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 Поднятая было планка качества на прошлых альбома Circle II Circle слегка пошатнулась с выходом их четвертого альбома “Delusion Of Grandeur”, который скорее разочаровывает, чем радует своим содержимым. Заку Стивенсу, обладающему одним из самых узнаваемых вокалов на современной прог-пауэр сцене пока хватает харизмы вытягивать средние номера на должный ожидаемому уровень, однако и он не всесилен – когда подряд идет столько крепких, но безликих номеров, какие собраны во второй половине этого диска, даже он вынужден спасовать… Между тем начало “Delusion Of Grandeur” настраивает только на позитив: открывающий трек “Fatal Warning”, выполненный в традиционном для американского пауэра ключе, бодр и зажигателен; следующая за ним среднетемповая и размеренная “Dead Of Dawn” воспринимается более чем хорошо; четвертый трек “Echoes”, выполненный в лучших традициях Savatage с красивым фортепианным началом, театральной эпичностью, всегда отличавшей творения этой американской команды и удивительно проникновенным вокалом Зака и вовсе позволяет думать, что перед нами будет лучшее творение Circle II Circle, но… Дальше воздушность резко меняется местами с банальностью и занудностью, попытки осовременить звучание в “So Many Reason” и “Chase The Lies” проваливаются с треском, и только эпический 7 минутный опус “Every Little Thing” со вновь активно используемым фортепиано (начальная мелодия удивительно похожа на ‘Glory To The Brave’ Hammerfall), возвращает диску привлекательность и отсылает к Savatage времен “Edge Of Thorns” и, вместе с тем, дает надежду, что будущее у Circle II Circle все же есть.
Российское издание дополнено двумя треками – невыразительным “Stay” и самым удачным в плане соединения фирменной мелодики группы с альтернативным современным саундом “Darkness Rising”, а также 2 видеоклипами. (Диск предоставлен компанией CD-Maximum) |
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You know it's a fatal warning
Wouldn't believe what you would find there
You know it's a war they started
Over the seas of regrets
When you brought me down through the fire
Opened up my mind to desire
All the things I learned to rely on
All the dreams I left here to fine
Are now gone
Nothing to see
Obvious to me
Then you feel the moment's upon you
Could they conceive
What's come to be
Now you rest in solitude
Met your demise to their delight
So many souls forsaken
Could not believe
What the end will bring
Can't repay what's been taken
You know it's a fatal warning
Wouldn't believe what you would find there
You know it's a war they started
Over the seas of regrets
When you brought me down through the fire
Opened up my mind to desire
All the things I expect to depend on
All the dreams about to descend
Are now gone
2. Dead Of Dawn
I face the changes and the way things have fallen
I look away and see reflections in the lies calling
Feel the war inside
It crushes everything
And though I fight
Shadows still remain
It's somewhere
So you look for a door
It's all there
But no one knows
In the wilderness I stand as one
Maybe I'll find a crack in the sun
Where silence
Waits for me
In the dead of dawn
I need a sanctuary from the lives I've broken
I look away in silent rage
The words remain unspoken
All the wounds inside
They conquer everything
All the hurt you find
Will shortly fade away
It's somewhere
So you look for a door
It's all there
But no one knows
Will it start when the ashes descend
Is this just the beginning of the end
Where silence
Waits for me
In the dead of dawn
All the times you tried
To conquer everything
Through the rise and fall
It always ends the same
It's somewhere
So you look for a door
It's all there
But no one knows
In the wilderness I stand as one
Maybe I'll find a crack in the sun
Where silence
Waits for me
In the dead of dawn
3. Forever
Sad as it seems
Nothing lasts forever
Still the trails of souls survive
Silence the screams
Something has to save us
From the pain of suicide
We see the warning sign
Seems we always wait for someone to die
For no reason
Fighters
You always said the face of death
Would soon arrive
Runners
Until the end
Pray for new life to begin
Lakes of frozen tears
Lifeless souls lie empty
And their trust forever bleeds
Mirrors hide fears
The flames are never ending
In the face of your disease
See the wall
Standing strong against the fortress
And the wounds they hide
Will shine in the killing season
Fighters
You always said the face of death
Would soon arrive
Liars
We know you well
In hate you dwell
But we'll decide
Criers
They have failed you
Now they tell you
You won't survive
Runners
Until the end
Pray for new life to begin
Sad as it seems
Nothing lasts forever
Still the trails of souls survive
Silence the screams
Something has to save us
From the pain of suicide
You see the glory of the world
Beneath your darkness
And the setting sun
By which you'll burn
For treason
4. Echoes
Same old thoughts today
Echo in my mind
Hopes of you just won't decay
In these desperate days
Knowing every time
You had the answer
you just wouldn't say
In this separateness
Makes it so much stranger
Wasting here from day to day
And this desperate mess
Is going to its grave
I've got too much left to save
And I wanna be there
What happens to me now
Now that I've had all these shattered nightmares
Never really seeing what's right there
Pretending I don't care
Searching for the reasons while the pain tears
You will breathe life
I need to have you near
It's all I ever hear
Echoes in the wind
In this helplessness
It's so hard to care
Wishing it all would melt away
I could make my way
Make it back to you
Across the distance lies the truth
'Cause I wanna be there
What happens to me now
Now that I've had all these shattered nightmares
Never really seeing what's right there
Pretending I don't care
Searching for the reasons while the pain tears
You will breathe life
I need to have you near
It's all I ever hear
Echoes in the wind
From a haze comes a rain that fills the sky
There's no sense in wondering why
Crazy dreams were left to die
And my thoughts only cause confusion
Remnants of my lost delusions
Still we long for a hopeful vision
Waiting there
What happens to me now
Now that I've had all this share of nightmares
Never really seeing what's right there
Pretending I don't care
