Malmsteen, Yngwie - The Sails Of Charon Lyrics






Dark night, there is no light
In the realm of the black magic man
Soul's flight into the cold blight
Of the destroyer's magic land
Poor man, whose spirits are stronger
They're a little too weary
You're starting to...

Blind man, you're suckin' your own blood
Soon black magic's dying
You'd better start crying
Blind man, you're suckin' your own blood
Soon black magic's dying
You'd better start crying

Throw out your evil desire
The dark king's kingdom is
Made out of mire

Throw out your evil desire
The dark king's kingdom is
Made out of mire

Keep on for the kingdom of light
There is no darkness, there is no night





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  1. D.... S....

    Damn, Uli and Yngwie are GODS !!!

  2. m.... s....

    absolute eargasm! ^__^

  3. Z.... Z....

    I hate covers of great songs, BUT This is top notch inshredible!

  4. M.... P....

    Now we finally get to see both Yngwie
    and Uli perform it live together on thee
    Guitar Gods 2014 tour!!!

  5. P.... C....

    I loved this version of Sails.... Incredible the vocals and of course its Yngwie!

  6. t.... ....

    Wow, vocals were awesome! And Yngwie... well is Yngwie!

    t.... ....

    Mark Boals on the Vocals

  7. C.... ....

    It's a rare thing when a style of music is both born and dies within a single song, but this is a perfect example: "Sails of Charon" has been sliced & diced, and its derivatives given a million different titles since 1977, but the whole Goth Metal genre is really just different versions of this one song, but wearing different pointy hats. You really have to hand it to Uli for being waaaay ahead of his time and coming up with this monster, I mean, wow! … and as a guitar player, you're obliged to learn to play it at some point, but once you do ... for the sake of sanity, don't pull an Yngwie ... move on! Or you too will be lost in the spell of the sweep picking, harmonic minor snow storm, secretly wearing a pointy hat, forever trapped in black light & the false wood paneling of your parent's basement.

    There is more to life than Kraft Dinner, cold pizza, and a bag of weed my son.

  8. G.... G....

    I like it.

  9. S.... H....

    Yngwie Plays the notes that are required. Since many of his songs are based on alterations of symphonies it requires speed and note articulation that the average guitar player can not comprehend. So the Average try and easily dismiss him through shear Ignorance of the complexity of the source in which his style is based. Saying Yngwie does not play with feeling has never really heard Yngwie or is musically not trained to recognize emotional evocation from classical music. Usually blue players.

  10. S.... R....

    Elvis impersonator

  11. d.... ....

    Fair attempt but sorry just sounds a bit pretensious, ott , and flash......Uli Jon Roth plays with so much more feeling and it comes across musically better ...in my opinion, not just hating :)

  12. E.... D....

    Like "Dream on", here is the same - cover is much better than the original song! Great, great! Rock!!!!

  13. s.... ....

    Awesome cover! Nice slideshow! YNGWIE ROCKS!!!!

  14. D.... H....

    epic vocals, mark boals did a great job, but i can just imagine how much more epic it would be if dio were singing it :D

  15. R.... ....

    This is Uli's song but THIS version is by THE greatest Neo Classical Metal Guitarist in the world.....Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

  16. S.... R....

    The Elvis impersonator plays a song by the Master!

  17. c.... ....

    Uli Roth and Hendrix were good friends,.. So much so that when Hendrix died his girlfriend took up with Uli...

  18. w.... ....

    interesting thing is,both blackmore and uli also cites hendrix influence in their career,much like yngwie.Roth even like to play hendrix like licks,as you can hear in earlier scorpions albums

  19. A.... Y....

    LONG LIVE THE MAGIC OF KING ROTH !!!

  20. e.... ....

    Uli is amazing, but Yngwie is pretty darn good himself. Checkout his Concerto!

  21. L.... V....

    2:55 -> 2:58
    best lick ever!!!!!

  22. D.... ....

    Wow... this is an amazing cover... still dig the Scorpions, but they did it justice...

  23. T.... M....

    @ Bo7341: Mark Boals

  24. b.... ....

    Who sings this?

