1. REMNANT

Feel, the clock tick
But, no deadline
Afraid of sunlight
Cure the blood strain

Immune to the affliction
Living hosts inherently human

One last specimen
Is the greatest threat
Veil that hides the face
Of the “old race”
Where to find the strength
And will to go on
Although all alone
Curb the chaos

Inside...
...Outside

When all moving parts stood still
In awe or devastation
As a last prayer to silence
Beautiful tragedy

By your own fear
And will to kill
Now give way to (a)
New dominant form has come to the foreground

Viral, famed survivor
Ended, obsolete exemplar

One last specimen
Is the greatest threat
Veil that hides the face
Of the “old race”
Like a castaway
Remnant of the past
Did not realise
You became the scourge

Inside...
...Outside

New era
Has dawned
Breed apart
Finally acknowledge defeat

One last specimen
Is the greatest threat
Veil that hides the face
Of the “old race”
Now that strength has failed
Take the easy way
Final kindness
Free from chaos

Inside...
...Outside

I am superstition
Entering the unassailable
Fortress of forever
I am Legend.


2. PERSEVERANCE

In a footstep begins the journey, on(wards, through)

Through gritted teeth, determined
Driving need to explore
Conquer the world without bringing death
Against elements and extremes, still press ahead

Just to plant a flag on a lonely rock

Staring at the sky
Watching as clouds form
And then break apart

Everyone must choose their own path to take
Prayer will not save you so rely on yourself

...to change the plan or you will lose
Firm conviction starts from an early lesson
Came from a dreamer to a man accomplished
Modest abilities combine a little luck with motivation

No chance for fear to emerge

Seven major failures came before
Not even sure if it can be done
Colleagues fall by the way, turned back
With a pristine view, now down to two

Time stands still but the mind accelerates

Axe thrust in the snow
Leave ice fall behind
Final barrier

Ahead the step as seen, known but yet unknown
Find a way between and up into the clear

...blue sky and ridge now all laid out
A first confidence that we would reach the top
All the heights of the planet below my feet
Above the infinite, as we take the summit, done.

Offering, a quaint gift to the gods

Quiet satisfaction, peace of mind
As we gave it everything we had
Then there’s still the task of getting down
From the thin air of the peak

Represent the spirit of our time

That was when the most excitement came
Safely off the mountain back at camp
Never believed the words told of myself
Crowning glory, gift for a new Queen

Never a feeling of righteous destiny

Company, the likes of which is rare
Maybe sad the world is a smaller place
Well, George, we knocked the bastard off!


3. FROM MISERIES TO BLOODSOAKED FIELDS

There I was alone
On shores distant from my homeland
Here I've found this brave new world
About to be thrown in turmoil
It seems I'll never be at peace
The tide will change to one of war

A darkened skin set free
With ebon smooth beauty
And new life at the breast
We can see a hard road lies ahead

This woman once a slave
Taught me to feel again
A face to justify
A war that was not mine
And enclose all the love I have
It will dull the pain of my past

And so it begins on April 12
Fort Sumpter surprised and overwhelmed
Followed by more breakaway states
Then answered by naval blockade

The blood spilled at Shiloh
A sign of things to come
Cannot spare a man who fights
And so I...go to war

The order comes for the cannons to give the morning roar
At dawn, September 17, vision of hell will haunt me on (always)
Bloodied pieces of men cut down and robbed of their youth
They walk in lines to destruction, from misery to blood drenched fields

Every stalk of corn was cut so closely as could have been done with a knife
The slain lay in rows as precisely as the ranks that they stood in moments before
The bloodiest day in history, these United States nearly broken apart

The war is over for me, but thank God that I am in one piece
I can return to the hopes I left behind
To elevate condition of men, hundreds of thousands have died in the end
To have a chance and one day be truly free

Start from scratch again and teach my son to be a man
A happy ideal to have...


