THE NAME OF THE ROSE - 1996
Release Date: September 16, 1996
Label: Now & Then Records (NTHEN 32)
Producer: Gary Hughes, Mike Stone
Tracklisting:
All songs written by Gary Hughes except where noted.
1.The Name of the Rose" – 8:31
2.Wildest Dreams" – 5:33
3.Don't Cry" – 5:00
4.Turn Around" – 3:52
5.Pharaoh's Prelude: Ascension to the Afterlife" – 3:54
6.Wait For You" – 5:31
7.The Rainbow" – 6:03 (G. Hughes/Zoe Hughes)
8.Through the Fire" – 8:19
9.Goodnight Saigon" – 7:02
10.Wings of the Storm" – 5:02
11.Standing In Your Light" – 7:18
12.The Quest" – 4:52
13.You're My Religion" – 6:48
Personnel:
Gary Hughes – vocals
Vinny Burns – guitars
John Halliwell – guitars
Ged Rylands – keyboards
Martin "Shelley" Shelton – bass guitar
Greg Morgan – drums
Mark Harrison – bass guitar
Brian Cox – keyboards
Howard Smith – keyboards
Andy Thompson – keyboards
Jason Thanos – backing vocals (Track 9)
Oliver Bowden – backing vocals (Track 11)
Thierey Cardinet – backing vocals (Track 11)
Damien Guasp – backing vocals (Track 11)
Jee Jacquet – backing vocals (Track 11)
Production:
Executive Producers – Mark Ashton and Vinny Burns
Mixing – Mike Stone
Engineer – Mike Stone, Audu Obaje and Ray Brophy
LYRICS
1. The Name Of The Rose
Man is born to understand
Destiny is in his hands
Life becomes the gift that
Guides the dream
All around you everywhere,
Time erodes, it rips and tears
Cloaks the thread and hides
Away the key…
From the dawning of creation
To the twilight of the world
When you hear it ring
It tolls for thee
Every face of every nation
Waits to watch the flag unfurl
You alone know what her
Name will be…
Every man must fight to know
The name of the rose
Then you’ll hold her close eternally
Each one has the right to know
The name of the rose
Deep inside you know…
The name of the rose…
Cross the lands of ice and snow,
Follow where the four winds blow
Search the skies and all
That lies beneath
Walk the sun burnt desert plains
Beaten by its anvil rays
One crusade to justify belief…
Every man must fight to know
The name of the rose
Then you’ll hold her close eternally
Each one has the right to know
The name of the rose
Then you’ll know how much
Her name can mean…
Only then you heart will show the key…
Only when you seek, you’ll find her
Like a summer breeze reminder
Slowly something stirs the soul
To breathe
Then if you believe you’ll find her
Like a memory but kinder
The lovers timeless reach returns
The key
Happy to disclose…
The name of the rose…
You call my name… Don’t wonder why
You fan the flames… That never dies
You trust my ways… You never lie
You call my name… It’s justified
You’re in my veins… You sacrifice
I’m not afraid… To give you life
Never say goodbye…
2. Wildest Dreams
In the middle of the night I dream
Of a lover I could never leave
She’s conceptual design
More woman that I’ve ever seen
On the page of any magazine
In my dream she’s alive…
(Take your time girl)
In my mind girl
(Tantalize girl)
Hey, hey girl cause you dance so good
Such a fine girl…
(Such a fine girl)
Yes you’re mine girl…
(Get up, get up)… Making love all night
(Get up, get up)… Baby come alive…
You’re a vision of my
Wildest dreams tonight
Love’s incision cuts me deep
As the ocean
My heart is lost to come across
Stronger love tonight…
Wildest dreams…
It’s little wonder why the vision stays
Her body’s built to stop a motorcade
I don’t want to wake up
She’s the trigger on a loaded gun
She’s got the legs that carry
On and on
I just can’t get enough…
(Take your time girl)
In my mind girl
(Tantalize girl)
Hey, hey girl you dance so good
Such a fine girl…
(Such a fine girl)
Yes you’re mine girl…
(Get up, get up)… Making love all night
(Get up, get up)… Baby come alive…
You’re a vision from my
Wildest dreams tonight
Love’s incision cuts me deep
As the ocean
My heart is lost to come across
Stronger love tonight…
Wildest dreams…
I can see you in my
Wildest dreams tonight
Feel my body and my soul
Breaking open
Now there can be no other girl
In the world tonight…
Wildest dreams…
3. Don’t Cry
Picture this, baby, see what I see
Yeah it’s taken some time but I believe
