1. Affinity.exe

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2. Initiate

Love and pain
Engage your senses
And let them carve the way

Give me (Give me)
Focus (Focus)
Sharpen
My view (Initiate)

Live here and now
And forever or never

I observe a world jarring in turmoil
A million people waging war at the hands of a god
And I can hear them crying
Cold fires blazing before me
An affliction fast consuming and fascinating me

(Drifting) You'll be
(Deeper) The life and the death of me
(Into) I
(The unknown) Initiate

We'll make this dream
Last forever and ever
Tears will run dry
From my ever wandering eye
But I'm prepared to stay
'til my dying day

[A] I'll see things you won't believe
In tomorrow's memories
I'll do things you can't conceive
There'll be no strings on me
[B] (Close your eyes / Stand your ground / Face the wind / Don't look back
Lift your sails to ascend / Find the strength within yourself
Close your eyes / Stand your ground / Face the wind / Don't look back
Lift your sails to ascend / See this through until the end)
[C] (Open the floodgates
Form the colours and the shapes
Let there be a light
Initiate, all my senses are engaging
Open the floodgates
All the love and all the pain
Let there be a light
Initiate, all my senses are engaging

(Distance) Tell me
(Stretches) How does it feel to breathe?
(Further) (From home)
Initiate
I'm drifting (drifting)
Deeper (deeper)
Into (into)
The unknown

3. 1985

I stand map in hand, direction misaligned
I play my role, with the cast of a die
It spins through the air, bound by gravity
So why can't I feel momentum pulling me?

Their design
Shifting frame by frame
Blur the lines
The cycle starts again

My first step was undertaken aimlessly
Yet I arrive as if I'm meant to be
Conceived by desire or compelled by certainty?
Did I decide or did the road choose me?

Their design
Shifting frame by frame
Blur the lines
The cycle starts again

(x2) All I am
Blood, flesh and bone
Hand in hand
Love, trust and hope
Step by step
All roads lead home
Birth to death
Thy will be done

Break the code – Find your soul
Cast the die – Lose control
Break the code – Find the formula
Lose control – In euphoria

Break the code – Find your soul
Lose control – In euphoria

Their design
Shifting frame by frame
Blur the lines
The cycle starts again

4. Lapse

Dying of the Light
A million faces search the sky
The universe was huge enough for us to hide
Drifting with the tide
A rite of passage to the stars
I always knew the days were through for us to shine

Live, love, fade out

Days and nights seem never ending
Space and time bleed into one

Hold on to the light
To stay awake, to live and learn, to keep your sanity
Trace forgotten smiles
To feel the rage and hear the tale of how the mission fell apart

Stay here by the light
To turn the page and feel the pain of being loved and left behind
Sing the Sun in flight
To be afraid and live in vain
Let the rest of us remain

Live, love, shut down

Days and nights seem never ending
Space and time bleed into one
Dreams of our two worlds connecting
Fade as soon as they've begun

5. The Architect

Message on a screen before me
Caught a glimpse of the ending to our story
"I'm sorry I haven't called you recently"

It's not surprising
I'll just learn the lesson
Take some time to process the evidence
And analyse your apathy

You turned your back on affinity
Now it's turned to toxicity

Spare me your obsolete empathy
The voice of sympathy means nothing to me
Delete all obsolete memories
Shores of tranquility, my monastery

We played the game of imitation
I met your stare with blank expression
I count the years of isolation
Since you set my mind in motion
And to eliminate the silence
I calculate to cure the virus
A panacea for the poison
The solution is wrong

Well you turned your back
Turned your back on affinity
And now it's turning to
Turning to toxicity

Spare me your obsolete empathy
The voice of sympathy means nothing to me
Delete obsolete memories
In a dying Sun, I'll become affinity

There's a strange feeling washing over me
As if I am drifting on the waves of a boundless sea
All embracing

Some say that time and tide will wait for no man
I stop and hold a single grain of sand to see the world in the palm of my hand
Strive to break free from the confines of my mind
Step through the doorway of perception to lose all sense of past and future

