Heavy Greets,
Rainer
My House On Mars It Is The End Of The 21st Century. I Have Returned To My Own Childhood. I Remember It All As The Dream Sequencer Images Mix With My Own Recollections. This Is The Day My Sister And I Realise That We Will Never See The Planet Earth.
Daddy Where Are You Now ? Forgot About Your Vow ? You Promised You`d Return And Take Me To Earth ! Did You Have To Fight That War ? What Was It All For ? The Honor Of One`s Name, What Is It Worth ? I`m All Alone, Sister:We`re All Alone ! My Future`s Unknown, Sister:Our Future`s Unknown ! I Reach Out To The Stars - Out Here In My House On Mars... Mother Did You Hear Me Cry ? You Never Told Me Why: You Put Me In This World Of Rock And Dust ! No Friends For Playing Games, No Foes Who Scorn My Name ! Computerized Machines Of Steel And Rust ! Is This My Home ? Sister:This Is Our Home ! This Desolate Dome ! Sister:This Desolate Dome ! I Call Out To The Stars - I`m Alone In My House On Mars... I`ll Never Smell The Ocean Breeze, I`ll Never Climb The Highest Trees ! I`ll Never Feel The Burning Sun, I`ll Never Meet My Chosen One ! In My House... Daddy I Forgive You Now, You Could Not Keep Your Vow ! You Will Never Return, I`ll Never See Earth ! My Time Has Come, Sister:Our Time Has Come ! I`m Emotionally Numb ! Sister:Emotionally Numb ! I`m Headed For The Stars - I`m Leaving My House On Mars... No Friends In My House On Mars, No Foes In My House On Mars ! I Was Born In My House On Mars, I Will Die In My House On Mars !
2084 It Is The 21st Century. The Final Experiment Has Failed. The Final Devastating War That Was Foretold By The Blind Minstrel Ayreon Has Indeed Come To Pass. The War Has Destroyed All Life On Earth, Making It Completely Uninhabitable. I Hover Above My Own Dead Body...
Silence Fills The Air, Echoes Fade Away, Of Sadness And Despair, On That Cruel And Fateful Day ! My Bodie Lies Motionless - Upon The Kitchen Floor, The Earth Has Died, The World`s At Rest - 2084 ! Many Centuries Ago, In A Dark Enchanted Land, Our Fate Had Been Foretold, By A Poor Misguided Man ! We Carried Down The Road We Choose - The Path Of Nevermore, The Journey Ends, The Book Is Closed - 2084 ! And Now I Have To Leave, My Work On Earth Is Done, I`m Heading For The Planet Known As Mars ! To The Last Of It`s Race, The Final Newborn Son, Before I Start My Voyage To The Stars !
One Small Step It Is The 20th Century. I Am A Little Boy Peacefully Asleep. My Father Comes To Wake Me So That I Can Witness An Historic Event In The Finite Story Of Mankind.
On An Early Summer Morning, July `69, As I Dream Of The Planets, I Hear A Voice Softly Whisper: "Son It Is Time...", "It`s Happening Soon..." ! It`s A Quarter To Four Now And He Carries Me Down, To Our Place By The Telly, I See Lights On In Houses All Over The Town, For The Man On The Moon ! One Small Step For Man - But A Giant Leap For Mankind ! The Mighty Apollo Prevailed - The Eagle Has Landed ! I Go Back To My Warm Bad, Back To My Dreams, But Not The One Of The Planets, I Decided This Morning I Don`t Want To Be, The Man On The Moon ! As I Lie Here In This Cold Tank, Living A Dream, I`m The Last Of The Planets, I Decided This Morning I Don`t Want To Be, The Man On Mars !
The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Cocq It Is The 17th Century. Iam A Noble Ensign-Bearer Posing With My Guild For The Dutch Master Painter, Rembrandt Van Rijn, In Amsterdam.
