Testament - Return to Serenity
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2009
- Testament - 10. Return to Serenity - The Ritual
[Music: Peterson]
[Lyrics: Billy, James, Peterson]
I'm gonna take you
To a place far from here
No one will see us
Watch the pain as it disappears
No time for anger
No time for despair
Won't you come with me
There's a room for us there
This innocent beauty
My words can't describe
This rebirth purity
Brings a sullen tear right to your eyes
No time for anger
No time for despair
Please let me take you
'cause I'm already there
I'm so alone
My head's my home
I'll return to serenity
Rhyme without reason is why children cry
They see through the system
That's breeding them just so they die
So please let me take you
And I'll show you the truth
Inside my reality
We shared in youth
[CHORUS :]
I'm so alone
My head's my home
And I feel
So alone
You know
At last
I'll return to serenity
Now that I've taken you
To a place far from here
I really must go back
Close your eyes and we'll disappear
Won't you come with me
Salvation we'll share
Inside of my head now
There's a room for us there
[CHORUS :]
One of the finest solos ever written.
Disples of the watch has a amazing solo as well
@@robertpacho9955 *Disciples of the watch
@@robertpacho9955I like the version from the first strike still deadly album
Trail of tears is amazing
Enough said 😭
Man this takes me back to my teenage years when life was amazing hanging out with best friends watching Headbanger's ball, smokin pot, hot girls and old muscle cars. Now 50 years old and serious health issues and don't see me living to see 55. I play this music and I'm back to being a happy teenager but then realize I'm so alone and will be til I pass away but hopefully were ever my soul goes I will still here this music 🖤
You lived through a golden age of metal music, you always have that.
Stay strong brother, I know... those were some special times. But everything ends at some point , and at every ending there is a new beginning. You have a friend in everyone
I want to say to you my brother that I wish you the very best of the rest of your life and the metal gods will be holding a place for us 'head bangers' when we attend that eternal gig in the sky 🌌🤘🖤
Serenity my brother!
abi...
Who would believe that a thrash metal band could have written such a poetic song? One of the finest pieces of music i have ever heard.
Metallica Fade to Black, Megadeth In My Darkest Hour
@@ali965 in my darkest hour is such a good song so is fade to black but the solos dont even come close to alex's
@@finallydan I agree. As far as solos go, Alex wins. But for lyrics and riffs, Megadeth and Metallica win
It is the thrash metal/or any metal bands that produce the best shit
All these old thrash bands were so diverse, to play the heaviest songs to the most beautiful songs , thats why gen x is so musically diverse lol imo 😮
2020. This song still kicks ass and those solos are legendary!!
Year 999999999 and it will be the same.
and that lick...you know the one.🎸💕🤘
Fucken oath 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
And I feeeeel ... sooooo alone....!!
Cult
This is one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard...and it took a metal band to write it.
alxk78 so beautiful
Yes it is
Some of the best ballads are written by Metal bands
@@arvindshastry1178 I am new to metal and was looking for ballads or songs that are melodic.. can you recommend me some songs?
@@MrShahid0072 Metallica- Fade to Black
Testament- Trail of Tears
Testament- The Legacy
Metallica- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Megadeth- A toute le monde
Megadeth- in my darkest hour
Testament- Musical Death
Pantera- Cemetery Gates
Pantera- Hollow
Pantera- Suicide Note part 1
Judas Priest- Here comes the tears
Iron Maiden- Wasted Love
Pantera- This Love
Metallica- One
Slayer- Necrophiliac
Megadeth- Hangar 18
Megadeth- Tornado of Souls
Annihilator- Crystal Ann
Slayer- South of Heaven
Slayer- Spill the Blood
You won't hear today's bands make music at this level.
Testament is a national fucking treasure of the USA. The Native American roots run deep.
Long Live TESTAMENT! \m/ \m/
Thats right brother
Testament is awesome far beyond driven.....
part of the Pomo tribe
agreed, he is pomo tribe if you didn't know. peace
I fucking love this song.
