The night, presaged by a dying sun
The life and times of ascent and fall
The dance has commenced in the fading glow
A wall of pitch for the dying of light
Protect us, keep us from all that would harm
Encircle, encompass, guard over us all

Give up, give in
Light the night on fire
It sears, it derides and it leads us to fall
Walk on, walk through imitations of hell
The movement, the rhythm
The drums from afar

The guilty are hanging from the killing tree
The cries from the depths in unison sing
Forgotten, abandoned, graceless and scorned
Pleading unheeded
The millions unknown

Walk on, walk on till dawn has come
The relentless unceasing of a million calls
I know you too well and I know you by name
I fought you, I defeated you time and again

I endure, I resist what is killing me
An image invoked
Like a visage of hell
Submit to temptation
Taunting my soul
Unlock these restraints
Oh save us all

Hold on, hold on till dawn has come
Endure and persist, no mercy without
The world in it's slumber has time on its side
Safe, unaware in a million dreams

Love joins, unites
Love breaks us apart
The power to conquer here in our hearts
Enduring and sacred
Eternal as time
For love, love alone will conquer all

Guard and armour, protect me when I falter
When I tire of a world that leaves me cold inside

In darkness be the sound and light
Be the beacon, be the guide
In the cause of all you justify

When I wander and far I stray
When this world has failed me
Give me strength and heal my soul
When I'm broken when I'm lost,
And roads seem neverending
Be the path that brings me home
When it feels I can't go on
Let your armour cover me

Time relentless takes no sides
Mortals burdened, lost and blind
Tread a dream, a gift we vilify

Where tempests rage upon the seas
And sirens call to lure and lead
Fragile hopes on vessels run aground

When I wander and far I stray
When this world has failed me
Give me strength and heal my soul
When I'm broken when I'm lost,
And roads seem neverending
Be the path that brings me home
When it feels I can't go on
Let your armour cover me

When I wander and far I stray
When this world has failed me
Give me strength and heal my soul

When it feels I can't go on
When it feels I can't go on
Let your armour cover me

God of all, you broke my heart
Through the ages I've searched in vain for words
To the thrones of kings in broken temples
Legacies long memory and dust

I've crossed plains and the mountains, traversed oceans
From my home to the corners of the world
And for a moment I thought I heard you whisper
Mistaken for the wind across the stones

The line, the line is broken
The path behind has vanished in the sand
To fires that burn on the horizon
To eternity, to fate, until the end

God of all, I travel seeking knowledge
You scattered it like ashes on the air
At the dawn your children call for answers
Forsaken in a wilderness to roam
The god of war paraded like a saviour
The god of love in exile can't return

The line, the line is broken
The path behind has vanished in the sand
To fires that burn on the horizon
To eternity, to fate, until the end

The line, the line is broken
The path behind has vanished in the sand
To fires that burn on the horizon
To eternity, to fate, until the end

In another place
Another sense of time
Creation in my eyes
Slip as tethers fade
Tune a frequency and glide
Beyond this mortal fire

Other single states
Left drifting in the wake
Still a unity of one
Stepping back to view
A frame extending on all sides
Creation in my eyes

We are too young,
Too innocent to see what is right before our eyes
Nothing before, nothing will end, we never truly die
Like a spark of energy cries for life and ignites
One day we'll realise that all worlds must collide

This is where the fear and doubt subside
This is where an empathy resides
Find it in the beating of your hearts
In our origins in where the journey starts
The immensity of time, the widest gaze
The energy, an ending to create
The voices that combine intensify
For all things to exist, they must collide

Memories like films play on the wall
Of another self, another life
A story without end that still lives on
So much that passed us by is forever gone

Echoes of the chances that I had to take
I closed the door, I never said goodbye
No regrets, no tears
We cannot turn back time
The symphony, the song plays to the end

Ghosts will haunt the streets
Where we have laughed and cried
Still, we found our place
Found a better life
Is there time to cry
Drink to last goodbyes
Oh why, do wonders never cease?

Share with me a wisdom and reflect
When I cannot disguise my truest self
I cannot say what plans fate has for us
But we affect the change and guard our hearts

Running forward
Hope and wonder
Laugh and fall
Have we burned all the illusions of our youth?
The question goes unanswered: what it made of us,
Who won or lost, who is missing presumed alive?

I hold on to what matters most and don't let go
I hope you know
That I'm happy now
Drink to last goodbyes
Oh why, do wonders never cease?

I cannot taste the anger
Rage leaves me undone
And vices of the flesh won't satisfy
Innocence could serve us if purity was truth
Forbidden words are like a loaded gun
Conscience won't betray you when purity is gone
Wounds are worn like medals long adorned

Laid low, evading capture
A lifetime on the run
Don't know the day when I last saw the sun
The intentions of a saint with demons at your side
A prophet, like a killer on the run
A heretic, an angel in some small forgotten town
Forsaken by the one you're waiting for
Battle and provoke me
My principles remain
I'll relish each forbidden word you say

Give me love if love is salvation
Give me love the spirit enflamed
Give me something, give me peace or give me war
Give me love drown me in healing
Give me love, majestic and great
Immerse me in the workings of your mind

Give me love if love is salvation
Give me love the spirit enflamed
Give me something, give me peace or give me war
Give me love drown me in healing
Give me love, majestic and great
Immerse me in the workings of your mind

