[Fates Warning Cover]. . When the stars are right and you're alone. Take a journey, lock the world up tight. Out of your mind.. . The hall beckons your presence, the doors.
[Various Cover Tunes]. . Seeking to amplify. Power in all senses. Man creates devices. That change relations of his world. In changing he fails to see.
Have you ever read the books you burn. Have you seen the man in the moon. Show a driver a blur of green. Grass he'll say, but has he seen. . Last night late from work.
Into the darkness I walk alone and cold. Feeling their eyes upon me like stone. Deep in the black I'm absorbed by the night. Igniting my fear I head to the void.
Visions flash across your T.V. screen. Synchronized within society. Scenes of hatred and bigotry. Engulfed in bloodshed and agony. Distraught emotions of a weakened mind.
I can see around me in this lucid state. My own mind controls my real fate. But if I wake from slumber, then returns despair. Of the days depression, forgets the dreams I share.
Born into this life. A child in a world full of doubt. Rejected as an orphan boy. Torn from his mother's side. . Dogmas were thrown in his way. Obstacles from which to pass.
From the sun out of the east. A Brilliant light arose. A thorny crown upon his head. Cut from a branch of rose. Through blazing eyes I saw within. A peace I'd never known.
Here is wisdom and forgiveness, repent yours sins and be of witness. Retribution into madness, tribulation's years of sadness. Inquisition against christians, eminent is their persecution.
Vigilante warrior champion. Battles of unseen forces that dwell among. The earth. Mystic seer of wisdom in solitary trance. Through divination foresees our future.
Ever flowing streams of stubborn morals created to seal the gate. Mankind's biological timebomb, a must see comedy. Limits we place inside slows evolution to a crawl.
Forgive them father for they have sinned. Again and again. Pretending they know not what they do. When you know they'll sin again. Many people going down for the ride.
Misty spirit of ether come into me. Join me as one. Weave us together with many branches. . The seed must grow dormant. In a cold earth we wait for spring.
Begotten from an elder age. History had turned the page. Were they real I don't know. Change reveals itself so slow. They flourished in their temperate.
I waked in a mist the landscape changing in vision is it. I who watches this or is it some other mind is this a dream. I cannot tell or some lost station of hell the dampness clings to my hair.
From the time we are born we see we must die. Some fear the coming day praying to their deity. Some have philosophy, follow a path they've chose. Others just wait and see.
The fire's out. I've escaped the chase. Said crime against society's avenged. I awaken to some. Friends that take me in. To rest. . Society can't burn our thoughts.