1. WHAT IS LEFT BEHIND

All alone you will face this day
Without respect
This world dissolves
Leaving nothing
Of worth in your wake

One chance to create
Beauty was thrown away

Explore the human spirit
And what is left behind
Take a step back
And breathe deeply

An overlap in themes
Like you would expect
Neither despair or hope
Nor will you find glory in the end
Sad door closes on life

Contemplate the sorrow
A part of reality dies
Or disappears inside

No regret for you
And what is left behind
Your role as human
To leave the world improved
If that is not your goal
You have no business being here
What conscience do you aspire to?
Abandon this before its too late

This will be your last chance at redemption

All alone you will face this day
Without respect
This world dissolves
Leaving nothing
Of worth in your wake

Through your children
The only path to immortality take

What is left behind
Your legacy
What will it be?
All your worldly goods
As dust to history
A failure as a man


2. BURIAL AT SKY

Now sickness takes me
See my body
From the outside looking in
In its dying state will seek freedom
And wait for my soul to soar

Hear the whispers in my ears
Making prayer to guide the next life

Air, wind and rain
Wild and untamed
Carried to the place
Where I will find peace

Without sin my butcher delivers salvation, according to our custom
This device of my flesh it is spent, recycled natural elements

Vultures like angels
Offer me deliverance
After the last breath
The wind will take my flesh
Every man in this life
Must account for himself
Spirit in the clouds
Scream for joy but they will not hear my rapture

Blood dries upon the rocks of my new birth
Here before them, no more pain
Changing energy, return to the wheel and another chance
To find bliss

Air funeral
Dismembered
Leave this place
Having found peace

No dust will mingle into my bone
Or fire take my flesh as it burns
Into the open air I am cast
Burial at sky


3. THIS GREAT MAJORITY

"If wars are to be avoided by our country, it can be done only by determined and simple political action on the part of the great majority of our country. The trusting majority. Which majority does not get up for wars, but which does fight them and which does pay all the bills in blood and money. So it is this great majority to which these remarks are addressed...

"Lying propoganda is almost certainly necessary to rouse a nation to the pitch where men kill and women give their men and boys to be killed.

"Any war Americans have fought or may fight in the future outside their own continental boundaries has been or will be a racket. A mean, cruel, yes filthy racket. By 'racket' I mean something that appears to be one thign to the crowd, but in reality to a favored few insiders is something entirely different. During our participation in the World War, our soldiers thought they were fighting to defend their homes, to make the world 'safe for democracy'...'We're fighting a war to end wars.' Rot. Pure unadulterated sickening rot. The underlying secret causes which led those in authority to send our soldiers thousands of miles overseas in the past were not the reasons given those soldiers for their going.

"It is too much to expect that this nation will be kept at peace by those whose financial condition would benefit by our participation in a war. The masses who have nothing to gain but everything to lose must keep us out. The steps taken to keep us out must be fully understood and vigorously supported by this mass. Appealing peace slogans must be coined and there can be nothing better than: 'Attend to our own business.'"

"Sub-cellar, crooked, selfish national action inevitably leads to war."


4. FEAST FOR THE EARTH

Erect a shrine to power
On the blood of your people
Whether for personal glory or fame
Or for religion, oppression is the same

Slaves or fools that follow ego

Praise the name that gave us history
Stone on stone, build a monument

Throne for a king that fed delusion, vanity supreme
Only way to become immortal, architectural might

Throughout the past lingers today

Men write time by tools that work the rock
Blood in stone, flesh that built this tomb

Dynasty fades and the king is gone but his structures still remain
Temple to a god that never was, dead and forgotten

Great feats to last an age
Monumental power
Icons for future men
To measure themselves by


5. MONUMENT

When the seas rise with such titanic force...

To consume cities of men
The scale of natural pure violence
Seems to be a reminder to pause for thought
And know your master, controller that shapes the Earth

Feast for the Earth
Nature’s revolt
Back to the dirt
All will fall

There’s no bias, just honest free destruction
All the progress can be undone by the simplest wave

That washes all trace away
Beauty is found in chaos, rhythm in madness
No matter how many weapons, World will prevail
The more we know the more answers we need to find

Feast for the Earth
Nature’s revolt
Back to the dirt
All will fall

May seem so brutal, don’t be caught in self importance
Little competes with the erosion of aeons


6. THE SOIL GIVETH

Dawn of man
Fire and ice
Earth, the gift
Learn to grow
...and congregate

Form a bond
Tribal times
Join the hunt

Soil giveth all we need
Building blocks to work the land
Temptation to take more
Always drives human fate
A basic instinct to discover more
Out of the dust great empire’s rise

Desert sands seem so bleak
Capable of miracles
In the darkest corners
In the highest places
In the beginning
Followed a dream

Oasis in the desert
Is all that is takes
Stubborn determination
To succeed
New civilisation
From the humblest birth
Simple fortune and glory
Will achieve

Soil will give us
Life and bounty

Raise a celebration of creation
Set aside the past illusion
Imagine a world free
Of all you see

As it ends
It begins
No escape
From your fate
What we make

The spirit will make good on the dream
And speak with the voice of the living fields

Make it so


7. THE OVERVIEW EFFECT

What it means to see the world when all falls into place
The ends of a global Earth, the wonder of life and balance
Graceful ark majestically turns through the great void of space
Fleeting glimpse from the outside looking in at the bright beautiful blue

Until we have been to that extreme
We'll find that we're in the dark
To the heights that we achieve
To the pinnacle and beyond
Seen the greatest inhumanity
The deeds that we're capable of

In some ways such a mountain to climb
Like Everest without oxygen
But this is real, not some machine
Where war can be seen under a microscope

Planet
Spheres
Burning life will find...

Life will find a way

For the lucky few
Who rise to such altitude
An untainted vision of serenity
The overview effect upon you
Find your peace
And then know the truth
....that serene calm

The need for war will melt away
When we unify to one belief
The central theme that fosters hate
That I am right and you are wrong
If nothing else this justifies
The need for exploration

The blind will see through tears of beauty
That everything is always intertwined
Ironically it will be
Technology that sets us free

Planet
Spheres
Burning life will find