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The Tower
06:51
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THE TOWER
After the flood
Humanity with one voice
A tower built for the heavens
In homage to a god
Stone forever climbing
A monolith to forever
Words are but sounds
Lost in the air
Will we not ever understand?
How did we go so wrong before our god?
Did we ignore his command?
After the fall
Screaming in the dark
Lost In an age of confusion
Denied the reach to Heaven
Cast down upon the earth
Lost ambition gone forever
The greatest wind to ever blow
Laid flat the hubris of man
A confusion of many tongues
With a race divided
Scattered now across the land
What is this that climbs before me?
Has my creation lost its way?
How has this ever come to be?
How could I trust them not to stray?
The greatest wind to ever blow
Laid flat the tower of man
The greatest wind to ever blow
Destroyed the tower of man
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Endless Curse
05:23
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Endless Curse
A fog falls off a distant shore
A land long forgotten
High above in mountains of mist
The Shadows come alive
Ancient walls crumble to dust
Buildings long deserted
Unholy eyes stare in the night
Longing for truth
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An ancient cry can be heard
And tears seen in the stone
Whispers of hope long lost
Ride the wind
Whatever happened no one knows
The ruins tell no tale
Lost to the cold of death
Mysteries for the living
The Silent screams in the dark
As the centuries pass on
Souls crying for their release
From this endless curse
Untold lives have been lost here
A Sacrifice to unseen gods
In this stone so forsaken
The spirits haunting this place
They lay just beyond the veil
Trapped forever they will call
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View From Up Here
05:11
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THE VIEW FROM UP HERE
A spinning ball of perfect blue
Suspended in the icy black
My mother holds me here on high
Circling on an infinite track
There’s beauty in the constancy
Of a nighttime never ending
I was once like all of you
Now I float above it all
This serenity is my domain
I know one day I'll return
This ship my only home
If only I could find a way
On the surface life goes on
The race from birth to death
Fighting, loving, struggling
Until your final breath
If you could see what I see
You’d feel no hate or fear
All our problems seem so small
When they're viewed from way up here
Light flashes through the glass
Strange reflections in my eyes
Satellites are dark, communication dead
Below me the cities burn
And fire consumes the earth
Am I the only witness to the end
When my fuel is spent
My orbit will decay
I’ll burn up on reentry
More ashes on a cinder
The rest of my life
Now just moments in time
No chance for rescue
I can only accept my fate
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In The Land Of The Damned
A man made from science
Betrayed by them all
Forced to flee into the night
Injecting as he falls
Humanoid empathic
But nothing remains here
A creature with no memory
It now feeds on fear
A trade in this darkened sea
A bride for all the gold
Within these darkened depths
She is bound to this withered hoard
All hail the queen!
Alive again she walks among us
Ageless with beauty
We're forever bound to her
Down to the tower
Lost within the sea
Awaken in the darkness
A being trapped for eternity
Cast down from deep in space
Falling endlessly
Into the atmosphere
To the bottom of the sea
Life in the shadow of man
Will he ever be free?
In search of isolation
He wanders on aimlessly
Your fear a cause to burn
My touch it brings you pain
Has he finally reached his end?
And found death In the land of the damned
I am the last one you'll see
Your blood now sinking down
Death from her cutlass
She cursed the crew of the serpent crown
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THE BATTLE OF STIRLING BRIDGE
So long since the great civil wars
When England won the day
An uprising now in the north
Edward’s troops they march again
A great promise of adventure
Recruited to fight for the crown
We’ll die as heroes and men
If they won’t bow we’ll bring them down
On rolling hills and plains of green
We will meet the enemy
For valor and the glory
In this year of our Lord
By the will of our king
Warhorses set to ride
Through the north of England
In this year of their death
When our swords have found them
Songs sung to our victory
At the Battle of Stirling Bridge
The Scots lay across the bridge
A peasant army poised to fight
Our commander orders us on
So we cross the narrow way
They attack without warning
Our cavalry meets its end
Pushed back to the waters edge
Am I to die with my countrymen?
The cursed thing broken and burned
But Wallace ran us down
We fight for freedom they say
As we stain this sacred ground
But I’m a soldier to the end
Still young and courage-strong
My life bound for lasting glory
Told in tales and song
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Darker Side Of Midnight
04:54
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THE DARKER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT
All the time in the world
Still passes away
As scientists warn
We approach the day
Since we first split the atom
The terrible course is set
Waiting somewhere down the line
The extinction threat
With the sweep of a hand
Everything will change
When nuclear winter’s
Within firing range
Drums of war pound away
A twisted last rite
Now enter forever
The darker side of midnight
The arms race it escalates
As stockpiles grow
The technology of death
To destroy our foe
Our enemies do the same
Deterrents in place
A mutual assurance
To end the human race
Our time of peace
Now just a memory
A violent crescendo
The drums pounding endlessly
A time now forgotten
Erased from our history
Extinction ending
A fate for all mankind
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Yesterday's Hero
04:38
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YESTERDAY’S HERO
See the faces as they pass
Their eyes look right through you
How could they know what you have seen?
And would they even care?
Yesterday’s hero
He wanders this world alone
So useless and forgotten
With no battles left to fight
Medals pinned upon your chest
On that day of victory
When Earth was saved against all odds
In a time so long ago
Are you just a reminder?
Of a time that's best forgotten?
The children of the future
Will never know our sacrifice
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Dawn Of Forever
07:05
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THE DAWN OF FOREVER
Long ago when darkness fell
Civilization plunged into night
Lives wasted, spent trapped within
A tunnel of sorrow devoid of light
Triumph, reclaim and rebuild
A celebration of victory
Slate wiped clean, begin again
Restore us to this our former glory
The ruins of old decay
Our reminders of the past
We leave with our yesterdays
To be forgotten at last
Now behold this world we’ve made
This feat of human endeavor
We declare ourselves supreme
At the dawn of forever
Landscapes of nothing
Slowly returning to life
From shades of death
Rise the next cities of home
Can our new world
Exist without peril
In the time to come
Rise the new people of Earth
Restoration now complete
The recreation of what we knew
The sun blesses our efforts
The countless years we struggled through
Shining in the bright of day
A gift for those yet to be
Will they realize our dream?
Was for a future we’d never see
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The Last Sunset
07:46
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THE LAST SUNSET
The great ship which saved us
A relic on display
Brave souls now just names on a wall
The heroes from our past
Now gone so long ago
Do we dishonor them all?
The new world we’ve built
From ashes of the old
Do we now echo our enemy?
Technology is learned
Influenced designs
A shadow forever haunting us
The sun that once rose to bless us
And knight our glorious day
Seems now so cold and distant
A blaze of gold turning grey
Our quest to shame the past
An accidental sin
Forever seeking enlightenment
Somewhere we lost the way
And at the very end
Became the thing that we hate
The sky afire as our future dies
Our last sunset came too soon!
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