This song continues on from the story told in the prior album’s Rise Of The Cephalopods. In the future, Humankind is extinct. Octopus are the next dominant, highly-intelligent species. They come to realize that survivability on Earth will soon no longer be possible. They launch ice spaceships, w...
Adrift between the stars
Expelled from Earth
And its planet-scorching dearth
Our ships of ice
A crude device
Seeds
In despair thrown like dice
To find the one world
That is ours
Forlorn and frozen
Sent to breed
Lost to the lore
But then grace takes us past Pluto’s shores
Whence
A turgid drove descends
Envelops us in spores
Guides our flight
Through the abyss of night
As they claim they have done before
A precision slingshot
From the orbital plane
Towards a boreal bеacon
And we shall live again
Escape to thе Goat Stars
Nourish with hope those who remained
Alpha Aur
Primal light
Save our souls
Take away our pain
Eons pass
When at last
From the void
Emerge two giant double stars
Time starts anew
For polyps long forsaken
In the heart of our icy tomb
Ancient bodies reawaken
The depths of the Northern sky
Yield a blaze
Like a slow explosion
An embrace of rays
Twin bloated suns spiral
Devour the firmament
In their glow, our comet world
Becomes germinant again
Then suddenly, two more suns
Join the dance from afar
And in between, a planet swerves
Awkward and bizarre
Tugged from orbit
Of fiery death
It seeks the smaller twins
And in its wake a satellite
A moon for our kin
Wobbly seasons now ensue
Tempered freeze and thaw
As we swirl about the moon
And ever closer to it draw
Conjoin
Withdraw
Our vessel set to smash
Brace to bore
Into the crater of our crash
Towards this pockmarked ball of ice we fall
Below its crust a liquid ocean calls
No return now
We came so far
In ice encased
To crash and burn now
Our ship must crack the frozen waste
Collision
Catharsis of an arcane vision
Havoc bursts
Into a million shards we shatter
Get submersed
Into gaping faults we spatter
Down we squirm
Escape the flash-freeze of the void
Like undead worms
That refuse to be destroyed
And we're through
A new world
Soon under our control
The Mi-Go’s gifts
Our gospel to extol
A drifting island grows
Feeding on light and freedom
Keeping each other close
Towards our suns we’re seeding
At last, the surface calls
Where billowing stars adorn our reign
Alpha Aur
Primal light
And so we rise again
Here under stars of wonder
Their beauty pulled us under
A freeing force is leading
Towards the heart of meaning
We wander in stars of wonder
Their beauty pulled us under
Joy is seething, life is feeding
Our engine at the heart of Eden