The Great Escape And The Earth Wept

[I. ...And The Earth Wept]

I tuck you in ever so gently

Still you cried and turned from me

You stepped on my heart

I forgave you just like mothers do

From under your shoes I still carried you

Soon my body will burn into ashes and dust

And rain will turn all that glitter to rust

One last pill for the pain

Sit down, let me explain

Why my bruises stay

My child I know you never meant to

These scars just won't fade away

and I'm sure you never knew

I give up, I give in

Help December let a new year begin

Take what's left and move on

Fly away

Be gone

[II. A Poisoned Land]

(Instrumental)

[III. Leaving Home]

The morrow winds blow and herald a time

when man will be damned for all his crime

We all were too bold, now we all can see

how the lifegiver's bleeding to death before me

I am packing my bags, I'm waiting in line

This tragedy forces us away from this land

As I board this creature of steel

I kiss her goodbye, give her time to heal

[IV. Take-off]

Loud sirens wail to send a

goldonder towards the light

Leaving the ground we bathe in starlight

while heading for oceans of night

Safe in Aniara's warm and tender care we ride

Eight thousand hearts that fled the fires

For a life at a distant home

[V. A Turn For The Worst]

A swerve to clear the Hondo stone

(Now we proclaim it known)

took us off course came too wide of Mars to

turn back home

There's no turning back, guiding units broke

and cracked

We will never win this game

From pledges and bonds, our system of suns

locked down in the vaulted gateways

I thousands of years ram through the final frontier

The Lyre greets us there

Our ship at drift into the void

Through nothingness deployed

With an empty star become aware

-our lives destroyed

Fears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsides

We can never win this game

From pledges and bonds, our system of suns

locked down in the vaulted gateways

I thousands of years ram through the final frontier

A moth to a flame

[VI. A New Balance]

Glass-like is the stare encircling us

The system of stars hang frozen still

A gaze through the window

Six years down we still feign dawn and sunset

but space no light will spawn

Eternally darker

Now setting sails

but never know the worlds she's trading

where the life belongs

Mima lead the way

Shine your light, be a beacon of hope at night

be our guide, I need what you're doing to me

Shine your light, blind us when reality bites

We so need the magic she does

I asked me a question, -no reply

I dream me a life then lived a lie

Dream me a nightmare

I traveled the stars but passed them by

for trapped on Aniara, here was I

Always been leaving

We sit and stare

at all the marvels that she brings us

Lights the life in you

Mima lead the way

Shine your light, be a beacon of hope at night

Perfect grace in the barren house of space

Shine your light, blind us when reality bites

Mima, save us from seeing ourselves

[VII. Death Of The Goddesses]

Inside the Mima's eyes, we lived our lives

Then like an arrow through this jest

destiny sent us a greeting from home, let us see

We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

her circuits bled and fried, as our mother died

She's darkened by our sins

we begin to realize it

When I saw home so blue, be torn in two

all by the hands of her own child

Humanity; -the festering cancer that

dug her own grave

We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

her circuits bled and fried, seems she too will die

She couldn't bear to see what will be

Our haven's dying

I couldn't them if I tried

As they all rushed to see her die

Chaos, panic, people fight

I can't see, I will not, I won't

Our way of life is overthrown

Is there really no way? Let us turn back time!

[VIII. The Age Of Confusion: Despair]

In this deafening of silence people mourn

we've cried us a river

Who knows where all laughter be?

On whom we place the blame?

Her demise was theirs!

Stained by their disease her screen recedes

Our real eyes realized

they beguile us all with their minds

[IX. The Age Of Confusion: Lust]

Our lusting flesh and piety

all coexist in the mist

Put aside your chastity

unveiling skin, magical sin

Controls the pile of heaving flesh

a twisted queen

Sleep with me and work the loins

The mind will stray, yield of life

[X. The Age Of Confusion: Reason]

And as the orgies all fade

and lust no longer attracts

then the brain will subdue the flesh

put the focus on facts

Human brain with a shameful part

low names were high for loins and for breasts

Us Hades may harvest

fully at it's behest

[XI. The Aftermath]

I still cry and I still miss her

I was just a little boy

running through the endless garden of our home

Away -some say never, ever

we'll leave this god forsaken place

and ten thousand shivers

remain as we part

We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

Oh for so long, I was the wielder of illusions

Our goddess gave in when she saw

that we had killed the earth and burnt to flames

Every smile on every face here

fell and crashed to the floor

All alone in the world crying desperately

Away -some say never, ever

we'll leave this god forsaken place

and ten thousand shivers

remain as we part

We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

Oh for so long, I was the wielder of illusions

but there's no hiding what we are

We are the plague of all

-for humanity there is no cure

God and Satan hand in hand

through the badland

took a flight uphill and down for man

a king with ashen crown

[XII. Dining On Ashes]

What we reaping is what we sow

Naked our truth smugly glows

We leave all games behind, because

It took twenty years to come and go

Then only did we all know

and see how wrinkled and jaded we have grown

Looking out the window

but there's nothing new

Only darkness stares at you

I would die to see the rain below the rainbow

just like others do

We crown the skies with our tiara

-the life and fate of Aniara

We write an endless symphony

Now thousands were weeping

and hundreds cried in dismay

Twenty years today!

Repenting sinners pray

Easy come and easy go

We could have had it all you know

Man's final day is here

Search for silver dig for gold

His desires not untold

Looking our the window

all that he can see

his own reflection's final plea

I would die to see the rain below the rainbow

just like others do

We crown the skies with our tiara

-the life and fate of Aniara

We write an endless symphony

Now thousands were weeping

and hundreds cried in dismay

Twenty years today!

Repenting sinners will wither and fade

[XIII. The Curtain Falls]

Gladness fleeting, by whims and luck

That is the way of life

Looking, searching our hearts

to find the why of it all

Finding no way to our home

See, in silence we faded. Our great escape

Twenty four years inside

Looking, searching our ship

for life but just dust

falls on the graves of all

The halls of our ship now are

void of all but death

Our lives have passed

our hearts were broken by the endless dark

Our new paradise

the one to replace the one we burned so bad

The god we hoped for left profaned

all wounded and forlorn on the home we scarred

Now here I stand, my dear

one heart still beats

I bid you farewell

the curtain will now descend

Somewhere in time we were living

Remember us then!