Any Helloween fans?

[VeritasLuxMea]

Any Helloween fans?

I know that they’ve had Christian messages on a lot of their work in the past (e.g. “Why?”, “Hey Lord”, etc.) and others with obvious allusions (“Keeper of the Seven Keys”, etc.) but as I was re-listening to the album “Gambling with the Devil”, I noticed a track I had never paid much attention to before: “Final Fortune.” Just got around to really listening to what it was about and I really love the lyrics!

Here’s the song, and the lyrics - with special attention to the choruses:

We try to force our final fortune
As if we knew the final score
And we pretend to know things better
In our madness we ignore
How small we are
We are

Far above this ignorance
A higher force you’ll find
Forever giving answers to the blind

When fate comes calling you
You don’t know what to do
Behind the world we’re living in
Is so much more than we do know
There’s ONE who loves you so
Behind the world we’re living in
There’s so much more than we will ever get to know

Protecting nations, wealth and soldiers
Collecting fame and victory
Inventing star-ships, tanks and rockets
But still we don’t know how to see
The love in our hearts
Our hearts

Far from all this ignorance
A higher force would share
Verity and hope
But we don’t care

When fate comes calling you
You don’t know what to do
Behind the world we’re living in
Is so much more than we do know
There’s ONE who loves you so
Behind the world we’re living in
There’s so much more than we will ever get to know

 

[Joe_5859]

Helloween has long been one of my favorites. Their song Revelation, in addition to being fairly Christian in theme, also contains my favorite riff of all time.

I confess I never actually looked at the lyrics to Final Fortune. Nowadays, pretty much the only time I get to listen to music is driving in the car, so I seldom have the chance to read through the lyrics. I definitely have to go back and listen to that one again. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Eduardus]

Yes, I do enjoy Helloween! Especially the first couple albums! Michael Kiske (in my opinion) was a great singer…I would imagine he is still now although I haven’t heard any of his recent work.

 

[Joe_5859]

Yes, I do enjoy Helloween! Especially the first couple albums! Michael Kiske (in my opinion) was a great singer…I would imagine he is still now although I haven’t heard any of his recent work.

Yeah, Kiske kind of fell off the radar screen for a while. My brother is a big Kiske fan and has all of his solo albums. They’re much different than anything Helloween ever did (except for maybe Chamelon and Pink Bubbles Go Ape).

I like the earlier stuff, too, but I actually prefer Andy Deris’ vocals.