The Great Escape - Seventh Wonder

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