RABBIT DON'T COME EASY ALBUM
'Rabbit Don't Come Easy' is Helloween's tenth full length studio album. The band have created an album, that sounds timeless. The production is the best yet for the band, but the music itself has its roots in the last 30 or so years of rock and metal. However, Helloween do not sound "old" in the negative meaning of the word.
Helloween are happier again, after 'The Dark Ride'. Some of the most happy-sounding bits are a bit too much candy for my ears (thankfully there is no such abomination as 'The Game Is on' to be heard here). But in general, Helloween have created such a beast of an album, that even the most candy moments are good. I had hard time getting into happier sounding parts of the opener 'Just a Little Sign' and 'The Tune', but the latter actually has one of those monster riffs in it. Yes, that heavier stuff. Wow!!! Almost every song have something special in them, that x-factor which makes a listener go from start to the end without forwarding over any song. Darkest song, 'Back Against the Wall', is for some reason a song I do not like, even though it has a great chorus.
The music is varying from speed metal stuff to heavier metal and over to balladish bits and even reggae (fantastic and massive 'Nothing to Say'), but still this might be Helloween's tightest album to date during its one hour plus duration. The music is mature, but still the songs rock like hell. If you've heard the band's cover album 'Metal Jukebox', the timelessness of the material should not be such a surprise after all. The band's performance is professional in every sense and changes in the line-up haven't caused any problems with chemistry inside Helloween. Drums are played by Mikkey Dee (Motörhead, ex-King Diamond), except on two of the songs. I like Markus Grosskopf's "wandering" bass playing style, meaning that he doesn't stick to a single note or two. Sascha Gerstner is the new guitar player and sounds ace with Michael Weikath.
Andi Deris gets better with every record and I have got into his unique vocals already, even though it took pretty long to happen. He's able to handle high voices and lower parts without any trouble. His voice somewhat reminds me of ex-Iron Maiden man Paul Di'Anno. Raspy voice, but Andi has a much wider register. You have to be able to resist German humour. "Something's growing in my pants, as she looks into my eyes", these lyrics of the opener are just one of the many to be heard on the album. Covers are cool, even though the graphics are a bit "funny". Just wait for the surprise when opening the digipak version...
Helloween have created an enjoyable album. If you're into heavy/power metal, get this, you shouldn't be disappointed with this batch of songs. Great summer music, this one!
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1. Just a Little Sign 04:26
Here I stand alone again
Hundreds all around (hundreds all around)
Didn't come here to make a friend
But to listen to the sound (listen to the sound)
Something's growing in my pants
As she looks into my eyes
Now I smile the whole damn night
But my dream acts cold as ice
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
Just a little sign
Shouldn't I dare to talk to her
But what is it I would say (is it I would say)
Surely I'd look like a clown
For my smiles freeze on my face
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
Just a little sign
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
It's time for just a little sign
It's time, make believe the world is mine
Just a little sign
Just a little sign
2. Open Your Life 04:30
Do you know what there is just behind your wall?
Do you hate what you can’t see on the spinning ball?
