1. THE WASTE LAND

This is where I hide my feelings,
Thoughts & ideas I cannot bring in
With me to broad daylight

Words, the screams remaining hidden,
Silenced secrets, all forbidden,
Staying out of sight

Silenced now

Fear for judgement more than death
All statements stay with ears of deaf
A landfill of what
I swallowed, had to shut up about

On the edge I stand
Of the waste land
Amongst the rocks
And sand

(Refusal to speak, unable to breathe)

All the times that i’ve been hushed,
The times that the opponents rushed
To say “Keep silent, we don’t wanna hear”

It is oh so quiet now
The echoes occupy my mind
The whispers never left or seem to disappear

Words, the screams remaining hidden,
Silenced secrets, all forbidden,
Swallowed, slowly crawling back in sight

On the edge I stand
Of the waste land
Amongst the rocks
And sand

(Refusal to speak, unable to breathe)


2. EXPECTATIONS

[Odessa:]

Indeed, it’s unfair
The way we are chained
To what is expected
From us

[Maria:]

Either deprived
From our lust
Or not giving enough
Oh those fools

[Lillian:]

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another”

[Maria & Odessa:]

Why is it so that we can’t be ourselves in here?
Remember to smile and nod
Sit and stay and try to please - “Good girl”
The key - the one we are thinking of...
Why is it so that we can’t be ourselves in here?
Remember to smile and nod
Thinking of that key, and each confirming…
We are making the prison real

[Maria:]

Often labelled, told what to do
Expectations forced upon you
Play according to
Someone else’s rules or their tune

[Odessa & Maria:]

Either friend or foe in a duel
Maybe saint - perhaps a sinner too
Nymph washed up ashore
Or simply a Madonna or a whore

[Odessa, Maria & Choir:]

We are what we choose to be
Or what we were assigned to be
Eventually what we agree
We are what we choose to be
We’re neither nor the Madonna or whore,
Your room décor,
Yet always excluded from your party

[Choir & Lillian:]

Anything but free
It is dangerous
Indeed, if we
Try to make it independently
Alternatively
Running out from there, do you see?
Out there, without fear
As ourselves, simply as "me"


3. UNOHDUKSEEN KATOAA

[Patrick & Choir:]

Huhtikuun jälkeen
Paremmaksi jälleen
Muuttuu hetkeks ennen
Kuin taas pimenee

[Odessa & Lillian:]

Lohduton on elon tie
Takerrunko unelmiini?
Huhtikuusta pois jos vie
Etsinkö tai toivonko liikaa?

Unohdukseen katoaa
Lohtu minua odottaa

[Odessa:]

Toivehissamme on kaipaus parempaan,
Ja kipua, kaunaa, ei joutuis kohtaamaan

[Lillian:]

Onko totta tuo, voiko olla niin
Et löytyis tie joka täältä pois vie?
Onko totta tuo, voiko olla niin
Et eloon elokuun vois jäädä, unelmiin?

[Patrick:]

Hetken kestää tää elämä,
Ja sekin synkkä, niin pimeä
Hei ihmispoloset hyppikää! Nyt on
Riemun raikkahin aika!
- Hei me eletään!!!

[Choir:]

Kipua en jää kaipaamaan
Unohdukseen katoaa
Lohtu minua odottaa
Surusta vielä kohoan

[Patrick:]

Unohduksen jälkeen
Maailma taas jälleen
Muistuttaa: Kohdata
Joutuu paetun

[Odessa & Lillian:]

Kauaksi jää tämä maa
Mä liidän korkealle
Huolet huoletta unohtaa
Ja nousen korkeammalle
Uudestaan saan aloittaa
Ei mikään voi mua enää satuttaa

[Choir:]

Kipua en jää kaipaamaan
Unohdukseen katoaa
Lohtu minua odottaa
Surusta vielä kohoan

[Lillian:]

Lohtu minua odottaa
Surusta vielä kohoan


4. 1992

[Harri:]

The memory,
The image I want to cling on
Yet the colours (are) fading,
Turning into black and white

[Emily:]

One breath
One blink of an eye - merely
No need to rush
To say goodbye

[Choir:]

Born in 1992
Young but ready to redo
The same mistakes
As so many others
Before and those to come

[Anne Lill:]

Far too young and much too familiar
These pauses forces to look into the mirror
Reflection, projection, or simply memorize
That vicious itching in the corner of my eye

[Emily & Harri:]

One breath
One blink of an eye - merely
No need to rush
There is time

[Choir:]

Born in 1992...


5. FAR BEYOND AND FURTHER

Far beyond the Earth
Far beyond and further

[Odessa:]

Our world
Falling to pieces
We need to search for
A brand-new home

[Lillian:]

Making observations
From Virgo constellation

[Odessa:]

Find rescue
Escape this Earth blue
What else is there to do?
We consumed too much

[Lillian:]

Making observations
Of Virgo constellation

[Choir:]

Far beyond and further

[Lillian:]

What about this world under our feet,
The children running in the flowering field?
And what about the times
We woke up at sunrise
To see the ocean bathe in gold?

