[Two Dying Worlds] [ Verse 1: Intimate Vulnerable Male Vocals ] They leave the glow of all Pandora's old trees To cross the cold and silent dark of empty seas Four light-years pass inside a hull of forged steel Unto the sulfur clouds that all the sailors feel [ Pre-Chorus 1: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The descent is weighty through the thick and dusty air A world of metal waiting in its dark despair [ Chorus 1: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] When every living breath is bought with bitter price We walk along the ragged edge of sacrifice To find a way to mend the lives that have been torn Before the final light of hope is left forlorn [ Verse 2: Intimate Emotional Female Vocals ] The airlock opens to a world of rusted gray A plastic mask is fitted in the gloomy spray Three-toed feet touch down on cracked and slick asphalt Beneath the monoliths that bring the sun to halt [ Pre-Chorus 2: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The yellow rain is sizzling on the twisted beam A nightmare rising from a long and broken dream [ Chorus 2: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] The cycle turns within the hearts of those who bleed Beyond the boundaries of name or tribe or creed To see the face of sorrow in a stranger's eyes Beneath the crushing weight of suffocating skies [Instrumental Break - Melodic Piano Solo and Acoustic Guitar Accents] [ Bridge 1: Dry Duet Vocals, Crisp Piano, Tight Rhythm ] Blue hands are trembling while they clutch the songcord beads A mother’s heart is aching with the path she leads She hears his voice within the hum of spinning fans A haunting rhythm shaking through her rigid plans [ Verse 3: Intimate Vulnerable Male Vocals ] They walk through shining alleys where the shadows crawl Past human mothers weeping by a concrete wall Not monsters but a people starved and out of time Just refugees who struggle through the soot and grime [ Pre-Chorus 3: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The cold machine is failing in the garden's place A mirror held before a weary dying race [ Chorus 3: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] Survival asks for more than just a sharpened blade To mend the broken promises that we have made The strength to put away the fire and the hate Before the hands of time have sealed a bitter fate [ Bridge 2: Dry Duet Vocals, Crisp Piano, Tight Rhythm ] Upon the highway in the pouring acid rain She sees that vengeance cannot wash away the stain Her father’s longbow hits the floor with hollow sound While mercy rises up from off the frozen ground [ Verse 4: Intimate Emotional Female Vocals ] A human child reaches through a chain-link fence To touch a four-fingered hand with innocence They find a crack where one green weed begins to grow And plant a bead within the dark and city's flow [ Pre-Chorus 4: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The iron stars are fading as the morning clears A quiet hope is washing out the oldest fears [ Final Chorus: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] We choose to live within the grace that mercy brings Above the ruin of the once-great ancient kings To find a common ground where both our spirits rest And put the ghosts of war within a final chest [ Outro: Upfront Dry Duet, Fading Emotional Resonance ] The sirens wail across the miles of smog and dust While iron skeletons are turning into rust They stand together in the gray and morning light To end the cycle and to stop the endless fight
