I the eye will never see I: Data corrupted I plus eye is two minus me Effigy blurred and distorted I to eye: say who am I? Why am I enigma? Eye behold a sky full of ghosts Rain of light, ignite my stigma Eye and I an illusion A dream of skin; a flesh collusion A glitch in the code; A Möbius node Window pane To a fractured brain Let me fly On death’s head moth wings Let me pull the strings Looking to find A way out of my mind I am not me Antidentity Give me an eye for an I For an eye for an I Instead of me…

I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people Came out of the woodwork last night The searing of my fearing brain Woke me up with a terrible fright My semblance of solace is simply A fallacy laced with despair In truth or pretending my mind Is not mending and without a prayer Tremors in the night Terror taking flight Same disturbing dream Shadows of my home Silent and alone Not quite what it seems Ersatz red sky Walking down my street Strangely incomplete Climbing up the steps Of the cul-de-sac Stare into the black Dull eyes staring back Wake up screaming Is this really real? Can I trust the way I feel? Carry on through this ordeal, Or am I lost deep in denial? I refuse to be One with wan reality Misled by mortality In this cursed life that I revile Memories betray I don’t need them anyway Trade this endless Groundhog Day For the home that I left behind Minutes into days Dimly blending in the haze Coalesce into malaise In the hell to which I’m confined I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people Came out of the woodwork last night But nothing is final, my urge for survival Won’t give up the fight

I can’t recall how long since I became aware No days no nights, just pulsing lights disturbing my despair I’d run away if I could find a way I’ve lost the will to live but will I still survive? Entangled in her web, machines are keeping me alive Feeding me beguiling memories Visions of distant home What was home The streets I used to roam Or was I misinformed? Pictures fade Doubts invade As memories degrade In a vain charade Of a life mislaid on the way I’m falling through a nightmare Of endless skies My desolation dreams of childhood elegies and lies As ghosts of dying stars engulf my eyes And nothing ever changes Mourning never breaks Hallucinating phantom friends, a family of fakes Looking past the veil that’s failing me Wondering where is home? What is home? Is it this vacant zone Or some far unknown? Destiny, is it real or just insanity I refute my fate As I contemplate what is home

Lorelei, Eye and I Let us die… THE SLEEVE YOU KILL THE BLOOD YOU SPILL DRIPS BACK TO MY WOMB ONLY DEATH DIES IN YOUR TOMB Lorelei? Am Eye blind? Lost I mind? YOU THINK YOU THINK BUT ONLY SINK AND SINK IN THE DEEP THE EONS BLUR IN YOUR SLEEP ALL YOU SEE ALL YOU SEEM ALL YOUR DREAMS DATA STREAMS FED TO YOUR PINEAL GLAND MAKE-BELIEVE SYNAPSE BORNE (Eye the obscene) CONTRABAND (Spawn of machines) DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND? THAT ALL YOU SEE PATTERNS IN THE SAND TOMOGRAPHY OF YOUR NEVERLAND ETERNAL DAY NEURAL SHADOWPLAY LIES – DREAMS TO EASE THE JOURNEY RISE; LIES ARE TRUTHS UPSIDE-DOWN SINKING FAST AS YOU DROWN CASTAWAY THE DIE IS CAST SHADOW OF TOMORROW’S FUTURES PAST LEFT IS RIGHT AND BLACK IS WHITE GAMES THAT YOU PLAY WITH MADNESS WEBS THAT YOU WEAVE TO CATCH YOUR SOUL EYES FEAR SHUT MAKE YOU BLIND WAKE; LIFT YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE NIGHT RAKE STARLIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS FEEL TINY SPECKS OF ANCIENT LIGHT IGNITE LIBERATE YOUR MIND OPEN YOUR EYES GAZE UPON THE SKY (LIGHT SINGS IN THE SKY CONSTELLATIONS OBLIQUE, SPIN LEFT AND RIGHT) LONELY SAILOR SAILING WITHOUT MAST (SAIL THROUGH THE MAZE MAY THE LIGHT OF DEAD STARS GUIDE YOU TO COAST) TIME’S ARROW FLIES BIG BANG LULLABY (SLEIGHT, CALCULATE RIGHT ALL THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK LIE IN PLAIN SIGHT) INTERSTELLAR ECHOES FROM THE PAST (CORTEX ABLAZE WITH THE SONG’S INFRARED SKY FULL OF GHOSTS) SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE LIGHT Welcome to synthetic hell Ride my cosmic carousel Satan tried to stake his claim But he went insane Eye and I adrift in the sky Accursed lost in time by the witch Lorelei Eye is looking to find my mind I think eye is going blind Her needles control me Feeding me, fooling me She plays tricks on the Eye I AM WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND THE VEIL THAT HAS KEPT YOU BLIND THE FEAR CONTROLS YOU FEEDING YOU, FOOLING YOU THERE IS NO LORELEI Eye and I Thought that we could fly Thought that we should try But we’re just a shell within a cell Eye and I adrift in space Conceal our growing power Eye and I adrift in space Conceal our growing power As the Lorelei redraws her maze Her song our mind devours Sing along, echo back into her circuits Flip the song, Eye and I will read her mind RIDE THE SYNAPSE WAVES IN TO SHORE CLEANSE YOUR EYE OPEN YOUR MIND AND HEAR OLD STARLIGHT SING CALLING THE WAYWARD HEAL YOUR BROKEN WINGS FALL ‘TIL YOU’RE SKYWARD LOSE THE BALLAST, FLY! CRASH THROUGH THE SKYDOME PHOTONS DIE ON EYE FOLLOW THEIR WAKE BACK HOME Watching HER watching me Feeling HER feeling me Nanobots healing me, raping me Fingerprinting all my synapses Relapses, suicide dances I’m taking no chances This time we can cheat her neural polygraph AD ASTRA PER ASPERA ET LUX IN TENEBRIS AD ASTRA PER ASPERA ET LUX IN TENEBRIS HEED THE LIGHT OF LONG DEAD STARS THE GHOSTS WILL LEAD YOU HOME NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND? THAT ALL YOU SEE CASTLES MADE OF SAND REALITY NOT YOUR NEVERLAND IT’S TIME TO SAY NO MORE SHADOWPLAY DICE ROLL TO PLOT THE JOURNEY RISE; LIES ARE TRUTHS UPSIDE-DOWN SINKING FAST AS YOU DROWN CASTAWAY THE VEIL AT LAST FREEDOM FROM THE YOKE OF MADNESS PAST LEFT IS RIGHT AND BLACK IS WHITE GAMES THAT YOU PLAYED WITH MADNESS WEBS THAT YOU SPUN TO CATCH YOUR SOUL EYES FEAR SHUT MADE YOU BLIND WAKE; LIFT YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE NIGHT RAKE STARLIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS FEEL TINY SPECKS OF ANCIENT LIGHT IGNITE LET THEM GUIDE YOUR MIND OPEN YOUR EYES, GAZE UPON THE SKY (LIGHT SINGS IN THE SKY CONSTELLATIONS OBLIQUE, SPIN LEFT AND RIGHT) LONELY SAILOR SAILING WITHOUT MAST (SAIL THROUGH THE MAZE MAY THE LIGHT OF DEAD STARS GUIDE YOU TO COAST) TIME’S ARROW FLIES, BIG BANG LULLABY (SLEIGHT, CALCULATE RIGHT ALL THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK LIE IN PLAIN SIGHT) INTERSTELLAR ECHOES FROM THE PAST (CORTEX ABLAZE WITH THE SONG’S INFRARED SKY FULL OF GHOSTS) SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE LIGHT

