More Than Meets the Eye by T'Pau
AAAAEFCDAAAEFCDAAAABCDAAAAB 89:HI GHMKN - S [/]YZ XY[// - AAEF ?%& - AAAAEFCDAAAEFCDAAAEF - HTRSGHI GHIGHI GHIGHI - GHIRRS RRSGHQRSRUVHI - /=XYZXYZ XYZXY$()YZXY[// - HERE IS NO FEELING LIKE THIS FEELING. . . - IRCLING ROUND AND EVER ROUND IN THE MOST ANCIENT SYMBOL OF MIGHT AND POWER, THE SPIRAL. - F YOU LOOK AT IT FROM ITS CENTER, IT IS A PERFECT WAY, ALWAYS BENDING AND NEVERTHELESS FLEEING TO ETERNITY ALL ALONG. - OOKED AT THE OTHER WAY IT IS EVER DESCENDING STAIRCASE, LEADING TO UNIMAGINABLE DEPTH, NARROWING BUT NEVER STOPPING, CIRCLING ON AND ON WITHOUT MERCY. - HO CAN TELL WHAT LIES ON EITHER SIDE - HEAVEN OR HELL, DEMNATION OR SALVATION? - F YOU TRY AND FIND OUT, YOU MIGHT WELL BE LOST, NEVER TO BE ABLE TO RETURN, FOR ETERNITY IS THE ONE THING A HUMAN MIND CANNOT GRASP. - RY TO IMAGINE THE VAST DARESS BEYOND THE LAST STAR, ITS BLACK VOID LYING TO THE LIMITS OF SIGHT ON EVERY SIDE, NOT INTERRUPTED BY AS MUCH AS A BEAM OF LIGHT AND YOU'RE BOUND TO FAIL. - ND, ON THE OTHER HAND, WHO CAN UNDERSTAND A PATH, NARROWING TO A HAIR'S BREADTH AND STILL AN ETERNITY TO GO? - - AND AWAY, SILVER ! ! !L [ - WITH THIS WORDS, THEY START OFF, RACING TO BEAT THE DEVIL, NOT KNOWING WHERE HEADED TO, NOR CARING, GETTING DRUNK WITH SPEED AS THEY BEGIN TO RIDE ON THE WIND, A UNDESCRIBABLE FEELING, LIKE FLYING WITH DIVINE WINGS: DIVING LOW ONE MOMENT, LITERALLY FEELING THE EARTH PASS BELOW, THEN BEING HIGH UP THE NEXT, THE MOON SEEMINGLY CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH, IT'S COLD, SILVER LIGHT LIGHTING THEIR FACES, TURNING THEM INTO COLD, LIFELESS METAL MASKS. BUT THEIR MINDS ARE FREE, NOT BOUND TO ANY LAWS OF NATURE ANYMORE, FLOATING FREELY LIKE FISH IN WARM SPRING WATER. SO THEY DREAM ON, TOO BUSY TAKING IN THOUSE THOUSANDS OF NEW FEELINGS AND SIGHTS TO REALIZE THE LOOMING DREAD, DANGEROUS AND PATIENT LIKE A SPIDER'S WEB. DARING HIGHER AND HIGHER WITH EVER NEW PLEASURES, THEY FAIL TO THINK OF THE WAY BACK, NOT THINKING THEY EVER LONG FOR THEIR EARTHBOUND LIVES AGAIN. SO THEY DRIFT OF EVER FURTHER, LEAVING THEIR WELL KNOWN HOME, THOUGH THEY DON'T REALIZE IT NOW, FOR GOOD. SOON THEY WILL ENTER THE GASP BETWEEN HERE AND THE LAND THEY DREAMED OF, AND NOT KNOWING WHERE TO TURN NOR WHERE TO GO, COMPLETELY ALIEN AS THIS LAND IS TO HUMAN SPIRITS, THEY SOON WILL BE LOST THERE, NOT FINDING THE PROMISED LAND, NOR FINDING A WAY BACK. THEY ARE THEN DAMNATED, LEFT TO WALK THE INFINITE PATHS OF MADNESS, ALONE, LOST BETWEEN THEIR OLD SELVES, WHICH THEY ABANDONED FOR SIGHT OF WHAT SEEMED A BETTER PLACE, AND THE PROMISED SELVES WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A MERE ILLUSION ON THE HORIZON; LOST BETWEEN WHAT THEY HAD HAD AND WHAT THEY HAD LONGED FOR, LIKE THE DOG DROPPING HIS BONE WHILE GOING FOR ITS REFLECTION IN THE WATER BELOW. THIS MISERY IS A HUMAN HEART BORN TO ENDURE, ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW TREASURES, NEVER APPRECIATING WHAT HE HAS GOT. - PAREFCDLAREFCDLAJEFX F - HTRSGHI GHIGHI GHIGHI - GHIRRS RRSGHQRSRUVHI - &XY'()YZXY^_*%&XY[/= XY$%>YZXY[/]YZXYZ?%%()YZXY[ - /=XYZXYZ XYZXY$()YZXY[// - HERE IS NO FEELING LIKE THIS FEELING. . . - IRCLING ROUND AND EVER ROUND IN THE MOST ANCIENT SYMBOL OF MIGHT AND POWER, THE SPIRAL. - F YOU LOOK AT IT FROM ITS CENTER, IT IS A PERFECT WAY, ALWAYS BENDING AND NEVERTHELESS FLEEING TO ETERNITY ALL ALONG. - OOKED AT THE OTHER WAY IT IS EVER DESCENDING STAIRCASE, LEADING TO UNIMAGINABLE DEPTH, NARROWING BUT NEVER STOPPING, CIRCLING ON AND ON WITHOUT MERCY. - HO CAN TELL WHAT LIES ON EITHER SIDE - HEAVEN OR HELL, DEMNATION OR SALVATION? - F YOU TRY AND FIND OUT, YOU MIGHT WELL BE LOST, NEVER TO BE ABLE TO RETURN, FOR ETERNITY IS THE ONE THING A HUMAN MIND CANNOT GRASP. - RY TO IMAGINE THE VAST DARESS BEYOND THE LAST STAR, ITS BLACK VOID LYING TO THE LIMITS OF SIGHT ON EVERY SIDE, NOT INTERRUPTED BY AS MUCH AS A BEAM OF LIGHT AND YOU'RE BOUND TO FAIL. - ND, ON THE OTHER HAND, WHO CAN UNDERSTAND A PATH, NARROWING TO A HAIR'S BREADTH AND STILL AN ETERNITY TO GO? -