AYREON DESCRIBES A DISTANT FUTURE IN WHICH TECHNOLOGY TRIUMPHS OVER PASSION, AND 'SERVING' COMPUTERS WILL GRADYALLY GAIN CONTROL OVER MANKIND. [AYREON
of time] IT SLOWLY DAWNS ON AYREON THAT THESE VISIONS HE IS EXPERIENCING ARE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE BUT HE DOES NOT FULLY COMPREHEND THEIR IMPORTANCE YET. [AYREON
AYREON WARNS THE PEOPLE THAT IF MAN DOES NOT MEND HIS WAYS, MAN WILL CONTAMINATE THE SKIES, SO THERE WILL BE NO MORE AIR TO BREATHE, HE WILL POISON THE
MERLIN, WHO IS UNAFFECTED BY -AND THEREFORE IGNORANT OF- THE 'TIME TELEPATHY' EXPERIMENT, ASSUMES THAT AYREON'S PROPHECIES ARE DECEPTIVE, AND SO AYREON
AYREON RETIRES IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS SURROUNDING CAMELOT, ENJOYS THE WONDERS OF NATURE AND REFLECTS ON HIS FATE. HE NOW FULLY UNDERSTANDS, AND RELUCTANTLY
SOMEHOW AYREON SENSES THAT HIS FATE IS UPON HIM, AND HE IMPLORES, NO HE COMMANDS HIS FUTURE TORMENTORS TO GRANT HIM ONE LAST MOMENT OF SPLENDOUR IN PLACE
MIND OF A BLIND MINSTREL WHO LIVES IN 6TH CENTURY GREAT BRITAIN. HIS NAME .... IS 'AYREON'. [B. Overture] [C. Ayreon's quest] IT SHALL BE AYREON'S
. Ayreon's fate] AYREON DESPERATELY ATTEMPTS TO CONVINCE MERLIN OF HIS SINCERITY, BUT MERLIN WON'T HEAR OF IT AND CASTS HIS SPELL ON POOR AYREON. [AYREON
THE COURT, AYREON MAKES UP A SONG ABOUT THE BRAVE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE AND THEIR JOURNEY TO THE ISLE OF AVALON IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL. [AYREON
SENSATION COMES OVER AYREON, AS IF SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS IS ABOUT TO OCCUR. [B. Dreamtime (words become a song)] SUDDENLY A VISION EMERGES IN AYREON'
AYREON UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WAS NOT INDIVIDUALLY CHOSEN FOR THE 'TIME TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT', BUT THAT HE UNINTENTIONALLY RECEIVED ITS TRANSMISSIONS. THIS
ANGRY VILLAGERS DRIVE AYREON OUT OF THEIR DEMESNE. [E. Oblivion] COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED AYREON ROAMS THROUGH THE FOREST, ONLY AN INDISTINCT SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT SUSTAINS HIM. [AYREON
MERLIN GRANTS AYREON HIS LAST REQUEST: TO EXPERIENCE ONE LAST BRIEF MOMENT OF SERENITY. FLASHES OF HIS PAST LIFE PASS BEFORE HIS EYES.
for conquerors and kings thou muist win the heart of Gwenhwyfar fair maiden of the king thy lord thy master Arthur thee so bold heed the words of Ayreon
AYREON SINGS OF THE USELESSNESS OF THE COUNTLESS WARS TO COME, AND THE ABSURDITY OF THE FINAL ANNIHILATION BY THE PUSH OF JUST ONE BUTTON BY JUST ONE