Searching for the reasons why repentance
You will breathe life I need to have you near
It's all I ever hear
5. Waiting
After all the things that happened
Way too fast
After all the traces buried in the pasty
Now I know the time has come
Now I know
I'm on the path that I'm supposed to run
It's getting closer
Nothing can hold me down
The waiting is over
I won't be led to ruin
I'm standing on the ground
The waiting is over
What's done is over now
The feeling is mutual
I'm sure that you can see
Always speaking words that
Don't really mean anything
Bearing down a heavy load
Cutting it close is all I've ever really known
I'm getting closer
Nothing can hold me down
The waiting is over
I won't be led to ruin
I'm standing on the ground
The waiting is over
What's done is over now
Now the remnants of the world
That I once knew
Stand before me
Cast in honor of the chosen few
I'll be looking forward too
Remembering the greatest days were the ones
I spent with you
I'm keeping them closer
Nothing can hold me down
The waiting is over
I won't be led to ruin
I'm standing on the ground
The waiting is over
What's done is over now
6. Soul Breaker
Emptiness
As I watch the road go by
Sometimes loneliness is better in disguise
Secret sins opening a new world
I think I'm toying
With a lighter side of evil
I can see you're the best by far
Down the road I'm heading on
Lost in your spell tonight
I am melting inside
I'm a witness to your power
I'm addicted to your touch
Soul breaker
You were sent
Through the black and cold of night
In your presence I am paralyzed
You fill my head with everything I need to trust
There's no hope for this
I will turn to dust
I can feel the chains of my heart
Don't know why I'm hanging on
Lost in your spell tonight
I am melting inside
I'm a witness to your power
I'm addicted to your touch
Soul breaker
7. Seclusion
The day goes black
All alone in the dark by a candle's silhouette
Facing the life you dread
Got on track
But again it seems you're so close to death
Waiting for the end
Racing for the one chance now
It's a long tangled road filled with danger
Filled with doubt
Still we try to find some hope
It's never sure
It all depends on who you know
Take a look inside
Release your demons
Can't you see the friends you bought
Are long gone now
Waiting somewhere in dark seclusion
Spending your last days in dire pain
Falling off the wheel of confusion
Justice won't be there
Time will only strain
When you had the fear engrained
You walked among destruction
Built your altar way up high
No one heard the calls in vain
You formed a lamb of gold
And you crept inside
All the promises
That were never kept
See the consequence
There's nothing left
Waiting somewhere in dark seclusion
Spending your last days in dire pain
Falling off the wheel of confusion
Justice won't be there
Time will only strain
8. So Many Reasons
Just another
Cold and misty morning shining through
How could someone
Make my life so tangled like you do
Hanging tough
Won't cover for the things
We're running from
Sacrifice won't pay the price
For what's to come
I can overcome you
I can look right through your eyes
Gotta keep on riding the rolling tide
I can give my soul to you
I can never lose the fight
So many reasons I don't believe in
I am numb to the fact that all I had
Was stripped away
I succumb to the usual surroundings day to day
All these things I see
But I never really care
Wandering around in a hopeless stare
I can overcome you
I can look right through your eyes
Gotta keep on riding the rolling tide
I can give my soul to you
I can never lose the fight
So many reasons I don't believe anymore
I can overcome you
I can look right through your eyes
Gotta keep on riding the rolling tide
I can give my soul to you
I can never lose the fight
So many reasons I don't believe in
So many reasons I don't need it
So many reasons I don't believe anymore
9. Chase The Lies
You know it's over
Turning twisting
always awake from the chill of another day
Wild
From never sleeping
Methamphetamine for the last time
And if you reach the surface
Where will you hide
And when you find the answer
Look inside
While you chase the lies
You say it's all done
Wretched in your hatred and your false ideology
I
Will hold you to everything you've done
No matter what you try
And if you solve the question
One more time
Avoid disaster
Look inside
While you chase the lies
And if you reach the surface
Where will you hide
And when you find the answer
Look inside
While you chase the lies
And if you solve the question
One more time
Avoid disaster
Look inside
While you chase the lies
10. Every Last Thing
As I look through the night
Memories are weighing on my mind
Of all we left undone
Then I look honestly
At everything that we tried to be
Hoping no one sees what I've become
Headed for the rain
In a restless summer
Spiraling within your pain
While you run away
The days have been so long
Since the time you left us
But I know that where you are
You'll hear my silent call
I've had all I can take
And I'm not gonna make it too long
You said all this would carry on
I've been here too long
Don't want to regret that I can't run away from you now
I'm willing to give every last thing
I'll make it somehow
Time ain't a friend and I can't run away from the dark
Never again will I play the part
With a dying mind
Without a destination
Waiting for the past to align
Before you will decide
Before they conquer all
Justice is descending
As we watch them build the wall
Hear my silent call
Every possible fate that I could have imagined
Was wrong
After all of the magic is gone
I've been here too long
Don't want to regret that I can't run away from you now
I'm willing to give every last thing
I'll make it somehow
Time ain't a friend and I can't run away from the dark
Never again will I play the part
All that's left inside us
Is a world that will divide us
And the depth of all the silence
'Cause the worst has come
I feel the weight of the world fall
Heavy upon my soul
I see a fate underscored by escaping the earth
I've had all I can take
And I'm not gonna make it too long
You said all this would carry on
I've been here too long
Don't want to regret that I can't run away from you now
I'm willing to give every last thing
I'll make it somehow
Time ain't a friend and I can't run away from the dark
Never again will I play the part