The Awakening

by Ayreon

From the album: The Final Experiment

Track 8 of 31 on The Final Experiment (1995).

The Final Experiment cover art

Lyrics for The Awakening

Let us go back to the Dark Ages A cry in the silence, a shine in the dark Like a rising star, the dream is coming Images of violence, a flight through time and space It's such a lonely place; the dream has started The smoke is rising, the vision's getting clearer And words become a song In the dreamtime I've lost control, marooned and cold I suffer the fears of a future untold I cannot change the shape of things to come The smoke is rising, the vision's getting clearer And words become a song In the dreamtime The smoke is rising, the vision's getting clearer The hands of time are whirling around I'm realizing– the future's getting nearer And words become a song The smoke is rising, the vision's getting clearer And words become a song

More from The Final Experiment

  1. Prologue
  2. The Time Telepathy Experiment
  3. Overture
  4. Ayreon's Quest
  5. The Awareness
  6. The Premonition
  7. Dreamtime (Words Become A Song)
  8. The Awakening
  9. Eyes Of Time
  10. Eyes Of Time
  11. Brainwaves
  12. The Banishment
  13. A New Dawn
  14. The Gathering
  15. The Accusation
  16. The Banishment
  17. Oblivion
  18. Ye Courtyard Minstrel Boy
  19. Sail Away To Avalon
  20. Nature's Dance
  21. Computer-Reign (Game Over)
  22. Waracle
  23. Listen To The Waves
  24. Magic Ride
  25. Merlin's Will
  26. The Charm Of The Seer
  27. Swan Song
  28. Ayreon's Fate
  29. Ayreon's Fate
  30. Merlin's Prophecy
  31. Epilogue