That right now child… I want you bad
Can’t you feel it’s the way it should be
Now you’re nowhere to hide
Away from me
And right now child…
You drive me mad
Midnight, taken a tumble
Inside with the walls breaking down
This time I feel the thunder
Lying in the middle of the love
We’ve found
You could be the air that I breathe
I believe if we don’t try don’t cry
You can give me all that I need
Can’t you see if you won’t try
Don’t cry…
Turn me round baby,
Take me down deep
Got that look in your eyes
And I can see
That right now child… No love is blind
Hold me close babe, your love
Is so real
I could never disguise the way I feel
And right now child…
You blow my mind
Midnight, taking me under
Inside there’ll be no losing ground
This time, passion and wonder
Fighting just a little as you
Hold me down
You could be the air that I breathe
I believe if we don’t try don’t cry
You can give me all that I need
Can’t you see if you won’t try
Don’t cry…
We can swim desire-like seas
Diving in if we don’t try don’t cry
Nothing dims the amber light scene
Take it in if we won’t try
Don’t cry.
4. Turn Around
Turn around baby, look into my eyes
And see the embers of the fire
That never dies
Give it time lady,
Don’t you question why
I’d give the earth to be beside you
And it’s no surprise
With a million reasons why
I love you so
Now listen close to me,
There’s something you should know
Turn around,
Whenever you want me girl
And I swear tonight
You will find
You’re only a heartbeat girl
To these arms of mine…
Come on home…
Turn around baby, don’t you even try
This never ending love
Is one you can’t describe
You will find lady,
When my life is done
That your reflection in my soul
Remains the only one
Through the candlelight caress
To where you lie
In my heart you’ll always be
My love to last for eternity
I’d die before I’d ever let you down…
Turn around…
Turn around…
5. The Pharaoh’s Prelude: Ascension To The Afterlife
I fly up from you o men
I am not for the earth
I am for the sky
I have soared to the sky as a heron
I have kissed the sky as a falcon
I am the essence of a God
The son of a God
The messenger of a God
Behold…
The faithful and loving Osiris
Has come
As the stars of Orion,
The beautiful one
I have come that I may glorify Orion
My soul is a star of gold,
And with him
I will traverse the sky… Forever…
6. Wait For You
I ascend to you through
Time and space
I transcend beyond this silent place
I will meet you on the astral plane
Where you love will bring me
Life again
I Osiris, God and star
I, the seed of Ahtum Rah
Call to me I can’t resist
My beloved Isis
Prophecy, assign in the view
Destiny aligns the truth
Helical and rising through
I will wait for you
I built the stars on earth
Soon the realms of Death reverse
Until then my aim is true
I will wait for you
Some would desecrate
This sacred place
Dare to look upon my golden face
Those whose eyes profane
This holy text
Never hear the silent wings of Death
Sill my legacy exists
This colossal edifice
Thirty million tons of stone
To project my soul
Deep within this sacred tomb
Centuries inside the womb
Wrapped in my palatial room
I will wait for
You and I the golden few
Labyrinth between the two
‘Till my faith can lead me through
I will wait for…
You and I will reconcile
Cross the wide celestial Nile
Constellation counterparts
Correlation of the hearts
All accord to this design
For the night the stars align
From the opening of my mouth
To the seed inside you…
Ahtum moves a setting sun
When the day God Rah is done
Watching from the dead I rule
I will wait for you among the stars
Behold, secrets deep within the scrolls
‘Till the ritual is through
I will wait for…
Life and death are brittle tools
Just a veil we’re passing through
Nothing fades this love so true
I will wait
For you know I’m prepared to do
All the gods command me to
Any fate they put me through
I will wait for you…
7. The Rainbow
(Gary Hughes/Zoe Hughes)
The headlines read
“A well known socialite fell to her death from thirteen floors”
For one so young for one so beautiful
The signs were easy to ignore
