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Man In The Sky
06:02
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Scattered raindrops on the windowpane
Hear the rumbling from the freight train
Temples crumble in the distance
Strangers scattering seeking refuge from the rain
Seeds of humanity
Planted by the wicked and the damned
Feeding insanity
Follow their orders, decadent commands
Concede to the notion that conviction is the law of the land
Your deity is devotion and your common sense is contraband
The world has made its choice
There is no turning back now
We chose not to progress
But rather to forget
It's time to pay the price
Can't hold on any longer
With stares as cold as ice
The fact remains that
The world keeps on spinning
In the palm our hands
Right from the beginning
We've been betrayed by our fellow man
We took our hopes and dreams
And gave them away to the man in the sky
We begged and prayed to the man in the sky
Our faith betrayed by the man in the sky
With all the secrets of humanity
Mankind all along has held the key
Will we be cursed for eternity?
Just look ahead and follow me...
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2. |
The Door
05:52
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No one cares what you say
Doesn't matter anymore
Just go on about your day
Just another closed door
You can't seem to figure out
The rhyme or the reason
To what this life's about
Or the turn of the season
You're searching for the answer
Locked behind the door
You're searching for the answer
Ohhhhhh
We hold the key
To what's inside
We hold the key
To everything they try to hide
Your meaningless arguments
The who and the why
Won't go without consequence
Spreading the lies
Weaponized order
Doctrines of peace
Culling the weak
When will we learn?
You're searching for the answer
Locked behind the door
Searching for the answer
We can't take it any more
We hold the key - to what's inside
We hold the key - to everything they try to hide
We hold the key - to everything we've been denied
We hold the key
To unlock the door and open our minds
Removing the boundaries and leaving the past behind
We're searching for the answers
Just open up the door
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3. |
Here We Aren't
05:44
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Everything gone in an instant
Sometimes over before it began
Pushing and grasping
Screaming and gasping
The flowers of spring have faded
The autumn leaves absent from the horizon
If only you could see
Waiting for the cold of winter
Yearning for the sun rays of the spring
Just as the choirs of the night begin to sing
Oh we're never truly here
Living on borrowed time
Running from our fears
Oh no, no matter where we are
Here we aren't
No matter where we are
Here we aren't
The stillness all around us
The passing of all we've ever known
The cycle of emptiness
We come and we go all alone
Whether we're crawling up the stairs
Or being wheeled down the hall
Nothing we ever do seems to matter at all
Oh we're never truly here
Living on borrowed time
Running from our fears
Oh no, no matter where we are
Here we aren't
No matter where we are
Here we aren't
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4. |
Synthetic Lies
05:03
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Erase my mind with synthetic remedies
Injecting lies - discarding all my dreams
As I sit behind the curtain and the screens
Colors fill my eyes, proliferate realities
It's of no consequence to me
Written rewritten rewritten - written rewritten rewritten
Allegorical, architectural, anomaly
Ones and zeroes, octets and masks
Hide the skies
A brilliant mind sitting behind
Synthetic lies
On these new paths
Deep inside my brain
All the charts and graphs
Can hardly explain
Like photographs the memories remain
It's of no consequence to me
Written rewritten rewritten - written rewritten rewritten
Unbelievable inconceivable abnormality
Ones and zeroes, octets and masks
Hide the skies
A brilliant mind sitting behind
Synthetic lies
A world unfolding
Mankind beholding
Awakening from peaceful slumber
You realize you are just a number
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5. |
Savior
02:28
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Man and machine sharing thoughts - mind and reason
The storage of genius unfurled
To build a device that will harness our vision
Our knowledge - our future - our world
They call it Savior
Intricate designing and careful refining
To the future your mind will be hurled
With data and wires - your dreams and desires
Your feelings exposed to the world
Memories extracting - your thoughts everlasting
The hard drive is storing your mind
You save the nostalgic - the logic - chaotic
To benefit all mankind
They call it Savior
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Further And Farther
07:03
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A shrine enshrouded - in a darkness out of view
Divine and clouded - a brilliant scarlet hue
It's time to paint a different picture - to start anew
A hidden passageway
Trapped in a moment in time
Away from the light of day
A symbol of man's decline
How far from the truth? Further and farther
How far from the proof? Further and farther away
A courtesy given, a prison we live in
A symbol of man's decline
The illusion of sight, what's wrong and what's right
A blind eye still blinking
Nothing can satisfy
The thirst for greed, the feeling of need
But how can you justify
Such colloquial abnormality
How far from the truth? Further and farther
Have I allowed others to push me down? Further and farther
Further and farther - how far from the proof?
Further and farther - where are my brothers?
Further and farther away
Comfort is the enemy
Climbing the precipice
The only way to escape this regime
This blood red obelisk
Will crumble before us, washing our hands clean
Nothing can satisfy
The thirst for greed, the feeling of need
But how can you justify such colloquial abnormality?
Comfort is the enemy
Comfort is the enemy
Comfort is the enemy
A symbol of man's decline
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7. |
The Road To Palestine
07:23
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Before the lines that split the lands
Before the raging seas
A million miles of blood and sand
The pages of The Histories
Where are we heading?
What will we find?
When will we get there?
All roads lead to Palestine
Traveling through the ages
Wandering for eternity
Falling from the pages
Left behind by the Father of History
Where are we heading?
What will we find?
When will we get there?
All roads lead to Palestine
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8. |
Insomnia
06:01
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A bead of sweat keeping tempo
An unrelenting clockwork
Past day's regrets
Spinning endless
'Round and 'round it goes
Chasing the dream
Silence whispers softly
Hiding in the corners of the night
Silence whispers to me
Spiraling disorder 'til the morning light
Unto thee I pray
Thoust guarded me all day
Safe I am while in thy sight
Safely let me sleep tonight
Ticking of the clock
Angels laughing
Demons on parade
Past day's regret
Shades of darkness
Twilight masquerade
Silence whispers softly
Hiding in the corners of the night
Silence whispers to me
Spiraling disorder 'til the morning light
Insomnia
'Round and 'round it goes
Angels laughing
Demons on parade
'Round and 'round it goes
Shades of darkness
Twilight masquerade
'Round and 'round it goes
'Round and 'round it goes
Insomnia
Silence whispers softly
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Heir Apparent Lynnwood, Washington
Pioneers of Power Metal in the mid-1980's; Progressive Metal in the late 1980's; and returning for a third studio album in 2018. From epic ballads to intense metal, Heir Apparent is known for excellent songwriting featuring amazing vocalists.
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