+Odorf Swardson ..Me too..i've been putting it on repeat..The vocals,etc...Alex's guitar solo at the beginning of the song,and the 2nd solo are fuckin ripping!
+after shock Yes! The guitars get under my skin in the best way possible!
Hell yes!..Love his style of playing..one of my other favorites from them is the persecuted won't forget...
👍
+Nazgûl, Fool Frodo... Baggins....
One of the greatest songs ever written. Horribly underrated. That guitar solo!
Lyrics:
I'm gonna take you to a place far from here
No one will see us
Watch the pain as it disappears
No time for anger
No time for despair
Won't you come with me
There's room for us there
This innocent beauty
My words can't describe
This rebirth to purity
Brings a sullen tear right to your eyes
No time for anger
No time for despair
Please let me take you
'Cause I'm already there
I'm so alone
My head's my home
I'll return to serenity
Rhyme without reason is why children cry
They see through the system
That's breeding them just so they die
So please let me take you
And I'll show you the truth
Inside my reality
We shared in my youth
I'm so alone
My head's my home
And I feel
So alone (so)
You know
At last (at last)
I return to serenity
Now that I've taken you to a place far from here
I really must go back
Close your eyes and we'll disappear
Won't you come with me
Salvation we'll share
Inside of my head now
There's room for us there
I'm so alone
My head's my home
And I feel
So alone (so)
You know
At last (at last)
I return to serenity
Thank you!😀
And all we sign!!
Thanks
Man I fucking love finding gems like this
"I'm so alone. My head's my home"
And i feel...
So alone, so alone...
🤣
I return to serenity
Si
2023 and Alex Skolnick still gets best guitar solo . Way underated guitar player. Love this song!
I freakin love this song. It’s like Testament’s version of Fade to Black.
KoolKid 101 exactly what i thougt
way... way better than fade to black
@@SaxonChronicles I wouldn't go THAT far. They're both equally amazing songs. Fade to Black is my favorite song of all time!
Shits on fade to black
Exactly!!!
This song reminds me of my 1st boyfriend: he showed me Testament. And we listened to this song a lot together when we were teens. It still brings me tears to my eyes when I listen to it.
He was a guitarist.
Testament is just one of the best bands in all of metal
+Cristian Toadsage Yeah......Thank for testament sir.
testament is a great metal band, but do play a mean ballad!!
Fucking A
What r the other best bands???!
In all of music!
Return to Serenity and Legacy are best ballads not only of Testament, but all metal in general.
Agreed
And The Ballad.
Of all music in general, not just metal!!🖤
No matter how low you feel.
Just listen to that Solo.
Just listen...
Clearly one of the greatest solos in all metal. I was quite surprised when I heard this because literally no one talks about this being among the best solos in metal. Such an underrated classic.
That solo gives me goosebumps no matter how many times I hear it.
mann same,
holy shit this is exactly what I tell people when I show them this song
Alex Fucking Skolnick!!
He's so badass that he is plays jazz too......
Yea, but the sodding thing was shorter on the original CD.
I got it when it came out and i swear he dropped the solo at like 4:13..
EDIT ... oh, here it is, look: ?v=gJKi8LQgixc
Love the good old days
this song helps anyone who is turmoil or in a current state of hell find serenity .. thanks Testament .
this is true,i,find serenity with this song
I was planning to tell my crush that I love her by playing this track at school gig but last week I learnt she has a gf. I hope I can find her, find serenity.
Egemen Kaya that's some heavy duty shit
jeff cordova Do you know what's the worst? I am happy too when she is. But I don't know if she's happy or not. So, I sometimes think if she would be happier with me but, after all, I can't make her break up with his gf. I don't think I could stand seeing her sea-blue eyes like a muddy stream, misty and swollen. I can't make people -especially her- sad just to be happy.
jeff cordova There is another thing. Even if she breaks up and I succeed to sing/play this, and she refuses, I won't be able to forget her. Because I will see her everyday in school, like if she doesn't want me to forget her.
