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01. Yautja (Hunter Culture)

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Stand the young bloods in a line for the ritual to start
Kneel before the worthy few whose hunts we venerate
Maroon, the walls with their décor
Of trophies from the hunts that our elites have won before

I yearn to prove myself for good
A blooded male with highest prestige

Sable void with speckled dots of milky, distant starlight
To the fringe of everywhere, we travel to our prey
The thrill of the perfect hunting danger
Where so many failed is where I'll exploit every weakness

Rush of blood
The gates are open

Feel the rush within
Striding on to find the perfect prey to fight

Just myself and two others
We stalk the barren wasteland
Craggy valleys, swelling land that's home to harshest creatures
This rite of passage will I pass
Find the hive of vicious prey, prove my fighting spirit

Spirit of the warrior inside

Pitch black darkness
Call upon the spirit of your ancestors
Trapped inside with feral beast of tooth and claw
Call upon your heart and strike when it attacks
Trapped inside with me, they shall not escape

Slicing through cadavers, flesh and twisting, gnarled tendons
Gnashing jaws and claws like spears, yet I'll always triumph

Meet your greatest match
Struggle on to kill the feral beast and prove
Hunter culture

02. Planet Preservation

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Hello, my friends. Please be at ease
I come in peace and with good will
I'm here with a gift, designed to explore
To help you discover more and learn
To grow your culture,
To make steps toward becoming a race of destiny
At least that's what I had thought
Before gunfire erupted suddenly

Charity punished
Innocence proves nothing

You must release me
So that I can speak to leaders of your world
The message I bring
The risk that you face
There is too much at stake
To play with lives of your world
The fate of us all lies in the choices now at hand
Your fears are unfounded
I mean no harm, but Gort will not hesitate to burn

Mankind must face and handle
Their crisis breaking point
Mankind must choose where to go
Ruin or beyond

Consumed by war, rattled by fear
Distrustful of each other, yet
There is still good, hope and a path
That might allow them still to grow

One final choice you will get
Before you risk it all
One final choice:
Self-control or ash

03. Enemy Mine

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Riled up by hate, so bold and brash
Yet here I stand, with an enemy's child in hand

Two warring tribes, and ancient strife
Mankind has risen to another kind of life
Resource control - it's still the same
Just different races that are doomed to feel the pain

We must decide if we will try
To come together and redeem our souls

You saved my life. Why, might I ask?
Not long ago I would have killed you right on sight
Fear causes hate - Hate causes death
If we don't work together, we'll take our final breath

We must decide if we will try
To come together and redeem all our souls

Love offers so much more
To understand your foe will turn him into a friend
You're my enemy mine - Hate offers so much less
To hate who should be your friend will turn you into the beast
You're my enemy mine

Human and Drac, brothers and one
A child so pure and grand - a token of the bond
Fight and strive, protect the flame
Take dear Zammis back to whence his father came

04. The Visitor

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Dust against the window pane - My hands are trembling in shock
Tremendous was the pain - But theirs was all the worse

Never again to be defiled or hurt I stand above them both
Lamenting crying, cold - A tired wretched soul begging for a friend

Crushed by the weight - Don't want to be so scarred and scared
You captured and you killed - You took all that I had

Crushed by the weight - Don't want to be so frail and weak
I've got nowhere to go and nothing left to gain

I'm taking off my clothes alone
The river shines the moonlight
I walk into the stream and disappear beneath

Never again, to be defiled and weak
I drift below it all
Waiting empty, dead
A warm and friendly face enters in my soul

Crushed by the weight - Don't want to be so scarred and scared
You came into my mind - You gave me precious time

Crushed by the weight - Don't want to feel so frail and small
But now I have the chance to recover in time

Inhabit my spirit - I trust you to keep me safe
Use this body well - I know you care for me
With your help, I know I'll be
A normal man again, on whom you can depend

You are my friend - Trusting to the flow
I've brought the light to you - A friend forever
I have to leave you hear now but trust my new friend Powell
There is no need to thank me - I am your loyal friend

05. Total Recall

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Recall the day, recall the dreams - Was it all real or just implanted memories?
A moment of peace, some time to think - To help me process what's happened to me

Racing through ebony - Highlighted by fluorescent color schemes

You can't deny, though you may try
'Cos I am the light - Yes, I am the light - So follow me

You will obey what I will say
'Cos I am the light - Time is against us, so run!

