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Shut Up and Play
04:53
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“Come on son, what do you got to say,
When everybody’s talking every day?
What makes you think we’ll want to listen anyway?
"You really think you can change anything?
There’s nothing left, and you’ve got nothing to bring.
Why do you bother when it doesn’t mean a thing?”
Well I don’t know if that’s all true,
But I know what I’ve got to do.
I’ll take this life one day at a time,
Because nothing’s going to push me across that line,
Don’t need a place in anyone’s design.
Making a run and having fun every day,
Don’t really care what we’re throwing away,
You change the world; I’ll just shut up and play.
On the stage and under the lights,
Not a thought for the rest of our lives,
Everybody’s coming in and rocking through the night.
Come in and tell me: what do you see?
Don’t really care; we’re not changing a thing,
So come on in and stop worrying what it means.
Well I would hate to misconstrue,
So I’ll tell you just what I’m here to do
Is take this life one day at a time,
Because nothing’s going to push me across that line,
Don’t need a place in anyone’s design.
Making a run and having fun every day,
Don’t really care what we’re throwing away,
You change the world; I’ll just shut up and play.
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2. |
City of the Kings
06:00
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I hear a voice inside of me
Inviting, inciting, our worlds are colliding,
Drawing me to the edge of all that is yet to be.
Lucid dreams of kingdoms burning
A world engulfed in the final fight for humanity
What does all this mean?
I hear her calling unto me
“Hear my word
Take your vow
Take hold of your destiny.
Dreams untold
In the clouds
Become what you were born to be
In the City of the Kings.”
I feel a haunting presence standing next to me.
“Come take this journey, I show you everything,
Far beyond what you ever thought could be.”
A thousand lifetimes stretched over endless galaxies.
A blinding flash, crashing through the ending,
“The battle rages, the time has come to lead”
I stand before my destiny.
“Leave your world
Safe and sound
Take hold of your destiny.
Speak the word
And Kings will bow,
To the Edge of Forever you’ll lead
In the City of the Kings.”
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3. |
Day by Day
07:19
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Staring out through the silence
Misty dusk of this night
Climbing high through the wind and rain
To chase after the light
In this place full of memory
Going back to before
Drawn back, drawn together
To look across evermore
In this world where everything is strange
Torn away, and everything will never be the same
Dark clouds just blowing in the wind
And I try every day
To make this right; I can’t walk away
And I cry for the day
When all these debts are paid
But can I afford this price?
Can this guilt be ever taken?
Or am I wasting time?
Dying day by day
Can I forget this lie
And face the truth of my own life?
Look up and see that I’m living day by day
I awoke in confusion
I was lost and afraid
Putting back all the pieces
Without knowing where they lay
Like a ship in the stillness
Drifting on forever more
I was waiting for a storm
To push me to shore
But in that world where nothing’s ever changed
I’m still lost, and everything will always be the same
But now a chance to escape
If I don’t try every day
To make this right, but just walk away
I won’t cry one more day
For what was never mine to pay
So I must pay this price
For all this guilt that I have taken
Or go on wasting time
Dying day by day
I must forget this lie
Embrace the truth of my own life
Look out and know that I’m
Living every day
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4. |
Superimposition
09:29
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5. |
Chasing Shadows
05:53
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Shadows dancing through a wood unchanged
Save only now for me
I hear the echoes of their laughter calling me
Hard stone underfoot crushing softer dreams
The sun sets on this new world
But the shadows follow me
When memories of days gone by
Come crashing down under the weight of this new sky
But still they push through every hole
Echoes through that passage
Are drowned out by the noise of a new beginning
Of and end of another day where shadows fade
The darkness opens many doors where shadows can come forth
And walk among the men they have become
And if I walk into that night and let them lead my mind
Who knows what I may find?
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6. |
Repayment
09:33
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Bravely you’ve come here
Courage I see
Brought forth through darkness
An unending dream
But all now for nothing
For what can be gained?
For in death may be honor
But death still remains
Look now before you
What do you see?
A life torn and shattered
But an end not to be
Blackness, madness, terror
Are all that remain
All life is this torment
All that lives is this pain
Hear them whisper
Here you stand and here you lay
Thoughts of old are far away
Sanity this night will decay
Here you’ve come and here you’ll stay
No one sees us
No one hears our cries
Lost beyond the edge of reason
The Edge of Forever
Afraid of what is real
I can’t tell
Bright eyes ever watching
Empty minds thick and veiled
Then all goes quiet
Light fills the sky
From all around and from nowhere
Madness that never dies
It softly whispers
Here you stand and here you lay
Thoughts of old are far away
Sanity this night will decay
Here you’ve come and here you’ll stay
No one sees us
No one hears our cries
Lost beyond the edge of reason
The Edge of Forever
Afraid of what is real
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Acta Vira Grand Rapids, Michigan
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