Back in the day I never had to choose my way without a clue

Back in the day I never had to choose my way without a clue
 No need for a hand
 Unaware that I was dancing on the edge but wasn't a due
 Oh, serene's the sea behind me
 Into the whirl of devil time

 gentle rocking
 Then a crack in the cradle
 You're asleep until you hit the ground
 One for this road and another for after?
 Someone tell me: what's yer „after“ all about?

 From ease to the sky
 Until the world gets in the way

 Ring in the age: countdown to zero
 Chasing the afterglow
 The outcome is set as far as I know
 Time and again the sundown it screams my name
 But I try to run away

 The gorge of the instant devours the future
 To spit it out as a fading memory
 Gimme the strenght to defy contradiction
 When my mindset fails to let me see
 Will I travel on and longing pave the road?

 Ring in the age: countdown to zero
 Chasing the afterglow
 The outcome is set as far as I know
 Is it the end or maybe the outset
 Or just a stage of a whole that I can't survey
 Time and again it's screaming my name

[Solo]

 So you don't wanna see
 You realize that your senses have come to the edge
 And you don't trust a single one
 Don't wanna turn your inside towards the sky
 Are we afraid to catch a glimpse of truth tonight?

 Could the heavens reveals
 What's inside the afterglow?
 Is this light just based on perception now?
 Or do I refuse to perceive what is hard to ignore?
 From ease through fire into afterglow...

 And you don't wanna see
 See that your eyes have come
 To a point where you don't see why and where do you run
 Will you turn your inside towards the sky
 You're scared to death by what your heart may see tonight

 Pictures of void burn in the afterglow
 Purification or just a perception now?
 Will refuse to feel what you can't ignore
 From ease through fire into afterglow

 I look up in search of forever and wonder
 Trying to make out that day
 That I had to give my inherent spiritual juvenility away and again:
 Why is it made so difficult for us to read the signs that we
 Have to read in order just to understand
 Read so we can comprehend a trace of eternity

 I look up in search of forever and wonder
 Trying to make out that day
 That I had to give my inherent spiritual juvenility away and again:
 Why is it made so difficult for us to read the signs that we
 Have to read in order just to understand
 Read so we can comprehend a trace of eternity
 Have to read in order just to understand
 Read so we can comprehend a trace of eternity

 Oh I feel like I'm to wander

 I can't fathorn but I'm bound to journey on
 Oh eternally I'll wander
 I'm a spiritual eternal wayfarer, oh

 I try to look as far as the eye can see
 Past and beyond the dark painted wall, oh

 Ring in the age: countdown to zero
 Chasing the afterglow
 The outcome is set as far as I know
 Is it the end or maybe the outset
 Or just a stage of a whole that I can't survey
 Time and again it's screaming my name