1. EYE OF DESTRUCTION

In the far distant future, we built machines to keep law and order
We didn't realize our future would come back to destroy us
Fragments of our world were all torn apart, and to live we must survive
The eve of destruction...
In our world we created machines for peace, and we
reached out for our knowledge to increase
Life progressed but we lead our children to paths of
destruction, we didn't read the warning signs, bringing
us to the end

(chorus)
We feel the force and feel power, tension building to devour
We feel the thunder and heed the roar, cries from a
world at war

Can we survive the chaos, peace becomes a lie
These sentinels of terror have caused a fire in the sky
Trapped in the future (speak) the truth's a lie lost in the past
We stand our ground and fight one by one to the last

(chorus)

Can we survive (the combat zone)
Nations divide (but we stand alone)
We will defy (turn the world to back)

(Solo: John)

Microchip minds (hunger is the fuel)
Forged in fire (technology's tool)
Lasers pierce (darkness 'till the dawn)
Terminate (all hope is gone)

(Solo: Micahel)

On the eve of destruction we're fighting for our land
What will become of us after the fall of man
On the eve of destruction time is our feat
Fragments of our world are lost the end is drawing near...

Before the dawn, come up, they rise to conquer of oppress
Soldier of tomorrow are bonded by steel to flesh
Beware the future yet to come battered, ripped, and torn
They've traveled forward, back through time, to take
the world by storm


2. THE PASSAGE

Miles pass beneath me, I'm exhausted to the core
I've been rising for fifteen days, I'll ride for fifteen more
I spur my steed on ever faster before it's too late
Returning with the talisman, to save my people from their fate

Her words are ever echoing inside my mind
God speed to you dear warrior, may you return in time
From your quest for knowledge, seeking power
To bring us the light in our darkest hour...

Aching muscles, burning lungs
I ride through darkness, to the burning sun
I pray the gods, watch over me
As I combat, (evil) sorcery

(Solo: Michael)

She comes to me in the deepest night
Her eyes were burning with inner light
Speaking to me from her waking dream
Warrior you have found what you seek
Inside, to search for the key
Look deep inside yourself, you will find me

(Solo: John)

Smoke hangs thick above the trees, crimson fires burn ahead
All around I feel the madness gaining power as it spreads
I reach so deep inside myself, for the strength to carry on
There's still so far I must go, a few more hours 'till the dawn


3. STALKING SHADOWS

Walking down the streets, midnight or a quarter past
All is quiet, except my heart is beating way too fast
What hides in the dark?
I don't know
What is it I see?
I don't know

Voices in the night are calling out of me
Filling my head with visions, of things I should not see
Angel in the dark, can you save me from myself
Can you break the chains that hold my mind in the place
where demons dwell

(Chorus)
I'm stalking shadows and things unseen
Stalking shadows that are stalking me

Dark and empty streets, a cry that no one hears
Demons are unleashed, preying on your fears
I've been running for my life, now I'll stand and fight
As I face the hidden one, my laughter cuts through the night

(Chorus)

Come stalk the shadows with me
See the things that my eyes see
Don't be afraid, it gets so dark in here
Visions come blindly to scar you like a knife
Living out my nightmare watch it come to life

(Solo: John)
(Solo: Michael)

(Chorus)


4. SOLDIER ETERNAL

Once I was a soldier, I fought for my king
I fell in love with a princess and she fell in love with me
Secret meetings together we would share
Fate did not approve an unbalanced love affair

Dark and empty cell, my crime came naturally
A spirit brought me a gift that will shape my destiny
Cold, alone, pain, freedom today
For armor empowered a price I must pay

I foolishly agreed, I didn't understand my fate
This armor has a soul of evil, a presence I could taste
I can feel my soul fighting to stay
I'm looking for the princess, I'm fading away

I entered her room, she screamed out in fear
Soldiers came and we fought, to my eyes came a tear
Bodies lie around me, my princess in a pool of red
I couldn't stop this armor, now my love is dead

(Harmony solo)
(Solo: Michael)

This armor stands here it's breathing
I'm screaming out, he's laughing
Trapped behind this mask of doom
Why can't I be set free

Now you are part of me
My damnation lasts you trapped through time eternally
Fighting on and on and on

(Solo: John)

Disaster - I'm caught in time
Chaos - This is my sign
Anguish - I'm full of hate
Warning Beware my fate

My future lies in wait before
Part of this armor I'm living
A time bomb waiting to explode
Why am I the eternal warrior of fate
I jump through time and space
I'm screaming cursed to live forever now
I'm fighting on and on and on

(Solo: Michael)


5. THE ENEMY

Space war started when the starship exploded
Four hundred passengers died in the black
Onslaught is coming, crushing defenses
As a planet by planet they make their attack

Homing in on subspace radio waves
Their crystalline logic so evil, so clear
The warning went unanswered unheeded
We didn't realize we had something to fear

They take no surrender, at war with all life
The ultimate enemy, now can we survive

Planets are sterilized and race destroyed
The call to wars heard throughout space
Unliving enemy that knows no fear
Is there no stopping this unliving race?

Through deepest space, the war rages on
The death machines roam through their creators are gone
They take no surrender, at war with all life
The ultimate enemy, can we survive?

Some called it the end of the childhood of man
Our world was dying by our own hands
So we reached for the stars and salvation foretold
Not knowing in the stars, our future was already
sold...already sold

(Solo: Michael)

We've found our savior, one to stand behind
The last real hope for mankind
Finally united as one human race
To destroy the ultimate enemy we've had to face
Light speed and faster, we head for their lines
Soldiers of life against artificial minds
No mercy is given to the unliving race
In the final contest at the stone palace

(Solo: Michael)
(Solo: John)