The Secrets Of An Island

Somewhere in the sea of dreams

An island stands alone

The empty walls and rooftops

Are the signs of life now gone

And the waves keep pulsing endlessly

On to its gentle shore

Calling out to all the drifting minds

In rhythm to explore

It draws them here

Awake from the mist

That clouds through my conscious mind

And I can see

Alone on the shore

A road leads to nowhere

Down to the sea

Far up in the sky

The shadows of flying machines

They circle round

Observing the earth

Their eyes always watching

The lifeless ground

And up on the hill I see

The spire of the library

The centre of all the island's world

And with my eyes fixed on the entrance

I find myself drawn to the distance

Feeling underneath my feet

The heartbeat of this universe

I run - up to the library

The centre of this world

Away - and up from the endless sea

To reach for some way out

And inside the walls

Abandoned and desolate

A sense of pain

A wood panelled room

And scattered around my feet

Are burned remains

But up on the altar

A book starts to form from blackened shards

A rough empty cover with no words

And taking a page charred by fire

I reach out and put it in place there

Feeling right behind my head

A shift in dream's reality

Find your fantasy

Decide your destiny

And then the secrets of an island

Will be yours to find

It's your only way

To reach reality

Will you assemble all the pages

And escape from time

And this dream

Turn towards the entrance again

Step outside and see the destruction

All the flying machines are torn from the air

And burn towards the ground

I see disaster coming

A blaze approaching from the sky

And as the first one crashes down

Then it's all that I can think of just to run

Fire and metal rain from the sky

As I run they join the inferno

Their bodies spin like paper through air

And tear their wings apart

And as the island burns in fire

Trapping me in flames, I realize

Now I know the only way

There's one place left to go

I run - back to the library

To reform time again

Return - to alter my destiny

And take another chance

To find the pages of universe

Inside subconscious mind

The world - spiralling down into

Another branch of time

Now the door opens up

Into the centre of a storm

Tornadoes sweep the sea

And the land is scarred and torn

Stepping back from the raging wind

I shut myself inside

Look again to the half-formed book

And search another time

To find each page in the library

A scene from a dream

Describing a nightmare through its words

The fragments of fears

From all the dreamers' minds

Evoking thoughts, lives and images

Throughout time

Find your fantasy

Decide your destiny

And then the secrets of an island

Will be yours to find

It's your only way

To reach reality

Will you assemble all the pages

And escape from time

And this dream will keep you here

And turn through every page

Until you find the way to awake

Open up your eyes

Another page, another landscape forms outside

A desert of dust and sand that stretches far and wide

I leave the shelter of the door and move away

Start walking across the world to find another way

Wherever I walked on this plain

The spire would appear once again

Silent the world reformed

And sent me back towards the library

This time new figures appear

Their spirits emerge from the air

Frozen in time and showing me

The memories left by minds of dreamers here

I see the figures trying each and every page

They step outside, return and try again

The book now is closed, full and complete

Each fate refused, forever they'll stay inside the dream

They touch the book again, they pick it up

And find it's fused to their hands

Fading out, absorbed into time

And with one scream they disappear

Steel my mind, this fate won't be mine

I'll find the way out of here

Stepping out for the last time

The horizon dark again

There's nothing here but the waves of the sea

In this path of existence

The island never formed

But the library still stands eternal

Stoic and silent, the book now complete

Closed upon the altar

And I hear it calling for me

Joining all of the dreamers

I could leave the world behind

Resign to fate, disappear and be gone

Do I dare take a last chance

There's another way I see

But in a dream, what will come when we die

With nothing left that's here for me

I throw myself into the sea

I feel a sudden piercing cold

The water closes over me

Familiar light envelops me

And suddenly I'm flying free

I soar up to the endless sky

And open up my eyes again

Accept your life, and walk the path

That you have chosen for yourself

You can't repeat one chance

Over and over

Keep moving on, make your mistakes

And learn from each and every one

Then you'll return from them

Stronger than ever

Maybe someday I'll be there again

And the way out may not be the same

Not in the dreamscape, but this real world

And this time I'll find my way

If you're there

If other dreamers lose their way

If you hear

The island calling you some day

Then you'll know

Then the library will still be there, you'll see

The secrets of an island revealed