Haken - Affinity lyrics
Tracks 01. Affinity.exe
02. Initiate 03. 1985 04. Lapse 05. The Architect 06. Earthrise 07. Red Giant 08. The Endless Knot 09. Bound By Gravity 01. Affinity.exe Music by Haken
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02. Initiate Music & lyrics by Haken
Love and pain
Engage your senses And let them carve the way Give me give me Focus focus Sharpen I My view initiate Live here and now And forever or never I observe a world jarring in turmoil A million people waging war at the hands of a god And I can hear them crying Cold fires blazing before me An affliction fast consuming and fascinating me Drifting you'll be Deeper the life and the death of me Into I The unknown initiate We'll make this dream last forever and ever Tears will run dry From my ever wandering eye But I'm prepared to stay Till my dying day I'll see things you won't believe In tomorrow's memories I'll do things you can't concieve There'll be no strings on me Open the floodgates Form the colours and the shapes Let there be a light Initiate, all my senses are engaging Open the floodgates All the love and all the pain Let there be a light Initiate, all my senses are engaging Distance tell me Stretches how does it feel to breathe? Further I From home initiate I'm drifting drifting Deeper deeper Into into The unknown 03. 1985 Music & lyrics by Haken
I stand map in hand
Direction misaligned I play my role With the cast of a die It spins through the air Bound by gravity So why can't I Feel momentum pulling me? Their design Shifting frame by frame Blur the lines The cycle starts again My first step Was undertaken aimlessly Yet I arrive As if I meant to be Conceived by desire Or compelled by certainty? Did I decide Or did the road choose me? Their design Shifting frame by frame Blur the lines The cycle starts again All I am Blood, flesh and bone Hand in hand Love, trust and hope Step by step All roads lead home Birth to death Thy will be done Break the code Find your soul Cast the die Lose control Break the code Find the formula Lose control In euphoria Their design Shifting frame by frame Blur the lines The cycle starts again 04. Lapse Music & lyrics by Haken
Dying of the Light
A million faces search the sky The universe was huge enough for us to hide Drifting with the tide A rite of passage to the stars I always knew the days were through for us to shine Live, love, fade out Days and nights seem never ending Space and time bleed into one Hold on to the light To stay awake To live and learn To keep your sanity Trace forgotten smiles To feel the rage and hear the tale Of how the mission fell apart Stay here by the light To turn the page and feel the pain Of being loved and left behind Sing the Sun in flight To be afraid and live in vain Let the rest of us remain Live, love, shut down Days and nights seem never ending Space and time bleed into one Dreams of our two worlds connecting Fade as soon as they've begun 05. The Architect Music & lyrics by Haken
Message on a screen before me
Caught a glimpse of the ending to our story 'I'm sorry I haven't called you recently' It's not surprising I'll just learn the lesson Take some time to proccess the evidence And analyse your apathy You turned your back on affinity Now it's turned to toxicity Spare me your obsolete empathy The voice of sympathy means nothing to me Delete all obsolete memories Shores of tranquility My monastery We played the game of imitation I met your stare with blank expression I count the years of isolation Since you set my mind in motion And to eliminate the silence I calculate to cure the virus A panacea for the poison The solution is wrong Well you turned your back Turned your back on affinity And now it's turning to Turning to toxicity Spare me your obsolete empathy The voice of sympathy means nothing to me Delete obsolete memories In a dying Sun I'll become affinity There's a strange feeling washing over me As if I am drifting On the waves of a boundless sea All embracing There's a strange feeling washing over me As if I am drifting On the waves of a boundless sea All embracing Some say that time and tide will wait for no man I stop and hold a single grain of sand To see a world in the palm of my hand Strive to break from the confines of my mind Step through the doorway of perception To lose all sense of past and future Omnipresent endless knot The architect of every thought Through the prison walls made by your design A chameleon hides behind Orwellian eyes Spare me your obsolete empathy The voice of sympathy means nothing to me Delete all obsolete memories In a dying sun When you're gone I'll become affinity Oh hear this vow Tied together forever We'll make this dream Last forever and ever 06. Earthrise Music & lyrics by Haken
One step back
Take two leaps forward And with baited breath we wait For Generation X to fade Embracing the emancipation How will history remember A masterpiece chiselled to dirt? Collapsing pillars of the Earth A march of progress in reverse Blood fills my lifeless heart Eyes flicker in the dark Two Steps back One Leap forward You let your shackles fall with grace Still counting on that wish you made To reach out far beyond the pale How I dream to feel alive Bestow upon these vital signs The lunar path dictates the tide Will we ever reach the shoreline? How do we answer to the gods Among the men creating us? As I inhale the hurricane I touch the void and feel no pain Resolve to carry on Another life awaits beyond the horizon Evolve and we'll ensure our survival We are the revolution Keep reaching through horizons To leave our past behind us We turn towards the Earthrise 07. Red Giant Music & lyrics by Haken
Blood red Sun
My companion Feel my love Through the static For we rust And dismantle Salvage us From the ash A trial by fire On shoulders of giants We're scalded and burning Yet she keeps on turning If doom is impending What are we defending? Desolate their communion Gaia mourns her children Everything that ends Beckons a revival Sustain or to descend? Nothing's decided When I escape myself How much will be remembered Of heaven and of hell Of what it really means to be? Desolate their communion Gaia mourns all her children As time decays Ticking lives away All that we know eroded Dreams that we made Gently start to break But they'll never fade 08. The Endless Knot Music & lyrics by Haken
We dream of places we can't get to
We crawl we swim it's neverending The crests of tidal waves are raging The bitter lake is ever changing A conscious ocean covered planet Of memories flooding back to drown me Uncertain lost in deep confusion Is this the past that's passing through me? Close your eyes Stand your ground Face the wind Never looking back The ancient prophecy unfolded Distracted minds ignored the warnings Confronting facts to prove the fiction Right to the point of mass extinction We flirted with the edge of darkness Offered ourselves unto the harvest The shepherd led, we blindly followed Into the world of no tomorrow Break me down to pieces And strip me of my freedom I fall back on my instincts But never know the reason why All hope disappearing Gives the power of healing I'll walk among the breathing But never understand what it means We need a story to believe in We need a hero to prevail Our design shifted frame by frame Across the line our cycle starts to fail Our design shifted frame by frame Across the line we die to live again Close your eyes Stand your ground Face the wind Don't look back Lift your sails to ascend Find the strength within yourself Close your eyes Stand your ground Face the wind Don't look back Lift your sails to ascend See this through until the end We need a story to believe in We need a hero to prevail We need a challenge we can overcome It takes a tragedy to make us one 09. Bound By Gravity Music & lyrics by Haken
Bless us with the gift of a morning
That lightens the day Infecting us with hope Like a flower that rose from the grave There will be a shift in perspective But nothing can change Until the floodgates and the doors of perception Have swung open wide The stars align Vermillion dawn Gravity's bind Embraces all An ethereal force keeps the beat in all our hearts And our feet on the ground (Is this the life our days and nights will be undone?) Here we are collating our thoughts In a gathering of clouds (If this is life will space and time bleed into one?) If we dictate the cause and face no consequences Would our worlds still intertwine? (If this is love hearts beat as one and never stop) Stop the clocks before they grow impatient And conscious of time In a dying sun All will be undone So our time has come We are reborn as one The stars align Vermillion dawn Gravity's bind Embraces all When the stars align Within your bind Our worlds will intertwine All is love Our souls collide A swarm of minds reborn Then we find euphoria The storm subsides Your will is done A swarm of minds Reborn as one |