Dreamspace lyrics by Stratovarius
1. Chasing shadows
CHASING SHADOWS (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki) I have been sailing across the oceans. Flying across the blue sky. Without never finding the answer, the answer to question why. Just when you think you reach it, Itīs gone. Chasing Shadows Chasing Shadows Chasing Shadows - all your life. Harder you try to fix things in your life. Faster you know itīs in vain. Searching for loving from strangest places, nothing is left but the pain. Just when you think you reach it, Itīs gone. Chasing Shadows...
2. 4th Reich
4th REICH (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki) Sign of the times and writings on the wall. They show me, itīs time has come. Order of a new kind, we will all find stronger than never before. Things are pretty much the same like in year ī38. Oh wonīt we ever learn. This time itīs gonna be different. So letīs all join our hands and let the children sing, for the last time. 4th Reich is rising, Canīt you see the signs? 4th Reich is rising, For the last time. Letīs just press more money, donīt worry about inflation. We got to have more weapons to carry on. Unemployement and sorrow, cannot be avoided at this point. But things will be so different, when they are ruling the world. 4th Reich is rising, Canīt you see the signs? 4th Reich is rising, For the last time. What will be left to our children? Is this our final destiny?
3. Eyes of the world
EYES OF THE WORLD (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki) Everywhere I go, I see people staring at me. It makes me feel so strange, why wonīt they leave me be. So take a look in the mirror and maybe youīll see, all the things that happened. While you were looking at me, Am I really so different? In the eyes of the world, you are no different to me. In the eyes of the world, is it so hard to see now? Everything we do is running into the sand, and who is to take the food away from the childrens hand. We all could be friends now. And itīs not a crime but we have to be quick now. Because we donīt have much time, Are we really so different? In the eyes of the world, you are no different to me. In the eyes of the world, is it so hard to see now?
4. Hold on to your dream
HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAM (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki-Lassila) Since you were born pushed into corner and left all alone. Told what to do, obey all the rules. Be just like everyone else those fools. Day at the school, teacherīs a bully youīre mobbed as a rule. Nothing from TV your folks are away, you are trapped inside this house you must stay, Home. Now itīs time for you to move on, leave the shadows of your past. Donīt let them haunt you forever. Hold on to your dream, somewhere thereīs a beam of hope which is guiding your way through the dark. This is your chance, Your love, your romance. Hold on to your dream and never give up in your life. Hold on to your dream.
5. Magic carpet ride
MAGIC CARPET RIDE (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki) Let me take you to the faraway places, where youīve never been. To the orient lands. Soon you will notice the mountains and forests. Weīre flying over them now. Donīt you be afraid, just take my hand as we race with four winds. Welcome to the land of mystery, welcome to the land of secrets. This is no ancient history. We are flying through the gates of Babylon. Allah is speaking us all with his mighty voice, Bowing his power as we go down. This magic carpet ride is not a dream to us, itīs really happening now. Welcome to the land of mystery, welcome to the land of secrets. This is no ancient history. We are flying through the gates of Babylon.
6. We are the future
WE ARE THE FUTURE (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Tolkki) What is wrong with a man destroying the land. Our planet is full of waste. Sheltering ozone layer is no more a shield, the temperature is rising up. Now itīs time to stop this madness, preventing increasing sadness. Letīs put end to all this while we can. Man against another man, how somebody can, judge by colour of the skin. See the signs make up your mind, now itīs time for the change, it is not too late. Now itīs time to stop this madness, preventing increasing sadness. Letīs put end to all this while we can. Save us, we are the future. Lead us into the better world, show us the way to reality. No more injustice or cruelty. Save us, we are the future. Lead us into the better world, show us the way to reality injustice is all gone. Fast, fast stop this course now last, last or we wonīt last, past stop living in the past or you will die. End, end, end of our time, time our precious time, Crime, crime against mankind we have to pay. In the course of mad destruction, thereīll be no coming back, the nuclear end is in sight. Soon there will be no one to fight with. Take a look into the sky, it may be your last time. The complete end is in sight, soon there will be no one to fight, with me. Save us, we are the future. Lead us into the better world, show us the way to reality. No more injustice or cruelty. Save us, we are the future. Lead us into the better world, show us the way to reality injustice is all gone.
7. Tears of ice
TEARS OF ICE (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics: Tolkki) Tears of Ice, falling down. My cheeks forming a lake, in itīs surface, I see your face and I watch it ītil itīs gone. There were times, all I did was cry out your name. Only thing I feel now is pain... Tears of Ice, frozen heart, icy drops fall to the ground. Forming stream, golden dream that will lead me to your door. There were times all I did was cry out your name. Only thing I feel now is pain... Baby you should see, what you did to me, Now I am crying Tears of Ice Baby you should feel, like I felt those days, Now I am crying Tears of Ice
8. Dreamspace
DREAMSPACE (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Tolkki) Looking back through time through my childhood days. I used to have a place where I could escape reality. But lately things have been so difficult for me. Trying to reach for the light, in the fall of darkness. Waiting watching my life, Iīm wasting my time, Iīm losing grip from life. Going back to my dreamspace leavin it all behind. Soon the things will be alright, when I get there. Am I safe in here, nothing left to fear. I will close my eyes and float away with stream. Wandering here in this eternal darkness. No signs of light anywhere. I am going insane. Now I am leaving this life, no hope left I want to die!
