1. |
The Collapse
09:27
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Verse
My name is Nathaniel, you must’ve heard of me
The press was filled with the details
of my strange amnesia from 1908 to 13
A shadow fell upon me
from the lurking past
Verse
The collapse occurred while
I was conducting a class
and I had a singular feeling
that I have no remembrance
of my identity and past
Years and years
of vivid nightmares
Chorus
Something unnamed assaults my mind
The strangest shapes before my eyes
My past is slipping from my grasp
As I struggle to understand
Bridge
Then the odd travels had started
I’d spent a month in the mountains
A camel trip in the unknown deserts
I’d spent weeks alone beyond the explored parts
in the vast limestone caverns of western Virginia
Contacted with leaders
of unnamed occultist groups
What happened on those journeys
Was never revealed for me
What happened on those journeys
No one hardly can believe
I had thirst for all the knowledge of our time
My own withered to foreign and numb
I’d seen the future and past at once
What happened on those journeys
is better be untold
Chorus
Creatures from the future and past
Exchanged my soul, I was not even myself
After 5 years, my consciousness returned
A spirit had came back
in whose time scale
it was still Thursday morning in 1908...
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2. |
Secret of Time
06:33
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Verse
For five years I’ve been a slave
My mind cruelly displaced
A frightening exchange
My dreams seemed
to grow in vividness and fear
Memories of unknown lands
I’ve never been there
I've seen cyclopean
corridors of stone
And never-opened trapdoors
holding perils unknown
I searched distant libraries
to read the hideous books about
the greatest race of all because
it alone had conquered
Chorus
the secret of time
Harvesting minds
They knew all things that ever were known
or ever would be known on the earth
The secret of time
Verse
Within the dreams
I was one of them
Million years before the man
I was writing all the time
The stories of my time for them
To expand the archives
with knowledge of all times
Chorus
Amongst keen minds
from all eras
I shivered at the mysteries the past may conceal
and trembled at the threats the future may reveal
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3. |
The Great Race
03:48
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Verse
I curse my newly gained clairvoyance
'cause cone-shaped beings make their appearance
Their monstrous outlines clouded by vapor
Scaly, iridescent, ten feet tall at the base, they were me
Chorus
We are the Great Race, who peopled the Earth
Casting their minds into the past and forth
Verse
Untold stories of different histories
Their tomes are the source of prophecies
Horrible archives and frightful chronicles
Written by scissored tentacles
Chorus
Ancient conquerors of time and hidden lore
Safeguarding vast knowledge aeons old
Verse
Swarming and scraping in their cyclopean city
They observe the infinity of time and space
Chorus
They are the Great Race, who peopled the Earth
Casting their minds into the past and forth
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4. |
A Disquieting Letter
06:56
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Verse
I prepared articles about my experiences
These appeared at psychological magazines
And then a letter was forwarded to me
From Western Australia, from a mining engineer
My Dear Sir, I've read about your story
I have seen things in the Desert
I have come upon something important
The natives always mentioned
those great stones in the sands, with marks on them
and their terrible fear of 'em
Pre-chorus
Old tales about
huts of stone below
where passages lead down and down
Two years ago
I saw those ruins in the sand
They were the same that you dreamed about
Chorus
We faced
with the remains
of an unknown civilization
Older than any
dreamed of before
I must know the truth...
Verse
Can it be
that my visions were real?
And we're not the first,
and not the last on this Earth
I'm gonna lead
an expedition to the south
My son will accompany me
and professors from the University
Pre-Chorus
We left Boston
on March 28.
A trip across the Atlantic
with the fear of what we're gonna see
Two months later
we saw the first half-buried blocks
Then we started digging...
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5. |
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[Instrumental]
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6. |
The Shadow Out of Time
17:48
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Verse
Night after night
I was searching through the desert
And finally, some ruins of stone
were revealed in the sands
At that hideous night
unnatural winds shrieked
from the underground huts
what the tales told about
I started my descent to the abyss
where the walls seemed so familiar
At moments I fancied I saw
those cone shaped beings
Why did I know the way so well?
I was terrified, but driven
by scientific zeal
Then I encountered a yawning black rift
Verse
I was leaping and stumbling
towards the central archives
where all the proofs awaited me
to see if my visions were real
At the lowest level
I feared to pass a room
where those trapdoors gaped
without any guards
I prayed to wake up
from this hellish nightmare
but then I reached
why I came here
Verse
The Archives...
Where all the knowledge
of aeons lie
Rows of shelves...
I've been here many times
I know where
I can find the book what I've
written when I was here, aeons ago
but not in my own body!
Can I?
Can I climb high enough?
To reach the upper shelf
where the metal case dwells
That holds the proof for my
story of exchanged minds
If I make it out alive...
Will anyone believe me?
What if I became insane?
Chorus
We're tiny motes in the winds of time
a short chapter in our planet's life
We know nothing about ourselves
and the goals what our fate tells
Some old and wise occupied my mind
I got engulfed by a shadow out of time
Verse
I had to carry this thing back to the outer world
Tried to move silently as I had to pass again
through that trapdoor room
But the metal case fell with disturbing clatter
It became my undoing...
I heard a shrill, whistling sound, like nothing else on earth
Verse
Strange winds came
Hindering my way
This is not real and I’m not here
I reached the black rift
and leaped frenziedly
Then the blackness engulfed me
Verse
I woke up in the desert night, shrieking winds around me
I was clawing prone through the sands
But the metal case was gone missing
I raised my head, and looked behind me
and only saw some desert dunes
Was it real or nightmare?
I was trying to get back to the camp
Verse
No eye had seen, no hand had touched that book
since the advent of man to this planet
And when I flashed my torch upon it
in that frightful abyss
I saw that the letters
were not any nameless hieroglyphs
of earth's youth
Verse
They were, instead
the letters of our familiar alphabet
spelling out the words
of the English language
in my own handwriting...
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Enigmatic Infinity Budapest, Hungary
Enigmatic Infinity is the one-man project of the hungarian guitarist/composer, Nándor Tombor.
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