HERE BE MONSTERS - 2022
Release Date: February 18, 2022
Label: Frontiers Records (FR CD 1192)
Producer: Gary Hughes
Tracklisting:
All songs written by Gary Hughes.
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Fearless - 6:53
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Chapter And Psalm - 8:18
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Hurricane - 4:35
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Strangers On A Distant Shore - 6:07
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The Dream That Fell To Earth - 6:25
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The Miracle Of Life - 5:48
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Anything You Want - 4:47
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Immaculate Friends - 5:19
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Follow Me Into The Fire - 7:11
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The Longest Time - 4:55
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Hurricane (Bonus Mix) - Japanese Edition - 4:35
Personnel:
Gary Hughes – vocals, guitars, backing vocals
Dann Rosingana – guitars, Lead guitars
Steve Grocott – guitars, Lead guitars
Darrel Treece-Birch – keyboards, Programming
Steve Mckenna – bass guitar
Markus Kullman – drums and percussion
Production:
Produced by Gary Hughes and Dennis Ward
Mixing – Dennis Ward
FEATURED VIDEOS
LYRICS
1. Fearless
She was born on the breeze so the legends say
A storm of a tease kept the wolves at bay
She grew like a queen, a sight to behold
Such a goddess but a thief of your heart and soul
The night is for lovers when the darkness comes
In time she was blown from the western plains
Her power over thunder and lightning reigned
A pure force of nature no man could own
For the beauty or the beast was beyond control
This light is for lovers when the darkness comes
Signs to remember, finding true love
Diamond chasing all this time
Caught up in her calicos
Sighs fan the embers, lighting you up
Hands embrace beyond this night forever
Fearless tonight, in the darkness she waits
Peerless, sublime, mark my words, this is true
Sheer by design, is the love she creates
Like a lantern should revere the sun
The enchantment I once feared becomes
Fearless tonight
A man from the east stakes a gold rush claim
A peace loving town till the darkness came
The guns and the drums, the screams down below,
With the dogs, where the demons and the gods won't go
This light is for lovers when the darkness comes
Signs to remember, finding true love
Diamond chasing all this time
Caught up in her calicos
Sighs fan the embers, lighting you up
Hands embrace beyond this night forever
Fearless tonight, in the darkness she waits
Peerless, sublime, mark my words, this is true
Sheer by design, is the love she creates
Like a lantern should revere the sun
The enchantment I once feared becomes
Fearless tonight
Signs to remember, finding true love
Diamond chasing all this time
Caught up in her calicos
Sighs fan the embers, lighting you up
Hands embrace beyond this night forever
Fearless tonight, in the darkness she waits
Peerless, sublime, mark my words, this is true
Sheer by design, is the love she creates
Like a lantern should revere the sun
The enchantment I once feared becomes
Fearless tonight
The night is for lovers when the darkness comes
2. Chapter And Psalm
We are the last; we're the guardians of time
Born in the past with our future to defined
Heed this compass my love
Here be monsters my love...
Dawn cracks the sky as we sail with the tide
Drawn to the light, no surrender we cry
This endeavour my love
Is forever my love…
We sail where the law's unbending
Our main brace strong and invincible
These veil-like claws descend, enshroud
Sail the seven seas of wonder
Burn the ships, we smite and plunder
Trail the seasons out
Masters at arms again
Tidal born, the quest lies reeving
Ride the storms, the crest rise cleaving
Coast to coast we rout
Capture, becalm then end
Chapter and psalm again
Chase the horizon, we sail of the charts
Mercury rising, the whale and the shark
From the embers my love
We remember, my love...
Masters of tides navigate from the heart
Hunt and collide, ride the waves by the stars
For this tempest my love
It is endless my love...
No white-winged doves ascending
No parley, no flag of peace and love
You're tale is done, there's no way out
Sail the seven seas of wonder
Burn the ships, we smite and plunder
Trail the seasons out
Masters at arms again
Tidal born, the quest lies reeving
Ride the storms, the crest rise cleaving
Coast to coast we rout
Capture, becalm then end
Chapter and psalm again...
