Avenged Sevenfold - Exist Lyrics






Our truth is painted across the sky
In our reflection, we learn to fly
No hand to hold us
No one to save us from tomorrow

Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
No light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can't see the pain
Does anybody care?

Think for a moment of all the lives
Stripped of their essence before their time
We stand to conquer
But is there nothing left tomorrow?

I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
There's no light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can't see the pain
Does anybody care?

[Neil deGrasse Tyson:]
We have one collective hope: The Earth.
And yet uncounted people remain hopeless.
Famine and calamity abound.
Sufferers hurl themselves into the arms of war.
People kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God.
Dare we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?
Each fabricated conflict, self murdering bomb, vanished airplane,
Every fictionalized dictator, biased partisan and wayward son
Part the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national and cultural conflicts,
And you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers.
When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets,
Each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces of gravity,
I see beyond the plight of humans. I see a universe ever expanding
With its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching, four-dimensional fabric of space and time.
However big our world is — in our hearts, our minds, in our out-sized atlases?
The universe is even bigger.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches.
More stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed.
More stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived.
The day we cease exploration of the cosmos is the day we threaten the continuance of our species.
In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations
Would be prone to act on their low contracted prejudices,
And would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment —
Until the rise of a visionary new culture once again embraces the cosmic perspective;
A perspective in which we are one, fitting neither above, nor below, but within.





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  1. E.... C....

    BIG BANG ATACA

  2. J.... M....

    Me vibing:
    Middle of song: Tom steyer for president.

  3. M.... K....

    sup world....dudes name is les wexner. and ya got his perv posse. there ya go digrasse. welcome to the roots. welcome to trumps nwo...15 percenters exposed

  4. A.... J....

    Got an add in the middle of the song 🤔

  5. n.... ....

    fuck i'm loving this prog phase of a7x

  6. P.... P....

    I feel like there was a Dream theater inspiration to this one 🤘

  7. M.... G....

    Always inspired! You guys all did this awesome scetch of the universe and put it into a brilliant note and it represent the abstract imagination in our mind(listener). Just personal opinion by the way!

  8. F.... M....

    This whole album is a masterpiece!!!

  9. L.... A....

    Nice background music while reading the timeline of the far future in Wikipedia

  10. J.... D....

    Very nice

  11. J.... D....

    Cant believe this came out 4 years ago.i just got back into a7x.i remember buying waking the fallen.city of evil.self titled a few days after their release dates.i guess ive just been too busy working and living.but im glad i found this.a7x songs always made me think and feel good.

  12. B.... ....

    Doctor: you have 5 minutes to live
    Me: ok I'm gonna listin to exist
    Doctor: but that's 15 minutes
    God: fine il give you 10 more minutes .

  13. T.... P....

    Yo if you're gonna monetize a song, can you not put the ad right in the middle? Totally ruined the feel.

  14. J.... F....

    AV7 lost all of their credibity. Its like Tesla advertising for Edison.

  15. e.... ....

    Great song and you can tell they get their inspiration from RUSH...this song is A7X version of 2112. RIP Neil Peart. I would've loved to hear Rev on the drums on this song.

  16. L.... M....

    who the fuck puts an ad in the middle of a song?

  17. D.... P....

    Prog Avenged Sevenfold = Best Avenged Sevenfold.

  18. Y.... �....

    Holy crap I just discovered the most awesome thing in my life

  19. O.... S....

    Why the fuck did an ad disrupt my listening experience?

  20. S.... S....

    10.55-15.40 cured my existensial dread.

  21. J.... D....

    The layout of the passageway

  22. T.... w....

    I've a fascination with this song. It's God damm incredible.

  23. L.... t....

    Perfect

  24. M.... B....

    Best music, hope they come fast to destroy

  25. J.... B....

    i can picture a vr montage of planets and going through space while listening to this song.

  26. D.... E....

    Assholes put an ad in the middle of the song cause it’s so long

  27. R.... J....

    i love that we have Exist and Greatest Show on Earth (Nightwish),
    two epic length songs by metal/rock bands, both ode's to the universe, both featuring prominent scientists :D
    the world needs more songs like these!

  28. A.... D....

    all those comments about how long it is are so funny, in the range of “long” metal, this is hella short.

  29. C.... B....

    The ending of this song is so fucking annoying. 0/10

  30. M.... B....

    Amazing piece.

  31. R.... M....

    This needs a laser light show in a planetarium right now

  32. d.... r....

    I was sad to see Brooks leave Bad Religion because they're my favorite band, but when I heard him on this song I knew he was a perfect for this band. Genius drumming here.

  33. D.... M....

    I always liked to get high as I'm listening to this beautiful song

  34. S.... ....

    What kind of greedy retard puts a ad in the middle of a song? Oh this guy.

