Panacea and the Prelogue

Panacea and the Prelogue is the 11th and final song on the album Modern Synthesis.

Lyrics

Wait inside
By the fire and we'll talk a while
I didn't mean to let the years go by
Waiting for love

Have we come to terms
With the lesson that our fathers learned?
Impermanent, it flows away
Everything goes away

[Chorus]
I'd follow you, but not this time

So I walk in streets unknown
Our bodies and their silver just a loan
I'm sorry that I let you down, let you down, a lifetime ago
I wanna say to all I leave behind
And to those I'll never find
That I need you to understand, understand, you're not on your own, you're not on your own

Hold in mind
What you value, is it worth the time?
The only melodies that I could ever call mine
Were friendship and lust

Will I feel absolved
At the moment when we have it solved?
A panacea for the absent soul
Still it's never enough

[Chorus]
I'd follow you, but not this time

So I walk in streets unknown
Our bodies and their silver just a loan
I'm sorry that I let you down, let you down, a lifetime ago
I wanna say to all I leave behind
And to those I'll never find
That I need you to understand, understand, you're not on your own, you're not on your own

For the art
I will sing most anything
We are worlds apart
I can do it all

For the art
I will sing most anything
We are worlds apart
I can do it all

For the art
I will sing most anything
We are worlds apart
I can do, do it all

Lines fade out, but you illuminate
The path back home, the path you've shown me
As lines fade out, you will illuminate
And lead a way back home

Lines fade out

[Layered lines from previous Area 11 Songs]

For the art
I will sing most anything
We are worlds apart
I can do it all

Layered Lyrics

• I want to be better on the inside - Processor

• ...spinning cycles in my mind. Tryin' to catch me out - In The Blind

• Are you listening? Are you listening? - Are You Listening?

• We're not just numbers, we are alive. A digital haunt in an analogue life - Cassandra Pt. II

• To be something - Override [A]

• ...from my skin so I can grow - All The Lights In The Sky

Trivia

• This song may be related to Sparks Prologue music series.
• "Panacea" is both the name of a Greek Goddess as well as being a name for a sort of "cure-all" to all illness (often also described as prolonging life forever.) often associated with alchemy. It can also be used as a term for a "magical" fix to a multi-faceted problem.
• In a Q&A on Twitter, Sparkles* responded to the question "How did you choose which lyrics to put in that rad layer-y bit of Panacea and the Prelogue?" with "There's actually something in common with them, see if you can work it out!"