I`m Standing Proud - In This Noble Crowd, My Banner Raised High - The Coat Of Arms Of Amsterdam, To The Mystic Sky - A Magic Light Enchants The Land ! We`re Marching On...The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Cocq ! My Uniform Shines - The Livery Of A High-Born Man, The Claw-Guild Signs - Immortalised By The Master`s Hand ! Light And Shade - With Colours Rich And Brushwork Bold, Night And Day - With Shadows Black And Armours Gold ! We`re Marching On...The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Cocq ! I`m Standing Proud - In This Noble Crowd, In Our Golden Age - Eternalised By The Artist`s Hand, A Glorius Page - In The History Of Our Tiny Land ! We`re Marching On...Up To The Battlefield To Where The Spirits Walk, The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Cocq !
Dragon On The Sea It Is The 16th Century. I Am Queen Elizabeth Sending Out The Brave Sir Francis Drake To Defend The English Realm Against The Invading Armada.
Times Are Dark Now, Our Empire`s Gone Astray, Forces From Down South, Armada On The Way ! So We Call Our Greatest Men To Run The Barricade, Shine Your Light Where Shadows Fall And Wash The Night Away ! Sail On For Your Queen - Sail Into History, You Will Never Be The Same ! Sail On For Country - Into Our Memory, Time Will Remember Your Name ! Dragon On The Sea... Fires Burn Now In Once Our Tranquil Bays, Tall Ships That Rain Down Thunderbolts And Flame ! Go And Raise Your Pirate Flag, Cast The Lines Away, Take Your Fleet Where Darkness Falls And Turn The Night To Day ! The Sun Never Sets On The Empire Won, But Wise Men Say: Never Say Never... It Slips Through Our Hands Just Like Sand In Sun, We Thought It Would Go On Forever... Dragon Ships They Keep On Sailing, On To Nova Albion, While The Waking World Is Sleeping, Dragon Ships Are Sailing On...Temple Of The Cat It Is The 8th Century. I Am A Mayan Girl Heading For The Jaguar Temple On The Central America Continent.
Shine Down On Me - Sun Of The Underworld, Set me Free - Chase Away The Night ! Proud Jaguar - King Of The Mayan Gods, Shining Star - Light Up The Sky... ...And Guide Me To The Temple Of The Cat ! Heart-Of-Sky - Maker And Hurricane, Mighty Eye - Harvester Of Life ! We Were Born - Solely To Speak Your Name, Bring The Dawn - We`ll Praise The Sky... ...Here Inside The Temple Of The Cat ! Upon His Throne - The Highpriest Addressed The Crowd, Now Carved In Stone - His Holy Name ! Beads Of Jade - Adorn His Cotton Shroud, His Silvery Blade - On A Golden Chain... ...He Lies Here In The Temple Of The Cat...Dead, He Will Rise Again From The Temple Of The Cat !Carried By The Wind
It Is The 6th Century. This Is Where It All Began. My Tired Body Has Passed Away, But My Once-Tortured Spirit Is Finally Free Now. My Name Is Ayreon.
I`ve Crossed The Edge Where Time Disappears, My Life Has Been Taken By The Charm Of The Seer ! My Conscience Is Clear, I Committed No Sin, My Spirit Roams Free Now, Carried By The Wind ! My Mission Has Failed, The Spell Has Been Casted, I Wasn`t The First One And I Won`t Be The Last ! This Can`t Be The End, So Let It Begin, My Message Will Reach You, Carried By The Wind ! Out Here On Mars I Now Realise, Mankind Has Vanished, Tears Fill My Eyes ! There Muste Be A World I Can Live In, My Spirit Will Find It, Caried By The Wind !And The Druids Turn To Stone
It Is 2800 B.C. And I Quitly Witness The Astounding Secret Behind The Creation Of A Mysterious Monument In Witshire, England.