Ignorant and wasted, that’s what you are
But you could be so much more
Listen to your TV, believe the words
And you're dumber than before
Try to see the real picture
To train your mind to read between the lines
Take your level higher that is your way
Just get up, start out today
Time seems an endless road when we are young
It don't need a genius to know that it's wrong
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Rise now, rise now, feel the new drive
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Full synthetic anger that's what you breathe
It's a strategy for all
Telling people stories and bed time tales
But the real important false
So you grow the wrong seed inside your head
To the will of the modern priest
Supervised aggression instructed to sleep
That's the devil let you breed
All that we learn is just one point of view
Out there in the world it may not become true
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Rise now, rise now, feel the new drive
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Time seems an endless road when we are young
It don't need a genius to know that it's wrong
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Rise now, rise now, feel the new drive
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Rise now, rise now, feel the new drive
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
Hey now, hey now, open your life
3. The Tune 05:37
Sometimes there's no tomorrow
Sometimes you hate the day
You feel there may be something
That intends to screw with fate
Take a look at what's around you
Each time you watch the news
Your mind gets set by someone's will
A template you can't choose
Love and desire, dry ice or fire
Don't you just want to flee their magic spell
No mercy for the nations
Two people are at war
Beliefs divide the dreams they share
Of peace and harmony
Their eyes look up to heaven
Address our God in prayers
Their souls exposed, they may decease
By emperor's decree
Look, how they're crying
There's no denying
Now change the channel
On your remote control
And the tune goes on eternally
For those who share the fear
On a frequency for you and me
You stare but you can't see
You hear and you agree
We're all here for a reason
So we can't just hang around
There's so much left to see and learn
Make way for common ground
And those who head the wrong way
Will rate as minor class
As castaways they'll render fools
When the horsemen come to rule
Strike the last hour
In their glass towers
Infinite lust
Has made the curtain fall
And the tune goes on eternally
For those who share the fear
On a frequency for you and me
You stare but you can't see
You hear and you agree
And the tune goes on eternally
For those who long to hear
And those freaks sense they're superior
We're hypnotized, you see
They wave and we agree
4. Never Be a Star 04:12
No matter how big we are
We dream of home
The place where we all belong
Therefore this song
We are who we are
We'll never be a star
We are where we are
But we'll never be a star
No time to see all our friends
There where we are
Ten thousand miles are quite long
And much too far
We are who we are
We'll never be a star
We are where we are
But we'll never be a star
5. Liar 04:56
As a dancer she's undercover
Won the Big Don to be her lover
Had to make him tell her his secrets
About his business and about his street-rats
She had to become his trustful right hand
The burean needed the files with his brand
She really was a damn good actress
Everybody called her ~Big Don's Mistress~
Oh, it's just a show
Put on for love
How could he know
Liar, liar
Sweet desire
Liar, liar
Who are you
She sent the messages to her office
The Don reckoned he will face a Judas
So he told her of a damned deceiver
Secured, in her he was a strong believer
He confesssed to her being sick of all this
How he suffered in the deepest abyss
But saw in her the wish for a new life
To escape from there and make her his wife
No, not just a show
Put on for love
How could she know
Liar, liar
Sweet desire
Liar, liar
Who are you
Liar, liar
Play with fire
Liar, liar
Learn the truth
It had turned somehow
She had not seen how
Felt the bullet still flying
Straight into her heart
Tore her old world apart
Now to live on she first had to die
There's a reason to live
There's a reason to live
And let die
There's a reason to give
There's a reason to give in a lie
Liar, liar
Sweet desire
Liar, liar
Who are you
Liar, liar
Play with fire
Liar, liar
You learned your truth now
6. Sun 4 the World 03:58
Forty million years ago
There was a boy called Leif
His skin was grey, his eyes were red
His tentacles counted five
Grown up in a normal house
His parents' beloved son
There never was the slightest sign
He'd be the chosen one
Leif [No!]
Help us [No!]
Shelter us
He turns into the
Sun for the world
Sun for the world
What would I say, would it be me, my friend
Down on earth we see a star
Dying in it's light
Then suddenly it all explodes
The new sun shines with Leif
Leif [No!]
Help us [No!]
Shelter us
He turns into the
Sun for the world
Sun for the world
What would I say, would it be me
Sun for the world
Sun for the world
What would you do
Would it be you, my friend
7. Don't Stop Being Crazy 04:21
You're the one I would pick out
In a million
You're the one I would wish for
As the friend of my life, life, life
If the whole world decided for a color
Would pixels be any different in you, you, you
Brave and smart against the rules
You smile upon the fools
I follow where you go
I want you to know
Don't stop being crazy
Wherever you go
Don't stop being crazy
It's a lie
It's a lie
It's a lie, we could not learn to fly
Oh no
Don't stop being crazy
When you walk, you walk higher
Than the others
When you talk, you talk merciless
The bothering truth, truth, truth
Everyone seems remote-controlled
Nowadays
Only you have a frequency far
Beyond their ways, ways, ways
Still and strong you walk alone
Don't wonder where they've gone
I'll follow where you go
I want you to know
Don't stop being crazy
Wherever you go
Don't stop being crazy
It's a lie
It's a lie
It's a lie, we could not learn to fly
Oh no
Don't stop being crazy
8. Do You Feel Good 04:24
When we were lovers you
Called me names
But time goes on and you were gone
I got told you're a big shot
For the ties
And take it from behind
Now you took a new flat
In a different town
And rumors out you're wealthy now
For that high class dress
Shows you earn well
Where strangers come and go
Do you feel good, do you feel fine
Did you achieve what you had in mind
Do you live cool, not too confined
What can you tell this old heart of mine
Some busty companion claims
To know you well
She does night shift at some
Place somewhere
Said there's no one who has fun
Your way
In Moscow, Rome, L.A.
