The Melancholy EP



The EP album
Released in 1999 and re-released in 2001 by Century Media Records
Total time 31:09




Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
Shooting Star
Watching Over Me
Electric Funeral
I Died For You
The Ripper (bonus track)
Colors (live bonus track)




Melancholy (Holy Martyr) (4:48)
Music / Lyrics : Jon Schaffer

Make the sadness go away
Come back another day
For years I've tried to teach
But their eyes are empty
Empty too I have become
For them I must die
A sad and troubled race
An ungrateful troubled place

(chorus)
I see the sadness in their eyes
Melancholy in their cries
Devoid of all the passion
The human spirit cannot die
Look at the pain around me
This is what I cry for
Look at the pain around me
This is what I'll die for

Make the sadness go away
Come back another day
The things I've said and done
Don't matter to anyone 
But still, you push me to see
Something, I can never be
Why am I their shattered king?
I don't mean anything

I see the sadness in their eyes
Melancholy in their cries
Devoid of all the passion
The human spirit cannot die
Look at the pain around me
This is what I cry for
Look at the pain around me
This is what I'll die for



Shooting Star (5:15) (BAD COMPANY cover)
©1975 Bad Company: Straight Shooter

Music / Lyrics : Paul Rodgers

Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
Love Me Do, I think it was
And from then it didn't take him long
Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit
And everything's alright
Don't you know?

Johnny told his Mama,
"Hey, Mama, I'm goin' away
Gonna hit the big time
Gonna be a big star someday"
Mama came to the door
With a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said, "Don't cry, Mama
Smile and wave goodbye"
Don't you know?

Yeah...

(chorus)
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are

Johnny made a record
Went straight up to number one
Suddenly everyone loved
To hear him sing his song
Watchin' the world go by
Surprisin' it goes so fast
Johnny looked around him and said,
"Well, I made the big-time at last"
Don't you know?
Don't you know?

(chorus)
A shooting star

Don't you know that You are a shooting star
Don't you know?
Don't you know that You are a shooting star
And all the world will love you just as long
as long as you are

Johnny died one night, died in his bed
Bottle of whisky, sleeping tablets by his head
Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play

(chorus)
Don't you know that You are a shooting star
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
Don't you don't you dont you don't you dont you know
Don't you know that you are a shooting star



Watching Over Me (4:28)
Music / Lyrics : Jon Schaffer

I had a friend many years ago
One tragic night he died
The saddest time of my life
For weeks and weeks I cried
Through the anger and through the tears
I've felt his spirit through the years
I'd swear, he's watching me
Guiding me through hard times

(chorus)
I feel it once again
It's overwhelming me
His spirit's like the wind
The angel guarding me
Oh, I know, oh, I know
He's watching over me
Oh, I know, oh, I know
He's watching over me

We shared dreams like all best friends
Blood brothers at the age of ten
We lived reckless, he paid the price
But why? Why did he have to die?
It still hurts me to this day
Am I selfish for feeling this way?
I know he's an angel now
Together we'll be someday

I feel it once again
It's overwhelming me
His spirit's like the wind
The angel guarding me
Oh, I know, oh, I know
He's watching over me
Oh, I know, oh, I know
He's watching over me



Electric Funeral (4:53) (BLACK SABBATH cover)
©1970 Black Sabbath: Paranoid

Music / Lyrics : Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward

Reflex in the sky 
Warn you you're gonna die
Storm coming, you'd better hide 
From the atomic tide

Flashes in the sky 
Turns houses into sties
Turns people into clay
Radiation minds decay

Robot minds of robot slaves 
Lead them to atomic graves
Plastic flowers, melting sun
Fading moon falls upon

Dying world of radiation, 
Victims of man's frustration
Burning globe of obscene fire
Like electric funeral pyre

Buildings crashing down 
To Earth's cracking ground
Rivers turn to mud
Eyes melt into blood

Earth lies in deathbed 
Clouds cry for the dead
Tearing falling rain 
Ease the burning pain

Electric Funeral
Electric Funeral
Electric Funeral
Electric Funeral

And so in the sky 
Shines the electric eye
Supernatural king 
Takes earth under his wing

Heaven's golden chorus sings
Hell's angels flap their wings
Evil souls fall to Hell
Ever trapped in burning cell!



I Died For You (3:49)
Music / Lyrics : Jon Schaffer

I can't belive this now
This isn't what I planned
I lived and died and now
I just can't understand
With all the love I feel
I could never leave her
No matter what the cost
My sould's the price to see her

Oh how I love you
The pain won't go away
Oh when I need you
You're always so far away
I cry for you
Leaving myself to blame
I died for you
I gave up everything

The pain was just too much
When I finally saw her
She's happy and in love
In love with my best friend
What makes it hurt so bad
Is that I love them both
And they will never know
For love I sold my soul

Oh how I love you
The pain won't go away
Oh when I need you
You're always so far away
I cry for you
Leaving myself to blame
I died for you
I gave up everything



The Ripper (2:43) (JUDAS PRIEST cover)
©1976 Judas Priest: Sad Wings Of Destiny
(bonus on re-relased version of the album)

Music / Lyrics : Glenn Tipton

You're in for surprise 
You're in for a shock 
In London town streets 
When there's darkness and fog 
When you least expect me 
And you turn your back 
I'll attack 

I smile when I'm sneaking 
Through shadows by the wall 
I laugh when I'm creeping 
But you won't hear me at all 

All hear my warning 
Never turn your back 
On the ripper 

You'll soon shake with fear 
Never knowing if I'm near 
I'm sly and I'm shameless 
Nocturnal and nameless 
Except for 'The Ripper' 
Or if you like 'Jack The Knife' 

Any back alley street 
Is where we'll probably meet 
Underneath a gas lamp 
Where the air's cold and damp 
I'm a nasty surprise 
I'm a devil in disguise 
I'm a footstep at night 
I'm a scream of the fright 

All hear my warning 
Never turn your back 
On the ripper...the ripper....the ripper



Colors (live) (5:13)(bonus on re-relased version of the album)

Music: Schaffer, Shawver / Lyrics: Schaffer

Walking in the subway
Alone late at night
New York City gangs
Everywhere in sight

Your fell their anger upon you
You feel their hateful eyes
Walk a little faster now
You're fighting for your life

As they walk on closer
Their eyes burn down your back
You feel a thousand cries
Not prepared for their attack

A mission bell sent sign
A sign that you board soon
You've come this far, no turning back
We hope you make it too

(chorus)
Don't expect, sympathy
We don't know, the word
Your walked my turf, insanity
But in this place you die

(bridge)
Your life is wasted
Your blood is tasted
As it drips down the blade
You didn't make it
You couldn't take it
You walked the subway you paid
Your money's gone
Your clothes they're torn
You're lying in a pool of blood
You know you're leaving
We watch you grieving
But in this place you die

(chorus)
Don't expect sympathy
We don't know the word
You walked my turf, insanity
But in this place you die




Matthew Barlow - lead vocal
Larry Tarnowski - lead guitar
Jon Schaffer - rhythm guitar
James McDonough - bass
Brent Smedley - drums