  25. R.... ....

    I love this Malmsteen cd , i hear it almost every week !

  26. y.... a....

    i luv this song
    masterpiece

  27. s.... ....

    if i had only one wish to make, that would be to know how it feels to play like yngwie malmsteen...

  28. I.... ....

    jimi hendrix was his biggest influence hands down

  29. M.... G....

    "Inspiration"

  30. R.... S....

    Super Great!!!

  31. T.... M....

    Just read down one comment and you will get your answer

  32. J.... M....

    What was this album was this on?

  33. C.... R....

    The drums made it more pumping and yngwies licks thrown in were just amazing like.....FUUUUUUCK

  34. s.... ....

    Beautiful , thanks for it ;)

  35. H.... ....

    Scorpions original version will always reign supreme and it's my favorite Scorps song ever but I must admit I like the ahhh-ahhhhhhh parts of this version pretty well.

  36. G.... P....

    that's a good version..!

  37. s.... ....

    This is my 2nd favorite version of this song. I like the Uli at Sky Acadeny version better. But I like how Yngwie's arrangement make the song sound BIGGER.

  38. r.... ....

    Отличная композиция, великолепная интерпретация. Спасибо Ули и Ингви!

  39. o.... ....

    Scorpions, Yngwie, Testament they have different styles/version of the song.. but still........MIND BLOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  40. J.... M....

    I'll stick with the original, but this is the best cover and freakin god like.

  41. A.... L....

    He's a fucking god!

  42. R.... ....

    @DietGrape Excellent idea!! They would make a perfect G3!! Fun,fun,fun! I love this song....the way Yngwie does it. WOW......fricken awesome!!

  43. l.... ....

    Yngwie....Truly one of the very few guitar masters that can actually cover this song, and do it justice.

  44. J.... S....

    it it just me or is the first decending solo thing he does the same exact part he plays right after the themed part on black star?

  45. t.... ....

    lolololololololololol

    Uli destroys this.

  46. �.... �....

    this thing is dope!

  47. D.... S....

    Orgasm!!!!

  48. m.... ....

    Yngwie Malmsteen in Concert!
    OCTOBER
    13th, New York, NY Irving Plaza
    15th, Silver Spring, MD Fillmore
    18th, Montreal, QC Club Soda
    19th, Toronto, ON Phoenix
    21st, Chicago, IL House Of Blues
    23rd, Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
    26th, San Francisco, CA Fillmore
    28th, Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
    29th, Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia

    NOVEMBER
    1st, Houston, TX House Of Blues
    2nd, Dallas, TX House Of Blues
    5th, Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, Revolution

  49. E.... ....

    I saw Yngwie in London at the Apollo 2 for this tour in 1996 and it was excellent!

  50. g.... b....

    absolument aucun groove, aucun swing, c'est tout plat... quel est l'intérêt?

  51. B.... ....

    Mark Fucking Boals on Vocals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  52. b.... ....

    True phai

  53. i.... ....

    Thirty persons not related to reality. Still counting...

  54. H.... O....

    @videocircus thanks man! \m/

  55. T.... M....

    @holveragtz This song is from the 1996 Album "Inspiration" and yeah you can buy it at any music store. And yes the album is a tribute album comprised of several covers.

  56. H.... O....

    is this in an album or a tribute?? where can i get this??

  57. S.... D....

    In a word: AWESOMEE!!! Yngwie who??? YNGWIE FUCKING MALMSTEEN THAT'S WHO!!! :)

  58. J.... B....

    @videocircus Yes I totally agree with you. I can't stand it whenver people just have to post super negative comments about other people's music. Acting like they are doing something bad or negative just by playing music for us...wtf? Mean people suck...nuff said. We should be glad that there are those that take the time and effort to play great music for us! :)

  59. k.... ....

    I new this song had to be one of yngwie's inspirations lol.

  60. j.... ....

    man this song its fucking amazing! yngwie is the man!!!!

  61. w.... ....

    I saw Yngwie twice & nearly fell asleep both times . Technically talented , but such a sad lack of Soul .

