@BAND: RAGE @ALBUM: BLACK IN MIND Total playing time : 68:35 ADD İ1995 Gun [Great Unlimited Noises] 1. BLACK IN MIND 4:08 2. THE CRAWLING CHAOS 4:46 2. ALIVE BUT DEAD 4:56 4. SENT BY THE DEVIL 5:01 5. SHADOW OF TIME 5:39 6. A SPIDERıS WEB 3:21 7. IN A NAMELESS TIME 10:12 8. THE ICECOLD HAND OF DESTINY 4:05 9. FOREVER 4:44 10. UNTIL I DIE 4:34 11. MY RAGE 2:42 12. THE PRICE OF WAR 4:16 13. START ! 4:30 14. ALL THIS TIME 5:33 Peter ³Peavy² Wagner sung lead and harmony vocals, played 5 string bass guitars, tambourine and backing blurps. Chris Efthimiadis played all kinds of drums and percussion and backing barks. Spiros Efthimiadis played guitars, nearly all of the lead breaks and backing growls. Sven Fischer played guitars, all kinds of cleans and nylons, a few leads and backing vocals. Produced by Ulli Pösselt and Peavy Wagner Engineered and mixed by Ulli Pösselt at RA.SH Studio, Gelsenkirchen between October 94 and Januar 95. Studio Assistance by Christian Wolf. Mastered by Bernd Steinwedel at Studio Nord, Bremen. Arranged by Peavy Wagner. Cover artwork by Andreas Marshall. Photos by Matthias Bothor. Layout by Peter Dell. Strings for ³All this time² arranged and conducted by Christian Wolf, violin by Aldona Cisewska, violin by Uwe Sieverding, viola by Merja Wiefelspütz, violoncello by Petar Marinovic, contrabass by Hurbert Otten. Violin for ³In a nameless time² by Ben jamin Rinnert, contrabass for it by Detlef Goy. Management and booking by Drakkar Promotion, P.O. Box 1729 58408 Witten, Germany, phone: 02302/24850, fax : 02302/27250. Official RAGE Fan Club/contact by Rageıs Perfect men, c/o Jörg Seidel, Lengeoogweg 5, 45149 Essen, Germany (send S.A.S.E. or I.R.C.) We want to thank everyone who helped and supported us in work, word and belief, you all will know who you are. Our honest thanks to the Rage-heads all over the world for buying our albums, coming to our shows, writing letters and everything else you gave us. We want to dedicate this album to everyone who died in senseless war or nature catastrophes in the last time - it shouldnıt be. Typin' job done by Pierre-Jean Fontaine. November 11 1995. I havenıt an Internet address, but you can write to me at : Pierre-Jean Fontaine Avenue Bel Horizon 48 B-1341 Ottignies Belgium @SONG: BLACK IN MIND (Music by P. Wagner, C. Efthimiadis, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) Iıve seen it coming, itıs got to be No illusions at the turning of the century All our wishes - forever free - all destroyed because somehow we lost the masterkey. Leaving my dreams far behind, got no ambitions in time if only Iım so Black in mind. When thereıs no point in making it. Black in mind. When thereıs no hope for love. Iım so Black in mind. When these madmen are washing it. Black in mind. I donıt want to be sacrified for a territorial war. Leave me alone, Iım so black in mind. You made me want it, too blind to see that all it gave me were illusions of reality My eyes got used to the things theyıve seen, now whereıs the difference between my life and the TV screen. @SONG: THE CRAWLING CHAOS (Music and Lyrics by P. Wagner) It was the year of madness and insanity. There was no other cure for my disease The overdose - I took it Œcause I had to flee, it was nearly a journey that had no return, the fever burned, I was gone - delirium. There I was striding to heaven and they were calling me from beyond and I heard : ³Dont look back !² But I did and my eyes, they canıt forget that sight Œcause all water and land was dead. Destroyed, denied, all tears undried, the crawling chaos comes, The twilight died, eternal night, the crawling chaos comes. A giant maelstrom, absorbing what weıd left back, the desert of cadaverous, mortal loam and jungles of decay and decadence, where once had been the homelands of my people, temples of my ancestors, they were gone, dead and gone Then the cracks in the ground, they were breaking up and all water was streaming in, manifesting the sight of the dead Berlin and London and Paris were graves. @SONG: ALIVE BUT DEAD (Music by P. Wagner, C. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) As I walk the streets I feel no pain, there is no love or hate, canıt see no certain state Iım in. And a hog laid itself on my heart like this misty morning as this cloudy day begins. Still I wonder should I be afraid about whatıs happening and how long has it been - donıt know. Why did come this shadow in my head like I have lost my soul, like Iım alive but dead. As I walk the streets I feel no fear, although I notice that there is no feeling anymore. And I try to send my mind back to the times when I was able to live something to the core. Dark, dark as the grave, my heart is dead, Iım just a slave to what theyıve said. (this decay) Still Iım alive but I feel dead. Dark, dark as the grave, my heart is dead Iım just a slave to when you call. (my disease) Still Iım alive but I must be dead. Alive but dead canıt fill my head Darkness, thereıs darkness everywhere You gotta help me out of here, I donıt want to stay alive without the capability to feel ! @SONG: SENT BY THE DEVIL (Music and Lyrics by P. Wagner) Spirits coming from the mind waking up my deepest horrors, capture my thoughts, make me blind. Weird, Œcause I donıt want to see the abyss of my possibilities. Scared I canıt look away. It has come to my