DISCOGRAPHY

November 24, 2017

Sony Music Germany

ALBUM PERFORMERS

Born To Touch Your Feelings – Best Of Rock Ballads

1.	Born to Touch Your Feelings (Studio Edit)	LYRICS I was born from the sound oft he strings For someone to give everything To be a song just for your feeling Close your eyes and I'll try to get in To waken your heart like the spring 'cos I was born to touch your feelings Steal the time, take a song and be glad Be free as the birds, don't be sad Your time will come. I'll make you feel it You're still young like the sun after rain Follow the light, it's not in vain And you will see I'll touch your feelings. You've got your songs, they are everyday For a while, just the only way To feel allright... You were born just to lose or to win To be someone's child in the wind To live between your mind and feelings Find your way, check it out, learn each day Follow the light , it's not in vain And you will see I'll touch your feelings. You've got your songs, they are everyday For a while. just the only way To feel allright	4:01
2.	Still Loving You	LYRICS Time, it needs time To win back your love again I will be there, I will be there Love, only love Can bring back your love someday I will be there, I will be there I'll fight, babe, I'll fight To win back your love again I will be there, I will be there Love, only love Can break down the wall someday I will be there, I will be there If we'd go again All the way from the start I would try to change The things that killed our love Your pride has built a wall, so strong That I can't get through Is there really no chance To start once again I'm loving you Try, baby try To trust in my love again I will be there, I will be there Love, our love Just shouldn't be thrown away I will be there, I will be there If we'd go again All the way from the start I would try to change The things that killed our love Your pride has built a wall, so strong That I can't get through Is there really no chance To start once again If we'd go again All the way from the start I would try to change The things that killed our love Yes, I've hurt your pride, and I know What you've been through You should give me a chance This can't be the end I'm still loving you I'm still loving you, I need your love I'm still loving you	06:42
3.	Wind of Change	LYRICS I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change An August summer night Soldiers passing by Listening to the wind of change The world is closing in Did you ever think That we could be so close, like brothers The future's in the air I can feel it everywhere Blowing with the wind of change Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away) In the wind of change Walking down the street Distant memories Are buried in the past forever I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams) With you and me Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night (the glory night) Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away) In the wind of change (the wind of change) The wind of change Blows straight into the face of time Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell For peace of mind Let your balalaika sing What my guitar wants to say Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams) With you and me (with you and me) Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away) In the wind of change (in the wind of change)	05:08
4.	Always Somewhere	LYRICS Arrive at seven the place feels good No time to call you today Encores till eleven then Chinese food Back to the hotel again I call your number the line ain't free I like to tell you come to me A night without you seems like a lost dream Love I can't tell you how I feel Always somewhere Miss you where I've been I'll be back to love you again Another morning another place The only day off is far away But every city has seen me in the end And brings me to you again Always somewhere Miss you where I've been I'll be back to love you again	04:55
5.	Send Me an Angel (Acoustic Version 2017)	LYRICS The wise man said just walk this way To the dawn of the light The wind will blow into your face As the years pass you by Hear this voice from deep inside It's the call of your heart Close your eyes and your will find The passage out of the dark Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star The wise man said just find your place In the eye of the storm Seek the roses along the way Just beware of the thorns Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star The wise man said just raise your hand And reach out for the spell Find the door to the promised land Just believe in yourself Hear this voice from deep inside It's the call of your heart Close your eyes and your will find The way out of the dark Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star	04:21
6.	Holiday	LYRICS Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Exchange the cold days for the sun A good time and fun Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Exchange your troubles for some love Wherever you are Let me take you far away You'd like a holiday Longing for the sun you will come To the island without name Longing for the sun be welcome On the island many miles away from home Be welcome on the island without name Longing for the sun you will come To the island many miles away from home	06:27
7.	Eye of the Storm (Radio Edit)	LYRICS Another year is running through my veins Some moments wasted, some will remain The days are getting shorter and I try to drown my fears The shadows of the night slowly disappear Another day to leave it all behind Good morning life, so beautiful and bright I'm going back in time to the days when I was young And now it feels like life had just begun I'm on my way home, on my way home Yesterday seems long ago, so long ago I'm on my way home sending postcards home Greetings from the eye of the storm Another night, the curtain's coming down I hear the silence just screaming loud I can see the sunrise rising from the smoke Will you be there for me, will I ever know I'm on my way home, on my way home Yesterday seems long ago, so long ago I'm on my way home sending postcards home Greetings from the eye of the storm Rock the highway, Highway Star And bring me back, just bring me back to my Iove I'm on my way home, on my way home Yesterday seems long ago, so long ago I'm on my way home feelin’ high and low Greetings from the eye of the storm It’s been way too long I’m still living in the eye of the storm	03:21
8.	When the Smoke Is Going Down	LYRICS Just when you make your way back home I find some time to be alone I go to see the place once more Just like a thousand nights before I climb the stage again this night 'Cause the place seems still alive When the smoke is going down This is the place where I belong I really love to turn you on I've got your sound still in my ear While your traces disappear I climb the stage again this night 'Cause the place seems still alive When the smoke is going down I climb the stage again this night 'Cause the place seems still alive When the smoke is going down When the smoke is going down When the smoke is going down	03:50
9.	Lonely Nights	LYRICS Since you're gone There is an empty space Since you're gone The world is not the same I go back to the places we've been It feels like you're still there I live all those moments again Wishing you were here Since you're gone There is an lonely heart Since you're gone Nothin' is like it was There are memories all over the place Bringin' it back all so clear Remember all of those days Wishing you were here All those lonely nights I gotta fight for you, yes I do Yes I do Since you're gone There is a heart that bleeds Since you're gone I'm not the man I used to be I follow you steps in the snow The traces disappear We know what we've lost when it's gone I'm wishing you were here All those lonely nights I gotta fight for you, yes I do Yes I do	04:48
10.	Gypsy Life	LYRICS Here I go again Feels like once upon a time But this is here and now You can try to read my mind Well, life has given me so much And so much more True Iove is hard to find When you're on the run While all those years go by The clock is ticking way too fast And I just ask myself What is going to be last I’ve seen it all, but still I've seen nothing yet at all So I'm still looking for Some diamonds and pearls Bye-bye, girl There's a road I gotta find Called the gypsy life I miss that life Like a good old friend Well, friends they come and go Some are here and some are gone And when the sun goes down I will walk this road alone But now I´m here with you And my heart is full of hope That life will bring me back lnto your open arms   Bye-bye, girl There's a road I gotta find Called the gypsy life I miss that life Like a good old friend Bye-bye, girl There's a dream that's still alive It will take some time A long, long time Until I'm back again	04:50
