Cygnus X1 Book II (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London)
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||[II. Apollo / Dionysus]||[Apollo: Bringer Of Wisdom]|'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||[Dionysus: Bringer Of Love]|'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||[III. Armageddon: The Battle Of Heart and Mind]||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||[IV. Cygnus: Bringer Of Balance]||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 atonished|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'||[V. The Sphere: A Kind Of Dream]||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|