Just as the present becomes past so the future will pass into antiquity
Will this all make sense 10 000 years hence after lengthy inquiry?
Welcome to your final dissent made without your consent – a one way trip to fantasy
And now that logic and reason have been charged with treason do you trust your sanity?
Or is this not your cup of tea?

Sorry but our time together's drawing to a close
We spin around and 'round but where we land nobody knows
Don't be sad it's not too much for you to bear
'Cause in the end it's obvious nobody really cares
Just keep your chin up, steel your nerve and don your armour because

If this all goes well we may yet escape hell and secure our place in history


Welcome travelers, please step inside
Enjoy the journey, you're in for a ride
A once in a lifetime chance is all I have to offer you

To play a game no one's ever played
The greatest invitation ever made
Extended to you who've passed up a thousand chances on the way

And if the operation goes as planned
When this is all over you'll understand
The Innocent Victim seeks and now is closing in on you

The conversation that we never had
Your brilliant deception back in Leningrad
The spy that defected chasing shadows in the rain



Still, nothing can harm me until
I have to rise to confront a new day
Consciousness securely locked away

Somehow it all seems painfully obvious now
This could be my last chance to move on
And banish demons I've happened upon
'Cause the life that I once had is gone


How did I suddenly arrive here, surrounded, engulfed by doubt and fear?


A haze of mixed emotion dissolves me as I fall through this gloom
An open empty tomb
Infinity
Maybe all that I see
Was never meant for me – maybe something else is lurking in the darkness waiting to make off with the key


What horrors awaken in this place, here where we meet madness face to face?


St. Dymphna pray for us
Our darkest fears have come true
There’s no returning for us
To anything we thought we knew
Won’t anyone pray for us
Is anything getting through?

The end makes its appearance and draws ever near

Somehow something has escaped through some small opening
Somehow something somewhere’s broken free
Something’s surfaced that somehow for centuries remained unseen


Reality has fallen through a hole in time
Tried, convicted and awaiting sentencing for future crimes
Is all this just the imag’nings of my mind
Beware for what you seek you just might find

Listless on this path I wander
A wayward ship upon the sea
Through it all I can’t stop wondering
What yet lies in store for me

Free me from this spell I’m under
Release me from this mystery
From its enchantment set me free


Evading police at security checkpoints
Frustrating the efforts made by border guards
Slip into the forest and escape in waiting getaway car

Watching all this drama unfolding in my mind’s eye
Oblivious to the shocked looks on the faces of passersby
Questioning their validity and all that that could imply
Devising a plan for the safe return of these passengers in time

Fragments of your mind’s creation lay scattered in the

Realm of time’s unforgiving truth that’s become the history of man
Wise men speaking wise words in tongues none could understand
Infiltration of rebel soldiers from hostile foreign lands
Deliberations are underway for a viable extraction plan

Agents of ill defined affiliation are seeking safe passage into

Clandestine meetings secretly arranged by secret societies
Enemy leaders from enemy nations found secretly cohabitating
Intelligence has gone underground and weaponized the insurgency
But nothing that lies in secrecy can keep itself from being revealed


I’m afraid the time we have together’s nearly gone
And truly wish I wasn’t all you placed your hope upon
If you ever find one you can just walk out the door
Just know things never will return to what they were before


So this is how it ends – this close to being apprehended and the plan is simply to abandon me?
All the things I’ve been conceding I find ever more misleading
Isn’t someone somewhere missing me?

To know what was, is, and what might have been
To see things that nobody else has ever seen
To witness things not even conceived of before
Before you do though you’ll be transferred to another floor

I never asked to be a witness to these revelations or be party to your generosity
Through this barren wasteland am I doomed to roam, a wanderer without a home, without a history?

I have it on reliable authority
Concluding our affairs has taken on new urgency
Sadly you have no idea what you have in store
After fighting in the trenches of this mental war

Doo do do do do...

I’ll never escape the presence of these spectral apparitions
Phantoms haunt me to my bitter end
The cost has been so dear with every fear uncovered here tangled in this animation I suspend


The joy of my childhood lost somewhere in time
Alone in the darkest recesses of my mind
Long gone are those days of innocence of my youth
Who dares to solemnly swear to tell the whole truth?


In an unexpected twist the court has been adjourned
And the verdict of the jury declared overturned
No explanation for this irregularity
Perhaps it’s just a case of mistaken identity

Doo do do do do...


Psychology Professor:

“OK, now we come to this concept of truth, and truth (as I’m sure many of you may recognize) is a bit of a dicey proposition, especially in a world as technologically advanced as ours, because not only are what we believe to be true and what is actually true often two very different things, the line between what we know to be the truth and what we only believe to be the truth has become increasingly blurred. And this becomes even more problematic when you recognize that some people will benefit from convincing others that a lie is actually the truth. This has potentially devastating implications, and here’s one example: A couple of years ago I watched a documentary on a book written by a former, let’s call him an “intelligence operative”. He described how they would go into a foreign country that they had some interest in, for whatever reason, and hire people in the streets to act in what would become “news footage”. He said it was a simple thing to get enough people to act like, say, they were rioting in the streets, to make a convincing “news segment” that would show that there was a great deal of civil unrest in that country. Now, we don’t know whether this type of stuff actually goes on – I think a lot of us suspect that it does – but, that’s exactly the point: How would we know? Now it seems to me in a climate like this it would be very easy to manipulate large numbers of people into believing things that have no basis in any actual reality...”


...and with that our time together now comes to a close
You’ve sacrificed so much it’s such a shame no one will ever know
I know you’re sad I know you wish someone would care
But how much more time will you waste chasing things that might not really be there?
Why don’t you let your guard down, calm your nerves, sit back and tell us
Do you think things went well? Do you think you’ll escape Hell? Did you mark your place in history?
And at the very least did you manage to free yourself from your captivity?