(Chorus) Whenever you'll rise, whenever you'll fall, the past and the future, the fate of you all. (the Prophet) I knocked at the door of the wonder called Atlantis, crossed every road, sailed on silver boats, and I wandered from sunset till dawn. (the Messiah) He was the pilgrim who visited the temple and saw the top of our technology, who'll prevent us to be gods of our own. The stranger in black coat... (the Sailor) He showed us the secret of life without water, made desert bloom, a spring paradise, good as a veil of shadow on summer sands. (the Dictator) He saw the sun rising through the gardens of Babylon, heard the king's code, guessed it was right, too, and he sentenced our end by his hands. The whisper from the sand... (Chorus, the Prophet) Whenever you'll rise, whenever you'll fall, the past and the future, the fate of you all. Never look down, Never too high, greatness and misery, that's humankind. And I, forever, will be the keeper of your destiny. (the Oracle) Though mortals and weak they reached and broke the line, able to face whole eternity, too near to the evolution step. (the Oracle, the Messiah, the Sailor, the Dictator) He's the raging ocean, he's the sandstorm never seen, he's the tempest, the fire, the comet, he's the final solution. (Chorus, the Prophet) Whenever you'll rise, whenever you'll fall, the past and the future, the fate of you all. Never look down, Never too high, greatness and misery, that's humankind. And I, forever, will be the keeper of your destiny. (the Prophet) By the fire a race was born, with my fire that race got on the right to be lords in a prison, enough to serve, not for a treason. I master aeons, I rule creation and gather the slaves of our domination. Slaves as I'm, serving the entities, gods of a faith raised through the centuries. (Chorus, the Prophet) Whenever you'll rise, whenever you'll fall, the past and the future, the fate of you all. Never look down, Never too high, greatness and misery, that's humankind. And I, forever, will be the keeper of your destiny.

(the Prophet) Hear me, hear me, people of the sand, let me tell you of the one who wears the mask, one of many deceivers, centuries of godlike tyrants. Your offerings are made to temples full of hoax and lies. Listen, people, time to arise! I'm gonna tell you It is time to break the chains of superstitious slavery. Your king's just greed and violence, a vision in deep desert, a golden light to blind your eyes. Don't prey the jester, don't call him god, don't build his glory with your own blood. (the Dictator) Who's the fool under my sun? Who's the preacher? Who's the one? They're my servants, they're my sons, they need my guide to sail in time. In eternal night I am their only light. (the Messiah) Unbeliever! Damn this one! Don't tell gods how to choose a son! Men, be faithful, save your souls, there's no sky to ask for peace when god is peace and god has been denied. (the Prophet) Don't prey the jester, don't call him god, don't build his glory with your own blood. (the Dictator, the Messiah) What will enlighten the deepest dark when you will blind the Eye of Ra? (Chorus) Children of the Nile, born in a dry land, by the will of god, from the tears he shed. Sons of the divine, dust we're in his hand. Don't provoke his wrath, praise him, do not stand. (the Dictator, the Messiah) Face me, sinner, challenge god, prove my power, spill my blood! Let me see how brave you are! Anubi's waiting, place your heart, contemplate me and be prepared to die. (the Prophet) Don't you fear him, look at his face! Is this blood, here, flowing out of his veins? Time to choose new divinity, save from decay your future. Stand up and pray no longer 'cause the time has come to rise! (the Dictator, the Messiah) What will enlighten the deepest dark when you will blind the Eye of Ra? (Chorus, the Prophet) Children of the Nile, born in a dry land, could it be that god never saw this sand? Sons of the divine? Slaves of a false myth? Just behind that mask the truth is at hand. (the Sailor) Listen to the Prophet, the words he said, leave onto the dunes the chains of faith. Rise against the power, see his face, tear down the walls and build a new age. (the Dictator, the Messiah) Don't believe the liar, Don't you waste this reign. The fool is simply leading you in centuries of pain. (the Prophet) Follow me, follow your destiny, fulfill the fate, be the right race. (Chorus) Not a god, only flesh and blood. Not a god, only flesh and blood. Not a god, only flesh and blood... (the Prophet) Since that fire many centuries are gone. Humankind keeps on turning on the wheel of time. They're about to reach the sky but they... they don't even know how to fly.

