[ti:Exist] [ar:Avenged Sevenfold] [al:The Stage (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Exist - Avenged Sevenfold (七级炼狱) [02:28.63]Written by:Brooks Wackerman/Jonathan Seward/Brian Haner/Zachary Baker/Matthew Sanders [04:57.26]Producer:Avenged Sevenfold/Joe Barresi [07:25.89]Our truth is painted across the sky [07:33.27]In our reflection we learn to fly [07:40.64]No hand to hold us [07:44.20]No one to save us from tomorrow [07:58.49]Sailing away beyond the reach of anyone [08:06.00]Far beyond the dreams of everyone [08:15.14]No light to follow [08:18.55]A shot in the dark [08:22.54]Does anybody know [08:28.04]Sailing away beyond the reach of anyone [08:35.57]Far beyond the dreams of everyone [08:44.81]High from the heavens [08:47.99]I can't see the pain [08:52.03]Does anybody care [09:01.99]Think for a moment of all the lives [09:09.15]Stripped of their essence before their time [09:16.66]We stand to conquer [09:20.33]But is there nothing left tomorrow [09:34.62]Sailing away beyond the reach of anyone [09:42.09]Far beyond the dreams of everyone [09:51.16]No light to follow [09:54.53]A shot in the dark [09:58.45]Does anybody know [10:04.02]Sailing away beyond the reach of anyone [10:11.56]Far beyond the dreams of everyone [10:20.77]High from the heavens [10:24.01]I can't see the pain [10:28.00]Does anybody care [12:08.72]We have one collective hope the earth [12:13.53]And yet uncounted people remain hopeless [12:17.50]Famine and calamity abound [12:20.25]Sufferers curl themselves into the arms of war [12:24.34]People kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of god [12:32.62]Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief [12:36.68]That the world revolves around us [12:40.45]Each fabricated conflict self murdering bomb [12:43.98]Vanished airplane every fictionalized dictator [12:48.23]Biased or partisan and wayward son [12:52.40]Are part of the curtains of society's racial ethnic [12:55.88]Religious national and cultural conflicts [13:00.38]And you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers [13:09.42]When I track the orbits of asteroids comets and planets [13:14.04]Each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet choreographed by the forces of gravity [13:21.19]I see beyond the plight of humans [13:24.06]I see a universe ever expanding with its galaxies embedded within the ever stretching [13:29.82]Four dimensional fabric of space and time [13:34.34]However big our world is our hearts [13:37.53]Our minds our outsize atlases the universe is even bigger [13:48.93]There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches [13:54.99]More stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since earth formed [14:02.06]More stars than words and sounds ever uttered [14:05.52]By all humans who have ever lived [14:10.46]The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos is the day [14:15.11]We threaten the continuing of our species [14:19.77]In that bleak world arms bearing [14:22.80]Resource hungry people and nations would be [14:25.44]Prone to act on their low contracted prejudices [14:30.72]And would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment [14:35.30]Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again [14:38.77]Embraces the cosmic perspective [14:42.17]A perspective in which we are one [14:45.08]Fitting neither above nor below but within