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Psychonaut
04:07
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When the Earth was full and young,
Bathing in the light of a juvenile sun,
There was no contention
Just a clouded marble rolling it’s way along to the longest drop
That will never stop
Cue the fountainhead of man,
Flowing forth and filling every possible span
This is the way we all began
We have been a burden since we could barely even stand
We are the dogs that bite the hand
Don’t hold your breath, I’ve seen what’s next
And I can say with certainty that we’ve been offered up as the main course
Just remain deaf, ’til nothing’s left
So then you will be able to say you’re not responsible for this spectral
Form my body out of clay,
Mouth wide open,
Though I have nothing to say
This is the normal human way
Slipping in and out of something that is brushing close to the unknown,
It is a quantum cornerstone
Put a conscience in my mind,
I hear thoughts, but they are never mine
It happens all the time
If I listen close enough I can hear all that’s been hidden in the rough
This crucial time is almost up
Don’t hold your breath, I’ve seen what’s next
And I can say with certainty that we’ve been offered up to the nameless
Just remain deaf, ’til nothing’s left
So absorbed and purely egocentric, a letdown, assured to be fully skeptic
Vexing
Waxing
Lasting
Masking
In a garden of my own doom, you are the most poisonous flower to bloom
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Run the Gamut
06:40
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I peel black time and expose the layers,
Taste at the rinds different tastes to savor
Project my mind to different places,
Death is coming and it wears our faces
Don’t keep us waiting and anticipating
Patience is fading, but fear is pervading
My eyes are open wide
Blackout the sky, death in their eyes
We won’t abide, waiting for death to
Blackout the sky, death in their eyes
I won’t abide, waiting for death to arrive
blood drunk and freshly crowned
Introspection, isolation
I will be removed
Cognitively coalescing
We will be subdued
Warn the masses, remain passive
Either way I lose
Ignorant and egotistic,
We will get our due
They say that death rides a white horse, but I know death rides a wave
This wave is made of man and machine, and we will all be enslaved
I’ve seen who the enemy is, I know we’re one in the same
But there’s one who still hides his face, to conquer Earth is his aim
The place they come from looks just like a doppelgänger of our planet juxtaposed next to a dying star
All I want is to see the look in their eyes, forced to see the catastrophe realized
Countless horrors are brought to life in my dreams
When will we bow our heads to this grim regime?
Blackout the sky, death in their eyes
We won’t abide, waiting for death to
Blackout the sky, death in their eyes
I won’t abide, waiting for death to arrive
blood drunk and freshly crowned
I have grasped the key
I can finally see the mirror was facing me
I feel the shame
And it makes me sick
Shame
So fucking sick
I awake to the madness of insight knocking
Forget God’s love
We are all fucked
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Dreamspeak
02:41
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Can you hear me duplicate?
You are nothing more than a cheap counterfeit
What have you got left to hide?
My hands are clean I’ll let my conscience be my guide
We are the same
We have both felt the same pain
I will ignore and run away from you
Next door eyesore, can’t hide away from you
Safe From you
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4. |
The Time Element
06:43
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Last night I had a dream that I tried
To warn you of the things that I’ve seen and done,
It’s all for nothing!
So stand for something!
The hardest pill to swallow comes from my own hand,
I close my fist and spread its message all across this land
Just listen to me
It’s hard to force-feed knowledge to the vastly ignorant,
I wonder if the death of all man could be imminent?
Just listen to me
Sometimes I wonder, what comes from under
All of these feelings, what are their meanings?
Sometimes I wonder, what comes from under?
You’ve wasted your time with all the monotony
Could it already have been decided?
Which reality will be divided?
It never stops
It never quits
Go!
Like an itch waiting to be scratched out,
Like a name on a grave,
It’s the long goodbye wave
Always looming, always creeping
Never answers, never cares
Keep this secret, never speak it
Keep your mouth shut ’til the end
But now I’ve seen that they have caught us blind,
And this story is how I lost my mind
We don’t forgive
I have kept what I can’t possess,
In hopes of what I can reach
It slipped through my fingers like sand,
It drains my will like a leech
It lives inside of my conscience,
It hides my only lie
Piece together the picture
Now, for the last time,
We don’t forgive
Last night I had a dream that I died
I warned you of the things that I’ve seen and done
It’s all for nothing,
I died for this!
And now I’ve seen that death has come for me
Now I’m free to silence my disregarded plea
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Extension
06:31
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Who is wearing my skin?
I keep wasting my time
I’m frozen in place, on the line
All these questions, all the time
So dismiss what you’re told,
Anything you can see
Can be manipulated,
Feelings invalidated
Deep in my dreams,
Nothing is what it seems
Hellish sights,
Mean sleepless nights
Cause to believe
It is too late to grieve
What’s the point?
Fears unvoiced
I give my life for second sight
Which I’ll use to steal the shine in his eye,
The reason they’re here,
How they cracked the sky
The blood in my veins,
The thoughts in my head,
All will become one or we will all be bled
But I begin to see the fruits of my labor
This cosmic intrusion has shackled my beliefs
When everything you’ve ever known has passed to dust you will receive an empty throne
When I see my reflection I feel the contention for my fate as a social pariah
Can I resign fate?
Hopelessness
Waxing now
Then in an instant,
I am standing before myself
The soul of extension,
Woven through my frame,
I feel the control
A power surge,
Twisting my words
Lifting this curse,
Minds have converged
I have become one
Vacation on the sun
Burn on
Listen closely,
All you can see is but one speck in your memory
Your life combined with more timelines is the answer to your concern
When we are the same,
Who is left to blame?
Who is left to blame?
I will drag my own weight up this mountain,
By my teeth, if I must
When I reach the apex,
Suspect and perplexed,
Will I be enough?
When we are the same,
Who is left to blame?
I am blameless
I am blameless
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Convergence
06:36
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Unfortunate,
Sad sacrifice,
Your blood and your Earth won’t go to waste
My eyes burn like the sunset on a nuclear dawn
Blinded by my own resent,
Burning to forget all of these memories
But for the first time,
My stars have aligned
Present and concise,
No need for disguise
I will seize your mind and reign in this wild fascination
Don’t you close your eyes,
Sleep will bring my conscious closer to you
Face to face in my dreams,
I can’t hide
(I spy)
Force my mind open from the inside
With my little eye, I can see all
Cue the curtain call
Can you feel it rising up inside your mind?
Bemused deluge, suffocate beneath the tide
Endless struggle, drowning victims never saved
Back and forth we grind against the waves
We grind against the waves
I surface just in time to catch a view of my rescue
“Force us both together and the universe will be renewed”
I hear a new voice echoing inside my conscience
What is this?
Feel the fist
From my grip,
You won’t slip
Cornered dog,
Won’t be long
Demagogue,
Don’t belong
These will be the last words that you say
Coexistence,
Close the distance
I’ll bring you into me,
I’ll help you to perceive
What I’ve been trying to say,
You wouldn’t listen anyway
You want the end?
I’ll bring the end
Shifting faces,
Different places
We’re all the same,
And we’re all to blame
We both might share the same face,
But we both lost the rat race
Now bring it in,
I’ll absolve your sin
I’ve been asleep
I’ve been asleep, for such a long time has passed me by
And while I slumbered
While I slumbered the wolves were found bearing down on me
I’ve felt the fear
I’ve felt the fear and I keep it near to our collective heart
Please forgive me
Please forgive me for I was lost, but now I am found
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Five guys playing progressive metal in Southern Indiana.
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