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NOWHERE LAND
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Prologue
Let me sing to you a lie
You had to be there to believe
Something I paid for with my life
A place called Nowhere Land
It’s a cautionary tale
From which you may never return
I’m sorry to the ones I love
And anyone who learns of Nowhere Land
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Dream Machine
Sing to me a lie
And I will follow you
And I will fall asleep
And I will fall asleep
Tears will fill my eyes
As you rock me off to Nowhere Land
And I will start to weep
And I will start to weep
As you rock me off to sleep
In your arms
Dream Machine I’ve lost my mind
Somewhere in the land of sleep
Don’t know how long I’ll last
Tangled in the webs you weave
Dream Machine it’s not my time
I know you don’t care how much I weep
Oh no, don’t take my eyes!
I need my sight, oh let me see
Rock me, don’t you rock me
You won’t take me alive
Rock me, don’t you say you love me
I know it’s a lie
I feel weak, my eyes are gone
My skins turned cold
Am I asleep
Don’t know where I began
Don’t take my soul
I’m in too deep
Your nails are scratching the inside of my head!
As I fall into a sea of gently rocking hands
And soothing voices
I don’t know if I’m alive or dead
As I wash upon the shore
As I wash upon the shore in high tide
Hello! What have we here?
I haven’t seen you around this place before
Let me show you around dear…
Hello! What is your name?
Don’t be fooled by your surroundings child
This is no game
This is no game
Run!
Run!
Run!
Run!
I don’t know what I’ve become
I don’t know what I’ve become
Rock me, don’t you rock me
You won’t take me alive
Rock me, don’t you say you love me
I know it’s a lie
The Dream Machine will let me go in time
’Til then it whispers sweet nothings into
My long-forgotten mind
’Til then it whispers sweet nothings into
My long forgotten mind
You are too powerful to comprehend
I am a broken fool
You’ve come to fight it out ’til the end
Well I’m not afraid of you!
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What Occupies A Mind
What keeps is all together, my friend
The thinnest golden spidery threads
Spindle-spun corners and edges
The fabric of time
I used to be the man you see here
Now blackened eyes and blank stare
So pull a little closer if you dare
Maybe you’ll find
What occupies a mind
My horror turned to wailing
As I was reefed apart by parting time
Sorrowfully radiating out
Into life after life after life
I used to think so logically
I thought I knew reality
I used to think that I could see
But I was blind
No sense to hurt or hold onto
Anything that I once knew
Only thing that left to do
Maybe we’ll find
A way out of this mind
My horror turned to wailing
As I was reefed apart by parting time
Sorrowfully radiating out
From my mind
To find a way out of this life
After life after
They plugged me in
It powered up
They dialled it to infinity
Then time stretch out
My mind fell in
Dilated exponentially
Then all I had to pass forever
Every possibility
Now I’ll never leave
I’ll never leave
I will never ever ever
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No Relief
When will this be over?
When will this be over?
I used to know
I used to notice
When my eyes had gone out of focus
And I
I used to feel
And I could tell when
My mind had gone out of rhythm
With my heart
To know release
To know release
To know release
To know release
How long must I stay?
What price must I pay
For all the things I’ve done?
How long must I burn?
When’s it my turn to finally
Be at peace?
When will I know release?
I used to speak
No-one could hear me
‘Cause they all thought that I was crazy
And now look at them run
They all look tired
But they can’t run from this great fire
To know release
To know realise
How long must I stay?
What price must I pay
For all the things I’ve done?
How long must I burn?
When’s it my turn to finally
Be at peace?
When will I know release?
When will this be over?
When will this be over?
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Still Longing
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Am I even here?
Am I just a memory?
Of someone in a mind
Of someone who’s asleep
Dream Machine have you let me go?
Who is the one called ‘I’?
The one who was your enemy
The one you sang to with a lie
The one who sacrificed a life
Who is the one who’s letting go?
I cast my nets at the emptiness
To find somebody I knew
But all I find is myself still longing
And if I let you go
If I go back to Nowhere Land
Let it all begin again
For all this loneliness to end
Will I remember why I started?
So I’ll cast my nets at the emptiness
To find somebody I knew
And all I’ll find in is myself still longing
So I’ll cast myself at the vastness of time
In the hope that I’ll find something true
But all I find is myself still longing for you
All I find is myself still longing
Yes all I’ll drag in is myself as I
As I unify
Unify
Unify
Unify
Unify
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Not Afraid
A hundred trillion years is a long time
A hundred trillion trillion lifetimes
To reconnect my mind
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I wish that you could see my eyes now
And rue the day you ripped them out ‘cause I
I can see you now
And I will dress you down
Yeah, I’m coming for ya!
You were too powerful to comprehend
I was a broken fool
You’ve come and I know that you understand
I’m not afraid of you
People too numerous to apprehend
You know you’ve lost them too
We’ve come
And I know that you understand
We’re not afraid of you
We’re not afraid of you
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When This Is All Over
When this is all over
And there’s nobody there
No-one the cheer
Why do we do anything here?
