The Missing Link

Rage The Missing Link Lyrics
1.Firestorm

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-WagnerManni Schmidt

This place, home for all generations, never been to small
When all life worked hand in hand
The centuries passed one by one
Without changing the circumstances that we needed to be there

Like a firestorm when all home dies and fear is born
To feed the firestorm
Like a firestorm that burns the ground you're standing on
We'll feed the firestorm

And then slowly but sure
Explorers and inventors stepped into the system they didn't
understand
That's when the trouble began
And when the time marched on, they had learned how to destroy

Like a firestorm when all home dies and fear is born
To feed the firestorm
Like a firestorm that burns the ground you're standing on
We'll feed the firestorm

Like a firestorm when all home dies and fear is born
To feed the firestorm
Like a firestorm that burns the ground you're standing on
We'll feed the firestorm

The end of the story is, nothing's impossible
And that's what we're afraid of
Apocalyptic signs, our homestead stands in flames
Guess we missed the lesson modesty

Like a firestorm when all home dies and fear is born
To feed the firestorm
Like a firestorm that burns the ground you're standing on
We'll feed the firestorm


2.Nevermore

Writer(s):Manni Schmidt

Her mother told her everyday:'Never lose control
Whatever then may come your way, a good girl takes it all.'
And all the years she held her peace and followed every rule
but then depression dried her heart
and now she's screaming out

Nevermore - never we'll forget
Nevermore - one day you'll regret

He used to be a follower
and did what he was told
whatever they squeezed out of him
a good man bears it all.
But one day he was in their way
did not fit in their plan
they tried to kick him from the boat
and now he's screaming out

Nevermore - never we'll forget
Nevermore - one day you'll regret
Never we'll forget, no!

Nevermore - never evermore...


3.Refuge

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

This is mine, here's where my home is
I don't want to let you break into my world
All my life I've been looking for something
that's my own, I'm so glad I found it now

Don't you step on this ground
I don't want to lose an inch of my freedom
I'll lose my soul if you steal my refuge

Leave my cloud and stay away
this is my refuge
play your dirty tricks, my friend
but leave my refuge

I grow stronger and you feel smaller
guess that's your reason for taking up my time
with every secret that you make public
your influence on my life grows, ain't this true?

Don't step on this ground
I don't want to lose an inch of my freedom
I'll lose my soul if you steal my refuge
Leave my cloud and stay away
this is my refuge
play your dirty tricks, my friend
but leave my refuge
Leave my refuge


4.The Pit And The Pendulum

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-WagnerChris Efthimiadis
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-WagnerChris Efthimiadis

In the darkness left alone
Walls surround that hellish hole
deadly deep and no way out
from above I hear a swinging
metal blade clinging

In the pit and the pendulum
the pit and the pendulum
comin' near and nearer

In the inquisition's claw
sentence of death is their law
though unholy and sadistic
it's a question of their honour,
of gods to die for

With the pit and the pendulum
the pit and the pendulum
swingin' above my throat

The pit and the pendulum
could it be the soldiers 're coming?
The pit and the pendulum
do they open up my prison?


5.From The Underworld

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-WagnerManni Schmidt

Hey don't walk on by
you, don't stomp on my face
Once I was like you
I didn't care for nothing else
had no sense for more than money and fame
power and greed and the so called honour

Now I am gone and my body lies cold
not much is left, so I pray

From the underworld, oh, listen now!
From the underworld, oh, listen now!
Listen now!

Time - I never had
rushed through a restless day
You seem to be blind, too,
when luck comes your way

You had no patience with people who cared
until you lost them and when you grow old
you'll be a lonely rich man without hope
there's more to be than we see

From the underworld, oh, listen now!
From the underworld, oh, listen now!
Listen now!


6.Certain Days

When I remember what happened that led me right here
What made me lonely and forced me to disappear
There were periods in my life that came from my darkest depths
Beyond the edge like a delirium I couldn't help
I drifted aside, it wasn't right

Time, time had slipped away
Life was a distant haze
This was on certain days
I, I had lost my way
Got lost without a trace
This was on certain days, I went mad

I can recall the days when things were fine
Everyone was happy enjoying their time
But the first time it came over me I had lost my friends
I did harm to them, judges told me I was insane
I tried to kill, I tried to kill

Time, time had slipped away
Life was a distant haze
This was on certain days
I, I had lost my way
Got lost without a trace
This was on certain days

This was on certain days
This was on certain days, I went mad

Time, time had slipped away
Life, a distant haze
This was on certain days
I, I had lost my way
Got lost without a trace
This was on certain days

This was on certain days
This was on certain days

Time, time had slipped away
Life, a distant haze
This was on certain days
I, I had lost my way
Lost without a trace
This was on certain days


7.Who Dares ?

