The spark of an intuition
Led to the start of my investigation
A glare inside
The chance to push things to the limit

Open my eyes for revelations
Trying to fight all the expectations
The pressure is quite high
I’ll never lose my hope

Could there ever be a way
To grab a photograph
As my eyes see the world everyday

I’ll never stop my quest
Until all, I’m looking for
Will be clear for me to see

Busy days and sleepless nights
Collecting all the data I could find
Just to discover
That maybe I’ll need to search for more

I’ve counted on all my knowledge
I’ve summoned everything I know
To find myself in a dead end
But I will search for more

Could there ever be a reason
Why I can’t go on
And see things like I thought that they would be

I’ll never end my journey
Until all, I’m looking for
Will be here before my eyes

Things are not the way I see
Things are not the way I think
Now I don’t know what to do
Things are not like I expect
There is something that I’m missing
Now I cannot get to anything clear

Things are neither as I hoped
Nor the way I knew and
I am lost here
Things are going somewhere new
Bringing me out of track
I can’t seem to be getting anywhere

Knowledge
Faith
Light
Technology

And I need to search for
More

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

I’ll go as far as I can
Unravelling this knot
Looking for a glimmer
To peek through all the dark
I’ll push as far as I can
The limits of my mind
I’m sure I’ll get to something
It’s only a matter of time

I’ll dig as deep as I can
In the depths of the unknown
To finally find the answers
To finally understand

What if I could find a way
To see through all this mess
What if I could find a breakthrough
And let this picture be revealed

Here
I’m wandering
In this labyrinth of books
Searching
For
The knowledge
And I can’t find the thread
For breaking out of here

I’m starting to be scared
By the things, I still don’t know
Scared of all the knowledge
Surrounding me, overwhelming
Something I can’t understand
A link that I am missing
To bring the things together
A lockpick to break in

From science to photography
My mind’s drifting apart
I’m starting to have bad thoughts
Arising from the dark

What if I could find a way
To see through all this mess
What if I could find a breakthrough
And let this picture be revealed

I don’t know what is
That I’m missing to get somewhere
Don’t know what is
And it keeps me from breaking off this loop

I don’t know what is
But there’s something odd in here
I don’t know what is
But it does not look any good to me

Here
I’m standing
Breathing so much dust
Hoping
I
Will get through
This deadlock I am in
And voices whispering

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

What if
I were to go away
Forget about this
And leave it all behind
Stop me
I am not done here
I have to find the
Answers to the questions I have

Please teach me all you know
My mind just won’t let me stop
I have to take off the veil
I’m so afraid I could fail
Sure there’s more to explore
I feel like losing control
If there is a price to pay
I wish there could be a way

Teach me
Let me know everything
I need to learn more
As long as I don’t lose my mind
Tell me
What are you doing here
Who are you really
What do you want from me

I’ll teach you all I know
Your mind’s about to be blown
I know things you won’t believe
But you’ll have to bear with me
Sure there’s more to explore
Don’t be afraid to lose control
And yes, there’s a price to pay
Are you ready to go that way?

Am I ready to go that way?
My mind tells me to stop
But I feel like I should go There

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

It feels so cold here
I feel like I can’t breathe
I’m taking silent part
In this war within

My spirit’s broken
It’s shattered all around
And I can’t seem to join
All the shards back together

I try to see
The mist is just too dense inside
This wasted land of mine

I am moving slowly
Groping around
Just want to see the light
Again

Am I doing all this for nothing
Will it ever bring to something
All of my beliefs
Trembling here with me

Is it truly necessary
To surrender to things I don’t even know
This War Within
I feel I’m giving in

If I could ever
In my entire life
Imagine something like this
Dragging me more and more down

What would have I done?
What could have I even said?
I’m lurking in the dark
Searching for a sparkle

Of faith, of hope
Of knowledge, just to see
Inside
This tired soul of mine

I am fading slowly
Drifting away
Just want to grasp the truth
Again

Am I doing all this for nothing
Will it ever bring to something
All of my beliefs
Trembling here with me

Is it truly necessary
To surrender to things I don’t even know
This War Within
I don’t want to give in