When this is all over
And there’s no-one to care
Of all that we burdened to bear
Why do we do anything here?
Is that why embers flee the fire
And soar on high
To make time matter?
How I grieve to still believe in time
When this is all over
Washed down the stream
Of all of our dreams
Why did we chose any of these?
When this is all over
And all our beliefs
Gone with the breeze
Why did we choose any of these?
Is that why we both opened fire,
To kill, to die,
To make life matter?
How I grieve to still
How I grieve to still
How I grieve to still believe in life
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Somewhere
There used to be a time when I could trust my senses
Now all that I can know is that I am, and existence
So into all that I can know is where I’ll go
Into all that I can know is where I’ll go
Into all that I can know is where I’ll go
Here we are again
A mighty stretch into the infinite
Let it all unwind
Reset the clocks into a hundred trillion years of time
Farewell my life
Farewell my love
Farewell my mind
Let’s see what we will find somewhere
Where do we go now?
That even matters if it’s infinite?
And if it’s all a dream, love
Am I the dreamer or the dreaming?
I’d give my life
To find my love
To free my mind
Let see what we will find somewhere
You think you want to know
Until you know the price
Someday you may find
What occupies my mind
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Interlude
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A hundred trillion years to see
My only enemy was me
And all I wanted, all I needed
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A hundred trillion years to know
There's nowhere to go
'Cause all I needed
All I needed was love
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Reprise
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Be still my soul
I'm sorry
Beyond control
I'm sorry
And I forgive you
And I forgive myself too
For all that we have done
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Afff
Finale
Out of the the nothingness
There was a something less
Nothing than everything
That was nothingness
There was an ‘I’ still aware of the difference
So I decided to see what that something was
Out of the something
The faintest remembering
Take care when setting this out
Once you let it go
There’s no way out
And you’ll live every hour
Of every moment
Be rapture or agony
So I let go with abandon
And loving held it together,
The light and the darkness
And out of the darkness
Grew wondrous, marvellous
Somethings of light
That collided and turned into
World upon world
Into countless, most infinite
Waves of experience
All that grew out of this
One single feeling
That ached into being
Then life after life
We stretched out just to see what we’d find
Now it’s everywhere, everything
All that there is
There is nothing that isn’t
Not separate
I am, and we are, and they are and everything
All still colliding, expanding, discovering
Joy into pain into love with no opposite
Swung back and forth
What it means to be part of this
Knowing thy self as a point of experience
Takes every angle forever
That all that there is
Round and round again
Back in to Nowhere Land
Roll out the dice
Dive into the kaleidoscope
Reefed into everything
Pulled back to self again
Pull back the trigger
And fire into Somewhere Land
You are too powerful to comprehend
Be not afraid of you
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Nowhere Land
There is so much everything here
There might as well be nothing
So what do I do when every last future’s
Already happening
Where do I go where I don’t know
This weight of loneliness, oh
I’ll go back to Nowhere Land and dream
Letting go gets harder as you go
When all that you have known
Is all that you could know
You’ll find your tear drops in the rain
You’ll find your heart and heal your pain
You’ll find it’s all one in the same
You’ll find your dreams are wide awake
You’re grasping at the wind again
There is so much everything here
There might as well be nothing
So what do I do when every last future’s
Already happening
Where do I go where I don’t know
This weight of loneliness, oh
I'll go back to Nowhere Land
And dream
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Where do you go when you’re fast asleep
Do you disappear?
Or is it all a dream?
You’ll find your teardrops are the rain
You’ll find heart and heal your pain
You’re grasping at the wind again
There is so much everything here
There might as well be nothing
So what do I do when every last future’s
Already happening
Where do I go where I don’t know
This weight of loneliness, oh
I'll go back to Nowhere Land
And dream
Letting go
The only way to know
We're laughing at the wind!
There is so much everything here
Still uncovering
So what do I do when every last future’s
Ours for for discovering
Where can we go
What can we know
Before it’s time to go back?
Where can we go
What can we know
Before it’s time to go back?
Where can we go
What can we know
Before it’s time to go back?
I’ll go back to nowhere land
And dream
There is nowhere that is nowhere
And you know there’s no way out
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Remember
All I’ve built
All I’ve done
Ever after over
Ever just begun
Here I stand
At the end
At the beginning again
As I walk through the light
Surrender what’s mine
Surrender my life
And remember
All that is
All that was
All that will be is here
In our place
Never left
Nothing left to fear
As I walk through the light
Surrender what’s mine
Surrender my life
And remember
Her we are
Dearest friend
Nothing’s really over
Nothing really ends
Here we stand
Here embrace
Here we are again
As I walk through the light
Surrender what’s mine
Surrender my life
And remember
Surrender my life
And remember
Surrender
Remember
Remember
That this was all a dream.
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