(the Sailor) In the darkness a light awaits for the ones who will bring the fire, to see what has never been seen and name what has never been named. We're the ones and we will be, with our swords and philosophy, we have ink and write history of our time, of all times to be. (the Sailor, the Prophet) So set sail toward the unknown, open the canvas, let wind blow. Through the waves don't stop, don't turn, follow the stars, fires in the dark, and leave a wake in the sea of time. (the Sailor, Chorus) From the walls of Troy, through the clashing rocks, we will touch the sky with our words and stones. And beyond the edge, in a land so far, we will place our flags and then sail again. Then a song will be played, a legend to sing, and our heroes and wonders will live. (the Prophet) I have placed in their mind my baits, to be sure they will feel the fire, I have sent my harpies and sirens, blown to keep them on the lane. I am curious to see how far they can sail and live, somehow free for centuries in a world without me. (the Sailor, the Prophet) So set sail toward the unknown, open the canvas, let the wind blow. Through the waves don't stop, don't turn, follow the stars, fires in the dark, and leave a wake in the sea of time. (the Sailor, Chorus) From the walls of Troy, through the clashing rocks, we will touch the sky with our words and stones. And beyond the edge, in a land so far, we will place our flags and then sail again. Then a song will be played, a legend to sing, and our heroes and wonders will live. (the Sailor, THE PROPHET) Not formed to live the life of brutes BLIND SLAVES DON'T SEE THE CHAINS but to follow virtue and knowledge NEVER TOO FAR TO BE FREE We will conquer the world for us UNTIL THE GODS WILL COME and build the empire of humanity. (the Oracle, THE PROPHET) Oh, Prophet, you will be their chief NOT A LEADER, JUST A SLAVE You will guide them and burn the sky NEVER, THIS CANNOT BE millions of worlds will fall and pass I MADE THEM BY MY HANDS and by your hands they're going to rise. (the Dictator) From the walls of Troy, through the clashing rocks, we will touch the sky with our words and stones. And beyond the edge, in a land so far...

[Part 1: Divide...] (Instrumental) [Part 2: In the sign of the cross] (the Messiah) How much blood before I die? How much pain must I cry? Is it worth this suffering? Was this the way, as been foreseen? Come you all, come see the nails and the wood scratching my skin. Here's the day, praise and sing, 'cause today I'll bear your sins. And the wind from the desert, it hurts, in a way that I never believed. And the kiss of the sand on my wounds makes me fear there is no one with me. (the Messiah, the Prophet) And I walk on my feet, on earth, in this path of a future concealed. Will my steps leave a trace in time? Will this sacrifice last after me? (CHORUS, the Messiah) KILL THE FATHER, KILL THE SON. May this day resound in milleniums. LOSE THE PROPHET, FIND THE GOD. (the Messiah) Why am I abandoned here in this overwhelming fear? From the sky no crying falls, I'm alone with flesh and sores. Are you my father, oh god, or am I the son of a different one? Just a lamb, sent and lost in a far land. (the Messiah, the Prophet) And I walk on my feet, on earth, in this path of a future concealed. Will my steps leave a trace in time? Will this sacrifice last after me? (CHORUS, the Messiah) KILL THE FATHER, KILL THE SON. May this day resound in milleniums. LOSE THE PROPHET, FIND THE GOD. (the Prophet) One prophet, one man, only one will stand after this day. One reason, one chance, and the stone is rolling to the end of Rome. (the Messiah, CHORUS) A new faith will born, they won't be forlorn, the poor and the wretched togheter will pray, PATER NOSTER QUI ES IN CAELIS outside of the temple, empowered by heart, though slaughtered and slain. Come what may. PATER NOSTER QUI ES IN CAELIS (Chorus) IN A LAND SO FAR FROM ROME A NEW KING FROM POORNESS BORN RAISED AN ARMY WITH HIS LOVE. AND HIS SOLDIERS, MARCHING FAST, REPLACED EAGLES ON THE FLAGS WITH THE MEMORY OF HIS PAIN, 'CAUSE FROM THEN AS TIME GOES ON THEY ARE ONLY GOING TO FIGHT IN THE SACRED SIGN OF THE CROSS. [Part 3: ...et impera] (the Dictator, the Prophet) CONSUESSE ENIM DEOS IMMORTALES, QUO GRAVIUS HOMINES EX COMMUTATIONE RERUM DOLEANT, QUOS PRO SCELERE EORUM ULCISCI VELINT, HIS SECUNDIORES INTERDUM RES ET DIUTURNIOREM IMPUNITATEM CONCEDERE. (De Bello Gallico, GAIUS IULIUS CAESAR) [Part 4: The voice] (the Dictator) I hear a voice rising from the streets. I hear this voice, an unbearable whispering. I hate that voice, such a horrible desease. From the darkness of a cave, from the mouth of poors and slaves, I hear a voice. FIND THEM, FIND THE ONES, STOP THE PRAYERS, KILL AND BURN. EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE, EVERY STREET, EVERY TURN. (the Prophet) One rising, one fall, this story goes to a new decay. One power, one faith, and today is running to the end of Rome. (the Dictator) I hear a voice and it's loud and nearer. I heard the voice from far though clearer. I fear the voice, now it spreads into the seas. "Thy kingdom come" they say in a circus, killed though braves. I hear a voice. FIND THEM, FIND THE ONES, STOP THE PRAYERS, KILL AND BURN. EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE, EVERY STREET, EVERY TURN. (Chorus) Pater noster qui es in caelis... (Chorus) IN A LAND SO FAR FROM ROME A NEW KING FROM POORNESS BORN RAISED AN ARMY WITH HIS LOVE. AND HIS SOLDIERS, MARCHING FAST, STILL HAVE EAGLES ON THE FLAGS BUT THAT MEMORY'S NOT IN VAIN, 'CAUSE FROM THEN AS TIME GOES ON THEY ARE ONLY GOING TO FIGHT WITH THE SACRED SIGN OF THE CROSS. (the Prophet) One prophet, one man... One rising, one fall...