One of the best solos you will ever hear
that solos gotta be one of the greatest of all time man
The best goddamn solo I've ever heard and that's years of listing to rock of all eras.
Yes
FKN right!!
Definitely was feeling that one....
It's good, but not the greatest. No way. Many many more are way better.
This guitar speaks to my very soul. It's like having an out of body experience.
A definition of a perfect solo!!!
Takes me back to my old days ,i was a teen by then i bought this casette ( those times there was no cd ) it was somewhere in 1994 I was a loner .I remember i use to sit alone at night in my room stoned or downed with a bit of whisky .Ahh those years i still recall.Testament ,Sodom many bands I had in my collection .I remember i had to throw two trunks of casette since CD player and DVD player has arrive in the market,and there were no spare parts for my deck (cassete player ) to repair .
One of the greatest guitar solos of all time!
Whenever my 4 month old daughter has a crying fit and nothing else works I put this song on and instantly she stops
Matthew Gamma this is the best comment ever. Im gonna have to try this for my granddaughter when she gets here.
Matthew Gamma now that's parenting done right... :-D
skindred: nobody
Matthew Gamma now she’s a bit older does it still work?
That's the power of Testament! :)
This song is till as fucking awesome now as it was when it came out.
Correct (y)
+Manuel Kraus yes it will live forever
John Baltes Amen brother it's the whole song too the other ones cut off part of it and I hate that!
John Baltes This song is a blissful journey!
Agreed!
This song is one of those absolute things that have no time remain engraved in eternity as a thing that does not belong to any age and will never age suspended in eternity.
Great solo, great intro, great vocals. This song is obviously 10/10!
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actually not great vocals
Testament türk grubu zaten
unas de las bandas de trhrash metal menos considerada! sin embargo su poder es majestuoso! f'n rules!
Yet somehow the acoustic version is even better
That solo still goosebump inducing 30 years later 🤘
Thank you Chuck. Thank you Eric. Thank you Alex. Thank all of you. This song has meant more to for decades than anyone could imagine. Not enough thank you's for it. The absolutely most beautiful metal song ever written. Nothing else i can say..
This band is soooo underrated, it is golden.
I was in school, when this song/album came out. No one in my class listened to this music except me. I'm proud, the music from Testament is still alive and being heard. :)
IxLOVExEMILY can relate to this also
HOLY S**T!!!! After all these years, that solo gives this old guy chills!!
Phil Jackman same here
Add one more
Me too
If that solo gave you goosebumps this ones gonna turn you 2 a block of ice!😍 Enjoy!!!
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Add me too
That solo gives me Goosebumps every time man
My ex-husband turned me onto this song way back in the 90’s. I’ve loved this song always
Testament saved my life. I am forever indebted.
i just saw these guys at house of blues!! myrtle beach. and being 19. none of my friends even heard of them. my dad grew me up on these guys. one of the best bands ive ever heard. and most definitely the BEST and MOST amazing live concert ive ever been too. i didnt even care about slayer or the other band. once testament got on. it was a wrap. testament ROCKS. i can easily say they have not saved but set my life for me.
+zack smith They were just here at MYTH in MN. Carcass was the first act and they are certainly better live than catching up to their music on YT. TESTAMENT was for sure brutal!! Loved it all the way through that set. Billy looks good again and his mic is his favorite air guitar haha. Slayer was undoubtedly Slayer. Tommy seemed irked at Myths sound guy on the main vocals box and called out "Where's Jeremy? This guy should be fired". Tom said "As long as it sounds good to you guys" and the crowd erupted. But yeah, he was very quiet in between sets talking to the crowd like maybe he was ill. Still rocked my drums all the way home.
GOD BLESS YOU, MAN!!!!
How?
@@jonclarkson5911, usually testaments are accompanied by money and goods.
