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Angel Records released La Luna in 2000.  The U.S. and European versions contain a few differences in songs.  Mainly there are more songs on the U.S. version.  I have included all of the lyrics from the U.S. version in the order on the disc.  The last song, First of May, does not appear on the U.S. version but is on the European version.
















La Lune

Music: Peterson

Lyrics: Anna-Lena Strasse

(2:53)

 

Sous les nuages de la nuit

Je marche vers la clairiere,

Dun éclat argenté je la vois,

La lune

 

Elle porte les violes de

Léternité,

Son aureole embrasse

Les étoíles, ma lune

 

Winter In July

Music: Tim Simenon, Gary Sigsworth

Lyrics: Loretta Haywood

(4:31)

 

Look around; wonder why

We can live a life thats never satisfied

Lonely hearts; troubled minds

Looking for a way that we can never find

 

Many roads are ahead of us

With choices to be made

But life's just one of the games we play

There is no special way

 

Make the best of what's given you

Everything will come in time

Why deny yourself

Don't just let life pass you by

Like Winter in July

 

Future dreams can never last

When you find yourself standing in the past

Keep moving on to higher ground

Looking for the way you

Thought could not be found

 

We may not know the reason why

We're born into this world

Where a man only lives to die

His story left untold

 

Make the best of what's given you

Everything will come in time

Why deny yourself

Don't just let life pass you by

Like Winter in July

 

Though we may not know the reason why

We're born into this world

Where a man only lives to die

And his story left untold

 

Make the best of what's given you

Everything will come in time

Why deny yourself

Don't just let life pass you by

Like Winter in July

 

 

Scarborough Fair

Music and Lyrics: Traditional adapted by F. Peterson

(4:11)

 

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

He once was a true love of mine

 

Tell him to make me a cambric shirt

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Without no seams nor needle work

Then he'll be a true love of mine

 

Tell him to find me an acre of land

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Between salt water and the sea strands

Then he'll be a true love of mine

 

Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

And gather it all in a bunch of heather

Then he'll be a true love of mine

 

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

He once was a true love of mine

 

 

Figlio Perduto

Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven; adapted by Soltau

Lyrics: Chiara Ferrau

(4:37)

 

Muri die vento

Notte è scesa

Padre e figlio sono insiem

 

Con un cavallo

Vanno avanti

In questa grande oscurità

 

Ma ad un tratto

Il bimbo trema

Dalla paura

Freddo si fa

 

Padre, oh, padre

Tu non hai visto

Re degli elfi

Eccolo la

 

Figlio perduto,

Vuoi far un gioco?

Gioia ti porto

Vieni con me

 

Padre, oh padre

Hai già sentito

Cosa mi dice

E che vuol' far'?

 

Figlio perduto

Se tu non vieni

Io userò la forza che ho

 

Padre, oh padre

Re degli elfi

Mi sta toccando

Male mi fa

 

E il bambino,

Con occhi chiusi

Lui non si muove

Perso è già

 

Figlio

Figlio perduto

Se tu non vieni

Io userò la mia forza

 

Padre, oh padre

Re degli elfi

Mi sta toccando

Male mi fa

 

E il bambino,

Con occhi chiusi

Lui non si muove

Perso è già

 

... perso è gia

 

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Music and Lyrics: Gary Brooker, Keith Reid

(3:39)

 

We skipped the light Fandango

Turned cartwheels on the floor

I was feeling kind of seasick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming harder

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

 

And so it was that later

As the Miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly,

Turned the whiter shade of pale

 

She said there is no reason

And the truth is plain to see

But I wandered through my playing cards

And would not let her be

One of sixteen vestal virgins

Who were leaving for the coast

And although my eyes were open

They might just as well've been closed

 

And so it was that later

As the Miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly,

Turned the whiter shade of pale

 

 

He Doesn't See Me

Music and Lyrics: Goldman, Romannelli

(4:28)

 

When he passes me by

He's a ray of light

Like the first drop of sun

From the sky

And I know he's a king

Who deserves a queen

But I am not a queen

And he doesn't see me

 

When he dances

He moves me to a smile

And I see everything

Near him shine

There's a grace in his ways

That I can't contain

I haven't that grace

Oh, I haven't that grace

 

And the closer he gets

I can't help but hide

So ashamed

Of my body and voice

There are boundaries

We pass in spite of the war

But our own

We can't seem to cross

 

She has a way that surrounds her

So delicate

With a glory that reigns in her life

She is also so much that she is not

These things, I can't see

And he doesn't see me

Oh-oh-oh...

