[Instrumental]

"Calling Dr Rex to cell block two"
The nurses cry
Twenty inmates scream in their beds but one
One is silent

An unusual case
Deluded, psychotic then catatonic
The good doctor looks him up and down and smiles
"It's time for a game"

Electricity is the prescription he needs
Bring him back to society
Electricity is the cure that he really needs
Bring and empire to its knees

Inside his mind
Sparks fly
Vague memories of a caved in broken life

Electricity is the prescription he needs
Bring him back to society
Electricity is the cure that he really needs
Bring and empire to its knees

Make sure his arms are bound
And all his pills go down
Make all his secrets drown
Render his mind unsound

Inside his mind
Sparks fly
Vague memories of a caved in broken life

Electricity is the prescription he needs
Bring him back to society
Electricity is the cure that he really needs
Bring and empire to its knees

Latent memories forming deep inside of me
Dormant barren visceral senses now subdued

No escape. I navigate through my cave
Beneath the skin. They keep us in night and day

Parasite - Leech upon the guilt from all my wrongs
(Lead me on a pathway to the core)
Paralysed - Staring through the shadows on the wall
(Unable to solve this puzzle box)

The journey's long, the shadows dance around
The answer lies beyond the fourth wall
My future days are etched into my skull
Hanging ever by a tethered body, mind and soul

Parasite - Leech upon the guilt from all my wrongs
(Lead me on a pathway to the core)
Paralysed - Staring through the shadows on the wall
(Unable to solve this puzzle box)

Truth or deception? I lose all perception inside

A fleeting sense of self worth evaporates into nothingness
A tepid grip on myself melts away to oblivion

Shadows on the wall dance around
Reflections in the amber to be found
A puppet on a string soon unwound
The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound
The path beyond the mountain led me here
The answer crystallised in history
But now the cracks of time begin to show
We lift the veil on what the future holds
The torture of entrapment ever grows
And now I'm waiting for the afterglow
A beast inside of me awakening
Alas the consequences of my sins
Shadows on the wall dance around
Reflections in the amber to be found
A puppet on a string soon unwound
The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound

Parasites as thick as thieves
Paralysed my golden wings

Bouncing off the walls
Latent memories erupting
Pulling at the cord
Earth beneath my feet is trembling
Lightning cracks the sky
'Wakening the beast inside me
Rawness in his eyes
Reeking stench of fear and regret

Cause and consequence
Show me reverence
Fate or circumstance?
I feel severance
Lightning cracks the sky
Eyes intensify
I will stay trapped inside

How can truth set us free when lies are all we have?
How can time heal us when our days are running out?

Save me
Lift the veil that shades this somber sleep

I disintegrate with all the things you say
A blame I can not take
Neither can you

Digging through the dirt
Crawling on my knees
Lying by my grave of self-esteem

From your beams of light
There's no place to hide
In the witching hour I'll stay

Now there's a glint within the darkness
A tainted ancient auras grave
Concealed, the remnants of a carcass
I hear your voice and I lose control again

So many years behind
So many times I lied
There are many things I regret

So many years will pass
So many times you'll lie
There are many things you'll regret

Save me
Take away the pain inside and
Teach me
How to keep those stone cold eyes
Hold me
Tell me how the phantoms die
Guide me
Lift the veil that shades this somber sleep

Keep out tainted kingdom flawless

Tried to deny what I always confined
I have to be frank
To be looked in the eye
I must try to defy what once made me fright
And I cannot comply
The greed needs supplies
And I tried to rely on who I left behind
The stakes were too high

Tried to deny what I always confined
I have to be looked in the eye
I must try to defy what frightens me
Cannot comply, I cannot satisfy
The greed needs supplies
To rely on who I left behind
The stakes are too high

Stay under my cozy wings
There's no danger sleeping next to me
Foe, or maybe a loyal friend?
Let desire set the course to take

Save me
Take away the pain inside
Heal me
Tell me if I've gone completely blind

Save me
Take away the pain inside and
Teach me
How to use those compound eyes
Hold me
Tell me how the phantoms die and
Guide me
Lift the veil that shades this somber sleep

[Instrumental]

Through the fog
The scent of myrrh prevails
Cleansing all our sins

Through the clod
The worms caress my head
Take me to the fifth sun

Curtain call
My scene is ending
All I hear is silence

Where I end you'll begin
When I fall you will stand

Sail away, goodbye
I've been left down here to die
Never mind what's near
There's nothing left to fear
I'm fading, I dissolve into the ghost
I'm waiting for the earth to be my host

Save me, teach me,
Hold me, guide me,
Leave me fading, dying

Elevate
Transcend
Leave my grasping human bones
Every vein yields rain
Satiates the ground below
Elevate
Transcend
I disperse into the loam
Every vein yields pain
I've been left out her to rot

Curtain call
My scene is ending
All I hear is silence

Where I end you'll begin
When I fall you will stand

October 1963

Preserved in time
The insect comes alive
The amber falls away

The vector strikes
How can such a tiny wound
cause me so much pain?

It's the beauty in the flaw
the grace of imperfection
Now I'm twisted out of form
By unnatural selection

A horrifying
Violation
Of a human form

A cell divides, multiplies
A strange mutation overrides
And carbon copies into four

It's the beauty in the flaw
the grace of imperfection
Now I'm twisted out of form
By unnatural selection

Alien
Imposter
Pretender
I'll keep you safe now
Close to my heart