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-WagnerChris Efthimiadis

Why do you look for answers in the extremes? Forget the radical
'cause the truth is mostly somewhere in between
Nevermind the simple minded as long their heart beats in the
right place,
but for heaven's sake if they forgot their aims (and to tell
their kids)

Now they are trapped and they don't even care
still they don't understand what it means
dimborn they never have learned anything
they are trapped in a world reigned in fear

Who dares to stop these fools?

We need revolution - someone has to change the crusted rites
but we need heads that can think before they act
'cause it has to happen in a way that changes the conditions for
the better
There's no time for old mistakes

Now they are trapped...

Who dares to stop these fools?

Brutality is trendy, discussing's for old farts
Today the cracked voice of youth screams out the fatal fascists
call
All the mindless, unwanted, frustrated think that there's a way
to bring sense in their life
They confuse the Free with lemmings...

Now they are trapped...

Who dares to stop these fools?


8.Wake Me When I'm Dead

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

Will you wake me?
Wake me when I'm dead

I think it's time now, I gotta go
but don't you shed a tear when I'm gone.
Before it's over,
I hope that I don't suffer too much, when it's over

I don't want to miss this place
I hate to leave, I just can't face
realities of death, I will deny
realities of death, I will deny

Will you wake me?
Wake me when I'm dead

And when I grow cold you cotta put a spell on me,
before I grow cold
Just one injection and maybe I can stay on your side
if the shot works

I don't want to miss your face
the warmth of summer
springtime's grace
realities of death, I will deny
realities of death, I will deny

Will you wake me?
Wake me when I'm dead


9.Lost In The Ice

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

An antarctic land, deadly unknown
Where we explored a mountain range
And on the highest ridge, we found remains of buildings
Like no man's eye had ever seen

A city forgotten on top of the world
And entry we found in a stonewall
And walked a stairway built aeons ago
To streets and houses covered under ice and snow

Walls that had mosaics with pictures and reliefs
Faces that no eyes'd ever seen, like half flesh and half of
steel
They had headphones stuck to their skulls
No muscles, just wires, a technical pulse

The creatures look weird, scary and strange
The art on the walls, it told us their tale
They came from a planet light years away from here
To bring knowledge, truth and culture to this undeveloped place
The fathers out of space

Before life crept out of water, mother earth was occupied
But the climate changed the borders, now they are lost in the
ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice

They build up life from desert and stones
Our planet grew up helped by elder ones
Then the ice came and they had to move away
To the middle earth and then the stories on the pictures end
When they had left the land

Before life crept out of water, mother earth was occupied
But the climate changed the borders, now they are lost in the
ice
All their buildings, streets and stonewalls sleep in this
forgotten place
But what happened to the creatures when they were lost in the
ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice

Aw, what a strange and awful vision for us all
It made us shiver to the bone
What if now some of these creatures still survived
In the caves under the Pole?

Before life crept out of water, mother earth was occupied
But the climate changed the borders, now they are lost in the
ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice

And then we walked beneath the city, hours and hours
When suddenly we heard a strange and distant sound
All I remember is my flight from this dark place
A flight from the alien creature's face, my ancestor from space

Lost in the ice
Lost in the ice
Lost in the ice

Whoever was these old remains, his blood is flowing in my veins
Is flowing in my veins

Before life crept out of water, mother earth was occupied
But the climate changed the borders, now they are lost in the
ice
All their buildings, streets and stonewalls sleep in this
forgotten place
But what happened to the creatures when they were lost in the
ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice
Now they are lost in the ice, lost in the ice


10.Her Diary's Black Pages

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

In her diary's black pages
the stories end in dark sadness
and what she never dared to say
is in her diary's black pages

She's a magician, she's got second sight
sends her mind wandering into the night,
into the future - stories untold
tragedies and accidents - she always knows

In her diary's black pages
the stories end in dark sadness
and what she never dared to say
is in her diary's black pages

Brother kills brother, family fights
Fire burns babies while the mother sleeps tight.
Whatever she's dreaming, it's gonna be real
She couldn't help it when she writes hat she's seen.

In her diary's black pages
the stories end in dark sadness
and what she never dared to say
is in her diary's black pages

She's a magician, she's got second sight
sends her mind wandering into the night,
into the future - stories untold
tragedies and accidents - she always knows


11.The Missing Link

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-WagnerChris Efthimiadis
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-WagnerManni SchmidtChris Efthimiadis

Is it right or is it wrong
What Darwin said 'bout evolution?
But why the advance in the Apeman's brain
Amongst the multitude of creatures in life's veins?

