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Wanderers in Space
01:36
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Instrumental
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2. |
The Quest
04:39
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-The Quest-
Legacy beyond compare,
A generous gift to those who dare.
Cognition… Ignition
In search for intelligent life!
Not the escape from a dying planet
But a conscious effort of the human kind to cognize…
No distance is ever too far…
No time is too long…
The quest for ourselves in this void
Ten light years from home!
How could we forget who we are?
How did we become so deaf
To this irresistible call
That had taken us once from our caves?
Is it where we stand now?
Abandoned in space…
Forever lonely planet of
A forever lonely race!
No distance is ever too far…
No time is too long…
The quest for ourselves in this void
Ten light years from home.
But distance seems always so far…
And time seems too long…
The quest is over
Ten light years from ourselves!
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3. |
Pack Rat
04:28
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-Pack Rat-
Gone with fire,
Lost in the summer night.
A sample of a yet unknown race –
Measured, classified!
Where am I?
Walls of metal all around…
Darkness – wet and cold!
A glaring light…
The sound of steps is near…
A cosmic Pack Rat got another souvenir!
Desolate in outer space
A slowly dying automated machine -
Yet the mission is clear!
Kept alive,
Given stuff to eat, air to breath.
Soon you realize -
This Cabinet of Wonders is your home for life!
A cosmic derelict,
A guest from distant stars,
Picking up new forms of life on its way -
Gone astray!
On its journey to the unknown worlds
In eternal wait for creators to come
Dying species move in formalin flasks!
Desolate in outer space,
Trapped by dying automated machine
In a hopeless wait
That smells like formalin!
Smells like formalin!!!
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4. |
Down to Earth
03:06
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-Down to Earth-
Into the glowing of distant stars we dive…
The escapists from the daily routines of our lives…
Like the millions before me
Lost in Orion’s belt
Watcher of the Morning Star
Vagabond of flame-red sands!
Pray the Shepherd or Warrior
Born of astral dust
Inventive in your loneliness!
When admiration
Turns to terror or disgust
You are down to Earth…
Oh!
Have you lost it all?
With your eyes bent on the ground
Will you see the starscape
In a puddle of mud?
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5. |
Ad Astra
04:21
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-Ad Astra-
Transcending the boundaries,
Reaching beyond.
Terrestrial kids have grown out of their world!
The cradle is empty
Weak and naked we’re born
To rule in the eye of a storm!
Oh, we stand on the verge!
We’ve barely begun
With our destiny lying above!
Oh, the reason is clear -
The call from within.
And we count every moment we win!
Pulse of the stars in your veins!
Let constellations forgive your disgrace:
Years of despair, decades of dismay,
Centuries of living the most wicked ways!
Oh, we stand on the verge!
We’ve barely begun
With our destiny lying above!
Uh, the reason is clear -
The call from within.
And we count every moment we win!
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-A Perfect Place (to Hide)-
The science is fiction and the fiction is science!
See the future with your eyes.
We build our cities in the oceans and on the moon.
The fiction screened feels like reality to you.
Consuming fantasy
In search for a perfect place to hide.
Behind the screen is your life!
No need to dream – no more!
Just load a game where you can do what you want
Until another dawn.
Where do the all roads lead?
When does dreamy childhood give way to cold math?
Will you find strength to pursue your dreams?
Or will you follow the beaten path?
The surrogate of life!
The surrogate of dreams!
Consume it to survive
Behind the silver screen.
When I was a kid
I dreamed of becoming a spaceman
Exploring distant worlds, finding new forms of life -
Quite an ordinary dream for our generation:
Who else could you want to become?
A hero, and adventurer
Sailing the oceans or roaming the sands of a planet light years from home…
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield!
Not to yield…
Where do the all roads lead?
When does dreamy childhood give way to cold math?
Will you find strength to pursue your dreams?
Or will you follow the beaten path?
Will you stick together your broken dreams,
Or will you choose your perfect place to hide?
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7. |
Solaris
04:00
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-Solaris-
What is there behind the mirror of your eyes?
Vicious hopes or mutilated memories of the past?
When the demons (or the angels) cast a spell (or spread their wings),
Are you innocent enough to face your sacred dreams?
See it night and day …
No chance to hide…
Stop this pain
Of a naked mind!
Oh, greet the guest from oblivion -
Reflection of your own.
An image buried inside the
Unconscious is reborn.
The scientific approach -
No anger or mercy belongs to this world.
Your code is broken!
Exposed to dreams till reality’s gone!
There is no blessing in disguise!
There is no value.
Pain...
Oh, give them eyes to see the truth
Behind the vividness of lies!
See it night and day…
No chance to hide…
Stop this pain
Now!
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8. |
Under the Alien Sky
05:07
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-Under the Alien Sky-
Human perception
Fails in this chaos of forms.
Like wind in our hands
We try to hold menace
Within the framework of our scorn!
(Too late now)
Pressurized, intact at some point -
How much time will it take to break your shell?
Primal breath, cold and hunger…
Will you still remain that civilized?
It’s hard to believe:
The call of wilderness
Under this alien sky
Out of touch with our kind!
Crawling through the frozen land
Children of a cosmic race
Natives of this savage world
Armed with bows and arrows!
So hard to perceive
The power of the human race
When Earth is just an abstract word!
How can our children resist
The call of wilderness
Born under this alien sky
Out of touch with our kind?
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Russian melodic death metal band with Soviet sci-fi movie soundtrack approach.
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