SPECTRES
[Aaron Blackwell]
Through the shimmer on this cold alley paving
See the moonshine painting the ground
Cobble stones eeping tales that remain untold
More than ages old
Brewing mist like a shroud on the damp floor
Hear it whisper licidity away
Ornate cold is the king of these streets tonight
The void is taking hold
Make haste as the wind's getting colder
It's chasing the dreamer away...
Wide open minds will divine without reason
COld is the night as you're braving the gale
Wide open eyes
A spectre is breezing through a moonlit sky
See them guises on the prowl, what a show!
Feel them shadows drag you into nightmare
To the melody of which you dont know
If it's really there
[Science & Zeitgeist]
Dance in the gloom, dance in the gloom
Every move is a step to your tomb
We're the machine that's gonna make you dream
Phantasmagoria
[Aaron Blackwell]
Time flies from the space of an hour
Telling tales in the poorhouse they say...
Wide open minds will divine without reason
COld is the night as you're braving the gale
Wide open eyes
A spectre is breezing through a moonlit sky
[lead guitar: Sascha Paeth]
[Aaron Blackwell]
Wide open minds will divine without reason
COld is the night as you're braving the gale
Wide open eyes and a spectre is breezing
Cold is the night as you're braving the gale
Wide open minds - once upon a moonlit night...
THE WATCHMAKERS DREAM
[Science]
Welcome to the aftermath of the incidence
That made the tower fall
Another screw to another wheel
For another mind won't stray away anymore
Oh won't stray away from it's brain
Oh no...
We must finalise the giant
To level off the oid and zeroise the will
The time will coime: You will know what to need
The Watchmaker's Dream
The Watchmaker's Dream
[Aaron Blackwell]
Simplify simplicity
You don't mind what you don't see at all
[Science]
The tongue of nations rought in line
Reason occupied: The God-machine oh
A splendid steaming dream will tower to the sky
[Aaron Blackwell]
We'll eploit another 'morrow
We drained another day
The glowing of the future in our eyes
And time will reveal what we need:
The Watchmaker's Dream
The Watchmaker's Dream
[lead guitar: Arjen Anthony Lucassen]
[lead organ: Ferdy Doernberg]
[Science]
We must finalise the giant
To zeroise the will and level off all minds
The time will come that you
will know what you need
[Aaron Blackwell]
The Watchmaker's Dream
The Watchmaker's Dream
[Science]
The Watchmaker's Dream - Will we sclice infinity
The Watchmaker's Dream - For all the world to see
The Watchmaker's Dream - We give you what you
need
The Watchmaker's Dream - The sound of triviality
BLACK ORCHID When Never an Now become one

[Aaron Blackwell] [Aaron Blackwell]

I never wanted guidance Will I find the orchid?

To tell me where to find
A light in the darkness [Reason]
Cause the dark I'd push aside
No time for dreaming of a distant Paradise The final our
No time for tales of good and evil Door to the garth of eternity

[Reason] [Aaron Blackwell]

Another correlation: as above so below Or withered orchid meadows

Another analysing where illusions fail to show
the face of the maker who'd leave you alone Black orchid
without a sense of comprehension Strange and beautiful
Oh black orchid I must find you
[Aaron Blackwell]
[Reason]
When that meadow - in front of my eyes - will have
dried away I remember that morning
Will my senses wither like flowers on my grave He had to be told
Will this wave of becoming flow into the void of time What he couldn't remember
After he'd spoken to the wall
The final hour:
When Never and Now become one [Aaron Blackwell]
Will I find the orchid
The final hour: And I gave to repression
Door to the garth of eternity? What I must not have seen
Or whitered orchid meadows? What even believers
Must unlearn to unbelieve
[Reason]
[lead guitar: Bruce Kulick]
Everybody's praying
But what if God is just a threat [Aaron Blackwell]
and everybody's straying?
If only they would just forget The final hour:
everybody's craving When Never and Now become one
for a ghost light in the haze: Will I find the orchid
You'll lose your minds one after another The final hour:
Door to the garth of eternity?
[Aaron Blackwell]
[Reason]
Everybody's craving
for what doesn't have a name of a face Or withered orchids
So reason could fit it in the frame The final hour
In quest for the orchid: When Never and Now become one
A glimmer in the daze
Till I awake to the sound of rigour [Aaron Blackwell]

[Reason] Will I find the orchid?

