Хороший альбом. Помнится, именно с этого альбома началось мое знакомство с группой. Насчет оригинальности: да Stratovarius и теперь оригинальны. Неоригинальными можно называть тех, кто идет вслед за ними. Кстати, в данном альбоме есть один такой хитрый момент (типа припев), не помню в какой песне, так вот он содран с Helloween...
1. Chasing Shadows
2. 4th Reich
3. Eyes Of The World
4. Hold On To Your Dream
5. Magic Carpet Ride
6. We Are The Future
7. Tears Of Ice
8. Dreamspace
9. Reign Of Terror
10. Thin Ice
11. Atlantis
12. Abyss
13. Shattered
14. Wings Of Tomorrow
Timo Tolkki - Guitars, Vocals
Tuomo Lassila - Drums, Percussion, Flute
Antti Ikonen - Keyboards
Jari Kainulainen - Bass
Produced, Engineered and mixed by Tino Tolkki,
except 2,8,9 and 12 mixed by Mikko Karmila
(c)1994 Metallian Music
LYRICA:
STRATOVARIUS 1994 =DREAMSPACE= 63:59
1.CHASING SHADOWS (words - Tolkki / music - Tolkki) 4:36
I have been sailing across the oceans flying across the blue sky
without never finding the answer the answer to question why
just when you think you reach it it's gone chasing shadows chasing shadows
chasing shadows - all your life harder you try to fix things in your life
faster you know it's in vain searching for loving from strangest places
nothing is left but the pain
Just when you think you reach it it's gone chasing shadows...
2.4TH REICH (Tolkki / Tolkki) 5:52
Sign of the times and writings on the wall they show me its time has come
order of a new kind we will all find stronger than never before
Things are pretty much the same like in the year 38 oh won't we ever learn
this time it's gonna be different so let's all join our hands
and let the children sing for the last time
4th Reich is rising can't you see the signs
4th Reich is rising for the last time
Let's just press more money don't worry about the inflation
we got to have more weapons to carry on unemployment and sorrow
cannot be avoided at this point but things will be so different
when they are ruling the world
4th Reich is rising can't you see the signs
4th Reich is rising for the last time
What will be left to our children is this our final destiny
3.EYES OF THE WORLD (Tolkki / Tolkki) 6:00
Everywhere I go I see people standing at me it makes me feel so strange
why won't they just leave me be so take a look in the mirror
and maybe you'll see all the things that happened
while you were looking at me am I really so different?
In the eyes of the world you are no different to me
in the eyes of the world is it so hard to see now? Everything we do
is running into the sand and who is to take the food
away from the childrens hand we all could be friends now
And it's not crime but we have to be quick now
because we don't have much time are we really so different?
In the eyes...
4.HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAM (Tolkki,Lassila / Tolkki) 3:38
Since you were born pushed into corner and left all alone told what to do
obey all the rules be just like everyone else those fools day at the school
teacher's a billy you're mobbed as a rule nothing from TV your folks are away
you are trapped inside this house you must stay home
Now it's time for you to move on leave the shadows of your past
don't let them haunt you forever
Hold on to your dream somewhere there's a beam of hope which is guiding
your way through the dark this is your chance your love, your romance
hold on to your dream and never give up in your life hold on to your dream
5.MAGIC CARPET RIDE (Tolkki / Tolkki) 5:00
Let me take you to the faraway places where you've never been
to the orient lands soo you will notice the mountains and forests
we're flying over them now don't you be afraid just take my hand
As we race with four winds welcome to the land of mystery
welcome to the land of secrets this is no ancient history
we are flying through the gates of Babylon
Allah is speaking us all with his mighty voice bowing to his power
as we go down this magic carpet ride is not a dream to us
it's really happening now welcome to the land...
6.WE ARE THE FUTURE (Tolkki / Tolkki) 5:23
What is wrong with a man destroying the land our planet is full of waste
sheltering ozone layer is no more a shield the temperature is rising up
now it's time to stop this madness preventing increasing sadness
let's put end to all this while we can
Man against another man how somebody can judge by colour of the skin
see the signs make up your mind now it's time for the change
it's not too late now it's time...
