REAL WORLD
Que decir de
una de las grandes bandas de la escena internacional dentro de nuestra
música que ya no sepa todo el mundo. Hagamos un breve paso por su
historia. Cuando kai Hansen salio de Helloween en 1989, formó este
grupo, sin en principio grandes pretensiones, y tras haber pasado un
tiempo haciendo colaboraciones con otras bandas como Blind Guardian. Es
en ese mismo 1989 cuando decide formar Gamma Ray, junto a otros músicos
como Ralf Scheepers, hasta entonces vocalista de Tyran Pace. En 1990
editan su primera obra de estudio que es inmediatamente un rotundo
éxito, como no podía ser de otra manera pues estamos ante uno de los
"reyes Midas" en esto del Heavy que parecen convertir en oro todo lo que
tocan. Desde entonces y hasta la fecha de esta reseña 11 discos de
estudio y 3 EP's hablan de un grupo consolidado en lo más alto de la
cima metálica. Tras el "Land of the free" de 1995, su cuarta obra de estudio, Kai Hansen se haría con las funciones de vocalista, al igual que lo hiciera ya antes en Helloween en sus inicios, tras la salida de Gamma Ray de Ralf Scheepers en 1994 por supuestas razones logísticas de la banda. Hoy quiero hablar de una secuela de aquel cuarto exitoso disco de Gamma Ray, que evidentemente titularon "Land of the free II", en 2007, y que también evidentemente no llegó a la extraordinaria calidad de la de 1995, aunque eso si, el buen diseño de marketing que hicieron unido a la calidad no ausente de la obra les hizo alcanzar por ejemplo en número 1 en las listas de ventas alemanas, entre otros motivos por la gira que realizaron junto a Helloween en el tour de presentación del disco en al que terminaban tocando ambas bandas juntas. En cuanto a las canciones, buenos temas componen este disco, aunque a mi entender el nombre de "Land of the Free II" le queda un poco grande, si bien canciones como "Opportunity", "Into the storm", "when the world" o "Real World" dejan clara la calidad de la obra. Quiero hoy dejar un enlace a youtube de su canción "Real world", un tema con reminiscencias "happy" de los "Helloween" clásicos e incluso de "Freedom Call", en cualquier caso muy Hansen, muy "Gamma Ray".
Here I sit again and think about the world we know
the same old thing, where do we come from and where do we go
Sometimes I worry just too much, sometimes I just don't care
and if you're with me on this point, put your hands high in the air
Let me hear you say Yeah!
Sometimes I'm happy as can be and sometimes feel so low
and what is good and what is bad, I sometimes just don't know
The world is the most crazy place that we could have been
It seems the meaning of our life is going down in sin
So let me live and let me be
your eyes are blind
but I can see
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
So let me take you down my dear to places you don't know
a land that you have not been to and normally don't go
I have all your pleasure toys, the fortune and the fame
so when you come with me my friend
you'll never be the same
So just say yeah, and come with me
don't be so blind, it's time to see
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
Don't be afraid now of the faces in the night
and let your body take control
We're going down into the beam of the neon lights
and I will purify your soul
Yeah!
Standing on a razor's edge, lost in space and time
All around the silence falls, prepared to draw the line
A shot, a cry, a flash of light, a bullet hits the wall
Not yet prepared, the fight for life is not yet lost at all
So come with me and let me be the one to lead you home
Like Diamonds we'll be shining bright before we turn to stone
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
Welcome to the show,
This is the real world
This is the real world
Welcome to the show
Yeah yeah yeah!
the same old thing, where do we come from and where do we go
Sometimes I worry just too much, sometimes I just don't care
and if you're with me on this point, put your hands high in the air
Let me hear you say Yeah!
Sometimes I'm happy as can be and sometimes feel so low
and what is good and what is bad, I sometimes just don't know
The world is the most crazy place that we could have been
It seems the meaning of our life is going down in sin
So let me live and let me be
your eyes are blind
but I can see
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
So let me take you down my dear to places you don't know
a land that you have not been to and normally don't go
I have all your pleasure toys, the fortune and the fame
so when you come with me my friend
you'll never be the same
So just say yeah, and come with me
don't be so blind, it's time to see
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
Don't be afraid now of the faces in the night
and let your body take control
We're going down into the beam of the neon lights
and I will purify your soul
Yeah!
Standing on a razor's edge, lost in space and time
All around the silence falls, prepared to draw the line
A shot, a cry, a flash of light, a bullet hits the wall
Not yet prepared, the fight for life is not yet lost at all
So come with me and let me be the one to lead you home
Like Diamonds we'll be shining bright before we turn to stone
God is an illusion and there ain't no paradise
and there is no underworld below
Out there is no Heaven and there ain't no Antichrist
Welcome to the real World
and the show!
Welcome to the show,
This is the real world
This is the real world
Welcome to the show
Yeah yeah yeah!
By Nash
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