faster, try to reach for the sky
Try to come a little closer; even if I lose, I gotta try

It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man)Late every nite when I am all aloneI call my baby on the telephoneIf she was here she'd treat me rightAnd love me love me through this lonely niteOh I can remember how her love can beAnd I can't forget the way she looks at meIf you got a girl I'm sure she understandsIt takes a woman's love to make a manWe're on the road tryin' to sell a songBeen on this road for much too longAll day all night it's drivin' me insaneCause I don't know when I'll see her face againBut it ain't no easy thing we've got to doAnd I love her cause she knows it tooShe surely made me understandIt takes a woman's love to make a manIt takes a woman's love to make a manI give her love cause what else can it be?I give to her just what she wants from me.She loves me hard, she loves me rightShe'll love me love me through this lonely niteThen happiness we'll surely knowUntil again it will be time to goOh she loves me like nobody canI know that women made me understandIt takes a woman's love to make a man

I close my eyes,
Only for a moment,
And the moment's gone

All my dreams,
Pass before my eyes, in curiosity

Dust in the wind,

Kansas-1974

1. Can I Tell You (Williams, Walsh, Ehart, Hope) - 3:32
2. Bringing It Back (J.J. Cale) - 3:33
3. Lonely Wind - (Walsh) - 4:16
4. Belexes (Livgren) - 4:23
5. Journey from Mariabronn (Livgren, Walsh) - 7:55
6. The Pilgrimage (Livgren, Walsh) - 3:42

On a winter's nigt, stars are cold and bright in the sky,
The slumber of the earth is pure and deep
From a distant wood, drifts the echo of a beast
The old man stirs and wakens in the night
He stands before his window gazing at the grave
Forgotten dreams are flashing through his weary mind
And though his life is empty, he pretends that she's still there
With hunger in his soul, he yearns for love and life gone by,

When I'm needin' a friend I can talk to the wind
God I sure am glad that I found him
Sometimes he seems to be the only one beside me
Who can feel the Lord's breath all around him
Winter's cold frozen ice or a bright autumn day
On a warm summer night you can hear him say

Cry for me, sigh for me, sad my breezes flow

Overkill, have you had your fill
Come to expect it
Off the wall, too short or too tall
System rejects it
Lost the handle, what's it all been for?
Tired of trying, seeing so much more

(Chorus)

On a crystal morning I can see the dewdrops falling
Down from a gleaming heaven, I can hear the voices call
When you comin' home now, son, the World is not for you
Tell me what's you point of view
Hey there Mister Madman, wat'cha know that I don't know
Tell me some crazy stories, let me know who runs this show
Glassy-eyed and laughing, he turns and walks away
Tell me what made you that way

I lost you a long time ago I tossed our love as far as I could throw
I can't help feelin' tentative and blind
I only wish that you could read my mind
I need to pitch it all into the wind
I need to face a wall that's cavin' in
I need to fall fall again I do need you

Can friends be lovers can lovers still be friends

It's empty now, no friendly face and nothing lives within
I look around and I find no trace to tell me what has been

So far I've come to find there's no one here, no life & fear
I came for nothing, they have gone
And Nobody's Home

I came to learn perhaps to teach but I can tell somehow

(Kerry Livgren)

The empty page before me now, the pen is in my hand
The words don't come so easy but I'm trying
I'm searching for a melody or some forgotten line
They can slip away from us so quickly
Don't be unkind I'm not complaining
I only feel it needs explaining

Colored banners, color kills
What color is the blood that spills
If we don't see it no one will
Under one big sky
Guns and plowshares, promise land
Ghosts of war stretch out their hand
If we don't hear them no one can
Under one big sky

One man, one heart
One man, one heart

This is my beginning
Tomorrow holds my hand
Yesterday is dead and gone
Buried in the sand
The vision stands before me

I went driving through my old hometown
It was Thursday the bright sun on the horizon
I was surprised to see no one had burned it down
It seemed so peaceful and warm

Floods of memories came back to me
All the things we got away with when we were younger
And I felt kind of like a refugee

t's in your head, they're telling you it's in your head,
It's a figment of your imagination.
It isn't there, they're telling you it isn't there,
You're a victim of your infatuation.
What do I think that it is I see? I keep asking myself.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me ...

There's a perfect lover running through my head.

You think that something's happening
And it's bigger than your life
But it's only what you're hearing
Will you still remember
When the morning light has come
Will the songs be playing over and over
Till you do it all over again

I heard the men saying something
The captains tell they pay you well
And they say they need sailing men to
Show the way, and leave today
Was it you that said, How long, how long?