side. Sister demon - my bride. I want you, I need you and I have set you free. Youıre always right behind me, I know the devilıs sent you to me. You want me, you need me, now that Iıve set you free. Look always right behind you, You know the devilıs sent me to you. What has started as a longing almost is possession now, it drives me again and again. Put a light into your window, maybe I can find a hold. I run against myself Œtill I find the end. Sent by the devil @SONG: SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) Somethingıs happened to myself, I could never give the answer though I did my best to find it out. If youıd ask me where Iıve been the last few years I could not tell you. Pieces of dreams mix with memories about. Somethingıs slipped into my body while my mind has been absent in a nameless time, somehow I know, I know, I know it well... Like a shwdow out of time itıs injected in my mind, like a shadow out of time Like a vision in disguise it took hold of all my ways, like a shadow out of time. They have told me Iıve reacted like I was not from this earth. I guess this something inside me was not. When Iıve got these visions that I look down at myself I get scared. This is not my body, but itıs ... what ? I have slipped in someoneıs shape while his mind has been absent in my nameless time, somehow he knows, he knows, I know it well... Somehow I have lost my memories when I returned form this journey, you would not believe me anyway. (Shadow out of time) For the rest of my life I will look for a release from this pain but I think Iıll never see the day. (Shadow out of time) @SONG: A SPIDERıS WEB (Music by P. Wagner, S. Fischer, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) This worldıs so materialistic, our life just makes sense when we buy. Youıre just a part of the statistics when thereıs a red line on your bank account, your cash runs out. Half the population blinds their eyes. They pretend a credit gives them wealthiness, consume contest Just like a spiderıs web Just like a spiderıs web you try to get out but it holds you tighter Just like a spiderıs web Just like a spiderıs web you try to get out but it holds you tight like all of this borrowed existences, how can they sleep in the night. They are afraid when the bell rings. Theyıre working half their lifes to pay it back, Œtill heart attack Half the population blinds their eyes. They believe a credit gives them wealthiness, consume contest Just like a spiderıs web... you try to g et out but it gets you tight like death... @SONG: IN A NAMELESS TIME (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis, C. Efthimiadis, S. Fischer / Lyrics by P. Wagner) 1. The mysterium Awakening this curse was the least of all my fears. If I could turn back time to free me from this crime. It started back in time when something stole my mind and led me through aeons to place and time unknown. I lived their life, lost in their time, without my face. Take me back home from these cryptic walls. I wait for a sign from my own reality. I wait here in a nameless time. A certain time passed by, I returned to my life with memories hard to find, a secret in my mind. I found it out, Iıve learned about the place Iıve been. Take me away to these cryptic walls. I wait for a sign from this old reality, it calls me from a nameless time. Take me back to these cryptic walls, to this desert place and this strange reality, it calls me from a nameless time. 2. The expedition I broke up to find this place, find those from the elder race. In this unknown desert land I was digging in the sand. Found these ruins, blocks of stone, older than the Egypt ones. Climbed in caves, unpspeakable, far down in the planets depths. There were these enchanted books, pages that Iıve known too well, written by the aliens Œbout the way their studyıs been. They transformed through space and time in all kinds of living minds learning this way everything how through times the cultureıs been. And I imagined how itıs been like traveling through a nameless time. And I remembered how I felt when I was in a nameless time, in a nameless time... Take me home from these cryptic vaults. I wait for a sign from my own reality, I wait here in a nameless time. 3. Finding out Although the most I knew I needed a final proof if Iıd been one of them. And then these pages came : My written words ! So Iıd been here in one of them ... Take me back home from these cryptic vaults. Œcause Iıve been alive in this strange reality. release me from this nameless time. Take me home from these cryptic vaults. Iım crused for all time in this strange reality, release me from this nameless time... @SONG: THE ICECOLD HAND OF DESTINY (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) Plans I have made to build it up from this state Always moving, never stop, though the answers are made Œbout the future, Œbout the past where I come from, what will last. Try to delay things that lead you astray. But society sucks you out, leads to early decay. If I will, if I wonıt, a decision that I could not flee. I prayed it leave me be - the icecold hand of destiny. Everythingıs right, it seems the future looks bright. But thereıs always factor X that leads the tumboing dice. If I will... Play for future, play for past, where you come from, what will last. @SONG: FOREVER (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) From the beginning you learned that we all have to die, You got so used to the fact that you donıt wonder why. you donıt ask : how does it feel to someone when the moment has come ? When all is taken away, an existence is gone, whoıll be his guide ? Take his soul and takes his mind and his opened eyes stay blind. Forever - you know there was someone inside, the smile on these lips donıt seem right. Foreverıs a very long time. Forever - these cheeks growing colder and grey, a smile that is fading away. Foreverıs a very long time. You know it happens a thousand times every day. You canıt imagine you might be the next, you donıt want to care. But Lady luck is a bitch, wonıt stay at oneplace twice, wipes a curl from your eye and kisses you goodbye, bye bye... Leaves your soul and leaves your mind and your broken eyes stay blind. Forever ... So take good care of what you say. It might be coming back one day. So take good care of what you do. This chance might be the last for you. Forever - forever and ever, foreverıs a very long time. @SONG: UNTIL I DIE (Music and Lyrics by P. Wagner) I awoke, I could not stay for more, I tried to tell the others what Iıd seen before. No one believed me, ³itıs a dream² they said. But I have seen eternity when I was dead. Who decided whoıs to go and whoıs to stay on this old world ? This time now my path lead me to life. There was a vision that lightened up my life and now I know it was death that I have treid. Although I came back Iıve seen the other side, so I will never forget until I die. I remember seeing my body lying after the accident, my soul was drifting away, passing darkness to a golden light into the arms of Jesus with my fathers eyes. He decided Iıd to go and stay for longer in this world until I have walked my path of life. There was a vision... Thereıs a legion of the long - gone there, a bundled energy of all that once were here. No oneıs lost, a comfort we can share, like a kind of existence, timeless, everywhere. Who decided ... @SONG: MY RAGE (Music and Lyrics by P. Wagner) Iıve been sitting, wondering. Where am I to go ? I spend time on too many things, turn my tides too slow. I never felt so sick, thatıs all I know, but when I hit my strings too loud Then I will let my demons out My rage - thereıs danger in my smile. My rage - no, this is not my style. Int he suburbs of my mind lives a gang of four, joining me from time to time in my mental war. I never felt so mean, thatıs all I know. But when I hit my strings too loud then I will let my demons out My rage ... Now I will let my demons out... In my hour of darkness they will come again : Fear, hate, frustration, desperation. They are all so negative, but now Iıll get them down, Iıll answer with my rage... @SONG: THE PRICE OF WAR (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) When the worldıs gone mad compassion dies. Soldiers killing for their thrills, making war just for the sake of war. Thereıs no future left than death. Leave me be - misery ! Weep with the children and starve with the prisoners before you scream for revenge. Sorrowful women with tears in their hollow eyes - this is no justice, this is the price of war. The price of war Some came running to the military, misled by a false ideal, believing guns couls solve a problem, still blind to see they only kill. Ripped off from the middle, ripped off from head to toes. Ripped off - multikilling, ripped off - guts and bones. Weep with the children and starve with the prisoners before you scream for revenge. Sorrowful women with tears in their hollow eyes - this is no justice, this is no justice. Youıd watch the dying, lay hands on their bleeding wounds before you scream for war, donıt you scream for. This is no justice, this is the price of war. @SONG: START ! (Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner) Think back to when you were younger, remember when life had no scars. You were at home in your own mind, responsive to your inner call. Iım waiting, youıll come back, Donıt waste your time any longer. Start a new story, start a new glory. Donıt waste your time any longer. Start a new story, start a new glory in life ! Youıre in a state of progression, shapeless fears break free someway. Your life became an obsession whent he machine stole your days. Why do you lose your time in senseless rites that dry your will away ? Donıt waste your time any longer, just start ! @SONG: ALL THIS TIME (Music and Lyrics by P. Wagner) Now, as I had a look at you it took a heartbeat and I knew that the candle of my life was burning shorter. You turned me Œround to face myself, to make me trust in what I am, now, after all that I have done it makes me wonder Iım around. Now the night has gone, better days to come. All this time I have been afraid, it is not too late... All this time while we talked my thoughts collided. All this time I could have seen but I was blind, All this time... I thought Iıd never see the day that in myself Iıd feel this way. We are the meaning and we know. Forever different - the same. Now the night has gone, better days to come. All this time I have strained my mind, waiting for a sign. Time is like a river that is running out to sea. We canıt touch the ground, so grab a blade of straw If you swin on waves of trust you cannot even drown.