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The Sixth Extinction Lyrics by Ayreon

Timeline

2008

[I. Echoes on the Wind]

[Tom Englund]
It's the calm before the storm
It's the quiet before the war
It's the time when all will be decided

[Steve Lee]
All will be decided

[Tom Englund]
If nobody heeds the echoes on the wind

[Tom Englund]
It's the end of the chain

[Steve Lee]
Destruction of the fittest

[Tom Englund]
It's the end of our reign

[Steve Lee]
We've seen it all before

[Tom Englund]
It's the end of man's evolution

[Steve Lee]
The end of the evolution

[Tom Englund]
For nobody heeds the echoes on the wind

[II. Radioactive Grave]

[Hansi Kürsch]
Do you hear the sirens?

[Daniel Gildenlöw]
Do you see the burst?

[Steve Lee]
Do you feel the fire?

[Jonas Renkse]
All the world's a radioactive grave!

[Tom Englund]
I can hear them crying!

[Bob Catley]
I can see the fear!

[Jørn Lande]
I can feel them dying!

[Jonas Renkse and Floor Jansen]
Washed away by deadly gamma waves!

[Hansi Kürsch]
Do you hear them calling?

[Daniel Gildenlöw]
Do you see the hurt?

[Steve Lee]
Do you feel them failing?

[Jonas Renkse and Floor Jansen]
All the world's a blazing funeral pyre!

[Tom Englund]
I can hear the wailing!

[Bob Catley]
I can see the wrath!

[Jørn Lande]
I can feel them failing!

[Jonas Renkse and Floor Jansen]
Washed away by a scorching sea of fire!

[Hansi Kürsch]
Do you hear the sirens?

[Daniel Gildenlöw]
Do you see the burst?

[Steve Lee]
Do you feel the fire?

[Jonas Renkse and Floor Jansen]
All the world's a radioactive grave!

[Tom Englund]
I can hear them crying

[Bob Catley]
I can see the fear

[Jørn Lande]
I can see them dying

[Jonas Renkse and Floor Jansen]
Washed away by deadly gamma waves!

[Part III. 2085]

[Jonas Renkse]
Silence so loud, not a soul... left alive
Darkness a shroud... 2085
All our dreams have disappeared
They burned down, tree of life
Confirming all that we have feared... 2085

[Bob Catley]
Don't give up, remember how we felt
Fire rushing through our veins
Now's the time to rise up from our hell
Now's the time to free our brains

[Steve Lee]
The meaning of life is to give life meaning
Go too fast, move too slow
Restore the balance between thinking and feeling, open up and let it flow

[Jonas Renkse]
No side has won, struggle to... survive
Our quest here is done... 2085
All our hopes have disappeared
Our race will... not thrive
Time will not recall year... 2085

[Daniel Gildenlöw]
Don't give in, remember all we learned
The spark of life it did ignite
We regained the rage for which we yearned
We regained our will to fight

[Jørn Lande]
We must resolve this human equation
We're already dead if we don't try
To welcome challenge, generic variation
Stop the machines, prepare to die!

[IV. To the Planet of Red]

[instrumental]

[V. Spirit on the Wind]

[Tom Englund]
He's the last man alive

[Steve Lee]
Searching for the answers

[Tom Englund]
Knowing he won't survive

[Steve Lee]
To the mystery of life

[Tom Englund]
Relives the past, and dreams of the future

[Steve Lee]
Dreaming of the future

[Tom Englund]
And soon he'll set free

[Steve Lee]
And the sleeper will awake

[Tom Englund]
His spirit on the wind

[VI. Complete the Circle]

[All]
Make us whole, Migrator soul
Follow me home, complete the circle
We must survive, restore our lives
The way I'll show, complete the circle

[Hansi Kürsch]
Send back visions
Into the past
Of war and decay

[Floor Jansen]
Hear the final cries!
I can see them feel
In a world without walls

[Anneke van Giersbergen]
Through their eyes

[Tom Englund]
I see them dying
We have to teach them
Migrator soul

[Daniel Gildenlöw]
We regained our will to fight
We regained…
We found a way

[Steve Lee]
I know we'll make it in the end
Listen to the warning

[Bob Catley]
We gave them language
What did they say?
What did they learn?

[Jørn Lande]
We have no chance
We are the future
We are the pain
Complete the circle!

[Steve Lee]
Aaaaah!!!!
Credits
Ayreon

Ayreon

About “The Sixth Extinction” by Ayreon

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"The Sixth Extinction" appears on "Timeline" in 2008.

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