a) Changing Conditions
Our heroes seem pale and worn out these days
though we tried so hard to accommodate
to changing conditions - new values and times
we can't afford to fail
All major discoveries it seems have been made
established ideas are just optimised
by an army of workers whose sk**s are just wait
to be substituted by chips
The greatest of visions - the whole world to see -
are fallen to pieces and swept away
Now disillusion is spreading in minds
leaving a void of untenable kind
Ancient rules devaluated - now -
substituted by an omnipresent
scientific rationalism
- now -
cutting the veil
b) Laying Bare the Nerves
Laying bare the nerves within a moral scaffolding once
ensuring hold to the individual fragments of ancient
walls eroded and undermined by time substituted by
high-tech prostheses
Everyone on his own - in isolation
striving for social recognition
Tools are ruling minds - perfect but bare of meaning
do not participate in any interpretation
The ultimate state of mind - direction of social preference
obscured by ill-advanced individualism
c) On Fertile Ground
Subliminal currents of haunted minds
long time suppressed - now face the light
claiming the spaces still laying fallow - out of sight
On fertile ground now growing wild
the seeds relieved from chains of mind
some seem enlightened, others pa**ing dangerous frontiers
- no safety net to catch
no self control to close the hatch
a game of free forces - maybe too late to turn the tide
Ever harder too weed out the thicket that's grown beyond control
In search for instant satisfaction - a short term fit mentality
providing obscure saviours and charlatans
a peak prosperity
d) The Gentle Coat of Night
Long grown social structures splinter forming a strange kaleidoscope
immediately commercialised all long term trends nipped in the bud
Only in hidden and distant niches
granting unhindered ripening
time allows to crystallise
forms unseen in velvet light
Once covered by the gentle coat of night
now exposed to dazzling daylight
the sharpened knife desecrates the pure
now- cutting the veil
e) In Distant Niches
(instrumental)