And he doesn't see me

 

There are things we can change

If we just choose to fight

But the walls of injustice are high

 

When he passes me by

He's a ray of light

Like the first drop of sun

From the sky

And I know he's a king

Who deserves a queen

Someone other than me

So different from me

 

Oh-oh-oh...

He doesn't see me

Oh-oh-oh...

He doesn't see me

He doesn't see me

 

 

Serenade

Music: Frank Peterson, Michael Soltau

(Instrumental)

(1:16)

 

 

How Fair This Place

Music and Lyrics: Sergei Rachmaninov; adapted by Brightman

These lyrics will be up soon!

(2:10)

 

Hijo De La Luna

Music and Lyrics: José Maria Cano

(4:27)

 

Tonto el que no entienda

Cuenta una leyenda

Que una hembra gitana

Conjuró a la luna

Hasta el amanecer

Llorando pedía

Al llegar el día

Desposar un calé

 

"Tendrás a tu hombre

Piel morena"

Desde el cielo

Habló la luna llena

"Pero a cambio quiero

El hijo primero

Que le engendres a él

Que quien su hijo inmola

Para no estar sola

Poco le iba a querer"

 

Refrain:

Luna quieres ser madre

Y no encuentras querer

Que te haga mujer

Dime luna de plata

Qué pretendes hacer

Con un niño de piel

A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha

Hijo de la luna

 

De padre canela

Nació un niño

Blanco como el lomo

De un armiño

Con los ojos grises

En vez de aceituna

Niño albino de luna

"Maldita su estampa

Este hijo es de un payo

Y yo no me lo callo"

 

(Refrain)

 

Gitano al creerse deshonrado

Se fue a su mujer

Cuchillo en mano

"¿De quien es el hijo?

Me has engañado fijo"

Y de muerte la hirió

Luego se hizo al monte

Con el niño en brazos

Y allí le abandono

 

(Refrain)

 

Y en las noches

Que haya luna llena

Será porque el niño

Esté de buenas

Y si el niño llora

Menguará la luna

Para hacerle una cuna

Y si el niño llora

Menguará la luna

Para harcerle una cuna

 

 

Here With Me

Music and Lyrics: Dido Armstrong, Paul Stratham, Pascal Gabriel

(5:24)

 

I didn't hear you leave

I wonder how am I still here

I don't want to move a thing

It might change my memory

 

Oh, I am what I am

I'll do what I want

But I can't hide

 

Refrain:

I won't go

I won't sleep

I can't breathe

Until you're resting

Here with me

I won't leave

I can't hide

I cannot be

Until you're resting

Here with me

 

I don't want to call my friends

They might wake me from this dream

And I don't wanna leave this bed

Risk forgetting all that's been

 

Oh I am what I am

I'll do what I want

But I can't hide

 

(Refrain x2)

 

Oh I am what I am

I'll do what I want

But I can't hide

 

(Refrain x2)

 

Oh-oh-oh...

 

 

La Califfa

Music: Ennio Morricone

Lyrics: Alberto Bevilacqua

(2:47)

 

Tu non credere perche

Questa crudelta di padroni

Ha visto in me

Solo una cagna che

Mi mett' anch'

Io alla tua catena

 

Se attraverso la città

Questa ipocrita, tua città

Il corpo mio

Che passa tra di voi

E' un invettiva contro la viltà

 

Tu ritroverai con me

La più splendida proprietà

Un attimo di sole sopra noi

Alla ricerca di te

 

 

This Love

Music and Lyrics: Craig Armstrong, Jerry Burns

(6:11)

 

This love

This love is a strange love

A faded kind of day love

This love

 

This love

I think I'm gonna fall again

And even when you held my hand

It didn't mean a thing

This love

 

This love

Never has to say love

Doesn't know it is love

This love

 

This love

Doesn't have to say love

Doesn't need to be love

Doesn't mean a thing

This love

 

This love, oh-oh-oh...

