[Nature Sound and Acoustic Guitar Intro – 00:00-02:08]
[Verse 1: George Margaritopoulos]
Ache
This omnipresent pattern underneath
Wallowing in misconceptions
What is real - what fuels my zeal?
Vain
Staring to the mirror, asking why
Those questions unexplained I cannot push aside
Who am I - Lord of the Flies?
[Pre-Chorus: George Margaritopoulos]
These distant memories
Discordant lullabies
Fragments, layers, dissociations
Fall into place when the time is right
[Chorus: George Margaritopoulos & Andrew Huskey]
Now lift the veil and face the pain
A puzzle boxed by life itself
Unearth your grail, unite the frail
A servant cloaked as sovеreign
Go live the talе and break the spell
Just let it go
Conundrums not to be solved by your mind!
[Verse 2: George Margaritopoulos]
I
The notion of a deeper source within myself
Push aside the branches, gaze into the well
Ripples on the surface hide what yearns to show
To take shape
Lie
This journey inwards still a quest to excavate
A habit handed down so long I cannot tell
The wish to break the stumbling blocks, disrupt the shell
And grow
[Pre-Chorus: George Margaritopoulos]
These distant memories
Discordant lullabies
Fragments, layers, dissociations
Fall into place when the time is right
[Chorus: George Margaritopoulos & Andrew Huskey]
Now lift the veil and face the pain
A puzzle boxed by life itself
Unearth your grail, unite the frail
A servant cloaked as sovereign
Go live the tale and break the spell
Just let it go
Conundrums not to be solved by your mind!
[Guitar Solo: 05:16-07:09]
[Spoken: George Margaritopoulos]
"What is life?
Who am I?
Who is that 'me', that I assumed to be?"
[Spoken: Andrew Huskey]
"I was the future and shall be the past
I am timeless and everlasting now
So short I have no ending
So long without duration"
[Bridge: George Margaritopoulos]
But how? (How?) Oh how, oh how
Oh, how can I proceed on that path? (That path, that path, oh that path)
Oh, the path that seemed so clear
Now slipping
[Acoustic Instrumental Interlude]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3: George Margaritopoulos]
Ooh, echoes of the past
Cascading flashbacks trickle up and down my spine
This garden of Eden
Or what I thought it was
A shattered mirage
Frozen time
Third Eye invocation
Oh come and clear my sight
Expose this band of mimes
Foundations crumble
Flickering shadows fade
Reveal thy verity sublime
[Pre-Refrain: George Margaritopoulos & Andrew Huskey]
Now tear the veil
Transcend the pain
A truth that's found within yourself
Stop searching among the leaves what's hidden in the roots, oh oh
[Refrain: George Margaritopoulos & Both]
So shake the bale and lead the frail
The prison door wide open
The mountainview clears and a stairway appears
Spiraling upwards and downwards at once
[Acoustic Guitar Solo Outro]