What if that meadow in your mind is just a fantasy? [Reason]

And if it wanted to be seen why must you believe?
The final hour
[Aaron Blackwell] Door to the garth of eternity

Will this wave of becoming flow into the void of time [Aaron Blackwell]

[Reason] Or withered black orchid meadows

The final hour

HERE CLOCK HANDS FREEZE SLEEPWALKING

[Antiquarian] [Aaron Blackwell]

You're caught in the land of no sun Wandering barafoot into nowhere

Without reason or thyme Just another winter's night
You're avid for splendour And I don't feel gravity anymore
The spin of the hand is your pace on the run You'd never lie, never cry
We got no time to turn Never talk me out of dreams
When we strive after grandeur And a dream is what remains

Here you got your hero slicing up your ecstacy [She]

On the verge of lunacy
There's no time to lose Tell me don't you see what ain't there
No chance to refuse - ah When you look in the mirror
You're starving away like a candle burning down
Will you deny what you see Miles away, miles away
(as you) tear down the nature of reason You've been cutting off the rope
That has shown you the way Letting go and losing ground
Where clock hands freeze
[Aaron Blackwell]
[Aaron Blackwell]
And I...
I know what I see Wonder who's to blame
And I know what I don't As I...
Through your dark swamp Sleepwalk in the rain
I walk on deductive conclusion It's my, my silent victory over gravity
And I...
A little more time? Sleepwalk in the rain
I admit I would take
But then again [Both]
It would mean more time for confusion
Winter sky far and wide
You think you got your prodigy Caving in one you and me
Everyime your eyes don't see Like a brittle wall of the emerald room:
Victim of perlexity The hall of fame and dying dreams
There's no time to lose The love we'd die for: Petrified
No need to refuse I wanna know: Does a frozen river flow

[Antiquarian] And I...

Wonder who's to blame
Will you deny what you see As I...
tear down the nature of reason Sleepwalk in the rain
That has shown you the way It's my, my silent victory over gravity
Where clock hands freeze And I...
Sleepwalk in the rain
[lead guitars: Sascha Paeth, Oliver Hartmann & both]
[lead guitars: Sascha Paeth]
[Antiquarian]
[Both]
Will you deny what you see
(as you) tear down the nature of reason And I...
That has shown you the way Wonder who's to blame
Where clock hands freeze As I...
Sleepwalk in the rain
It's my, my silent victory over gravity
And I...
Sleepwalk in the rain
SAVIOR IN THE CLOCKWORK
[Science]
Envision how you lie awake and agonise
Over ways to bear your day just every night
Re-alignment you're in need of so imploringly
It's the pace that well maintain for you
Oh every moment everybody's gonna think alike
Every second will be seized
While every in between we'll erase
To take the tangle from their memory
Maximising one and all for you
Now into line bring them peace of mind
Mind by mind
Set pace for all mankind
Let us take away spaces
in between their given time
[Aaron Blackwell]
Time to run!
Savior in the clockwork tell me
for how long will I wait on the grind
Time flies on
[Time will fly on]
Savior in the clockwork take me back inside
In between the time
Now am I half asleep or half unconscious,
Half 'adream'?
I can't move as I am stuck in bright lucidity
I can feel and hear and see
but I won't comprehend
I see fire that I won't decipher
I see giant evil tower to a blackened sky
I feel blessed with evidence of what I can't define
Swinging blade of the lowering perpendicular
I see clarity I won't remember
Do I dream
Is it only fantasy and matter just a thought I see
And time is all they need to steal away eternity
No time to run!
Savior in the clockwork
Tell me for how long will I wait on the grind
Time flies on
[Time will fly on]
Savior in the clockwork take me back inside
In between the time
[Reason]
You pry into a world too far above
Your head up in the haze
[Aaron Blackwell]
Journey to the birth of the first sun
Into the black womb of space
[Reason]
Father primal space of yeah
Who's drawn the light...
[lead guitar: Bruce Kulick]
[Aaron Blackwell]
Standing at the door to epiphanic realisation
A journey to the centre of forever
To the mystery of creation
[lead guitar: Sascha Paeth]
[Reason]
Don't you hear the voice: I'm with you
I'm everywhere and real
You can see me, you can hear me withour credence
I'm what your hands can feel
[Aaron Blackwell]
God, I feel I've been away too long
I feel like I've been dreaming
[Reason]
If you'd open up your door to explanation
You would hear the voide of reason screaming
[Aaron Blackwell]
I've seen the ocean swallow the ancient harmony
[Reason]
And I've seen belief and craving swallow sanity
[Aaron Blackwell]
I feel my hand is led to ink between the lines
[Reason]
Tall stories legendising: figments of the lie
[Aaron Blackwell]
At crack of dawn hazy remains above my mind
[Antiquarian]
Raise your mind!
[Aaron Blackwell]
I scribble down those icons that I can't define
Will they demand account as I'd demand myself
[Antiquarian] Where was I when the clock had been alive?

