"It is the 21st century The Final Experiment has failed The final devastating war that was foretold by the blind minstrel Ayreon has indeed come to pass The war...

Baby you know I ain't lettin' you go So whatever you say I'm gonna make you stay Baby is it true, did you find someone new I couldn't take it anymore if you'd w...

Once upon a time as in Ancient history High upon a hill in a shroud Of mystery Loomed the abbey as we Journeyed through the night And wended our way Towards the...

And now this Rainbow Bridge: an iridescent span of tears - so fragile and yet so strong Will it support your mortal shells? Or will you fall into the fiery brin...

We never saw this coming Pride comes before our fall We never heeded the warning Buried deep within us all The age of shadows has begun (Giant machines blot ou...

There is danger ahead But do not be afraid For I am with you like breath itself Darkness will lead to light - colour will bleed into the night Beautiful colours...

"It is 2800 BC I quietly witness the astounding secret behind the creation of a mysterious monument in Wiltshire, England" [Damian Wilson] The moon sheds no l...

HIPPIE: Was this a dream I just had? I have my doubts I can't make out the truth From the lies here inside What kind of trip have I been on? Where did I go? I'...

Roger copy! Altitude 4200, and you are go for landing, over! Visibility, as we said before, is not too great Come in! Planet Earth Planet Earth Planet Earth Pla...

The water breaks the golden sunrays Silver dances on the wave But a memory I often dream about the old days Playing hide and seek within the caves But a memory...

ROBERT SOETERBOEK: Ready for the enemy Hungry for the battle Fighting hard for victory In the army of the king Armed with shield and sword We mounted our horses...

"It is the 6th century This is where it all began My tired body has passed away, but my once-tortured spirit is finally free now My name is Ayreon" [Arjen Luc...

At last! you enter the Electric Castle! Here in this vast hall where even shadows fear the Light - here you must confront your past If you have killed, beware o...

"I am the last human being alive I am inside a machine called the Dream Sequencer on a deserted Mars colony I have selected the program called "The Universal Mi...

Lying on my back on a railway Looking at the sky and its full moon In the back of my head I feel the rumbling wheels Shaking my memories It's getting darker an...

[Anneke:] no need to feel the pain no need to feel betrayed no need to feel inane no need to feel afraid [Jorn Land:] wake me up before i die, hold me close ...

Lost in a world created by Man I can't recall how it all began Tell me who am I? Fictional stars in lost Galaxies Synthetic dreams and false Memories Is it all...

I hugged the wife and drove to work today It was only a few miles Was in a hurry but the lights were changing up ahead So I stepped on the gas I checked the we...

[A I SOAR ON THE BREEZE] [indian] spirits-flying I soar on the breeze mortals-dying I soar on the breeze into the sun lovers-crying I soar on the breeze demo...

"The Big Bang has created one soul, the Universal Migrator The Universal Migrator divides itself, and each Migrator flies off independently in search of a habit...

OKKIE HUYSDENS: More than a million years ago, It came to earth out of the sky From whence it came is yet unknown And still, we don't know why EDWARD REEKERS: ...

[Fear] It's time to leave your sheltered cage Face you deepest fears The world is against you You're fighting back the tears [Me] All the kids were watching m...

[Reason] Now you know the truth, what will you do? [Me] I still can't believe it's true [Passion] You better believe it, and make them pay! [Me] There has to be...

[Me] Friday night, I had a few There she was, out of the blue Thunderstruck, nailed to the floor I couldn't move, couldn't talkanymore [Love] Of all these gu...

[Fear] This is what you dreamt about Director of the firm Will it be you, or your best friend? He's always been the better man and He fits all their terms What...

[Pride] I hear voices, they are talking about you Can you hear them, do you know what they mean? Try to remember, what have you been through? What do you know ...

[Best Friend] No, I can't seem to figure out what happened On the brightest hour of day, no car in sight No, I can't seem to accept these strange conditions No...

[Me] I have always been creative, I don't understand Aspired to be an artist, not a business man [Pride] You need to show your old man you're in control To be s...

[Best Friend] My good friend, I hope you hear my voice I must alleviate this ache I thought about this and found I have no choice I have to tell you this for c...

[Best Friend] Did he open up his eyes? Did he try to touch my hand Or is my mind playing tricks on me Do you think he hears us cry? Does he understand We are ...

[Best Friend] Let me take you back To the time when we were chasing all the girls Two maniacs Indulging in the pleasures of this world So much to see, so much...

[Reason] You're driving home, It's one PM You cannot function, you're a broken man Your past is catching up with you Only her tenderness can help you through ...

[Agony] You're alone in your bedroom Hiding from the world, staring at the ceiling [Me] Mother said 'he'll be home soon' But he never was, and I knew how she...

[Father] Look at you, lying there, defenceless and alone See I am no fool, I always knew you wouldn't make it on your own Cos you're just like your mother, we...

[Best Friend] It's been 10 days It shouldn't last this long The doctors' mystified Nothing's physically wrong [Wife] But maybe inside his head He's strugglin...