This strange love (strange love)

This love...

(Lines are repeated several times)

 

This love

 

 

Solo Con Te

Music: Georg F. Handel; adapted by Peterson, Brightman

Lyrics: Chiara Ferrau

(3:06)

 

Gioia nel cuor troverò

Con te il ciel raggiungerò

Pace ci sarà

 

Gioia nel cuor troverò

Con te il ciel raggiungerò

Pace ci sarà

 

Gioia nel cuor troverò

Con te il ciel raggiungerò

Un mondo nuovo con te vedrò

 

 

Gloomy Sunday

Music: Reszo Seress

Lyrics: Laszlo Javor, Sam M. Lewis

(3:47)

 

Sunday is gloomy

My hours are slumber less

Dearest the shadows

I live with are numberless

Little white flowers

Will never awaken you

Not where the black coach

Of sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thought

Of ever returning you

Would they be angry

If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

 

Sunday is gloomy

With shadows I spend it all

My heart and I have decided

To end it all

Soon there'll be flowers and prayers

That are said I know

But let them not weep

Let them know

That I'm glad to go

Death is no dream

For in death I'm caressing you

With the last breath of my soul

I'll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday

 

Dreaming

I was only dreaming

I wake and I find you asleep

In the deep of my heart, dear

Darling I hope

That my dream never haunted you

My heart is telling you

How much I wanted you

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy Sunday

 

 

La Luna

Music: Antonin Dvorak; adapted by Peterson

Lyrics: Chiara Ferrau

(4:56)

 

Scende la notte, tranquillità

Piano il buio respira

Solo la luna veglierà

Con argento ci coprirà

Dal grande cielo splenderà

Solo la luna veglierà

 

La luna della notte

Dolcemente ci proteggerà

La luna della notte

Dolcemente ci proteggerà

 

Scende la notte, e lei è la

Su tutto'l cielo lei regna

Con gentilezza lei guarderà

Illuminando la sera

Con gentilezza lei guarderà

Illuminando la sera

 

La luna della notte

Dolcemente ci proteggerà

La luna della notte

Dolcemente ci proteggerà

 

Luna non veglierà

Fuggirà

Luna scomparirà

 

 

Moon River

Bonus Track U.S. version

(2:15)

 

Moon River

Wider than a mile

Im crossing you in style

Someday

Oh, dream maker

You heartbreaker

Wherever youre going

Im going your way

 

Two drifters

Off to see the world

Theres such a lot of world to see

Were after the same

Rainbows end

Waiting round the bend

My Huckleberry friend

Moon River

And me

 

 

First of May

Bonus Track European version

 

When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall,

We used to love while others used to play

Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by,

Someone else moved in from far away

 

Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small,

And you don't ask the time of day

But you and I, our love will never die,

But guess who'll cry come first of May

 

The apple tree that grew for you and me,

I watched the apples falling one by one

And as I recall the moment of them all,

The day I kissed your cheek and you were gone

 

Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small,

And you don't ask the time of day

But you and I, our love will never die,

But guess who'll cry come first of May

 

When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall,

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do

Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by,

Someone else moved in from far away

 

 

Total Time: 1:01:04
















Keyboards: Michael Soltau, Peter Murray

Additional Keyboards: Frank Peterson, Jan-Eric Kohrs, Carsten  Heusmann,

                                   SarahBrightman

Drums: Martin "Frosty" Beedle

Bass: Trevor Barry

Percussion: Gunther Haas

Background Vocals: Princessa, Eve, Sarah Brightman

Orchestras: English National Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra