I've spent my life waiting
wanting and wishing
I never knew what I could possess
I used to think heaven
was something for others
So young and naive I cold not guess
I'm in love with heaven
My Victoria
Heaven here on Earth
My Victoria
If you can find heaven
make it a lifetime
It's more than a brief interlude
Don't you forget
where it all came from
It's all about your gratitude
I'm in love with heaven
My Victoria
Heaven here on Earth
My Victoria
"When again I awake my cabin is still and intact. I lie for a few minutes and give thanks for my good fortune.
"And then I hear the cries."
"I head up toward the hills away from my home. Let it now be ta shelter for the wounded. Topping the rise I
look back on the valley I came to love. I regret I shall never return.
"My journey takes me to beyond the whtie mountsin to the west, to a land I've seen many times before. A land
with good people full of good intentions. But naive. I travel on, ever in the direction of the Dragon Storms.
I know I will never prevent the cataclysm they seek to embrace. yet I am fated to that endless geas."
"I move cautiously onto a plain between two towers of rock. Shadows flit about the rocks but when I look I see nothing.
Suddenly they are here, all around me, watching me, reading me. Judging me. My mind turns outward. I see a vast
history and the way things have always been. real things that my mind has not known. It is as if I view my own life
through another's eyes and with another's belief. I am judging myself.
"Light and sound build in a frantic crescendo in my mind as they watch and wait. Images of the past shoot through my
consiousness, becoming a blur. Gradually they coalesce into legacy and overwhelming purpose.
"We rise above the plain and begin to move away to the south, where the next scion lives."
Are they real or in my mind
I can't find
the way to see
The machine delivers breath
another hour
What does life have in store
now that mind is almost through?
I'm finally at your door
Can I come to you?
The shapes they touch my cheek
I can't speak
What do they say?
I feel tears upon my face
One last embrace
I'm on my way
I hate to leave them all
So many years since you did too
I'm finally through the door
Oh how I've missed you
missed you
missed you
Above in the sunshine the greedy upper caste
Gleaming technology can hide a violent past
Rush of adrenaline from technical addiction
Increase the delivery or increase the friction
Hours on end he sits motionless
Bathed in a phosphorus glow
Writing the code that controls the world
A world he'll never know
His environment is filtered, he's completely unaware
No though to ever question, no synaptic flair
But his dreams become unbearable, a glimpse of something great
A waking mental question of what's beyond the gate
A moment's hesitation sets off the warning bell
Loss of productivity, he recognizes hell
Fire in the underground, a rising of the trolls
Emerging into sunlight, an awakening of souls
Hours on end he sits motionless
Bathed in the phosphorous glow
Writing the code that controls the world
A world he'll never know
Now his days are chaotic and wonderous
The dream becomes exciting and strange
Creating a world that once was impossible
A world he's learning to change
The rebellion is done, the race reunited
One brotherhood to face the extreme
Molding the world to a new reality
Addiction to a dream
Lives in black and white
Lives in a book
Lives from our past
We can only look
Memories of somewhere
Memories of laughs
Memories we hold on to
In old photographs
Some of the faces
Are friendly, old and wise
Some of them she never knew
Some of them are her babies
Now grown and gone
Leaving her empty, cold and blue
Lives in black and white
Lives in a book
Lives from our past
We can only look
Memories of somewhere
Memories of laughs
Memories we hold on to
In old photographs
But sleep quells the soul
Takes us out of the hole
Where the edges of time become blurry
We live our lives
Not through her aged eyes
Yet the bond and the duty are strong
We must not leave our thoughts
And our hearts in a box
But carry her spirit along
A lifetime of music
The rhythm of caring
the harmony to humanity's song
We hear the voices
Of countless lives touched
We cannot help but sing along
The past not forgotten
But laid to rest safely
The photos and stories remind us
We're not the last
Of this chain to the past
Life is ahead not behind us
And you know there has to be a way
To capture that lost yesterday
You believe this can't be all there is to see
But in chasing after dreams you sacrifice your present life here with me
What's it like to be so incidental
it's always accidental when you're brought into the fold
Where's the limit when you realize you're taken
Your confidence is shaken, this experience so old
Long ago
So many songs to know
The notes tell stories of the past
Their ancient wisdom fades too fast
Now we see
Our paths continue carelessly
Without a guide we will be lost
Take that step, ignore the cost
And you know there has to be a way
To capture that lost yesterday
You believe this can't be all there is to see
But in chasing after dreams you sacrifice your present life here with me
Now you know there cannot be a way
To capture that lost yesterday
You only see your own reality
But in chasing after dreams you've thrown away your second chances with me