Blackmore's Night

new Album Information

We're going back to a time we knew

"UNDER A VIOLET MOON"

Dear Fans , buy this phantastic Album and help for a highest Place in the Charts

thank you Rainer and Susanne

Available in Japan and South East Asia on Pony Canyon and

Canyon International APRIL 21, 1999

European release May 27,1999

UK release June 17, 1999

U.S. release July 17, 1999

South America release May 27,1999

on NEMS- our new South American-Mexican label partner

Lyrics from the new Album

Under a Violet Moon

Dancing to the feel of the Drum

Leave this World behind

We'll have a drink and toast to ourselfes

Under a violet Moon

Tudor Rose with her Hair in curls

Will make you turn and stare

Try to steal a kiss at the Bridge

Under a violet Moon

Raise your hats and your Glasses too

We will dance the whole Night throught

We're going back to a Time we knew

Under a violet Moon

Cheers to the Knights and Days of olde

the beggars and the thieves

living in an enchanted wood

Under a violet Moon

Close your eyes and lose yourself

In a medievel mood

taste the tresures and sing the lunes

Under a violet Moon

This my delight on a shiny night

the seasons of a year

to keep the lanterns burning bright

Under a violet Moon

Castles and Dreams

Solitare with a Song in her Heart

but what a sad song to sing

turned her back on all that she knew

In the hope of a golden Ring....

And the Rains come down

And the Stars fell from the Sky

Oh, how dark the Night...

It always seems those Castles and Dreams

Fade with the morning light

such a sad story

that time loves to tell

copper coins shine for the Sun

from the floor after wishing well

So the Jewel of jepordy

shines with each dangerouse step

So unsure of what we've become

What we have and what we have left...

Past Time with good Company

past time with good company

I love, and shall until I die

grutch who lust , but none deny

so god be pleased thus live will I

for my pastance

hunt, sing and dance

my heart is set;

all goodly sport

for my comfort

who shall me let?

youth must have some dalliance

of good or ill some pastance

company methinks then best

all throughts and funcies to digest

for idleness is chief mistress

of vices all: than who can say

but mirth and play

is best of all ?

past time with good company

I love, and shall until I die

grutch who lust , but none deny

so god be pleased thus live will I

for my pastance

hunt, sing and dance

my heart is set;

all goodly sport

for my comfort

who shall me let?

company with honesty

is virtue, vices to flee;

company is good and ill

but any man hath his free will

the best ensue

the worst eschew:

my mind shall be

virtue to use

vice to refuse

thus shall I use me...

Morning Star

There are shadows in the sky

Dancing in the air

Calling to my heart

Saying, "If you dare,

We´re running fast

We´re running far

Trying to catch the morning star..."

And time and space

Our only sheild

keeping secrets

Unrevealed

Falling night

Breathes in the dark

Trying to catch the morning star...

*I can fly through my mind when I see them as they shine

Can it be so hard to try and charm the elusive morning star...

So within the chase

We soon will find

The light of the moon

those left behind

Try to free the gypsy in their hearts

By trying to catch the morning star...

*Repeat

Now that the time

Has come and gone

Illusion has past

And we´re on our own

Know the dream is never far

When trying to catch the morning star...

Avalon

To the days of Avalon

Where magic rules as king

The moon beneath the castle walls

As the nightingale sings...

The golden bird

He gave to me

What happiness he brings

Like a star on a Christmas tree

As the nightingale sings

*And so we sat, hand in hand and watched the fireflies

And never spoke a single word

But lived to do or die

We lived to do or die

Back to the days of Avalon

Where magic ruled as king

The moon beneath the castles walls

As the nightingale sings...

We read of tales of treason

A soldiers legacy

Blood beneth the crimson sky

Fighting without reason

But the crime of loyalty

A tattered flag left to fly...

Back to the days of Avalon

Where magic ruled as king

The moon beneath the castles walls

as the nightingale sings...

Wind In The Willows

As I went a walking

One morning in spring

I met with some travelers

On an old country lane

One was an old man

The second a maid

The third was a young boy who smiled as he said

*"With the wind in the willows

The birds in the sky

There´s a bright sun to warm us wherever we lie...

We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine

To share on our journey with all of mankind."

So I asked them to tell me their name and their race

So I could remember each smile on their face

"Our name, they mean nothing...

They change throughout time

So come sit beside us and share in our wine"

*Repeat

So I sat down beside them

With flowers all around

We et from a mantle

Spread out on the ground

They told me of prophets

And peoples and kings

And all of the one god that knows everything

"We´re traveling to Glaston

Over England´s gren lanes

To hear of men´s troubles

To hear of their pains

We travel the wide world

Over land and the sea

To tell all the people

How they can be free..."

*Repeat

So sadly I left them

On that old country lane

For I knew that I´d never see them again

One was an old man

The second a maid

The third was a young boy who smiled as he said...