3. Hurricane
Don't turn away, why won't you stay
Words from the heart falling cold on my skin
Life deals a fate that's so hard to take
This killer strikes from within
I'm like a wraith now, who cries for the others crawling
I drift through life remembering
This bitter taste lasts far beyond wise words and brothers’ warnings
There's no one left here to blame
I'm fading like the winter sun
Lost in the Hurricane
This shadow song has been sung to long
I've traded all my principles
I'll never love again
I don't belong here now, with thieves and lovers
Rhymes on the page, ghosts on the stave
Between the lines only the spectres engage
Time slips away, ticks louder each day
We live and die on a whim
Too much to take now, one flies whilst another's falling
Tendrils of life condemn the day
Nature's embrace now, thunder and lightning, a mother's calling
There are no words left to say
I'm fading like the winter sun
Lost in the Hurricane
This shadow song has been sung to long
I've traded all my principles
I'll never love again
I don't belong here now, with thieves and lovers
4. Strangers On A Distant Shore
Falling down to earth in flames
Bleeding hearts in endless rage
Battle stars concede and gain
Blood on pages, signed and stained
Echo in one last refrain
Hollow words don't heal the same
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"I'm in love with you"
When the world is upside down
You're alone and not a sole around
Nothing's what is was before
In the staves but on a different chord
When your world turns inside out
Waking up to find your dreams are doubts
Now we find ourselves at war
We are strangers on a distant shore
Battle shields as shots engage
Locked on target, out of range
Cast the stone, no enemies to blame
Sudden shifts in climate change
Thoughtless words and actions maim
I convince myself I'm sane
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"I'm in love with you"
When the world is upside down
You're alone and not a sole around
Nothing's what is was before
In the staves but on a different chord
When your world turns inside out
Waking up to find your dreams are doubts
Now we find ourselves at war
We are strangers on a distant shore
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"Repeat after me... I'm in love with you"
"I'm in love with you"
5. The Dream That Fell To Earth
I can’t let her go
I don't need to know where she's from
Of the blinding stars in space and time there isn't one that shines like her
She came from the storm
She landed a torn, weathered bomb
But tonight against the odds I find I hold the dream that fell to earth
I can’t let her go
9.15 P.M, I'm driving home again
You see I'm alone
Just around the bend the storm was moving in
I'm 3 miles from home
Rain was crashing down, then lights behind the clouds
The sky cracked and warped
Can't remember when the thunder struck again
But lightning had forked
I shut off the engine, stalled
I saw the spacecraft, I watched it fall,
I saw it crash-land; I watched her crawl from the flames
I can’t let her go
I don't need to know where she's from
Of the blinding stars in space and time there isn't one that shines like her
She came from the storm
She landed a torn, weathered bomb
But tonight against the odds I find I hold the dream that fell to earth
I can’t let her go
Gazing in despair, at twisted metal, flares and bright burning rock
Found her lying there, so helpless, cold and scared, alive but in shock
Carried her away to safety and escaped, the truth we exscind
She destroyed her ship, the evidence of which was blown to the wind
I shut off the engine, stalled
I saw the spacecraft, I watched it fall
I saw it crash-land; I watched her crawl from the flames
I can’t let her go
I don't need to know where she's from
Of the blinding stars in space and time there isn't one that shines like her
She came from the storm
She landed a torn, weathered bomb
But tonight against the odds I find I hold the dream that fell to earth
I can’t let her go
6. The Miracle Of Life
You and I alone at twilight time
With the lunar devil moon climbing slowly in the sky
Slipping off your dress, the pale moonlight
Lingers softly on your skin, tracing shadows from behind
Something in your eyes that words could never say
Nothing can describe or stop this taking place
Perfect in a light the gods would never fade
Biblical desire to mate
It's the miracle of life I'm feeling
At the pinnacle, the finite seeds remain
Indivisible, the timeline leads the way
Every heartbeat is golden
It's the miracle of life I'm feeling
This empirical device-like feed sustains
Metaphysical, beyond our dreams, conveyed
In a fragment of DNA
Rising like the storms of old she sighs
Breaks the silence when she screams and the passion never lies
Time invites the dawn through warm pool eyes
Till the sunset in the west this horizon never dies
Coded in the past, evolving every day
Molecular strands of timeless DNA
Synthesising genes, designed to replicate
Maps in human themes are made
It's the miracle of life I'm feeling
At the pinnacle, the finite seeds remain
Indivisible, the timeline leads the way
Every heartbeat is golden
It's the miracle of life I'm feeling
