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Lascaille's Shroud - Leaving Earth Behind lyrics



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01. Prologue: She Dreams Of Earth

I stand in awe at the might of Earth
Immense structures adorn her
My life and love lies here
Yet never can I return

Never will I
Know your green again?
Never can I
Return to you?
Never will I
Bathe in your seas?
Never can I
Breathe your air?

Every night
I beg for this
To return
To our home
Every day
I cry for this
What have we
Done to you?

Barren wastes
'Neath my boots
Dusty wind
Against the sky
Cracked view from
The gas mask
I can finally see
My Earth

A thousand shades of a lifeless hue
Oceans dried and forests gone
Murder the mountains and rape the sky
To make way for the acid rain

A thousand shades of a lifeless hue
Oceans dried and forests burned
Murder the mountains, mutilate the sky
To make way for your doomsday

My life and my love lies here
Yet never can I return

02. Creation: Coalescing Particles

Elements thrive
In a maelstrom of mass
Condensing existence
To a single point

Infinitely dense
No laws can be applied
Everything is nothing
And nothing is all

A burning sphere
Infantile star
A citadel of ice
Froze upon foreign shores

A transmigration of
Galaxies
A universe dead
Folds upon itself

Inside a structure
Spanning further than light
Have I become a monster?
Or am I still man?

Questions like a poison
Infest the mind
At the end of this road
Is there even redemption?

Super symmetrical
Dimensions compress
The dreamlike view
Below the river of time

Matter and mass
Now mine to control
Cosmic strings
To weave a grand design

A thunderous roar
Inside the great halls
Echoes throughout
The essence of being
Sparked into spastic
Momentary existence
Witness the birth of time

Coalescing particles
To form realms anew
Devouring star systems
To fuel this inferno
Time, space, matter, and mass
Life and death
A particle universe is born

5,000 years
Watching in silence
Contemplating the coming war

The universe
In the palms of my hands
The awe
Am I worthy of this?

A thunderous roar
Inside the great halls
Echoes throughout
The essence of being
Sparked into spastic
Momentary existence
Witness the birth of time

An ungodly roar
From absent eyes
Eviscerates through
Ancient machinery
An experiment
To begin eternal war
Existence becomes my weapon

Have I become a monster?
Or am I still man?
Questions that no longer
Seem relevant

For in my hatred
And anger I
Will become anything
That I must

03. Memory: The Waves As They Crash Against The Stars

Our minds are the Earth
Atop the sea
A fragile ship drifting
Amongst cosmic waves

Immersed in this obtuse
Reality
Minds separate
And drown alone

Winds guide our consciousness
To the skies
Where our bodies rest
In the seas of Sol

The Earth and the sun
Drift away
Lost forever
To the stars

The black hole inside you
Is consuming your form
Slowly taking you from me

I cannot believe
That I allowed this
To happen to you

Galaxies fall apart
Crumble lifelessly
Into colliding
Waves crash against the stars
Drowning them in our seas
Swallowed with the Earth
Infinity
Is the only thing I'll long for
Just one more century
To undo all
That I have done
To this world, to myself
But I shall remain
Pariah unforgiven

Our minds, we're the Earth
Atop the sea
A fragile ship drifting
Amongst cosmic waves

Drowning in this
Obtuse reality
Minds separate
And die

Galaxies fall apart
Crumble lifelessly
Into colliding
Waves crash against the stars
Drowning them in our seas
Swallowed with the Earth
Infinity
Is the only thing I'll long for
Just one more century
To undo all
That I have done
To this world, to myself
But I shall remain
Pariah unforgiven

04. Prometheus

[The Archaeologist:]
Prometheus
Can you see this?

[Prometheus:]
Images coming in clear
But what do I see?

[The Archaeologist:]
It is death
By the thousands
A drop of liquid
To destroy existence
Disassembling the
Twisted ladder of our
Imperfect DNA

[The Archaeologist:]
Oh, Engineer
Can you hear me?
Why do you despise us?
What have we done
To deserve your scorn?
Why, God, why?
Tell me now

[The Infected:]
Prometheus
Can't you hear me?
You cannot allow
This plague to persist

[Prometheus:]
What is happening?
What of this death you speak?

[The Infected:]
Please just listen
For you must kill me
Please

[The Archaeologist:]
Prometheus
Forgive me
For you must sacrifice

[Prometheus:]
Yes, we know
This is to be our fate
Fire on
Ion propulsion

[The Archaeologist:]
LV-223
Your disease will not claim me
I want to know
I deserve to know
To seek out my maker
To know my destroyer
And let my fury be known

[The Archaeologist:]
LV-223
Your disease will not claim me
I want to know
I deserve to know
To seek out my maker
To know my destroyer
And let my fury be known

05. Bridge To Cross

Standing over a fault line
With a foot planted on either side
With the only world I ever knew
Balanced on one shoulder
And a heart I'm just getting used to
Beating on the other sleeve

I stood my ground in a place I knew
I might never find peace
And as my foundation shakes
I'm left to wonder
Did I nurture this expanding divide?

Golden bridges turn the color of flame
And suicide missions are redeemed
When they become fatalities

Of natural disasters
My steel core is melting
Oh, if you only knew
About the doubts I allowed
To grow up through the cracks
Pushing their way out
Grasping at sunlight

I can't choose a side
But I can't stay here anymore
Standing on the edge
A voice begins to whisper
I've tried to ignore it, but I can't avoid
Such a groundbreaking revelation

Standing on the edge of an abyss
I know where my real home is
And I'm leaving it behind

(I know) where my real home is
(And I'm) leaving it behind
(Jump down) and lose it all
(I have) a feeling I'll fall

(I know) where my real home is
(And I'm) leaving it behind
(Jump down) and lose it all
(I have) a feeling I'll fall anyway

Golden bridges turn the color of flame
And suicide missions are redeemed
When they become fatalities

Of natural disasters
My steel core is melting
Oh, if you only knew
About the doubts I allowed
To grow up through the cracks
Pushing their way out
Grasping at sunlight

Yeah
Let's go

Standing on the edge of an abyss
A voice begins to whisper
I've tried to ignore it, but I can't avoid
Such a groundbreaking revelation

Standing on the edge of an abyss
Because I'm holding onto so much
I just might lose it all
I know where my real home is
And I'm leaving it behind

Standing on the edge of an abyss
I just might lose it all
I know where my real home is
And I'm leaving it behind