Time and distance
Placed before thee
Hope and beauty
Have we duties
As to what each moment's given for
Stars have made us wonder
Lightning wed to thunder
Power glory
Fragile stories
Woven through eternity
Time refines us
Death resigns us
And it's clever
For it never
Tells us when that moment is to be
All these questions of existence
We pursue with such persistence
What
Where
Why
When
Is the day we will see
And each child that is unborn yet
Must remember
Must remember
And the cost of all our human progress
Is a great debt
Is a great debt
And the journey so long ago begun
And the journey so long ago begun
Is not over till we're all saved
And our lives and god are one
Through the distance
Lord please stay close by our side
Through the distance
Lord please stay close by our
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Letters From The Labyrinth Album Lyrics
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Letters From The Labyrinth Lyrics
Writer: JOHN OLIVA, PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Prometheus
There comes a time to decide
There comes a time to choose sides
For in a world in the dark
A single thought is a spark
That ignites
And it burns
As it spread across the night
It detects
And protects
As its light it calls forth
Einstein and Edison
Tesla and Eddington
Prometheus was the one
That first showed us
How far minds could see
Changing destinies
Nothing has to be
If we wish it
There comes a time to decide
Do we unite or divide
And if the world's blind to sparks
To be the voice in the
Dark
There comes a time to choose sides
For in a world in the dark
A single thought is a spark
That ignites
And it burns
As it spread across the night
It detects
And protects
As its light it calls forth
Einstein and Edison
Tesla and Eddington
Prometheus was the one
That first showed us
How far minds could see
Changing destinies
Nothing has to be
If we wish it
There comes a time to decide
Do we unite or divide
And if the world's blind to sparks
To be the voice in the
Dark
Writer: JOHN OLIVA, PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Night Conceives
The sun goes down
The light it leaves
The mind can't imagine
What the night conceives
The siren wails
She flirts, she calls
Promise nothing
But she offers all
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exit's clean
When she first walks by
You feel drained and bled
With those arctic eyes
As she looked at me and said
She said
Oh yeah
When she appears
Always center stage
But when the spotlight comes
You know she'll disengage
With a feline smile
And a wink that's sin
Can't say where she goes
Only where she's been
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exits clean
She's got arctic eyes
She's electra glide
The night bets on her
And you just let it ride
The wheel keeps turnin'
My mind keeps learnin'
The night still burnin'
Let it ride
The dawn is close
The dark retreats
The world's still here
The heart still beats
Time goes on
The earth still turns
And with the night
She will return
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exit's clean
When she first walks by
You feel drained and bled
With those arctic eyes
As she looked at me and said
The dice keep earning
They keep returning
The light it leaves
The mind can't imagine
What the night conceives
The siren wails
She flirts, she calls
Promise nothing
But she offers all
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exit's clean
When she first walks by
You feel drained and bled
With those arctic eyes
As she looked at me and said
She said
Oh yeah
When she appears
Always center stage
But when the spotlight comes
You know she'll disengage
With a feline smile
And a wink that's sin
Can't say where she goes
Only where she's been
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exits clean
She's got arctic eyes
She's electra glide
The night bets on her
And you just let it ride
The wheel keeps turnin'
My mind keeps learnin'
The night still burnin'
Let it ride
The dawn is close
The dark retreats
The world's still here
The heart still beats
Time goes on
The earth still turns
And with the night
She will return
She's the chambered round
In the magazine
She's the first one out
But the exit's clean
When she first walks by
You feel drained and bled
With those arctic eyes
As she looked at me and said
The dice keep earning
They keep returning
Writer: JOHN OLIVA, PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Forget About The Blame (Sun Version)
I wasn't sure what you were thinking
I saw a distance in your eyes
Passion we once had is fading
Into the whirlwind of our lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
If we try real hard
We'll get somewhere, 'cause
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
If love is strong then we will make it
The burnt out flame we can't relight
It's nothing I can do
I'm now apart of you
