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The Dark Tower

by Mindfar

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[Roland] The man in black ran in the desert and the gunman followed him. The world has gone ahead and I will take him, he will carry me back to the Tower. The guns of my father to my belt, I am the last knight, the last gunslinger. My ka will come. The oracle says: you got to find the three. So I proceed with the boy. He is the great deceiver, but he's only an instrument as that woman in that city (the word is nineteen). Which trap is better than love? The guns of my father to my belt, I am the last knight, the last gunslinger. My ka will come. [The man in black] Finally we meet, after the painful sacrifice. We must talk a lot, in this long, long night! Turn one card and one card again, seven tarots for my fate! [Roland] At dawn, on this beach, he has gone, I will go. Now I must wait for… The guns of my father to my belt, I am the last knight, the last gunslinger. My ka will come. The guns of my father to my belt, I am the last knight, the last gunslinger. My ka will come.
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[Roland] These monsters from the sea, they crippled me. Part 1: The Prisoner Behind the first door there's the slave of a monkey, a demon has taken him, the demon is heroin. He's a good boy, he's weak but strong, prisoner of a mental cage. I must help him, even if I know I'll sacrifice him. Jump in his world, bring him in my world, we must shoot to survive. Among criminals and gunmen, they killed his brother and now he's with me. The drawing of the three, jump beyond the door, the first one is with me, we proceed together. Part 2: She She is good, she is beautiful, she has made him fall in love, she is not that one I've taken, she comes with us, she is black, she cannot walk. She is bad, she is old, she wants to kill us all, she is that one who was stealing, she hinders us, she is black, she cannot walk. The drawing of the three, jump beyond the door, 2 women are here, but the chosen's only one. Part 3: The Death He gives death for pleasure, a violent hedonist, a super, a monster. He deserves to die and I will kill him for the boy. Yes, I will kill him... for her. The drawing of the three, jump beyond the door, the third is me, we proceed together.
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Part 1: The Boy [Jake] I must reach him, return to my destiny. I'm in New York City and I remember my death, I remember the gunman and his epic quest. It's the rose I'm looking for, because the rose is the Tower. I follow the guy of my dream, that brings me to the door. [Roland] The former prisoner works on the key, because it's one of his talents, but before unlocking the door there's a demon to win, and the queen of the shadows knows a way to succed. Never more I'll let you fall, I promise. Part 2: The Dead City [Roland] We're on the path of the beam from one of the twelve portals at the center of which, waiting for us to come, there is the tower, the dark tower... The old mother gave me the cross and now we're on the fragile bridge, forced to divide by the pyrate. [Jake] Save me, gunslinger, bring me with you. The train waits for us under the dead city. [Roland] I overcome all the traps that the city is hiding, chasing the pyrate with a new, little friend. I'll keep the promise, my promise. Here I am, my friend, I bring you with me. The train waits for us under the dead city. [Susannah] Here we are in the crib, helped by the old fellows, here we'll rejoin with the rest of us to continue our travel, our travel. Save us, gunslinger, bring us with you. The train waits for us under the dead city. Part 3: The Ride Begins [Roland] Through the waste lands I guess the riddles of the train, like when I was a boy in the day of fair. If it gains we'll die, if it loses we'll live and even this is ka. Let the ride begin! Part 4: The Stranger [The man in black] So they are alive and they are on the deadly train. I'm the one who walks on this long, long, road... I'm the stranger with no age and I'll stop them, it's my fate!
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And now, friends and foes, let me tell you my story, our story. Story of guns, of grief, of death and pain, like every true story of love. We met under the kissing moon one sad night and it was magic, and the wind of ka brought me away. He had blue eyes of a man, but he was only a boy, he came from far, his language seemed so strange, he told me of his task, he asked me an aid, He looked at me like a poet looks at the moon... if you love me, love me! So I broke my oath, forgetting the face of my father or maybe remembering it well. Our real love grew, in spite of reason, but we soon had to pay the price for that joy; my body was burnt, and his heart with it, farewell, my only love her body was burnt, and my heart with it, farewell, my only love I have on the shoulders the burden of the past, memories of her, of my mother, of my friends that wicked witch, and that magical, pink sphere, all that i love has to die. Here we are at the court of the wizard oz, the man in black, the black man, he was there with her in that room his tricks are hard, but we don't care about the man behind the courtain, 'cause we are one from many we are ka-tet.
