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1. |
Wake
07:05
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Wake
The seeds they’ve sown
Of doubt have sent
Yield of fear
They will harvest
A season that never ends
Overflowing fear
Drowning in capital
Resource of infinite supply
Brokerage peddling
Security for
Your unbodied state
No demands
No complaints
From any client
From the grave
Your doubts and dismay
Of the unknown they take
Inflate and offer
Back at premium rate
Hovering
Like vultures, hovering
They have come to pick your bones clean
You won’t feel a thing
Free of pain, you’ll be
Placated nerves with their placebo of faith
You’re buying
The seeds they’ve sown
Of doubt has sent
Yield of fear
They will harvest
A season that never ends
Overflowing fear
Drowning in capital
Resource of infinite supply
Vultures offering prey
False sense of certainty
In salvation at the end
Your immaterial state
Insured by their earthly gains
Industry of fear
Your fear
Brokers of your own fear
They’re hovering
Like vultures
They’ve come to pick
Pick your bones clean
But you’ll be free
Free of pain
Deep in placebo induced dream
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2. |
Born Of The LIght
05:39
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Emerging from the earth
Materializing
Consuming light, taking form
Long before the very first
Cellular dividing
Of synchronizing replicators
The colonized single cells'
Incipient birth of cooperation
To the rise of complex entanglements formed
Epochs of selection
Born of the light
Two worlds are opened
For eras
Spent separately until
They collide
New life would grow
A daughter whence
Our common ancestor
From where all life has come
The common thread
The strand through which
All are bound
Mother of time begun
Begun from two
Worlds colliding
We are found
It may not show
It may not
Buried in code
Buried
Deep-seated in every strand
In every fiber
Lies our legacy code
The woken and the dormant
Iota of bottom-up instruction
Blueprints that were followed
Born of the light
Two worlds are opened
For eras
Spent separately until
They collide
New life would grow
A daughter whence
Our common ancestor
From where all life has come
The common thread
The strand through which
All are bound
Mother of time begun
Begun from two
Worlds colliding
We are found
From the colonized
Single cells' incipient birth
Of cooperation
We are far too much the same
To make us enemies
We have come too far for this
Too far for this hostility
We’ve too much the same for hate
We have come too far
For this to fail
To fall apart
We’re far too much the same
To make us enemies
We’ve come too far for this
To fail or fall apart
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3. |
Reverie
06:55
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Hear the voice
Ever longing to
Finally be heard
Noise that’s smothering
Due it is long past
To move forward
A reverie
Our guidance
Has ever been
Rendered voiceless
Deliverance
From silence
The chapter where
Where the void ends
Weathered, weary
From a war of ages
We’ve lived
This voice may be
Weakened from battle
But our message
Persists
Coursing veins
And a resiliency
Leads with haste, forward
Directing
Hear the voice
Ever longing to
To finally be heard
Hear the calls
From the shadows
Long stifled
Cast into the darkness
Due, we are
To right the wrongs
Through righteousness
As our guidance
The hostages
Bound before your eyes
And yet you can’t
Resist your pride
Your own prison
The blindfold you tie
So fragile this
World you’ve resigned
Your own captive
Life of the denial
Of delusion
Blissfully blind
Of the blissfully blind
Weathered, weary
From a war of ages we
Have lived
For the movement to live on
A reverie
Our guidance
Has ever been
Rendered voiceless
Deliverance
From silence
The chapter where
Where the void ends
A captive
Of your pride
Delusion
And denial
Your prison
You’ve resigned
A world in
Which to hide
To be blind
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4. |
A New Doorway
07:49
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Glaring, as if into the past,
Upon history
A moment immortalized
A former present
Turned to grave
Captured in time
Still frame in motion
Movements, tectonic
At the mercy of a tide,
Merciless
Further and further down
Buried deeper and deeper
No presence of light or sound
A slumber undisturbed
Boundless abyss
Null and lifeless
Unforgiving
Gravity calls
Downward horizon
Befallen
Downward horizon
Null and lifeless
Tempered by the tide,
An endless force,
Unrelenting
The plot thickens
Scene changes
Into new stratification
Era ending
Earth traces
Signature in
Rock formations
Isolate of
The fabric dividing
Our space from time
Lost in a lone
Reflection of light
Mirroring of life
A new doorway
Where our view of time
Where we can trace
The path to life
A new doorway
Where our view of time
That reads so clearly
Never a story read
Of time crossing inhabitants
Not a single rogue chapter lives
Peddling anachronisms
Need we any more evidence?
