Versus X - Cutting The Veil lyrics

a) Changing Conditions Our heroes seem pale and worn out these days though we tried so hard to accommodate to changing conditions - new values and times we can't afford to fail All major discoveries it seems have been made established ideas are just optimised by an army of workers whose sk**s are just wait to be substituted by chips The greatest of visions - the whole world to see - are fallen to pieces and swept away Now disillusion is spreading in minds leaving a void of untenable kind Ancient rules devaluated - now - substituted by an omnipresent scientific rationalism - now - cutting the veil b) Laying Bare the Nerves Laying bare the nerves within a moral scaffolding once ensuring hold to the individual fragments of ancient walls eroded and undermined by time substituted by high-tech prostheses Everyone on his own - in isolation striving for social recognition Tools are ruling minds - perfect but bare of meaning do not participate in any interpretation The ultimate state of mind - direction of social preference obscured by ill-advanced individualism c) On Fertile Ground Subliminal currents of haunted minds long time suppressed - now face the light claiming the spaces still laying fallow - out of sight On fertile ground now growing wild the seeds relieved from chains of mind some seem enlightened, others pa**ing dangerous frontiers - no safety net to catch no self control to close the hatch a game of free forces - maybe too late to turn the tide Ever harder too weed out the thicket that's grown beyond control In search for instant satisfaction - a short term fit mentality providing obscure saviours and charlatans a peak prosperity d) The Gentle Coat of Night Long grown social structures splinter forming a strange kaleidoscope immediately commercialised all long term trends nipped in the bud Only in hidden and distant niches granting unhindered ripening time allows to crystallise forms unseen in velvet light Once covered by the gentle coat of night now exposed to dazzling daylight the sharpened knife desecrates the pure now- cutting the veil e) In Distant Niches (instrumental)