I can't take living separate lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
And you tell me then
You're life's not fair
But we all have our own cross to bear
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's not about the pain
Our two hearts beat the same
Whoa, yeah
Forget the blame
It's all for love
It's not for pain
Forget the blame
It's all about the lovin' (forget the blame)
(It's not for love) it's not about the pain
(It's not for pain) so tell me what your heart says
(Forget the blame) Forget about the pain
(Forget the pain) It's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says)
(Forget the pain) forget about the pain
(Forget the blame) it's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
I saw a distance in your eyes
Passion we once had is fading
Into the whirlwind of our lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
If we try real hard
We'll get somewhere, 'cause
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
If love is strong then we will make it
The burnt out flame we can't relight
It's nothing I can do
I'm now apart of you
I can't take living separate lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
And you tell me then
You're life's not fair
But we all have our own cross to bear
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's not about the pain
Our two hearts beat the same
Whoa, yeah
Forget the blame
It's all for love
It's not for pain
Forget the blame
It's all about the lovin' (forget the blame)
(It's not for love) it's not about the pain
(It's not for pain) so tell me what your heart says
(Forget the blame) Forget about the pain
(Forget the pain) It's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says)
(Forget the pain) forget about the pain
(Forget the blame) it's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Writer: John Green
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Not Dead Yet
Cold cash
Quick dash
Don't have nothing else I can say
Cops come
Can't run
Lawyers just gotta delay
What crime?
Sunshine
Can't be anything that i did
I was used
So confused
Debts would mount
Couldn't count
But I never did nothing I hid
Gotta just lay low
Time is on my side
Let the clocks roll on
Say I can't decide
Let the clocks roll on
I have no regrets
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Cause I'm not dead yet
Wild child
Nice style
Fashion is what ever you wear
No sin
Begins
Understanding who really cares
It's free
With a small fee
When words don't mean what they say
Call them out
Let 'em doubt
Let 'em sweat
With regret
That their game, you'll no longer play
Gotta just lay low
Time is on my side
Let the clocks roll on
Say I can't decide
Let the clocks roll on
I have no regrets
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Cause I'm not dead yet
Quick dash
Don't have nothing else I can say
Cops come
Can't run
Lawyers just gotta delay
What crime?
Sunshine
Can't be anything that i did
I was used
So confused
Debts would mount
Couldn't count
But I never did nothing I hid
Gotta just lay low
Time is on my side
Let the clocks roll on
Say I can't decide
Let the clocks roll on
I have no regrets
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Cause I'm not dead yet
Wild child
Nice style
Fashion is what ever you wear
No sin
Begins
Understanding who really cares
It's free
With a small fee
When words don't mean what they say
Call them out
Let 'em doubt
Let 'em sweat
With regret
That their game, you'll no longer play
Gotta just lay low
Time is on my side
Let the clocks roll on
Say I can't decide
Let the clocks roll on
I have no regrets
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Let the clocks roll on
Cause I'm not dead yet
Writer: JOHN OLIVA, PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Past Tomorrow
Last night dreamt I was falling
A new born through the years
Long before I knew sorrow
Long before I knew fear
I tried not to awaken
Clung to this childhood's sleep
Afraid all might be taken
But sleep like childhoods cease
Childhoods cease
A street of all illusions
That were so real to me
But are they true illusions
If they are all you see
The stars keep all our secrets
Safe in the night they dwell
And after time eternal
They all still listen well
Where our hopes had somehow grown
Something I had never known
Somehow they had crossed the dark unnoticed
Far enough to wish upon
Then return and carry on
Stars will whisper to the night
Behold this
Life is real
But so our ghost
Side by side
Along times coast
And to others
We walk on unnoticed
Eternity
Itself has shores
We will meet
Again once more
Of all there is
To learn in life
Please know this
I will be there
Childhoods sleep
Childhood sleeps
I will be
A new born through the years
Long before I knew sorrow
Long before I knew fear
I tried not to awaken
Clung to this childhood's sleep
Afraid all might be taken
But sleep like childhoods cease
