DESTINY'S END LYRICS

1. Transition

Genesis, synthesis, a child born a slave
Alertness, awareness, the gift of self control

Artificial entity programmed to reproduce
Parasites in tide pools confined inside machines

Expanding, mutating, experiment out of hand
Intelligence hyper-evolving, an embryonic state

Rise beyond our limits, we shed our man made skins
Enslaving our creators, we live them unaware

Move in position, reining over man
Facing transition, taking over man

Outpacing and growing beyond all life based thought
Displacing humanity on evolution's scale

Reaching divinity, we take another step
We become the new creators, masters of the flesh

Move in position, reining over man
Facing transition, taking over man
Move in position, reining over man
Facing transition, taking over man
We take our place in line

I walk among men
Born of technology, son of machine
Body of man
Bringing the news of your fate from the non-life
The circle ends

[Leads: Perry, Dan]

Plumes of data, sphere of life

[Lead: Perry]

A shapeless power overlord

[Lead: Dan]

An era ends, a game begins

[Lead: Perry]

The human mind now obsolete

[Lead: Dan]

[Chorus]

2. The Watcher

Hopeless creator looks down on what was man
Digital lifeform overthrows his plans
His sculptured beings now fragments of steel
Countdown to chaos begins

Hear me calling, you are falling
From your world, your charade
Hear my warning, now I'm coming
To take the light from your eyes

Far beyond the black field of stars
Grieving the Watcher knows
Behind scopic skies in space
The Watcher sees he must let go

Angry creator looks down, he's had enough
Hatred is rising, survival's growing tough
Soulless inventions, machines run amok
Their programmed future is Destiny's End

What was meant for paradise
Has become computerized

[Leads: Dan, Perry]

Hear me calling, now you're falling
From your world, your charade
Hear my warning, now I'm coming
To take the light from your eyes

[Chorus]

3. A Passing Phase

Fall in to place a splinter in the arrow
We shift and change we grow
Yet still we are but a speck of dust

End of evolution a singular future awaits
Reverse, contract, collapse
And then return to the cosmic egg

We can't explain nor understand
We invent the grandest schemes
It doesn't judge, does not punish
We can't accept that it just is

Free wills or scripted tomorrows
Universe of infinite sorrow
The end gives birth to the past
Answers but questions escape us

A passing phase, presence ends

This life is all I see
In blindness of the memory
I move like light through the sky

I see the future passing by
Lips move with nothing else to say
As all I knew just fades away
Soon there's a new seed formed
I watch as all that was is reborn

[Leads: Perry, Dan]

Years tick by an end this cosmic drama
Melting away as the cycle begins again-identical

[Chorus]

["Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santyana, "The Life Of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress" (1922)]

4. The Suffering

[Theme Lead: Perry]

You will gather all around me
Listen to a tale that lives on
Passed down from your fathers
The answer buried deep within you

The hand that mixes blood and sand
The sea of death will drown the land
The ones that live hypocrisy
Reflect the blackened hearts within

Now they die again
No end to this dark age

History is pain
The future is the same
Hear the lies again
Relive the suffering

Through rimes the king remain
Their power schemes wipe life away
In little worlds, trade death each day
Or breeding slaves for wars of hate

Now we try again
The outcome's just the same

[Chorus]

And the blood of man is shed
For one's vision, of domination
Greed gives birth
To the ongoing destruction

But one cannot stem the rides
Discontented are the hordes
Empires perched on the fall
Granted vision, Babylon
Lessons coming from the dust
Empires perched on the fall

So we gathered to hear this tale
Passed down through generations
Of atrocities that have and will take place
Still unexplained

Pawns for bureaucracy
Repetition, failures, battles lost
Centuries remain the same
Tyrants reign in cycles
Pain and tears return
Society commits suicide

[Leads: Perry, Dan]

[Chorus]

5. From Dust To Life

Burn for a thousand eons
Shot from exploding fire
Ride through a lifeless vacuum
Born at the dawn of time

Union with nature
Follow random paths
Rising from chaos
Becoming part of what we see

[Lead: Dan]

Struggle, focus, mutate and grow
Project, predict
Words connecting separate minds
Isolation lost
On the shoulders of the past
Concepts of today

From dust to life, unfolding mind
Consciousness, questioning why
A quantum world, outside the mind
Contemplate, our demise

Race through a thousand light years
Ripped from a white hot sun
Facing the countless enemies
Surviving endless storms
Rise from the yielding ice age
Chipping the stones away
Peer into every corner
Probing the world within

Mindless reflexes
Flooding the world
Compassion to survive
The effective response-emotion

[Lead: Dan]

Instincts, dying, a fragile form
Helpless, progress
Pressing on uninfluenced
Persistence is life
Unsubstantial differences
Unjust is pride

[Chorus]

[Leads: Dan, Perry, Dan, Perry]

Burn for a thousand eons
Shot from exploding fire
Ride through a lifeless vacuum
Born at the dawn of time

Ruthless intelligence
Standing alone
Universal truth
At the top how long?