Every tale
Snapshots of
The paths leading here
Unearthed, the narrative
Of all existence
Isolate of
The fabric dividing
Our space from time
Lost in a lone
Reflection of light
Mirroring of life
Tempered by the tide,
Our downward horizon
A still frame in motion
Movements, tectonic
At the mercy
Of a tide, merciless
Further and further down
Buried deeper and deeper
No presence of light or of sound
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5. |
Herald Of Deceit
06:35
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Herald of deceit
Author of our beliefs
Carry us to
Artificial dreams
No one cares, it seems
To question or to speak
Bow and attune
So submissively
Fill our cups
With half-truths and fictions
Ready our minds
Are to shift focus
No matter the narrative,
We were hardwired
For rationalization
Winter of our free thought
Witness our progress in free fall
In our artificial sleep
Docile mind
Scripted lines
Ever stranded in time
Dormant life
Paralyzed
Only reprieve
In their confines, subscribed
Dormant life
Paralyzed
Only reprieve
In smoke and mirrors, resigned
Herald of deceit
Author of our beliefs
Carry us to
Artificial dreams
No one cares, it seems
To question or to speak
Bow and attune
So submissively
Falling to their knees
Clinging to every word
Salvation awaits
Rituals of chant and song
Amassing the crowds
Expressionless faces call
Call into the clouds
Fall to their knees
Expressionless
Call to the clouds
To the clouds
And when the sky opens
The grandeur of the collective
Armed with delusion
Righteousness of a cause
So important they could heed the call
To martyrdom
Fallacy,
Fuel of their currency
Fallacies
Exploited their
Ignorance a
Commodity
Authors of
Our mass deceit
Carry us
To artificial dreams
No one cares
To question or speak
Bury the
Voice for eternity
Silence
Our minds
Resigned
In our docility
Bury
Our voice
For all
For all eternity
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6. |
Cocytus
07:17
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TRAITOR!
i see through the eyes of the organic
to the splendid, the ethereal, the infinite
i hear the silent resonance of the lens of perception
i feel the walls of the maze carved through the clay
by the trembling hands
of divergent existence
the juvenile desire
the pervasive compulsion
ceaselessly driving you towards annihilation
sinking deeper into the abyss
the weight of your offense
drags you down to your eternal end
sinking deeper into the abyss
the weight of your offense
leads you to the place where you'll be condemned
no remorse, you betrayed
see you in the frozen lake
blindly servicing the fractured ego
ignorant victim enslaved to past abuse
unwilling to gaze upon the shattered reflection
violently spewing the venomous projections
living the lie you choose to believe
refuse the truth you don't want to see
self-indulgently infantile intent
erratically volatile and divisive
stubbornly undermining stability
veiling deceptions in disassociation
i remain
isolate
memories
i erase
i remain
isolate
drown the pain
i escape... float away...
DIE!
no remorse, you betrayed
see you in the frozen lake
living the lie you choose to believe
refuse the truth you don't want to see
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7. |
The Callous Soul Within
05:23
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cold, a hollow waste
devoid of hope
no avoiding this fate
distant
to the touch, human
this callous soul
that lives within
within
endless winter
coursing through the veins
the numbness spreads
til a splintering with all feeling
all humanity
lost to the sands of time
the memory fades
only logic remaining now
emotional systems: erased
distant
to the touch, human
this callous soul
that lives within
within
like walking with
blindfolded eyes
every expression unclear
like listening
to an foreign/alien tongue
meaningless noise
ringing in my ears
i am the host
behold, these lifeless eyes
concealed within
the infinite vortex
devourer of light
waves of darkness radiate
permeate through everything
smothering light
strangling life forever
distant signal, unresponsive
to the touch, human
this callous soul
that lives within
that lives within
indifferent
to the collective
the heart, a notion
that it can’t
that it can’t
can't understand
distant signal
unresponsive to
the touch, human
callous soul within
intentions are
indifferent to
the collective
too far removed to see
concept
of heart
can not be reckoned
darkness behold
callous soul within
concept
of heart
can not be reckoned
darkness behold
this callous soul within
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8. |
The Undoing
08:26
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Hear the voice
Ever longing to
Finally be heard
Noise that’s smothering
Due it is long past
To move forward
A reverie
Our guidance
Has ever been
Rendered voiceless
Deliverance
From silence
The chapter where
Where the void ends
Weathered, weary
From a war of ages
We’ve lived
This voice may be
Weakened from battle
But our message
Persists
Coursing veins
And a resiliency
Leads with haste, forward
Directing
Hear the voice
Ever longing to
To finally be heard
Hear the calls
From the shadows
Long stifled
Cast into the darkness
Due, we are
To right the wrongs
Through righteousness
As our guidance
The hostages
Bound before your eyes
And yet you can’t
Resist your pride
Your own prison
The blindfold you tie
So fragile this
World you’ve resigned
Your own captive
Life of the denial
Of delusion
Blissfully blind
Of the blissfully blind
Weathered, weary
From a war of ages we
Have lived
For the movement to live on
A reverie
Our guidance
Has ever been
Rendered voiceless
Deliverance
From silence
The chapter where
Where the void ends
A captive
Of your pride
Delusion
And denial
Your prison
You’ve resigned
A world in
Which to hide
To be blind
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9. |
Insatiable
06:01
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Into the open
Wind under wings
With new reach
Fortune
Comes new longing
Transfixed
Eyes catch
The sight of new prey
Newfound power
Ushering new taste
Insatiable need
To consume more
Than ever we
We could replenish
Deplete and devour til
The well is dry
Palette cleansed
Never filled or satisfied
Into the open
Wind under wings
With new reach
Fortune
Comes new longing
Appetite adaptive
The resources within reach
The first bite of new flesh
The sweet taste of novelty
There’s no end
Is there no
End to this
That we can see?