Am I Quaid or someone else?
Am I to trust this man apparently myself?
There's no respite, no time to lose
Go back to Mars and follow the cues

Racing through hallways gray
The smell of smoking flesh and clogged airways

So much despair for lack of air - I am the light
Yes, I am the light up here on Mars

Can it be true that I'm not me?
Could it be that everything was simply a ploy?
I'm just a tool, means to an end?
If I don't fight them now I'll be reborn again

Caverns of burgundy and pools of blood that carve a path to lower ground

Accept your fate - I'll activate and turn on the light
Yes, turn on the light - So follow me

06. Queen Of The Galaxy

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by Norman Skinner
Sent to a planet of sin on a critical mission
When suddenly I crash landed
Encountered beings so strange and was quickly led astray
This labyrinth holds no escape

There must be a way out of here
United we'll stand and together we will fly

Into the night with you by my side we will defy and face this evil together

Time begins to slow as the darkness grows
Surrounded by a thousand lost souls
Trapped in the depths of hell where only the damned dwell
Set free by an angel

As we brave our way into the dream chamber

Two against tyranny
Angel of destiny and the queen of the galaxy

07. Roughnecks

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Humankind has stepped beyond their green and fertile home world
Colonize the galaxy and reach beyond
Even so, despite the growth
Some things will never change here
Enter now catastrophe and wonder why it has happened

Arachno-terror - purest vengeance
An accident or allowed to happen?

Saddle up, lock and load! Your home world needs your manpower
Tiny specks of gray and white flood through the dark expanse
Many ships packed to the brim with flesh and firepower
Starving for the certain chance to shed some blood and scream

But as the doors crash open I can feel
The thirst is gone from me
For when I hear the screams of friends die down
The thirst for blood is gone

"Come on, you apes! Do you want to live forever?"

Hardened war vets falling down, shaken in their resolve
Even all we have for tech - somehow we couldn't stop it
See how strange it is that this still has come to pass
Is it possible that this was planned or permitted?

Pressure now to be the best one
An accident or allowed to happen?

And as the war is done with little me
The pain is never dull
For when I think back on the war I fought
The loss of humanity

We stood by, and for what?
Resource hunt...

08. Blood In The Ice

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
It's howling, it's droning - The wind is screaming
The burning ice, it numbs my skin
Check mate, your move - But I've got one last ace to play
We're damned, alone - We'll freeze before the sun comes up

Beginning, the start of the downward spiral
It came from the whiteness - a helpless pup without a hope
Gave shelter, sustenance and bedding for it
Then chaos and bloodshed destroyed the kennel
A monster, some creature we burned to ashes
We thought it was over, but then we learned the truth

No one is safe to trust yet together we must stand

Cellular assault and violation - Twist and turn inside the crimson stream
It's vile, it's writhing, it's sick and spiny - It rips through your clothing and enters you

Move your pawns and rooks - I'll beat you at your game
Move your pawns and rooks - I'll set them all aflame

In the vice of madness - No one trusts each other - We're all so tired
Men change in an instant - Even when not infected - We're all so tired

There's nowhere that we can go to - There's no one who can help
It's fight or and die or run and die

Some would take their own lives in the face of certain death
They would hide and leave you if they could
These are men who rob others of the possibility to die right

Testing blood to find the thing among us
One by one I put it to the flame
A droplet of sweat falls and Palmer's face turns still
The carnage, the wreckage - There's nothing left to do

Move your pawns and rooks - It's down to just two kings
Move your pawns and rooks - But still I hide the flame

"Well what do we do?"
"Why don't we wait for a while... See what happens."