Raise your mind! [Nobleman]

[Aaron Blackwell] I see a marvel right in front of me

There's a man, who's got tomorrow in his hands
I'll never testify what no man comprehends Don't you see what you are meant to be
Outside your cloud-cuckoo-land
[Antiquarian]
[Aaron Blackwell]
And they will tear to pieces what they can't define
Time won't wait for those who stay behind
[Aaron Blackwell] To wait for Time
In these tangible realms hesitation's a crime
Raise your mind!
[Nobleman]
[Reason]
In the night:
If you don't follow your self-preservation drive A secret mysterious dream
Dead of night,
[Antiquarian] While the town lies asleep
We invoke the machine
They'll crucify the one who won't affiliate
Those dreams that you hummed to yourself once
[Aaron Blackwell] How far will you reach out to make them come true
Will you turn around to shirk from duty
Raise your mind! Or force the pace while it's all up to you

[Reason] [Aaron Blackwell]

But decorate the children of their own ego's way
Time to run savior in the clockwork
[Aaron Blackwell]
Tell me for how long will I wait on the grind
A giant leap is to be made now
I'm struck with awe We're gonna heed the inner call
My heart beat quickens I behold the god-machine
I can't help but write history
As my glance wanders to the far off end in the sky
Hissing and screaming, almost alive

[Reason] In the night

My life came apart at the seams
Time flies on Dead of night,
(Time will fly on) Let's run up the wheel
Savior in the clockwork We invoke the machine

[Aaron Blackwell] [lead guitars: Sascha Paeth & Oliver Hartmann]

Take me back inside [Nobleman]

In between the time
Time to run! In the night:
Savior in the clockwork tell me A secret mysterious dream
for how long will I wait on the grind Dead of night,
Time flies on While the town lies asleep (woah!)
[Time will fly on]
Savior in the clockwork take me back inside [Aaron Blackwell]
In between the time
In the night:
INVOKE THE MACHINE Those in hiding are waiting for me
Dead of night,
[Aaron Blackwell] Let's run up the wheel

Home to the land of the living [Both]

Roused by a sound I confide
And what I am to cast my tired eyes upon We invoke the machine
WHAT'S LEFT OF ME Father don't you see in front of you
Is what the chase has left of me
[Nameless beggar]

I think of the days

I was thrilled by this road ahead
When the moment won over what was to come
Not afraid of the distance but the distance afraid of
me
Everytime I made it there I found nothing
The distance was gone

Now, I don't wanna fade

But I ain't gonna run
I'm resting my head on these stones
God, what have you done to you and me
I'm tired of scaring the future away
No road ahead, the fire is dead
Father don't you see in front of you
Is what the chase has left of me

If only they told me

What the kerbside was hiding away
Where the angels from high street didn't want to go
And a heartbeat is forced
To resign to the glory of a commonplace
I am jaded

[Aaron Blackwell]

I don't wanna see what's becoming of me

Here's a bit! Then spare me this sight now...
Cut it out I'm tire of the future myself

[Nameless Begggar]

I don't wanna fade

But I ain't gonna run
I'm resting my head on these stones
God, what have you done to you and me
I'm tired of scaring the future away
No road ahead, the fire is dead
Father don't you see in front of you
Is what the chase has left of me

[Aaron Blackwell]

God and glory torn to pieces

No no, it's just the spirit of the times
I'm drawn to a flame that won't release me
Release me!
And I see a thousand who wait in line

[lead guitar: Sascha Paeth]

[Both]

I don't wanna fade

But I ain't gonna run
I'm resting my head on these stones
God, what have you done to you and me
I'm tired of scaring the future away
No road ahead, the fire is dead
DWELLER IN A DREAM
Do you hear me
[Aaron Blackwell] Dweller in a dream

The dial by the night [Antiquarian]

Seems not what it used to be
But now that this town has fallen silent You're lost in the no-zone
I feel memories
Of good intentions ghosting me [Aaron Blackwell]