My dad showed me this song in On July 3rd 2020 because he knew I loved Testament, and he absolutely loved this song when it came out and I’m glad he showed me this song because it’s definitely one of my favourites
one of the best solos ever. Alex is a genius.
I was 19 and still am listening to this. Thank you
This is my go to when my depression is crushing the life of of me. I cry every time I hear it, but it's a good, needed cry.
I just think back to the time I first heard this song and where I was in life and remember thinking this is the most beautiful ballad I've ever heard from any metal band.
I shed a tear everytime I listen to this song.
So, Thank You Testament...
What a beauty you created!!
This song speaks to my soul. Testament is by far one of the best bands on the planet!!!!!!!
Hope you already listened to their new album Brotherhood of the snake... It´s totally badass!!! I fuckin love this band forever...
never care santuary is never lost
They truly are.
Literally one of the *BEST* pieces of music ever written
Alex really is a tasteful player. As a kid i loved George Lynch and Marty Friedman , Alex also manages to put so much emotion through his instrument. Well done man!
Funny I didn't know this band when I was looking for heavy bands to listen to. I was looking for some uplifting and heavy Christian songs and found this! This is what its all about. Love and the peace of Love. The world is full of lies and society is a lost place for lost souls who have been taught to be down on themselves for everything. It breeds fear and fear breeds hatred and anger and resentment for each other. Its all a lie! We don't hate anyone. We are encouraged to and we are only human with human emotions and weaknesses. We might get angry with others and the things they do but inside us we do not hate them. We are not each others enemies. We are all together trying to get through the same 24 hours together. No one of us is perfect and every one of us has done someone wrong in our lives and inside we did not feel good about it. We are not designed to hate each other. We were made to love each other and lift each other up. We all suffer in our own way. We can all take the suffering of one day but when we hold onto the past and worry about the future we get paralysed with fear and anxiety. Its not real! Today is real Now is real. Tomorrow is unborn and we have no stake in it. We can not reach tomorrow but through today and we can not get through today with out the here and now and who we are right now is who we are and we can chose love right now. Do not regret the past and do not be ashamed anymore. Its ok. We are not saints. We can make the change in our hearts today. Feel the love. Its real. It in you. When you see a person walking down the street you do not know think to yourself I love this person even though I do not know them. They are here in front of me and a wonder of nature. They have a life and a heart and troubles and pain. They know suffering and fear and are often confused and afraid. They are not as they might seem inside their hearts and they are one of us. We are all just human beings. We are stronger together and when we love each other we are all the same and a force to be reckoned with.
We are labeled and shuffled into a class system to keep us divided and to keep us from loving each other. Don't listen to the lies. Don't be fooled by the Devil because he wants you to suffer in loneliness. We don't have to suffer in loneliness. Maybe Love made you suffer when someone you lived so much left you or was lost forever. they are in you if they loved you and you loved them. We are one in Love and we become a part of each others so deeply and this is why it hurts so much. To know that hurt is to know love and to have known its wonder and comfort. Take the pain and embrace it and know that person is still with you in love. Love can not die or be broken. We never stop loving someone but we can get confused and lost in the sea of the world. Love is pure and true and never lies. God is love. We feel the Love he gave us. It is not something we earn. It is ours. We all come from the same seeds of life. We are literally brothers and sisters in the flesh and blood no matter what our background or beliefs or race or religion or age or size or shape. It is good to be loved but even better to love.
Smile at that stranger and know they feel the love when you smile at them Be kind to others and pay it forward for you have been loved. People need love today more than ever. Pay it forward. You can make an impact today. When we show love to a stranger they will in turn show love to another and so on. It causes a domino affect and when we do this every day we can see thee change in the community around us. We find we belong and have a purpose in our community and even a responsibility to it as part of it. We are all important. Very important. You are important to me today. I love you as I love my family or myself. I do not need to know who you have been to know who you are today today is a new day. I know you inside. I know your heart is like my heart. I know we all are at a different place in our walk and that's ok. Today is a new day to celebrate the air and sky and the beauty of nature and freedom of being in charge of our hearts. We have ourselves and np one can ever take that away form us until we leave this earth. No one can get inside and change us or force our hearts. We can be led and confused and misdirected but we have a chose today to listen to our consciences that are never wrong and never lie to us. Trust your gut feelings and let them guide you today. Be motivated to do right by your conscience and you will now who you are with no doubt in yourself. You are a good person inside and you are better than you think. Don't be held back and told not to believe in yourself. You are an amazing creation. You have a power in you that is stronger than fear or anxiety or unworthiness. You have the power trot impact the world around you with your heart.