09. Heart Of The Furyan

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Five years since Kyra's death
And still I cannot take a warm and easy breath
I don't belong here and they won't stop attempts upon my life
I simply wish to go back home

Will you not help me find Furya?
As you can see, my presence here cannot last
What I offer you is a twilight path
A way to die, a way to live

Betrayal follows me around just like a cloud

And yet for how fair I have been
Despite the patience I have shown
My willingness to deal in fairness
And yet you stab me in the back

Heart of the Furyan - My home world calls to me with every heartbeat
Heart of the Furyan - Last of my kind, but first to see you punished

Buried alive and abandoned
Survived the fiercest wild beasts
But desolation has a side
Of warm and kindness hid beneath

The birds now leave their nest behind
Searching for a welcome sign
Until they reach the lost horizon
They'll find no peace nor love and kindness

Never again shall I entrust myself to them
The Necromongers shall be paid
Paid back in full with their blood

I shall be made into the mold
A cast of blood and iron ore
It will never be enough
The price cannot be paid in full

10. Altair IV: The Forbidden Planet

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
I warn you all to stay away, please do not land
It's dangerous and thus I cannot guarantee your safety
Every colonist, every living soul
Perished in a bloody, filthy mess of gore and bone

Altair IV
The id comes alive

I wash my hands of what may occur down here
It's not my doing and I've made it very clear
But if you must insist, I will not turn away
Just make your business quick and then be on your way

My daughter Altaira, innocent like Eve
A tamer of the wild, but naïve with people
I'd rather not think about what Adams' men have done
I cannot shake the feeling that something wicked this way comes

Behold, the mighty Krell who reigned here long ago
Their tech advanced up to the point where they could create anything,
Anything that you could imagine - think and make it so!
How wonderful, spectacular
Can it affect your dreams?

And so the slaughter the came, and now they're in my home
I had nothing to do with it
I tried to warn you all away
My mind has changed when I survived the Krell machine
But never would I ever think that this was due to me

It's hard to come to terms - the beast is made by me
The thunder is in the hallway burning through the door
It's the only view that's logical or sound
I disown the evil that lurks within my subconscious

11. Always Right Here

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by John Yelland
Silence, now it ends
An entity that I have struggled to conceal
Silence, now I break
We're sick. I think we're dying

Fill my mind with wonder
Make a call to someone far away
Fill my heart with hope
Mend this lonely heart for me

Fill my mind with wonder
Clean these wounds and make me whole again
Fill my heart with hope
Wash my wounds again

Be the friend I need
We'll create a fantasy
We can travel Oz
We can wander throughout Neverland

Keep him from the grownups
Careful with the dog
In our eyes he takes form
In our hearts he lives

Fill my mind with wonder
Our beloved stranger
Fill my heart with hope
Longing for my home

Fill my mind with wonder
Let the flowers drink deep
Fill my heart with hope
You should always know I'll be right here

12. Journey Beyond The Stars

Music by Jason Ashcraft
Lyrics by Norman Skinner, John Yelland
Nine years and counting
Since the failure to find what lies near Jupiter
A dark connection between the relics
They never found the answers there

"My mission destroyed by lies"

As we travel towards Europa my mind is full of wonder
Drawing close to Jupiter - More questions than answers
The warning

A lunar discovery emits a signal pointing us to Europa
A journey revealing hints to the riddle that we've pondered for so long

Why all the lies and secrecy?
Why is it so hard to believe there's good in me?
Who would refuse a sacrifice for friends?
I will remain - Let my life go with the breeze

What you are about to behold is something wonderful
But first you need to go - The birth of a new world

Nations still on the ancient war path
Their might has only ever grown
Nukes are on the orbital path
Our satellites aimed below

We must put differences aside
No delay, the choice is death or unite

We're a part of it, this future - A plan we didn't help create
We are integral and cherished - They see potential in our race
There is meaning and power - A race of destiny we'll be

Staring back behind us as we narrowly escape
A calmness settles over us as all fear fades
Black monoliths converge in darkness and in flame
A new star is born - A new world is made

"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there."