Now they found a fossil and they can't explain where it belongs
Whoever was this stone remains, his blood is flowing in my veins

The missing link
The thing that made us think
Where we are from and where our mind belongs
The missing link
From ages when the birth of man began

Now so what if it's as
The prophets said in olden days
An unknown father from the stars
Brought words and wisdom to us all

Now the stones have given free a bridge to our unknown past
Whoever was this stone remains, his blood is flowing in my veins

The missing link
The thing that made us think
Came far from space, was from an elder race
The missing link
From ages when the birth of man began

Is it right or is it wrong
What Darwin said 'bout evolution?

Now the stones have given free a bridge to our unknown past
Whoever was this stone remains, his blood is flowing in my veins

The missing link
The thing that made us think
Came far from space, was from an elder race

The missing link
The thing that made us think
Where we are from and where our mind belongs
The missing link's
Remains, should make us think

The missing link
Missing link
The missing link


12.Raw Caress

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

This time the wind has blown me forwards
From the sick and stinking harvest
I've laid here much too long

I feel like an old and restless sailor
With his visions long forgotten
A free will much to strong

Raw caress

Right then, when darkness fell around me
And my fruits no longer ripened
And end was coming near

Returned from a safe self-chosen prison
To a storm that ripped my heart out
And took it far from here

Pain and misery left its marks on me
Start again from here
Cold reality needs to be set free
Chances now at hand

Life's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me

It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me

And now, as I gather up my back bone
To rebuild it even stronger
The clouds break up again

It seems even if fortune is tragic
That a sad tale finds an ending
That's reconciled again

Pain and misery left its marks on me
Start again from here
Cold reality needs to be set free
Chances now at hand

Life's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me

It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me

Reach out, the old eternal time waves
Are flowing on and on
Look up, the dawn is soon awaking
There's land in sight again

Reach out, the old eternal time waves
Are flowing on and on
Look up, the dawn is soon awaking
There's land in sight again

Raw caress

Pain and misery left its marks on me
Start again from here
Cold reality needs to be set free
Chances now at hand

Life's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me

It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress
It's a raw caress to me
Life's a raw caress to me


13.Another Kind Of Madness(Bonus Track)

Lyricist:Peter Peavy-Wagner
Writer(s):Peter Peavy-Wagner

Again they buried an old miner
The poisoned stocks of stone in sight
The wind was sick from dust
They all knew that it would settle overnight

And they all went to work into the mines the next day
Like they'd done more than forty years now
They had destroyed their land for the atomic curse
'Cause they hoped it would help them somehow

Those who worked for a better life
Don't know to survive
It is another
Another kind of madness

Uranium wast is everywhere now
Radioactive gas escapes
Contaminated land and water denied responsibility
When they're leaving you nothing than a big load of death

And you know that a cancer's your end
What the industry's after
They don't ask where it's from
Don't you think that it's a crying shame?

Those who worked for a better life
Don't know how to survive
It is another
Another kind of madness


14.Truth Hits Everybody(Bonus Track)

Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Where you want to be, won't you ever see?
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Ah....now!


15.I Can't Control Myself(Bonus Track)

I can't stand still cause you got me goin'
Your pants are low and your hips are showin'
I watch you yea while you're standin' there
Your skin tight jeans and your sexy hair
Don't want you goin' round with no one else
Cause when I'm with you I can't control myself, yeah

Defenses down and you got me shakin'
You got me so that my nerves are achin'
If you knew me and your were in my world
Your knees would bend an' your hair would curl
You make me move yea like no one else
When I'm with you I can't control myself

I've got this feeling deep inside of me
It makes me be what I'm supposed to be
It makes me feel alright
When I'm with you at night an' we love
An' we love

Ya hold me so with this big temptation
This kind of feelin' could move the nation
An' I'm okay when I'm here with you
I do the things that ya want me to
I don't do these things for no one else
When I'm with you I can't control myself
I can't control myself
I can't control myself


16.Beyond The Pale(Bonus Track)

Lyricist:Jerry Wayne Hussey
Writer(s):Craig David AdamsMichael John BrownSimon HinklerJerry
Wayne Hussey


17.Paranoid(Demo - Bonus Track)

Lyricist:Tony IommiJohn OsbourneWilliam Ward
Writer(s):Tony IommiJohn OsbourneWilliam WardTerence Butler