The Gift letra

The gift:

"The teacher visits the father, bringing him surprising news about his son."

[Teacher:]
I’m glad you could meet me
I’m here about your son
I’ve never seen a mind like his
Especially so young

He’s got a gift for numbers
Never known before
An outstanding genius
Who shouldn’t be ignored

[Father:]
You must be mistaken
He’s useless and he’s weak
I see no sign of genius
The boy can hardly speak

He just sits there, lifeless
For hours at a time
No expression on his face
His eyes staring into space!

[Teacher:]
How can you be so heartless
There must be so much more that we can do

[Father:]
Who are you to judge me,
You don’t even know what we’ve been through!

[Teacher:]
Just give him more attention
You’ll see there’s more to him than meets the eye

[Father:]
Fine! I’ll try to help the child
Better not wasting my time!

Ayreon - Letras

• "Forever" Of The Stars
• 2084
• A Reason To Live
• Abbey Of Synn
• Abby In Transitus
• Across The Rainbow Bridge
• Actual Fantasy
• Age of Shadows
• Alive!
• All That Was
• Amazing Flight
• And The Druids Turn To Stone
• Another Time, Another Space
• Aquatic Race
• Ashes
• Ayreon's Fate
• Back On Planet Earth
• Back On The Planet Earth
• Bay Of Dreams
• Beneath the waves
• Beyond The Last Horizon
• Carried By The Wind
• Chaos
• Cold Metal
• Collision
• Comatose
• Come Back To Me
• Computer Eyes
• Computer Reign (Game Over)
• Condemned To Live
• Condemned Without A Trial
• Connect The Dots
• Cosmic Fusion
• Crescendo
• Daniel’s Descent Into Transitus
• Daniel’s Funeral
• Dark Energy
• Dark Medicine
• Dawn Of A Million Souls
• Day Eight: School
• Day Eighteen: Realization
• Day Eleven: Love
• Day Eleven: Love - Tradução
• Day Fifteen: Betrayal
• Day Five: Voices
• Day Four: Mystery
• Day Fourteen: Pride
• Day Nine: Playground [instrumental]
• Day Nineteen: Disclosure
• Day One: Vigil
• Day Seven: Hope
• Day Seventeen: Accident?
• Day Six: Childhood
• Day Sixteen: Loser
• Day Ten: Memories
• Day Thirteen: Sign
• Day Three: Pain
• Day Twelve: Trauma
• Day Twenty: Confrontation
• Day Two: Isolation
• Deathcry Of A Race
• Diagnosis
• Dragon On The Sea
• Dreamtime
• Dumb Piece Of Rock
• E=MC2
• Elected
• Epilogue: The Memory Remains
• Everybody Dies
• Evil Devolution
• Eyes Of Time
• Farside Of The World
• Fatum Horrificum: 1884
• Fatum Horrificum: Daniel And Abby
• Fatum Horrificum: Fatum
• Fatum Horrificum: Graveyard
• Fatum Horrificum: Guilty
• Fatum Horrificum: Why?!
• Forevermore
• Fortune?
• Get Out! Now!
• Henry’s Plot
• Hopelessly Slipping Away
• How You Gonna See Me Now?
• Inertia
• Inferno
• Intergalactic Space Crusaders
• Into The Black Hole
• Into The Ocean
• Isis And Osiris
• Journey On The Waves Of Time
• Journey To Forever
• Lavinia’s Confession
• Liquid Eternity
• Listen To My Story
• Listen To The Waves
• Loser
• Losing You
• Love and Envy
• Magic Ride
• Magnetism
• March Of The Machines
• Master Of Darkness
• Merlin's Will
• Message From Beyond
• Mirror Of Dreams
• My House On Mars
• Nature's Dance
• Newborn Race
• No Quarter
• Old Friend
• One Small Step
• Original Hippie's Amazing Trip
• Out Of The White Hole
• Patterns
• Perfect Survivor
• Phase II: Symmetry
• Phase III: Entanglement
• Phase IV: Unification
• Planet Y Is Alive!
• Potential
• Progressive Waves
• Prologue
• Prologue: The Blackboard
• Quid Pro Quo
• Ride The Comet
• River of Time
• Run! Apocalypse! Run!
• Sail Away To Avalon
• Sandrider
• Sea Of Machines
• Seven Days, Seven Nights
• She Is Innocent
• Side Effects
• Sleeper Awake
• Spaced Out
• Star of Sirrah
• String Theory
• Surface Tension
• Swan Song
• Talk of the Town
• Temple Of The Cat
• The Accusation
• The Argument 1
• The Awareness
• The Banishment
• The Blackboard (Reprise)
• The Breaktrough
• The Castle Hall
• The Charm Of The Seer
• The Conclusion
• The Consultation
• The Dawn Of Man
• The Day That The World Breaks Down
• The Day That The World Breaks Down
• The Decision Tree (We're Alive)
• The Dream Dissolves
• The Dream Sequencer
• The Earth Extinction
• The Eleventh Dimension
• The Eye Of Ra
• The Fifth Extinction
• The Final Expiriment
• The First Man On Earth
• The Garden Of Emotions
• The Gift
• The Great Beyond
• The Human Compulsion
• The Intergalactic Laxative
• The Lighthouse
• The Mirror Maze
• The New Migrator
• The Note
• The Parting
• The Prediction
• The Prodigy's World
• The Rival's Dilemma
• The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Coco
• The Shooting Company Of Captain Frans B. Cocq
• The Sixth Extinction
• The Source Will Flow
• The Stranger From Within
• The Teacher's Discovery
• The Teory of Everything Phase I: Singularity
• The Theory Of Everything
• The Theory Of Everything (Part 2)
• The Truth is Here
• The Truth Is In Here
• The Two Gates
• The Uncertainty Principle
• The Visitation
• This Human Equation
• Through The Wormhole
• Time Beyond Time
• To The Quasar
• To The Solar System
• Tower Of Hope
• Transformations
• Tunnel Of Light
• Two Worlds Now One
• Unnatural Selection
• Valley Of The Queens
• Waking Dreams
• Waracle
• Web of Lies
• Welcome To The New Dimension
• Ye Courtyard Minstrel Boy
• Your Story Is Over!