The Moon Sheds No Light On Salisbury Plain, The Day Turns To Night And The Bonfires Cease Burning ! The Druids Gather Round And The Chants Fill The Air, Their Echoes Resound And The Living World Stops Turning ! The Magic Words Are Spoken - As We Leave The Plain In Silence, Now The Circle Stands Alone - And The Druids Turn To Stone ! The Dawn Shines Its Light On Salisbury Plain, The Day Floods The Night With Gilded Rays Of Sunshine ! The Magic Words Were Spoken - As We Left The Plain In Silence, The The Circle Stood Alone - And The Druids Turned To Stone ! The Rising Sun Is Dancing On The Edges Of The Stones, Casting Shadows, Creeping Down The Avenue, Into the Heart Of The Sarsen Trillthons ! I Marvel At This Mystery, Beholder Of The Stars, A Holy Temple, A Sacred Burial Ground, Guarding Well Its Secret From Us All !The First Man On Earth
It Is 50000 B.C And The World Is Almost Empty. Nature Is Still Untouched By Man. Off In The Distance A Clan Of Ape-Like Creatures Gather Near A Cliffside. But I Am The First To Stand. I Must Be The First Man On Earth.
In Fields Of Green, Vast As The Oceans, Is This A Dream, Is It Evermore ? A Million Years, Fast As A Notion, I Stand Alone Here On The Silent Shore ! I`m After Prey In The Fields... ...Shelter In A Cave From The Cold And Lonely Nights ! And Now It All Seems So Real... ...Warming At The Fireside Beneath The Pale Moonlight ! This Is The Dawn Of Time - I Am The First To Stand, Looking Through The Eyes Of The Primal Man ! This Is The Dawn Of Time - Witnessing The Birth, I Am The First Man On Earth ! The Skies Of Blue Reach To The Heavens, They Go On And On Forevermore ! No Avenues, No City Sidewalks, Planet Mars Is But Ancient Lore ! This Place Has All That I Need... ...No Computer Glowing Screens, No Industrial Machines ! Somehow It All Seems Surreal... ...Memories Of Days Gone By, A Slowly Fading Scene ! No One Here To Blame Me, No One Here To Hurt ! So Much Space Here To Occupy My Mind, I Can Breathe The Breath Of Virgin Land ! The Firefly At Nighttime, The Sounds Of Nothing Known ! And I Belong Here Like I Never Have Before, The Wandering Child Returning Home ! When Twilight Falls, Red Is The Sunset, Planets Appear Across The Colored Sky ! No Prison Walls, No War, No Bloodshed, Hard To Believe This New World Will Die ! I Wish That I Could Stay For A While... ...In The Dreamworld That the Sequencer Creates ! And Though It All Seems So Real... ...Now I Fear The Time Is Gone, I Feel Its Heavy Weight ! Hold On This Moment In Time, Savor Of Life How It Used To Be ! Hold On To The World In Its Prime, Breathe In The Air, Feel The Energy !The Dream Sequencer Reprise
It Is The 22nd Century. I Am Back Inside The Dream Sequencer. I Am Tired, But I Want More. I Want To Go Back Even Further...
Chaos
Computer Voice: Dream Sequencer System Online. I Will Now Take You Back To The Time Before The Big Bang And The Birth Of The Very First Soul Called: The Universal Migrator. However, System Protocols Require Confirmation Of Risk Factor. No User Has Ever Preincarnated Back This Far Before. Are You Sure You Want To Continue ?
Dawn Of A Million Souls
The Big Bang Has Created One Soul, The Universal Migrator. The Universal Migrator Itself And Each Migrator Flies Off Idependently In Search Of A Habitable Planet In Order To Breathe Life Into It. I Follow The Migrator That Will Eventually Reach Our Planet Earth.