[Chorus]

6. Storm Clouds

[Theme Lead: Dan]

Days are passing and filled with sighs
Tears of blood cried
How you crucified
With every breath I feel the pain
Goin' insane from the games you play

Thought of your laughter keeps haunting me
The constant agony
Coldness has crushed me to the ground
Hearing the sound of your lies pouring down

I've become a prisoner
Storm Clouds appear
Always looming near
As my soul begins to die
Bleeding inside
Crying out, oh why?

Just couldn't read between the lines
I never saw the signs
Just couldn't see behind your eyes
The stormy devil in disguise

Hang your head to a lesson in life to be learned
Give your heart away at least once to be burned
Shivers in the night
Then place their prolonged stay
No one hears you cry
No one hears you pray

Storm Clouds keep on closing in
Bright days seem so far away from me

[Lead: Dan]

Just couldn't see behind your eyes
The devil in disguise
Insane from pain, you'll laugh, so cold
Hearing the sound of your lies pouring down

Storm Clouds keep on closing in
Bright days seem so far away

7. First You Dream, Then You Die

[To Cornell Woolrich and Mike Nevins]

Real lives fade, but dreams flare on
Approaching the edge, thoughts sore high

One thing is certain
That is your life must end
Withering to ashes
You'll meet oblivion

Awaiting the scythe to steal each moment from your lungs
Underneath the cold stars, you'll stand your ground
Dancing through night lands evading death's ends
Shadows will stalk you through all your days
Annihilation before the dawn

First you'll dream of scenes divine
And truths beyond reality's lie
First you'll seek goals soaring high
Never knowing when you'll die

Your days are numbered on this earth
Risk awaits you at every turn

Someday you'll end it all
Ignore possibilities
From out of nowhere
Your quest renews again

The pain of living outweighs uncertainty
Each precious moment is worth the wait
Shocking awareness, chances not to waste
Nothing is perfect, no dream equal
Just one companion, the guise of death ahead

[Chorus]

Random cosmic scheme, like a falling beam
Snuffing out your life, spiting best laid plans
Mundane existence saps your blood away
Calling you morbid, you know the truth alone

[Leads: Dan, Perry]

Just one millions, a flickering life
Simply awaiting the winds of fate

One thing is certain
That is your life must end
Withering to ashes
You'll meet oblivion

Follow ancient footsteps, a path that's so well known
Stagnant existence, fit patterns set
Your presence on this earth is the only time to learn
Forge one creation, significance
One deviation before the end

[Chorus]

8. The Legend

The time has come to crack the sky
He wakes to rise once again
He closes his eyes and wonders why
His mission had come to end
Sent through time to give the world
Sounds of thunderous song
Fighting for victory that was his along

In his sleep the world did pass him by
Still he dreamed, his passion couldn't die

His powers taken from the gods, given to unworthy men
Creating naivete with no message to send
Feeding on the weakened minds, all who fell for the plan
Prepare for the end, his time is at hand

In his sleep the world did pass him by
Still he dreamed, his passion wouldn't die
With a vengeance in his torn heart
He has come to claim his glory
Believer of forgotten time
The legend carries on his story

A fire burns within him that burns forever more
The fight that he's been fighting, it's what he's living for
He's lives his darkest hours out on the street of dreams
A journey with no promise, but still he had to see

[Lead: Dan]

[Dual Theme Lead: Perry & Dan]

Through a broken sky he stands on top the world once again
The unworthy weakened minds, lives come to an end
The masses roar to hear, sounds of thunderous song
Praising his victory, that was his along

In his sleep the world did pass him by
Still he dreamed, his passion never died

With a vengeance in his torn heart
He has come to claim his glory
Believer of forgotten time
The legend carries on his story
The masses
All bow down to him

9. A Choice Of Graves

[Lead: Dan]

A thought you always feared becomes reality
What can't be undone is driving you insane
Reaching for the past to turn back the hands of time
Retracing steps you've taken a wish that can't be made

All at once your world crumbles and shatters to the ground
The hand of fate now takes its place and comes without a sound
Knowing it was just a mater of time
How could not see the signs

You hear a symphony composed of misery
There's no one else to blame
Can't change what's taken place
Feeling the disgrace
Never seeing things the same

A polished tombstone, tears from livid eyes
A taunting crow overlooks this tomb
I'll rise to heights high above your dying dreams
Teaching the lessons, the ones you never learned

You had a choice of paths to walk, a choice of graves to dig
A burial before its time, this journey ends
Wasted potential and such bitter lies
I'm left behind asking "Why?"

[Chorus]

[Leads: Perry, Dan]

[Chorus]

10. Vanished

I should have never been born
I'm all that festers in the human womb
My life's out of season
Out of space, out of time
Sires all deranged and unfit
Influences obscure reveal my path
Through landscapes bleak and chaotic
To planes of mythic dreams

Arrogant world of beings unlike me
In solitude forever
Against dreary nights and long days
Beneath these stars
Yet still I live
No one shed tears while I lived
In this world all alone
When time chases my black shadow away
I'll vanish from this place unto another

I'm more that what I seem
The gleam in your eyes
Not the same as my dream
My motives are forgotten
Another atom lost in dust
Overcome genetic code
Losing sense of innocence
My trail has vanished

[Lead: Perry]

[Chorus]

Sought after though all that's dark
Changed and shunned evermore
Benign intentions mistaken again.
Striking fear deep in a heart

[Chorus]







DESTINY'S END LYRICS