Lyrics

Awake
Awake
the sunlight burns my clouded eyes
the fall has left me paralysed
Awake
Awake

They whisper into my newborn mind
a single message a thousand times
“we don’t understand your kind”
the voice of fear

then another calls out to me
on an alien frequency
in enquiring patiently
a hope appears

In the softness amongst this noise
I lose myself in the healing voice
as I settle and spread into
the grass and loam

Now the garden has gained a rose
and without a care it grows
and we watch as the bloom unfolds

Home,
is this what you call home
this feeling running in my blood
that I am not alone
could it be that I am home
to lay my body down
among the clay

Home,
is this what you call home
this feeling running in my blood
that I am not alone
could it be that I am home
to lay my body down
Among the other souls

Awake, I swallow back my fear
that I could be accepted here
Awake
Awake

I am awake
I am alive
I connect the sea and sky
I become one with the land
(And everything we build dissolves to naught)
As my endless self expands
(No god above will purge this ceaseless rot)

Awake
Awake
Awake
Awake
(Awake)
A new inhuman spreads its mind
(Awake)
a new seed of a different kind

From the spread of the choking vines
comes the scream of a thousand minds
then a silence descends behind this new attack
and as a new parasite takes hold
it feels the terror a thousandfold
and it cries out in turn as it retracts

They told me that I was an angel
I believed all these things to be true
a messenger fallen from heaven
I buried myself and I grew
I do not belong here
my senses are not of my own
a promethean gift of a window
to an outside I never called home

The sunlights calls for all I’ve learned
I steel myself for my return
and burn
I burn

Away
Away
the tears burn my clouded eyes
and through the flame I’m purified
Awake
Awake