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The Sixth Extinction

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The Sixth Extinction

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[1 - Echoes on the Wind]

It's the calm before the storm

It's the quiet before the war

It's the time when all will be decided (All will be decided)

If nobody heeds the echoes on the wind

It's the end of the chain

(Destruction of the fittest)

It's the end of our reign

(We've seen it all before)

It's the end of man's evolution

(The end of evolution)

For nobody heeds the echoes on the wind

[2 - Radioactive Grave]

Do you hear the sirens?

Do you see the burst?

Do you feel the fire?

All the world's a radioactive grave

I can hear them crying

I can see the fear

I can see them dying

Washed away by deadly gamma waves

Do you hear them calling?

Do you see the hurt?

Do you feel them falling?

All the world's a blazing funeral pyre

I can hear the wailing

I can see the wrath

I can feel them fading

Washed away by a scorching sea of fire

Do you hear the sirens?

Do you see the burst?

Do you feel the fire?

All the world's a radioactive grave

I can hear them crying

I can see the fear

I can see them dying

Washed away by deadly gamma waves

All the world's a blazing funeral pyre

Washed away by a scorching sea of fire

[3 - 2085]

Silence so loud, not a soul left alive

Darkness' a shroud, two thousand and eighty-five

All our dreams have disappeared, they burned down, tree of life

Confirming all that we have feared, two thousand and eighty-five

Don't give up, remember how we felt

Fire rushing through our veins

Now's the time to rise up from our hell

Now's the time to free our brains

The meaning of life is to give life meaning

Go too fast, move too slow

Restore the balance between thinking and feeling

Open up and let it flow

No side has won struggled to survive

Our quest here is done, two thousand and eighty-five

All our hopes have disappeared, our race will not thrive

Time will not recall year... two thousand and eighty-five

Don't give in, remember all we learned

The spark of life if did ignite

We regained the rage for which we yearned

We regained our will to fight

We must resolve this human equation

We're already dead if we don't try

To welcome challenge, generic variation

Stop the machines, prepare to die

[4- To the planet of Red (Instrumental)]

[5 - Spirit of the Wind]

He's the last man alive

(Searching for the answers)

Knowing he won't survive

(To the mystery of live)

Relives the past, and dreams of the future

(Dreaming of the future)

And soon he'll set free

(And the sleeper will awake)

His spirit on the wind

[6- Complete the Circle]

Make us whole, Migrator soul

Follow me home, complete the circle

We must survive, restore our lives

The way I'll show, complete the circle

Make us whole, Migrator soul

Follow me home, complete the circle

We must survive, restore our lives

The way I'll show, complete the circle

Send back visions, into the past, of war and decay

Hear the final cries, uh, ooooh, I can see the fear in a world without walls

Through the eyes I

I see them dying, we have to teach them, Migrator Soul

We regain our will to fight, we're at the dawn, we found a way

I know we'll make it in the end... ohhh, listen to the warning!

We gave them a language, what did they say? What did they learn?

We have no choice

We are the future, we are the pain

Complete the Circle!

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Ayreon performs "The Sixth Extinction", and this lyric page sits inside the Ayreon catalog on LyroVerse.

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