(the Prophet) Straight through an ocean of darkness, hundreds of holy pathfinders, evangelizers, bearers of doom, they came and I came for you. For the glory of the feared ones, for the power that I found, an escaping from oblivion, from the sadness I was bound. Out of the thunder, into the fire, destined to live in disguise. Scouting the void beyond Jupiter and Mars, I have been sent from the stars. (the Prophet) Then on this cold, lifeless planet I spilled my life and reminded my shattered homeworld, your future too, and waited to be one of you. (the Oracle) Forging the chains of this madness, hundreds of tears for your children, finally you saw them, fragments from you, their fate became yours too. (the Prophet, the Oracle) For the glory of the new ones, the new power that I(you) found, an escaping from oblivion, from the sadness I was(you were) bound. Out of the thunder, into the fire, destined to live in disguise. Scouting the void beyond Jupiter and Mars, I(you) have been sent from the stars. (the Prophet) Out of the thunder, into the fire, destined to live in disguise. Scouting the void beyond Jupiter and Mars, I have been sent from the stars. Out of the thunder, into the fire, destined to live in disguise. Scouting the void beyond Jupiter and Mars, we have been sent from the stars.

(the Sailor) I pray for my soul, though I saw there's no heaven, and pray for you all. Am I wrong, am I right? The stars are no more stuck and sealed in the firmament. Venus and Mars and our Earth... Yet it moves. Why you're so blind? Is this faith? Is this pride? Rise up, oh flames! Rise burning bright and turn this long night in the dawn of mankind! (the Messiah) May the fire purify all your sins and the lies. May the Lord above us all leave this heresy behind. (the Sailor) We are slaves of a sacred oppression, imprisoned with no door to find, blinded by vestments, judged by the fools. (the Sailor) And the flames rising up in the dark in the mystical night of mankind for this man dared to tell us the truth. His body will turn into dust but his words are bound to remain to... (Chorus) Tear down the walls of ignorance, step towards deliverance, look up to the sky. Tear down the walls of violence, beyond any circumstance, fight against the night. (the Messiah, THE SAILOR) Marching on a sacred path DRAWN IN THE BLOOD OF THE SINNERS restless holy knights ride on THE GRAVES OF A BLACK PLAGUED LAND and Thy will be done THY WILL BE DONE. (the Prophet) As they dance on the edge of destruction, though fearing they would not remind, sure I'm lured by a promising power. (the Prophet) The poems come from the saddest heart, the brightest day from the darkest night. Their light glitters in the deepest shadow. This war will not have any winner but this age is to be reminded to... (Chorus) Tear down the walls of ignorance, step towards deliverance, look up to the sky. Tear down the walls of violence, beyond any circumstance, fight against the night. (the Sailor, the Dictator, the Oracle, the Messiah, the Prophet, Chorus) Of castles and honor, of magic we sing, of sieges, of cavalry and glorious kings, of desease and famine, the heralds of fear, of punishment, pain, absolving the sins. The clangor of iron, the sound of this age, echoes the warcry of destiny, far in the future of men. (the Dictator) Standing still in the scorching sun we face each other, infidel ones. Of our lords there must be only one. Two sides of the same old wall and they both have to be torn down. (Chorus) Tear down the walls of ignorance, step towards deliverance, look up to the sky. Tear down the walls of violence, beyond any circumstance, fight against the night. The clangor of iron, the sound of this age, echoes the warcry of destiny, far in the future of men.

(the Prophet) Time to take on the shoulders the weight of our lives. There is no one to give it, all the gods, they are far. We are here, we are one, we are strong enough to hold, to fight, to win. (the Sailor) Time to make our own fortune, no heaven to wait for. No more sins, no indulgence, for the world is only one. We are here, we are now, we were born, one day, to live, to love, to be. (the Prophet, the Sailor) See what I see through the mist and sail, don't fear the ocean, we'll seize the day. Dream what I dream, of unwritten tales, for our fate's unknown and we'll find a way. Hear what I hear in the roaring waves, the song of all that lies beyond the edge of the world. To live, to love, to be... See what I see through the mist and sail, don't fear the ocean, we'll seize the day. Dream what I dream, of unwritten tales, for our fate's unknown and we'll find a way. Hear what I hear in the roaring waves, the song of all that lies beyond the edge of the world.

