e'll fix it

Take a look at your own reflection
Right before your eyes it turns to steel

There's another side of heaven
This way to technical paradise
Find it on the other side when the walls fall down

Love is automatic pleasure
Virtual reality
Terminal hate, it's a calculation
Send in the child for connection

Take a look at the toys around you
Right before your eyes the toys are real

There's another side of heaven
This way to technical paradise
Find it on the other side when the walls fall down

Midnight confessions never heal the soul
What you believe is fantasy
Your past is your future, left behind
Lost in time, will you surrender?

Waiting for the revolution
Program the brain, not the heartbeat

Deliver us to evil, deny us of our faith
Robotic hearts bleed poison on the world we populate
Virtual existence with a superhuman mind
The ultimate creation, destroyer of mankind

Termination of our youth, for we do not compute



After all (the dead)

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

What do you say to the dead?
Will you forgive me for living?
Can't believe the things that they said
Wonderful day for a killing, it's killing me

What do they do with your soul?
Is it just lying there busted?
When did you lose all control?
Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?

Oh, there's insufficient evidence of what just might come after
But sometimes out of nowhere there's demented sounds of laughter

Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination
It just can't be, I've seen them there howling at the moon
Is it just me or does somebody else believe this?
Well, I'm not alone and I'm not afraid, there's just one way to see

After all
After all
After all
After all

What do you say to the dead?
Is there a place where it's burning?
It says in a book I once read
Yes, there's a chance of returning, turn to me

The fundamental principles say nothing of forever
But those are voices that I hear or I'm just not so clever?
It can't be me, I know somebody else believes this
Well, I'm not alone, I'm not afraid, just one way to see

After all
After all
Coming after all

After all
After all
After all



TV crimes

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

One day in the life of the lonely, another day on the roundabout
What do they need? Somebody to love
One night in the life of the lonely, there's a miracle on the screen
What did they see? Somebody to love

He guarantees you instant glory, get your money on the line

Gotta send me a plastic Jesus, there's a check in the mail today
That's what I need, somebody to love
We just won't eat on sunday, gotta buy him a limousine
Somewhere to live, somewhere to pray

Every penny from the people keeps the wolf outside the door
Shop around and find forgiveness for yourself but he'll give you more

Holy father, holy ghost - who's the one who pays the most?
Rock the cradle, don't you cry - buy another lullaby
Jack is nimble, Jack is quick, pick your pocket, turn a trick
Slow and steady, he's got time to commit another TV crime, TV crime

One day in the life of the lonely, back again on the roundabout
What do they need? Somebody to love
One night in the life of the lonely, another miracle on the screen
What did they see? Somebody to love again

A supermarket of salvation, take a look inside the store
Shop around and find forgiveness for yourself but he gives more

Holy father, holy ghost - who's the one who hurts you most?
Rock the cradle when you cry - scream another lullaby
Jack be nimble, Jack be slick, take the money, get out quick
Slow and steady, so much time to commit another TV crime, TV crime



Letters from Earth

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

Well, it's a cold world and I'm in the middle
Caught in the in between
I don't belong here so I'm writing to you
It's wrong here
Where I'm sending you some letters from Earth

Well, it's a new world and now I'm a stranger

Stranger than you know
I don't belong here and I'm writing to you
With blood on my hands

What if I send you madness?
What if I send you pain?
And letters from Earth

Come on, it's another game but you gotta play on
'Cause they say it's just pretend
Ask them why, they say you'll never, never die
Come on, the game is called the end

Well, it's a cold world and I'm in the middle
Caught in the in between
I don't belong here so I'm writing to you
Hey, let me explain

What if I send you confusion?
What is the time and the pain worth?
Oh no, no, I'm only sending letters from the Earth

Letters from Earth
Letters from Earth
Letters from Earth



Master of insanity

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

Look all around, can't you open your eyes?
Voices are calling
Killing rain falling down from the sky
Crying with nightmare tears

Out on the street you'll see blood on the ground
Cities are burning
Feeling the pain cutting right to your soul
Goodbye now, you're caught in his spell

Your freedom is gone
He's taken everything you ever had
But if you're strong you'll survive
You've got to hold on, open your eyes

Behind the lies you will see the master of insanity
Under the mask there will be the master of insanity

Innocent minds, they're the victims of shame
Staring in sorrow
Promises lying there, broken and crushed
Confusion, just disappear
What can you give to be left all alone
When there's nothing at all?