This was no ordinary suicide
She breathed success from every pore
But when the pain became unbearable
She hit the brakes to stop it all
Those eyes diffract the rainbow
White light is all she sees
Veiled by her life’s illusion
With pieces of a broken dream
Sometimes the pressure gets
Too much to bear
And though it seemed she had it all
The colours of the life she
Used to share
Were just the shadows of before
Those eyes diffract the rainbow
White light is all she sees
Veiled by her life’s illusion
With pieces of a broken dream
Truth lies beyond the rainbow
Blue skies are fantasy
Inside the sad delusion
She balanced in reality,
Closer to insanity…
The truth behind the headline
Should have read
The crowd below could hear her call
But had no patience for the
Words she said
They only came to watch her fall
Those eyes diffract the rainbow
White light is all she sees
Veiled by her life’s illusion
With pieces of a broken dream
Truth lies beyond the rainbow
Blue skies are fantasy
Inside the sad delusion
She balanced in reality,
Closer to insanity…
8. Through The Fire
Whispering I hold you
Sleep while I explain
Some things I never told you
That I’ve found the words to say…
For the wasted years I lived a lie
With an emptiness inside
Through a frozen hearted time,
I was searching for a sign
I thought I’d never find
When I laid eyes upon you
You scattered all my dreams
A cage that I belonged to
Shattered at the seams
Now I know that there is only you
And together we’ll remain
Through our endless nights and days
We’ll set our lives ablaze
To rise beyond the flames
Through the fire…
Now I understand
We are complete
Through the fire…
Destiny had planned
That we shall meet
Through the fire…
Now I know it’s forever… Truly
To show you that I loved you
I had to let you go
But the dream that I held on to
Was someday you would know
Now I feel what lies inside of you
And I know that day has come
For when all is said and done
You’re shining like the sun
In my universe of one
Through the fire…
Now that I have seen how it can feel
Through the fire…
Deeper than a dream, stronger than steel
Through the fire…
I will love you forever… Truly…
Through the fire…
I will love you forever… Truly…
You’re all that I can see
Spend your life with me
9. Goodnight Saigon
I rest and pray, motors break the
Silence of another day
My heart and soul lie broken,
Separated by the pain
Out in the fields, scenes of rage and
And anger guide these fists of steel
It seems reality has died
Behind this genocide.
One by one, even now they come like
They’ve always done
Counting the rotors, when every
Dream wakes with a scream
For now it’s…
Showtime, armed and ready
Goodnight Saigon
Stagefright, heart beating heavy
Goodnight Saigon…
The bullets fly, one inside a chamber
Somewhere bears my name
The needle lies to keep the things
I can’t explain away
The senseless kill, now the main
Attraction on a shameless bill
The only sanctuary is death,
It’s all that’s left for me now
So I stare into deep despair and
It’s always there
This is a time bomb, this is so obscene,
I can’t believe that now it’s…
Showtime, armed and ready
Goodnight Saigon
Stagefright, heart beating heavy
Goodnight Saigon…
This is a time bomb, this is so obscene,
I can’t believe that now it’s…
Showtime, armed and ready
Goodnight Saigon
Stagefright, heart beating heavy
Goodnight Saigon…
10. Wings Of The Storm
Light in the sky cuts a
Deep laceration
Into the night like the blade of a knife
Look to the black clouds
In anticipation
Wait for the thunder to roar into life
A sacred liaison, a sky of abrasion
The brooding clouds roll
And echo their pain
Lightning’s impatience
A claw like invasion
Stabs at the sky as it beckons the rain
Rise on the wings of the storm
Glide on the wings to the clarion call
Climb on the wings of the storm
Electric blue… Thunderstruck…
Crash into battle
The warhorses calling
Deafening roars in electric blue light
There watching over,
Descending and falling
The retinal core of the eye in the sky
Nothing in nature defies its creator
Nor can the thunder-hears
