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All Your Heroes Become Villains

by Ed Hale and The Transcendence

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1.
Believe me man the only thing we have is hope The rest of it is a lie Dog eat dog and an eye for an eye Get a little so you can say you got a little before you die The only thing we have is faith Believe me the rest of it is just a lie Turn the other cheek so they can slap you one more time Give a little so they can take a little more before we die Blind faith in the face of rampant genocide The only thing we have is love Believe me the rest of it is just a lie If we ever stopped to think about it Even for a second We wouldn’t even try
2.
Blind Eye 03:17
Everything I hear and everything I see I won’t be afraid, you won’t bother me All your evil ways with everything you do I will turn away, you won’t bother me Murder Greed Destruction Exploitation Rape Sex and Violence Take your money Take your money Take your money I will turn a blind eye Everything I fear is everything you do But I won’t walk away, I’ll win in spite of you I will turn a blind eye
3.
Solaris 03:35
All alone in my life I wonder why oh why I lie awake and wait for you in the night I walk alone And now that you found your new world Julia Out in Solaris where you’re far from the sun Walk alone but Heaven’s eyes on you tonight May you sleep in peace until daylight Blessed be all of your dreams tonight Julia All alone in our lives I wonder why oh why I will look for you each night In the sky We walk alone And now that you found your new world Julia Out in Solaris where you’re far from the sun So all alone Heaven’s eyes on you tonight May you sleep in peace until daylight Blessed be all of your dreams tonight Julia And if you feel any sign of life Show a little tonight Julia Out in Solaris Julia
4.
By now you’ve seen it all before You’ve known it for so long You’ve tried to hide from what wasn’t there but all along was here You see there is no use   And now you’re going down so cut yourself off I’ve been waiting for so long I’ve been waiting, I’ve been waiting for so I’ve been waiting for so long  In a sense you’ve always been alone You’ve seen you get your hands around it just to watch it all come down And you’ve lived for so long you see that you’re still alone And now you’re going down so take yourself out How not to hate with all this ruin I can’t relate to what you’re doing If you exist you’re either a joke or you’re some cruel monster  I’ve been waiting, I’ve been waiting for so I’ve been waiting, I’ve been waiting for so I’ve been waiting for so long
5.
In the third act you can play the savior When she falls down I will try to save her But When the angels appear to float On somebody else’s hope You’ll know that you are the one who’ll be taking the fall. You know you are the one You thought she was the one You know you are the one
6.
She walks alone in the moonlight Her heavy eyes see the glow She tells me everything’s alright we make love and then we know  Here it comes Coming round Oh baby I can feel it now We’ve both worked very hard Not to lose it in the final hours Here it comes its coming around baby can you feel it now We know what it’s all about Here it comes She wanders off in the moonlight She waits for sunsets at noon She asks me everything alright? I whisper baby its good Here it comes Coming round Oh baby can you feel it now? We both worked very hard Let’s not lose it in the final hours Here it comes It’s coming around Baby can you feel it now? We know what its all about Here it comes
7.
You’re my Indian Princess I watch you smile while you undress We’ll make love until the morning Waiting for the sun to rise And fill up her room She can make me do most anything I’d kill or die for her When she touch me that way  Waiting by her side for her to wake I’m hypnotized By her beauty and grace Surrender lost without a warning I’m out of breath and paralyzed Alone in her room You’re my Indian Princess I play my guitar while you undress We’ll make love and in the morning We melt into the sunny sky That shines in her room She looks me in the eye And coolly she denies She’d ever leave But I know it’s pretend Cuts me down to size Philosophizing endlessly I can feel it’s the end She walks away whispers I’ll see you soon And I’m alone in her room
8.
She took my ring and never gave it back She took my heart And never gave it back She took my love And never gave it back She took it all And never gave it back Another lesson of the world A broken man A broken girl I’ll never fall in love again ‘There is no use its all pretend’ I cry my eyes out every night  I messed it up. I messed it up again. All my love She took all my love I got no love Cause she took all my love
9.
We are columbine And we are Palestine And Israel is going to rule the world We are Kosovo Bleeding in the snow Every heart a victim of the world Nobody gives a damn Just like Vietnam Nobody gives a damn We trade our guns for money We are columbine So wretched and entwined In every malady that plagues the earth We are Martin Lee And OJ going free And the children of the village of My Lai Nobody gives a damn Just like Vietnam Nobody gives a damn We trade our guns for money We are the unforgiven We trade our guns for money We trade our guns for money We sell our souls for money We trade our guns for money They’ll kill us all for money
10.
And you knew you would If you thought you could Always tried real hard To do what you should To do what you should And you always did What you thought you should Always did your best What you thought you could What you thought you could But you noticed soon You were not enough There was something there That you could not Explain After all these years I can finally breathe I am out of here After tomorrow I will disappear
11.
The walls Of Zion cried last night We almost watched them fall But somehow we survived We made it through it all And now we’re sleeping tight Our hearts a lullaby Pray for peace in the new city Pray for hope in the great city Cause here we are tonight And Zion has survived He really was the One But Trinity has died So many lost their lives and made the sacrifice to save the world tonight Pray for peace in the new city Pray for hope in the great city Here we are tonight The walls of Zion cried last night We almost watched them fall But somehow we survived We made it through it all Our hearts forever cry For those who gave their lives So Zion could survive And here we are tonight

