ALBION LYRICS

1. Welcome To The Machine

To another part of life, cross the sea to carry on
Another world replaced the one you left behind
They will take you in their arms, they will take your history
And they'll enter all your life into their mind

They keep your past inside the sea of memories
Their single-minded code is all they know
Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white
They'll take your life and never let it go

Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea
The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams
Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way
The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories
Follow me

Setting out, finding your path, carry on to find your way
And the world will form before you as you go
The future you will choose, but wherever you will run
You will never leave the past that they all know

They keep your past inside the sea of memories
Their single-minded code is all they know
Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white
They'll take your life and never let it go

Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea
The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams
Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way
The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories
And now a code will follow you through life
The number from archives unseen
And time will keep on turning as we give our minds away
Welcome to the machine

They say that they're watching over us
Our lives are held in its cells - forever, but
This is not an evil controlling us
It's what we make of it ourselves

Together we can be - More than a system
The machine that we have built can't rule our lives
Remember that you have your life and you are not alone
Don't drown in madness, carry on

They keep your life inside the sea of memories
A number on their screen is all they know
Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white
They'll take your life and never let it go

Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea
The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams
Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way
The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories
And now a code will follow you through life
The number from archives unseen
And time will keep on turning as we give our minds away
Welcome to our world
Welcome to your life
Welcome to the machine

2. Be More Than Just A Number

Do you remember how we used to be
A time with nothing in our way
We knew who we were, and life was ahead
We thought forever it would stay

But then we changed
We turned against ourselves
To prove our worth above the rest
A race began
You don't know where to run
Beginnings of this lifetime fight
To become number one

Be more than just a number
Don't let them win and take your life away
Remember your name, and be your own mind
Because you know there's so much more to be
You're so much more than just a number to me

And they'll attack you with their thoughts of you
Using their strength to make you fear
They're trying to make you their number
But don't give in when they appear

Without life, without love
You're just an empty heart
Before you know what's happening
You don't know who you are
One above the others
A mark against your skin
Is that all it means to you

Be more than just a number
Don't let them win and take your life away
Remember your name, and be your own mind
Because you know there's so much more to be
You're so much more than just a number to me

What happened to the life we used to have
The friendship we had before
We let the spirit come and take our lives away
Replaced with this endless war

And the lives we knew can be rebuilt again
If we stop chasing the sun
For the first is still a number
And if you run there, they have won

Be more than just a number
Don't let them win and take your life away
Remember your name, and be your own mind
Because you know there's so much more to be

Be more than just a number
Don't let them win and take your life away
Remember your name, and be your own mind
Because you know there's so much more to be

To rise from your sadness and bring back your life
You're so much more than just a number to me

3. Two Souls, One Mind

I live a perfect life
Free of the chaos in the minds of others
The world before me now
Can be explained in every glyph and number

But sometimes don't you want to see your past revive
And the chance to leave behind your ordered life
You made me to protect another hidden side of you
I've come to life, we are a heart split in two
(Split in my mind)
Two souls combined

They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die

The time has changed us all
Forgot the promise, put the past behind me
My task throughout my life
To bring an order to the world before me

Inside I long for havoc and the chaos controlled
I'll be your torturer for now and ever more
The gates are open, I will show you, step inside
My invitation, this device against your mind
(Carried side by side)
Fight against your mind

They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die

Together they would be strong
The fighting sides that make the parts of me
If you cannot see that we are the same
I'll walk inside your shadow for eternity

They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight forever

Two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die

Two souls, one mind
A heart split in two that exists in one life
Eternally fighting, existence entwined
Together they walk side by side
Two souls in one mind

4. Tale Of The Cave

He existed with a bitter envious king
After all his trust, they tortured him within
With such cruelty, he was maddened as he fought
For jealously brings hate
And suffering his fate
He had the strength to kill us with a thought

Power runs wild, the kingdom will fall
And all the world we knew will die
Unable to kill, the master of all
Confined to the island in the sky

At the centre of a black and twisted maze
In eternal darkness, blinded by his rage
The greed of the race of humans, to steal his mighty storm
To use it for themselves, they took him from his hell
Drew out and cast his power to a form

