[00:49.88]Once there were trees full of birds,[00:58.90]Meadowlands vibrant with flowers;[01:07.62]Carefree the songs our children once sang[01:16.51]Gilding our minutes and hours.[01:25.54]Clouds came and covered the sun,[01:34.27]The breath of a baleful unease[01:43.20]Turning to ashes flowers in their fields,[01:51.92]Silenced the birds in their trees.[02:00.45]Hidden so deep in veils of deceit,[02:08.69]Imprisoned in twisting spells[02:16.81]All of these ghosts of our own delusions are back;[02:26.78]Are we telling ourselves,telling ourselves?[03:20.88]Strive till the phantoms are broken,[03:29.70]Fight till the battle is done;[03:38.43]The squadrons of night can't conquer the day,[03:46.91]No shadows extinguish the sun.[03:55.80]Stories of danger,fearless attack,[04:04.92]Spectres of plague and pain.[04:11.59]All of these ghosts of our own delusions come back;[04:22.02]And we'll be hunted again,hunted again.[04:35.29]For tho the storms are over and past,[04:45.07]Tho the thunder's rage is quieted until the last[04:53.69]While this nightmare's laid me down in the rags here to mourn,[05:06.57]Here to mourn.[05:12.01]The night has left us crippled with grief[05:21.18]As we strive to keep alive our belief.[05:30.48]But a loss so great,it clouds all over our hopes for the dawn.[05:49.63]Hidden so deep in veils of deceit,[05:58.56]Imprisoned in twisting spells.[06:06.35]Are we the playing of fiends,or merely the dreams[06:16.92]That we're telling ourselves,telling ourselves?[06:27.20]Stories of danger,fearless attack,[06:35.98]Spectres of plague and pain.[06:43.22]All of these ghosts of our own delusions are back;[06:54.24]And we'll be fighting in vain,fighting in vain.[07:53.33]Applausing...