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[Callahan] It all began with that writer back in town: he came to me, telling me of monsters and vampires. Claiming my aid, but my faith was weak and the bottle was strong, I gave him my help and that choice has made me the man i am. My city was so small and calm, but that house on the hill... The nights in that city, the days on the road, the lives through all the worlds and the ages in this. First was the child, with a bite he made him change and his funeral I celebrated. I faced the monster in the house of the young man, my faith falling down, like the broken arms of my saint cross. I drink to wash away that taste of blood, death and defeat. The nights in that city, the days on the road, the lives through all the worlds and the ages in this.
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The Wolves 04:45
[Roland] Their children, their brothers, they're twins but they're not; of Bad Luck and Sorrow, they're daughter and son. She pulls on the wagon, she moves like a mule, so unlucky victims of this tragic doom. [The crowd] Tell us why they soon die, giants without brain, look at them, our little men, or big kids, what do you see? Every generation it happens to us: an army of wolves from the east riding comes. They kidnap the children, one every two, and to this land of frontier they come back home roont! [Roland] But this year, we are here and we'll help with guns. As a sword, gunslinger's law is there upon us. This simple people welcome us like gods coming down from the sky, they were waiting for us. We dance this dance, we sing this song, we drink and we smile 'til the dawn and we talk all night long. [The crowd] Wolves no more, now they're gone thanks to your guns. [Roland, The crowd] As a sword, gunslinger's law is there upon us.
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[Callahan] Then I helped the people like me, I became an angel of the streets, but I lost my love in violence. I was found by the low men and they were there just to kill me, but someone saved my life that night. Then I crossed the last door and I met the man in black. The gunslinger and the boy were far. My life till now has been so hard and harder it will be tomorrow. And every thing serves the ka. The nights in that city, the days on the road, the lives through all the worlds and the ages in this.
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Her Song 08:10
[The writer] How many petals in a rose? How many letters in your name? A rose is a rose is a rose… Commala-come-ka. Commala-come-fear, the dark tower is near. [Susannah] I'm in the future now and here is the Mother, next to me, The world's on Turtle's shell and Turtle's in my hand and every thing runs on the Beam. I promised to help her after the battle against the wolves. She keeps me prisoner, trapped inside my mind, she wants to give birth to her child. On the castle's walk she talks to me, telling me of Mordred's song and of the deal with the Man in Black. The gunslinger's the father, because of a demon who had us. I got in me the one who'll crash the Tower down. You must burn the day, o my torn lady. [The writer] Commala-come-torn, her child will soon be born [Roland] Only two Beams are there to keep the world up, spinning around the Dark Tower. The Turtle and the Bear guard the last chance to save it. The Crimson King will win if Breakers will break and chaos will rule over all. They're working to tear down and to change all existence... [Eddie] We're in a different world, in a different time, to save the Rose and the Tower. And time goes on one way 'cause this place is the right one. This is the writer's house and we walk-in. So, are you the Creator? I see them face to face: they are men of constant sorrow. [The writer] Commala-come-tower, with the rose you have the power. [Roland, Eddie] How many stories to write down? But all in all they are this one. Someone wants to stop you by now. We'll protect your life! [Susannah] The time is always now and there is a door here in the Land of the memory. And through the unfound door I'm a maid of constant sorrow. Pain, sorrow, madness, death and all for a birth. I know my song is now over. And the gunslinger's son shakes the Tower with his first wail. [The writer] Commala-come-scream, her son is born on path of beam. Commala-come-strong, the wind of ka will end the song.
