Rise And Fall-Pallas

[01:08.48]Domes of crystal, spires of light reach out [01:12.33]Symbols of attainment once aspired [01:19.60]A quest for knowledge fuelled by love of peace [01:25.50]People never burned by fired of war [01:32.86]The people of the East [01:35.91]Grew tired of peace [01:39.11]Now mistrust and fear [01:42.36]Are new to us here [01:44.59]Storm clouds gather [01:46.77]Mistrust turns to hate [01:50.12]A confrontation none could forsee [01:55.71]Machines of peace melt down for tools of war [02:01.15]One thousand years of peace destroyed [02:08.72]The people of the West [02:11.51]Though war they detest [02:14.76]Had nowhere to run [02:17.81]So the killing began [02:34.77]Three score and four years [02:37.77]Battle raged on high [02:41.23]Once proud and mighty [02:44.63]Prepare now to die [02:48.30]Destroyed by corruption [02:51.69]Pretention and greed [02:55.45]Atlantean achievements [02:58.71]Dispersed as dry seeds [03:07.19]Blown by the winds of change [03:15.60]Long fell the shadows [03:18.75]Across their land now bare [03:22.16]In ruins lay the towers [03:25.52]That crowned an island fair [03:28.91]Laid low in death throes [03:32.12]A race once true and right [03:35.43]Their power now their ruin [03:38.52]Their downfall their might [04:31.70]Gathering together the treasures of [04:34.33]Their wisdom and culture [04:35.81]The guardians constructed a vast computer [04:39.82]Protected by an awesome and terrible device [04:45.00]Shrouded in a silicate crystalline dome. [05:26.48]The Sentinel [05:29.44]The ultimate keeper of the Peace [05:38.17]Too late to save their own [05:41.82]Put there to guide a future race [06:24.13]By my own hand, and the hands of others, [06:41.80]A nation on its knees [06:50.18]No brothers, sisters, friends, lovers, [07:00.85]No mountains, rivers, trees [07:08.87]Forgive us for we know not what we have done [07:54.47]And storms raged over the barren wastelands [07:57.98]Of the once fertile plains of Atlantis [08:03.46]And the sea cras [08:04.84]Hed upon the shores [08:06.31]And the land crumbled upon itself [08:12.75]The vast dome, the only remaining structure [08:16.21]On the dying continent, shuddered and sank [08:21.51]Slowly to the depths of the ocean...