Age Of Shadows
Ayreon
01011001 (2008)

[Age of Shadows]

[Tom Englund:]
We never saw this coming
Pride comes before our fall
We never heeded the warning
Buried deep within us all

[Steve Lee:] The Age of Shadows has begun
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] Giant machines blot out the sun
[Steve Lee:] Frozen lands becoming known
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] The Age of Shadows has begun

[Steve Lee:] The Age of Shadows has begun
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] I won't accept what we've become
[Steve Lee:] We stand to lose more than we've won
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] The Age of Shadows has begun

[Tom Englund:]
Our quenchless thirst for knowledge
Our urge to change and grow
Our need to expand the nation / extermination
Made us rise from the depths below

[Hansi Kürsch:] No more aggression
[Floor Jansen:] No more initiative
[Hansi Kürsch:] No more suppression
[Floor Jansen:] No more emotions
[Hansi Kürsch:] No more resection
[Floor Jansen:] No more of all the feelings that shaped our hearts and made us who we are
[Hansi Kürsch:] No more possessions
[Floor Jansen:] No more suspicious
[Hansi Kürsch:] No more obsessions
[Floor Jansen:] No more sensations
[Hansi Kürsch:] No more depression
[Floor Jansen:] No more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are


[We Are Forever]

[Jonas P Renkse:]
Time, but a passageway
The beginning of the end
An end that never was
Time, but a curve in space

We are Forever, eternal prisoners in time
We are Forever, caught in our cold inertia

Longing... hoping... waiting... for no one...

[Anneke van Giersbergen:]
Forever we yearn, forever we learn
Forever we live a lie, forever sleeping by and
Forever we flee, forever we will be
Forever is but a dream, forever is but a scream and
Forever we try, forever we die

The spell of life wore off
The zest for life not enough

Longing... hoping... waiting... for no one...
(Never enough)

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Forever we try, forever we die

[Jorn Lande:] ad libs in last chorus of Age of Shadows