Line THE SYSTEM We got the System, to fuck the System! * We got the System, to fuck the System! Oehhhhhh.... * It's obviously ironic, as you cannot "fuck" a system by another system! Those lyrics were inspired by Abbie Hoffmann's manifesto "Fuck the System". Irony and sarcasm, are the two keys to understand this peculiar "666". Line BABYLON Fallen fallen fallen is Babylon the great! Space is getting bounded, time is getting late! Masters fall and wonder, people rise and wait Fallen fallen fallen is Babylon the great! You don't need a coin, I don't have to shine We don't know the reason But I need you madly and you need me too and we need each other... and we need each other... and we need each other... Fallen fallen fallen is Babylon the great! Space is getting bounded, time is getting late! Masters fall and wonder, people rise and wait Fallen fallen fallen is Babylon the great! You don't need a coin, I don't have to shine We don't know the reason But I need you madly and you need me too and we need each other... and we need each other... and we need each other... Line LOUD, LOUD, LOUD The day the walls of the citys will crumble away uncuvering our naked souls, we'll all start singing, shouting, screaming loud, loud, loud, loud The day the circus horses will stop turing around, running fast through the green valleys, we'll sing and cry and shout loud, loud, loud, loud The day the cars will lay in heaps their wheels turing in vain, we'll run along the empty highways shouting, screaming, singing loud, loud, loud, loud The day young boys will stop becoming soldiers, and soldiers will stop playing war games, we'll sing and cry and shout loud, loud, loud, loud The day will come up that we'll all wake up hearing and shouting of joy and shouting together with the freaks loud, loud, loud, loud The day the world will turn upside down we'll run together round and round screaming, shouting, siging loud, loud, loud, loud loud, loud, loud, loud loud, loud, loud, loud Line THE FOUR HORSEMEN And when the lamb opened the first seal, I saw the first Horse. The Horseman held a bow Now when the lamb opened the second seal, I saw the second Horse The Horseman held his sword The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green And when the lamb opened the third seal, I saw the third Horse. The Horseman had a balance Now when the lamb opened the fourth seal, I saw the fourth Horse. The Horseman was the Pest The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green Line THE SEVENTH SEAL And when the lamb opened the next two seals, We saw the souls, We saw the martyrs, we heared them crying, We heared them shouting, They were dressed in white, They'd been told to wait The sun was black, the moon was red, the stars were falling, the earth was trembling And then the crowed impossible to number carrying flowers, shouted amid the hotless sun the lightless moon the windless earth the colourless sky: "How much longer wil we suffer from hunger? How much longer will we suffer from thirst?" And when the lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky Line AEGIAN SEA I saw the souls I saw the martyrs I heared them crying I heard them shouting They were dressed in white they've been told to wait The sun was black the moon was red the stars were falling the earth has trembling And then a crowd impossible to number Dressed in white carrying palms shouted amid the hotless sun the lightless moon the windless earth the colourless sky ... They'll no more suffer from hunger they'll no more suffer from thirst They'll no more suffer from hunger they'll no more suffer from thirst They'll no more suffer from hunger they'll no more suffer from thirst Line SEVEN BOWLS The first bowl on the earth the second bowl on the sea the third bowl on the rivers the fourth bowl on the sun the fifth bowl on the Beast the sixth bowl on the stars the seventh bowl on the air And the earth turned grey the sea turned black the rivers turned red the sun turned cold the Beast turned pale the stars turned fast the air turned to poison Line LAMENT Alas alas for the human race alas for the kings, the kings of separa.., separation alas alas [Amane] Line DO IT * Do it [interlude] Do it [interlude] Do it * Do it! is a reference to the book of Jerry Rubin Line THE BEAST Who can find the Beast? She's big, she's bad, she's wicked, she's sad Who can fight the Beast? She come's, she goes, who ever knows ... Who can fight the Beast? She's big, she's bad, she's wicked, she's sad Who can find the Beast? She come's, she goes, who ever knows ... Who can fight the Beast? [interlude] Who can fight the Beast? She's big, she's bad, she's wicked, she's sad Who can find the Beast? She come's, she goes, who ever knows ... Who can fight the Beast? She's big, she's bad, she's wicked, she's sad Who can find the Beast? She come's, she goes, who ever knows ... Who can find the Beast? [interlude] [....] (...) sad (...) goes (...) sad (...) goes Pame!! * she's big she's bad she's