[Love] Faith has come to warn That you far to long forsaken her heart Move to the truth Breath the sunlight burning in her open arms Break the chains that Bi...

[Agony] I am pain I am real I'm not a dream I'm the chain around your neck as you scream Surrender now You can't beat death at his ruthless game Make your bow...

[Reason] Think hard, you are lying here in a hospital bed Disregard the emotions inside your head Concentrate on the real world beyond your mind It's not to la...

[Best Friend] See his mouth, he tries to speak He cannot move, his voice is weak [Me] My dear friend can you hear me now? I'll try to tell you how I feel [Best ...

[Me] I can't move, I can't feel my body I don't remember anything What place is thishow did I get here? I don't understand, what's happening Am I alone? [Fea...

"It is the 16th century I am Queen Elizabeth sending out the brave Sir Francis Drake to defend the English realm against the invading armada" [Lana Lane] Time...

[The last human on the Mars Colony had died, but his consciousness is transformed into the New Migrator. He follows the Migrator Trail to Planet Y, where he br...

The future's doored ingress! What lies beyond? One of you - ah, survived so much! - are you man enough to force this door upon its golden hinge? You craved the ...

[A Eyes of time] IT SLOWLY DAWNS ON AYREON THAT THESE VISIONS HE IS EXPERIENCING ARE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE BUT HE DOES NOT FULLY COMPREHEND THEIR IMPORTANCE YE...

A black shadow is crawling like a Deadly spider we're all waiting in Silence for the lonely rider fore he will Lead the way for he will save the town We have to...

I am of the stars I am called "forever" Eternity courses through my veins It is cold beyond your sun where we come from We seed the universe with the milk of a ...

In a dusty room on a stormy night Away from all the crowds I rise above The clouds Into a world once so bright where now The shadows fall and a thousand Voices ...

Earthman: This is the end of bloodshed and wars We finally found peace Side by side we explore the stars Then we came to know that we are not alone Light years ...

Loner: We're on our way to a prison in space Our last flight, the final phase I was betrayed and now I've been caught As the brains of a massive fraud Idealist...

Crewmember 1: Out here in this spaceship Things couldn't get much worse Wiping out unstable planets All across the universe Crewmember 2: Nothing seems to work ...

A Master of Darkness Apprentice: Will you teach me the skills of the old ways Lying dormant in me Help me evolve and enter a new phase Where my spirit runs free...

[A LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN] [highlander] what heathen place is this that I've arrived in is now the time I pay for all my sins I can't believe that this is God'...

"I join the Migrator on its long journey through time and space in search of the planet Earth On my journey I encounter many fantastic astronomical phenomena" ...

Once a world, endless and free Horizons unbroken Now a world of bounded frontiers The elders have spoken (our home) Once a world, eternal and blue Floating, es...

AYREON WARNS THE PEOPLE THAT IF MAN DOES NOT MEND HIS WAYS, MAN WILL CONTAMINATE THE SKIES, SO THERE WILL BE NO MORE AIR TO BREATHE, HE WILL POISON THE SEAS, SO...

SOMEHOW AYREON SENSES THAT HIS FATE IS UPON HIM, AND HE IMPLORES, NO HE COMMANDS HIS FUTURE TORMENTORS TO GRANT HIM ONE LAST MOMENT OF SPLENDOUR IN PLACE OF ALL...

Captain: We wake up in our spaceship from a year in hypersleep On our way back to our system we receive a message from an uncharted planet We decide to go in We...

MERLIN, WHO IS UNAFFECTED BY -AND THEREFORE IGNORANT OF- THE 'TIME TELEPATHY' EXPERIMENT, ASSUMES THAT AYREON'S PROPHECIES ARE DECEPTIVE, AND SO AYREON MUST BE ...

"It is the end of the 21st Century I have returned to my own childhood I remember it all as the Dream Sequencer images mix with my own recollections This is the...

AYREON RETIRES IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS SURROUNDING CAMELOT, ENJOYS THE WONDERS OF NATURE AND REFLECTS ON HIS FATE HE NOW FULLY UNDERSTANDS, AND RELUCTANTLY SUBM...

There must be a way to enrich our lives A way to awaken a nation that dies There must be a way to revive our past A way to break free from a world that won't la...

Close the doors, put out the light You know they won't be home tonight The snow falls hard and don't you know The winds of Thor are blowing cold They're wearing...

"It is the 20th century I am a little boy peacefully asleep My father comes to wake me so that I can witness an historic event in the finite story of mankind" ...

"We come out of the white hole into the M31 galaxy, which is also known as Andromeda We see a planet that looks much like Earth Could it sustain life? And if, w...

Leader: I have seen visions in a waking dream I have seen places man has never seen Am I the one to fulfil the prophecy On the desert planet in our galaxy Noma...

[A The time telepathy experiment] THIS IS THE VOICE OF MERLIN LISTEN WELL, FOR IT CONCERNS YOU THIS CHRONICLE COMMENCES IN THE YEAR 2084 AD MANKIND HAS VIRTUAL...

Find your way home, little extremophiles Find your way home, donors of life You're on your own, little extremophiles You're on your own, cleaving the skies [Ch...

