Tribulation 200 craters dot the Tara like stars

200 maters make chimaera and pop stars

200 fakers fake their death to traumatize

Play another role to confuse and tell more lies

Who are you I've seen your face before

In an ancient painting, the centuries have been quite kind

Keep the young girls fainting so they cannot trace the lines

That connect, so they never suspect, you are eternal

Stars never burn out just fade into the next phase

Perform the new play

Coz all the worlds a stage

The fallen Angels play their part

Keep the audience in cages

So they just follow their hearts

Never listen to their brains or their gut instincts

It's the deceivers age, have another round of drinks

The Tribulation

Coz all the worlds a stage

The fallen Angels play their part

Keep the audience in cages

So they just follow their hearts

Never listen to their brains or their gut instincts

It's the deceivers age, have another round of drinks

The Tribulation

Our time lines wrong that's why I wrote this song

For forty years of desert wandering is too long

To canvas this flat plain on a quest for truth

After decades in which theyve poisoned my youth

With tall tales of big bangs, monkey brains so uncouth

Coz all the worlds a stage

The fallen Angels play their part

Keep the audience in cages

So they just follow their hearts

Never listen to their brains or their gut instincts

It's the deceivers age, have another round of drinks

The Tribulation

Coz all the worlds a stage

The fallen Angels play their part

Keep the audience in cages

So they just follow their hearts

Never listen to their brains or their gut instincts

It's the deceivers age, have another round of drinks

The Tribulation

"Tribulation" acts as a prologue, establishing the world of the album as one of deep deception, where history is fabricated and the "stars" we worship are literally ancient entities playing roles.