The Great Escape

I

And the earth wept

I tuck you in ever so gently

Still you cried and turned from me

You stepped on my heart

I forgave just like mothers do

From under your shoes I still carried you

Soon my body will burn into ashes and dust

And rain will turn all that glitters to rust

One last pill for the pain

Sit down let me explain

Why my bruises stay

My child I know you never meant to

These scars just won't fade away

And I'm sure you never knew

I give up

I give in

Help December let a new year begin

Take what's left

And move on

Fly away

Be gone

II

Poisoned Land

III

Leaving home

The morrow winds blow and herald a time

When man will be d**ned for all his crime

We all were too bold

Now we all can see

How the lifegiver's bleeding to death before me

I am packing my bags

I'

Waiting in line

This tragedy forces us away from this land

As I board this creature of steel

I kiss her good bye

Give her time to heal

IV

Take off

Loud sirens wail to send a

Goldonder towards the light

Leaving the ground we bathe in starlight

While heading for oceans of night

Safe in Aniara's warm and tender care we ride

Eight thousand hearts that fled the fires

For a life at a distant home

V

A Turn for the worse

A swerve to clear the Hondo stone

Now we proclaim it known

Took us off course came too wide of Mars to

Turn back home

There's no turning back

Guiding units broke

And cracked

We will never win this game

From pledges and bonds

Our system of suns

Locked down its vaulted gateway

In thousands of years ram through the final frontier

The Lyre greets us there

Our ship at drift into the void

Through nothingness deployed

With an empty stare become aware

Our lives destroyed

Fears are hard to hide

Praying as denial subsides

We can never win this game

From pledges and bonds

Our system of suns

Locked down its vaulted gateway

In thousands of years ram through the final frontier

A moth to a flame

VI

A new balance

Glass like is the stare encircling us

The systems of stars hang frozen still

A gaze through the window

Six years down the line we still feign dawn and sunset

But space no light will spawn

Eternally darker

Now setting sails

But never know the worlds she's treading

Where the life belongs

Mima lead the way

Shine your light

Be the beacon of hope at night

Be our guide

I need what you're doing to me

Shine your light

Blind us when reality bites

We so need the magic she does

I asked me a question

No reply

I dreamt me a life and live a lie

Dream me a nightmare

I traveled the stars but passed them by

For trapped on Aniara here was

Always been leaving

We sit and stare

At all the marvels that she brings us

Lights the life in you

Mima lead the way

Shin your light

Be the beacon of hope at night

Perfect grace in the barren house of space

Shine your light

Blind us when reality bites

Mima

Save us from seeing ourselves

VII

Death of the Goddesses

Inside the Mima's eyes

We lived our lives

Then like an arrow through this jest

Destiny sent us a greeting from home

Let us see：

We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

Her circuits bled and fried as our mother died

She's darkened by our sin

We begin to realize it

When I saw home so blue

Be torn in two

All by the hands of her own child

Humanity

The festering cancer that

Dug her own grave

We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

Her circuits bled and fried

Seems she too will die

Our haven's dying

I couldn't stop them if I tried

As they all rushed to see her die

Chaos

Panic

People fight

I can't see

I will not

I won't

Our way of life is overthrown

Is there really no way

Let us turn back time

VIII

The age of confusion：Despair

In the deafening silence people mourn

We've cried us a river

Who knows where all laughter be

On whom we place the blame

Her demise was theirs

Stained by their disease her screen recedes

Our real eyes realized

They beguile us all with their minds

IX

The age of confusion：Lust

Our lusting flesh and piety

All coexist in the mist

Put aside your chastity

Unveiling skin

Magical sin

Controls the pile of heaving flesh

A twisted queen

Sleep with me and work the loins

The mind will stray

Yield to life

X

The age of confusion：Reason

And as the orgies all fade

And lust no longer attracts

Then the brain will subdue the flesh

Put the focus on facts

Human brain was a shameful part

Low names were high for loins and for breast

Us Hades may harvest

Fully at its behest

XI

The aftermath

I still cry and I still miss her

I was just a little boy

Running through the endless garden of our home

Away some say never

Ever

We'll leave this god forsake place

And ten thousand shivers

Remain as we part

We're holding on

Within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

O for so long

I was the wielder of illusions

Our goddess gave in when she saw

That we had killed the earth and burst to flames

Every smile on every face

Fell and crashed onto the floor

All alone in the world crying desperately

Away some say never

Ever we'll leave this god forsaken place

And ten thousand shivers

Remain as we part

We're holding on

Within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

Oh for so long

I was the wielder of illusions

But there's no hiding what we are

We are the plague of all

For humanity there is no cure

God and Satan hand in hand

Through this badland

Took a flight uphill and down from man

A king with with ashen crown

XII

Dining on ashes

What we reap is what we sow

Naked our truth smugly glows

We leave all games behind

Because

It took twenty years to come and go

Then only did we all know

And see how wrinkled and jaded we had grown

Looking out the window

But there's nothing new

Only darkness stares at you

I would die to see the rain below the rainbow

Just like others do

We crown the skies with our tiara

The life and fate of Aniara

We write an endless symphony

Now thousands were weeping

And hundreds cried in dismay

Twenty years today

Repenting sinners pray

Easy come and easy go

We could have had it all you know

Man's final day is here

Search for silver dig for gold

His desires now untold

Looking out the window

All that he can see

His own reflection's final plea

I would die to see the rain below the rainbow

Just like others do

We crown the skies with our tiara

The life and fate of Aniara

We write an endless symphony

Now thousands were weeping

And hundreds cried in dismay

Twenty years today

Repenting sinners will wither and fade

XIII

The curtain falls

Gladness fleeting

By whims and luck

That is the way of life

Looking

Searching our hearts

To find the why of it all

Finding no way to our home

See

In silence we faded

Our great escape

Twenty four years inside

Looking

Searching our ship

For life but just dust

Falls on the graves of all

The halls of our ship now are void of all but death

Our lives have passed

Our hearts were broken by the endless dark

Our new paradise

The one to replace the one we burned so bad

The god we hoped for left profaned

All wounded and forlorn on the home we scarred

Now here I stand

My dear

One heart still beats

I bid you farewell

The curtain will now descend

Somewhere in time we were living

Remember us then