Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore´s Rainbow


MiDi Files: The Temple of the King

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1. Man On The Silver Mountain

 I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel

I can roll, I can feel

And you can't stop me turning

 

Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun

I can move, I can run

But you'll never stop me burning

 

Come down with fire

Lift my spirit higher

Someone's screaming my name

Come and make me holy again

 

I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the man on the silver mountain

 

I'm the day, I'm the day

I can show you the way

And look, I'm right beside you

 

I'm the night, I'm the night

I'm the dark and the light

With eyes that see inside you

 

Come down with fire

Lift my spirit higher

Someone's screaming my name

Come and make me holy again

 

I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the man on the silver mountain

 

Come down with fire

And lift my spirit higher

Someone's screaming my name

Come and make me holy again

 

Well, I can help you, you know I can

 

I'm the man on the silver mountain

I'm the man on the silver mountain

 

Just look at me and listen

I'm the man, the man, give you my hand

I'm the man on the silver mountain

 

Come down with fire

And lift your spirit higher

I'm the man on the mountain

The man on the silver mountain

I'm the night, the light

The black and the white

The man on the silver mountain

 

2. Self Portrait

 Paint me a picture and hang it on the wall

Cover it darkly, the lines must start to crawl

 

Down, down, down

Spin me around and around

Draw me away to the night from the day

Leave not a trace to be found

Down, down

 

Nothing is real but the way that I feel

And I feel like going down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down, down

 

Paint me a picture of eyes that never see

With flashes of lightning that burn for only me

 

Hey hey hey

There's only the devil to pay

I'm ready to go

Pull me down from below

Give me a place I can lay

 

Hey hey

Nothing is real but the way that I feel

I feel like going down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down

 

Hey hey

Nothing is real but the way that I feel

And I feel like going down

Down, down

 

Nothing is real but the way that I feel

And I feel like going down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down

Down

 

3. Black Sheep Of The Family

 I've got nothing in my head

Got a floor for a bed

My future's at the bottom of a tea cup

 

I got a half a pair of shoes

And no time to lose

I'm wondering when I'm gonna to wise up

 

So, fortune shine your light on me and my nose

Cause we need some security

You get a little bad luck

And it grows and it grows

I'm the black sheep of the family

 

I've got half a pound of rice

A beard full of lice

A mission called retrogression

 

I've got a pocket full of dust

And eating is a must

If you wanna make a good impression

 

So, fortune shine your light on me and my dog

Cause we need some security

While all the folks are living high up the hog

I'm the black sheep of the family

 

Don't talk to me about society

You got to play the rules

Or pay the penalty

 

Because there's nothing to choose

Between a handful of blues

Double indemnity

 

The hour was wrong

And my shadow's getting long

My real life's a song, don't need much

But I've got an ache in my head

I wanna go to bed

Tomorrow I don't have to wake up, no

 

So wisdom shine your light on me and my knees

Cause it's true what they say about familiarity

There's nothing good this way

And it's true what they say

I'm the black sheep of the family

 

Oh, my wisdom shine your light on me and my knees

It's true what they say about familiarity

There's nothing good this way

And it's true what they say

I'm the black sheep of the family

Yeah, yeah

 

I'm the black sheep of the family

Just me and my dog, yeah, yeah

I'm the black sheep of the family

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm the black sheep of the family

You've got me on my knees

I'm the black sheep of the family

Yeah, yeah, yeah

 

4. Catch The Rainbow

 When evening falls

She'll run to me

Like whispered dreams

Your eyes can't see

 

Soft and warm

She'll touch my face

A bed of straw

Against the lace

 

We believed we'd catch the rainbow

Ride the wind to the sun

Sail away on ships of wonder

 

But life's not a wheel

With chains made of steel

So bless me

 

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

 

We believed we'd catch the rainbow

Ride the wind to the sun

And sail away on ships of wonder

 

But life's not a wheel

With chains made of steel

So bless me, oh bless me, bless me

 

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

Come the dawn

 

5. Snake Charmer

Old hollow eyes

Got no ties

Walking by the light of the moon

 

Hey shiny boots

With strings and flutes

Rising like a crazy balloon

 

Close your door

He's on the loose

Umm, here he comes

No hope for you, ooh ooh ooh ooh

Snake charmer, he'll haunt her

 

So, hey mystery man

What's your plan

I've got to tell the world

To beware you, don't care

 

He'll hypnotize

And tell you lies

He's hiding at the top of the stairs

 

Close your door

He's on the move

I see him coming out

There's no hope for you, ooh ooh ooh ooh

Snake charmer

Snake charmer

Get out!

