Hold On to the Dream

Last night I went to sleep And dreamed the strangest dream I was a prisoner in a land I'd never seen The heat was so unbearable The day was black as night And I heard my children's children screaming You left it all to us The oceans and the skies You let it all decay Before your very eyes The judge and jury they have sentenced you to life But that's not long enough Cause life has passed you by No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all, to change it Out in the distance I could hear a lost soul's cry Waiting for relief to come Left alone out on the wire I saw the face of God In a cradle as a child He held the cross within his hands A sword was in his side He came a second time But still was crucified You never did believe The one called Jesus Christ You called yourself a Christian But what about your faith? You built your temples of desire Upon the sacred place No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all, to change it A shelter in an underground Strange symbols on the wall A rat infested sewer Like some relic from the war You left it all to us, you left it all to us These are the corridors of power Where forever you shall walk I searched the wastelands till I found someone I knew Then I finally realized The nightmare had come true The place where I was standing Was the place where I was born And my name was on the roll of honour To the fallen of the third world war You left it all to us The oceans and the skies You let it all decay Before your very eyes The judge and jury they have sentenced you to life But that's not long enough Cause life has passed you by No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all No more hell on earth You left us with your broken promises No more hell on earth There's no time to change it all, to change it

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

There's a gang who live for violence On the streets of East L.A. Survival is to fight or kill If anything gets in their way There's a girls from a land of plenty Who always wanted more Now she's found her true vocation Working for the lord There's a mother in a vacuum In fact she's now divorced She's the spirit of the sixties Still waiting for tha call And the leaders of the new frontiers Turn their thoughts toward the sky No acid rain more greener fields And micro genetic births And the leaders of the new frontiers Sail their shpis toward the stars In search of new horizons The answer to it all There's a child who cries of hunger In a town that's got no name He doesn't know he's born yet But he's learnt to live with pain In a city just for dreamers Where the sign says "Sex for sale" You can live out all your fantasies Behind the windows without shame And still we think of east and west And still we're black and white And while the poor still hate the rich I guess we're always gonna fight And the leaders of the new frontiers Turn their thoughts toward the sky No acid rain more greener fields And micro genetic births And the leaders of the new frontiers Sail their shpis toward the stars In search of new horizons The answer to it all There's a dickhead blowing money Cause he's never had to work While the homeless live in boxes Eating garbage out the dirt There's a world that stand united Where once the madman reigned It's a lesson to us all The threat of war is too insane And half the planet's starving And that's a fact of life Have we got used to all those pictures That we can't tell wrong from right? And the leaders of the new frontiers Turn their thoughts toward the sky No acid rain more greener fields And micro genetic births And the leaders of the new frontiers Sail their shpis toward the stars In search of new horizons The answer to it all

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

I feel the sun go down As I watch you walk away And I caught a breath of life When you looked at me today It's a feeling i don't know What I miss well who can say? But every road leads back to you You got a hold on me Can I turn and let you go? Can I really give up now? There's a force that drives me on I gotta have your love Gotta hold on to the dream Yes it's only love It's everything I ever need When i think of love I gotta hold on to the dream Yes it feels like love You're everything I ever need I'm at this point in time A crossroads in my life So close and yet so far Am I wrong or am I right? Decisions are the hardest part They're the things I never made We always seem to work it out We always found a way Now I'm caught between two worlds It's the one thing we can't share You're asking me to make a choice I gotta have your love Gotta hold on to the dream Yes it's only love It's everything I ever need When i think of love I gotta hold on to the dream Yes it feels like love You're everything I ever need They say you never missed What you've never had But when you've got it all Sometimes it's sad To think that we can't find Another way to compromise But now we can't pretend Cause that's just another lie I gotta have your love Gotta hold on to the dream Yes it's only love It's everything I ever need When i think of love I gotta hold on to the dream Yes it feels like love You're everything I ever need