Watch the tower clock hand A twilight mover

Cut instants off each hour Primal screams
From a future that has been devoured
Already by their craving for the vague [Antiquarian]
And even after lucid heartbeats
Few and far between Are crying for the dweller in a dream
We're back to gain admission to the wheel
[lead guitar: Sascha Paeth]
Bending the boundaries
Deaf to the memories [Aaron Blackwell]
We won't make it in rush anyway
And God if you're out there Oh, why would your
Why do you make me spin your wheel? God given road lead to ruin?
Why would science challenge facts?
Don't you here me Why would your
Dweller in a dream God given will come off the track?
Come off the track?
[Antiquarian] Dweller in a dream?

You're lost in the no-zone Father do you hear me

Dweller in a dream
[Aaron Blackwell]
[Antiquarian]
A twilight mover
Primal screams You're lost in the no-zone

[Antiquarian] [Aaron Blackwell]

Are crying for the dweller in a dream A twilight mover

Primal screams
The study and a sage
An ancient brazen liminaire [Antiquarian]
Just a bat flap from answers they wanna hear
They're evident Are crying for the
To every cynic eminent Dweller in a dream

Movement araound the sun [Aaron Blackwell]

All in eternal time
The heaven's fires turned to light Do you hear me
The moon that governs birth and then decay Dweller in a dream
The principle decreed
By laws you think you will conceice
And then some accident
To throw it all in place!?

Bending the boundaries

Don't run from your memories
I have been there before

[Aaron Blackwell]

Are you for real now

Or just a dweller in a dream
THE GREAT MYSTERY
[Aaron Blackwell]
How could I let it get this far
To the edge I've been drawn by promises
And what's the reason
For A heart to only misguide me
Blind me, tear myself apart?
[Epiphany]
When darkness falls and silence talks
At the edge of thoughts that you memorised
I'm the trugh between the lines
They read and deny me and tie me to fantasy
And they'll curse this darktest hour
When in oblivion I'll die
[Aaron Blackwell]
Oh will you make me turn the page, one after
another
If only you would make a mark the eye can see
[Epiphany]
You're dancing in a round
Through the dark you long to find
A light at the midnight sky
To persuade the night
[Aaron Blackwell]
Don't leave me blind, give me one sign
Grant me just one look into the mystery behind
Fire and flames, heartache and pain:
You break me just to make me feel like a golden child
What if it's nothing but a dream
The great mystery, great mystery
[Sciece]
We carry the flame to accelerate
the evolution of an age
Cast your eyes into the crystal ball - alright
We embrittle the weak that isn't meant to be
We're gonna make it coronate the chosen ones
Who never sined against their vocation
[Reason]
Don't be afraid: just look around
Don't question what your eyes can see
[Aaron Blackwell]
Don't leave me blind, give me one sign
Grant me just one look into the mystery behind
Fire and flames, heartache and pain:
I've born for my devotion
Oh she won't see me, she won't feel me
She's lost on her own, and so am I?
[Empiphany]
I see a cold moon rise above those empty streets
And I see movements part their lives
I hear the ticking leaving scars you can't conceal
Ain't it poignant how you try
Impatiently they're giving up on hearts
Whose signs they cannot read
As silence doesn't talk, eternity will cease
And as you marvel at the artwork in your hands
Rich in detail, so frail and beautiful
And you forget the rules
The elder's always made up for you
To save you precious time
You watch them pile up, they are saving on and on
Even you don't know where stey store it all
You've got to be a fool if you don't save along
A thousand screaming
And silence doesn't speak to thousand screaming
No, silence doesn't wanna speak...
[lead guitar: Bruce Kulick]
[Aaron Blackwell]
And I see tears shed over days when all was good
A child didnt care for what never really mattered
[Epiphany]
I see tears shed over days
When all was good and time
they had a lot to give away
When their hearts had eyes to see
And the final mystery
was more than a fancy tale
And answers you did find
to dare what you would find inside, no
[Aaron Blackwell]
Don't leave me blind, give me one sign
Grant me just one look into the mystery behind
Fire and flames, heartache and pain:
You break me just to make me feel like a golden child
Don't leave me blind, give me one sign
Grant me just one look into the mystery behind
Fire and flames, heartache and pain:
You break me just to make me feel like a golden child
Don't leave me blind, send a sign
Oh is it really not a dream?
The great mystery