Roads to Madness Music by: Michael Wilton Lyrics by: Geoff Tate and Chris DeGarmo Most of this is memory now I've gone too far to turn back now I'm not quite what I thought I was but Then again I'm maybe more The blood-words promised, I've spoken Releasing the names from the circle Maybe I can leave here now and, o Transcend the boundaries For now I'm standing here I'm awaiting this grand transition The future is but past forgotten On the road to madness Times measure rusts as it crawls I see its face in the looking glass - stop This screaming laughter hides, the pain of its reality Black, the door was locked I opened And now I've paid that price ten-fold over Knowledge - was it worth such torment, oh To see the far side of shadow And still I'm standing here I'm awaiting this grand transition I'm a fool in search of wisdom And I'm on the road to madness Yes, I'm on the road to madness I'm awaiting endlessly Pounding rhythms echo me Won't you take me somewhere far beyond the void And still I'm standing here I'm awaiting this grand transition Maybe one day, oh I'll meet you, and we'll Walk the roads to madness Yes, we're on the road to madness Oh, I think they've come to take me I hear the voice, but there's no-one to see I can't scream, too late it's time Stay on the course to pass You'll never find the answer To a place where darkened angels seemed lost and never found Scream to see the light of Forming figures fast behind you Lay the past in the wind to spin And your fate will sail beyond the open plains Sail with angels onward Live or die for the chosen one said Saber sights cast a spell behind you And they lock in all around Free the scene insider Never looking back to find why Ride a course till the end of time And you'll stand atop the gate Laying waste in a path recited Fighting force won't avenge the guided black wing Oh, electric might poses fright inside me Seeing light at the end of sight reminds me I've passed away Take Hold of the Flame Geoff Tate, Chris DeGarmo We see the light of those who find A world has passed them by To late to save a dream that's growing cold We realize that fate must hide its face From those who try To see the distant signs of unforetold Oh... oh, take hold From a haze came a rage of thunder Distant signs of darkness on the way Fading cries scream of pain and hunger But in the night the light will guide your way So take hold of the flame Don't you see life's a game So take hold of the flame You've got nothing to lose, but everything to gain Ride, to a place beyond our time Reach, for the edges of your mind, and you are there See, that the light will find its way Back to a place where it will stay, make it stay Throw down the chains of oppression that bind you With the air of freedom the flame grows bright We are the strong, the youth united We are one, we are children of the light So take hold of the flame Don't you see life's a game So take hold of the flame You've got nothing to lose, but everything to gain Take Hold of the Flame Geoff Tate, Chris DeGarmo We see the light of those who find A world has passed them by To late to save a dream that's growing cold We realize that fate must hide its face From those who try To see the distant signs of unforetold Oh... oh, take hold From a haze came a rage of thunder Distant signs of darkness on the way Fading cries scream of pain and hunger But in the night the light will guide your way So take hold of the flame Don't you see life's a game So take hold of the flame You've got nothing to lose, but everything to gain Ride, to a place beyond our time Reach, for the edges of your mind, and you are there See, that the light will find its way Back to a place where it will stay, make it stay Throw down the chains of oppression that bind you With the air of freedom the flame grows bright We are the strong, the youth united We are one, we are children of the light So take hold of the flame Don't you see life's a game So take hold of the flame You've got nothing to lose, but everything to gain