Rumble be tamed
Vital, untarnished
The energy harnessed
Cannot be measured
Be captured or chained
Rise on the wings of the storm
Glide on the wings to the clarion call
Climb on the wings of the storm
Electric blue… State of shock…
11. Standing In Your Light
You came in through a window
In the corner of my mind
Now I can’t bear the thought
Of leaving you behind
You’re more than just a woman,
I was made to be your man
We were destined to touch,
We were meant to be
I’ll never hurt you,
This you’ve got to believe
I’m standing by
Should you wanna cry
I’m needing you so
Because your love for me takes me
Where I wanna go
Look into my eyes
Take all my love forever
I can’t disguise this heart of mine
Look in my eyes, shining in the night
To be the one who’s
Standing in your light
I could wait a lifetime
For a solitary kiss
I just can’t lose you now
I know that you exist
Every time you touch me
My body melts
And words can never tell you
What I’m trying to say
For the bond is so strong
It can never break
Inside I know I’ll do whatever it takes
Every night I’ll be by your side
I’ll never let go
The sun will never rise the day
I’m more than just a breath away
Look into my eyes
Take all my love forever
I can’t disguise this heart of mine
Look in my eyes, shining in the night
To be the one who’s
Standing in your light
I’m never gonna hurt you
You know I’ll never hurt you girl
I’ll never walk away
I just wanna be now, standing
You know you mean the world to me
I love you more than anything
This is what you mean now…
Standing in your light…
12. The Quest
A legendary knight
A solitary quest
Guides him through the endless mist
Of time that has no end
For she’s shining like a beacon
In his mind as time again
He’s haunted by the one
Whose name is life
For her eyes the bluest sapphires
Can turn a man to stone
Her lips can shame the reddest rose,
Her hair the purest gold
It falls cascading flawlessly
On skin as white as snow
For her he’ll search
The barren wastes of time
He turns a page in history
Playing from the score
Of a lover’s staveless symphony
To the one he adores
He sails the seas of mystery
And her flag is on the mast
In his dreams she is first and last
She’s his future, she’s his past
Beyond the icy wastelands
The seas of fire and flame
He came upon a castle wall,
Great towers and palisades
As he knew his quest was over
As she held him in her gaze
For this love would set
The battlements ablaze
Across the plains of mystery
Scripted as he goes
Love sustains the infamy,
Time only knows
Takes the task within his grasp
When the die is cast
Only now she is first and last
She’s his future, she’s his past
She led him to her chamber
She pulled him to her skin
She wrapped herself around him
And her cries were deafening
She realized that there could be
No other only him
For at last someone had touched
What lies within
In a castle on a mountain
He looks upon her face
And every day is everything
Inside her soft embrace
Through their hourglass infinity
As time slips through his hands
He will love her
‘Till the final grain of sand
13. You’re My Religion
It shone from behind
Through your dress like a sign
From heaven
Now I see the light
In your beautiful silhouette
When a dress lends to stretch
Light can make it paper thin
It’s so tight that it might
Just be painted on your skin
Gospel fiction turning factual
Revelation that my visions were true
That I’m born again was natural
There will never be another like you
Lady, don’t you know that
You’re my religion
I believe in you,
You know that you’re my religion
Baby, don’t you know that
You’re my religion
All I need is you, you know that
You’re my religion
You pull the hem to your waist
Show the blue lingerie beneath it
Too brief to describe
But finest in lace paneled taste
You fill the silk to the seams
Not too much is left unseen
Every bit made to fit
Where it touches… In between…
I was living in a faithless state
But the sight of you in stockings
Is proof
Now it’s heaven and I’m at the gates
You’re the temple of messianic truth
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