Time Beyond Time lyrics

FUTUREMAN:

From the cities on the seas

To the skyways in the east

From the stations on the moon

To the planet of Neptune

I'm a sophisticated man

And you would say I'd understand

Is it a virtual design?

Are we launched into a time beyond time?

Space beyond space

We are lost here in this cyber world...

Is there no way out?

KNIGHT:

I don't understand your words!

They strike as hard as steel

I'm sworn to the sacred quest

On the isle of Avalon

To retrieve the magic chalice

Which holds the power to heal

Only the pure of heart

Are received into the realm

ROMAN:

Just look around you now and tell me what you see

A world full of treachery

Skies of silver and seas of gold

The past is young and the future old

We're closed in by iron gates!

Beyond them Elysium waits

Far away on the edge of the world in a time beyond time

Space beyond space

We are lost here in the underworld...

Is there no way out?

FUTUREMAN:

From the birthcry of our race

To the mysteries of space

I'm an educated man

And you would say I'd understand...

KNIGHT: I don't understand your words!

FUTUREMAN: (I'm a sophisticated man)

KNIGHT: They strike as hard as steel

I'm sworn to the sacred quest

FUTUREMAN: (And you would say I'd understand)

KNIGHT: On the isle of Avalon

ROMAN: Just look around you now, and tell me what you see

KNIGHT: (To retrieve the magic chalice)

FUTUREMAN: (Is it a virtual design?)

ROMAN: A world full of treachery

KNIGHT: (Which holds the power to heal)

ROMAN: Far away on the edge of the world in a...

KNIGHT: Only the pure of heart are received into the realm

FUTUREMAN: Are we launched into a...

ROMAN AND FUTUREMAN:

Time beyond time, space beyond space

• Artist:Ayreon
• Album:Into The Electric Castle (1998)