Blind Guardian - The Last Candle

Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the Blind
Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the Blind
Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the Blind
Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the Blind
Have you forgotten him?

Far from the land
Where the sun is born
Down in the wood "Caladon"
Do you know the place
Where the light is never seen
And all the hopes are turned
By the final cry
Turned to Stone
Turned to Stone
Turned to Stone
Turned to Stone

Whispering tunes in the wind
All hopes are gone with the night
When the old man will never come back
Remember his words and his songs
And we see the raven's flying in the distance
But no wizard's singing his song

Somebody's out in the night
I fly in time
The last candle will burn
There's hope for everyone
When the last candle burns high
Oh, it's time for life
The elves and gnomes have to hide
When the moon is showing its face
And raging orcs will set their traps
And the forest will burn
They hate green trees
And love the dark
They don't understand
That they're caught and left alone
They feel the magic in the wind
They just fear the old man's song

Somebody's out in the night
I fly in time
The last candle will burn
There's hope for everyone
When the last candle burns high
Oh, it's time for life

Corrupted old gnome
Betrayer of all
You know so much about all
What is your price?

Gnome:
"Too much, too much
You cannot pay with your silver and your gold
There's just a little chance to save the wizard's life
There's just a little chance for all you fools
Now pay"
And so I walk across the land
And hope to hear the wizard's song

Somebody's out in the night
I fly in time
The last candle will burn
There's hope for everyone
When the last candle burns high
Oh, it's time for life

Somebody's out in the night
I fly in time
The last candle will burn
There's hope for everyone
When the last candle burns high
Oh, it's time for life

Somebody's out there
I feel there is somebody
Somebody's out there
I feel there is somebody

Forming in the small German town of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of gothic and fantasy-tinged European power metal with the velocity and technical precision of speed metal.

Members Hansi Kürsch (vocals, bass), Marcus Siepen (guitar), André Olbrich (guitar), and Thomen Stauch (drums) initially called themselves Lucifer’s Heritage, but elected to change it when a 1986 demo tape began to achieve underground popularity. They signed with the No Remorse label and issued Battalions of Fear in 1988, following it with Follow the Blind a year later, which helped make a name for the band in Japan.
Released in 1990, Tales from the Twilight World became an underground hit in Germany and led to a deal with that country’s division of Virgin Records; their major-label debut, Somewhere Far Beyond, was released in 1992. After 1993’s live Tokyo Tales, Blind Guardian hooked up with former Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen for 1995’s Imaginations from the Other Side. Issued in 1996, The Forgotten Tales was a collection of covers and alternate versions, setting the stage for 1998’s Nightfall in Middle-Earth, a Tolkien-inspired concept album that finally became the band’s first American release a year later. Century Media began reissuing portions of the band’s back catalog in the U.S. the same year. In 2002, the band released A Night at the Opera, and followed up four years later with A Twist in the Myth. The German power metal quartet released its ninth studio album, At the Edge of Time, in 2010, followed by a compilation of re-recorded and remixed songs called Memories of a Time to Come in 2012. In 2015, the band returned with their tenth studio long-player, Beyond the Red Mirror, a concept album and sequel to 1995’s Imaginations from the Other Side. – Spotify