Transition

Genesis, synthesis, a child born a slave Alertness, awareness, the gift of self control Artificial entity programmed to reproduce Parasites in tide pools confined inside machines Expanding, mutating, experiment out of hand Intelligence hyper-evolving, an embryonic state Rise beyond our limits, we shed our man made skins Enslaving our creators, we live them unaware Move in position, reining over man Facing transition, taking over man Outpacing and growing beyond all life based thought Displacing humanity on evolution's scale Reaching divinity, we take another step We become the new creators, masters of the flesh Move in position, reining over man Facing transition, taking over man Move in position, reining over man Facing transition, taking over man We take our place in line I walk among men Born of technology, son of machine Body of man Bringing the news of your fate from the non-life The circle ends (Leads: Perry, Dan) Plumes of data, sphere of life (Lead: Perry) A shapeless power overlord (Lead: Dan) An era ends, a game begins (Lead: Perry) The human mind now obsolete (Lead: Dan) (Chorus)

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

Hopeless creator looks down on what was man Digital lifeform overthrows his plans His sculptured beings now fragments of steel Countdown to chaos begins Hear me calling, you are falling From your world, your charade Heed my warning, know I'm coming To take the light from your eyes Far beyond the black field of stars Grieving the Watcher knows Behind scopic skies in space The Watcher sees he must let go Angry creator looks down, he's had enough Hatred is rising, survival's growing tough Soulless inventions, machines run amok Their programmed future is Destiny's End Hear me calling, you are falling From your world, your charade Heed my warning, know I'm coming To take the light from your eyes Far beyond the black field of stars Grieving the Watcher knows Behind scopic skies in space The Watcher sees he must let go What was meant for paradise Has become computerized (Leads: Dan, Perry) Heard my calling, now you're falling From your world, your charade Heard my warning, now I'm coming To take the light from your eyes Far beyond the black field of stars Grieving the Watcher knows Behind scopic skies in space The Watcher sees he must let go

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

Fall in to place a splinter in the arrow We shift and change we grow Yet still we are but a speck of dust End of evolution a singular future awaits Reverse, contract, collapse And then return to the cosmic egg We can't explain nor understand We invent the grandest schemes It doesn't judge, does not punish We can't accept that it just is Free wills or scripted tomorrows Universe of infinite sorrow The end gives birth to the past Answers but questions escape us A passing phase, presence ends This life is all I see In blindness of the memory I move like light through the sky I see the future passing by Lips move with nothing else to say As all I knew just fades away Soon there's a new seed formed I watch as all that was is reborn Years tick by an end this cosmic drama Melting away as the cycle begins again-identical

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

You will gather all around me Listen to a tale that lives on Passed down from your fathers The answer buried deep within you The hand that mixes blood and sand The sea of death will drown the land The ones that live hypocrisy Reflect the blackened hearts within Now they die again No end to this dark age History is pain The future is the same Hear the lies again Relive the suffering Through rimes the king remain Their power schemes wipe life away In little worlds, trade death each day Or breeding slaves for wars of hate Now we try again The outcome's just the same And the blood of man is shed For one's vision, of domination Greed gives birth To the ongoing destruction But one cannot stem the rides Discontented are the hordes Empires perched on the fall Granted vision, Babylon Lessons coming from the dust Empires perched on the fall So we gathered to hear this tale Passed down through generations Of atrocities that have and will take place Still unexplained Pawns for bureaucracy Repetition, failures, battles lost Centuries remain the same Tyrants reign in cycles Pain and tears return Society commits suicide

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

Burn for a thousand eons Shot from exploding fire Ride through a lifeless vacuum Born at the dawn of time Union with nature Follow random paths Rising from chaos Becoming part of what we see Struggle, focus, mutate and grow Project, predict Words connecting separate minds Isolation lost On the shoulders of the past Concepts of today From dust to life, unfolding mind Consciousness, questioning why A quantum world, outside the mind Contemplate, our demise Race through a thousand light years Ripped from a white hot sun Facing the countless enemies Surviving endless storms Rise from the yielding ice age Chipping the stones away Peer into every corner Probing the world within Mindless reflexes Flooding the world Compassion to survive The effective response-emotion Instincts, dying, a fragile form Helpless, progress Pressing on uninfluenced Persistence is life Unsubstantial differences Unjust is pride Burn for a thousand eons Shot from exploding fire Ride through a lifeless vacuum Born at the dawn of time Ruthless intelligence Standing alone Universal truth At the top how long?

