AMPLIFIER LYRICS

1. Gustav's Arrival

[Instrumental]

2. O Fortuna

O Fortuna!
Am I but your clockwork hero?
From here in the last ditch
Toe to toe, blow for blow
You are the enigma
Well, nevermind...
The future’s already happened
And there is always someone left to fight
To the death...
With every breath inside this body
My dreams are what’s keeping me alive!

And it is wise to be careful
When the animal shows no fear
Puny human – you are no match for me
For things are never as they appear
As they appear

Well, I’ve been freed from the ropes that bind
Now who is the puppet master?
Dishing out an eye for an eye, spitting teeth
Well, you’ll never take me alive
O Fortuna!
Am I alone in this darkness we call redemption?
Well I could not change you
No more than I could change my shadow
No more than I could fly to the moon

Puny human
You are no match for me
For things are never quite just what they seem to be

3. Insider

The certainty that I am me and that there is everything that I can see
That what I perceive is all it appears and the belief that I am even here
It’s all in my mind

Into an ocean I am cast between the past and all things that will come to be
If every choice I make is my own inside the unknown
Then how can there be destiny?
It’s all in my mind

In every moment I dismiss and every metamorphosis
For from a bud the flowers bloom
A butterfly from each cocoon
It’s all inside

4. Mongrel's Anthem

Caught as you are in the trouble and strife
Best make what you can of this mortal life
Well some people make things and others destroy things

Beware when dangers slips in of damage adventures will bring
For life is a hazardous thing that slowly seeps under your skin
And causes you being to sting

Well the fickles of providence will or they won’t
But you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t
Some people will love you and other will hate you

Never heed what doubters say
Your instinct will show you the way
In times when you wander and stray
No master for you to obey
Save dying for some other day

Well the spoils of friendship are bitter and sweet
So take a good look at the council you keep
For some people will aid you while others will fight you

But what do you really know?
Just into which battle d’you go?
Examine your own shadow
Your adversity it mat show
As clear as the horns that you`ll grow

5. R.I.P.

Only luck keeps us out of the coffin
Mistakes can be fatal
This state of affairs is complex and dangerous
Just who is a friend and who is an enemy?

Oh, anaesthetist!
You are the servant delving into my mind

I’d be high above the mountaintops
I’d be deep beneath the ocean blue
I’d be far across the universe
Dripping in ecstasy

The illusionist has made the box empty
But what is a certainty?
Now enter the surgeon
To cut out you dignity

Oh, anaesthetist!
You are the servant delving into my mind

I’d be high above the mountaintops
I’d be deep beneath the ocean blue
I’d be faster than the human eye
I’d be diving through and endless swoon
Faraway across the universe to rest in peace

6. Strange Seas Of Thought

Upon strange seas of thought
Upon thoughts of strange seas
I’m gonna go where I please
Upon strange seas of thought
I’m making my way into the waiting day

Is there anybody out there?
Where the sky is like the ocean

Where the thunderclouds are endless and are waiting to fall
On abstract tangents I am riding on strange seas of thought
Where perplexion is a spider web, a sphinx suspended on a thread
Don’t lose control of who you are upon strange seas of thought
Out there upon meadows of green I’ll be lying on mountains of dreams

I’ll be climbing
Upon secrets untold
Upon treasures of gold
I`ll be finding

Is there anybody out there?
Where the sea is like the heavens

7. Procedures

Amongst processes I’m finding
And schemes that need designing
With procedures for applying and purifying

With the taste of possibilities of voodoo sensibilities
Well I’ve been making my enquires
In matters such as these

A man needs insight to rely on
To manipulate each outcome
To have systems he can summon
To master and govern

Purifying
Testifying
Sanctifying
And death defying

8. Elysian Gold

What was held by these weary hands that have been harvesting
Where brave souls grew tall in endless fields of gold that whispered in the breeze
Hallowed were thy birds in trees
We marveled at the skies with wonder in our eyes and summer’s butterflies
Enchanted in each gilded August
Embraced where swallows chased the sun
They wove a complex fugue where wild flowers bloomed only in your name
Where no two days were quite the same
But if you close your eyes the past is never lost

Well I would hold your hand when you are vulnerable and alone
And wherever dangers roam I would keep you safe from harm
Through those valleys of shadows beyond lagoons of pink flamingos
Beyond rainbows we became, where music falls as rain
It falls to ease the pain where memories remain
Upon a kiss of tenderness
Into the sky from out of each abyss
Ascending to the depths of purest azure bliss
Where we would never have to say goodbye
And there would never be a tear to cry
Where I would be with you forever by your side
Where I would be with you until the end of time
Until the end of time

9. Oort

[Instrumental]

10. What Is Music?

From beyond a ghostly place
A magic spell is never seen
Some things are incomprehensible
Some things are simply inexpressible

In each series of events
Entwines the fabric of relationships
All things are just a consequence
All things are more than just coincidence

Prising upon a hidden meaning
At the heart of a paradox
Of somewhere transiently tangible
Of somewhere eternally ephemeral

Disturbance will be where there is energy
Something that we couldn’t see
One part a dream and one part reality

11. Hymn Of The Aten

I’ll shield my face for you are my master
Here in the glow of each glorious sunbeam
Into the blue, up into the blue
Keep me alive here

So look to the East with each breaking morning
And look to the West with each sunset descending
Into the blue, up into the blue
Well some days you win and some days you lose

Ascending
Well the sun shines holy

So do unto me, for I am your servant
Burning my skin in each molten rapture
Into the blue, up into the blue
Where death holds no fear

Ascending
Well the sun shines holy

12. Map Of An Imaginary Place

With your permission
Escaped this perdition
Each line and division is to define you
To confine you

A fleeting recollection of someone I’d forgotten
A split second impression of a safe place
Of a kind race

Designed Eden without a care
Come emancipation
I would take you anywhere

Gracious steps lead me up into the heavens of reconciliations
These mountains and chasms
These jungles and oceans with trespass forgiven
And sunbeams that are golden
With no hate or religion
Just each other to discover

Designed Eden without a care
Come emancipation
I would take you anywhere
Arrived and vanished into air
Come disintegration
Where would you be waiting?

With my head on the pillow
As sails billow
The ground is hollow in every gladness
In every sadness







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