Ayreon - Phase 4: Unification lyrics

The Girl has not seen the Prodigy
Since she told him to leave
She reaches out to his Mother comfort
Wondering if there wasn't more
She could have done

Girl: I feel his shadow
Looming over me leaving me defeated
And confused his eyes still haunt me
If only I’d done more
Maybe I gave up on him too soon

Mother: I share your sorrow
But we are not to blame
His heart has always been a mystery

Girl & Mother: We’ll nеver fathom
We’ll nevеr understand

Did he ever need us were we real
Or mere reflections in a mirror of dreams?

Girl: What holds his future
How will he survive
Without us to save him from himself?

Where has he run to will he return?
I hope he knows i wish him well
Mother: It’s up to him now
There’s nothing we can do i fear we cannot
Give him what he needs

Girl & Mother: Are we but phantoms
Inside his tangled mind?

Will he ever need us are we real
Or mere reflections in a mirror of dreams?

After being rejected by the Girl
The Prodigy turn to his only friend
The Teacher
The Prodigy needs a safe place where
He can work on the Theory of Everything
And take time to sort himself out

The teacher knows of the perfect place
There's an old renovated lighthouse
Up for sale after pulling off the bank
Scam with the Rival money is no object:
The Prodigy buys the lighthouse
And retreats there
Virtually going "off the grid"
The teacher is the only one
Who knows his whereabouts
And checks on him every day

Teacher:
It’s time to put things in perspective
Find your way again
Let me take you to the lighthouse
Where you can hide away

Prodigy: I only want to be alone
To work the numbers on my own
I need to show my father
I need to show them all

I am the one!

Teacher: Your time has come

Prodigy: To unlock the equation

Prodigy & Teacher: The Theory of Everything!

Teacher: If you’re troubled by the visions
The chaos in your mind
If the voices start to whisper
Call me, day or night!

Prodigy: Don’t worry i’ll be fine!

Teacher: Don’t underestimate the danger!

Prodigy: I’m gonna make the theory shine

Teacher: You’ll regret it sooner or later

Prodigy: I need to show my father
I need to show them all

I am the one!

Teacher: Our time has come!

Prodigy: I will find the equation

Prodigy & Teacher: The Theory of Everything!

The tension between the Mother
And the Father comes to a head

Father: Without him it’s all over
We’ve got to bring him home again!

Mother: He doesn’t want to see you
Can’t you get that through your head?

Father: But, you can make him listen
All I need is one more chance

Mother: No, I can’t take anymore!
You never gave a damn!

-Yesterday-

After months of fruitless arguments
With the Father
The Mother finally takes action

Mother: And so it ends
It’s time to let go my spirit is crushed
Forsaken and cold

I’m leaving you no tears left to cry
You’ll never change i’ve made up my mind

This is goodbye!

Father: So this is the end
How can I go on? My dream’s unfulfilled
And now I’m alone

I let them down i pushed them away
No reason to live i’m ending this pain
There’s no other way!

Only one thing left to do

-Last night-

The Prodigy has been working on the
Theory of Everything for months now
He's totally exhausted
But is sure that the final missing piece
Is just around the corner

Then one evening he gets
An unexpected visitor

Father: I’m down here on my knees
Feeling the weight of shame
How could I have done this to you, my son?

Prodigy: I can’t believe my eyes
Is it really you? Why should I forgive you
After all you’ve done?

Father: I was driven and blind
Not so unlike yourself
We can still work together if you allow me

Prodigy: Why should I give you a chance?
Why should I trust you now?
I bet you are helpless without me

Father: If we join our minds
Then together we can do this

Prodigy & Father:
We both want to be the first
We both want to change the world

Father: We can work all night
Until we find out what the truth is

Prodigy & Father: We’ll solve this mystery
Be a part of history

Prodigy: I’m so damn close!

Father: I’ll fill in the blanks

Prodigy: I could use a hand!

Father: Just give me this chance

Prodigy & Father:
For we’re on the verge of a breakthrough

Father: The meds help me to see!

Prodigy: It's too late to stop now

Father: I'll take just a few more!

Prodigy: Just 'til the answer is found

Prodigy & Father: We can make it
We'll find the truth

Let’s join our minds
It’s our destiny to do this
We’re going to be the first
We’re going to change the world

We’ll work all night
Until we find out what the truth is
We both know we’ll never sleep
Until we make this quantum leap

We are in this way too deep!

Together with his Father
The Prodigy works feverishly all
Through the night
He takes a far greater dose
Of the drug than usual
Thinking it will help him see the solution"

Prodigy & Father: Isolate the graviton
Verify the Higgs-Boson photons, hadrons
Gluons, fermions

Demonstrate the tachyon
Find the missing baryons neutrons, protons
Nucleons, electrons

Ride a wave of gravity
Unravel super symmetry
Position X, sparticles
Momentum P, dark energy

Einstein’s relativity
Meets Heisenberg’s uncertainty
Causality, eternity singularity, infinity!

Eureka! We found it we broke it

Eureka! We solved it we did it!

Eureka! We made it we cracked it

Eureka! We nailed it we got it!

The Prodigy is exhausted by
His mental efforts
And, on the verge of collapse
Summons the last of his strength to
Write a note for his friend the Teacher

Prodigy: Dear friend
My work here is done science has evolved!

As the sun set on father and son
The mystery was solved

I’m broken i’m falling apart
Slowly fading away

I’m sorry i took it all too far
Thank you for your faith

-8: 03 this morning-

On his daily visit to the Lighthouse
The Teacher is stunned at what he finds:

The Prodigy is slumped in a corner
Totally unresponsive
His hand clutching a crumpled note
The Teacher reads the note and
Immediately phones the Girl
Who rushes over to the lighthouse

When she arrives, the Teacher can hear her
Hurriedly saying goodbye
To someone as she bursts into the room
Fumbling to put away her phone

Her eyes are already red from crying
But a flood of new tears erupts
Whe she sees the Prodigy
She turns to the Teacher to
Find out what happened

Teacher: His mind took flight
And his eyes have lost their light
All we have to go on is a note

They changed the world last night
Working together, side by side
His father is the only one who knows

Girl: You haven’t been told?
That was his mother on the phone
There was a tragedy last night

His father can’t have been here
It had to be a ghostly dream
For at the fall of day he took his life!

The Prodigy clearly believed that
His Father helped him
But how is this possible?

-9: 46 this morning-

Upon her arrival at the Lighthouse
The Mother breaks down at the
Sight of her catatonic son
She desperately needs to understand what
Happened there the night before

Mother: They were seduced
By the mystery something forbidden
Was uncovered here

My husband!

Girl: My love!

Mother: My son!

Girl: All lost!

Mother & Girl:
Our world is not ready to know
The Theory of Everything

We need a future to build
A new role to fulfil
We’ve got something to give
We’ll find a reason to live

The present-

Everyone has left the Lighthouse
But the Teacher
He stands staring at the blackboard
Trying to make sense of
The tangle of equations
Then he makes a startling discovery

Teacher: Will we ever understand
How two different hand styles
Came to grace this blackboard?

What unseen forces did conspire
Uniting a father and his son