Yngwie Malmsteen - Pictures Of Home

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (on 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal,. It almost makes you forget that the great bulk of his music is so fast that it's unlistenable.

Pictures of Home


Somebody's shouting
Up at a mountain

Only my own words return
Nobody's up there
It's a deception
When will I ever learn?

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home

Wondering blindly
How can they find me
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow...

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home

Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there's no worship
Where have they hidden my thrown...

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home


Released 14 October 1996
Label Foundation

Personnel
Yngwie Malmsteen – guitars, bass
Joe Lynn Turner – vocals
Mats Olausson – keyboards
Anders Johansson – drums