(the Oracle) A painting of two centuries, still the color's leaking, the canvas as a battlefield, a fading of red blood on steel. (the Sailor) Enlightening our dignity, Reason is our guide and a lighthouse of morality. The brush draws a blade in the night. Raising the banners of victory, screaming the freedom into the wind. (Chorus) Age of light, light of ages... Age of light, light of ages... (the Dictator) From Paris to the Bunker Hill revolution's running. Crowns are losing majesty, justice's born as they all fall. Raising the banners of victory, screaming the freedom into the wind. (Chorus) Age of light, light of ages... Age of light, light of ages... (the Prophet) Though bright and pure the light still leaves a stain, a black shade, a dark fade, the last evolution far to be made. (Chorus) Age of light, light of ages... Age of light, light of ages...

(the Dictator) Can you see the purity, the perfection of our race, in the blue eyes that sorround you and the god-shape of our faces? What's the color of your skin? Are you worth of our disdain? There's a golden road to follow and we'll wash away you stains! (the Messiah) Oh, the skies are grey, a crimson sea, hear the victims and face your sins. (Chorus) In the silence their voices are crying, in the smoke there are faces unknown, in their eyes only pain and repentance and the tears of the spirits of war. (the Prophet) I see through this insanity that nothing will be in vain, a light beyond the darkness at the end of a fool maze. Our destiny is in slavery, but a glimpse of hope is shining in the fire of this fierce war and the beast within your gazes. (the Messiah) Oh, such a disgrace, so many kin sacrificed on the altar of pure hate. (Chorus) In the silence their voices are crying, in the smoke there are faces unknown, in their eyes only pain and repentance and the tears of the spirits of war. And today there is no one who's smiling, no more soldiers who fight on the shore, only lovers who wander and cry the same tears of the spirits of war. (the Prophet) Don't let the darkness flow away from your hearts. Embrace the fear 'cause the greatest one is coming. Reach your own limits and be your own gods. (the Oracle) In the end you're doing it, in the end you'll guide them, Prophet of the ones, devourers of the stars. (the Messiah) What is the price to pay? What if you feed their hate? What will be left behind? (Chorus) No more silence, their voices are thunder from the corners of this wounded world. In their eyes everything is forgotten like the tears of the spirits of war. And tomorrow no one will remember what we suffered one day on that shore, just a trace to be lost in the wind like we are. We, the spirits of war.

(the Prophet) So there they where, descendants of Atlantis, children of the Nile, bearers of the fire lit before the dawn of time. Freed from the chains, ascended to divinity, they broke the limits and now they rule the tide. (the Sailor, the Messiah) No more prayers, no more wishes, no more miracle to ask for. (the Prophet) Fly high to the moon, through the wormholes they will run, in the darkest space they'll be the brightest light. Far beyond the sun, no more secrets and no lies, they will reach the final hour to survive. (the Prophet) In a few centuries they won the march of progress, bent every science to their unbounded will. (the Dictator, the Oracle) No more fear and no more weakness for the weavers of the future. (Chorus) Fly high to the moon, through the wormholes we will run, in the darkest space we'll be the brightest light. Far beyond the sun, no more secrets and no lies, we will reach the final hour to survive. (the Prophet) A split in the light of day, they came to reclaim their reign, shades from the astral flames. But instead of slaves and praise they found a brave new race. (the Dictator) The planet was the battlefield, an endless line of soldiers. Armies clashed from west to east and the noise was stronger then the raging wind. (CHORUS, the Messiah, the Sailor, the Dictator) BEHOLD the mighty power. BEHOLD, the gods are fallin'. BEHOLD, invaders running back to where they belong. BEHOLD... (Chorus) Far from human kind, we control both wind and fire and unleashed the power of the storm to strike. Never drawing back, in this day we stand our ground. We have reached the final hour and survived. (the Prophet) So then we were victors of a cosmic war, invincibles and proud, strong enough to be true keepers of our destiny. But what was left behind? Incinerated cities, blood poisoned water, nothing but a dead world. (the Messiah) A world is shaped in it's god image and a dreadful barren land is the face of the new beast. What remains of the once called human race? (the Oracle) No more doubts and no more blindness, now you see what my warning was. (the Prophet) I see what I've done, sailed by misleading stars, lost the sense of time and fate to save mine. (Chorus) Now it's time to find a new world to build our home, to feed our draining power and our pride. Prophet, lead the way, spread our word across the space, light the fire once again and choose our slaves. (the Prophet) I'm the master of my fate, I broke their chains, took advantage of their tears and rode their hate. Now they are what I have feared the most for years, they are Gods and now the wheel... It spins again.