They say the sea turns so dark that
You know it's time, you see the sign

(Kerry Livgren / Steve Walsh)

He had a thousand ideas, you might have heard his name
He lived alone with his vision
Not looking for fortune or fame
Never said too much to speak of
He was off on another plane
The words that he said were a mystery

Sometimes a smile can deceive the one who has made you promise
Suddenly you can't believe, the truth only leaves you cold
Sometimes the answers you fear are there on the face in the mirror
Something the world needs to hear but no one is even listening

Power It takes Power Power It takes Power
To back up the things you say
Power It takes Power Power It takes Power

We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves the our Posterity,do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America, for the United States of America.

When the sun is in the mid sky, were he wears a golden crown
And he soaks the world with sunshine as he makes another round
It's been a faster yeard than yesterday, all things that I had planned
And when I think I might be gaining, I'm in the sunshine once again

Well I walk the road of life among the strong, among the weak
And I ask them for the shortcut to the answers that I seek
But no one seems to understands what is and what will be

(Morse/Walsh)

Silhouettes debate then they test their fate
Pride is on the line the signs are dangerous
Hands too number to feel wrapped around the wheel
Tonight they face the fact some are never coming back

Silhouettes in Disguise leather hearts lawless eyes

The sparks of the tempest rage a hundred years on
The voice of the dreamer screams, the cause of the pawn
The King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game

Darkness is spreading like a spot on the sun
The dead are the living in the age of the gun
While everyone clamors for the justice they seek

The world began to change the children moved and they had children
It was all arranged you couldn't live there anymore
All you had was that old place in the middle of the path of progress
So they took the space and put the ceiling on the floor
In one of the rooms all the walls were blue
It was hidden so well that no one knew
Just the place for taking in the view

I've got books that say the good man's golden
And more that say the bad will fall,
So many men have drowned in evil, and left Lucifer standing tall
Don't take the devil's dare, don't gamble when the game ain't fair,
Lock and bolt the doors, can't let the devil use you anymore
You got to listen all you mugs and reivers, if you do any wrong
You make it right
You can't be a make-believer, 'cause soon you're gonna pay the price,

I've so much to say, and yet I cannot speak
Come and do my bidding now for I have grown too weak
My weary eyes have seen all that life can give
Come to me, O young one, for you I can forgive

I stood where no man goes, and conquered demon foes
With glory and passion no longer in fashion
The hero breaks his blade

Carry on my wayward son,
Продолжай, мой блудный сын,
There'll be peace when you are done.
Будет спокойно, когда ты устанешь.
Lay your weary head to rest,
Дай отдых своей уставшей голове,
Don't you cry no more
Не плачь больше.

I'm woven in a fantasy,
I can't believe the things I see
The path that I have chosen now
Has led me to a wall

And with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost
It rises now before me,
A dark and silent barrier between,

Three pretenders forced their entry
There wasn't time to defend or attack
Somewhere inside I held their fury
But one by one my defenses began to crack

The first became a voice from my childhood
Without a world to call his own
Asking questions but doubting the answers

Tomb 19 was sacred 1000 years or more
The Mayan king was restless a curse upon the door
His shrouds of royal fabric his journey to be made
To offer spirits good and evil 14 beads of sale

The jade had ancient power or so beliefs allege
To anyone who plundered they would drive him to the edge

(Livgren, Walsh)
----------------
Well I been drinkin' again
And I know it's a sin
But I just can't refuse an old friend
Cause life is gettin' me down
And I been two times around
And there ain't nothing but pain around the bend

Well you told me that I was just not the one,
And you left me standing out in the cold
It's been a long time and I'm so much better now
That I'm looking back and seeing it all
And for the first time there's no pain in my life
Though it's a long hard road that I've gone
We had a good thing and it made me a man cause I know

Возвращайся, блудный сын -
обретешь покой и мир
не бывает в мире грез
боли, горя и слез

Я сумел подняться над суетою
Оставляя шумный мир за собою
Я хотел увидеть, что там – за стеной из снов?

I close my eyes
only for a moment, and the moment's gone.
All my dreams
pass before my eyes in curiosity...

Dust in the wind...
all they are is dust in the wind...

Закрой глаза
На секунду лишь - и вмиг пройдет она,
Все мечты
Вспомнятся тебе сплошною чередой

Прах на ветру
Всё вокруг - лишь прах на ветру

Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done.
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion,
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion.
I was soaring ever higher,

Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high