In the constellation of Cygnus There lurks a mysterious, invisible force: The black hole of Cygnus X-1 Six stars of the northern cross In mourning for their sister's loss In a final flash of glory Nevermore to grace the night Invisible to telescopic eye Infinity, the star that would not die All who dare to cross her course Are swallowed by a fearsome force Through the void To be destroyed Or is there something more? Atomized at the core, Or through the astral door? To soar... I set a course just east of Lyra And northwest of Pegasus Flew into the light of Deneb Sailed across the Milky Way On my ship, the 'Rocinante' Wheeling through the galaxies Headed for the heart of Cygnus Headlong into mystery The X-ray is her siren song My ship cannot resist her long Nearer to my deadly goal Until the black hole... Gains control... Spinning, whirling, still descending Like a spiral sea unending! Sound and fury drowns my heart Every nerve is torn apart!

I think I'm losing my mind Blasting forward through a filamentous sky Beckoned by the flash of exploding light My soul crosses over the Great Divide Charging the void Isolated, I've been redeployed A rider on the crest Carry forth or plummet to death Autopilot function has been overridden For Isolation subjects, choice has been forbidden But death and destruction are what I've been given Charging the void Isolated, I've been redeployed A rider on the crest Carry forth or plummet to death Particles known only in theory, within my grasp Entering the cloud of the exploded mass To live is to die, disjunction seals our fate So many tyrants lie, pleading at the gates Regimes at an end with policies left to amend Where would the future lie if regimes had time to bide So bring unto me, morbid mastery I shall revoke the throne atop the stellar tree I choose a different path from those now dead in the mire They could not wield the flame of life. To which, now I conspire I charge the void I've found the purpose Immortalize this life I will return to the surface A lust for control and power Has grown in isolation A sky that once brought hope and light Now brings me desolation I must wield the sands of time to reclaim what is mine Stargazers have made the claims Of enocules bursting from Alshain Deep within the serpent's spire I forge a path that takes me higher I've crossed the Great Divide Now I peer into the depths of death's door Through the rippling veil I acquire The dust of life that Cygnus obscures To the other side, I have done it I now command the draw of death's door To the relic Alshain, now I've got it A molecule like nothing before Star fields of Aquila set ablaze Reap the ashes of the great Alshain Relic Alshain Oh Shahin-i-tarazu, now my flesh is born anew Within my hands, I hold the sands A sky of pillars gives life and land The blackest night unveiling death One inhaling, exhaling breath Of the swan with blackened wings outstretched A path unseen unfolds for me I charge the void and ascend the tree To the bird of morbid mastery I heed the Cygnus call They will want the dust obtained through my gall I bring the gift of extended life No longer will control be born of strife I burn through disregarded space Dispatched, forgotten, now I stake my independent claim I will rule this stark domain

On Epsilon, 14 billion strong Cygnus has always struggled for control; they told me it could not be done Lies! All they need is a technogenic disease We supply for free Parasites of technology So easily moved in line Addicted to the use of our Exclusive rights Have them screened Have them screened Have them screened We feed off their disease Track down the terrorist cells See who is on my side Interrogate the world While we stay out of sight, right You choose a page; we'll pick apart your brain We track your eyes with our cameras; we see your pupils dilate Subliminal are the ways that we tame you You're feeling proud of what you have consumed Parasites of technology Addicted to our LCD screens Molded and sleek to gain your trust Now give yourself to us Have them screened Have them screened Have them screened Liquid crystal disease Intangible cyber life Too complacent to look outside We are shaping the world While we stay out of... Parasites of technology Your addiction is a disease No regrets of a wasted life You cannot touch what you see Death, seems the only way That you will even stray Think upon what you've lost As we archive your thoughts I can use your remorse To steer my ship on its course Open the Oculus Fear Cygnus, fear Cygnus You can have claim to grounds Of Enocules I have found If you report to me Morbid mastery... is yours I turn the screens on Cygnus The cameras reading their eyes Affixed to every device They can tell no lies Freedom of choice within What you are given No choice outside the small World that you live in They have led you astray While I've been away I can quiet the noise I can give you a choice I see Cygnus now as it truly is They claim to bring balance, but they cannot to this World with ideals that can't be controlled by Shadows in the sky who lie Parasites of technology The looking glass shows us the obscene I see myself disconnected I can wipe it clean Have them screened Have them screened Have them screened Feed their disease Have them screened Have them screened Have them screened Liquid crystal disease Cygnus always thought this planet was unbalanced I'll do what they could never do. A full-out cleansing by a thought out annihilation

Ah! It's a long way to reality From the mind's extremities Deep in the core of the subconscious realm lies A shrouded being, cowering Suspended entity in darkness Encapsulated in a crystalline state A soft glowing green in black Amebic dark, invading Scampering through a silent chasm On the other side beams a ray of light The beacon becomes obscured As the walls structuralize Cubiform crystallization A daunted hero falls to its knees A piece of eternity from within Condemned to memory One side is lost While the other is gained Will the two ever Be one in the same? Suspended entity in darkness Encapsulated in a crystalline state A soft glowing green in black Amebic dark, invading Retaliating echos puncturing my sanity The essence of my being is only a memory Crippling vices instilled confirm the soul to seclusion Disonant existence Feelings and thoughts without resolution Life is liquid when we're young We paint with the colors of the sun Time solidifies in our brains And we paint with shades of grey All I see are dark clouds over a sunny day The colorful picture of life Solidifies and strips away Tetrastructural minds What once was liquid is frozen in time A cold cubic cell Traps all hope deep inside Amebic dark, invading Ah!

Blotted skies subdue stellar cries Bleeding out from the pillars Nebula of Aquila You have served a killer Time warps these hallowed grounds As if to draw a line in the sand Time brings disdain for the weak Time is what I have With Reaper Squads still dispatching You place your hopes on pillars crashing Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time I have built an empire On the dust of Alshain Collection sails extract the Enocules From vast mines in space And so, we live as ageless men From the time the reaction begins The dispenser is strapped to your wrist You are shackled to my every whim You are enslaved by the promise of tomorrow You've paid the price for the time that you borrow Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time Time moves like a crack in glass Sometimes slow, sometimes fast We all know the fate of the pane But we move forth, piling on more strain On the glass of melted sand Forged by our greedy hands On a path we choose to belie It makes us feel alive Pillars of sand fall down as gravity remands The bones of the dead in a dusty mist Pillars of sand cannot ascend Such are we at the point of the obelisk As Reapers dock in the Cygnus Port My eyes are captured by the pillars Nebula of Aquila Your skies have never been stiller We have come upon the line Where gravity intercepts with time Time is without mass And cannot exist in broken glass The unrepentant nature of all Everything falls Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time