Way too late to prevent their fall Are they ready for the key to it all The mystery solved, the answer to life The final solution, a chance to survive We can s...

TO ENTERTAIN THE COURT, AYREON MAKES UP A SONG ABOUT THE BRAVE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE AND THEIR JOURNEY TO THE ISLE OF AVALON IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL [...

A One by Four by Nine Messenger: Touch me now and feel my force I will give you life History will change its course Man will survive Computer: Something's stran...

by Donovan Leitch of the album Cosmic Wheels, 1973) I was impressed like everyone when man began to fly out of earthly regions to planets in the sky with total ...

A Gateway to the Stars Storyteller: Far away in outer space A traveller from another world left his dying race He found our planet, full of life In the body of ...

He's a stranger I don't know Where he's coming from Is he a danger to me or just Another man He knows magic or maybe He's a charlatan Is it a sly trick he plays...

"It is the 8th century I am a Mayan girl heading for the Jaguar Temple in Tikal on the central American continent" [Jacqueline Govaert] Shine down on me, Sun ...

[A The premonition] A STRANGE SENSATION COMES OVER AYREON, AS IF SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS IS ABOUT TO OCCUR [B Dreamtime (words become a song)] SUDDENLY A VISION...

[A A new dawn] A PERCEPTABLE TENSION IS HOVERING ABOVE AYREON'S HOMETOWN SOMETHING IS AT HAND [B The gathering] THE TOWNSPEOPLE GATHER ON THE MARKET SQUARE T...

At last! you enter the Electric Castle! Here in this vast hall where even shadows fear the light - here you must confront your past If you have killed, beware o...

AYREON UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WAS NOT INDIVIDUALLY CHOSEN FOR THE 'TIME TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT', BUT THAT HE UNINTENTIONALLY RECEIVED ITS TRANSMISSIONS THIS COULD BE...

More than a million years ago it came To earth out of the sky from whence it Came is still unknown and still we Don't know why Way beyond infinity where time i...

"It is the 22nd century I am the last of the Mars Colonists The air supply has almost run out on this desolate Mars colony, and the food supplies from Earth hav...

Science officer: As we return to earth, memories are haunting me My strange rebirth, coming back to life I remember the dark and how my friends set me free I sa...

A] Glimmer of Hope Anneke van Giersbergen: Through their eyes we will see Bob Catley: With their hands we will create Anneke van Giersbergen: In their world we...

1 PROLOGUE A THE TIME TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT THIS IS THE VOICE OF MERLIN LISTEN WELL, FOR IT CONCERNS YOU THIS CHRONICLE COMMENCES IN THE YEAR 2084 AD MANKIND H...

"It is 50000 BC The world is almost empty; nature is still untouched by man Off in the distance, a clan of ape-like creatures gather near a cliff side But I am ...

Behold: the Star Towers of the Electric Castle! See how it embraces the sky! How insignificant the mere mortal, dwrfed by the majesty of its electric edifice! B...

It is time to reflect upon your "ego-self" Nowhere to hide when the walls echo the you that we all see Ah, the smiles dissolve! The pulse begins to race; the fa...

Atomically into existence A creator of life was born This universal migrator In his celestial form Astronomical segmentation A division from which I came To go...

"It is the 17th century I am a noble ensign-bearer posing with my guild for the Dutch master painter, Rembrandt van Rijn, in Amsterdam" [Mouse, Lana Lane] I'm...

MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE I am the creator of this universe The wind of time is blowing through me And it's all moving relative to me It's all a figment of my mind...

He's a stranger I don't know Where he's coming from Is he a danger to me or just Another man He knows magic or maybe He's a charlatan Is it a sly trick he plays...

Last night I had that dream again My world was black as night Plagued by visions of a future world Mr L, did you take your meds? I sang about these dreams Warn...

And so it's come to this Two Gates - two portals await Let your choice be guided by collective wisdom Ah, hath the prospect of freedom ever tasted so good? One ...

"As we continue on our journey, we dive into a black hole -- a spiraling wormhole As it Sucks us in, time slows and images become distorted Reality itself twist...

[futureman] from the cities underseas to the skyways in the east from the stations on the moon to the planet of neptune I'm a sophisticated man and you would s...

"We are on our way to the quasar, an object as bright as a galaxy Our hope is that the quasar may contain an unfathomable source of power and peril at its cente...

"Finally we are approaching our own familiar solar system But there is something wrong Reality begins to break through the illusion I have an unsettling premoni...

From the wind-torn ramparts of the Tower of Hope we survey a thousand futures Release your dreams from this electric pinnacle You must have hope [hippie] we'r...

Be joyful, my friends! You will now enter the Tunnel of Light Let brilliance suffuse your souls! Make your choice Your path is incandescend [highlander] don't...

We have to teach them all that we know Their evolution moves far too slow Expand their minds and reject compliance Upgrade their knowledge, upload our science ...

[egyptian] my journey's over I'm standing on the edge and close my eyes to this world of lies my will is broken it's the end of all my dreams my soul yearns f...