The Awareness Lyrics - Ayreon

[A. The premonition] 

A STRANGE SENSATION COMES OVER AYREON, 

AS IF SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS IS ABOUT TO OCCUR. 

[B. Dreamtime (words become a song)] 

SUDDENLY A VISION EMERGES IN AYREON'S EVER-BLACK WORLD 

AND HE FINDS HIMSELF SINGING ABOUT THE HORRID PROJECTIONS 

ETCHED INTO HIS BRAIN. 

[AYREON:] 

a cry in the silence 

a shine in the dark 

like a rising star 

the dream is coming 

images of violence a flight through time and space 

it's such a lonely place 

the dream has started 

the smoke is rising 

the vision's getting clearer 

and words become a song 

in the dreamtime 

I've lost control 

marooned and cold 

I suffer the fears 

of a future untold 

I cannot change 

the shape of things to come 

the smoke is rising 

the vision's getting clearer 

the hands of time are whirling around 

I'm realising 

the future's getting nearer 

and words become a song 

[C. The awakening] 

ABRUPTLY THE VISION ENDS AND AYREON RECEDES INTO HIS DARKNESS.