Ayreon Album

[Arjen Lucassen]
I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice,
I wanna be elected.
I'm your long-haired hippie in a gold Rolls Royce,
I want to be elected.

[Tobias Sammet]
You all want a savior, don't need a fake,
I wanna be elected.
We're all gonna rock to the rules I make,
I wanna be elected!

[Both]
Elected, elected!

[Narrator]
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen(...)

[Arjen Lucassen]
I never lied to you, I've always been cool,
I want to be elected.

[Tobias Sammet]
I gotta get the vote, though I'm(...),
I wanna be elected!

[Both]
Elected, elected!
Hallelujah, oh, we wanna be selected,
And conquer the charts all over the world!

[Narrator]
(...)

[Both]
We're gonna win this one, take the country by storm,
We're gonna be elected,
You and me together, old and young,
We're gonna be elected!
Elected, elected!
Respected, selected, call collected,
We wanna be elected!

[Tobias Sammet]
Ladies and Gentlemen: Intellectuality versus sexuality!

[Arjen Lucassen]
With that haircut? Yeah, right...
Okay, so you had Alice Cooper,
but I had Bruce Dickinson, ha!

[Tobias Sammet]
So your album is called eleven billion, ten million, ten thousand and eleven (11010010011)... You're referring to my sales figures, ha? Haha.

[Wudstik:]
It all came to me in the wake of a dream
Bending space, reversing the stream
The knowledge is mine to influence time
And avert our decline (we'll avert our decline)

We could use this to salvage mankind
Send projections into the past (telepathy time)
Etch humanity's fate in their minds
Let them know man won't last (It all came to me in the wake of a dream)

[Marjan Welman:]
This may be our last chance
If we want man to survive
A mirror reflection
Show them our world as it dies
Cut through the barrier
And do what no one has dared
Let's break the equation… E=mc²

[Wudstik:]
Our first try was a minor success
No control, I can but guess
We have to move now; don't know just how
No mistakes are allowed
(We can make no mistakes)

I have sent it but nothing changes
Just a line in some ancient lore
(Medieval times)
I don't know just how far it ranges
Everything's like before
(It all came to me in the wake of a dream)

[Marjan Welman:]
This may be our last chance
If we want man to survive
A mirror reflection
Show them our world as it dies
Cut through the barrier
And do what no one has dared
Let's break the equation… E=mc²

[Digitalized Voice:]
The outcome of The Final Experiment has been placed in your hands

(Jørn Lande:) Find your way home, little extremophiles
(Floor Jansen:) Fly, beloved sons
(Tom Englund:) Find your way home, donors of life
(Floor Jansen:) Fly, my chosen ones
(Jonas Renkse:) You're on your own, little extremophiles
(Floor Jansen:) Ride your frozen ark
(Bob Catley:) You're on your own, cleaving the skies
(Floor Jansen:) Ride into the dark

(Magali Luyten:)
Carry out our dangerous task, sail uncharted spheres
Live out our dreams, ride the comet
Journey on the Migrator trail, cross the new frontiers
Pass on our genes, ride the comet

(Jørn Lande:) You are the future, little extremophiles
(Floor Jansen:) Fly towards the sun
(Tom Englund:) You are the future, you know what to do
(Floor Jansen:) Fly, it has begun

(Magali Luyten:)
Carry out our dangerous task, sail uncharted spheres
Live out our dreams, ride the comet
Journey on the Migrator trail, cross the new frontiers
Pass on our genes, ride the comet

(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 was feeling

(Fear) You always let him down; "you'd never be like him"
He'd always break you, never let you win
No matter what you said, he'd always disagree
You swore that one day you would be
... better than him... one day you'd win

(Agony) You're hiding out in the cellar
Aching and ashamed, covering up the bruises

(Me) And then he would tell her
How I tripped and hurt my head, how I'd always be a loser

(Fear) You always let him down; "you'd never be like him"
He'd always break you, never let you win
No matter what you said, he'd always disagree
You swore that one day you would be
... better than him... one day you'd win

(Agony) You're all alone in your bedroom
How could you learn to care, when nobody cares for you

(Me) Mother said he'd be home soon
But he never came, as for me... he didn't have to...