 

Hey fancy face

Got no place

Living from a hole in the ground

 

Old sparkle eyes

He never cries

One step ahead of the hound

 

Close your door

He's on his way

He's coming out of the shadows now, now

No hope for you, ooh

Snake charmer

Snake charmer, now listen to me yeah

 

Hey hollow eyes

Got no ties

Oh shiny boots

Play your strings and flutes

 

Mystery man what's your plan

Fancy face, got no place

Snake charmer

He'll harm her

 

Oh sparkle eyes

Got no ties

Oh shiny boots

Close your door

He's on the loose

Snake charmer

My mystery man what's your plan

I've got to tell the world to beware

You don't care

Hypnotized

 

6. If You Don't Like Rock 'N' Roll

You'd never know there was some music playin'

Until you talked your way inside the door

 And then a sound like rollin' thunder

Begins to push you right thru the floor

 And there's a great white sign

With big black letters

That just about explains it all

 

If you don't like rock 'n' roll

Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll

If you don't like rock 'n' roll

Then it's too late now

Well it's too late now

 

Hey hey

Of course there was the usual lady

And she was dressed the way the stories tell

So bein' cool I made a move to grab her

But you could see she read story well

And then she whipped out a card

With big black letters

That just about explained it all

 

Well if you don't like rock 'n' roll

If you don't like rock 'n' roll

Well if you don't like rock 'n' roll

Then you're too late now

Then you're too late now

 

Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll

Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll, yeah

If you don't like rock 'n' roll

Well it's too late now

You're too late now

 

If you don't like rock 'n' roll

If you don't like my rock 'n' roll

Then you're too late now

Then you're too late now

Then you're too late, too late now

 

7. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves

 

It's only been an hour

Since he locked her in the tower

The time has come

He must be undone

By the morning

 

Many times before

The tyrant's opened up the door

Then someone cries

Still we close our eyes

Not again

 

Meet me when the sun is in the western skies

The fighting must begin before another someone dies

Cross bows in the fire light

Green sleeves waving

Mad men raving

Through the shattered night

Yeah yeah yeah

 

Flames are getting higher

Make it leap unto the spire

Draw bridge down

Cut it to the ground

We shall dance around the fire

 

No more night

We have seen the light

Let it shine on bright

Hang him higher, higher

(Sixteenth century greensleeves)

Draw bridge down

Cut it to the ground

We shall dance all around the fire, around the fire

 

No more night

we've seen the light

let it shine on bright

Hang him higher, higher

Put the man on the fire

 

Draw bridge down

Cut it to the ground

We gotta dance around the fire, the fire, the fire

 

8. The Temple Of The King

 

One day in the year of the fox

Came a time remembered well

When the strong young man of the rising sun

Heard the tolling of the great black bell

 

One day in the year of the fox

When the bell began to ring

Meant the time had cometh

For one to go

To the temple of the king

 

There in the middle of the circle he stands

Searching, seeking

With just one touch of his trembling hand

The answer will be found

 

Daylight waits while the old man sings

Heaven help me

And then like the rush of a thousand wings

It shines upon the one

And the day had just begun

 

One day in the year of the fox

Came a time remembered well

When the strong young man of the rising sun

Heard the tolling of the great black bell

 

One day in the year of the fox

When the bell began to sing

It meant the time had cometh

For one to go

To the temple of the king

 

There in the middle of the people

He stands

Seeing, feeling

With just a wave of a strong right hand

He's gone

To the temple of the king

 

Far from the circle at the edge of the world

He's hoping, wondering

Thinking back from the stories he's heard

Of what he's going to see

 

There in middle of the circle it lies

Heaven help me

Then all could see by the shine in his eyes

The answer had been found

 

Back with the people in the circle

He stands

Giving, feeling

With just one touch of a strong right hand

They know

Of the temple and the king

 

9. Still I'm Sad (Instrumental)