[Verse 1]

For there is a purpose and reason

Beyond all human apprehension

The shrieking silence in the blackness of space

For there is a knowledge more complex

Than life on this planet

A knowledge in tune with the progress of stars

[Chorus]

Lunar Strain

All across the milky way

Life suffers defeat

Life that once was treasured

[Verse 2]

What once was nothing

Has blossomed into form

Once it was I that was nothing

But now they say I will die

[Chorus]

All across the galaxy

Life suffers defeat

Lunar strain

[Post-Chorus]

From nothingness to reality

As we see it

From nothingness into life

My dismal tears of anguish

Bleed into one with the songs

With the songs of my heaven

Loneliness is pain

[Bridge]

Emptiness his power, loneliness his pain

Serenity his might

Yet we shall be honoured

In the starforsaken night

Astral strain

[Chorus]

All around my silent moon

Life suffers defeat

Astral strain

[Outro]

For there is a purpose and reason

Beyond all human apprehension

The shrieking silence in the blackness of space