Am I doing all this for nothing
Will it ever bring to something
All of my beliefs
Trembling here with me

Is it truly necessary
To surrender to things I don’t even know
This War Within
I will never give in

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

Why do I feel so empty

There’s a weird vibe in the air

Can’t believe what I’m seeing

In my entire life

I’ve never thought I would have

Witnessed something like this

Chances are just endless

If only we could understand

I feel like we’re trying to measure

The ocean with a teaspoon

I hope we will get to something

And I hope that it will be soon

Standing from the crowd
Of the many thoughts in my head
There’s a word
It’s telling me to go there
To the place
Somebody tried to pass that only thing
He would hold on to
Before he died

So now we can’t hold back on this
It’s time to get moving
It’s kind of strange
I’m feeling so much fear
I must sail
If only he were here
If only he were here

Standing by a glimpse of
Hope trying to
Hide my fears and
All my concerns
Planning what to bring and
What to be aware of
Worrying about the
Odds for danger

There won’t be another
Chance to reach the
Truth that we’ve been
Searching all along
In this quest I am alone
But I know
I have to search
For new frontiers

Too late! For stepping back on
What we’ve already set
To stop and let all go to waste
Search for what is lost, a glare, a ray
The break of a new dawn, far away

For science sake, I need to know
It’s too late now, to let it go
A journey that will end in tales
Towards new frontiers we must sail

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

After all the trouble I’ve been through since the day I embarked on this journey I feel like I am not halfway yet.

I’ve lost awareness of the time passing. All the days I spent bent on a pile of books, earching for something in the tangible areas of knowledge only to discover I had to uncover something so distant from what I believe is the line between what’s ethical and what’s not,  that I don’t even remember the moment I crossed that line.

Now I’m here on this old weathered boat, creaking under every bloody wave that hits the keel, sailing in hiding… on this voyage towards unknown lands, to search for unknown things so that I could discover unknown properties of an unknown piece of unknown matter.

Did I say “unknown”?

That is encouraging, for sure… but it’s the only way, I guess.

I still have the old Carson’s voice drilling a hole through my brain: “If you don’t sail, we won’t know. If you sail, we might know. I wish I could have had this chance 20 years ago, but… it’s your turn now, Chip”

Wrinkly bastard

But he’s right for sure, I am the lucky winner of a trip fifteen thousand kilometres from home just to search for a trace. That is correct: a trace left by an adventurer which might or might not have found out something about that “mineral” we discovered. I guess there’s no point in complaining now.

I should get back to the crates in the hold of the ship like I’m some kind of ware to be delivered… but again, not complaining.

According to what I’ve heard eavesdropping on a conversation between the captain and what looked like to be a very wealthy merchant, we should arrive in a matter of a few days, which means that I’ll soon be able to stomp my feet on a solid ground, with no water underneath. I’ll go seek cover now, but I have to admit that even though this black water scares the hell out of me I’m starting to find it fascinating.

Wouldn’t think that anymore if this heap of wood were to sink.

C’mon, it’s almost time to find out if I will ever be able to shoot a damned photograph through an actual eye.

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Alessio Felicioni

Hearing the sound
Through the walls
That kind of movement
Is well known

A puff of smoke
The steam’s flowing
Gears are ticking
Endlessly

Feel the force
Of newly discovered
Possibilities for science
I see my goal coming closer
Day by day
It won’t be the same

I am caught up
In a spire
It’s all around
Twirling and I’m

Sucked in
But I feel free
I know now I can
See clearly

I’m dazed up
Inspired
Can you imagine
If all that is unknown

Would get brighter
As the gears
Tick louder

Knowledge
Acquired
If we could get to fully
Understand

We’ll live in a better world

The place that we used to call home won’t be the same
A smashing discovery we’ll
Have to claim
We just have to search for the missing trace
An echoing call that we must chase
I know I have to do everything I  can
To finally break through and
Understand

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

Well, now I kind of feel like we actually are halfway through.

This piece of paper sure is something precious, this adventurer guy had to be a keen one to keep it from being discovered after someone reduced this room in such a miserable way.

