Lyrics The Sixth Extinction - Ayreon

The Sixth Extinction

It"s the calm before the storm
It"s the quiet before the war
It"s the time when all will be decided.
All will be decided
If nobody hears the echoes on the wind
It"s the end of the chain
Destruction of the fittest
It"s the end of our reign
We"ve seen it all before
It"s the end of man"s evolution
The end of evolution
For nobody heeds the echoes on the wind
Do you hear the sirens?
Do you see them burst?
Do you feel the fire?
All the world"s a radioactive grave!
I can hear them crying
I can see the fear
I can see them dying
Washed away by deadly gamma waves!
Do you hear them calling?
Do you see them hurt?
Do you feel them falling?
All the world"s a blazing funeral pyre!
Tom Englund:] I can hear the wailing!
I can see the wrath!
I can see them failing
Washed away by a scorching sea of fire!
Silence"s so loud, not a soul… left alive
Darkness"s a shroud
All our dreams have disappeared
They burned down… tree of life
Confirming all that we feared
Don"t give up, remember how we felt
Fire rushing through our veins
Now it"s the time to rise up from our hell
Now it"s the time to free our brains
The meaning of life is to give life meaning
Go too fast, move too slow.
Restore the balance between thinking and feeling
Open up and let it flow
No side has won, struggle to… survive
Our quest here is done
All our hopes have disappeared
Our race will… not thrive
Time will not recall the year
Don"t give in, remember all we learned
The spark of life if did ignite
We regained the rage for which we yearned
We regained our will to fight
We must resolve this human equation
We"re already dead if we don"t try
To welcome challenge, genetic variation
Stop the machines, prepare to die!
He"s the last man alive
Searching for the answer
Knowing he won"t survive
To the mystery of live
Relives the past, and dreams of the future
Dreaming of the future
And soon he"ll set free
And the sleeper will awake
The spirit of the wind
Make us whole, migrator soul
Follow you home, complete the Circle
We must survive, restore our lives
The way I"ll show, complete the circle
Send back visions
Into the past
Of war and decay
Hear the final cries!
I can see the fear
In a world without walls
Through their eyes
I see them dying
We have to teach them
Migrator soul
We will gain our will to fight
We"re at the dawn
We found a way
I know we"ll make it in the end
Listen to the one man
We gave them language
What did they say?
What did they learn?
We have no choice
We are the future
We are the pain
Complete the Circle!
AH!!!