There’s no end
Is there no
Undoing
No returning?
Transfixed
Eyes catch
The sight of new prey
Newfound power
Ushering new taste
Insatiable need
To consume more
Than ever we
We could replenish
Vanishing the
Earth below our feet
Yet we can’t seem
To stop destroying
Into the open
Wind under wings
With new reach
For-tune
Comes new longing
Deplete, devour
Til the well is dry
Palette cleansed and
Never satisfied
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10. |
Transcendence
09:13
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A thrust into the present
Body awaiting mind
Server disconnected
Buffering, the lifeline
An extended presence
In lapses of space and time
Signal interference
Obstructed lines
Unintended connection
Simultaneously,
In being, in absence
Sojourner of planes
Carry on in future and in past
Bound not by constructs of time
Whereupon, all planes you can transcend
Bound not by our paradigms
Voyager treading above our reach
Beyond material realm
Passengers of infinite boundaries
Keeper of all temporal
Aimless, a journey of
No linear course
Dimension free of direction
With no beginnings or ends
An extended presence
In lapses of space and time
Signal interference
Obstructed lines
Unintended connection
Simultaneously,
In being, in absence
Sojourner of planes
Carry on in future and in past
Bound not by constructs of time
Whereupon, all planes you can transcend
Bound not by our paradigms
Whole of our existence
Before our eyes
Hopes and intentions
Materialize
Substance that our lens
Cannot interpret
An embodiment
To flesh, manifests
Whole of our existence
Witness, unfit
Senseless culprit
A place forever lost
On the vantage we share
Yet still you occupy
Every moment, adhered
Inherent occupant
Of the known universe
Fundamental force
Of all we call perceivable
Passengers we are
Of dark matter
Carry on in future and in past
Bound not by constructs of time
Whereupon, all planes you can transcend
Bound not by our paradigms
Voyager treading above our reach
Beyond material realm
Passengers of infinite boundaries
Keeper of all temporal
Inherent occupant
Of the known universe
The fundamental force
Carry on in future and past
Beyond the fringes
Of our perception
Keeper of all safe passage
Cutting through this
This vast confinement
The webs woven
Of temporal thread
Particle alignment
From spatial shackles
Will there be salvation
Will we ever
Be delivered from
This perceptual prison
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11. |
Spiral Of Reflection
07:16
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A motionless vessel
Body suspended in time
Resting atop of
A harbor of static life
Short circuiting
Senses fail in their capture
Of the present
Signal highway collapses
An impenetrable keep
That has become of this mind
Bridges drawn, reinforced
In passive defenses it seems
Yet the sun can’t restore
Energy where it cannot reach
Silently the thought
Finds our seams undone
In a moment
Of weakness
Spiral in the dark
Night defeats the sun
In time the venom
The mind will succumb
The thought
Our seams undone
Of weakness
Silently the thought finds our
Finds our seams undone
Spiraling further into the darkness
In time the mind will
In time the mind will succumb
Spiral
Unwavering, the fixation
Forever clutching
Clutching the hands of time
Revery to rumination
Unable to leave
To leave the past behind
Hopeless denial
Of a world beyond these walls
A soul not for miles
An ignorance far too blissful
Short circuiting
Senses fail in their capture
Safe to call in
Call in the search party
An impenetrable keep
That has become of this mind
Bridges drawn, reinforced
In passive defenses it seems
Yet the sun can’t restore
Energy where it cannot reach
Silently the thought
Finds our seams undone
In a moment
Of weakness
Spiral in the dark
Night defeats the sun
In time the venom
The mind will succumb
The thought
Our seams undone
Of weakness
Silently the thought finds our
Finds our seams undone
Spiraling further into the darkness
In time the mind will
In time the mind will succumb
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