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TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA lyrics : "Vienna"

[YOUNG BEETHOVEN]

SINCE I WAS A CHILD

I'VE SEEN HER IN A DREAM
A CAPTURED FAIRY TALE
THAT ECHOES CROSS MY LIFE


AND THOUGH I'VE COURTED HER
SHE'S ALWAYS STAYED UNSEEN

NOW ALL AT ONCE SHE
GLITTERS IN THE NIGHT


BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY
AND THAT ALL WAS BEFORE
WHEN SHE WAS FAR AWAY

A SILHOUETTE OF DREAMS

BUT OTHERS WHISPERED

THAT SHE WAS SO MUCH MORE
AND SUDDENLY I NOW
KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN


DREAMS CHANGE
YEARS STRAIN

LOST ILLUSIONS
LAST STANDS
GOD'S HAND

ABSOLUTION
FOUND


FAIRY TALE SINS
VISIONS BY GRIMM
ALL FORGIVEN

LIVES SPENT IN VAIN
NEVER RECLAIMED
TAKE THEIR FINAL BOWS


PICTURES AND WORDS
VISIONS ABSURD

MADDENED POETS
ALL WITHIN SIGHT
FAILURES IN LIFE

WHO'LL NEVER KNOW IT
LAZARUS CRIES
THERE IN HIS EYES

HOPE HAS RISEN
DEPTH AND FACADE
ALL BEFORE ME NOW


[Together Fate and Beethoven watch the composer as a young man meeting his greatest idol, Mozart.]

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