1. |
Ouroboric
02:59
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Explode
Expand
Reverse
Contract
A book without covers The world it’s own mother
Give birth To kill Tear down Rebuild
A circle unbending A story unending
A curved
Refrain
That which
Remains
A truth with no words No subject no verbs
The Eternal Serpent (ouroboric)
Sick of the tail it bit (it searches)
For a way at it’s own neck (cephalophoric)
Let the story end
Sever the head
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2. |
Behold! A Pale Ship
04:02
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Come and see Come and see
The Lamb's wrath Heaven flew Freeman's end
A gate long sealed Turns on again
A trumpet sounds from deep within
A massive shape Comes barreling through
The craft descends Into the atmosphere Not falling
Just hanging there Like nothing
That large should ever do
Behold
A pale ship And it's Pilot Death Death
And Hell
Flew with Him
And the Western Spiral Was given
To them
Sun turns black Blood red moon Stars descend
Oh Death; there's your sting Atomic victory
A grave of concrete Inheritance of the meek
No sin without law
Mors vincit omnia
Woe to the conquered ones Fiery is the last breath drawn
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3. |
Deathship Earth
04:02
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Invading oceans overtake fault lines (think rat)
A world of trash and mechanical minds (think rat)
Opportunity in man’s decline
Apex predator Buried in time
Top of the food chain Back of the line
(think rat)
A century’s worth of slaghead abuse (think rat)
A continent of plastic refuse
(think rat)
They know how to reduce, reuse
Apex predator Buried in time
Top of the food chain Back of the line
Fade and float, float and fade Follow us and flesh forsake Fade and float, float and fade Forget man but leave the waste
Like a drug
Ozone fills my nose
As into grey matter
The coathanger goes
A million
Blue lights fill my mind
Am I host
Or just along for the ride
Well my blade
Hasn’t failed me at all
It’s only that
We’ve changed what she’s called And the laughing martyr
Will know of my Claw
And as down goes their saviour So mankind shall fall
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4. |
The Burning Sky
03:33
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First
Contact
Ends
In death
A great genocide
Not
Of us
But Themselves Racial suicide
From outside
Of our reach
Familiar
Face of Ra
Phoenix fire
The Simurgh's cries Are in the burning sky
The
Nearest
Star
Is the
Farthest thing away
Not
The end
But
The edge Circling the drain
What's it say
Of our place
That gods come
Here to die
The only
Answers we need Are in the burning sky
The creature’s message A siren’s call
To those already Stranded ashore Melodramatic
The jumpers’ fall Can’t blame or follow Too literal
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5. |
Children of Decay
04:20
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We will smother under waves And sink to our graves
The scavengers will feast The only marking of our wake With our bodies strength They will rise up on legs
And fall to those who won the race to wings
Decay; (decay)
The mother who sees all her children to the grave (to the grave) With infinite patience she waits (she waits)
For the day (for the day)
She awaits the day the rot will overtake
We will drown on dead leaves And enjoin as we feed
The bloodthirsty branches
In their worship of the breeze With mad dances
To insane melodies
Until the day we succumb to the weeds
Decay; (decay)
The mother who sees all her children to the grave (to the grave) With infinite patience she waits (she waits)
For the day (for the day)
She awaits the day the rot will overtake
We are the children of Decay, and Mother loves us
We know this from the way She tucks us in, the ground our covers And though we grow, go separate ways, we still obey Her druthers And when we hear Her call, we all go home to Mother
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6. |
Thanatonaut
07:05
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Short is the trip to the land with no borders
The fates are quick, and obey no orders
Soldier sinner and saint all receive no quarter
Short is the trip to the land with no borders
Nothing that is does end, but how real
Is consciousness?
Attention paid to the little deaths
Thanatonaut
On the sick bed or a foe’s sword
It’s the same thread the same scizzors
The psychopomps have the last word
Spun to length and then cut the cord
Persephone awaits at the ends
Of consciousness
To sleep perchance to meet his brother
Thanatonaut
No ferryman awaits; by his father
He is replaced
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7. |
The Empty Mandala
01:48
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If it’s not the void at the center of the wheel
It’s the one between the spokes
Everything is more nothing than anything
It’s like a bad joke
Finite matter stretched out across
Infinite expanse of space
If you ask it seems to me
That God wasted the seventh day
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8. |
XVI The Tower
04:58
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Instrumental
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Some wounds never heal
Heavy robotic arm
Wide eyes and silver teeth
Betraying every form
When you lie down with lions
You expect to be eaten.
When prostrate to the divine
What did you intend to happen next?
Haunting every future
Exchanging dust for fog
Growing like a tumour
Reality proved wrong
When you lie down with lions
You expect to be eaten.
When prostrate to the divine
What did you intend to happen next?
I am homo sapiens evolvens
Handpicked to be the saviour of man
I can’t remember just who I am
Condemned to forever forget
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10. |
Infinitely Entropic
06:41
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A frozen earth revolves around a dark sun
A satellite with no willing inhabitants
Beneath the ice in the artificial sunlight
Perfect sane walls hide none but the mad and the damned
Redshift starlight as the universe spirals out
A cigarette exploding on the highway
Worlds drift apart growing colder and darker
Omega opens wide the gates of infinite entropy
No light unending obscurity
No space all is uniformity
No time except for eternity
No end just infinite entropy
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