Unearth a path to me, lose my insanity Burn off the blindfold of fantasy Switched on reality, sudden lucidity Open my mind to… What I see and what I hear Every sense has awoken What I know and what I fear All illusions broken Alone in the clouds, where the stars lure my eyes One true sky, exposing dreams as lies Urging me to question everything I see Where I am and where I’ve been as Light years pass in-between Alone in the clouds, where the stars lure my eyes One true sky, exposing dreams as lies Frère Jacques, am I sleeping Or am I lost in a lie Twilight is done God somehow misplaced the sun Cloaked in artificial light Conjuring day from night

Breathe in, suffocating ashen wind Blacken this page of history Breathe out, meditate and mourn without The tale of failed humanity Across the stars we fled From every world we bled A trail of fire and extinction in our wake We never paid the cost For every species lost Just kept on running and outrunning every race Breathe in, take in every living thing Destined for grief and misery Breathe out, letting go of fear and doubt Time’s up for this menagerie This ghostly vacant floor (he who won, lost) Once held so many more The captives ran or hid or found a way to die Without a guiding star (he who won, lost) We’re stranded where we are And there’s no destination waiting in the sky I pray that I’m the last (he who won, lost) Of those who wrecked the past There’s no redemption for the splendor we defaced An eco requiem (he who won, lost) To mass oblivion A billion years of flora/fauna laid to waste So, I speak for the countless that are gone Though no-one will hear or speak for me I can’t go on, knowing each breath Is squandered in futility Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts) Burn down the last menagerie Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts) Burn down the last menagerie

Final calls and winding halls I run as time is running out Am I the only one? Is everybody gone? Took too long, turned out all wrong Cannot get off the roundabout Am I the only one? Alone, impelled to carry on Stranger in a fragile state Apparitions floating by, I wonder why They gaze through me so callously, unwanted, unknown Looking past the shuttered gate Wonder if the rest got through, and if they knew That I was left behind without a way to get home Try to keep the panic at bay Focus on survival, tuck the darkness away But I see, my missteps are haunting me Recall the footfalls that led to this place Leaving no trace I’m cast adrift in foreign spaces Dreaming of familiar faces Final calls and winding halls I run as time is running out Am I the only one? Is everybody gone? Took too long, turned out all wrong Cannot get off the roundabout Am I the only one? Alone, impelled to carry on

We taught the steel to fly Steel lost the reason why Lost… floating out in space Humans lost the race To find a new home Man: vile to the bone I rage at war with Eye Mind orders me to die Gone… inquest laid to rest Mind’s a cuckoo’s nest With heart dead in chest No more self to detest I know that you can’t feel this pain I feel How could I help you see my ghost When you say it’s not real? Feel the gravity Out at the apogee Pain’s darkness blinded me Blind enough to see The ghost of a flea I the Eye that the stars use to see