The Professor - Empire's Citizens Lyrics

Turning my eyes up to the heavens
I cry aloud for elysian fields
Though dread the prologue to holy peace
When all the sweet wind turns to decay
Symphonies and the choirs of angels
Like Heimdall blowing the Gjallerhorn
Have urged the dawning of a final dusk
Invisible and right in plain sight

Mind closed and wide awake, loving dreamland
Slumber a lifetime, don't awake 'til death

Sleep when all of the world's alive
There's nothing to miss tonight
And nothing to know
Forsaking our souls
Here we make of it what we may
A hell when we all just take
We give what we know
Forsaking our souls

Like a painter who knows the colours
But has no image to put on canvas
Light of truth comes into all of us
Though still obscured by raw emotion
It's the heart, I've so often heard
That will lead a man to his final rest
Yet they can't say just to what he should turn
When all its pounding finally ceases

Trust in yourself alone, alluring lie
Wrapped inside yourself, solitude sublime

Speak and shout aloud to the wind
You want to get your voice in
And say what you know
Forsaking your soul
Give of nothing but to yourself
Accepting your selfmade hell
You've nothing to show
Forsaking your soul

Morpheus told us how we scorched the sky
Demanding hell on earth as our castle in the stars
Contemplate my mystic faerie tales
And only then will you see the cold hard truths of science

The ghost of now said beware of greed
And beware the darkness of your own mind
Lightning payments for an instant pleasure
And a thousand days of bought woe
Waiting for wisdom to come and find me
I choose to see though I am a blind man
Citizens of such a dying empire
That I'm watching crash around me

Why make your death a game of Complacence
Living without life, decadence forthright

Live although it is all charade
Potential a sickened waste
In this cage with you
What am I to do?
Here, we make of it what we may
And no one knows what to say
They seem so alone
A thousand lost souls

Hope can turn the whole world around
When even the skies crash down
Reliving it all
When empires must fall
Trust that all will become alright
There's nothing to miss tonight
With so much to know
Reclaiming our souls