Lyrics by Alex Garcia

Like the wind

Genres: Metal, Progessive

MSA PROJECT - LIKE THE WIND
Lyrics: Alex S. Garcia
Music: Michel Fontes & Serge Barbaro

NOTE: The concept album this is taken from is hard rock / prog metal, but this particular song is actually more of a power ballad.

Castles made of sand, cities in the sea,
Memories of men, things that used to be,
Ancient lores of old, secrets known before,
All the jewels and gold of worlds never known,
Of worlds never known...

All these treasures that hold our identity,
All the wonders that told who we used to be,
All the words and feelings exclusive to our kin,
All are now long gone... like the wind...

Colored streams that shine, vivid skies sublime,
Voices that won't die, echoes in the night,
Oddities of time, hieroglyphs and signs,
Traces of the lives of cultures we survived...

All these treasures that hold our identity,
All the wonders that told who we used to be,
All the words and feelings exclusive to our kin,
All are now long gone... like the wind...

No matter the race, no matter the world, no matter the ways,
All that is unique, all that is special, all that is rare,
Gets twisted around, gets slammed to the ground, gets taken away,
Until Istree finally crushes all those who dare...
To be different.

Each world has beliefs, religions to bear grief,
Politics and schemes, cultural divides,
Subtleties to hide all the pain inside,
Reasons to forgive all the shame they lived.

Animals that cry deep into the night,
Howling to somehow reconcile with life.
Warriors march in line, looking all so grim,
Striking like the wind...

Book of shadows

Genres: Rock, Progessive

SKEEM - BOOK OF SHADOWS
Lyrics: Alex S. Garcia
Music: Serge Barbaro

A sight of the unseen in the glimpse of a dream,
A sign of what has been, is, and will be.
Aside the wind we cast the remnants of the past...
Nothing we say or do can ever last...

The words we write
In shades of black,
All lines in time
That alter life
In ways unknown.
And secret paths
Unfold before
Our weary eyes.

Where day and night
In mind unite
And silent laughs,
Echoing fright,
Shatter and shine
Darkly inside...
Quietly numb,
Quietly cry...

Glittering dust in the grips of the lost,
Gathering rust, fulfilling the gaps.
Faltering trust in the grasp of old hope,
Shimmering first the pages of our lives...

The words we read,
The crimes we see,
The hopes we free,
In hope we'll be
A better man,
A better son,
Before it all
Can come undone.

But now the times
Are passing by,
Quicker than
Could catch our eye.
A simple plan
Is all we need,
But in our greed
We fail to stand...

Hand in hand,
We can survive
What was then
And what will be.
For in the end
The page is blank,
For us to write
The final line...

lyrics (c) 2013 Alex S. Garcia / music (c) 2013 Serge Barbaro

Birth of a new myth

Genres: Metal, Progessive

MSA PROJECT - BIRTH OF A NEW MYTH
Lyrics: Alex S. Garcia
Music: Michel Fontes & Serge Barbaro

Once this world was proud, once this world had life,
Once this world had hope, now it's just so cold...
Through the endless night, water rules supreme,
Due to selfish greed, terraforming might...

Saved by a whale, from a burning wreckage,
Watching his ship sinking deep, a man is adrift on the sea.
Riding the waves, he hears voices in his head,
Telling him to hold on to hope...

          Rising high through the mist,
          Floating on the tip
          Of a rock, standing tall,
          Cathedral of fate...

This planetary engineering,
Instead of creating, spread out destruction.
Many through Istree, angered and dismayed
Sought all together for a solution...

Simon Farleigh gathered all of them here,
Creatures from all realities... Mythlania and Musania...
This wounded world would serve to shelter the
Magic Science Academy.

          Rising high through the mist,
          Floating on the tip
          Of a rock, standing tall,
          Cathedral of fate...

          Headquarter of the wise,
          Here they live and die.
          Searching for a way to heal
          The universe that bleeds.

The castaway has reached the rocky shore he'd seen.
Animals are here...
Greeting him with smiles, rushing him inside...

Within walls of stone, mirrored halls unknown,
Gathering has grown...
He's now one of them, they've accepted him...

          Rising high through the mist,
          Floating on the tip
          Of a rock, standing tall,
          Cathedral of fate...

Union of magic and of science,
Maybe this could be the key...
Looking for new ways to fix that old breach
Seeking for answers that we need.

          Headquarter of the wise,
          Here they live and die.
          Searching for a way to heal
          The universe that bleeds.

Union of magic and of science,
Maybe this could be the key...
Looking for new ways to fix that old breach
Seeking for answers that we need.

Maybe this is the key...

lyrics (c) 2010 Alex S. Garcia / music (c) 2010 Michel Fontes & Serge Barbaro

Half a life

Genres: Rock

SKEEM - HALF A LIFE
Lyrics: Alex S. Garcia
Music: Serge Barbaro

This is a time of warring and strife,
This is a world we've wounded inside.
This is a life we've wanted to shine,
This is a place that feels so alive...

There is no way we can recreate,
There is no shame in recognizing mistakes,
There is no gain that can alter the pain,
There is no wind to blow it away...

          Half the life that I have lived
          Is half the time it takes to wake.
          Take the time if you can
          To have a life that's worth the wait.

I know it's late, too late for this show,
I know my hope is only a joke.
I know our fate is written in stone,
But don't let the worse happen at home...

Is this a dream? I don't know for sure.
Is this tomorrow? It feels like today.
Is this all real? It hurts all the same,
And it all seems like it's starting again...

          Half the life that I have lived
          Is half the time it takes to wake.
          Take the time if you can
          To have a life that's worth the wait.

There is no way to be strong,
There is no way to be weak.
This is the day that we seek,
The time to be free!
This is how it was meant... to be.

The world that we know is bleeding, it dies,
Calling us now to do what is right.
We need to be strong and hold off the tide,
Let's make a change before it's too late.

          Half the life that I have lived
          Is half the time it takes to wake.
          Take the time if you can
          To have a life that's worth the wait.

          Half the life that I have lived
          Is half the time it takes to wake.
          Take the time if you can
          To have a life that's worth the wait.

lyrics (c) 2013 Alex S. Garcia / music (c) 2013 Serge Barbaro

Animal magnetism

Genres: Pop, Rock

MK - ANIMAL MAGNETISM
Lyrics: Alex S. Garcia
Music: Michael Kolomiets

She came out of the scene and into my life,
She named me her king and played with my eyes,
She knew I had seen within her disguise,
She gave me one sin, and I told her only lies...

The strength of my heart is pulling me out,
The void in my mind carries my shout,
The size of my soul is squeezing me in,
The voice in my mouth phrases the sin...

          I'll never be the same, I'll never be sane,
          Never ever again, but I'll take the blame.
          So welcome to the game of sorrow and shame,
          Where fame is the name of this mortal pain...

Then rain suddenly pours from the heavens above
And in silence of course, we maintain it's love,
Down to this earth of desolate souls.
Though from our birth, we run into holes...

We try to resist to the sins that exist,
We try to protest, but in vain - I confess!
So what is this crime, that I've schemed in my mind?
Is it just a way to walk into the day?...

          I'll never be the same, I'll never be sane,
          Never ever again, but I'll take the blame.
          So welcome to the game of sorrow and shame,
          Where fame is the name of this mortal pain...

lyrics (c) 1999 Alex S. Garcia / music (c) 1999 Michael Kolomiets