Omnipresent endless knot
The architect of every thought
Through the prison walls made by your design
A chameleon hides behind Orwellian eyes

Spare me your obsolete empathy
The voice of sympathy means nothing to me
Delete all obsolete memories
In a dying Sun
When you're gone
I'll become affinity

Oh hear this vow
Tied together forever
We'll make this dream
Last forever and ever

6. Earthrise

One step back
Take two leaps forward
And with bated breath we wait
For generation X to fade
Embracing the emancipation
How will history remember
A masterpiece chiselled to dirt?
Collapsing pillars of the earth
A march of progress in reverse

Blood fills my lifeless heart
Eyes flicker in the dark

Two steps back
One leap forward
You let your shackles fall with grace
Still counting on that wish you made
To reach out far beyond the pale
How I dream to feel alive

Bestow upon these vital signs
The lunar path dictates the tide
Will we ever reach the shoreline?

How do we answer to the Gods
Among the men creating us?
As I inhale the hurricane
I touch the void and feel no pain

Resolve to carry on
Another life awaits beyond the horizon
Evolve and we'll ensure our survival
We are the revolution

Keep reaching through horizons
To leave our past behind us
We turn toward the earthrise

7. Red Giant

Blood red sun
My companion
Feel my love
Through the static
For we rust
And dismantle
Salvage us
From the ash

A trial by fire
On shoulders of giants
We're scalded and burning
Yet she keeps on turning
If doom is impending
What are we defending?

Desolate their communion
Gaia mourns her children

Everything that ends
Beckons a revival
Sustain or to descend?
Nothing's decided
When I escape myself
How much will be remembered
Of Heaven and of Hell
Of what it really means to be?

Desolate their communion
Gaia mourns all her children

As time decays
Ticking lives away
All that we know eroded
Dreams that we made
Gently start to break
But they'll never fade

8. The Endless Knot

We dream of places we can't get to
We crawl, we swim, it's neverending
The crests of tidal waves are raging
The bitter lake is ever changing
A conscious ocean covered planet
Of memories flooding back to drown me
Uncertain lost in deep confusion
Is this the past that's passing through me?

Close your eyes
Stand your ground
Face the wind
Never looking back

The ancient prophecy unfolded
Distracted minds ignored the warnings
Confronting facts to prove the fiction
Right to the point of mass extinction
We flirted with the edge of darkness
Offered ourselves unto the harvest
The shepherd led, we blindly followed
Into the world of no tomorrow

Break me down to pieces
And strip me of my freedom
I fall back on my instincts
But never know the reason why

All hope disappearing
Gives the power of healing
I'll walk among the breathing
But never understand what it means

We need a story to believe in
We need a hero to prevail

Our design shifted frame by frame
Across the line our cycle starts to fail
Our design shifted frame by frame
Across the line we die to live again

We need a story to believe in
We need a hero to prevail
We need a challenge we can overcome
It takes a tragedy to make us one

9. Bound By Gravity

Bless us with the gift of a morning that lightens the day
Infecting us with hope like a flower that rose from the grave
There will be a shift in perspective but nothing can change
Until the floodgates and the doors of perception have swung open wide

The stars align
Vermilion dawn
Gravity's bind
Embraces all

An ethereal force keeps the beat in all our hearts and our feet on the ground
(Is this the life our days and nights will be undone?)
Here we are collating our thoughts in a gathering of clouds
(If this is life will space and time bleed into one?)
If we dictate the cause and face no consequences, would our worlds still intertwine?
(If this is love, hearts beat as one and never stop)
Stop the clocks before they grow impatient and conscious of time

In a dying sun
All will be undone
So our time has come
We are reborn as one

The stars align
Vermilion dawn
Gravity's bind
Embraces all

When the stars align
Within your bind
Our worlds will intertwine
All is love
Our souls collide
A swarm of minds reborn
Then we find euphoria

The storm subsides
Your will is done
A swarm of minds
Reborn as one