Karaoké Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Rush

When our weary world was young the struggle of the ancients first began

The gods of love and reason sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages but still neither force would yield

The people were divided

Every soul a battlefield

Every soul a battlefield

I bring truth and understanding

I bring wit and wisdom fair

Precious gifts beyond compare

We can build a world of wonder

I can make you all aware

I will find you food and shelter

Show you fire to keep you warm

Through the endless winter storm

You can live in grace and comfort in the world that you transform

The people were delighted

Coming forth to claim their prize

They ran to build their cities and converse among the wise

But one day the streets fell silent yet they knew not what was wrong

The urge to build these fine things seemed not to be so strong

The wise men were consulted and the Bridge of Death was crossed

In quest of Dionysus

To find out what they had lost

I bring love to give you solace in the darkness of the night

In the Heart's eternal light

You need only trust your feelings

Only love can steer you right

I bring laughter, I bring music

I bring joy and I bring tears

I will soothe your primal fears

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears

The cities were abandoned and the forests echoed song

They danced and lived as brothers

They knew love could not be wrong

Food and wine they had aplenty and they slept beneath the stars

The people were contented and the gods watched from afar

But the winter fell upon them and it caught them unprepared

Bringing wolves and cold starvation

And the hearts of men despaired

The universe divided as the heart and mind collided

With the people left unguided for so many troubled years

In a cloud of doubts and fears

Their world was torn asunder into hollow hemispheres

Some fought themselves

Some fought each other

Most just followed one another

Lost and aimless like their brothers for their hearts were so unclear and the truth could not appear

Their spirits were divided into blinded hemispheres

Some who did not fight brought tales of old to light

My Rocinante sailed by night on her final flight

To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force we set our course

Spiralled through that timeless space to this immortal place

I have memory and awareness but I have no shape or form

As a disembodied spirit

I am dead and yet unborn

I have passed into Olympus as was told in tales of old

To the city of Immortals

Marble white and purest gold

I see the gods in battle rage on high

Thunderbolts across the sky

I cannot move

I cannot hide

I feel a silent scream begin inside

Then all at once the chaos ceased

A stillness fell

A sudden peace

The warriors felt my silent cry and stayed their struggle mystified

Apollo was astonished

Dionysus thought me mad

But they heard my story further and they wondered and were sad

Looking down from Olympus on a world of doubt and fear

Its surface splintered into sorry hemispheres

They sat a while in silence then they turned at last to me

We will call you Cygnus

The god of Balance you shall be

We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same

We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim

Let the truth of love be lighted

Let the love of truth shine clear

Sensibility

Armed with sense and liberty

With the heart and mind united in a single

Perfect

Sphere