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Strike up the band Break out the bar Let'em know we're back in business this time Don't be a fool Can't you see I was kicked when I was down Got nerves of steel My memory's long and I've learned to be The hunter not the hunted I want the best that money can buy Gotta have the sweet smell of success So get out of here This thing is starting to roll If you wanna play tough You might just get lost in the cold I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share Give me the lion's share I'm sick and tired of playing second best But now I don't look back anymore I've served my time I've paid my debt And tonight I'm gonna ride out in the sunset I've been around I know where it hurts You see action speaks louder than words Just start me up give me the power And I feel just like a jet on the runway So get out of here This thing is starting to roll If you wanna play tough You might just get lost in the cold I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share Give me the lion's share You can spend all your life beeing somebody's fool Or sell your soul and go break every rule You know there's no money in honesty But I tell you son, you've gotta be what you'll be Give me the lion's share Give me the lion's share Give me the lion's share Give me the lion's share Hey mr Big watch your cigar I'm gonna stick My nose in your business I've seen the light that shines in the dark I've seen my destiny written in the stars So stand your ground it's face to face And prepare yourself for a showdown The game is up the pack's at your heels And there's nothing left for the loser So get out of here This thing is starting to roll If you wanna play tough You might just get lost in the cold I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share I want it all I don't care I want it all the lion's share Give me the lion's share

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

There's a convoy of eastern dinkies Flies on the wall of death Caught in a crazy time warp Trubs, Mercedes what's next? Stretched out to the distant horizon Gypsies in search of a dream Driven on through the snow and the cold wind Hypnotized by the things that they'd seen And the fire burns bright So bright in their eyes While the past it cuts deep In all of our lives And the face of a child Tells its own special tale As she looks for the west Where her future unveils There's an eastern sunset At the border of life And we've travelled so far Like wings through the night There's an eastern sunset See the coming of age It's a memory we'll keep In a lifetime of change There's an army of brothers and sisters Forty years in the wilderness Marching the road to freedom As the darkness descends at the frontier The crowd gather just for the feast And we make our way to the footlights As the sound of a thousand hearts beat And the fire burns bright So bright in their eyes While the past it cuts deep In all of our lives And the face of a child Tells its own special tale As she looks for the west Where her future unveils There's an eastern sunset At the border of life And we've travelled so far Like wings through the night There's an eastern sunset See the coming of age It's a memory we'll keep In a lifetime of change Stop the show cvame the call from Mike Won't somebody call the cops Let the ambulance through There's a life at stake Not a minute to be lost The wounded is taken away He's winning his fight for life The crowd settle down To the gig once more As the evening reaches a high We leave the stage to the shouts for more But what more does tonight have in store It feels like we travelled half way Round the world, but never left home at all There's an eastern sunset At the border of life And we've travelled so far Like wings through the night There's an eastern sunset See the coming of age It's a memory we'll keep In a lifetime of change

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Somewhere in the dark someone is waiting A boy of seventeen his body breaking It's a one way trip there's no turning back Pusher on the street he's a hungry bloodhound Assassin getting rich in the devil's playground It's too high a price what a sacrifice The men of evil hide behind their fortress walls While the dealers worm their way inside the law Barons of darkness we won't take no more Barons of darkness we won't take no more Show your face what expression lies behind your greed? Show your face to the addicts killing for their need Shiny limousines up-town operators Billion dollar deals and million dollar babies Selling paradise at any price Shipment in the night, secret destinations Army on the move there's a fortune waiting At the end of the line, if they cut it fine In a world of flashing lights and suicide They go looking for their kicks on the murder mile Barons of darkness we won't take no more Barons of darkness we won't take no more Show your face what expression lies behind your greed? Show your face to the addicts killing for their need Show your face what expression lies behind your greed? Show your face to the addicts killing for their need Your bloody rule of fear will one day be all over Your bloody rule of fear is gone, gone, gone, gone Starting in the face of revolution Walking hand in hand with destitution Columbia, oh Columbia Riding on the back of a starving nation Reaping the harvest of eternal damnation Too high a price what a sacrifice The men of evil hide behind their fortress walls While the dealers worm their way inside the law Barons of darkness we won't take no more Barons of darkness we won't take no more Show your face what expression lies behind your greed? Show your face to the addicts killing for their need

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

I remember yesterday The circus came to town The gentle giant's toppen the bill Supporting were the clowns I remember Africa Where millions all roamed free And little kids drew pictures Only innocence could see Oh how we've grown since those Crazy childhood days All the mountains that were climbed And the journeys that were made Tell me did we change the world? Will we still live in our ivory towers While they're staring down the barrel of a gun Will we still build all those ivory towers And make believe that we did the things we should have done Do you remember 68, a time of love and peace? A generation born in hope All those promises to keep I saw you standing on the streets last night You looked so all alone Are you still searching for that peace of mind? Will they find their way back home? Oh how we've grown since those Crazy childhood days All the mountains that were climbed And the journeys that were made Tell me did we change the world? Will we still live in our ivory towers While they're staring down the barrel of a gun Will we still build all those ivory towers And make believe that we did the things we should have done Were the tears we shared in vain? There's a millionreasons to ask What it's all about Hear the echoes of the past ring out There's another way And though the times are changing now The spirit of our youth still lives In the heart of the few Though the sings remind us of a fading memory But there's no way back Will we still live in our ivory towers While they're staring down the barrel of a gun Will we still build all those ivory towers And make believe that we did the things we should have done

