The Sixth Extinction

It's the calm before the storm
It's the quiet before the roar
It's the time when all will be decided.
(All will be decided)
But nobody hears
The echoes on the wind

It's the end of the chain
(Destruction of the feelings)
It's the end of our game
(We've seen it all before)
It's the end of man's evolution
(The end of evolution)
But nobody hears
The echoes on the wind

Do you hear the sirens?
Do you see them burst?
Do you feel the fire?
(All the world's a radioactive grave)

I can hear them crying
I can see their fear
I can see them dying
(Washed away by deadly gamma rays)

Do you hear them calling
Do you see them hurt?
Do you feel them falling?
(All the world's a blazing funeral pyre)

I can't think of waiting
I can see their hearts
I can see them fading
(Washed away by scorching sea of fire)

Do you hear the sirens?
Do you see them burst?
Do you feel the fire?
(All the world's a radioactive grave)

I can hear them crying
I can see their fear
I can see them dying
(Washed away by deadly gamma rays)
(All the world's a blazing funeral pyre)
(Washed away by scorching sea of fire)

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

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

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

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

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

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!

He's the last man alive
(Searching for the answer)
Knowing he won't survive
(To the mystery of live)
He lives the past, and dreams of the future
(Dreaming of the future)
And soon he'll set free
(And the sleeper will awake)
The Spirit of The Wind

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

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

Send back visions
Into the past
Of war and decay

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

Through their eyes!

I see them dying
We have to teach them
Migrator soul

We regain our will to fight
We're at the dawn
We found a way

I know we're make it in the end
Listen to the one man

We gave them a language
What did they say?
What did they learn?

We have no chance
We are the future
We are the pain
Complete the circle!


source: Songteksten.nl

vocals: Bob Catley; Tom S. Englund; Anneke van Giersbergen; Daniel Gildenlöw; Floor Jansen; Hansi Kürsch; Jørn Lande; Steve Lee; Jonas Renkse
piano: Joost van den Broek
synthesizer: Joost van den Broek
additional composer:
lyricist: Arjen Anthony Lucassen
composer: Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Language: english