=== MY KINGDOM ===

1. Hand of Fate [4:20]
2. Open Your Eyes [6:11]
3. A Thousand Lives [5:45]
4. Lazarus [8:15]
5. Eye of the Beholder [4:48]
6. The Fallen Angel [9:13]
7. Forever [5:13]
8. My Kingdom [24:00]
--- i. Entrance [4:13]
--- ii. Rise Above [4:50]
--- iii. Out of Reach [4:16]
--- iv. My Kingdom [3:01]
--- v. Out of Time [4:30]
--- vi. Reawakening [3:14]

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Part 4 of "My Kingdom". This is quite understated for a section that was meant to be the central point of the whole song - the chorus of this part was the section that was written first all the way back in 2006, but it was left alone for ages and by the time I got to writing the rest of it the song was beginning to become too long for its actual content anyway.

So this is actually shorter than I intended, and has none of the usual structure to it - instead going through several themes that were hinted at in earlier parts.

It's about a dangerous addiction to a fictional world, to the point of never wanting to come back to reality, and believing that you were born in the wrong place because of thinking differently from the world around you.

[Lyrics]

Now I see I've found the place for me
No longer alone in the universe
Build me a world, so I am not alone

Giving them stories and souls of their own
I have the power to make anything I wish
I built paradise with my voice and my hands
A place that I can never show the world

But every time I am alone
I will return to my own kind
All that matters is my kingdom
And the world I made in my mind

Was I born to be the one I am
Am I a misplaced mind
For all the time I want to leave
My waking world behind

I wake in sunlight from a dream
And suddenly alone
What has happened to my kingdom
Take me back to where I belong