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Fight Another Day
06:58
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A day of fire when the invaders came
The world we knew lies ruined and defamed
Half of us gone in the very first wave
Our efforts focus on the few that we can save
We look into the sky and wonder
Will we ever find our way?
Eyes staring back in disbelief
Into darkness we will fade
Out of the shelters and into the night
Race for the skies we’re gone before the light
Nothing is left and there’s no time to grieve
Endangered species makes ready to leave
What lies beyond the end of everything?
Can we go on in spite of all the pain?
For now we run until we find a way
Mankind it will survive to fight another day
In a flash of light
We fly to meet the stars
Earth not among them
Now behind so very far
A blackened silence replaces every day
Funeral shroud for the mother we betray
Will our earth be a distant memory?
And to our children just a fantasy
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2. |
Dark Before The Dawn
05:54
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Straight on till morning
But the daylight never comes
Outside an endless void
Radiation and cosmic dust
Through the gulf of space
Towards some distant star
Far beyond our earth’s sky
Human kind will live or die
Dark side of heaven
Or the spiral arm of hell
Madness dwells in the deep
Screams in silence heard by none
Infinity it calls
As remorseless stars watch
The last life on earth
Make one last try for rebirth
A distant point of ancient light
Past dead and drifting suns
Godspeed on seas of fate
Longing for the end
Shrouded in eternal night
Ahead lies our destiny
A promised land we all await
In the dark before the dawn
A masterpiece of science
Built to ferry our souls
Faster than the speed of light
Is it beyond our reach?
These uncharted worlds
Our race on a desperate flight
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Embrace The Horror
06:00
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Entombed within these cold walls of steel
We're floating into the abyss
No hope is found in this alloy and glass
Our sanity it starts to fray
The cruel irony of space
To so many with none
The dark nature of fate
To have lost and think you’ve won
Embrace the horror
Of a vastness of nothing
Quantum mechanics for the blind
Embrace the horror
In a mass loss of reason
A deafening silence in your mind
A nightmare within
And a cold death without
Will our journey ever end?
The solitude of many
Unwillingly shared
Can only lead to our madness
An ark of hope to asylum for the damned
Are we headed for nowhere?
Better to have died with our sky overhead
And the earth beneath our feet
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Resistance
05:08
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We see the earth so transformed
Remade by another race
They lay claim to our world
We'll stay hidden no more
Man was made from this world’s clay
Given dominion over all
We were the first and we’ll be the last
In the end this empire will fall
Unleashing the rage of mankind
Bringing all weapons to bear
To strike at the heart of the beast
From all land sea and air
Surprise attacks they weaken their will
But our own loss is high
The occupation suffers our wrath
But not enough of them die
To topple the cities of gold
We'll sacrifice our lives
We'll rise from our place in the dust
And send them back to the skies
Resistance fighters they risk their lives
To bring down the machines
Warfare tactics with no rules
Maximum carnage by any means
Obsolete weapons are no match for this
Our children doomed to bear the scars
Nothing left but a final escape
To find the others in the stars
To topple the cities of gold
We'll sacrifice our lives
We'll rise from our place in the dust
And send them back to the skies
We fight on through the night
Humanity on the edge
We're left in isolation
Will resistance fail in the end?
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Other World
05:05
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Our navigation lights give off a dim glow
Computers scanning the spaceways below
Pressed to the viewports our eyes scan the dark
And in an instant our faces fill with hope
We see the planet but will it sustain life?
All of our hopes and dreams depending on this moment
Our engines blaze the sky, we break into the dawn
A chance for survival, is this our new home?
Lost souls on the edge of time
Mankind on its final journey
Will we find survival on the other world?
Out of the speed of light, a world lies before us
Is this the planet to carry on our race?
We make our final descent, a growing fear among us
Is this our journey’s end or are we doomed to space?
Are we lost on the edge of time?
Is mankind on its final journey?
Will we survive and find our salvation?
On the other world?
We emerge out of the ship and face our destiny
So unlike the earth we know but there’s air to breathe
Lost souls on the edge of time
Mankind on its final journey
Are we brought here just to die?
Have we landed just to perish?
Will we find survival—
On the other world?
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Shadows Of War
05:06
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Blackened lands laid waste before us
Alien sky absorbs the light
Another world is drawn into conflict
Opposing forces that are destined to fight
Celestial angel of death before us
Silently waits for the fatal embrace
Thirsty for blood of monsters and men
Openly spilled in this desolate place
War follows war
It shadows us from world to world
Always the same
Just different ground to fight upon
Is this the future of man before us?
We find an end with salvation deprived
So far from home but nothing's changed
After all that we have survived
War follows war
It shadows us from world to world
Always the same
Just different ground to fight upon
Must we go on in the shadows of war?
Will we be lost in the shadows of war?
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The Forsaken
05:53
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In the gloom figures move before us
Shadows twisting as they come alive
First contact at our journey’s end
In an instant it comes to this
As we fight in eternal nightfall
Overwhelmed we stand our ground
To the death they defend their world
Alien race we will always be
Will we find our survival
Or desolation in the stars?
On a world never made for us
Were we meant to die?
What lies before us in the stars?
Lost and forsaken human life?
Imminent defeat in battle
Too many gone to make a stand
Decision made we slip away
Into the stars one final time
Will we find our survival
Or desolation in the stars?
On a world never made for us
Will we fight and die?
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8. |
The Empire Of Man
07:08
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Into the black
The end of our line
We're defeated again
But for the last time
No more will we run
We fight if even to extinction
A destination set for earth
Is it our final flight?
No place for man among the stars
No solace in the cold of space
One ship descends
Alone against so many
We launch our attack
From out of the sun
Intense human fury
Destroys their defenses
We target in their cities
And launch our last offense
No place for them on our world
No mercy from humanity
We return to where it ends
And no longer roam
Our blood or theirs will spill
On the fields of home
To the ends of the earth
On our native land
To take back what is ours
The Empire of Man
So many sacrificed
To win back our land
They died for our existence
And the Empire of Man
They're caught unaware
A sleeping giant falls
Too self-assured to know
To be prepared
We use their own weapons against them
An ancient race it burns
We inherit the ash
For the Empire of Man
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