This week’s Metal Tuesday is Blind Guardian’s “Imaginations From the Other Side.”

This song got me back into power metal after being led astray by my ex-wife. I asked my brother to get me a bunch of metal that he thought I would like. This was the one that popped on my MP3 player and brought back all of my love for power metal.

Lyrics from Metrolyrics:

Where are these silent faces
I took them all
they all went away
now you’re alone
to turn out every light so deep in me
hold on, to late
Will I ever see them back again
or did they all die by my hand
or where they killed
by the old evil ghost
who had taken
the ocean
of all my dreams
which were worth to keep
deep inside my heart
I wish I
could get them back
from the everflow
before they’ll fade away

Imaginations from the other side
far out of nowhere
it got back to my mind
Imaginations from the other side
far out of nowhere
it got back to my mind
out of the dark
back to the light
then I’ll break down
the walls around my heart
Imaginations from the other side
Where’s the ocean’s daughter
was Peter Pan in Mordor
no one’s there to keep alive

all these fairy tales
may I return to Oz
will I meet the “Tin Man”
“Coward Lion” where are you
without brain the scarecrow’s lost
in the middle of the lake
stranded in the real world
left in a world
no place for daydreams
serious life
I fall into
I fall into a dark hole
and I can’t come out
do you know if Merlin did exist
or Frodo wore the ring
did Corum kill the gods
or where’s the wonderland
which young Alice had seen
or was it just a dream
I knew the answers
now they’re lost for me

Imaginations from the other side
far out of nowhere
it got back to my mind
Imaginations from the other side

I hope there is a way back
with my talisman
so I look into myself
to the days when I was just a child
come follow me to wonderland
and see the tale that never ends
don’t fear the lion nor the witch
I can’t come back
I’m lost but still I know
there is another world

Imaginations from the other side
far out of nowhere
it got back to my mind
Imaginations from the other side