A Slow Descent Into Reality (I: Everyman / II: A Slow Descent / III: Wisdom of the Ages / IV: Honest with Me / V: The Battle Within / VI: Anyman)

A Slow Descent Into Reality
 I. Everyman
 I had arrived in life
 No one would disagree
 I lived the dream
 Behold the wonders
 Born from deep inside of me
 And so it seemed
 Come and recognize
 The poster child
 For Human Enterprise
 But to my world came
 The winds of consequence
 A compromise
 Of friends that riches make
 Had vanished at a glance
 Before my eyes
 As history has told
 Kingdoms rise
 As easily as they fold
 So I climbed my tower high (oh)
 And I screamed into the sky (oh)
 And with nothing left
 I thought of letting go
 Just letting go...
 II. A Slow Descent
 From the void, from the womb
 A new world of all-sense and need
 At the breast, as it's given, withdrawn
 So is sown the seed
 With perennial eyesight
 I stretch into the day
 As the child with the world
 Set before in the ever-now
 As a youth in all truth
 Never when, where or even how
 Left to government graces
 Then cast into the void
 Will I be destroyed
 Or will I then succeed
 Bold ideals, aspirations
 I venture into my time
 Am I pretty, am I strong,
 So we long, so the world defines
 Should I find it a wonder
 That pleasures do unfold
 And pride fill the soul
 So they steal it away
 Endless cycles, sensations
 Relations had I employed
 At the end such frustration
 All emptiness fills the void
 And with stardom and fortune
 Ends with boredom high
 Vainglory disguising
 The Prince of Remains
 Pharmacia, academia
 I strove for a higher plane
 But for all my achievements
 This one question still remained:
 Of the Human Condition
 If I'm the one in need
 Then how can it be
 That I am also the Means
 III. Wisdom of the Age
 Preach the Prophets of Man:
 He is Good Fundamentally
 Asked the convict, who laughed
 And drew close just to say to me:
 Ne Plus Ultra, we strive for the line
 But each step is divided in time
 In the ashes of war
 Is our selfsame repartee
 Meaningless, meaningless, vain
 Says the teacher, and could it be
 Just lie there as a rock
 And roll to everything, or
 Rise to virtuous standards,
 I'm told
 I'm OK, you're OK,
 Is M.O.
 But the vast of my past
 Says alas, that I can not hold
 IV. Honest To Me
 If standards I conceive
 Then I consider to possess
 Then all that I've achieved
 Is absolute self-righteousness
 I cannot give something
 That I myself don't truly own
 No random act of kindness
 Or cause-project can save my soul
 Espoused utopias rooted in
 The Brotherhood of Man
 Are doomed to crumble under
 The weight of imperfection
 V. The Battle Within
 Soma, Psyche, Pneuma... Deus
 There must be something beyond Me!
 VI. Anyman
 I used to seek for life in my ambition
 But this had left me in a dark condition
 And now I see
 The creature can't transcend
 The nature of the man
 The Truth is found
 Where all my strivings end
 So I laid my banner down (oh)
 And I knelt low to the ground (oh)
 For I knew that it was time for letting go
 Just letting go