Ayreon - Age Of Shadows Lyrics

We never saw this coming
Pride comes before a fall
We never heeded the warnings
Buried deep within us all

The Age of Shadows has begun
Giant machines blot out the sun
Frozen minds becoming numb
The Age of Shadows has begun
The Age of Shadows has begun
I won't accept what we've become
We stand to lose more than we've won
The Age of Shadows has begun

Our quenchless thirst for knowledge
Our urge to change and grow
Our need to expand the nation
Made us rise from the depths below

The Age of Shadows has begun
Giant machines blot out the sun
Frozen minds becoming numb
The Age of Shadows has begun
The Age of Shadows has begun
I won't accept what we've become
We stand to lose more than we've won
The Age of Shadows has begun

No more aggression
No more initiative
No more suppression
No more emotions
No more resection
No more of all the feelings that shaped our hearts and made us who we are
No more possessions
No more suspicious
No more obsessions
No more sensations
No more depression
No more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are

Time (time, time) but a passageway (a passageway, a passageway)
The beginning of the end (of the end)
An end that never was (was, was, was)
Time (time, time) but a curve in space (curve in space, curve in)

We are forever (we are forever, we are forever) eternal prisoners in time (in time, in time)
We are forever (we are forever) caught in our cold inertia

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one

Forever we yearn, forever we learn
Forever we live a lie, forever sleeping by and
Forever we flee (forever we flee), forever we will be,
Forever is but a dream (is but a dream), forever is but a scream and
Forever we try (forever we try), forever we die

The spell of love wore off
The zest for life not enough

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one

Never enough

[all at the same time...

Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)
zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero)

Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)
zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero)

off (on) on (off) off (on) on (off)
off (on) on (off) on (on) on (on)
off (on) on (on) off (off) on (off)
off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on)
off (on) on (on) off (on) on (off)
off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on)
off (on) on (on) off (off) on (off)

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (no) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)

no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (no) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)

Forever we try, forever we die, forever, forever
Forever we try, forever we die, forever, forever
Forever we tie, forever we die, forever, forever

... end]

Longing... hoping... waiting... for no one...

No more aggression
No more initiative
No more suppression
No more emotions
No more resection
No more of all the feelings that shaped our hearts and made us who we are
No more possessions
No more suspicious
No more obsessions
No more sensations
No more depression
No more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are

The Age of Shadows has begun (the Age of Shadows)
Giant machines blot out the sun
Frozen lands becoming known (blot out our sun)
The Age of Shadows has begun (Yeah, Yeah!)

The Age of Shadows has begun (frozen lands becoming known)
I won't accept what we've become
We stand to lose more than we've won (more than we've won)
The Age of Shadows has begun

The Age of Shadows has begun (the Age of Shadows)
Giant machines blot out the sun
Frozen lands becoming known (giant machines blot out the sun)
The Age of Shadows has begun

The Age of Shadows has begun (the Age of Shadows)
I won't accept what we've become (Hey, yeah!)
We stand to lose more than we've won
The Age of Shadows has begun!

We never heeded the warning
Buried deep within us all