11.	House of Cards (Single Edit)	LYRICS Sometimes I walk mysterious places Hear voices that talk without a word to say Sometimes I hear the echoes of laughter In the twilight of affairs and other tragedies A half-moon away, way too dose to heaven She had the Iook, but no morality Sometimes it's easy to forget only for a moment But there are nights you regret eternally Whatever frozen hearts can do Will melt the ice away How you know what it's like When good luck has changed the sides And no sun shines in the dark and no angels Ever hear your prayers in the night When your fears come up your spine When your life turns upside down it breaks your heart When you get crushed in a house of cards House of cards It´s so hard to find a way when life is in pieces And the taste of a kiss is so bittersweet Sometimes it's easy to forget only for a moment But the man who'll rise up from the ashes is no one else but me l'm standing in a waterfall To wash the lies away How you know what it's like When good luck has changed the sides And no sun shines in the dark and no angels Ever hear your prayers in the night When your fears come up your spine When your life turns upside down it breaks your heart House of cards Whatever frozen hearts can do Will melt the ice away How you know what it's like When good luck has changed the sides And no sun shines in the dark and no angels Ever hear your prayers in the night When your fears come up your spine When your life turns upside down and there is no one You get crushed in a house of cards House of cards	04:27
12.	The Best Is Yet to Come	LYRICS Across the desert plains Where nothing dares to grow I taught you how to sing You taught me everything I know And thought the night is young And we don't know if we'll live to see the sun The best is yet to come I know, you know That we've only just begun Through the highs and lows And how can I live without you You're such a part of me And you've always been the one Keeping me forever young And the best is yet to come Na na na na Don't look now, the best is yet to come Na na na na Take my hand, the best is yet to come Thinking of the times How we laughed and cried I wouldn't change a thing I couldn't even if I tried Through the wind and rain The spirit of our song remains the same And the best is yet to come I know, you know That we've only just begun Through the highs and lows And how can I live without you You're such a part of me And you've always been the one Keeping me forever young And the best is yet to come Na na na na Don't look now, the best is yet to come Na na na na Take my hand, the best is yet to come Oh can you feel it in the air It's in your heart and everywhere We got to keep that dream alive We cross another road And face another day Soldiers never die They only fade away How can we grow old When the soundtrack of our lives is rock and roll And the best is yet to come I know, you know That we've only just begun Through the highs and lows And how can I live without you You're such a part of me And you've always been the one Keeping me forever young And the best is yet to come Na na na na Don't look now, the best is yet to come Na na na na Take my hand, the best is yet to come Na na na na Don't look now, the best is yet to come Na na na na Take my hand, the best is yet to come	04:31
13.	When You Came into My Life (Studio Edit)	LYRICS You give me your smile A piece of your heart You give me the feel I've been looking for You give me your soul Your innocent love You are the one I've been waiting for I've been waiting for We're lost in a kiss A moment in time Forever young Just forever, just forever in love When you came into my life It took my breath away Cause your love has found it's way To my heart Ooh, ahh Ooh, ahh You make me dream By the look in your eyes You give me the feel, I've been longing for I wanna give you my soul All my life Cause you are the one I've been waiting for I've been waiting for so long When you came into my life It took my breath away And the world stopped turnin' round For your love When you came into my life It took my breath away Cause your love has found it's way To my heart Into my heart Just forever in love When you came into my life It took my breath away And the world stopped turnin' round For your love When you came into my life It took my breath away Cause your love has found it's way To my heart When you came into my life When you came into my life It took my breath away And the world stopped turnin' round For your love When you came into my life It took my breath away Cause your love has found it's way To my heart	03:29
14.	Lady Starlight	LYRICS Walking through a winter night, Counting the stars And passing time I dream about the summer days, Love in the sun And lonely bays I see the stars, they're miles and miles away Like our love, On one of these lonely winter nights Dreaming through a winter night, Memories of you are passing by It seems to me like yesterday I think you knew I couldn't stay I see the stars, they're miles and miles away Like our love Lady starlight, help me to find my love Lady starlight, help me tonight Help me to find my love Walking through a winter night, Counting the stars And passing time Snow dances with the wind I wish, I could be with you again I see the stars, they're miles and miles away Like our love Lady starlight, help me to find my love Lady starlight, help me tonight Help me to find my love Lady starlight, help me tonight Help me to find my love Lady starlight, help me tonight Help me to find my love	06:13
15.	Follow Your Heart	LYRICS Have you ever climbed a mountain? Have you ever crossed the sea? Take a look around the corner and listen to your heart beat Have you ever touched a rainbow Take a ride on a ferris wheel It takes one step to start a journey It’s up to you to make it real This is the time for yourself to be free You gotta follow your heart This is the time in your life and it’s never too late to see the light in the dark you gotta follow your heart Walking far away horizons ‘til we never walk alone Give me a home where your heart is A million miles away from home This is the time for yourself to be free You gotta follow your heart This is the time in your life and it’s never too late to see the light in the dark you gotta follow your heart Show me the way, who knows the way This is the only road to go Life brings me down, life takes me up And only, only heaven knows This is the time for yourself to be free You gotta follow your heart This is the time in your life and it’s never too late to see the light in the dark you gotta follow your heart You gotta follow your heart	04:05
16.	Melrose Avenue	LYRICS I didn’t know that I was waiting all this time for you A Melrose Avenue a sunny afternoon I saw you With you I could fly to the moon and never come back anytime soon with the snuff top down and the radio on Let the sun shine the light on you The California sky so blue You drive me crazy and there’s no girl like you, like you A Melrose Avenue It had to be a sign the changing of the lights and I knew That I’d take what I could get and you live in a Corvette will you too? For you I would do anything, I’d write you a song on my own six-string We could go to Vegas and I’d buy a ring Let the sun shine the light on you The California sky so blue You drive me crazy and there’s no girl like you, like you A Melrose Avenue Let the sun shine the light on you The California sky so blue You drive me crazy and there’s no girl like you, like you A Melrose Avenue Let the sun shine the light on you The California sky so blue You really turn me on and there’s no girl like you A Melrose Avenue A Melrose Avenue	03:30
17.	Always Be with You	LYRICS I don’t wanna leave and break the connection I don’t wanna leave I don’t know how to love but you’re the exception So it goes so it goes You saved the man I was and now I’m believing It changed the man I was I guess that you’re the reason I am breathing I only know what I know That where you go I will go You know you remind me of a love unsung Like something new Now that our time has only begun Love breaks through All through the years We’ll find our way to a better day No more tears I promise you I will always be with you I used to try and love but felt no affection I really tried to love I could never find the right direction And you know so it goes Easy come easy go I cannot take back what’s been said and done Things I can’t undo Now that our time has only begun Love breaks through All through the years We’ll find a way to a better day No more tears I promise you I’ll be with you All through the years We’ll find our way to a better day No more tears I promise you I will always be with you	03:29