Childhoods cease
A street of all illusions
That were so real to me
But are they true illusions
If they are all you see
The stars keep all our secrets
Safe in the night they dwell
And after time eternal
They all still listen well
Where our hopes had somehow grown
Something I had never known
Somehow they had crossed the dark unnoticed
Far enough to wish upon
Then return and carry on
Stars will whisper to the night
Behold this
Life is real
But so our ghost
Side by side
Along times coast
And to others
We walk on unnoticed
Eternity
Itself has shores
We will meet
Again once more
Of all there is
To learn in life
Please know this
I will be there
Childhoods sleep
Childhood sleeps
I will be
Writer: JOHN OLIVA, PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Stay
Hey child
Out on your own
You never looked back
Never called home
You never turned 'round
Tell me the games that you played
Night time
Wander the street
You never give ground
Never retreat
You're always oz bound
Have all the dreams been betrayed
Stay
Here where the dreams tend to stray
Here you're safe
When the night
Fades away
When the night
Fades away
Hey there
Oz refugee
You took the wrong road
Hatters and tea
Are all that you found
Out on the great white way
Times change
You never did
Life came
You overbid
Join us
Vessels of courvoisier
Stay
Here where the dreams tend to stray
Here you're safe
When the night
Fades away
When the night
Fades away
Out on your own
You never looked back
Never called home
You never turned 'round
Tell me the games that you played
Night time
Wander the street
You never give ground
Never retreat
You're always oz bound
Have all the dreams been betrayed
Stay
Here where the dreams tend to stray
Here you're safe
When the night
Fades away
When the night
Fades away
Hey there
Oz refugee
You took the wrong road
Hatters and tea
Are all that you found
Out on the great white way
Times change
You never did
Life came
You overbid
Join us
Vessels of courvoisier
Stay
Here where the dreams tend to stray
Here you're safe
When the night
Fades away
When the night
Fades away
Writer: PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Not The Same
I heard a note
In the dark
Where it slipped into my mind
And somehow still remains
Time comes and goes
Ebbs and flows
And somehow that single note
Still rings on and sustains
For I need someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
There was a soul in the dark
And it flies across the night
Towards a far distant flame
Cross forest and streets, every beat
Keeps it moving towards a goal
It may never obtain
For it needs someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
You were the hope that I kept
Secretly inside and by
My whole life it was framed
Some never saw or suspected
That it was there and I
All alone knew your name
For we need someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
In the dark
Where it slipped into my mind
And somehow still remains
Time comes and goes
Ebbs and flows
And somehow that single note
Still rings on and sustains
For I need someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
There was a soul in the dark
And it flies across the night
Towards a far distant flame
Cross forest and streets, every beat
Keeps it moving towards a goal
It may never obtain
For it needs someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
You were the hope that I kept
Secretly inside and by
My whole life it was framed
Some never saw or suspected
That it was there and I
All alone knew your name
For we need someone
Not just anyone
For when all is said and done
Anyone
Anyone
Else
Is not the same
Writer: PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Who I Am
All these days that lay before me
All these days that lay behind
Does time just go on forever
Whose decision
Whose design
Death life
Wrong right
Pray will you tell me
Who decides
Dark night
Days light
Pray will you tell me
Who divides
Every year contains its seasons
Summer, winter, spring and fall
Some pass faster than the others
Some forgotten some recalled
Long short
Owned bought
Gathering trinkets
From times tides
Rich thoughts
Lost sought
Still the clock turns
And can't be bribed
I know
I see
I hear
Do you understand
The cost
In years
In tears
The weight of the damned
That build
To lakes
Then wake
And flood cross the land
We watch
The waves
Carve out
Their pre-ordained plans
Each life
Each grave
And then
Fill each one with sand
Listen what I say
Time does not betray
Every moment cast
Guaranteed to pass
Every moment close
Soon to turn to ghost
Some to disappear
Others shadows clear
Shadows without light
Soon become just night
Leaving in our mind
What is left behind
Do you hear what I say
Every life's numbered days
Joined with hourglass sand
Feel it run through your hands
Still then no one knows now
The true why when and how
And when time's out of sand
Will they know who I...
