Day 8: A Song That I Know All The Words To

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Age of Shadows by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon from 01011001 (2008)


Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a genius. He's created an entire world through his music. Literally! Ayreonauts on Planet Y and all of the intricacies involved in living on an alien planet, trying to find oneself, expanding and exploring new horizons, even finding a new home (on earth). It's like reading a science fiction novel, except it's being sung to you with perfect space sounds! I love all of the singers that have contributed to this project, each of them unique in sound.


I may have listened to this song a total of 10 times before I learned the lyrics, and no I did not cheat and look it up online! I was quite proud of having done that, and while I know the lyrics to almost every song I listen to this was the first one that popped in my head.







[Tom Englund:] We never saw this coming, pride comes before a fall
We never heeded the warnings, buried deep within us all

[Chorus:]
[Steve Lee:] The age of shadows has begun
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] Giant machines blot out the sun
[Steve Lee:] Frozen minds becoming numb
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] The age of shadows has begun
[Steve Lee:] The age of Shadows has begun
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] I won't accept what we've become
[Steve Lee:] We stand to lose more than we've won
[Daniel Gildenlöw:] The age of Shadows has begun

[Tom Englund:] Our quenchless thirst for knowledge, our urge to change and grow
Our need to expand the nation, made us rise from the depths below

[Chorus]

[Hansi Kursch:] No more aggression
[Floor Jansen:] No more initiative
[Hansi Kursch:] No more suppression
[Floor Jansen:] No more emotions
[Hansi Kursch:] No more resection
[Floor Jansen:] No more of all the feelings that shaped our hearts and made us who we are
[Hansi Kursch:] No more possessions
[Floor Jansen:] No more suspicious
[Hansi Kursch:] No more obsessions
[Floor Jansen:] No more sensations
[Hansi Kursch:] No more depression
[Floor Jansen:] No more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are

[Jonas Renkse:]
Time (time, time) but a passageway (a passageway, a passageway)
The beginning of the end (of the end)
An end that never was (was, was, was)
Time (time, time) but a curve in space (curve in space, curve in)

We are forever (we are forever, we are forever) eternal prisoners in time (in time, in time)
We are forever (we are forever) caught in our cold inertia

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one...

[Anekke van Giersberg:]
Forever we yearn, forever we learn
Forever we live a lie, forever sleeping by and
Forever we flee (forever we flee), forever we will be,
Forever is but a dream, forever is but a scream and
Forever we try, forever we die,

The spell of love wore off
The zest for life not enough

Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one

Never enough

Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)
zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero)



Longing, hoping, waiting, for no one

Forever we try, forever we die, forever, forever


[Jonas Renkse:] Longing... hoping... waiting... for no one...

[Jorn Lande - ad libs in last chours of Age of Shadows:]
No more aggression (No more initiative)
No more suppression (no more emotions)
No more resection (no more of all the feelings that shaped our hearts and made us who we are)
No more possessions (No more suspicious)
No more obsessions (No more sensations)
No more depression (no more of all the passions that shaped our hearts and made us who we are

The age of shadows has begun (Giant machines blot out the sun)
Frozen lands becoming known (The age of shadows has begun)

The age of Shadows has begun (I won't accept what we've become)
We stand to lose more than we've won (The age of Shadows has begun)

We never heeded the warning, buried deep within us all


Lyrics from DarkLyrics



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