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Verhaal, artiesten & illustraties
CD 1
Prologue
The time telepathy experiment
Overture
Ayreon's quest
The awareness
The premonition
Dreamtime (words become a
  song)

The awakening
Eyes of time
Eyes of time
Brainwaves
The accusation
  [acoustic version]

Sail away to Avalon
  [single version]

Listen to the waves
Actual fantasy
Abbey of synn
Computer eyes
Back on planet earth
Isis and Osiris
Let the journey begin
The hall of Isis and Osiris
Strange constellations
Reprise
Amazing flight
Amazing flight in space
Stardance
Flying colours
CD 2
The garden of emotions
In the garden of emotions
Voices in the sky
The aggression factor
The castle hall
The mirror maze
Inside the mirror maze
Through the maze
The two gates
The shooting company of
  captain Frans B. Cocq

Dawn of a million souls
And the druids turned to stone
Into the black hole
The eye of the universe
Halo of darkness
The final door
The first man on earth
Day two: Isolation
CD 3
Day three: Pain
Day six: Childhood
Day twelve: Trauma
Day sixteen: Loser
Day seventeen: Accident?
Age of shadows [edit]
Ride the comet
The fifth extinction
Glimmer of hope
World of tomorrow dreams
Collision course
From the ashes
Glimmer of hope (reprise)
Waking dreams
The sixth extinction
Echoes on the wind
Radioactive grave
2085
To the planet of red
Spirit on the wind
Complete the circle
Epilogue: The memory remains
Epilogue
The memory remains

'Synn' is the old English spelling of 'sin' and also refers to the important role played by synthesizers on the Actual fantasy CD.
Based on the movie 'The name of the rose' (1986), the song tells the story of a Benedictince abbey where laughter is considered sinful and is strictly forbidden. The abbey's monks are mysteriously dying one by one, each victim marked by a blackened finger and tongue. It turns out that hidden in the depths of the monks' forbidden library lies a book of comedy written by Aristotle. The book's pages have been poisoned to prevent the spread of the 'dangerous' ideas contained within it.


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Once upon a time as in ancient history
High upon a hill in a shroud of mystery
Loomed the abbey as we journeyed through the night
And wended our way towards the light

As we entered through the gates we heard the silent calls
There was something evil that lurked within these walls
As I relive my days in this god forsaken place
All that appears before me now...
Is her face

Another man died today like the ones before
With blackened tongue and blackened finger
Within the labyrinth behind the bolted door
Lies the answer to our mystery

Heed the book that kills ~ it holds an evil power
Those who turn the leaves wither like a flower
Well guarded by the seer inside the abbey tower
For laughter kills the fear within
The abbey of synn

We found the secret path that led us here to you
Give us the deadly book of laughter
Too many men have died for a teaching of the few
Open up your heart reveal the mystery

Heed the book that kills ~ it holds an evil power
Those who turn the leaves wither like a flower
Well guarded by the seer inside the abbey tower
For laughter kills the fear within
The abbey of synn

And then she came to me like a creature from the dawn
Enchanting as the moon ~ radiant as the sun
She took the boy in me and gave me back the man
With a force I could not withstand

The seer burned the abbey down and perished in the fire
We couldn't save the book the flames were rising higher
So many died in vain for an ancient discipline
Laughter kills the fear within
The abbey of synn

Heed the book that kills ~ it holds an evil power
Those who turn the leaves wither like a flower
Well guarded by the seer inside the abbey tower
For laughter kills the fear within
The abbey of synn