At The Birth Of Time, The Beginning Of Beginnings, One Cosmic Soul Was Created ! A Bringer Of Life, A Universal Migrator, Born To Sow It Seeds In All The Galaxies ! Like A Cell Dividing, It Spreads In All Directions, Creating Life Among The Stars ! I`m Struck With Awe As I Join The Great Migrator, Now It Takens Flight To The Brightest Star Of All ! On A Quest For Life - Through The Sable Skies, What A Show - Behold - The Dawn Of A Million Souls ! On A Bold Crusade - In The Realm of Shade, What A Show - Behold - The Dawn Of A Million Souls ! Through The Glowing Mist, Like A Fog Of Radiation, I Can See The Forming Of New Planets ! I`ve Been Struck By Thunder As I Witness All The Splendour, And I Realise How Small We Really Are ! Oh, I Can See Forever, On The Wings Of Dream I Fly ! Is This Real Or Is It Just A Fantasy ? What Awaits Me Now At The End Of This Ride ?Journey On The Waves Of Time
I Join The Migrator On Its Long Journey Through Time And Space In Search of The Planet Earth. On My Journey I Encounter Many Fantastic Astronomical Phenomena.
Fly Me...Across The Sky, Fly Me To The Edges of Space ! Show Me The Wond`rous Sensations And Mysteries Of Aeons Gone By ! Guide Me...Through A Maze Of Stars, Guide Me To The Birth Of My Race ! Give Me The Answers To Questions, Reveal To Me Secrets Of Life ! Journey On The Waves of Time ! Lead Me...Through The Centuries, Lead Me To Places Unknown ! Sail Me Away To The X-Rays Of Quasars That Died Long Ago ! Carry Me...Through The Universe, Carry Me Back To My Home ! In Search Of The Gateway That Leads Us Into The Black Hole ! Journey On The Waves of Time ! Our Quest For Life Has Now Begun - The Die Is Cast, Our Voyage Leads Us To The Sun - Out Of The Past !To The Quasar
We Are On Our Way To the Quasar, An Object As Bright As A Galaxy. Our Hope Is That the Quasar May Contain An Unfathomable Source Of Power At Its Center...A Black Hole.
The Taurus Pulsar
On Our Journey We Receive The Radio Emissions Of A Pulsar, An Imploded Neutron Star.
Within A Distant Nebula In The Taurus Zodiac, I Hear The Wailing Of A Star, The Weak Pulse Of A Fading Sun ! All Its Fuel Is Burning Out And Its Light Will Fade To Black, I Can`t Ignore Its Hopeless Shout As It Fires Its Deathcry Out In Space ! A Star in Taurus Lights Up And Outshines The Galaxy, A Fleeting Moment Of Glory In Time And Space ! A Supernova Resounds, A Desperate Symphony, Leaving Behind A Beacon Fallen From Grace ! Lift Your Head Up To The Sky And Hear The Far Away Cry Of A Dying Star... I Heard Its Message From Afar, A Frequent Surge Of Sight And Sound ! We Approach The Fallen Neutron Star, Spinning Round And Round And Round ! We Attend This Cosmic Mass And We Hear Its Sad Lament, But Even Stars And Planets Pass In This Cold And Everlasting Place ! Lift Your Head Up To The Sky And Hear The Cry...Quasar 3C273
We Have Encountered A Quasar In The Constellation Virgo. But Does It Really Contain A Black Hole, The Portal To Our Final Destination ?
Heading Off Into The Core Of A Newborn Galaxy, We Have Reached A Brilliant Star-Like Source of Energy ! This Cosmic Spectacle Of Radiance Was Formed, Fifteen Billion Years Ago When The Universe Was Born ! To The Quasar... ...Beyond The Milky Way, The Redshift Is High - A Brigth Light In The Sky ! To The Dark Star... ...Beyond The Light Of Day, The Gravity`s High - A Black Sun In The Sky - 3C273 ! As We Approach The Sea Of Light I`m Forced To Close My Eyes, I Can Feel The Vibrant Waves Of Centuries Go By ! Then The Pull Of An Unseen Force Is Tearing Us Away, Could It Be We Found The Entrance To Our Passageway ?Into The Black Hole, The Eye Of The Universe
We Have Reached Our First Destination: The Black Hole In The Virgo Cluster Of Galaxies. But Waht Will We Find Inside ? Its Power Is Immeasurable. Our Hopes And Fears Intermingle As We Stand At The Event Horizon. Will Its Doorway Transport Us To Our Faraway Planet Earth, Or Will Its Fury Mercilessly Tear Us Apart ?