Luckily I grew pretty expert at tinkering stuff.

I’m not even sure that if someone were to actually find this roll of paper they could ever get anything out of it, as this looks to have zero sense to me, without a way of decoding it. But I like brainteasers, I think I can give it a try.

If I have to take something from this whole thing, so far, is that holding on to an idea, even one you are very fond of, it’s the hardest thing to do when it comes to overcoming some pretty huge ethical issues.

I didn’t think I could ever compromise this much with my brain but apparently, in the end, everyone is capable of change.

Inner strength has such a huge value over physical strength; you can be as strong as you want in your arms, but they will never grasp something without letting it go if the brain does not command to hold it.

For the first time in my entire existence I found myself facing something so challenging that almost brought me to the edge of a nervous breakdown. Guess I grew even stronger from that point.

Resilience is one of the most considerable virtues for a human being to have, I had to learn it the hard way.

I can’t say why, but I have a weird feeling about what’s next to do. I can’t help but perceiving a peculiar atmosphere here

It feels like a stifling sense… of danger.

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Alessio Felicioni

What is this
Glowing thing in your hand?
Why is it
Getting brighter as you hold it?
I cannot
Get to understand what
My eyes see
Doesn’t make any sense to me

Should the sky fall and break
Right now
I could still state that I have
Witnessed all a man could
Ask for
In a lifetime and more
But I’m still here and I’ll stay
Until I’ll have seen it all
Don’t take away from me
The horizon
The horizon
Where we’ll be

There’s fire burning all around
The smoke is everywhere, I can’t see
All we have is about to be destroyed
I have to save it all

Put the bloody fire out
Compulsively search for the
Artefact, it is lost
I cannot find it, where the hell is it

The necromancer!
It must be him
He messed up everything
We have to get him

We have to get him, dead or alive!

Where is that
Bastard with the artefact?
Why did he
Do this to us all and flee?
I cannot
Believe we trusted him and
Now we must
Deal with this betrayal

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

Fear, despair
Betrayal, we are now facing
All, the consequences of what we didn’t
Know; the crypt is
Close, the air is getting
Cold the chill is
Seeping through our tired

Bones, and all we’ve
Been through is vivid in our
Mind; alive, it’s
Pumping the blood up our
Veins; we have to
Beat him, that’s everything we
Have, the truth
Is out there, and it’s for us to know

Blazing fire darting all around us,
that is something we’ve sure never seen before
Trying to figure out a way to deal with
Obscure forces cutting fast and keen and we
Sure brought our guns and everything with us

Fighting spirits is what I could never think of doing in
My entire life and now I’m here and I don’t know
What to do or what to think I just know that we must get out of this Alive
Standard bullets seem to be so useless
Walking skeletons are throwing bones at us and I feel like
I’m living my worst nightmare but I’m wide awake
We must put our minds together and think of something we can do for him to break!

There is no right or wrong
We now must end this
Willpower is stronger than fear
There is no right or wrong
Among those graves
We live or die, today

There is no right o wrong
In darkness or light
We claim what’s ours by right
There is no right or wrong
This fight will decide
Who’ll be the one to live

Watch out! Behind you
They’re coming, I’m peeking
Through the smoke, he’s here
Around us, among those scary bones
He sees us, he shoots
Those rays of energy
We have to take cover
And aim carefully

While we try to burn
The skeletons running towards us
And save the only silver bullet
Reserved for him
I can’t hear any sound now
It’s dead silent here
Let’s prepare to attack
Hold our breath and

Walk closer to the walls
Look around and ready your gun
He is coming I hear something
I know your hand is shaking
But I need you to strike true
So don’t miss your chance
We’re going all the way
I see the smoke clearing up
He is alone now, the skeletons are gone

Behind that column
There’s a green light
He’s preparing to shoot at us
Now! Shoot! This is our chance!

