The Great Escape (ч.1) (По мотивам поэмы Х.Мартинсона "Аниара")
[I. ...and The Earth Wept]
I tuck you in ever so gently Still you cried and turned from me You stepped on my heart I forgave you just like mothers do From under your shoes I still carried you
Soon my body will burn into ashes and dust And rain will turn all that glitter to rust One last pill for the pain Sit down, let me explain...
Why my bruises stay My child I know you never meant to... These scars just won't fade away And I'm sure you never knew
I give up, I give in Help December let a new year begin Take what's left and move on Fly away Be gone...
[II. A Poisoned Land]
[Instrumental]
[III. Leaving Home]
The morrow winds blow and herald a time When man will be damned for all his crime We all were too bold, now we all can see How the lifegiver's bleeding to death before me
I am packing my bags, I'm waiting in line This tragedy forces us away from this land As I board this creature of steel, I kiss her goodbye, give her time to heal
[IV. Take-off]
Loud sirens wail to send a Goldonder towards the light Leaving the ground we bathe in starlight While heading for oceans of night
Safe in Aniara's warm and tender care we ride Eight thousand hearts that fled the fires For a life at a distant home
[V. A Turn For The Worst]
A swerve to clear the Hondo stone (Now we proclaim it known) Took us off course came too wide of Mars to turn back home There's no turning back, guiding units broke and cracked We will never win this game
From pledges and bonds, our system of suns Locked down in the vaulted gateways I thousands of years ram through the final frontier The Lyre greets us there
Our ship at drift into the void Through nothingness deployed With an empty star become aware Our lives destroyed Fears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsides We can never win this game
From pledges and bonds... A moth to a flame
[VI. A New Balance]
Glass-like is the stare encircling us The system of stars hang frozen still ...a gaze through the window Six years down we still feign dawn and sunset But space no light will spawn ...eternally darker
Now setting sails But never know the worlds she's trading Where the life belongs Mima lead the way;
Shine your light, be a beacon of hope at night Be our guide, I need what you're doing to me Shine your light, blind us when reality bites We so need the magic she does
I asked me a question, no reply I dream me a life then lived a lie ...dream me a nightmare I traveled the stars but passed them by For trapped on Aniara, here was I ...always been leaving
We sit and stare, At all the marvels that she brings us Lights the life in you Mima lead the way;
Shine your light, be a beacon of hope at night Perfect grace in the barren house of space Shine your light, blind us when reality bites Mima, save us from seeing ourselves
[VII. Death Of The Goddesses]
Inside the Mima's eyes, we lived our lives Then like an arrow through this jest Destiny sent us a greeting from home, let us see;
We have no home anymore While Mima showed the final war Her circuits bled and fried, as our mother died She's darkened by our sins We begin to realize it
When I saw home so blue, be torn in two All by the hands of her own child Humanity; the festering cancer that Dug her own grave
We have no home anymore... She couldn't bear to see what will be Our haven's dying
I couldn't them if I tried As they all rushed to see her die Chaos, panic, people fight I can't see, I will not, I won't Our way of life is overthrown Is there really no way? Let us turn back