ALBUM DETAILS

It’s a fall day in 2017 in New York City. The SCORPIONS kick off their US tour at Madison Square Garden, the most legendary of all legendary rock arenas. With more than twenty thousand fans in attendance, the show has been sold out for weeks. Some paid up to $600 for their ticket. After about an hour of hard rock tunes something strange transpires. Klaus Meine, the SCORPIONS’ lead singer, announces a ballad that’s usually not on the band’s US setlist: "Wind of Change". Twenty thousand people start to sing along. A cappella, by heart, empathetically. "Nowadays, ballads are the pinnacle of rock music,” says Meine. "If they’re well-written, they will go straight to the hearts of the fans." Ballads are the diamonds in between the amplitude of songs, the fundamental particle of rock music. Ballads float, weightlessly and effortlessly, and land right in the emotional part of the brain - the hypothalamus. The SCORPIONS, however, are internationally known as the grandmasters of ballads. "Growing up, we didn’t really listen to Mozart or Haydn but rather to Elvis, The Rolling Stones or Little Richard,” says the founder of the SCORPIONS, Rudolf Schenker. “But still, the more serious kind of music is what we were influenced by starting at a very young age. There’s no denying that." Kirk Hammett of Metallica once said, "The difference between the SORPIONS and us is best noticed in ballads. We have the blues in our blood - for them it’s classical music.”