This empirical device-like feed sustains
Metaphysical, beyond our dreams, conveyed
In a fragment of DNA
7. Immaculate Friends
Timeless scenes under neon
Nights where dreams never end
And days like these blood the young guns blazing
Feel that beat, unforgiving
Tireless heat, die to live
We're raised on streets where the thunder rages
Hold back the night
Keep the darkness waiting
While the home fire still rages this love remains
Setting the world alight
Put on a show again
Tear this place apart tonight
My immaculate friends
Ready the girls and guys
Re-write a story's end
Bury broken hearts tonight
From disastrous blends
To immaculate friends
You and me
Are the final fantasy, unrelenting
Wild and free, you and I don't fake it
Climb with me, we ascend in
Ecstasy, if you give your heart to me
Baby I won't break it
Hold back the night
Keep the darkness waiting
For when all else has faded this love remains
Setting the world alight
Put on a show again
Tear this place apart tonight
My immaculate friends
Ready the girls and guys
Re-write a story's end
Bury broken hearts tonight
From disastrous blends
To immaculate friends
8. Anything You Want
There was only you, the jewel in a crowded room
For when you walked by you hypnotised
I was obsessed with you
Nothing I could do, could not take my eyes off you
You drove me wild, then lost, beguiled
I was already doomed
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
It seems that loving you is all that I want to do
We clicked somehow, a switch came down
Now it's my only truth
I fell in love with you now I've gotta see it through
I'm stunned in ways I can't explain
I'm simply all consumed
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
Anything you want, I will find a way
Anything you want, I wont hesitate
You unlocked a door to my heart
I'd been sealing come what may
Nothing I could do, I belong to you
There was only you, the jewel in a crowded room
For when you walked by you hypnotised
I was obsessed with you
Nothing I could do, could not take my eyes off you
You drove me wild, then lost, beguiled
I was already doomed
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
It seems that loving you is all that I want to do
We clicked somehow, a switch came down
Now it's my only truth
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
Anything you want
Anything you need
Anything at all can come from loving me
9. Follow Me Into The Fire
You doubt love?
Follow me into the fire
Deep in your heart, feel that love
Try to control your desire and leave whole
Without love
Lowdown, it's a hard life
You drown, in disguise, under cover
This town wields a sharp knife
These clowns can go to hell with the others
No lie, it's a scared life
Sometimes things can die undiscovered
You scream, for the last rites
To dream and leave the devil in the gutter
With the beginnings of a notion in your head it's quizzical
You find a spirit of emotion there instead that's physical
You doubt love?
Follow me into the fire
Deep in your heart, feel that love
Try to control your desire and leave whole
Without love
Follow me into the fire
Speak from your heart, free that dove
Light up your soul, it's the pyre that leads home
Tender love, that's enough
For anyone
Free fall onto hard times
We crawl on our knees and we shudder
This wall is just a landslide
We claw above disease and recover
True love throws a lifeline
To seas on which we sail and discover
You scream at such a high tide
To steer without a sail or a rudder
With both and an angel and a devil in your head it's cynical
The devil whispers but the angel's in you bed, it's clinical
You doubt love?
Follow me into the fire
Deep in your heart, feel that love
Try to control your desire and leave whole
Without love
Follow me into the fire
Speak from your heart, free that dove
Light up your soul, it's the pyre that leads home
Tender love, that's enough
For anyone
10. The Longest Time
When the light fails the day, we silently wait
Long enough to hear love's winter song
Then as time slips away in tireless embrace
Dawn and dusk reveals the splintered throng
Getting closer now than ever in this world changing bliss
Much deeper and beyond the lips I kiss
My heart beats in time with the love I feel tonight
The twilight hears
Every lark has a song
The stars peer and shine on a love revered, entwined
I cried my tears in the dark
For the longest time
In the half light decay, our hands guide the way
Feed the fire
The power of flesh and bone
In your eyes rise the flames in tidal refrains
Breathing life where once was only stone
What if every thousand lifetimes captured moments like this
I die the thousand times that you might live
My heart beats in time with the love I feel tonight
The twilight hears
Every lark has a song
The stars peer and shine on a love revered, entwined
I cried my tears in the dark
For the longest time
If tonight could last forever and these dreams never lift
I'd cherish every moment of this gift
My heart beats in time with the love I feel tonight
The twilight hears
Every lark has a song
The stars peer and shine on a love revered, entwined
I cried my tears in the dark
For the longest time