The Perilous Prospects of the Portals (feat. Zac Leaser)

A group of scientists inventors
Dreamers and schemers
Came together to explore
The known world's outer reaches
Creating machines whose design and intent
Was to open up pathways connecting
The past the future and the present
And to see if life exists on other planets
If we unlocked a multiverse,
Our consciousness would be expanded

The perilous prospects of the portals
The perilous prospects of the portals
The perilous prospects of the portals

A secret society was formed
Guild of the golden gear
We had to operate clandestine
Always veiled and hidden
Because the local town's populace
Of us they'd never approve

Despite grandiose efforts
No progress was made
The guild was discouraged
The project nearly terminated
Then one day for reasons unknown
A Portal appeared!
Seductively tempting
With unopenable windows
Taunting the guild
With power and riches
Mesmerizing and corrupting
All but a small chosen few
The purpose became single minded
MAKE THOSE PORTALS OPEN!

With every failed desperate attempt
The guild was more and more corrupted
Darkened evil power was unleashed
And on the local township it descended
Its citizenry (was) convinced
They knew the cause
So into an angry mob they assembled
And stormed our estate's borders
And demanded our practices ended
But the guild went insane
And belittled the angry villagers
Which incited a massacre of epic proportions
In the coldest of blood,
All our members were slaughtered
Only a small handful of the guild
Escaped and survived
The estate laboratory machines and portals
We'd leave them all behind
Lock key and earthen shroud
Entombed and destined to once again
Become one with soil and ground

Many decades have passed
Since the events at the estate
That fateful summer
The laboratory portals and forces
Seemed destined for an eternal slumber
But somehow someway
They've all now been reawakened
By a lonely and curious timekeeper
Is history doomed to repeat itself,
Will he succumb to
The mystical corrupting force
Of the portals
Or will he realize the riches and knowledge
That rested just beyond
Our fingertips

The perilous prospects of the portals
The perilous prospects of the portals
The perilous prospects of the portals

A group of scientists inventors
Dreamers and schemers
The portals power to explore
Was our greatest deceiver
Altering the timelines
Corrupting the masses
Unleashing darkened forces
That we'd never understand