The SCORPIONS have now put their most beautiful and most legendary ballads on a sampler and have topped it off with three recent ballad-like songs. Its title: "Born To Touch Your Feelings.” Which, as it happens, is the credo of Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, Pawel Maciwoda, and Mikkey Dee as well as a song from the band’s beginnings. As Klaus Meine puts it, "The meaning of a ballad always goes deep. It’s not surprising that a song like ‘Wind of Change’ is received euphorically in the US these days. The fans don’t connect the song to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the iron curtain but rather to their current situation, the desire for change, and the hope for a world without nuclear threats and civil wars as well as the longing for peace.”

As they were compiling the songs for their latest album, the SCOPRIONS were reminded of the timelessness of their ballads. It is not for nothing that they named the compilation after a song from 1977, "Born To Touch Your Feelings.”

"Throughout the decades,” says Matthias Jabs, "our fans have been associating us with great ballads like ‘Send Me An Angel,’ ‘Still Loving You,’ and ‘Holiday.’ And that’s very honorable."
The 1984 super hit "Still Loving You" was the reason why people in ballad-obsessed France were naming their babies Sly, the acronym for the song. Alongside the greatest SCORPIONS ballads other secret treasures are unfolding on the album such as "Gypsy Life,” "Eye Of The Storm,” and "When The Smoke Is Going Down.’’ The SCORPIONS redefine their musical foundation by these three wonderfully composed new ballads. "After my solo performance of ‘Follow Your Heart’ at our MTV Unplugged Concert in Athens," says Meine, "I was hoping to record a band version of the song which gives hope in difficult times and carries a message to the young generation to realize their dreams and to take charge of the future. Believe in yourself and follow only your heart."

"Always Be With You" is the brand new song by Rudolf Schenker. A deeply emotional declaration of love, as well as a story of change, it’s no coincidence that the exceptional guitarist and composer wrote this song after the birth of his youngest son.

"Melrose Avenue,” on the other hand, carries the name of arguably the most famous strip in Los Angeles and is the most recent song of Matthias Jabs. Its music perfectly captures the enchanting sense of life in California. Close your eyes, listen and start to dream: An invitation to an exciting trip to the West Coast of the United States.

It was 50 years ago that the first formation of the SCORPIONS was traveling in a rickety red VW bus to unload their equipment and play their rock music in pubs, garages, and backyards in the villages of Niedersachsen, Germany. From the very beginning the band had two almost apocalyptic goals. "First, we are going to limit ourselves to English lyrics, because, second, we are going to be one of the best rock bands on earth." What came next is music history. From winning the Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) as well as the Award for Best National Band (1992) at the most renowned German music awards ECHO, to winning the World Music Award(1994) and the Rock Walk of Fame, there aren’t many noteworthy awards the SCORPIONS haven’t won. Even the cataloging of their gold and platinum awards go against every reasonable summation; there are just too many. And there’s more every year. It’s only known that record sales are somewhere beyond 100 million.
Looking back at it, it’s intriguing how seemingly random everything fell into place. How an imaginative construct of rhythms, lyrics, melodies, and the band’s charisma turned into a collective hit - consistent in style and one of a kind.

One more thing accompanied the success story of the SCORPIONS: Outstanding artwork. Be it the super realistic art of Gottfried Helnwein ("Blackout") or Helmut Newton’s legendary photo on the cover of "Love At First Sting,” the cover on the packaging of the musical content was always worth its weight in gold.
For "Born To Touch Your Feelings" the band realized another significant coup: Ellen von Unwerth. The great woman of modern photography was responsible for the creation of its cover. "I am very happy. I didn’t have to persuade Ellen for very long to give us this fantastic picture for the new album,” says Klaus Meine.

The album production, on the other hand, was in the trusted hands of Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen. 40 years ago the song "Born To Touch Your Feelings" was released for the first time. Now it’s the title song of a truly wonderful album, and the emotionally involved reminiscence of a legendary band. 40 years. Half a lifetime. An entire world-career.

The new SCORPIONS album "Born To Touch Your Feelings - Best Of Rock Ballads" is available across the globe as 1CD and 2LP-Heavyweight Gatefold Vinyl edition, as well as download and stream, on November 24, 2017.