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

I looked in the mirror But someone else had taken my place I pulled on my blue jeans Then found out I was so out of shape So I walked in the sunshine And suddenly it started to rain So I reached for the crossword But couldn't find where I'd left my brain It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right I tried to hide in the darkness When someone went and turned up the light All I wanted was peace and quiet The everybody started to fight So I called for a taxi But the man said I'd have to wait Cause i thought it was tomorrow When I found out it was yesterday It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right I turned on the T.V. But all I got was the same old repeats I asked for coke with my whisky And the waiter brought it to me neat I took a drive in the country But couldn't find my way out of town I booked a table for dinner But then the restaurant went and closed down It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right It's just one of those days When nothing turns out right

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Wipe the tears from your eyes It's time for leaving but not goodbye You don't know what it's like They went and took the best years of my life And they broke all our hearts But not our spirit while we were apart Now it's their turn to pay But they can't give back what they took away Oh I've waited such a long time That I can't believe it's true That somebody finally realized It wasn't me or you I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light Who do you think you are? If you've got problems I'll show you my scars So don't turn away, you better listen I've something to say There's a wrong and a right And there's a law if you're black or you're white So we all make mistakes Like being born in the wrong time and place Crossing weeks and months off on a wall Counting hours in a day Writing letters well into the night There was no other way I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light I'll take it all, take what's mine Cause all i ever got was time Take it all, take what's mine And maybe it will work out fine Wipe the tears from your eyes It's time for leaving but not goodbye You don't know what it's like They went and took the best years of my life And they broke all our hearts But not our spirit while we were apart Now it's their turn to pay But they can't give back what they took away I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light I wanna stand on the streets tonight Out of the shadows and into the light

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

I love to walk these streets The ghost of my own childhood It's the place where I was born All my memories are here There's a heart that beats so strong It keeps me safe and warmer And no matter where I go I know I'll always come back home Out in the night I can hear the voices calling Out in the dark i can hear it more and more I gotta shoot for the city It's the place where I belong I gotta shoot for the city I can't stay away too long I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's so much love round here I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's nothing that I fear My father spent his life here Digging for the future A man of great respect But he never had a chance I left when I was young To seek out fame and fortune I had to know what life was like Out on the other side Out in the night I can hear the voices calling Out in the dark i can hear it more and more I gotta shoot for the city It's the place where I belong I gotta shoot for the city I can't stay away too long I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's so much love round here I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's nothing that I fear The school where I was taught That life was but a journey A retired army officer, reminising about the war The park where Sunday afternoons would last forever And down at Johnny's place Where we danced the summertime blues Out in the night I can hear the voices calling Out in the dark i can hear it more and more I gotta shoot for the city It's the place where I belong I gotta shoot for the city I can't stay away too long I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's so much love round here I gotta shoot for the city I'll never be alone There's nothing that I fear

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

I'm coming home, now the waiting is all over Can't find the words to tell you How I feel for you tonight A cold wind blows But inside I feel a warm glow I hold a pen in trembling hands A stranger in a foreign land Now I've found what I'm searching for What we have means so much more Tell them all that I'm coming home Keep the candle burning brightly Now I've found what I'm searching for Every day oh I miss you more Tell them all that I'm coming home I'm coming home To the mountains and the valleys The cobbled streets Where the boy became a man and learned to love I hear your voice Speaking softly in the morning I see you lying next to me Let the moment last forever more Now I've found what I'm searching for What we have means so much more Tell them all that I'm coming home Keep the candle burning brightly Now I've found what I'm searching for Every day oh I miss you more Tell them all that I'm coming home Oh, I know so much has changed In our hearts I'm sure What we've been through Will make us strong again Now I've found what I'm searching for What we have means so much more Tell them all that I'm coming home Keep the candle burning brightly Now I've found what I'm searching for Every day oh I miss you more Tell them all that I'm coming home tonight

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025