  35. B.... D....

    this is perfect for an evolution movie

  36. C.... Z....

    I got a fucking add in the middle of it >:(

  37. D.... F....

    I genuinely like the song but the way the drums are mixed in is like gojira using heavy drum grooves in lana del ray songs. If youre experimenting on heavy drums in slow parts then you gotta start cutting your drum sounds down dramatically before you turn your music video to a drum cover video. Honestly I dont know why this bothers me so much but it really does grind my gears.

  38. M.... S....

    rings of sevenfold annihilator

  39. z.... v....

    Is this song has applied chromatic mediant?

  40. A.... 1....

    Avenged should end a concert with this song and Save Me

  41. �.... ....

    7:25 of Introduction
    3:08 of Voice
    And 5:07....

    15:40 best spent of my life...

  42. v.... ....

    On 27th April 2018 I was home alone listening to this song on repeat for hours on end, and later found out that my (now ex-) wife was fucking some other guy at that time. I’m still trying to disassociate this from such a shitty memory and see this epic masterpiece for what it is.

  43. Z.... K....

    today is the anniversary of this whole album... proud to be this far... next year i will be DeathBat for 10 years... my god time flies

    29 Oct 2019

  44. D.... ....

    Ranton Podcast #10 brought me here lul

  45. 6.... B....

    the best part of this song is 0:00 - 15:40

  46. T.... ....

    why would you place an ad 10 minutes into the song

  47. C.... S....

    Gotta say... im disappointed, it started off amazing then sped up then slowed down as in... whaa? Then they misused NDgT’s voice, sounded like that couldve been anyone...

    Couldve been much better...

    C.... S....

    Then why don't doing it yourself? I mean, if You could do better...

    C.... S....

    YoBoss, i could, maybe i have

    C.... S....

    @Chesterfield SnapDragon McFisticuffs Well I hope u tell me when u got the song ready

  48. A.... P....

    Down voted just bc the poorly-placed ad.

  49. o.... i....

    that ad in the middle of the song ruined it. dislike for that.

  50. T.... z....

    I just had a big bang bang with the wifey lol.

  51. B.... R....

    One of my all time favourite songs in general. Best A7X piece for me personally

  52. F.... F....

    How did the drummer not go fucking limp?

  53. R.... ....

    At mark 8:00 they straight up remind me of The Beatles, I got chills. A7X are something else...

  54. I.... H....

    Not bad

  55. C.... K....

    2019 folks?

  56. b.... ....

    This song is like the Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish

  57. h.... g....

    Who the fuck puts an ad in the middle of a song

  58. C.... 7....

    why didnt they repeat the drum part at 13:21 more times lol

  59. C.... S....

    Check out this cover of "Exist" I made!
    https://youtu.be/WnQH-8dBEwY

  60. B.... B....

    Mmmmmmhmmm love it

  61. D.... P....

    Oh my god! This song is soooooooo amazing! No matter how many times I listen to it. I get emotional and it just blows me away. The the emotions in this song gives me a mixed feeling, because of the lyrics alone, but another thing I learned in just this song. Words don’t make the story. The sound does, and that’s why I am feeling emotional. Heh her, when ever this song plays its almost hypnotic. It makes me want to listen to it more, and complete whenever this song comes on, and I am a song skipper. I will keep skipping till I find a perfect song. And this is one of them

  62. L.... M....

    I kinda get a Metallica vibe white this song always

  63. J.... M....

    *x2 for RINGS OF SATURN*

  64. r.... r....

    If you fuckers don't get this now. Our life is lost. You are the ONE.
    BE THE ONE.

  65. r.... r....

    In case you didn't know...
    We are no more and no less than a chemical, electrical, biological,
    EVENT. the rest is just an opinion about it all...

  66. T.... ....

    The Stage is their best work. Every song of the album is more than amazing!

  67. T.... ....

    M.I.A.
    Save Me
    Acid Rain
    Exist
    Avenged Sevenfold knows how to end an album in the best way!

  68. A.... ....

    I love this so much❤❤😍🤘🤘

  69. F.... ....

    14:51 my favorite riff of the whole song.

  70. E.... M....

    I feel like The Stage song shows what will happen in our future and for this song, it shows what will happen if we were given a second chance.

    E.... M....

    Talkin about The Stage track and actual events

  71. t.... ....

    Exuse but was there a fucking add in exist!?!?

  72. T.... G....

    Man 6:54 through 11:20 hits me right in the feels, i need more of this in my life :'(

  73. G.... G....

    Ive listened to this song 6 times in the past 24 hours i love it so much

  74. H.... -....

    Outro = Brooks Wackerman ft. Some scientist explaining the universe

  75. H.... -....

    Intro = Syn and Brooks demoing shit together and be like, *This song will be the two of us being more supreme than the whole band*

  76. P.... A....

    Cutest skull ever when you look at it in the thumbnail. Looks cheeky. Then full size it's a regular boring skull, what a let down. Good thing the music is like the offspring of Dream Theater and Dethklok which makes it all okay!

