Ultimate heavy metal ballad. One of my best... It's really hard for me to be excited by a slow/ballad song. Maybe it's the lyrics or the pure heavy metal music or the FANTASTIC and unique Dio's voice or all the above, that made this specific ballad twirl in my mind for years, every time I thought about Dio and made me mumble the melody and the lyrics for weeks from the last listening. Search for the short version of the song, if you wish to watch the video clip, but I surely recommend and prefer the long one, with the keyboard solo and the complete poetic lyrics. Nothing more to say...
Composer: Ronnie James Dio, Craig Goldy }{ Year: 1987
Lyrics:
Sail away
There's perfect harmony
In the rising and the falling of the sea
And as we sail along
I never fail to be astounded by
The things we'll do for promises
And a song
We are the innocent
We are the damned
We were caught in the middle of the madness
Hunted by the lion and the lamb
We bring you fantasy
We bring you pain
It's your one great chance for a miracle
Or we will disappear
Never to be seen again
And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
Sailed away
We bring you beautiful
We teach you sin
We can give you a piece of the universe
Or we will disappear
Never to return again
And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
They sailed away
And as we drift along
I never fail to be astounded
By the things we'll do for promises
And a song
We are the innocent
We cut we bleed
We're your one great chance for a miracle
And a miracle is something you need
They'll take your diamonds
And then give you steel
You'll be caught in the middle of the madness
Just lost like them
And part of all the pain that they feel, yeah
And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
Leaving nothing, nothing more to say
All the fools sailed away
They say you're beautiful
And they'll always let you in
But doors are never open
To the child without a trace of sin