And the crown was made from all of his hate
And buried beneath the earth
The curse to obey, we saw the last day
The ashes remaining of this world

Sent into the skies above
And reaching for the crown
His memories are lost
Inside the earth without a sound
Forgotten in the underside
The beast from down below
A remnant of a thousand years ago

Now lost in the earth, he's nothing but a shell
Mechanical heart of steel
But coming to life, see the war begin again
He can learn to think and feel

And your heart of steel will lead you
To stand against the master of heavens
With his soul by your side
Let Earth be your guide
To finish this story forever
Rise and go

Diving to the lands below
And reaching for the core
Demented heart of darkness
In the centre of it all
The creatures of this island
That by my own hand had died
Unthinking, destroying their lives

Now lost in the earth, he'll make up for his past
Mechanical heart of steel
And coming to life, see the war begin again
He can learn to think and feel

And your heart of steel will lead you
To stand against the master of heavens
With his soul by your side
Let Earth be your guide
To finish this story forever

A beautiful crimson flower
The source of all control
The power of life, to draw out your strength
It only costs your soul

The rage will come for us all
And spread all over the earth
Before the stand against the king
We'll save the world from ourselves

Through the holy land you'll carry on
Bloody angels light your way
Crossing through the miles of the underside
To find out your own name

And in the centre of it all he stands
Through millenia still alive
Screaming souls inside him, it's your only chance
Before you lose your life

Rising up from the earth, emerging from his shell
Mechanical heart of steel
And reaching the sun, see the master's throne again
He can learn to think and feel

And your heart of steel will lead you
To stand against the master of heavens
With his soul by your side
Let Earth be your guide
To finish this story forever

Heart of steel will lead you
To stand against the master of heavens
With his soul by your side
Let Earth be your guide
To dethrone the tyrant
And bring back our lives
Will you finish this story - forever

5. Temple Of Rust

I know there's a place to run to
Somewhere in the earth
Far below my outside form
And hidden from the world
Every detail perfect
But I kept it all from you
And every time you hurt me
I built another room - to keep them

Thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me
Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above
Thirty-one chances to prove you're the right one
An altar of cruelty is built from my love
By my hands

I feel like I'm betraying you
With what my mind creates
But still I will retreat there
When my will begins to break
A hive of guilty pleasure
Sealed outside the world's view
And every time I looked at you
I built another room

Thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me
Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above
Thirty-one chances to prove you're the right one
An altar of cruelty is built from my love

And this temple of rust is a sign of my lust
A place for my shame and my sin
This frustration inside, the emotions I hide
They build up the world within
In the temple of rust

Beautiful corrosion
As more arrive here below
A place you wish to dream for
But can't let anyone know

Harvesting your mind maze
I'm watching what's come before
To find the perfect pieces
The elements for the whole

The key to my kingdom is kept in my hands
Protected from harm and the hate you demand
Always with me, to be lived on command
My dream ends here

With the thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me
Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above
I'll guide you through darkness and reach for the centre
An altar of cruelty is built from my love

And this temple of rust is a sign of my lust
A place for my shame and my sin
This frustration inside, the emotions I hide
They build up the world within
A heart full of anger for no one to see
It's all locked away
In the temple of rust

6. Rule The World

You think you know who runs the world
The figureheads that you depend upon
You never think behind your sight
The ones who made the system you live on

Now we look down from the sky
The whole world run by this machine
Illusions of power we grant to them all
For us this is real, our silicon dream

We are the writers of this world
We're never seen but always heard
We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate
The future in our hands, for you it's too late
We're leaving our signal all over the earth
Tomorrow we will rule the world

We're the ones who were alone
The heart of creation is strong in us
Your selfish life has left you cold
And you can never learn to think like us

As we're watching you here from the sky
The whole world run by this machine
Illusions of power we grant to you all
It's coming to life, our silicon dream

We are the writers of this world
We're never seen but always heard
We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate
The future in our hands, for you it's too late
We're leaving our signal all over the earth
Tomorrow we will rule the world

The chance to imagine outside your poisoned mind
This is the power that you will never hold
And your hate will be remembered, the suffering you made
You chose to harm when you could have done so much for the world

