Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Ulterium Records presents a new April 2020 quarantine studio video for "Collide & Spark," the first Project Aegis charity song from 2013.
"Collide & Spark" is an all-star charity track for sale with 100% of the income going to The Bridge Bunch, an organization dedicated to serving the homeless population of Nashville, TN, in the United States.

The song was composed by Theocracy vocalist and songwriter Matt Smith. It features vocals by Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Henrik Båth (Darkwater), Elin Redin (End of September) and Smith, as well as a guitar solo by Markus Sigfridsson (Darkwater, Harmony, All Things Fallen).

"Collide & Spark" can be purchased here:
iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/collide-spark-single/1456108563
Amazon: amazon.com/Collide-Spark/dp/B07NDJVFQ7
Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/1i0cgTEuFXAK4Ezz95UI4q?si=tC-iy0YySJOldHtMLa7Gqw
Bandcamp: ulteriumrecords.bandcamp.com/track/collide-spark

"Collide & Spark" composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Matt Smith. © 2013 Theocracized Music (ASCAP)

COLLIDE & SPARK

Welcome to the Shadowdweller
Derelict
I’m everywhere and nowhere that you care to see
Just open up your eyes to me
I’m the one forsaken and forgotten
The broken one they never want to talk about
The system chewed me up and spat me out

I’m not your joy, I’m not your pride, I’m not your paradise
I’m not your dream, I’m not the light reflected in your eyes tonight
So lay your judgment down, and gaze upon me, eyes of mercy
Rise up and gather round, a revolution taking

Time for the timeless and hope for the hopeless
Forging a fire to burn through the dark
It’s not just a dream, it’s a chance to collide and spark
Heroes and sages, the kings or the servants
Wisdom of ages is making a mark
It’s not just a moment, it’s time to collide and spark

Carry on in tight formation
Limits gone, erasing separation if we move as one
There’s so much work yet to be done
If many hands can lightly lift a burden
And many feet can march in synchronicity
What a sight to see

We are the light, we are the army set to mobilize
The sons of fortune with the years taken for granted in our eyes
The mission has begun, we’ll carry home our sons and daughters
Reclaiming one by one, to save them from the slaughter

Time for the timeless and hope for the hopeless
Forging a fire to burn through the dark
It’s not just a dream, it’s a chance to collide and spark
Heroes and sages, the kings or the servants
Wisdom of ages is making a mark
It’s not just a moment, it’s time to collide and spark

Lethargy
Apathy
My quicksand soliloquy
The cadence marches on until the coldest heart is beating faster
Eyes to see
Sympathy
Enigmatic reverie
To break out of this dream and trade inaction for the primal scream of life

Activate
Animate
Impulse quicken and create
The body comes alive after the lightning strike
Another call to action
Actuate
Validate
Energize and motivate
Velocity and motion starts a chain reaction

I remember worthless gilded tongues
Rise, December Waking Ones
All our past omissions washed away
Let our words breed action on this day

Solo (Sigfridsson)

Time for the timeless and hope for the hopeless
Forging a fire to burn through the dark
It’s not just a dream, it’s a chance to collide and spark
Heroes and sages, the kings or the servants
Wisdom of ages is making a mark
It’s not just a moment, it’s time to collide and spark

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