I wish I knew
Where you are now
And you never call
Do you feel good, do you feel fine
Did you achieve what you had in mind
Do you live cool, not too confined
What can you tell this old heart of mine
Well I got no objections
I'm old enough, you know
But it's weird, this night I seem
To know you
Better than before
Do you feel good, do you feel fine
Did you achieve what you had in mind
Do you live cool, not too confined
What can you tell this old heart of mine
9. Hell Was Made in Heaven 05:34
There was a time
Eating your mind
Eating your heart and your soul
Down to the bone
Always alone
Nobody waiting at home
Now allow that we unite our fires
Shout it out
Give yourself to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hell was made in Heaven
I was made for you
Hell was made in Heaven
Made for loving you... in sin
Ten years ago
You made the vow
Promised your life and your love
Of all you have paid
Nothing returned
What is enough is enough
Now allow that we unite our fires
Shout it out
Give yourself to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hell was made in Heaven
I was made for you
Hell was made in Heaven
Made for loving you... in sin
10. Back Against the Wall 05:46
Do you see where I stand, my friend?
Will you offer me your helping hand?
And will you cross the void and speak the words?
Rush, I'm begging you
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts
I'm standing back against the wall
Dare I to move I got to fall
My heart is blinded by the light
I close my eyes forever
May not turn left, may not turn right
I sense a gap to every side
I'm standing back against the wall
Back against the wall
I can hear it coming closer now
Blaring silence of the dark below
Under my feet I feel it slide like sand
A frequent crushing down
Again, again, again and again
I'm standing back against the wall
Dare I to move I got to fall
My heart is blinded by the light
I close my eyes forever
May not turn left, may not turn right
I sense a gap to every side
I'm standing back against the wall
Back against the wall
Will you cross the void of pride?
Then speak the words
Rush, I'm begging you
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, yes it hurts
I'm standing back against the wall
Dare I to move I got to fall
My heart is blinded by the light
I close my eyes forever
May not turn left, may not turn right
I sense a gap to every side
I'm standing back against the wall
Back against the wall
11. Listen to the Flies 04:54
Why do you run?
Answer me
Whom do you follow?
Talk to me
What is it hidden
That I cannot see?
What is the prize
You try to hide from me?
I see you dying...
...and I listen
...and I listen
Listen to the flies
Listen to the flies
Who is the idol
You obey?
Give me a reason
You afraid of me?
Have you ever been punished?
Or never had pride?
I see you circle
Round and round the shite
...I see you dying
...I see you dying
And I listen to the flies
And I listen to the flies
12. Nothing to Say 08:35
When I got told the other day
You said, won't it be nice
To spend some time and share a look
There was no thinking twice
The die was cast, no time to lose
As much as one can say
Didn't hesitate to call you back
And things were under way
And if it wasn't for the circumstance
And well against all odds
Well that's enough for feeling great
The best we could have got
And just in caste there's something wrong
So much with you to share
Much better anyways
Than watch or stroll round everywhere
Nothing to say - we got it there
A long, long way right in our hands
Nothing to say
Now we can use all we give, all of our loving and affection
We'll have our way
Like we always do
Nothing to say
You called me up the other day
Just when I thought you would
And asked if we could break apart
As things ain't been too good
I swallowed hard and got that feel
I know it's called unease
The confidence I've kept so well
Just came down piece by piece
That's all it takes, it's sad but done
No way to disagree
Time takes toll and that's the way
It's always gonna be
Cause it wasn't yet the circumstance
But more than just a test
There's little left for feeling great
And all I need's some rest
There's not a single glimpse of hope
Well someone took my place
It's yet another turn for me
I'll be messin' round everywhere
Nothing to say - We got it there
A long, long way fell off our hands
Nothing to say
So you refuse all I give, all of my loving and affection
I'll make my way
Like I always do
Nothing to say
So you refuse all I give, all of my loving and affection
Oh, oh
So you refuse all I give, all of my loving and affection
Oh, oh, oh
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