*Repeat

Gone With The Wind

Twisting turning

The winds are burning

Leaving me without a name

How will we ever find our way...

Snow was falling

I could hear the frightened calling

Fear taking over every man

Life meaning nothing more than sand...

*Wind will sweep away

The traces I was here

A story in a teardrop

That´s all I have to give...

Rage inferno swallowing the life that I know

Strenght is the only way to fight

You must look up to see the light...

Gone With The Wind...Gone With The Wind...Gone

With The Wind...

Take all I know

Turn it into darkened shadows

They´ll disappear in the sun

When a new story has begun

She survived the nightmare

Began a whole new life here

But I can see behind those eyes

She still sees those fires in the night...

Twisting and turning

Oh, the winds are burning

Leaving me without a name

How will we ever find our way...

March The Heroes Home

I sing the praise of honored wars of glory and of kings

The bravery of soldiers, The joy that peace can bring

The captains on their way home, The ribbons on their chests

They´ve packed away the firearms the trumpets lay to rest...

They´ve taken in the battlefields with one last weary breath

And set their sights on something new while there´s still

something left

The poets and the dreamers thank the stars above

For leaving hatred in the dust and bringing back the love...

*Over land and over sea

March The Heroes Home

For the faithful, for the free

March The Heroes Home

We´ll be waiting when you

March The Heroes Home

All the night and day through

March The Heroes Home...

The flowers laughing in the fields boast colors bright and new

A hind of freedom in the air, the chimes are ringing true

They´re bringing in the New Year and ringing out the old

Beconing the springtime though winter winds blow cold...

Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)

Silent she rose

From the cold desert sands

Painted in shadows

A dark caravan...

Quiet as a wisper

With moves like a cat

She ruled like a storm cloud

Her eyes glowing black...

*Oh, and they cried Malguena

Wait for me Malaguena

I remember it well...

Oh, and they cry Malaguena

Wait for me Malaguena

I remember it well...

Oh, too well...

And so they rode

On the wings of a song

Spinning in silence

The world was their own...

two lovers locked in the arms of the dance

Freedom begins with the game of the dance

*Repeat

And now they rise

Like a wave on the seas

Lost in a rhythm

And ever they´ll be...

Catherine Howard´s Fate

Oh, to my dearest ruler and lord

Merciful husband

Nobelest of king...

Your heart of gold has long since tarnished

In my champer

What will the morning bring?

What it my heart that doth betray me

Cause I loved more than one man?

Is it true your wear a wounded spirit?

Pray let me mend it and make our love anew...

Allow me to be your humple servant

Once again, as before...

Are you like the others, so quick to judge

And for this the queen must fall

What is my heart that doth betray me

Cause I loved more than one man?

Truth within the writings of a letter

Signed and sealed poor Catherine Howards fate...

Truth within the writings of a letter

Signed and sealed poor Catherine Howards fate...

Fool´s Gold

Somewhere in a market square

The cobblestone still shine

Glassy eyes behold the sight

Through another cup of wine...

The one eyed jester skips and turns

As he makes his way through the crowd

While the travern´s royalty try not to laugh aloud...

The jester does another spin

And then falls to the floor

A show of hands, a short "Hurrah!"

A plea for him to do more...

The ease of laughter comes so fast when you´re not in

A jester´s shoes

Cause when you´ve only Fools Gold, you´ve got nothing

more to lose...

Who holds the riches

The jester or the king?

A fortress made from Fools Gold

Or the tears that treasure can bring?

The king he sit upon his throne

The worlds weight on his chest

When your mind begins to race you´ve got no time to rest

"Where is my clown?

I need him now, to take my troubles away..."

The harlequin rushes in as his work begins for the day...

While somewhere in a market square

The cobblestones still shine...

Now And Then

The past time so familiar

But that´s why you couldn´t stay

Too many ghosts, too many haunted dreams

Beside you were built to find your own way...

But after all these years, I thought we´d still hold on

But when I reach for you and search your eyes

I see you´ve already gone...

*That´s OK

I´ll be fine

I´ve got myself, I´ll heal in time

But when you leave just remember what we had...

There´s more to life than just you

I may cry but I´ll make it through

And I know that the sun will shine again

Though I may think of you now and then...

Can´t do a thing with ashes

But throw them to the wind...

Though this heart may be in pieces now

You know I´ll build it up again and

I´ll come back stronger than I ever did before

Just don´t turn around when you walk out that door...

*Repeat

That´s OK

I´ll be fine

I´ve got myself,I´ll heal in time

And even though our stories at the end

I still may think of you now and then...

Self Portrait

Paint me a picture and hang it on the wall

Color is darkly, the lines will 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,dow,down, down, down,

down, down, down, down,down

Paint me a picture of eyes that never see

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 and I

feel like going

Down,down,down,down,down,down,down,

down,down,down,down,down...

Nothing is real but the way that I feel and I feel like going -

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...