[I. Prelude]
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When our weary world was young
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The struggle of the ancients first began
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The gods of love and reason
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Sought alone to rule the fate of man
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They battled through the ages
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But still neither force would yield
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The people were divided
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Every soul a battlefield
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[II. Apollo / Dionysus]
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[Apollo: Bringer Of Wisdom]
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'I bring truth and understanding
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I bring wit and wisdom fair
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Precious gifts beyond compare
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We can build a world of wonder
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I can make you all aware
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I will find you food and shelter
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Show you fire to keep you warm
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Through the endless winter storm
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You can live in grace and comfort
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In the world that you transform'
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The people were delighted
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Coming forth to claim their prize
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They ran to build their cities
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And converse among the wise
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But one day the streets fell silent
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Yet they knew not what was wrong
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The urge to build these fine things
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Seemed not to be so strong
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The wise men were consulted
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And the Bridge of Death was crossed
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In quest of Dionysus
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To find out what they had lost
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[Dionysus: Bringer Of Love]
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'I bring love to give you solace
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In the darkness of the night
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In the Heart's eternal light
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You need only trust your feelings
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Only love can steer you right
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I bring laughter, I bring music
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I bring joy and I bring tears
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I will soothe your primal fears
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Throw off those chains of reason
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And your prison disappears'
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The cities were abandoned
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And the forests echoed song
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They danced and lived as brothers
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They knew love could not be wrong
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Food and wine they had aplenty
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And they slept beneath the stars
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The people were contented
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And the gods watched from afar
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But the winter fell upon them
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And it caught them unprepared
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Bringing wolves and cold starvation
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And the hearts of men despaired
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[III. Armageddon: The Battle Of Heart and Mind]
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The universe divided
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As the heart and mind collided
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With the people left unguided
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For so many troubled years
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In a cloud of doubts and fears
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Their world was torn asunder into hollow
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Hemispheres
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Some fought themselves, some fought each other
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Most just followed one another
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Lost and aimless like their brothers
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For their hearts were so unclear
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And the truth could not appear
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Their spirits were divided into blinded
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Hemispheres
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Some who did not fight
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Brought tales of old to light
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'My Rocinante sailed by night
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On her final flight'
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To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force
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We set our course
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Spiralled through that timeless space
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To this immortal place
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[IV. Cygnus: Bringer Of Balance]
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I have memory and awareness
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But I have no shape or form
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As a disembodied spirit
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I am dead and yet unborn
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I have passed into Olympus
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As was told in tales of old
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To the city of Immortals
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Marble white and purest gold...
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I see the gods in battle rage on high...
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Thunderbolts across the sky...
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I cannot move, I cannot hide...
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I feel a silent scream begin inside...
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Then all at once the chaos ceased
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A stillness fell, a sudden peace
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The warriors felt my silent cry
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And stayed their struggle, mystified
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Apollo was atonished
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Dionysus thought me mad
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But they heard my story further
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And they wondered, and were sad
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Looking down from Olympus
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On a world of doubt and fear
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Its surface splintered
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Into sorry Hemispheres
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They sat a while in silence
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Then they turned at last to me
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'We will call you Cygnus
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The god of Balance you shall be'
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[V. The Sphere: A Kind Of Dream]
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We can walk our road together
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If our goals are all the same
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We can run alone and free
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If we pursue a different aim
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Let the truth of love be lighted
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Let the love of truth shine clear
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Sensibility
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Armed with sense and liberty
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With the heart and mind united in a single
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Perfect
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Sphere
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Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres
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