The Great Escape — Seventh Wonder

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 its vaulted gateway In 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 stare become aware Our lives destroyed Fears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsides We can never win this game

From pledges and bonds, our system of suns Locked down its vaulted gateway In thousands of years ram through the final frontier A moth to a flame

Vi. A New Balance

Glass-like is the stare encircling us The systems of stars hang frozen still ...a gaze through the window Six years down the line we still feign dawn and sunset But space no light will spawn ...eternally darker

Now setting sails But never know the world she's treading Where the life belongs Mima lead the way;

Shine your light, be the 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 dreamt me a life and 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 the 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 While Mima showed the final war Her circuits bled and fried, seems she too will die She couldn't bear to see what will be Our haven's dying

I couldn't stop 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 time!

Viii. The Age Of Confusion: Despair

In this deafening silence people mourn We've cried us a river Who knows where all laughter be? On whom we place the blame? Her demise was theirs! Stained by their disease her screen recedes Our real eyes realized They beguile us all with their minds

Ix. The Age Of Confusion: Lust

Our lusting flesh and piety, All coexist in the mist Put aside your chastity, Unveiling skin, magical sin

Controls the pile of heaving flesh, A twisted queen; "Sleep with me and work the loins The mind will stray, yield of life"

X. The Age Of Confusion: Reason

And as the orgies all fade And lust no longer attracts Then the brain will subdue the flesh Put the focus on facts

Human brain was a shameful part, Low names were high for loins and for breasts Us Hades may harvest, Fully at its behest

Xi. The Aftermath

I still cry and I still miss her I was just a little boy Running through the endless garden of our home

Away some say never, ever We'll leave this god