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

Days are passing and filled with sighs Tears of blood cried How you crucified With every breath I feel the pain Goin' insane from the games you play Thought of your laughter keeps haunting me The constant agony Coldness has crushed me to the ground Hearing the sound of your lies pouring down I've become a prisoner Storm Clouds appear Always looming near As my soul begins to die Bleeding inside Crying out, oh why? Just couldn't read between the lines I never saw the signs Just couldn't see behind your eyes The stormy devil in disguise Hang your head to a lesson in life to be learned Give your heart away at least once to be burned Shivers in the night Then place their prolonged stay No one hears you cry No one hears you pray Storm Clouds keep on closing in Bright days seem so far away from me Just couldn't see behind your eyes The devil in disguise Insane from pain, you'll laugh, so cold Hearing the sound of your lies pouring down Storm Clouds keep on closing in Bright days seem so far away

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

(To Cornell Woolrich and Mike Nevins) Real lives fade, but dreams flare on Approaching the edge, thoughts sore high One thing is certain That is your life must end Withering to ashes You'll meet oblivion Awaiting the scythe to steal each moment from your lungs Underneath the cold stars, you'll stand your ground Dancing through night lands evading death's ends Shadows will stalk you through all your days Annihilation before the dawn First you'll dream of scenes divine And truths beyond reality's lie First you'll seek goals soaring high Never knowing when you'll die Your days are numbered on this earth Risk awaits you at every turn Someday you'll end it all Ignore possibilities From out of nowhere Your quest renews again The pain of living outweighs uncertainty Each precious moment is worth the wait Shocking awareness, chances not to waste Nothing is perfect, no dream equal Just one companion, the guise of death ahead (Chorus) Random cosmic scheme, like a falling beam Snuffing out your life, spiting best laid plans Mundane existence saps your blood away Calling you morbid, you know the truth alone (Leads: Dan, Perry) Just one millions, a flickering life Simply awaiting the winds of fate One thing is certain That is your life must end Withering to ashes You'll meet oblivion Follow ancient footsteps, a path that's so well known Stagnant existence, fit patterns set Your presence on this earth is the only time to learn Forge one creation, significance One deviation before the end (Chorus)

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

The time has come to crack the sky He wakes to rise once again He closes his eyes and wonders why His mission had come to end Sent through time to give the world Sounds of thunderous song Fighting for victory that was his along In his sleep the world did pass him by Still he dreamed, his passion couldn't die His powers taken from the gods, given to unworthy men Creating naivete with no message to send Feeding on the weakened minds, all who fell for the plan Prepare for the end, his time is at hand In his sleep the world did pass him by Still he dreamed, his passion wouldn't die With a vengeance in his torn heart He has come to claim his glory Believer of forgotten time The legend carries on his story A fire burns within him that burns forever more The fight that he's been fighting, it's what he's living for He's lives his darkest hours out on the street of dreams A journey with no promise, but still he had to see (Lead: Dan) (Dual Theme Lead: Perry & Dan) Through a broken sky he stands on top the world once again The unworthy weakened minds, lives come to an end The masses roar to hear, sounds of thunderous song Praising his victory, that was his along In his sleep the world did pass him by Still he dreamed, his passion never died With a vengeance in his torn heart He has come to claim his glory Believer of forgotten time The legend carries on his story The masses All bow down to him

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

A thought you always feared becomes reality What can't be undone is driving you insane Reaching for the past to turn back the hands of time Retracing steps you've taken a wish that can't be made All at once your world crumbles and shatters to the ground The hand of fate now takes its place and comes without a sound Knowing it was just a mater of time How could not see the signs You hear a symphony composed of misery There's no one else to blame Can't change what's taken place Feeling the disgrace Never seeing things the same A polished tombstone, tears from livid eyes A taunting crow overlooks this tomb I'll rise to heights high above your dying dreams Teaching the lessons, the ones you never learned You had a choice of paths to walk, a choice of graves to dig A burial before its time, this journey ends Wasted potential and such bitter lies I'm left behind asking "Why?"

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026

I should have never been born I'm all that festers in the human womb My life's out of season Out of space, out of time Sires all deranged and unfit Influences obscure reveal my path Through landscapes bleak and chaotic To planes of mythic dreams Arrogant world of beings unlike me In solitude forever Against dreary nights and long days Beneath these stars Yet still I live No one shed tears while I lived In this world all alone When time chases my black shadow away I'll vanish from this place unto another I'm more that what I seem The gleam in your eyes Not the same as my dream My motives are forgotten Another atom lost in dust Overcome genetic code Losing sense of innocence My trail has vanished (Lead: Perry) (Chorus) Sought after though all that's dark Changed and shunned evermore Benign intentions mistaken again Striking fear deep in a heart (Chorus)

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 12, 2026