Your freedom is gone
He's taken everything you ever had
But if you're strong you'll survive
You've got to hold on, open your eyes

Behind the lies you will see the master of insanity
Under the mask there will be the master of insanity
Behind the lies you will find he's trying to get inside you
Just open your eyes and you will see the master of insanity

Behind the lies you will see the master of insanity
Under the mask there will be the master of insanity
Between the lies you will find that he's trying to get inside you
Out of the night into your mind, he's always right beside you

Between the lies you will see the master of insanity
Open your eyes or you will be the master of insanity



Time machine

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

Oh, what are you gonna do when there's a part of you
That needs to run with the wind?
And the fire of burning yesterdays can only light the way
To lead you from the garden of the dark

Stay out of shadows, now look like the change is on
Tomorrow's never gone, today just never comes
Go on and jump, yeah, into the hurricane
You will forget the pain, it's only there to exorcise your mind

Looking at the world when you've open up your eyes
You've got to see the promises they've made
They're bloody lies and broken dreams
Your silence screams

You're living in a time machine
And you can choose just who you are
Someone that you've never seen, somewhere you've never been
You're living in a time machine

Oh, what are you gonna do when every part of you
Just needs to catch that wind?
And the fire of burning yesterdays
Can only light the way to lead you from the garden of the dark

Looking for the world when you've opened up your eyes
You'll see you've got invisible chains
They're only lies, not what it seems
I hear your silent screams

You're living in a time machine
Nobody cares just where you go
Taken where you've never been
Make it to somewhere you don't know

You're living in a time machine
Why do you stay who you are?
Be what you've never been, someone you've never seen
You're living in a time machine



Sins of the father

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

I am the crazy man who lives inside your head
But I think I'm breaking through the wall
You are the innocent, convicted of the crime
No one was ever there to catch you when you fall

I see the diamonds but you only see the rock
I need to run but you only crawl
It's time to open up all the doors that you keep locked
Nobody gives without a take, let's take it all

You've been twisted into pieces by the hands of your emotions
How much longer are you gonna pay for yesterday?

Sins of the father

One more crucifixion, one more cross to bear
You're a hole in a photograph
Go on, lose it in the city, the city can feel no shame
See the world with electric eye

They call it mystery but any fool could see
You thought he walked on the water
And if the pain was gone and you were free to run away and get out
Would you get out of there or do you really care?
It's not safe or easy and maybe when you're gone
You just won't belong at all

You're the only witness to the murder of an angel
How much longer are you gonna pay for yesterday?

Sins of the father

Now it's just another crucifixion, one more cross to bear
Go on, lose it in the city, take a look at the world
You've got electric eyes



Too late

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

Soon it's never more, when you've got to pay
For promises made in the night
Call the magic one and with the magic comes
Forever chained to the flame

It's too late - too late for tears
Too late - no one hears you
Do you feel a touch of evil? It's too late

To wish and make it so
To feel the power growing stronger blessed by the dark
And when the candle fades
You can say it was a joke you played so you must let me go

No, it's too late - you've said the word
Too late - something heard you
Too late - now the race is on and you're run out of road
Too late - for tears
Too late - and no one hears you
Can you feel the touch of evil? It's too late

Oh, save me, I believe in your name
Oh, I've fallen down but now I've found nobody to take the blame
Misery - it's come to drag me away and when the hunter cries
No alibis, get ready for judgement day

As the candle fades you can say it was a game you made
So you must let me go, let me go

It's too late - you've said the word
Too late - something heard you
Too late - the spell is gone and this time you're the fool
It's too late - too late for tears
Too late - no one hears you
Welcome to forever, welcome, it's too late, too late



I

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

I am anger, under pressure
Lost it cages, a prisoner, the first to escape
I am wicked, I am legion
Strength in numbers, a lie, the number is one

I, I, I - everything that I see is for me

Yes, I am giant, I'm a monster
Breaking windows in houses, buildings of glass
Rebel rebel, holy outlaw
Ride together, don't try it, the power's in one

I, I, I - I am standing alone but I can rock you
I, I, I - on the edge of the blade but the knife can't cut the hero down

I am virgin, I'm a whore
Giving nothing, the taker, the maker of war
I'll smash your face in but with a smile
All together, you'll never be stronger than me

I, I, I - right here on my own but I still rock you
I, I, I - don't follow behind, just leave me on the outside
I, I, I - I am standing alone but I can shock you
I, I, I - on the edge of the blade but no one makes the hero bleed

I am hunger, feed my head
All together, you'll never, never make the hero bleed



Buried alive

(Iommi/Butler/Dio)

Once upon a nightmare, once upon a time
You're running from temptation
You got lost and found that you don't belong to anybody
You're all the same, just another number
Cross it out, whenever you don't behave

Someone got the doctor, he knows what to do
Throw some bones and mumble, the devil's inside of you
It might be contagious, it might change the plan
Get back in your tiny boxes even if you can't we say you can

Join the congregation, everybody's got to get in line and
We never justify, the choir sings a never ending lie

When you thought you were free
You didn't need a reason, no reason to survive
As the big door closes and you waiting for the nail
Somebody tell the world you're buried alive

Once upon a nightmare, once upon a time
You're running from tomorrow, you got lost
And found that another day has turned to ashes
Taken by the wind, frozen seeds of sorrow, never to begin

Join the celebration and everybody's got to get in line and
We never justify, the choir sings a never ending lie

When you thought you were free
You did not need a reason, no reason to survive
As the big door closes and you waiting for the mail
Somebody tell the world you're buried alive

One more nightmare, just one more time
Join the congregation, everybody get in line
Celebration, the choir sings a lie
As you call the hammer falls, no one hears you cry, I'm buried alive