  77. B.... B....

    6:08 - 6:49 Queen - Bijou

  78. A.... ....

    That stupid dating app ad in the middle of the song nearly ruined everything 😡🤬 bitch don't kill my vIbe next time

  79. G.... T....

    Its like calm GOJIRA

  80. M.... B....

    This reminds me of the decline by NOFX. Obviously the two bear different genres overall, but in the momentum and construction of the song. I like it!

  81. R.... D....

    4:06 that was actually fucking nasty?!

  82. d.... ....

    Hrmmm. I always pictured that this song was about a spirit, leaving a body on earth and finding its way into space to become another star....guess I was wrong!

    A way to escape this ‘vile world’.

  83. G.... ....

    Hundreds of hours of hours? the stage is 73 minutes long.

  84. T.... C....

    So, to make it clean - the voice is Tyson and it is based on Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot.

  85. I.... y....

    This song makes me contemplate every thing

  86. I.... y....

    Is any one else scrolling through the comments so you have something to do during this song
    Also here is a random number so my comment catches your eye 1:21

  87. H.... ....

    If gustav holst were a metalhead, this would be his Planets

  88. g.... y....

    WHY PUT AN AD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG

  89. �.... �....

    I find this kinda Pink Floyd-ish

  90. A.... V....

    What is this bullshit with an ad in the middle of the fucking video

  91. F.... S....

    Algum Br que curte avenged Sevenfold?

  92. f.... f....

    yahhh ini pencipta yang di wanted dan hingga membocorkan katanya nanti ada neraka untuk mereka semua adalah api...lalu kebocorkan lagi adanya kekayaan bilakah api di padamkan dengan bahan semua cairan yang di jadikan di buatkan menjadi cairan..menjadi kekayaan yaitu adanya koneksi kontak radiasi dan kontak kontaminasi sistem sistem pencipta ke penciptaan tenaga ke perioede mesin termasuk mobil dan pesawat ........hingga di bocorkan lagio oleh bawahan hamba nya ke arah raja saud agar bersujud padanya ke sesama hamba hingga pencipta itu tersingging ...ia yeachh ???!!!

    f.... f....

    lama banget memang jaraknya perioede ke perioede .....siapa yang jahat padamu beritahuku ...hehehehe

    f.... f....

    jadi ikutan group band sepertiku saat jadi vokalis band antar penguasa .........

  93. J.... O....

    M a s t e r p i e c e

  94. B.... B....

    I can play the first three notes of this song and after that my brain fucking melts

  95. D.... M....

    I'm an old school 80s thrash and Iron Maiden head. There are very few bands afterwards that I accept in my little music world , just a handful. Pantera, L.O.G., Killswitch, Mastadon, etc. These guys after City of evil vaulted to the top of the list and haven't let me down since, love these guys, definitely if you are stranded on a desert island and you can only have 10 bands to listen to, they are comfortably in that list, awesome badassery 🤘🤘🤘

  96. j.... ....

    I got one word MASTERPIECE :)

  97. J.... K....

    The Timelapse of the Universe

    0:00-1:31 The almost empty universe
    1:31-2:20 The Big Bang
    2:20-4:06 The constant yet instability formation of stars and exo planets
    4:06-4:40 The formation of the Milky way. A place utterly insignificant and almost unregarded among the other millions
    4:40-5:20 Earth formed and a part of us slips away forming the moon, which gravitates towards Earth. Forever then.
    5:20-6:10 Our planet Earth revolving around it's axis, cooling down...
    6:10-6:56 Water showering over Earth and the so thought Art begins
    6:56-7:26 Evolution takes place from the first anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria to the hominids
    7:26-11:45 Humans. The wannabe supreme beings reigns over. ( I sincerely do not know if this was a pretty neat idea) Till then, bask in with the final words of My Tyson.
    11:45-15:40 ... "Until the rise of a new visionary culture, the cosmic perspective; a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither of the above nor below, but within."

    J.... K....

    cool story bro

    J.... K....

    This song gives me the chills.

    J.... K....

    and then the end of everything... 15:10 - 15:40 the come back to silence, to "the almost empty universe"... maybe to a new big bang, maybe not, but it'll be the end of this universe...

    J.... K....

    Sean Vieira I found them back in 2018. Great band. The Ocean Collective. As for A7X I've been a fan since 2010, the same year I discovered METAL!!🤘

    J.... K....

    @Game On "looks like they ran out of ideas" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dude, like really, this is the example of how they d the fuck they want, without following what people want. I mean, they could have done something simple, with a lyrics that talk about a broken relationship like every other rock/metal band, instead we have a concept album about something that probably nobody would have the courage to make right now.