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Infinite Within

from Origins by M-Opus

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lyrics

Narrator speaks:
“Together again, Miller, Violet and Jonah set to work on the Abio Lab, modifying the teleporter system to time travel.”

Narrator sings:
Life makes trails circling around us,
Confounds us and binds us,
Drives in between us,
Find us and leaves us.

3 old friends, paths reunited,
Plans calculated, time integrated,
Belief they can change it.

Violet sings:
Please come back to me, you're so far away, a star in my distance.
Please come back to me,
Together we’ll stay, alive in the moment,
That you went away.
You’re so far away.

Test run good, hypothesis proven,
Freedom of movement in every direction,
The past to the present.

Please come back to me, you're so far away, a star in my distance.
Please come back to me,
Together we’ll stay, alive in the moment,
That you went away.
You’re so far away.
Please come back to me.

We hear systems engaging, a countdown to Jonah being teleported, a musical crescendo then a sudden stop.

Instrumental section of music represents his journey.

As the music closes, a low alarm signals ominously aboard the Abio lab.

Narrator sings:
They watch the space where once he stood.
The screen reveals familiar sequences and patterns now.
2048, the numbers run.

And in the past, at Bournemouth Labs,
Their test begins, the same three dreamers channeling through space.
A disturbance curves the wormhole they create.
The future traveller’s path returning, meets the path of old.
Their collision binds the two in loop, the teleport explodes,
And into time, distorted, scattered holes...

With weapon raised, Known appears,
Just in time to see the traitor flee.
He points the barrel right at Miller and Violet...

Krown:
“You're going to tell me where that man has gone”.

Miller knows his face, he glances at Violet,
Starts typing, knows what he will do.
Says...
Miller:
“That man just teleported straight to Hartlepool, mean anything to you?”.

Krown snarls:
“You send me there!
You're coming with me, you’re my guarantee.
Don't want you teleporting me into deep space.”

Miller:
“Violet can trigger it, I've set it up.”

Narrator sings:
They mount the gate, light forms around them.
Gun still pointed right at Miller's ribs.
Violet stares at him now and jabs the switches down, sending them through.

The two men teleport to Hartlepool.

At Happy Hill Holiday Park, down the coast at Hartlepool.
The date is yesterday, the horde have left their deserted tomb.
Miller’s there snooping around, grabbed the gun and he’s got their plans.
Time to run, save everyone, when suddenly, he hears a sound…

Air blurs in magnetic swirls,
Dust shivers and the winds reverse.
Miller charges his pulsar gun, aims it straight at the origin.
Light forms on the Market Square, 2 figures take shape, now they’re standing there.
A bruised-up hostage, looks like McKee, and Nathaniel Crow with the gun on him.

Yesterday’s Miller understands, he pulls the trigger in his tightening hand.
Recalling this moment, the hostage smiles, edging away from the target’s eye.
The pulsar shoots out a burning trail, tears through Krown in electric pain.
Brute shock spasms in his vertebrae, Krown’s gun firing a random spray.

Their motion freezes, light turns black,
their bodies start fading as they're taken back.
The portal closes, tomorrow’s men are gone.
Yesterday's Miller contemplates, he's seen a glimpse of a future fate.
And in his mind, probabilities take shape...

Back on the lab, the two travellers fall to the ground.
Bullet shells shatter the sound, final few shots ringing out.
Krown’s trigger fires empty rounds.

Blood blossoms out from the fabric at Violet’s heart,
Her vision blooms tumbling stars, spinning she slips in the dark.
Miller’s world ripping apart.

Miller:
Please come back to me.
Together we’ll stay alive in the moment, don’t leave me today.


Narrator:
Then he understands, there’s a part that he has to play,
No accidents, no mistakes, the mystery solved this way.

He carries her onto the teleport stage,
Her dead body sent back to the test that she made,
He cannot return, the events can’t be changed,
what’s happened has happened, will happen again.

Violet’s gone but the power field escalates,
Failing containment, splintering core,
Gotta cut loose from the moon and its occupants,
Gather some distance, this thing’s gonna blow.

Krown is waking, while Miller sets course for Earth,
Launching the lab into safe, empty space.
Programs one last destination, a destiny,
Jumps in a Body Pod, Krown’s on his feet.

Metal collapses, the gate beams are breaching,
Krown runs at Miller, but the Pod jets ignite.

He watches the lab shrink from view through his visor,
Exploding, imploding, the lab disappears...

And 4 billion years ago on a bleak lagoon,
the wreckage appears on Earth,
Crash, clatter, rolling slows, falling apart.
Jonah’s loop severed now, he wakes in the debris.
Eyes open, an ancient sky,
A sight never glimpsed by the living before.
First life, dawn breaks, first light faced.

Krown chokes on the atmosphere,
The king drops to his knees.
The mysterious Violet clone, lies on a bio-mat feeding the world.
First life, dawn breaks, first light faced.

And high above, years from now, Miller’s pod, floating home.
He’s lost them but they remain in everything living, all life yet to come.

Miller:
“So blue and so beautiful, like I’ve not seen it before,
With purpose and clarity, an Earth that I want to be part of again.
Return, renewed, me and you.”

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from Origins, released May 1, 2020

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M-Opus Dublin, Ireland

M-Opus are a progressive rock band from Ireland.
(Jonathan Casey, Mark Grist, PJ O'Connell, Colin Sullivan, James Dunne).
They are a real band, but have a fictional history.
They record their albums today, but the albums have release dates in the past, featuring the sounds of music at that time.
"At The Mercy Of Manannán" (1972), "ORIGINS" (1978) and "1975 Triptych" (1975).
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