  62. D.... R....

    @RisingSon011 I have the CD bro, therefore I'm good. **LOL**

  63. J.... ....

    Great cover of an amazing song.

  64. J.... ....

    Great cover of an amazing song.

  65. m.... s....

    @darkmiami lol,lucky bitch dude, every went to his house and just said hi?

  66. c.... s....

    wow a very good cover i love it yngwie lives down the street from me in miami

  67. c.... s....

    this is bad ass !!!!

  68. T.... C....

    @videocircus Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  69. p.... ....

    in my day,s this dude was big business.i always liked his music.

  70. K.... R....

    @IcedEarthaholic buy albums , not video games

  71. D.... R....

    Ha ha, I love this version slightly better than the original and that's saying something considering the original was an incredible piece of work, and certainly I will not knock Uli as he too is a fantastic guitarist. I just happen to like this version just a tad more. I have it on my custom soundtrack for Gran Turismo 5.

  72. c.... ....

    people,wheather u like YNGWIE or not,the man is one of the greatest guitarists ever.and who ever disagrees does not know anything about him or the guitar.one of the fastest,and technical guitarists ever to strap an axe on.simply put,AMAZING.

  73. T.... P....

    If you watch the original version with Scorpions, you will notice Mark Boals has almost the same voice of Klaus Maine in those days! AMAZING!! Great Yngwie's choice to sing this song...

  74. T.... ....

    have any you "super guiataristes" ever played this tune note for note and found Uli`s hand work is imposible to copy, so give Yngwie some credit, he's actually better skilfully
    but no Uli!!!

  75. R.... B....

    @gggggggggggggggg5262 well, ulli gave yngwie one of his sky guitars XD

  76. C.... Y....

    He nailed that intro solo like the original.

  77. j.... ....

    Without Blackmore and Uli, you would probably have less of a Yngwie. Not sayin,' I'm just sayin.'

  78. C.... T....

    is there any live videos of him doing this song??

  79. T.... Z....

    It's an awesome compliment that anyone, let alone Malmsteen did it. It is a true compliment when someone not only performs it, but recreates it.

  80. G.... P....

    Yngwie kicks ass on Jimi Hendrix Spanish Castle Magic as well!

  81. i.... ....

    @gggggggggggggggg5262 bet it would be a sweet show!

  82. O.... ....

    Wow, quit being comparison pricks please. Musicians are musicians.

  83. X.... ....

    I love how Yngwie can do a cover and make it his but still preserve the escence of the original.

  84. j.... j....

    first couple of seconds you can just hear that strat sound such a responsive guitar

  85. T.... M....

    @bklynboy68

    Everyone knows that Jürgen Blackmore is Ritchie's son, LOL.

  86. D.... ....

    @Georgios00 blackmore and classical influences more than Uli although him too but very little

  87. M.... ....

    I'd take Roth's to this anyday, not trashing yngwie though

  88. K.... ....

    Which is better? Scorpions or Yngwie? I can't tell, but to think this version here is anything else than badass is foolish!

  89. �.... �....

    @useemusic1 taken by force SCORPIONS

  90. A.... ....

    @MrHeavyMetalx Enjoy and may I say,there's no such thing as too much guitar!

  91. 4.... ....

    @texasriot it's poor man

  92. E.... ....

    fantastic cover!

  93. T.... ....

    @useemusic1 If you like this album you'd maybe like Facing the Animal (1998). It isn't cover songs but a "similarish" sound.

  94. T.... M....

    @gggggggggggggggg5262

    Yes this would be a good thing........then people would stop trying to post so many negative messages about Yngwie constantly comparing him to Uli.

    As I stated a long time ago.......this video is not about comparison. It is about enjoyment of the music...........regardless of who is playing it.

  95. g.... ....

    I would like to see Uli and Yngwie on stage together.That would be a great show im sure...

  96. w.... k....

    @Georgios00 Yes Uli is one of the reason. The others are Ritchie and Jimi..

  97. w.... k....

    Strange, it seems that Yngwie took Blackmore and Roth's styles of guitar playing and merge them into his own style...

  98. A.... D....

    @MrHeavyMetalx yes you may :-) and you are correct