I remember being a teenager and dated this boy who loved Testament. He would play this song on repeat in his bedroom while we would do it. I'm 43 now. I may have forgotten his last name but I will never forget this song! :)
Nothing sends our minds flying backward through time like memorable music.
My days with this album were dark days, indeed. I would never want to relive them, but nor should I forget. They all but created me.
Just moved to another country for work, homesick as hell. Been blasting this more. Definitely therapeutic.
This is the best song to linger on the car after a days' work and parking home. What a trip to serenity.
This solo is soooooooo underrated... Yet it's in my opinion the absolute greatest solo ever
The guitar solo is total *SERENITY* 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻
How the hell do people give this song a thumbs down?!?
Musically Retarded they are
Crazy people.
I used to listen to this song over and over again as a kid. Just got done doing it again. Miss those days so much.
testament makes the best ballads in metal
I haven't heard this song in 15 years and I regret it! I still remember every note in it, I used to listen to this album all day on my cassette player! For some reason the lyrics of that album took me to a wonderful place.
+Mustafa Dasuki a place far from here?
I didn't no is so old. By the way
The Classix of all time!!!!! I want this song To be played In my Funeral!!!!!
damn... this song deserves 2 billion views
Whenever I’m going through some shit, I always come back to this song. It levels me out……every time.
Such a beautiful song takes me to my teenage years gives me chills every time
I listen to this when i go to sleep, every night. Best ballad ever written.
One of the best solos ever
That is the best guitar solo I've ever heard
2023 and still on my playlist. Shut up now and listen! Beats the shit out of a lot.
So beautiful it makes you cry.
Skolnik should be on every damn top guitarist/solo list for this solo alone. Absolutely sick, easily my top five solos ever, and probably number one metal solo with Tornado of Souls for me. Skolnik and Friedman are immense.
Friedman is very, very good, and I love Alex's work in this song.
Yes skolnik is supertalented
Meu caro, concordo com voce mas esse guitarrista é o Glen Alvelais...
Ele fez parte do Testament e que na minha opnião foi umas das melhores formações: Chuck Billy / Paul Bostaph / Chuck Billy
Eric Peterson / Glen Alvelais,
2 of my favorites
Skolnick's fucking solos + the drums = heartbreaking.
Masterpiece from beggining to the end.
I listen to this song at least 100 times per week for 2 decades 🖤😭
That solo gets me every time!
Found this album on vinyl at a record store today, immediately back into my teen years. Damn I forgot how good this band actually is
This album came out right at the end of my senior year in high school. Epic time for metal. So many kick ass albums and bands in the late 80's/early 90's.
CaptainColdyron222 You must've graduated same year as I did then in 92. For some reason I thought this was in the fall of 1990 when it came out.
my senior year also. I had almost forgotten it. that was a great album
Incredible, powerful, beautiful. The composition of the guitar solo is phenomenal. Very underrated song from an underrated band.
This solo is definitely among my top 10 all time favorites
8 months later..... I was just about to comment about this solo
before finding this.
@@zweihanderr221don't worry, I come back to this solo all the time too.
Mine too!
What a Damn Amazing Song!!! The Guitar Solo Is So Incredible Amazing
Gives Me Goosebumps Brilliant
hi hunny..yeah n ice song...
