[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