A Dark Sphere Surrounds Us, (Surreal - Oblivious) In The Centre Of The Galaxy ! A Hidden Force Has Found Us, (Powerful - Mysterious) At The Boundary Of Eternity ! Nothing Escapes, Not Even Light, Beyond the Mystical Horizon ! We Surrender To Its Might, Gazing Into The Eye Of The Universe ! A Deep Roar Is Sounding, (Deafening - Thunderous) As If The Universe Were Crying ! My Heart Is Pounding, (Frantic - Delirious) My Every Nerve Is Dying !Halo Of Darkness
I Hear Screams Of Fallen Souls - Sad Cries Of Agony, Within The Void Of This Evil Hole - Deep Inside The Black ! Could It Be My Imagination - The Mirror Of My Fantasy ? A Fear-Induced Hallucination - Or Is There no Way Back... ...From The Halo Of Darkness ? Spirits, Apparations, Misery - Suffering, Horrid Dreams And Dire Vissions - Rising Up From The Black ! Look Away In Disbelief - This Cannot Be Happening ! The End Has Come, I Bow In Grief, There Is No Way Back... ...From The Halo Of Darkness !The Final Door
Now Silence Devours Us, (Massive - Suffocating) The Calm Before The Storm ! Gravity Overpowers Us, (Invincible - Dominating) And Leads Us Through The Final Door ! Feed Me Light, I`m The Halo Of Darkness, Feel My Might, I`m The Eye Of The Universe !Through The Wormhole
As We Continue On Our Journey, We Dive Into A Black Hole - A Spiraling Wormhole. As It Sucks Us, Time Slows And Images Become Distorted. Reality Itself Twists And Bends. We Leave The Galaxy Where Our Journey Began, Headed For The Unknown. Where Will It Take Us ?
Hold On Tight, We`ve Reached The Gate That Leads Us To The Mystic Zone ! What A Sight, I Cannot Wait To Cross The Bridge To The Unknown ! Defy The Laws Of Relativity, Gravity Will Be Our Guide ! Surrender To The Sea Of Energy, That Drives Us To The Other Side ! Faster Than Light... ...We`re Travelling Time Through The Wormhole ! Out Of The Night... ...Into A Vortex Of Fire ! Time Slips Away... ...As We Plunge Into Unknown Dimensions ! A Brilliant Display... ...Quenching My Deepest Desire ! Will It Take Us Where We Want To Be ? Will It Show Us What We Want To See ? Through The Wormhole ! We`re Crashing Down To Our Goal, That Lies Beyond This Cosmic Gate ! Spinning Round This Spiral Hole, Towards A Cold And Lonely Fate !Out Of The White Hole, M31
We Come Out Of The White Hole Into The M31 Galaxy, Which Is Also Known As Andromeda. We See A Planet That looks Much Like Earth. Could It Sustain Life ? And If It Does, Who Lives There ?
