Age Of Shadows (incl We Are Forever) Lyrics - 01011001 - Ayreon

We never saw this coming 

Pride comes before a fall 

We never heeded the warnings 

Buried deep within us all 

The age of shadows has begun 

(Giant machines blot out our sun) 

Frozen minds becoming numb 

(The age of shadows has begun) 

The age of Shadows has begun 

(I won't accept what we've become) 

We stand to lose more than we've won 

(The age of Shadows has begun) 

Our quenchless thirst for knowledge 

Our urge to change and grow 

Our need to expand the nation 

Made us rise from the depths below 

The age of shadows has begun 

(Giant machines blot out our sun) 

Frozen minds becoming numb 

(The age of shadows has begun) 

The age of Shadows has begun 

(I won't accept what we've become) 

We stand to lose more than we've won 

(The age of Shadows has begun) 

No more aggression 

(No more initiative) 

No more suppression 

(no more emotions) 

No more recession 

(no more of all the feelings we shared that made us who we really are) 

No more possessions 

(No more euphoria) 

No more obsessions 

(No more sensations) 

No more depressions 

(no more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are) 

Time (time, time) 

but a passageway (a passageway, a passageway) 

the beginning of the end (of the end) 

an end that never was (was, was, was) 

time (time, time) 

but a curve in space (curve in space, curve in) 

we are forever (we are forever, we are forever)) 

Eternal prisoners in time (in time, in time) 

we are forever (we are forever) 

caught in our cold inertia 

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one... 

Forever we yearn, forever we learn 

Forever we live a lie, forever slipping by and 

And forever we flee, (forever we flee) 

Forever we will be, Forever is but a dream 

Forever is but a scream and forever we try 

Forever we die. 

the spell of love wore off 

the zest for life not enough 

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one... 

Never enough 

Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero) 

zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one) 

zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero) 

zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero) 

Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero) 

zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one) 

zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero) 

zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero) 

off (on) on (off) off (on) on (off) 

off (on) on (off) on (on) on (on) 

off (on) on (on) off (off) on (on) 

off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on) 

off (on) on (on) off (on) on (off) 

off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on) 

off (on) on (on) off (off) on (off) 

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah) 

no (yeah) yeah (no) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) 

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah) 

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah) 

no (yeah) yeah (no) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) 

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah) 

Forever we try, forever we die, forever, forever 

Forever we try, forever we die, forever, forever 

Forever we tie, forever we die, forever, forever 

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one 

No more aggression 

(No more initiative) 

No more suppression 

(no more emotions) 

No more recession 

(no more of all the feelings we shared that made us who we really are) 

No more possessions 

(No more euphoria) 

No more obsessions 

(No more sensations) 

No more depression 

(no more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are) 

The age of shadows has begun 

(Giant machines blot out our sun) 

Frozen minds becoming numb 

(The age of shadows has begun) 

The age of Shadows has begun 

(I won't accept what we've become) 

We stand to lose more than we've won 

(The age of Shadows has begun) 

The age of shadows has begun 

(Giant machines blot out our sun) 

Frozen minds becoming numb 

(The age of shadows has begun) 

The age of Shadows has begun 

(I won't accept what we've become) 

We stand to lose more than we've won 

(The age of Shadows has begun) 

We never heeded the warnings 

Buried deep within us all