"Disturbed by the audience's bizarre behaviour, Jason exits The Theatre. A vast desert has replaced what was there before, and he is met by an immense tower. So immense in fact that the top disappears into thick cloud. Knowing the tower is his ultimate destination, he heads out across the desert."

Narrator
Quickly leaving, exit leading
Sandy plains await
The desert Sun above the dune
It burns the empty space

A tower climbs above the clouds
And fades into the sky
Shady land it beckons Jason
Shelter from the light

Jason
Burning, I'm burning, I'm melting, I'm frenzied
I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm drifting, daydreaming

Narrator
Closing in the shadow beckons
Soon he'll be within
A creature ailing, slowly dying
Lies upon the sand

The tower looms the creature dies
With earth it reunites
Jason falls upon the sand
His eyes upon the skies

Jason
Waiting, I'm waiting, I'm patient, enduring
My future, uncertain, I'm waiting, surviving

Narrator
The entrance opens
Darkness follows
Time to enter depths uncharted

- The entrance hall -

"The grand tower opens up into total darkness. Following the glare of candles, Jason discovers a spiral staircase. The only way is up."

Narrator
The tower's lonesome entrance hall is dark and grim
Battered clean with sand and wind, untouched by rain
Scattered light illuminates soft etching underfoot
Below a scarab beetle traces human curves
And all is quiet within...

Seven burning candles lie before a spiral stair
Intently still they flicker casting light up there
Foreboding is the staircase rising high into the dusk
And the time has come to climb it, he knows he must
And all is quiet within...

Upon the steps he stares above

Jason
Does it ever end?

Narrator
The stairs pervade the height of the tower
Up above he must ascend...

- Climbing -

Narrator
Time passes slowly as each tick follows tock
Round and round in circles goes the clock
The candles are ascending with him fixed and aflame
Illuminating rusty iron rails

A tired, disillusioned Jason registers sound
Footstep follows footstep up above
With every step he takes it echoes endlessly
The shrouded man is climbing up ahead

Jason
The man with no face is awaiting me up the stairs
Beckoning me with each step
The man with no face he is waiting to welcome me
I'll follow his lead up the stairs

Narrator
Painfully he soon discovers, the stairs were on the move
Elevation, the realisation that he didn't need to climb
The top is reached nothing is seen but a rusty old red gate
(mum's gate?)

Jason
What can this be doing here? Can anybody tell me?!

- Confusion -

"Here, atop an impossible tower, in an impossible world, Jason encounters an exact replica of his first home's rear yard gate. Recognising it as a sign of home, he knows he must enter."

Jason
The man with no face is awaiting me up the stairs
Beckoning me with each step
The gate '57' a sign, a reminder
I must follow its lead to the end...

"Jason finds himself within a damp, stony room. Seconds later, the walls begin to close in. Fearing the end, the ceiling above cracks open as a slither of light penetrates."

Narrator
The door it creaks and slides wide open
He steps on into the dark
There's nothing there but a slither of light
And some curiously brick laid walls
Stony brown and green with moss they're slimy to the touch
Entombed from every side the walls are closing in

Above he sees the light it's falling down on him
And a silhouette is looking down, he cannot see its intent
But its thoughts project a beam of haze, it's coming to his aid
Intently eager Jason waits for the intervening grace

Silently he begins to rise, leaving fear behind in shreds...

- Ascension -

"The shrouded man pulls Jason out of the darkness and into the light."

Narrator
Blind to self and reason
Blind to faith and hope
The world beneath him shattered
The fear has left and gone

Anonymous Voice
Come with me
Step inside

Narrator
The light it enraptures and cradles his matter
The beam it embodies it all
No longer aware of the doubt and the danger
The life he knew has gone

His thoughts are exposed
The light around him fades
The truth will soon be revealed
As the journey it draws to close

- Landing -

"Face to face now, Jason awaits the ultimate revelation."

Narrator
Brought to land he's face to face
With a mountain high upon a snowy plain
The world he knew it fades away
As a figure emerges, with a hidden face

The Shrouded Man
I'm a traveller searching for elusive truths
But my search it is over now that I've found you

Narrator
And now he's bowing slowly, he removes the hat
And now his face is clear, and Jason stands aghast

The Shrouded Man
Come with me
Stay here forever

There's no going home
For you and me
We'll stay here

- Philosophical debate -

Narrator
It's like the world you used to know
When mother earth she opened your eyes
Some things have changed and some things remain the same

And all too often our children die
We lose that infant feeling
We never say goodbye

Until the desire it returns to explore
Childhood again

- The Box? -