[I. ...and The Earth Wept]



I tuck you in ever so gently

Still you cried and turned from me

You stepped on my heart

I forgave just like mothers do

From under your shoes I still carried you



Soon my body will burn into ashes and dust

And rain will turn all that glitter to rust

One last pill for the pain

Sit down, let me explain...



While my bruises stay

My child I know you never meant to...

These scars just won't fade away

And I'm sure you never knew



I give up, I give in

Help December let a new year begin

Take what's left and move on

Fly away

Be gone...



[II. A Poisoned Land]



[Instrumental]



[III. Leaving Home]



The morrow winds blow and herald a time

When man will be damned for all his crime

We all were too bold, now we all can see

How the lifegiver's bleeding to death before me



I am packing my bags, I'm waiting in line

This tragedy forces us away from this land

As I board this creature of steel,

I kiss her goodbye, give her time to heal



[IV. Take-off]



Loud sirens wail to send a

The Goldonder towards the light

Leaving the ground we bathe in starlight

While heading for oceans of night



Safe in Aniara's warm and tender care we ride

Eight thousand hearts that fled the fires

For a life at a distant home



[V. A Turn For The Worst]



A swerve to clear the Hondo stone

Now we proclaim it known

Took us off course came too wide of Mars to turn back home

There's no turning back, guiding units broke and cracked

We will never win this game



From pledges and bonds, our system of suns

locked down its vaulted gateway

In thousands of years ram through the final frontier

The Lyre greets us there



Our ship at drift into the void

Through nothingness deployed

With an empty stare become aware,

Our lives destroyed

Fears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsides

We can never win this game



From pledges and bonds, our system of suns

Locked down its vaulted gateway

In thousands of years ram through the final frontier

A moth to a flame



[VI. A New Balance]



Glass-like is the stare encircling us

The systems of stars hang frozen still

A gaze through the window

Six years down the line we still feign dawn 

And sunset; but space no light will spawn

Eternally darker



Now setting sails

But never know the world she's treading

Where the life belongs

Mima lead the way;



Shine your light, be the beacon of hope at night,

Be our guide, cause I need what you're doing to me

Shine your light, blind us when reality bites

We so need the magic she does



I asked me a question, no reply

I dreamt me a life then lived a lie

Dream me a nightmare

I travel the stars but pass them by,

For trapped on Aniara, here was I

Always believing



We sit and stare,

At all the marvels that she brings us

Lights the life in you

Mima lead the way;



Shine your light, be the beacon of hope at night

Perfect grace, in the barren house of space

Shine your light, blind us when reality bites

Mima save us from seeing ourselves



[VII. Death Of The Goddesses]



Inside the Mima's eyes, we lived our lives

Then like an arrow through this jest

Destiny, sent us a greeting from home let us see:



We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

Her circuits bled and fried, as our mother died

She's darkened by our sin we begin (slowly we begin)

To realize it



When I saw home so blue, be torn in two

All by the hands of her own child

Humanity, the festering cancer that

Dug her own grave



We have no home anymore

While Mima showed the final war

Her circuits bled and fried, seems she too will die

She couldn't bare to see what will be (couldn't bare to see)

Our haven's dying



I couldn't stop them if I tried

As they all rushed to see her die

Chaos, panic, people fight

I can't see, I will not, I won't

Our way of life is overthrown (is there really no way?) 

Let us turn back time!



[VIII. The Age Of Confusion: Despair]



In the deafening silence people mourn,

We've cried us a river

Who knows where all laughter be?

On whom we place the blame?



Her demise was theirs!

Oh stained by their disease her screen recedes

Our real eyes realized they beguile 

Us all with their mind



[IX. The Age Of Confusion: Lust]



Our lusting flesh and piety

All coexist in the mist

Put aside your chastity,

Unveiling skin, magical sin



Controls the pile of heaving flesh,

A twisted queen, sleep with me 

And work the loins, mind will stray 

Yield to life



[X. The Age Of Confusion: Reason]



And as the orgies all fade

And lust no longer attracts

Then the brain will subdue the flesh

Put the focus on facts



Human brain was a shameful part

Low names were high for loins and for breasts

Us Hades may harvest,

Fully at it's behest



[XI. The Aftermath]



I still cry and I still miss her

I was just a little boy

Running through the endless garden of our home



Away, some say never (ever)

We'll leave this god forsake place

And ten thousand shivers

Remain as we part



We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

Oh for so long, I was the wielder of illusions

Our goddess gave in when she saw

That we had killed the earth and 

-Burst to flames-



Every smile on every face here 

Fell and crashed onto the floor -to the floor-

All alone in the world crying desperately



Away, some say never (ever)

We'll leave this god forsake place

And ten thousand shivers

Remain as we part



We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion

We paint no rainbows in the dark

No one will ever see us fade away

Oh for so long, I was the wielder of illusions

But there's no hiding what we are

We are the plague of all,

-For humanity there is no cure-



God and Satan hand in hand

Through this bad land

Took a flight uphill and down 

From man a king with ashen crown



[XII. Dining On Ashes]



What we reap is what we sow

Naked our truth smugly glows (we'll always be hiding)

We leave all games behind cause,

Twenty years to come and go

Then only did we all know

And see how wrinkled and jaded we had grown



Looking out the window

But there's nothing new

Only darkness stares at you

"I would die to see the rain below the rainbow,

Just like others do."



We crown the skies with our tiara;

The life and fate of Aniara

(we write an endless symphony)

Now thousands were weeping

And hundreds cried in, dismay

Twenty years today!

Repenting sinners pray



Easy come and easy go

We could have had it all you know

Man's final day is here

Search for silver dig for gold

His desires not untold



Looking out the window

All that he can see

Hs own reflection's final plea

"I would die to see the rain below the rainbow,

Just like others do."



We crown the skies with our tiara;

The life and fate of Aniara (we write an endless symphony)  

Now thousands were weeping

And hundreds cried in dismay

Twenty years today!

Repenting sinners will wither and fade



[XIII. The Curtain Falls]



Gladness, fleeting by whims and luck

That is the way of life

Looking, searching our hearts

To find the "why" of it all

Finding no way to our home



See in silence we faded 

Our great escape

Twenty four years inside

Looking, searching our ship

for life but justice

falls on the graves of all



The halls of our ship now are void of all but death

Our lives have passed,

Our hearts were broken by the endless dark

Our new paradise,

The one to replace the one we burned so bad

The god we hoped for left profaned,

All wounded and forlorn on the home we scarred



Now here I stand, my dear,

One heart still beats...

I bid you farewell,

The curtain will now descend

Somewhere in time we were living

Remember us then!