Day Sixteen: Loser
Ayreon
4:47It'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 the evolution For nobody heeds the echoes on the wind 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 feel them dying! (Washed away by deadly gamma waves!) Do you hear them calling? Do you see the hurt? Do you feel them failing? (All the world's a blazing funeral pyre!) I can hear the wailing! I can see the wrath! I can feel them failing! (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 feel them dying! (Washed away by deadly gamma waves!) (All the world's a blazing funeral pyre!) (Washed away by a scorching sea of fire!) Silence so loud, not a soul left alive Darkness a shroud; 2085 All our dreams have disappeared They burned down, tree of life Confirming all that we have feared; 2085 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, struggle to survive Our quest here is done; 2085 All our hopes have disappeared Our race will not thrive Time will not recall year 2085 Don't give in, remember all we learned The spark of life, it 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! He's the last man alive (Searching for the answers) Knowing he won't survive (To the mystery of life) 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! 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! I can see the fear In a world without walls Through their eyes I see them dying! We have to teach them! Migrator soul! We regained our will to fight! We regained We found a way! I know we'll make it in the end Listen to the warning! We gave them language What did they say? What did they learn? We have no choice We are the future We are the pain! Complete the Circle! Ah!