wicked, she's sad she's big (...) sad she come's she goes who ever knows (...) sad Telionoume edho pera etsi? ** * (In Greek) let's go - go for the climax ** we are closing here, remember? Line OFIS Exelthe ofi katiramene, * dhioti an dhen exelthe essy, tha se exelthe ego! Ou! Ou! Ou! English translation: Come out, cursed serpent, because if you don't "come-out" you, I will "come-out" you! *It's a famous line frome the greek shadow theatre Karagiozis, from the play "Karagiozis, Alexander the Great and the Cursed Serpent". Line SEVEN TRUMPETS Ladies and gentlemen Seven trumpets the sound of thunder! Seven trumpets the threatening anger! Seven trumpets the trembling voice! Seven trumpets You got no choice! Seven trumpets the seven angels! the seven trumpets the music changes! Line ALTAMONT This is the sight we had one day on the High Mountain We saw a lamb with seven eyes We saw a beast with seven horns and a book with seven seals Seven angels with seven trumpets and seven bowls filed with anger Those are the pictures of what was of what is of what has to come We are the people the rolling people the why people the waiting people the wanting people the tambourine people the alternative people the angel people Line INFINITY I was* I am I am to come I was I am I am to come I was I am [etc] *[note: The words are: "I am to come" and "I was to come" She begins to blend the two together as she gets in to it (the song), and some times, it it more like: "I was, I am, I was, I was, I am to come." It is the inversion of "Who was, is, is to come" of the Revelation, attributed to the Good. Here, the "Bad", (the Beast, 666) turns this phrase into Ego, (first person), and tries to be born again, or to give birth to another Ego, or to "make love" to is own self and so on. Vicious circle.] Line HIC ET NUNC Here and now! Here and now! Fixing the ceiling I got afeeling - sing it again! Here and now! Here and now! Show me the season, give me the reason - sing it again! Here and now! Here and now! (We got the System, to fuck the System!) (We got the System, to fuck the System!) (We got the System, to fuck the System!) Oehhhhhh.... Whisper a meaning nowbody's leading - sing it again! sing it again! Here and now! Here and now! I got a feeling somebody's missing - sing it again! sing it again! Here and now! Here and now! Here and now! Here and now! Line ALL THE SEATS WERE OCCUPIED Ladies and gentlemen Seven trumpets the sound of thunder!(we got the system) Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) the trembling voice! (We got the system) Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) the threatening anger! (we got the system) Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) the trembling voice! (we got the system) Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) You got no choice! (we got the system) Seven trumpets (The leading horse is white) the seven angels! (the second horse is red) the seven trumpets (the third one is a black,) the music changes! (the last one is a green) The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green The leading horse is white the second horse is red the third one is a black, the last one is a green [interlude] [Exelthe ofi katiramene, dhioti an dhen exelthe essy, tha se exelthe ego! Ou! Ou! Ou!....] I am I am to come I was I am I am to come I was I am And the earth turned grey the sea turned black the rivers turned red the sun turned cold the Beast turned pale the stars turned fast the air turned to poison I am, I am to come, I was I am to come I was [interlude] I am, I am to come, I was I am (The leading horse is white) I am to come (the second horse is red) I was (the third one is a black,) I am (the last one is a green) [interlude] Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) the trembling voice! (we got the system) Seven trumpets (to fuck the system) You got no choice! (we got the system) Seven trumpets the seven angels! [interlude] We are the people the rolling people the why people the waiting people the wanting people the tambourine people the alternative people the angel people We are the people the rolling people the why people the waiting people the wanting people the tambourine people the alternative people the angel people Exelthe ofi katiramene, dhioti an dhen exelthe essy, tha se exelthe ego! Ou! Ou! Ou!.... [interlude] I am, I am to come, I was All the seats were occupied * * Taken from the reccording of a BBC Teaching English lesson Line BREAK * Bye bye, my friend, goodbye With a lie you forget and break it You make it You make it You make it You make it Cry in my empty room and we try to forget and break it Fly high and then you make it [interlude] Bye bye, my friend, goodbye With a lie you forget and break it You make it You make it You make it You make it Do it! *As about the syllables you hear, it is Vangelis' voice, "answering" to Lucas by the jazz doo-wap technique: "stoobeedooobedoo..." and so on. It was Vangelis way of making fun to the song.