Lyrics Ayreon – The Sixth Extinction

1. Echoes On The Wind

Tom Englund:
It’s the calm before the storm
It’s the quiet before the war

Tom Englund
It’s the end of the chain
Steve Lee
Destruction of the fittest
Tom Englund
It’s the end of our reign
Steve Lee
We’ve seen it all before
Tom Englund
It’s the end of man’s evolution
Steve Lee
The end of evolution
Tom Englund
For nobody heeds the echoes on the wind

2. Radioactive Grave

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Hansi Kursch
Do you hear the sirens?
Daniel Gildenlöw
Do you see them burst?
Steve Lee

Hansi Kursch
Do you hear them calling?
Daniel Gildenlöw
Do you see them hurt?
Steve Lee
Do you feel them falling?
Jonas Renske and Floor Jansen
All the world’s a blazing funeral pyre!

Tom Englund
I can hear the wailing!
Bob Catley
I can see the wrath!
Jorn Lande
I can see them failing
Jonas Renske and Floor Jansen
Washed away by a scorching sea of fire!

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3. 2085

Jonas Renske
Silence’s so loud, not a soul… left alive
Darkness’s a shroud
2085
All our dreams have disappeared
They burned down… tree of life
Confirming all that we feared
2085

Bob Catley:
Don’t give up, remember how we felt
Fire rushing through our veins
Now it’s the time to rise up from our hell
Now it’s the time to free our brains

Steve Lee:
The meaning of life is to give life meaning
Go too fast, move too slow.
Restore the balance between thinking and feeling
Open up and let it flow

Jonas Renske:
No side has won, struggle to… survive
Our quest here is done
2085
All our hopes have disappeared
Our race will… not thrive
Time will not recall the year
2085

Daniel Gildenlöw:
Don’t give in, remember all we learned
The spark of life if did ignite
We regained the rage for which we yearned
We regained our will to fight

Jorn Lande:
We must resolve this human equation
We’re already dead if we don’t try
To welcome challenge, genetic variation
Stop the machines, prepare to die!

4. To The Planet Of Red

Instrumental

5. Spirit Of The Wind

Tom Englund
He’s the last man alive
Steve Lee
Searching for the answer
Tom Englund
Knowing he won’t survive
Steve Lee
To the mystery of live
Tom Englund
Relives the past, and dreams of the future
Steve Lee
Dreaming of the future
Tom Englund
And soon he’ll set free
Steve Lee
And the sleeper will awake
Tom Englund
The spirit of the wind

6. Complete The Circle

Make us whole, migrator soul
Follow you home, complete the Circle
We must survive, restore our lives
The way I’ll show, complete the circle
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Hansi Kursch:
Send back visions
Into the past
Of war and decay

Floor Jansen:
Hear the final cries!
I can see the fear
In a world without walls

Anneke van Giersbergen
Through their eyes

Tom Englund:
I see them dying
We have to teach them
Migrator soul

Daniel Gildenlöw:
We will gain our will to fight
We’re at the dawn
We found a way

Steve Lee:
I know we’ll make it in the end
Listen to the one man

Bob Catley:
We gave them language
What did they say?
What did they learn?

Jorn Lande:
We have no choice
We are the future
We are the pain
Complete the Circle!

Steve Lee
AH!!!!