Cog The River Song

His life had become perpetually incomplete, there was always something missing

73% of the population were involved in some form of recall stabilisation program to compensate for unquantifiable consciousness anomalies

Unlike most people, he new exactly where hed find the answers

For fourteen years hed lived and worked inside the Euronic layer outside the Mandalay belt, some six hundred miles from the source

Hed always known the forbidden zone had been just that, forbidden, and yet he could contain his curiosity on longer

There would be no more internalised debates, the decision had been made

He would enter the forbidden zone

I know youll say that your time here is short and youll pay

You wait all day for the chance to arrive, its too late

By the time I arrive here, ready to begin, I will, I will

Im on my own! Who do you believe? What he witnessed from the edge of the escarpment was incomprehensible and yet it made perfect sense

A euphoric wave rushed through his mind, affecting every thought and emotion he had ever experienced

A thousand realisations, so complex they tore at the fabric of consciousness itself

It was a reality that could not possibly exist

The fight for his mind had begun

I know youll say that your time here is short and youll pay

You wait all day for the chance to arrive, its to late

By the time I arrive here, ready to begin, I will stay! I am always on my own, Im always on my own

You are on your own again, killing time

I am always on my own

Im always on my own, Im always on my own

Shelter yourselves against the mass parade, shelter yourselves against the masquerade
[ The River Song Lyrics ]