Rise And Fall Lyrics - Singles - Pallas

Domes of crystal, spires of light reach out 

Symbols of attainment once aspired 

A quest for knowledge fuelled by love of peace 

People never burned by fired of war 

The people of the East 

Grew tired of peace 

Now mistrust and fear 

Are new to us here 

Storm clouds gather 

Mistrust turns to hate 

A confrontation none could forsee 

Machines of peace melt down for tools of war 

One thousand years of peace destroyed 

The people of the West 

Though war they detest 

Had nowhere to run 

So the killing began 

Three score and four years 

Battle raged on high 

Once proud and mighty 

Prepare now to die 

Destroyed by corruption 

Pretention and greed 

Atlantean achievements 

Dispersed as dry seeds 

Blown by the winds of change 

Long fell the shadows 

Across their land now bare 

In ruins lay the towers 

That crowned an island fair 

Laid low in death throes 

A race once true and right 

Their power now their ruin 

Their downfall their might 

Narrator: 

Gathering together the treasures of 

their wisdom and culture 

The guardians constructed a vast c 

omputer 

Protected by an awesome and terrible device 

Shrouded in a silicate crystalline dome. 

The Sentinel 

The ultimate keeper of the Peace 

Too late to save their own 

Put there to guide a future race 

Survivor: 

By my own hand, and the hands of others, 

A nation on its knees 

No brothers, sisters, friends, lovers, 

No mountains, rivers, trees 

Forgive us for we know not what we have done 

Narrator: 

And storms raged over the barren wastelands 

of the once fertile plains of Atlantis 

And the sea cras 

hed upon the shores 

And the land crumbled upon itself 

The vast dome, the only remaining structure 

on the dying continent, shuddered and sank 

slowly to the depths of the ocean... 

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