[a. the premonition] a strange sensation comes over ayreon, as if something mysterious is about to occur. [b. dreamtime (words become a song)] suddenly a vision emerges in ayreon's ever-black world and he finds himself singing about the horrid projections etched into his brain. [ayreon:] a cry in the silence a shine in the dark like a rising star the dream is coming images of violence a flight through time and pace it's such a lonely place the dream has started the smoke is rising the vision's getting clearer and words become a song in the dreamtime i've lost control marooned and cold i suffer the fears of a future untold i cannot change the shape of things to come the smoke is rising the vision's getting clearer and words become a song in the dreamtime the smoke is rising the vision's getting clearer the hands of time are whirling around i'm realising the future's getting nearer and words become a song [c. the awakening] abruptly the vision ends and ayreon recedes into his darkness