4. WHEN THE WALLS GO UP

How did it ever come to this?
What once were the softest lips
...now bear teeth

When the talking stops
...the signal drops
breathing constricts
then the lines are down
When the walls go up

Last neglect, the point of no return
Feel inept as all the signs were there
...like a slow stabbing sword

When the talking stops
...the signal drops
breathing constricts
then the lines are down
When the walls go up

Do not want to erase fond memories in venom


5. BITTERNESS

With all the layers peeled away to expose the core of a man
Who will you find there staring back at you from hell
Observe your own self voyeurism
Remembering how it was before

It can be motivation
A driving force to prove something
Gloss over the misery and fill the gaps between

Meant to find my soul but found only the end
Dry conscious thought with no willpower to defend

Yet a small wonder can rescue one from the point of no return
Where you stood with the most acute pain of loss
What stings worst is ruined time
The theft of memories lasts forever

Underneath the last barrier is bitterness
A level below empty, before nothingness
Went to the verge of furthest possibility
And came back with less than what I left with (empty handed)

A smile is no longer a key to release, now locked out of reach

The human pack, blooded by defeat, losing its way, now openly condemned

Understand at last
What it might mean ... (to believe)


6. GLACIAL MOVEMENTS

Time tells no story that we will see to the end

The face of the Earth has seen it all before, from the beginning
Four billion years before history, find the answers buried in the layers

A book, with words of stone
The lines are lifetimes, the pages: dynasties, chapters: the start and finish of humanity

The awesome power of erosion that forged the valley: deeper
It carved the mountain and laid the stones where they stand: eternal
A different level of existence, Gaiascope still dreaming
The oceans rise and the morning breaks through the clouds: new aeon

A book, with words of stone
The lines are lifetimes, the pages: dynasties, chapters: the start and finish of humanity

The vista of grandeur taught me the greatest lesson of all
Glacial movements

Life is so fleeting so don’t waste your chance
Because you don’t have the luxury of geological time

The vista of grandeur taught me the greatest lesson of all
Glacial movements

Measurement of the stars, origin of water: bringer of biology
Ignition of the hallowed spark, elevate a greater forum, nothing could predict
Where it might be headed or the shape that it would take, as life evolved
Toward Sentience
Sentience
Glacial Movements

Watching as a river flows, transforming landscapes, so deep and so wide
Totally merciless is the grand nurture: unstoppable
Nothing that is made by hand will outlast nature: infinite

Strength and wisdom
Pure perfection
Utter patience
Glacial movements

Welcome to the real
Genesis
Behind the mask
Learn from this
This majesty will not be undone
What have you been searching for all along?

Higher power
Strength and wisdom
Pure perfection
Complete peace in
Glacial movements

Glacial movements
Ultimate provider


7. INTERMISSIONE

(Instrumental)


8. RUNNING OUT OF DAYLIGHT

Looking back on my life
With clear conscience, can I face my God?

Joy of discovery in the science of motion
See the parallel between music and the physical
Nature is mathematical

“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the Universe
It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters
are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures.

All heavenly bodies should circle the Earth but yet that is not what I observe

Father, why am I faced with such a test
My faith in the Word, it falters!
Unchanging perfection of the Heavens
I now know this is the greatest lie..of all time
The truth is Copernican

Father, you set the Earth on its foundations
The Roman Inquisition cripples new thought
Heresy, then condemned to house arrest
Your Bible: “The Sun rises, returns to place”
It can never be moved, and yet it moves!

I wonder if history will remember me
Or if progress sinks back into the abyss
The truth does not disprove my Lord but glorifies His great majesty

Crisis of faith reconciled
I am at peace in my mind
For I know my stars and moons are always there, each as it should be in the sky

My work will live beyond the walls of death
Not just the sentiments of an old man
Set the early principles of relativity
To form the basis of future scientific theory

Rushing to finish another work
Find that the light fades but night has not come
A first sign of punishment from the Divine?
But, resolute, I know they were wrong
Clothed in the facts, I know they were wrong!
Venus was proof, evident truth, cast man’s word to the four winds, gone
All they are taught, challenged by what I’ve seen from observation

But now I’m running out of daylight
A cruel turn that steals my eyesight
Running out of daylight

As the night draws on I near the end and ponder if at last I will rest in peace

Running out of daylight
Cruel turn that steals my eyesight
Running out of daylight
Product of my time

Now as a cloak is pulled over my life
Contemplate my place in the Plan
Contribution to the Art

Running out of daylight
Cruel turn that steals my eyesight
Running out of daylight
Ahead of my time

And as I face my God
Stand in Judgement as all men will
Even with all vision gone
I see blind faith is the biggest sin of all.