The Antikythera Mechanism Songtext
von Nightwish

Unearth a weave of a lost world
Your fathers′ voice no more unheard
Sixty times to the Sun and back I return
Just imagine an awake tomorrow

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

Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

From a brave old world, the days of yore
An ancient orrery reading the gods
Aiming for truth, star bound, they saw
The library burns, prophets are crowned


Millennia of darkness for the fallow

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

Tools of mankind
All odds defied
This hour is ours
Dare us dare

From Lucy's prints
To those on the Moon
And from the Moon
To the


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