Save us we are the future lead us into the better world show us
the way to reality no more injustice or cruelty save us we are the future
lead us into the better world show us
the way to reality injustice is all gone
Fast, fast stop this course now last, last or we won't last
past stop living in the past
Or you will die end, end, end of our time crime, crime against mankind
we have to pay in the course of mad destruction there'll be no coming back
the nuclear end is in sight soon there will be no one to fight with me save us
7.TEARS OF ICE (Tolkki / Tolkki) 5:41
Tears of ice falling down my cheeks forming a lake in its surface
I see your face and I watch it till it's gone there were times
all I did was cry out your name only thing I feel now is pain...
Tears of ice frozen heart icy drops fall to the ground forming stream
golden dream that will lead me to your door there were times
all I did was cry out your name only thing I feel now is pain...
Baby you should see what you did to me now I am crying tears of ice
baby you should feel like I felt in those days now I am crying tears of ice
8.DREAMSPACE (Tolkki / Tolkki) 6:00
Looking back through time to my childhood days I used to have a place
where I could escape the reality but lately things have been
So difficult for me trying to reach for the light in the fall of darkness
Waiting wasting my life I'm wasting my time I'm losing grip from life
going back to my dreamspace leavin it all behind
soon the things will be alright when I get there
Am I safe in here nothing left to fear
I will close my eyes and float away with stream
Wandering here is this eternal darkness no signs of light anywhere
I am going insane now I am leaving this life no hope left I want to die
9.REIGN OF TERROR (Tolkki / Tolkki) 3:33
What the hell is going on skyjumpers making music that sells gold
there's no talent in this game hunting for the fame publicity is all you need
that's why it feels tome like Reign of Terror Reign of Terror
Everything costs so much nowadays and individuals vanish in the haze
entertainment for the masses saving saving your own asses
rats are leaving sinking ship still it feels to me like
Reign of Terror
What the hell is going on everything is upside down
hunting for the fame terror terror everywhere
10.THIN ICE (Lassila / Tolkki) 4:31
I'm walking on a thin ice lying paralyzed
staying here alone reaching for the unknown
In the mirror I see despair in the closet I smell death
there's needles in my bed I've finally lost my head
11.ATLANTIS (Tolkki) 1:09
/ Instrumental /
12.ABYSS (Lassila / Tolkki) 5:06
I'm out on the open sea the wind is embracing me I'm watching the setting sun
far far away from you there's not much that I could do
do you know what's the only way for me into the depths I fall
into the unknown darkness I go
Down down down falling into the Abyss
A morning of no recall no memory nothing at all the sun is blinding my eyes
The pain I feel in my head I think I'll go back to bed
or should I have just one more
Into the depths I fall into the unknown darkness I go
Down down down falling into the Abyss
13.SHATTERED (Lassila / Tolkki) 3:30
I worked so hard to get my aim pulled out the wrong card
is this my last game too fast too soon you know it takes time
hasty deeds spoilt the chances of mine
I'm burning inside outside seems alright try not to think about it much
it's hard to say when I will play again
Shattered my hands are shattered shattered my life is shattered again
I'm dressed to kill and ready to score 3rd pain pill
and there's pain no more I can't break out out of these walls
walls that sometimes the skull is called I'm burning... Shattered...
14.WINGS OF TOMORROW (Tolkki / Tolkki) 5:15
New winds are blowing over the world can you feel it message is spreading
among all the people future is calling history is leaving behind
nobody is thinking about the past days
I want you to have a look in future world if you have an open mind
it is your turn come join our forces to this trip to the
Wings of Tomorrow
Consider that this world could be free from all this hatred
there would be no borders no laws of anykind still mankind is falling
planning its ruin everyday but hey we can still stop this madness together
if you want to...
Timo Tolkki,guitars,vocals
Antti Ikonen,keyboards
Jari Kainulainen,bass
Tuomo Lassila,drums,percussion,flute
Produced, engineered and mixed by Timo Tolkki,except tracks 2,8,9 and 12 mixed
by Mikko Karmila. Recorded at Rauhala estate, Sibeluis Academy, University of
Helsinki Department of musicology, Swat Team palace, home, in our rehearsal
room, Soundtrack studios.
(c) 1994 Metallian Music
(p) 1994 Modern music rec.