The Province

Before the veil was lifted And brought to light the facts The whole deception was complete The sons of fathers buried Their unconnecting tracks Beneath the layers of deceit Another place and time we'd have known We would have seen the last of the lonely A beast of burden heard in the tangle of the wire It's gone like it was never there The great colossus rises and crackles under fire The static charge is in the air In other realms of reality My imitation heart will defend me To make secure what you believe And surely as the day ends the night It becomes a feast set for parasites Another place and time we'd have known We would have seen the lost and alone In others realms of reality My unrepentant heart will defend me Again somehow Not here, not now Safer on the waves Too dark upon the shore Pressure builds again More ragged than before When the will dissolves It changes everyone Something worse than us is waiting in the wings Can't prepare for this Can't think of everything Is it obvious what is and isn't done? The province of the king The wilderness of stolen things The untold legacy Ineria keeps it out of reach Till I bring bad tidings The phone rings There's no-one there You always said it's the one you needed You should try to not be defeated It's what you wanted, a supernova But now it's landed, don't think it over It's no invasion at all You understand this, it's no solution Still under sentence of execution No-one like you can create confusion Embrace the negative With absolution your final positive reward And I will follow you down To where the silence is lost and found Beyond the light that shines only inside The province of the king It comes to all of us Until at last there's no-one else And if that's what it always does Then saviour, save yourself How am I amazed? How is it still concealed? I cannot count the many ways Because there's nothing real What ransom do you bring Before the wireless king?