9. Reign of terror
REIGN OF TERROR (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Tolkki) What the hell is going on, skijumpers making music that sells gold. Thereīs no talent in this game, hunting for the fame. Publicity is all you need, thatīs why it feels to me like Reign of Terror Reign of Terror Everything costs so much nowadays and individuals vanish in the haze. Entertainment for the masses saving, saving your own asses. Rats are leaving sinking ship, still it feels to me like Reign of Terror Reign of Terror What the hell is going on, everything is upside down. Hunting hunting for the fame, terror terror everywhere. Reign of Terror Reign of Terror
10. Thin ice
THIN ICE (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Lassila) Iīm walking on a thin ice, lying paralyzed. Staying there alone, reaching for the unknown. In the mirror I see despair, in the closet I smell death. Thereīs needles in in my bed, Iīve finally lost my head.
11. Atlantis
12. Abyss
ABYSS (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Lassila) Iīm out on the open sea, the wind is embracing me. Iīm watching the setting sun, far far away from you. Thereīs not much that I could do. Do you know whatīs the only way for me. Into the depths I fall, into the unknown darkness I go. Down down down Falling into the Abyss A morning of no recall, no memory nothing at all. The sun is blinding my eyes. The pain I feel in my head, I think Iīll go back to bed or should I have just one more. Into the depths I fall, into the unknown darkness I go. Down down down Falling into the Abyss.
13. Shattered
SHATTERED (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Lassila) I worked so hard to get my aim, pulled out wrong card, is this my last game. Too fast too soon, you know it takes time, hasty deeds spoilet the chances of mine. Iīm burning inside outside seems allright, try not to think about it much, Itīs hard to say, when I will play again. Shattered My hands are shattered Shattered My life is shattered Iīm dressed to kill and ready to score. 3rd pain pill and thereīs pain no more. I canīt break out. Out of these walls, walls that sometimes the skull is called. Iīm burning inside outside seems allright, try not to think about it much, Itīs hard to say, when I will play again. Shattered My hands are shattered Shattered My life is shattered.
14. Wings of tomorrow
WINGS OF TOMORROW (Music: Tolkki / Lyrics:Tolkki) New winds are blowing over the world can you feel it. Message is spreading among all the people. Future is calling, history is leaving behind. Nobody is thinking about the past days. If you want to have a look in future world. If you have an open mind it is your turn. Come join our forces to this trip on the Wings of Tomorrow Consider that this world could be free from all this hatred. There would be no borders no laws anykind. Still mankind is falling, planning itīs ruin everyday. But hey we can still stop this madness together. If you want to have a look in future world. If you have an open mind it is your turn. Come join our forces to this trip on the Wings of Tomorrow
15. Full Moon (bonus Japan)
Music & Lyrics: Tolkki Shining there in the sky Lights our way across the land Black clouds in front of your face Fading into the haze In this prison of mine My soul lies in despair My mind Wanders through time Tell me what is my crime What is behind velvet lies Heart as cold as the ice In this prison...
Stratovarius Lyrics
Albums
- Fright Night (1989)
- Stratovarius II (1991)
- Twilight Time (1992)
- Stratovarius II re-release (1992)
- Dreamspace (1994)
- Fourth Dimension (1995)
- Episode (1996)
- Visions (1997)
- Destiny (1998)
- Infinite (2000)
- Elements pt2 (2003)
- Elements pt1 (2003)
- Stratovarius (2005)
- Polaris (2009)
Single / EP / MCD
- Future Shock 7īī (1988)
- Black Night 7īī (1989)
- Break the Ice 7īī (1992)
- Wings of Tomorrow (single) (1995)
- Father Time (single) (1996)
- Will the Sun Rise? (single) (1996)
- Black Diamond (single) (1997)
- The Kiss of Judas (promo single) (1997)
- S.O.S. CDS (1998)
- A Million Light Years Away (single) (2000)
- Itīs a Mystery 7īī (2000)
- Hunting High and Low (single) (2000)
- Eagleheart CDS (2003)
- I Walk to My Own Song CDS (2003)
- Maniac Dance CDS (2005)
Live
- Visions of Europe live (1998)
Compilation
- The Past And Now (1997)
- The Chosen Ones (1999)
- 14 Diamonds Best of Stratovarius (2000)
- Intermission (2001)


