Upcoming Concerts for Avenged Sevenfold
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Avenged Sevenfold
Performer
M. Shadows
Vocals
Zacky Vengeance
Guitar
Synyster Gates
Guitar
Johnny Christ
Background Vocals
Brooks Wackerman
Drums
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spoken Word
Matthew Baker
Performer
Jason Freese
Keyboards
Leah Katz
Viola
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Zachary Baker
Composer
Brooks Wackerman
Composer
Jonathan Seward
Composer
Brian Haner
Composer
Matthew Sanders
Composer
Matthew Baker
String Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Avenged Sevenfold
Producer
Joe Barresi
Producer
Andy Wallace
Mixing Engineer
Wesley Seidman
Assistant Recording Engineer
Micheal Peterson
Assistant Recording Engineer
Alex Pavone
Assistant Recording Engineer
Jeff Fitzpatrick
Assistant Recording Engineer
Morgan Stratton
Assistant Recording Engineer
Paul Suarez
Mixing Engineer
Ignacio Lecumberri
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Nick Fainbarg
Engineer
Lyrics
Our truth is painted across the sky
In our reflection we learn to fly
No hand to hold us
No one to save us from tomorrow
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
No light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
Think for a moment of all the lives
Stripped of their essence before their time
We stand to conquer
But is there nothing left tomorrow?
I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
There's no light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
"We have one collective hope: the Earth
And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound
Sufferers curl themselves into the arms of war
people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God
Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?
Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb
vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan, and wayward son
are part of the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts
and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers
When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets
each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces of gravity
I see beyond the plight of humans. I see a universe ever-expanding, with its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time
However big our world is, our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases, the universe is even bigger
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches
more stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed
more stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived
The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos is the day we threaten the continuing of our species
In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices
and would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment
Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again embraces the cosmic perspective
a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither above nor below, but within."
Writer(s): Matthew Sanders, Brian Haner, Jonathan Seward, Zachary Baker, Brooks Wackerman
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