[Odessa, Aviator & Choir:]

We are searching another cradle
Some light years away
Not far away
In our Milky Way
We’re searching another cradle
Some light years away
Let’s travel on
And on…
Reach for the stars

[Lillian & Patrick:]

It is so funny
We’re constantly running
To seek and destroy, to exploit
‘til there’s nothing
I find it suspicious
And rather ridiculous
How greed is prevailing
We should be waking up soon

[Odessa, Aviator & Choir:]

Searching another cradle
Some light years away
And further away
Beyond Milky Way
We’re searching another cradle
Some light years away
Let’s travel on
And on..
Reach for the stars

[The Aviator:]

So, to my mind,
Humanity has spent the last thousands of years
Inventing culture, trying to understand where
The garden we were given came from.
And somehow the more we searched for that meaning,
The more we took away from that garden.
And that goes back to space travel, and the price of every launch,
As the destruction and pollution of our environment.
Which is why we have to understand the world we live in
If we're going to get out of this alive.
We are the universe, given consciousness, made manifest,
And trying to understand itself.
And when you're up there,
Looking down on that vulnerable little planet,
Its limited resources can be used for two things:
The advancement of humankind, or self-destruction.


6. WOLVES AMONG MEN

[Patrick:]

Questions of justice and empathy -
such delusions do not concern me

[Patrick & Odessa:]

Then who am I?
Yet Another rival
climbing up the ladder,
always aiming higher
Never mind the weak ones -
those that I have crushed
under my feet

[Lillian:]

For you we’re merely meat?

[All:]

Survival of the fittest
and those who can blend
Hunger always guiding
Wolves among men

We were born to die
Why not enjoy the ride?
Each Time breeding them
Wolves among men

The survival of the sickest
And those who can blend
They too got lost while hunting
We’re wolves among men

Wolf!

[Patrick:]

Amid the loudness of the herd
Not a single cry is heard
False comfort of the group as nest
Collecting prey for predators


[Lillian:]

Amid the loudness of that flock
I do not simply give a fuck
I am completely unimpressed
What separates prey from predators?

[All:]

Survival of the fittest
And those who blend
Hunger always guiding
Wolves among men

We were born to die
Let’s enjoy the ride
Each Time breeding them
Wolves among men

Survival of the sickest
And those who blend
They too got lost while hunting
We are wolves among men

Wolf!

[Lillian & Patrick:]

The danger entering our sight
Defining danger - what really counts?
Always beware of
The stranger in the night
The options given
Are fight or flight

[Odessa:]

Beware, watch out, that’s the alpha!

[Patrick:]

I’m looking forward to the feast,
To devour that cattle. All my 42 teeth
Yearning to bite that delicious meat
The cries? I do not care, for I must eat

[Lillian:]

Amid the loudness of the flock
I simply still don’t give a fuck
I am completely unimpressed
What separates prey from predators?

… and so the….

[All:]

Hunt’s beginning
Pack proceeding
Become eaten
Or be one of them

Hunt beginning
Pack proceeding
Become eaten
Or be one of them

Hunt beginning
Pack proceeding
Become eaten
Or be one of them


7. PRELUDE FOR EMPTINESS

(Instrumental)


8. DRIFTING IN THE UNIVERSE

Dancing in the wind
In the gentle storm

As snowflakes we fall
Making pirouettes in the wind
Rest for a while on the ground
Getting carried away with the wind
The storm, our form
Changing until the silence calls

As feathers we fall
Flowing through it all
Quietly drifting,
Making pirouettes in the wind

Is there more than the dance?

Swirling as snowflakes in wind
The gentle storm
Gracefully caught us within
We dance on
Drifting, so fragile, until we fall
And silent stars bring us the calm

Swirling as snowflakes in wind
The gentle storm
Gracefully caught us within
We dance on
Drifting, so fragile, until we fall
Under silent stars we find the calm

Caught by the storm
We are drifting on in the wind
Winter cold, and all the snow
We dance on
Making pirouettes in wind

To face the uncertain, loneliness, the lite
Unavoidable emptiness of our life,
To face the uncertain, loneliness, the lite
Unavoidable emptiness of our life...

Making a turn left
‘battu’ on the jump
‘Changement de pieds’
Then an ‘Entrechat-trois’
A ‘grand rond de jambe
Jeté’, ‘pas de valse’
And yet we are drifting
Not robust enough

Lay me down to sleep
Eternity at ease
Lay me down to sleep
The silent stars bring us the calm

Lay me down to sleep
Eternity at ease
Lay me down to sleep
Under silent stars we find the calm

Caught by the storm
We are drifting on in the wind
Winter cold, and all the snow
We dance on
Making pirouettes in wind

Lay me down to sleep
Eternity at ease
Lay me down to sleep
Hoping to find peace

Lay me down to sleep
Eternity at ease
Lay me down to sleep
Hope someday we will find peace