Give me love if love is salvation
Give me love
Give me something, give me peace or give me war
Give me love

Locked in a building
The place is on fire
Up in the penthouse
Taking a view
Alarms are ringing
The seconds are ticking
The canisters fly
And everyone laughs
And everyone laughs

This is the new world
This is your time
Down in the basement
Dancing again
Everybody get ready to sing
When the lights go out
When the lights go out
Come join the party at club vertigo
Move to the searchlight songs
Everybody get ready to clap your hands
When the lights go out
When the lights go out

Out with the old war
In with the new
Dressed to the nines
Atomic chic looks so good on you
The zeitgeist trend for a new generation
For a new radiation
And everyone laughs
And everyone laughs

This is the new world
This is your time
Down in the basement
Dancing again
Everybody get ready to sing
When the lights go out
When the lights go out
Come join the party at club vertigo
Move to the searchlight songs
Everybody get ready to clap your hands
When the lights go out
When the lights go out

Dance to the last song
Stay with me
Over and over
Tell me you love me
Tell me the words that I want to hear
Let's embrace
Let's embrace
And wait for the all-clear

This is the new world
This is your time
Down in the basement
Dancing again
Everybody get ready to sing
When the lights go out
When the lights go out
Come join the party at club vertigo
Move to the searchlight songs
Everybody get ready to clap your hands
When the lights go out
When the lights go out

A stranger in the crowd
Treading fire after dark
Lost in a city
Pulsing to a sound
Of the spirit and soul
A city that is breathing
Living through the cables
Alive across the wires
Faces without names
Playing devils and angels
Lit up by the strobes
Moving hypnotised
I caught your reflection
In the neon on glass
An electric silhouette
Against a static sky

It's a beautiful dream
It's a beautiful life
It's just a reflection
A world that must survive
We're children of the past
Who look beyond today
Designing the present
So when is the future

We live in a dream
Keeping visions alive
It's just a reflection
A world that never dies
An image we create
In our image we design
It's a beautiful life
So when is the future

Time moves so fast
In a single direction
Fighting with a present
Racing from the past
We're searching for something
That can never satisfy
The reality of answers
When lives are on the line
I've waited a lifetime
For the age of wonder
A place that I remember
In a splinter of time
A stranger in a strange land
Caught in the flow
Still searching for answers
Among the neon lights

It's a beautiful dream
It's a beautiful life
It's just a reflection
A world that must survive
We're children of the past
Who look beyond today
Designing the present
So when is the future

We live in a dream
Keeping visions alive
It's just a reflection
A world that never dies
An image we create
In our image we design
It's a beautiful life
So when is the future

It's a beautiful dream
It's a beautiful life
It's just a reflection
A world that must survive
We're children of the past
Who look beyond today
Designing the present
So when is the future

We live in a dream
Keeping visions alive
It's just a reflection
A world that never dies
An image we create
In our image we design
It's a beautiful life
So when is the future

No voices here
Above a small and fragile sphere
Hang on every word
Yet no one hears us speak
So, it's only left to ask
Is change too great a task?
From the smallest steps
Waves transforms the earth

Highest heights
As we sail into the heavens
Skyward, light of lights
Godspeed, you satellites
Stand and watch and wait
To see the trails that cross the heavens
Eternal light of lights
We're all just satellites

Oh my love, be brave for me
Accept the fact it can be better
Don't let this world go down without a fight
And I still hold the firm belief
That we borrow from our children
And we pay the price in this life or the next

Highest heights
As we sail into the heavens
Skyward, light of lights
Godspeed, you satellites
Stand and watch and wait
To see the trails that cross the heavens
Eternal light of lights
We're all just satellites

Highest heights
As we sail into the heavens
Skyward, light of lights
Godspeed, you satellites
Stand and watch and wait
To see the trails that cross the heavens
Eternal light of lights
We're all just satellites

I speak from a place where some talk of signs
Tired superstitions to drown out the wise
Dark clouds have gathered to block out the sun
All of our sins to judge us in turn

Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons
Would any be counted to take up the cause?
If we can't imagine that the hour is near
Then all of our sins won't fade with the tears

Do you hear the drums of the warmonger's charge
Who feeds on the blood of our youngest and brave
Throw oil on the fires, turn friend against friend
All of our sins consume us in flame

I hope you know, I hope you can see
The march is beginning all over again
Will we ever learn? Will we ever know peace,
Before all of our sins drag us to the deep?

Can you not see them? There's blood on their hands
They rape and they murder for pleasure and gain
The harbingers comes in blazes of gold
With fear and destruction a haven for none

What would it take to force us to act?
Before visions have faded and hope is worn out
Would we strive to be better? Could we learn from the past?
For all of our sins - atonement at last

For the sake of our conscience, for the sake of our souls
To never more suffer peace without end
Or will be pass silent into the great night?
When all of our sins will lie with the dust

Tell me their names, tell me their names
Look into their eyes and what do you see?
Do you see their pain and look blindly away?
Do you hear their voices? Do you hear their screams?

And do you not suffer? Do you know no shame?
All those around you would banish you away
I hope that their cries haunt you till the end
All of your sins, you can't wash away

For the sake of our conscience, for the sake of our souls
To never more suffer peace without end
Or will be pass silent into the great night?
When all of our sins will lie with the dust

For the sake of our conscience, for the sake of our souls
To never more suffer peace without end