And Out Of Nowhere We Materialize, From A Blaze Of Fire To A World Of Ice ! We Folded Space To A Distant Sun, Inside The Heart Of M31 ! On A Steady Course To The Planet Y, Circling Round A Star In Sirrah`s Eye ! The Search For Life Has Now Begun, In The Constellation M31 ! Light Years Away, Beyound Our Galaxy, I See A Planet like Our Own ! A Golden Sun Is Shining Down On Me, Could It Be That We Are Not Alone ? We`re Passing Sirrah In Alpha Pagasi, Into The Atmosphere Of Planet Y ! What Will We Find - Chances Almost None, Will There be Life In M31 ?Planet Y
We`re Diving Through The Nebulae And Arive On Planet Y, A Hundred Thousand Hollow Eyes Are Gazing At the Sky ! There Seems To Be No Motion, No Pleasure An No Pain, No Symptoms Of Emotion, No Loss And No Gain ! Solar Screens And Cold Machines Are Covering Up The Ground, Crystal Covered Fields of Green And Oceans Underground ! Countless Different Entities, But They All Look the Same, But Then One Of The Entities Is Crying Out His Name: Forever, Remember Forever !The Search Continues
It`s Time To Leave And Carry Out Our Quest, Miles To Go And Things To See Before We Rest ! We Came In Vain, Our Search is Not Yet Done, For There`s Some Kind Of Life In M31 !To The Solar System, Planet Of Blue
Finally We Are Approaching Our Own Solar System, But There is Something Wrong. Reality Begins To Break Through The Illusion. I Have An Unsetting Premonition That Even Here Inside My Virtual Journey I Will Never Reach The Earth.
I Can Feel The Sun Burning On My Skin, I Can Feel The Sun From Deep Within ! I Can Hear The Earth Calling Out My Name, I Can Hear the Earth Crying Out In Pain ! I`m Coming Home To The Planet of Blue, Our Own Sun Is Coming Into View ! I`m Reaching Out To The Planet Of Blue, Can You See Me Fly ? Can You Feel Me Die ? I Can Almost Touch The Glorious Rings Of Saturn, But Then I Feel Them Slip Away ! I Can Almost See The Yellow Clouds Of Venus, But Then The Sequence Slowly Fades ! I`m Coming Home To The Planet of Blue, Is This The End, Can It Be True ? I`m Coming Home To The Planet of Blue, Can You See Me Try ? Can You Feel Me Die ?System Alert
Computer Voice: Dream Sequencer System Alert. Warning - Core Processor Buffer Overload. Please Abort Universal Migrator Sequence. System Failure Imminent. Return To Conciousness. Return To Conciousness. Return To Conciousness...
The New Migrator, Metarmophosis
For The First Time During My Journey The Migrator Communicates With Me. He Speakts To Me Directly, But Without Words. The Migrator Tells Me That my Corporeal Body Inside the Dream Sequencer Has Died. While My Body Will Now Sleep Forever, My Conciousness Must Awake To Eternity That lays Before Me. I Am The New Migrator.
Sleeper Awake
Atomically Into Existence, A Creator Of Life Was Born ! This Universal Migrator, In His Celestial Form ! Astronomical Segmentation, A Division Which I Came From ! To Go Forth With A Task Bestowed Me, And Seek Out New Worlds For All ! Fly up Into The Skies, A Sea Of Blue Has Crossed Thine Eyes ! A Quest To Save Mankind Is Made, Just one Earthly Being His Soul Shall Remain ! My Power Of Thought Calls You: Sleeper, Sleeper Awake... Open Your Mind, Hear Me Sleeper: Sleeper Awake, Come Alive ! (Our Spirits They Can Never Die) Sleeper, Sleeper Awake... Dormant Inside, Hear me Sleeper: Sleeper Awake, Come Alive ! (Your Body Is Dead, Not Your Mind) A Cataclysmic End For Many, Annihilated Earth To The Core ! But One Soul Survives in Stasis, A Colonists Spirit The Source ! You`re The One Not I, The Chosen, With Visions, A Bright New Dawn ! To Cross The Starlight Systems, A Place Where New planets Are Born ! Rise up, You Must Awake, The Here And Now Shall Separate ! The Body Frees The Soul And Mind, Your Spirit Will Join Me In Time ! Sleeper Awake - There`s A World Waiting For You To Find !
