FATES WARNING - TRAVELER IN TIME

Classic Fates Warning from The Spectre Within album 1985 with John Arch on vocals.
LYRICS:
Old man time, Wisdom and Rhyme
Seeker of reason, reaper of time
Born to a spell he walks the beaten path
To hell, rusty shackles of time burden his mind
Once on his side time turns to defy.
In a flash of the lightning he's come and gone.
The clock strikes the hours, he climbs to the belfry
As he's done a thousand hours before.

Many dark years, not a vacant hour through
War and fear had the bell been ever strayed,
Hypnotized rhythmic pendulum synchronized
With the beat of the old man's heart.
Man or machine he's living a dream
Forever the clock lives so does he
Faces below fade with seasons of long ago
Forever awake in his brass bed.
Who holds the key.

It's all a matter of time, is there reason
Or Rhyme - is there?
Traveler in time another left
Behind - you are

Tangled in the web of time you've
Swallowed the pill of illusion.
Writings so clear on the wall you
Waste in seclusion
Mirror reflects the mark of the crowfoot
In his eyes now he realize.
Nearing his hour he climbs to the belfry
As he's done a thousand hours before

Moon of blue is in the sky
West wind he whispers why
Sacrifice living for life his perpetual vice

Lonely win blows through his empty soul.
He cries a river of tears on the clock below
Nothings forever and time will tell
His tears rust the clock and he died as well

Category:

Music

Tags:

• FATES
• WARNING
• CLASSIC
• PROGRESSIVE
• 80'S
• METAL

[EMKTTHL]

He does sound like Bruce Dickinson, but I prefer

him to Bruce because John uses the higher notes more.

[StandardBunnies]

i peed on my computer screen

[TheGoldenPS1]

@Sjamsucks Don't forget about The Warning from Queensrÿche. No Queensrÿche... no power metal. It's quite simple.

[ruudinho23]

@EMKTTHL Me too, I also think John Arch's vocal lines are way, way more creative and original than Bruce'.

[Sjamsucks]

@myndx07 You forgot to mention Queensryche with the Queensryche EP and Savatage!

[myndx07]

Simply put. Fates Warning and Crimson Glory were the true Godfathers to the Prog/Power Metal movement. No Fates Warning and Crimson Glory.... No Dream Theater , Vanden Plas, SymphonyX or any other Prog/Power metal band around today. John Arch and Midnight (Crimson Glory)(RIP) set the bar high and many have taken away from their pioneering work.

[intercalar]

John Arch is brilliant. He is not "nasally" at all. Maybe the sound of the "Awaken the guardian" album made his voice sound a little weaker than it really was, but he is a strong singer, as this song proves (and he also sounds very nice and powerful on the Arch-Matheos album). And he has a very good ear, only tone deaf people could say he sings off key.

[devilxhlywood]

@ThazuaBlackarrow unique response from a metal fan. 

[ThazuaBlackarrow]

@devilxhlywood Except these vocals and Vio-Lence's vocals are the farthest thing from bad, and anyone who claims they are is an utter fucking moron.

[ThazuaBlackarrow]

@Bastige56 "If I based all my favorite songs on singing alone I wouldnt like very many bands."

See, that's the thing with Prog Metal fans. They over-analyze everything, one tiny mistake or thing that isn't by the book sets them off. They fail to realize that good music doesn't have to be proper and perfect. They're the type of people who would constantly paint the Mona Lisa and scoff at anything truly experimental or different. It's the main problem with Prog Metal.

[thealienradio]

mirror reflects the mark of the crow foot in his eyes

[EpicMetalTime]

like a prog metal version of Iron Maiden