MERLIN: Let us go back... to... the Dark Ages... Dark Ages... Dark Ages... Dark Ages... Dark Ages... AYREON (EDWARD REEKERS): 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 space 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 WOMEN: The smoke is rising The vision's getting clearer. The hands of time are whirling around I'm realizing The future's getting nearer And words become a song... AYREON (EDWARD REEKERS): The smoke is rising The vision's getting clearer. And words become a song...