about

With each and every Transcendence album, one is never quite sure what to expect. During the nine years since their genre-defying breakout debut Rise and Shine, Ed Hale and the Transcendence have been musical shape-shifters, willing to assume whatever form and go in whatever direction their music demands. On their latest release, their fourth album, entitled All Your Heroes Become Villains, they harness the best of their previous efforts and multiply it by a gazillion. It was the result of a long, grueling recording process, appropriate for an album as equally accessible as it is complex and eclectic. Haunting melodies, rock-God guitar riffs, rhythmic adventurousness, bold sonic experimentation, inspired songwriting and Ed Hale's impassioned vocals create a highly memorable experience for the listener that could easily be called a concept album. Each song seems integral to the work as a whole.

All Your Heroes Become Villains comes off like an instant classic – stylistically and lyrically unified and thematic and by far their most ambitious work to date. This masterpiece is dark and heavy, and yet every bit the catchy ear candy that fans of the band have come to expect. Hale sings of hope, victory, loss, suffering and blind idealism on a personal and global level in his signature tortured baritone while the band weaves together their trademark post-modern rock meets Brit pop creating an aural soundscape that is truly unforgettable. Features the hit singles “Blind Eye,” “Waiting for Godot,” and “Solaris.”

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released November 15, 2011

Transcendence is:
Ed Hale: lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion
Roger Houdaille: bass guitar, background vocals
Fernando Perdomo: guitars, electric sitar, mellotron, percussion, background vocals
Allan Gabay: piano and keyboards
Ricardo Mazzi: drums, percussion
Karen Feldner: background vocals
Additional Musicians:
Kamran Aghaiepour: keyboards and remixing
Zach Ziskin: additional lead and rhythm guitar
Leo Manellis: additional drums Matthew Sabatella: background harmony vocals
Dee Dee Wilde: lead vocals on All Your Heroes Become Villains — Main Theme
Emiliano Torres: trumpet Alex Zapata: trombone
Produced by: Ed Hale and Fred Freeman
Co-production and remixing by: Kamran Aghaiepour
Songs Arranged by: Transcendence
Lead Engineer: Joe Syring
Assistant Engineer: Rudi Meeuwen
Recorded at Criteria Hit Factory Studios, Miami, FL and
Dungeon Recording Studios, Miami, FL
Mixed by: Fred Freeman and Ed Hale
Mastered by: Zach Ziskin
All Your Heroes Become Villains album cover painting by: Gina Rowland
CD packaging artwork by: Gina Rowland and Susie Aminian
CD packaging layout by: Susie Aminian and Roger Houdaille
Photography by: Jill Kahn and Ron Roman
Photo editing and touch-up by: Flavia Molinari
A&R by: Dying Van Gogh Records

All selections published by Transcendent Music Publishing (ASCAP), Baby Joon Music (BMI), Think Like A Key (SESAC). © 2011 Dying Van Gogh Records, a division of Transcendent Media Group Inc.

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