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Jake: will you do it? will you kill? Roland: the boy must go on Callahan: in this final, insane place ten feet between us any time ten feet, I must remember, the turtle works but it won't last five minutes battle a legend for a thousand years shots and courage my faith, my cross, this time it works my redemption is now done in the name of God, I'm strong in my life i've been a priest, an alcoholic, a street angel, the Old One, but now, at last: I die as a Gunslinger, save yourself, save her, save them! May you find your Tower *** Susannah: how about leaving me my son? what if i lick your shoes? who am i without him in my arms all the time? looks at me, with his fathers' eyes with the red and the blue moves around like a spider and scares me and you so what else can i get from life if i won't be a mother? you can eat me and spit me out i don't mind... *** The Man in Black: so he came alive and I feel the shining wire I have done a lot in this long long life, there's no longer the man in black it's the end of the path, my fate *** Ka-tet: will the universe crash down? will we stop rs:them? they break! save from destruction life and love, all that we all know 'cause we can, we are ka-tet, breakers will not break! they want to tear the tower down using their mind they work they break! they work, they live, they break the beam for the crimson king they never leave they fear, so breakers have to break! Susannah: whatever they want to do whatever they want to see they run like hamsters on a wheel Jake: whatever they want to eat as long as they keep breaking they dance like puppets on a string Eddie: only one man once ran out but guardians never forget he's in this paradise again Ka-tet: will the universe crash down? will we stop them? they break! save from destruction life and love, all that we all know 'cause we can, we are ka-tet, breakers will not break! they want to tear the tower down using their mind they rs:work they break! they work, they live, they break the beam for the crimson king they never leave they fear, so breakers have to break! Roland: my father's gun in my hand and by my side my ka-tet it's one more battle on our path Susannah: will ever breakers break free after all of what's done here? freedom's so hard to understand! *** Eddie: just a bullet, what did you expect for me? everything's forgotten in the stone halls of dead here's the rooms of ruin where all is falling down! thank you, father, for this chance we'll be together again in the clearing I'll wait I'll wait for you all Jake: there's a writer on us all and he's in danger right now, he's our own creator I just saved his life and for the second time I've been sacrificed *** Susannah: a trip of weeks in white lands and on our way the drawer his drawing always come alive! he draws for me the unfound door I must leave you alone, now there are so many other worlds Roland: death for all but not for me 'till the last friend of mine will fall! Spider attack in the dark night, but he with his bite will fight for you, the White, you don't have the right! *** the road and the tale have both been long after all these years it's there there, that's the crazy Crimson King he won't let me pass nor touch the door the drawer paints the eyes in red eraser can't erase the rose now, your work of art is done you can leave me alone to face my fate I walk among the roses field against a bloody burning sky COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in my parents' name COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in my friends name COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in my lover's name COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in the writer's name COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in my ka-tet's name COME TO THE DARK TOWER I come in my son's name I am the Gunslinger I come as myself, you'll open to me! *** the ruins of my life in every room I run to the top of the Dark Tower my ka has come behind the last door I see my fate my life is a wheel without redemption unless this time...

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'The Dark Tower', Mindfar's debut work, is a concept album inspired by the magnum opus of the great writer Stephen King and It’s written like a classic rock opera, with two voices playing several characters.

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released June 3, 2017

Music, lyrics and arrangements by Armando De Angelis
Instruments, production and vocals by Walter Bosello
Female vocals by Marilena Diomaiuti
Artwork by Jahn Vision Art

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Mindfar Naples, Italy

Mindfar is the metal opera project from the composer and guitarist Armando De Angelis, whose goal is to combine his love for music, literature and cinema to create a place where every sound has a story and every story has a sound. Mindfar released their first album 'The Dark Tower' in 2017 and their second album 'Prophet of the Astral Gods' in february 2021. ... more

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