@ALBUM: the.sentinel @SONG: EYES IN THE NIGHT (ARRIVE ALIVE) Packing up Ready to leave Heading out It's been a good night Now we're going home. Heading out Into the dark Moving fast Lights cut a path Through the gathering gloom Arrive alive... We're heading for home Before the dawn comes Arrive Alive... Eyes in the night They're keeping me right They're guiding me Arrive Alive... We're heading for home Before the dawn comes Eyes in the night Keeping me right Eyes in the night Flying through Towns cloaked in fog Looking in People asleep Now they're safe and warm Behind closed doors Lying back Feeling the speed Knowing that We're on the move Now we're eating up the miles from home ==================================================================== @SONG: CUT AND RUN Cold city, runs hot with pain Knives slash your jugular vein Cut and Run There is no escape from the gun Tongues lie a noose around your neck "grass stains" seal your fate Cut and Run There is no escape from the gun Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide Run from the gun Flee for your life Search, search and terminate We have read your mind You are an enemy of the state Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide Run from the gun Flee for your life Assassin: "John Doe" "I have reason to believe you are an enemy of the State, so, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the State, I am hereby obliged to terminate your existance" ==================================================================== @SONG: RISE AND FALL Domes of crystal, spires of light reach out Symbols of attainment once aspired A quest for knowledge fuelled by love of peace People never burned by fired of war The people of the East Grew tired of peace Now mistrust and fear Are new to us here Storm clouds gather Mistrust turns to hate A confrontation none could forsee Machines of peace melt down for tools of war One thousand years of peace destroyed The people of the West Though war they detest Had nowhere to run So the killing began Three score and four years Battle raged on high Once proud and mighty Prepare now to die Destroyed by corruption Pretention and greed Atlantean achievements Dispersed as dry seeds Blown by the winds of change Long fell the shadows Across their land now bare In ruins lay the towers That crowned an island fair Laid low in death throes A race once true and right Their power now their ruin Their downfall their might Narrator: Gathering together the treasures of their wisdom and culture The guardians constructed a vast computer Protected by an awesome and terrible device Shrouded in a silicate crystalline dome. The Sentinel The ultimate keeper of the Peace Too late to save their own Put there to guide a future race Survivor: By my own hand, and the hands of others, A nation on its knees No brothers, sisters, friends, lovers, No mountains, rivers, trees Forgive us for we know not what we have done Narrator: And storms raged over the barren wastelands of the once fertile plains of Atlantis And the sea crashed upon the shores And the land crumbled upon itself The vast dome, the only remaining structure on the dying continent, shuddered and sank slowly to the depths of the ocean... ==================================================================== @SONG: SHOCK TREATMENT Truth is the ultimate reason Lying is why this begins Run from the words of deceivers The danger is spread from within Watching the hour glass empty Scream as time's running out There's no more room for excuses there's no rhyme or reason to doubt. Hold out your arms Be ready to take all that's coming Shock treatment You won't feel the pain Shock treatment You'll cry out in pain Give up your heart-- You won't feel the pain Shock treatment They'll do it to you again and again and again Cover your fear with a blanket Don't let them know that it's rage Be on your guard what you say now It may haunt you the rest of your days Faces around you are gloating The pain disappears in a haze Hold onto what's left of your mind now... The switches are set on erase ==================================================================== @SONG: ARK OF INFINITY Contemplating hopes and dreams of a new age All we leave behind is tainted by tears Our tomorrows lie ahead there in the stars Reaching for the stars in seven heavens Into the haven of the night Formations flying like Geese, we are free Look on through space Our backs to the sun We stand at the window Where all this began Planet Earth is shrinking A sapphire explodes Our hearts heave a sigh Now we've reached the crossroads Onward through the night Our hearts beat as one Our journey's begun to infinity Though my eyes are open it's only a dream Now I'm looking upwards and so it seems That the skies are filled with the Strangest of birds ==================================================================== @SONG: ATLANTIS Rising up the crystal dome of life before the final war Breaks the waves of sea and air to save us from a deadly fall Coming up from far below Ocean floors unknown to man The Sentinel waited silently Until the time was right again Civilization's seeds Sown so very long ago Almost ripened to their peak But how were they supposed to know Nurtured very carefully Guided on their preset path The Sentinel waited silently But his experiment went wrong The eyes of the world looked in fright To the seas ablaze with light And it moved ever closer Round the World Machines they all stood still Fingers reaching out as one Poised in fear obliged to kill Continents united Against the common foe The fist and last occasion But the fools would never know Alpha and omega The first-born and the last The vast dome of Atlantis Cracked and shuddered beneath the blast Sinking back to whence they came The young could not realize The original plan would now succeed Due to their selfless sacrifice The sea boiled again As Atlantis descends to its place far below Now the World has joined hands as one All the World now Join their hands as one