I don’t want to see us die
For nothing
For nothing

He’s down covered in blood
Now we only have to take
The one thing
The artefact

There is no right or wrong
We now must end this
Willpower is stronger than fear
There is no right or wrong
Among those graves
We live or die, today

There is no right o wrong
In darkness or light
We claim what’s ours by right
There is no right or wrong
This fight will decide
Who’ll be the one to live

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

A Light in the Shadows
It’s brighter than we expected
And now we can see
The beauty of our discovery

Working together
We overcame the adversities
And we came so close
To mind-blowing revelations

Steam it up! Steam it up!
And go with the rhythm
To find out a reason

Steam it up! Steam it up!
And feel all the power
Be filled with desire

A flickering brilliance
A bright pulsing green light
It’s shining through the room
It never dies

The newly discovered
Force that is about to change
The way we conceive
Fuel and energy

A revolution’s on the horizon
We’ll be the first to embrace
A never-ending source of power
That will leave a huge trace

Working together
We came to understand
Such precious values
Which we’ll never forget

Seal it up! Seal it up!
Behold all that we’ve seen
The places where we’ve been

Work it out! Work it out!
We’re close to a breakthrough
It’s changing all we knew!

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

Standing by our goals
Working hard with dedication
Burning milestones, day by day
It’s getting so real
Blowing our minds
Nobody would believe

We’re nothing more than men
No heroes, no warriors nor
Gods in our heads
Just carrying our burden
And all we’ve been through
All that we faced
Just tempered our soul and we
Grew up stronger

Soul, Fire, Desire

Nerve, Passion, Obession

Steam, Light, Rewire

Force, Flexion, Invention

Resilience made us overcame all the
Obstacles we had to face and we got
Tougher than stone
Wielding the truth as a blade

Staring at the light without looking away
Flying near the sun without burning our wings
What we got in the end shot us to the stars
It paid us back and made us proud of who we are

For every huge discovery there’s a price to pay
The outcome of our effort made it worth the wait
The blood and tears we shed were not in vain
We’re stepping up a whole new level

And we move on

We’re testing out the invention
In the dark room and
Under this red light
Noting its potential and we
Can’t help but thinking
What if we could
Overcome the state of deadlock

Rising the threshold
Pumping the heat up
Unchaining the machine
Letting the steam flow
Unlocking the true force
Of the apparatus
So it could reach a state of overpower

Staring at the light without looking away
Flying near the sun without burning our wings
What we got in the end shot us to the stars
It paid us back and made us proud of who we are
For every huge discovery there’s a price to pay

The outcome of our effort made it worth the wait
The blood and tears we shed were not in vain
We’re stepping up a whole new level
And we look ahead

Staring at the light without looking away
Flying near the sun without burning our wings
What we got in the end shot us to the stars
It paid us back and made us proud of who we are

For every huge discovery there’s a price to pay
The outcome of our effort made it worth the wait
The blood and tears we shed were not in vain
We’re stepping up a whole new level
And we won’t look back

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite

So in the end here we go
With nothing to regret
This adventure is over, but
We still have so many tasks, left to do

Through everything that happened, we
Tried not to lose control
So slow yet so fast
We got caught up, caught up in here

I still remember when
I was sailing through the sea
So scared
So shaken
But hoping it would end well

And now here I am
I’m walking
A new path
I’m growing
With good friends
The journey has to go on

It’s not over yet
And we’re running to the Sun
With this knowledge
Looking beyond the path

My passion grows even
Stronger in the light
With this breakthrough
Shooting through my eyes

Wandering here through the mountains
Going down to the ocean
All the places I call my home
All the pictures I’ve taken

Standing here on the shoreline
Loading up the film
In this weird apparatus powered by steam
With an eye on the front

I still remember when
I was sitting in my chair
Writing down some notes
On a recurring thought of mine

So now here I stand
Before those mighty waves
And the ancient, sturdy stacks
Wielding a dream in my hands

It’s not over yet
And we’ve seeing all we’ve done
With this knowledge
We can go past what’s known

My passion grows even
Tougher than it was
With this breakthrough
We’re going to set new goals

It’s not over yet
And I’m shooting through the light
With this knowledge
I’ll go beyond what’s real

My passion grows even
Stronger over time
With this breakthrough
A new era has begun

~

Lyrics: Alessio Felicioni

Vocals: Mauro Aspite