Pt. I “The Embrace of Folly”
(Lyrics: Jaime Torres)
Men, they tend to sleep
If to awaken is worthless
When the world is in a haze
A landscape in black and white

And above of all the noise
The siren song of unreason is heard
The rise of the charlatans
And the sword hung above our heads

This light I bring
To those who sleep
The poison that came with a kiss
A light that dims
The dreadful sight of the abyss

We dance to melodies of clash and discord
With lifeless eyes
Fostering the great divide
Putting our fate in mouths full of vermin
We will eternally sing “long live the chains”

This light I bring
For those who tend to sleep

This light I bring
A folly to vindicate

The call is in us all
The longing to fall in the abyss
And not a question asked
We fade in silence

Pt. II “The Fall”
(Lyrics: Daniel R. Flys)
I fade in silence
A spectator of my own world
A giant figure of doubt
Whispering my downfall

As I am beckoned to
this realm of disconnect
I feel the soothing caress of the wicked
Lest I drown in loneliness

I put my faith on trial
To prove what it can say and what it can do
My empty hand will no longer grasp
For the time has come to leave this agony behind

See as the lines and rifts become one
See as the abyss becomes eternal
See as the sky becomes immortal
See as the stars appear emmantled

I’ve crossed the line
My final design
A kingdom refined
As reason ends I come alive
I’ve crossed the line
No longer divine
At long last aligned
I’ve made the abyss my home

(Lyrics: Daniel R. Flys)
We had too much to bear
When held down to our knees
Waves of misinformation washed away our dignity
Their finger strings were as thin as the air we’re breathing
Our sense of free will was banished into eternity

Like moths to flames we attend to scarcity
We fight a war of quantity over quality
Confined inside the acts of our own delusion
We live in the era of knowledge of our own destruction

The fog dimming the sight of the ocean
Has made me question my solitude
They made us think that we were different
Yet we all feel the same

[Solo: Jaime Torres]

Look through my eyes
and see the disconnect
Look through these eyes
and feel the bitterness
Of this new world
Oh, brave new world

And we were born again
Into this brave new earth
We ate and bred until our senses choked
To nurture ourselves from our undying greed
Some might say it was destiny

But how could I have felt so alone
With all these faces gazing back at me?
I’ve lost sight of the things that matter most
All in favor of this brave new world

We had too much to bear
When we did as they pleased
A wave of fear obscured our sense of community
Their finger strings were as sly as the colors running
Our rationale was banished into eternity

[Solo: Jaime Torres]

(Lyrics: Jaime Torres)
There was a road
In which we walked alone and sore
There was a maze
Where we put our minds to rest
There was a chasm between us
And a fragile bridge we left to rot
There was a wall
A wall of blinding light

[Solo 1: Jaime Torres]
[Solo 2: Daniel R. Flys]

With eyes turned within
And sounds drowned in noise
We were all there
Stuck in the desert of the Same

I’m done
Building statues to deceive my inner child
What I have grown to know is not what I seek

What will I take to the grave if not an array of misbeliefs?
All I have grown to show is not what’s at the core of me

Shed away the skin
Peel back all the layers of uncertainty

Was it my view that changed?
As I made my way through the fog
I could see it as clear as day
A collective vision turned to dust

Shed away the skin
Peel back all the layers of uncertainty
And I look within
A new face emerging back from the ashes

All of my pillars have fallen
But to rebuild I must first be broken

And as I tear myself open
I feel the walls crashing down
How does one detach from this delusion?

I move away from the silence
A new awakening for the dormant mind

The day meets the eye of the wanderer
(Place your freedom inside a broken glass)
As they hunt down the refugee
(Leave your integrity hanging by a thread)
The trails left by an entity
Follow a different form of me

And when I am to follow
The motion of the wind
I will scatter in pieces
A conflict of destiny

I gave my undivided attention
To fulfill this dream
But I realize after all this time
It’s like holding on to smoke

[Solo 1: Jaime Torres]
[Solo 2: Daniel Maganto]

Searching the way to the sea
Seeking the way to inner peace
I’ve been too blind to see

The day couldn’t find a semblance of respite

Nor the mantle of light could bring the colors back
The sight that met the eye, what the gaze revealed
A lingering vastness, a land with no sound

And amid this barren land, a tree
Tall and proud, yet incomplete
Its branches scratching aimlessly

A shell hardened by time
Roots that no longer know their ground
Oblivious to the life that lies around

When was then, the time it lost its grip?
The moment when the eyes were turned within
So deep, they never found their way out?

The moment when the Other was cast out,
To become a still life
Yet left to die

Now its domain is fading,
It’s sinking in the grey
No wind blows
No breeze to feel
The Silence.
The Void.

Memories that wither
as they dwindle with the leaves
Senses that are crippled
as if trapped beneath the stones
Memories that wither
from an age left in the white
Senses that are crippled
as the soil enfolds all life

The will to forget
The will to dissolve
The will to lift the weight of the world
The quicksand below
The graceless fall
The embrace of the abyss
The call of the void

Upon the timeless hill it waits
Engulfed in muteness and decay

“Lightly, lightly
a wind starts to blow.
Lightly still, the wind goes away.
And I don’t know what I think
and have no wish to know”*


*Adapted from Fernando Pessoa’s The Keeper of Sheep

Sleep, sleep no more
Fill the void

I was in a dream
The moment I saw everything in place
I’ve been lingering to fiction
To soothe the torment

Amongst this noise
If I could only listen
To my inner voices
For they’re not long gone
I’ve only sent them to sleep

And so I try to remain still
To feel the breeze
Once again against my skin
To pierce the flesh
I’ve conformed to evade my senses
In the hope of a better guide

So long it has been hidden inside
Forlorn, the owl at night

They say that we have gone astray
The sleepers of our age
Will I ever escape the dormant mind?

So long it has been hidden inside
Forlorn is the owl at night

We’re disengaged
Struck by a deafening distance
A sound that fades
As we’re marching into the void

And we long to reach one another
But maybe it’s ourselves who we call
Listening to the fine-tuned verses
That ring true to us all

Islands, scattered,
Islands with no sea in between
Too tired to awake, too vigilant to dream

This apparent closeness is but an illusion
This gapless distance, disguised as a lie

Between us there still is
The invisible mouth of the abyss
And the dust left from our doubts keeps lingering
In the air we breathe

Tell me, if we could hear one another
What we’d hear, would it be real?

In the mind a mirror’s bending
And dancing shades are traces for us to see

And still we feel we’ve gone astray
The sleepers of our age
If we could ever escape the dormant mind
And till we feel we’ve gone astray
The sleepers of our age
If we could ever escape the dorms of our minds

" And so the question,
Where should we live?
And how?
Where to find a place to rest a while?
And how bring even short-lived peace
to our hearts?"*

*Extract from “HOJOKI”

Time spins the wheel
The throbbing sound of history

Insignificant or divine?
Thoughts that we can barely grasp
In a world that heals and maims
Subtle and faint is the road we pave

Raise a glass to a giant proud and strong
Taste the wine as the walls crumble down
Say a toast to the wavering passing light
Raise a glass to a giant bound to fall.