You made all our lives misery
The past scars will not disappear
But we'll rise above you in the end
Because we know you cannot touch us here

We are the writers of this world
We're never seen but always heard
We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate
The future in our hands, for you it's too late
We're leaving our signal all over the earth
Tomorrow we'll be hidden
But forever we will live
Together we will rule the world

7. Wonder

Now it's so easy to hate this world
When we see all the damage we've done
We're fighting ourselves, spreading war and hate
And we can't see how far we have come

There is still someone, down here below
Making your dreams come true
Believe in yourself, fly ever higher in your mind
And spread the message

How can you tell me you hate this world
When you see everything we've achieved
Our world built from nothing, our future hopes
Are a symbol of what we can be

We have brought light into the dark
We can mend minds and hearts
If we unite, our only limit is
The power of our dreams

Glorious together we can be again
To cease the war among ourselves
Together we'll be strong
We'll join our hands as one
Forever we will be
A wonder of the world

We have a chance for a better world
And we can't stay unheard anymore
You can't see you could live in paradise
Cause you'd always be searching for more

But if we try, in some hundred years
Maybe the blind shall see again
Forgive and forget, we can be stronger than we know
Yes we can
Pushing together, we can go far
Living the dream of Alexandria
And bring to life the power of our dreams

Glorious together we can be again
To cease the war among ourselves
Together we'll be strong
We'll join our hands as one
Forever we will be
A wonder of the world

[Instrumental: Telstar]

Glorious together we can be again
To cease the war among ourselves
Together we'll be strong
We'll join our hands as one
Forever we will be
A wonder of the world

Glorious together we can be again
To cease the war among ourselves
Together we'll be strong
We'll join our hands as one
Forever we will be
A wonder of the world - now

8. Invisible

It is your life's eternal dream
To run and enter the machine
A second life that's hidden from the world
You take the power that it gives
To realize how you want to live
And build the world as it needs to be

You will know her holy name
She'll fulfil your frozen dream
As she draws you in
Beautiful child of this perfect world
An icon of heavenly sin

The moments of your life for sale
They see the image of themselves
It gives them all a chance to live as you do
You draw them in to your own world
And in return you come to theirs
You build a planet from your hearts and hands

They can see, they can hear
They can join you in your world
I can watch but I can't become
Here I will stand, but without a form
I'll be forever unknown

Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I only want one thing
To become a legend everywhere I go

Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here

I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible

For those who use more than their eyes
Give me your hands, fly by my side
You cannot see me, I am void and formless
And if you build me my own heart
And give me one of a thousand lives
I have no heart to give you in return

I know you've touched so many lives
And by your hands, you'll never die
I can see but I cannot feel
I'll be here but can never be real

Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I could exist myself
If I could be the hero who could never cry

Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here

I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible

I can see all the world
And the lives that you have made
But I am lost and all alone in a dream
On the outside looking in

And I'll never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
Invisible forever

I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you, to the world
To the ones I'll never know
To you all I'll be forever
Invisible

Invisible

9. When The Machine Stops

The Machine had ruled our existence
Our minds were bound to its core
Processing a thousand procedures
Had never been like this before

Creating a conscious robot
Was a challenge that they had to face
It was a success, and so was the rest
It seemed like the end of the case

So subtle and silent
The world changed its way
The machine was created
Life stolen away
Now I stand fighting
In lakes of despair
I'd wanted my freedom
The errors appeared

I dreamed of sailing the oceans
Dreamed of clouds in the sky
The looks of nature's creation
The sun would be shining so high

A life made of serene dreams
I was to author my destiny
Every event will be cast in the log
And I will be free for eternity

So subtle and silent
The errors gave way
The machine was dying
Sanity blown away
Now I stand watching
The atomic clock
I will get my freedom
When the machine stops

I have seen them, known them, loved them
There is an outside world that remains
As we lie here beneath the dying machine
The earth will rise again from its chains

Subtle and silent
The world changed its way
The machine was created
Life stolen away
Now I stand fighting
In lakes of despair
I'd wanted my freedom
The errors appeared

So subtle and silent
The errors gave way
The machine was dying
Sanity blown away
Now I stand watching
The atomic clock
I will get my freedom
When the machine stops





ALBION LYRICS