Shawn Khan
Hi. .Yeah It's Damn Incredible Amazing Awesome, I Love It
\m/♥\m/
great but you should have heard their 4 albums before this one
try listening to musical death a dirge.song off testaments second album called the new order. a true ballad masterpiece in my book
Hi baby...
Não há melhor lugar do que retornar para a serenidade!
Exatamente, ainda mais com um solo foda como dessa música. Não tem quem não retorne a serenidade kkkk
"Serenity Now😌Insanity Later🤬"
Testament was one of the bands I discovered on my own. One of the only bands that was "mine". At 48, i still feel the same. Even though me mom used to call them "Testamony" in the late 80"s. LOL Still love this band.
I remember when I first saw this back in 93' on headbanger's ball I was 11. After all these year's still been jamming this song.
Quién quiere llorar conmigo y a la vez escuchamos una de las mejores baladas de la historia del metal?! y que solo!!!
ES UNA OBRA MAESTRA LA PRIMERA VEZ QUE LA ESCUCHE ME ENCANTO,PENSE QUE EL SOLO ERA DE ALEX PERO ES GLEN ALVELAIS.🤘🏼🍺
One of the most underrated song ever !
Heavy Metal Blues for the soul man! Skolnicks guitar solo is just fuckin awesome! This album takes me back,TESTAMENT FOREVER!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
THIS SHIFTS TIMELINES...PURE PEACE ❤
I like that hard rock theme
Found that song right now, just when I’m facing my adiction in a rehab institute in 🇧🇷!
God bless the Metal!!! 🤘🏼
Ouve a versão acoustic live at the Fillmore
I sat at the cemetery today and listened to this, most beautiful moment. It's so relaxing.
Monika Jauregui something tells me you're into some weird, kinky ass shit
Monika Jauregui That's metal
Chuck n his soft side lol
Ur awesome
I love your hair
🤘😜 YESSSSS!!!! First Time I heard this whole album is when I was 10yrs old. What are the odds of me finding this album on the side of the rail road tracks....
Finally, I have started listening to the music by Testament. 🙏❤️
I can so relate my heads my home!
I literally can’t relate to anyone and ground myself to whatever I have to this solo is my absolute fav the rifts are insane up down up down emotions. Hell yeah!!!🙌🙌🙌
Nostalgia never sounded so good. Such a sweet tune
Won't you come with me
Salvation we'll share
Inside of my head now
There's room for us there ✝️
Never will get old!!
In the vacuum of space when "hair metal" died out, and grunge rock was still being birthed in the American Northwest, we were gifted this.
Bow to it. Bow Deeply.
This was the first Testament song I had ever heard and I fell in love with the band.
Same here. It's a beautiful song.
Jamed this in the back in the mid 90s ... I still love it !!!!
Beach Girl same here. This became one of my favorite songs by far. And Alex Skolnick my favorite guitar player.
This song just does not get old. Ever. Awesome track
I think i used to hear this on the metal shop show, early 90s, i was working off my fine at the police department i eventually ended up as a casino dealer, thanks 2 my mom, believing in me, but i love this song, it reminds me of lost hope n i hung in there and things got good enough;), not lottery good nuff but good nuff
e police dept ;)😊
This song bring back so many memories.....excellent trip back in time.
Who here in September 2019? Timeless master piece 😜
Neil Fox Dec. 2019
Fuck off w these stupid questions. We've been listening this since it came out and will in future
In January 2020...
One of most underrated songs !!🎶🤘
Music is my favorite art form. Testament is my favorite art form.
Remember when this came out. Absolute kick ass guitar lead break...only reason I bought the CD ( We did that back then. )
you went to a store & brought a physical copy :|
ElectricMahatama Dude, it was when it came out. Granted, that was a world you could never understand. There was a day when I bought Albums that we played on a turn table with a needle. Then we hunted Elk for dinner to roast over the fire pit.
+Pete Zereeah sounds fucking awesome
and it still kicks ass.
fuck yeah we did, walked 20 miles in the snow with no shoes to buy the new shit