Ayreon - The Two Gates lyrics

Forever of the Stars:
And so it's come to this: Two Gates
Two portals await let your choice be guided
By collective wisdom
Mmm, hath the prospect of freedom
Ever tasted so good?
One gate completes the circle one
Step away from your own
Dimension, your cherished time one
Gate severs all connections
One step away from the
Dreamworld of everlasting ebony
You call it Oblivion it is a brave
Soul who makes the first choice

BARBARIAN: Behold these gates
The first one plain and old
Behold these gates, the second forged of gold
The gate of old spells out disgrace and shame
The one of gold cries out my noble name
I challenge death to meet me at this gate!
I challenge Odin to pronounce my fate!
And if I thrive I've overcome this land
But, if I fail I'll die a worthy man

ROMAN: Open the gate, we're now on our own
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!
ROMAN: Will it be fortune or fate
The truth shall be known
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!

BARBARIAN:
Cowards whine beyond the olden gate
Valhalla shines beyond the golden gate
I walk alone so dare not follow me
But choose your own and die in agony!

ROMAN: Open the gate, we're now on our own
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!
ROMAN: Will it be fortune or fate
The truth shall be known
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!

BARBARIAN:
What evil place might this be? Why
Are the heavens so black?
Eternity threatens
Darkness crashes down upon me! Ohh!
Like a big black bat of
Death smothers my senses!
Makes me lose my sense of time!
This cannot be a dream!
I need to be wide awake! Wide awake!
When the Valkyries come to take me!
To my place among the warriors
To my place by Odin's side! Ahh! KNIGHT:

We have been saved, our journey has ended!
But tell us why, why this ordeal?
What was your aim, or was it just some game?
Have we been humbled, or did we prevail?
We've been enslaved
Our wounds have not mended!
And who are you, what magicians or gods?
What was your plan, we don't understand!
Did we pass, or did we fail?

ROMAN: Open the gate, we're now on our own
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!
ROMAN: Will it be fortune or fate
The truth shall be known
ALL: Enter the gate to your destiny!