"The Antikythera Mechanism" lyrics - NIGHTWISH

[Verse 1: Floor Jansen]
Unearth a weave of a lost world
Your fathers' voice no more unheard

[Pre-Chorus: Troy Donockley]
Sixty times to the sun and back I return
Just imagine an awake tomorrow

[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars

[Post-Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

[Verse 2: Floor Jansen]
From a brave old world, the days of yore
An ancient orrery reading the gods
Aiming for truth, starbound, they saw
The library burns, prophets are crowned

[Pre-Chorus: Floor Jansen & Troy Donockley]
Millenia of darkness for the fallow

[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars

[Post-Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

[Instrumental break]

[Bridge: Floor Jansen]
From Lucy's prints
To those on the moon
And from the moon
To the...

[Chorus: Floor Jansen]
Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars
Humankind, reconciled, human child, undefiled
Navigate, celebrate
History, mystery, afterlife will arrive
Outermost, reaches of human mind
Labyrinth, navigate, animate
Avatar of the tides
In the end, to the stars