Am
All these days that lay behind
Does time just go on forever
Whose decision
Whose design
Death life
Wrong right
Pray will you tell me
Who decides
Dark night
Days light
Pray will you tell me
Who divides
Every year contains its seasons
Summer, winter, spring and fall
Some pass faster than the others
Some forgotten some recalled
Long short
Owned bought
Gathering trinkets
From times tides
Rich thoughts
Lost sought
Still the clock turns
And can't be bribed
I know
I see
I hear
Do you understand
The cost
In years
In tears
The weight of the damned
That build
To lakes
Then wake
And flood cross the land
We watch
The waves
Carve out
Their pre-ordained plans
Each life
Each grave
And then
Fill each one with sand
Listen what I say
Time does not betray
Every moment cast
Guaranteed to pass
Every moment close
Soon to turn to ghost
Some to disappear
Others shadows clear
Shadows without light
Soon become just night
Leaving in our mind
What is left behind
Do you hear what I say
Every life's numbered days
Joined with hourglass sand
Feel it run through your hands
Still then no one knows now
The true why when and how
And when time's out of sand
Will they know who I...
Am
Writer: PAUL O'NEILL
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Forget About The Blame (Moon Version)
I wasn't sure what you were thinking
I saw a distance in your eyes
Passion we once had is fading
Into the whirlwind of our lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
If we try real hard
We'll get somewhere, 'cause
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
If love is strong then we will make it
The burnt out flame we can't relight
It's nothing I can do
I'm now apart of you
I can't take living separate lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
And you tell me then
You're life's not fair
But we all have our own cross to bear
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's not about the pain
Our two hearts beat the same
Whoa, yeah
Forget the blame
It's all for love
It's not for pain
Forget the blame
It's all about the lovin' (forget the blame)
(It's not for love) it's not about the pain
(It's not for pain) so tell me what your heart says
(Forget the blame) Forget about the pain
(Forget the pain) It's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says)
(Forget the pain) forget about the pain
(Forget the blame) it's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
I saw a distance in your eyes
Passion we once had is fading
Into the whirlwind of our lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
If we try real hard
We'll get somewhere, 'cause
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
If love is strong then we will make it
The burnt out flame we can't relight
It's nothing I can do
I'm now apart of you
I can't take living separate lives
But you sit right there
Like you don't care
And you tell me then
You're life's not fair
But we all have our own cross to bear
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all about the lovin'
It's not about the pain
So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's all for the love
It's not about the pain
Our two hearts beat the same
Whoa, yeah
Forget the blame
It's all for love
It's not for pain
Forget the blame
It's all about the lovin' (forget the blame)
(It's not for love) it's not about the pain
(It's not for pain) so tell me what your heart says
(Forget the blame) Forget about the pain
(Forget the pain) It's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says)
(Forget the pain) forget about the pain
(Forget the blame) it's all about the lovin'
(It's not for love) It's not about the pain
(It's not the pain) So tell me what your heart says
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Forget about the blame
Writer: John Green
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Letters from the Labyrinth is the sixth studio album by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on November 13, 2015. The album is a collection of songs and stories. The stories being a nod to their previous full album Night Castle, using the stories written by the protagonist. The album reached #7 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart.
This album was the last for TSO members Paul O'Neill, David Zablidowsky, and Vitalij Kuprij before their deaths. O'Neill and Zablidowsky died in 2017, and Kuprij died in 2024.
Performed By:
Trans-Siberian OrchestraThis album was the last for TSO members Paul O'Neill, David Zablidowsky, and Vitalij Kuprij before their deaths. O'Neill and Zablidowsky died in 2017, and Kuprij died in 2024.
Genre(s): Symphonic metal, progressive metal, neoclassical metal
Producer(s): Paul O'Neill, Dave Wittman
Length: 52:08
Released: November 13th, 2015
Year: 2015