The Great Escape

[I. ...and The Earth Wept]I tuck you in ever so gentlyStill you cried and turned from meYou stepped on my heartI forgave you just like mothers doFrom under your shoes I still carried youSoon my body will burn into ashes and dustAnd rain will turn all that glitter to rustOne last pill for the painSit down, let me explain...Why my bruises stayMy child I know you never meant to...These scars just won't fade awayAnd I'm sure you never knewI give up, I give inHelp December let a new year beginTake what's left and move onFly awayBe gone...[II. A Poisoned Land][Instrumental][III. Leaving Home]The morrow winds blow and herald a timeWhen man will be damned for all his crimeWe all were too bold, now we all can seeHow the lifegiver's bleeding to death before meI am packing my bags, I'm waiting in lineThis tragedy forces us away from this landAs I board this creature of steel,I kiss her goodbye, give her time to heal[IV. Take-off]Loud sirens wail to send aGoldonder towards the lightLeaving the ground we bathe in starlightWhile heading for oceans of nightSafe in Aniara's warm and tender care we rideEight thousand hearts that fled the firesFor a life at a distant home[V. A Turn For The Worst]A swerve to clear the Hondo stone(Now we proclaim it known)Took us off course came too wide of Mars to turn back homeThere's no turning back, guiding units broke and crackedWe will never win this gameFrom pledges and bonds, our system of sunslocked down its vaulted gatewayIn thousands of years ram through the final frontierThe Lyre greets us thereOur ship at drift into the voidThrough nothingness deployedWith an empty stare become awareOur lives destroyedFears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsidesWe can never win this gameFrom pledges and bonds, our system of sunsLocked down its vaulted gatewayIn thousands of years ram through the final frontierA moth to a flame[VI. A New Balance]Glass-like is the stare encircling usThe systems of stars hang frozen still...a gaze through the windowSix years down the line we still feign dawn and sunsetBut space no light will spawn...eternally darkerNow setting sailsBut never know the world she's treadingWhere the life belongsMima lead the way;Shine your light, be the beacon of hope at nightBe our guide, I need what you're doing to meShine your light, blind us when reality bitesWe so need the magic she doesI asked me a question, no replyI dreamt me a life and lived a lie...dream me a nightmareI traveled the stars but passed them byFor trapped on Aniara, here was I...always been leavingWe sit and stare,At all the marvels that she brings usLights the life in youMima lead the way;Shine your light, be the beacon of hope at nightPerfect grace in the barren house of spaceShine your light, blind us when reality bitesMima, save us from seeing ourselves[VII. Death Of The Goddesses]Inside the Mima's eyes, we lived our livesThen like an arrow through this jestDestiny sent us a greeting from home, let us see;We have no home anymoreWhile Mima showed the final warHer circuits bled and fried, as our mother diedShe's darkened by our sinsWe begin to realize itWhen I saw home so blue, be torn in twoAll by the hands of her own childHumanity; the festering cancer thatDug her own graveWe have no home anymoreWhile Mima showed the final warHer circuits bled and fried, seems she too will dieShe couldn't bear to see what will beOur haven's dyingI couldn't stop them if I triedAs they all rushed to see her dieChaos, panic, people fightI can't see, I will not, I won'tOur way of life is overthrownIs there really no way? Let us turn back time![VIII. The Age Of Confusion: Despair]In this deafening silence people mournWe've cried us a riverWho knows where all laughter be?On whom we place the blame?Her demise was theirs!Stained by their disease her screen recedesOur real eyes realizedThey beguile us all with their minds[IX. The Age Of Confusion: Lust]Our lusting flesh and piety,All coexist in the mistPut aside your chastity,Unveiling skin, magical sinControls the pile of heaving flesh,A twisted queen;"Sleep with me and work the loinsThe mind will stray, yield of life"[X. The Age Of Confusion: Reason]And as the orgies all fadeAnd lust no longer attractsThen the brain will subdue the fleshPut the focus on factsHuman brain was a shameful part,Low names were high for loins and for breastsUs Hades may harvest,Fully at its behest[XI. The Aftermath]I still cry and I still miss herI was just a little boyRunning through the endless garden of our homeAway some say never, everWe'll leave this god forsaken placeAnd ten thousand shiversRemain as we partWe're holding on, within our cradle of confusionWe paint no rainbows in the darkNo one will ever see us fade awayOh for so long, I was the wielder of illusionsOur goddess gave in when she sawThat we had killed the earth and burnt to flamesEvery smile on every face hereFell and crashed to the floorAll alone in the world crying desperatelyAway some say never, everWe'll leave this god forsaken placeAnd ten thousand shiversRemain as we partWe're holding on, within our cradle of confusionWe paint no rainbows in the darkNo one will ever see us fade awayOh for so long, I was the wielder of illusionsBut there's no hiding what we areWe are the plague of all,For humanity there is no cureGod and Satan hand in handThrough the badlandTook a flight uphill and down from manA king with ashen crown[XII. Dining On Ashes]What we reap is what we sowNaked our truth smugly glowsWe leave all games behind, because;It took twenty years to come and goThen only did we all knowAnd see how wrinkled and jaded we had grownLooking out the windowBut there's nothing newOnly darkness stares at youI would die to see the rain below the rainbowJust like others doWe crown the skies with our tiara;The life and fate of AniaraWe write an endless symphonyNow thousands were weepingAnd hundreds cried in dismay;Twenty years today!Repenting sinners prayEasy come and easy go,We could have had it all you knowMan's final day is hereSearch for silver dig for goldHis desires not untoldLooking our the windowAll that he can see;His own reflection's final plea;"I would die to see the rain below the rainbow just like others do"We crown the skies with our tiara;The life and fate of AniaraWe write an endless symphonyNow thousands were weepingAnd hundreds cried in dismay;Twenty years today!Repenting sinners will wither and fade[XIII. The Curtain Falls]Gladness fleeting, by whims and luckThat is the way of lifeLooking, searching our heartsTo find the "why" of it allFinding no way to our homeSee, in silence we faded. Our great escape;Twenty four years insideLooking, searching our shipFor life but just dustFalls on the graves of allThe halls of our ship now areVoid of all but deathOur lives have passedOur hearts were broken by the endless darkOur new paradise,The one to replace the one we burned so badThe god we hoped for left profaned,All wounded and forlorn on the home we scarredNow here I stand, my dear,One heart still beats...I bid you farewellThe curtain will now descendSomewhere in time we were livingRemember us then!