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Intro
01:25
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To murder Reason
04:49
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The collective, inquisitorial judge
Who vomits all over defective products
Without questions are the doubters
On a throne of irreverence
Full of hate, the reigning cowards
Their denial without evidence
But the hurt is yet to come
Your hive minds, a plague
Reason and moral
All at stake
Their arms stretched out, embracing a bleak existence
Complexity is not your enemy
And yet, you choose to be utterly unwilling
They opened the floodgates
Let reason sound louder while ignorance leads us into the storm
Oh, I despise these murderers that are leaving our home deformed
Damn you ignorant, asinine, insolent troglodytes
Shun the absurd, the wrathful, the vain
Or become them
It’s on your hands
The world began without knowledge
And without knowledge it will end
A swordless strike to cut last straws
Blood’s boiling flaws in a court of no laws
On a charred, barren soil, foundations burn
What time remains to learn?
But the hurt is yet to come
Your hive minds, a plague
Reason and moral
All at stake
Their arms stretched out, embracing a bleak existence
Complexity is not your enemy
And yet you choose to be utterly unwilling
Utterly unthinking
I hope you’re all choking
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3. |
Cortisol
04:31
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On the brink of a desperate frenzy
The burning of the last bastion
Control is an illusion
Low thoughts arise, proliferate
The fugue state
A spirant of bone on bone, familiar, yet alien
Something to cling to
The need to just push on
The urge to say I’m done is lost, it’s gone
I might drown in all that’s within and behind
Bow down to the allure in calm dismay
Leeks
Seeping through like Osmosis
So subtle, the cerebral war
Temptations will take over like functional delirium
A call of the void
Descent, paranoid
I might drown in all that’s within and behind
Bow down to the allure in calm dismay
It ties without sound all the perfect knots
When no one’s around, this blank cell, it talks
The red one, he waits in a writhing convulsion
Down in the depths
The amygdala prison
Lurking and staring
Knowing and tracing
Finally seeing
Truth has no meaning in here
This Nightmare
Doom
Tumbling towards unfollowed calls of cortisol
The thrill of falling, forever plummeting
Jarring collapse, waking impact of bittersweet anxiety
I am artificial violence
I might drown in all that’s within and behind
Bow down to the allure in calm dismay
It ties without sound all the perfect knots
When no one’s around, this blank cell, it talks
The red one, he strikes with a seething decision
To rise from the depths
My amygdala prison
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Death is distant
05:14
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Most do fear their own light in the dark
Look away
See it burn
Praised be time as long as there is plenty left on the right side
We never counted days until they faded into a myopic blur
Minds descending into war
Mortal dread, unnoticed, creeping along the dark edges of sanity
An existential reckoning against this apocryphal growth
It’s us we come to loath
A display of hubris and frailty
A thin maginot line across the mind
And so, cursed be the time that was stolen from the golden glow of youth
This intention without use
Countless are the days that are simply wasted in glorious paradigms
And are ending before their prime
Dreadful epiphanies cast lights into the centre of insanity
A triumph of depravity
Pushing us to anger, but in truth it’s fear and by fear we’ll be undone
Lifelines turned into stone
A sad show of a mind that’s not whole
While death is distant, we’re so heedless of our changeable soul
Cleaving, gnashing
Twisted new forms
Weeping, reeling
Portending a horrible storm
Oh, I’ve lived long under stones that stayed unturned
And I will take with me what’s been left unburned
I watch the house go up in flames
I watch the world be set ablaze
Lest we never choose the tragedies of fire over the beauty of embers
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A Gift most somber
03:19
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These existential orchids
As proud as we’re fragile
Survival seems overrated and stale
There is no sadness in this vast void
Blowing totality to bits will ignore tragedy in any form
This reality, a gift most somber
Given and received in silence
Reluctant recognition
Enervated scratching
Searching for gold beneath the soot of centuries
Aim to shine a light that is bound to be extinguished
So it may feed into the scarlett veins of the unknown
Stare into the endless
Stare at the lost
Choose
Abandon all hope
Lights
Blinding
All around
Everywhere
There is no fear, oh, for the end
When you just won’t look at the clock
Time
No turning back
What is here now
What will be left until…
Transience is a paradise
It has to be
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Outrun Darkness
05:17
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A desperate night is echoing still
In isolation
So we never tell
Our words, they fail us
The hands that shaped us, tear at us
In lessons of light and its absence
The dread that follows only grows our fears
Their grasp as cold and vile as this world
A home to confront that somehow feels off and kind of empty
Someone should persist, but will slowly slip into a memory
We want to be here
We need to overcome the end
To outrun the darkness
We need to be saved from ourselves
Are you lost?
Get out of that chamber
Switch on the light on all this pain
In here it only seems to recall to stay in memories made in the cold dark
You can't find the path that runs longer
The struggles cease, finally we’re done
Emptiness reigns each passing of a day
Eternally defiant, we walk away
With each step downwards
We wish for warmth, for a way back
A tale that we tell in panic is but a shivering plea
Enclosed in all of the same woe
Their grasp as cold and vile as this world
All that we did take could never truly stay
With us for free
Nothing can persist
All finally, slowly slips into a memory
We want to be here
We need to overcome the end
To outrun the darkness
No one can shield you from yourself
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We are
AM
Have become
A bleary death
Hulking words
Are a gift
Out of breath
And a warning
A war of attrition
Swaths of time
A susurrus of voices
What began as murmurs
And ends a writhing chime
The future is solace to the dead
And a lie to the living
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Ephemeral Reveries
05:44
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The news of these days, frozen between the lines
Barely afloat, traded and sold in time, this is where we arrived
Never to be found again
Never to be whole at all
As there’s nothing left to rest upon
Upon the end we stand alone
Searching for dots we can no longer connect on our own
Constellations
Unrecognisable
All shapes are lost
We are without past
A shoreline dream to come, only to face the abyss
This abundance was a fleeting one
All riches now lost in filth
Crash landed, found and shattered
We are not what was meant
Forever less than we aspired to be
To be astray ends in decay
From caverns to ruin
Searching for dots we can no longer connect on our own
Constellations
Unrecognisable
All shapes are lost
We are without past
Ephemeral reveries
In a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament
They stand, they await the wages of the glow
When a long day will utter a silent rhyme
Creators of chaos
Blindly we stumble, on and on
We are losing the night when it’s dark all the time
If there is no future when will we die?
From caverns to ruin
Searching for dots we can no longer connect on our own
Constellations
Unrecognisable
All shapes are lost
We are without past
Ephemeral reveries
In a world where the stars have come loose
We are the end
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...and then sleep
06:39
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Let’s drag the jesters to the courtyard
We planted those trees so they’re fit for the noose
Prefer the blame game over action
Misguided policies of reticence
In highest regards we still hold ourselves
A morose delusion
This silent weight, an indictment chain
Forever dragging us down
Royal crimes will hide in shadows
A slough of comfort and fear will drown all change
Inundated by apathy
Is there no lesson we learned?
Can’t we accept that high tides will turn?
Are we willing to lie to our children about their future dying?
Isn’t there a choice to be made?
Stopping this bleary-eyed routine of our fate
A silver lining denied by the dark that houses our silence
The arms of the many, so entwined they reach out for nothing
There’s never been discourse with modern gods in nations of all you naysayers and maybe-voters
Sanctimonious rage
Impassive to murder
Fascists met with whatabouts
The opposite of love is not even hate
It is just indifference
I want you to see, to realise
For the end all you need to do is nothing
Don’t forget what they said and all of which then followed
You keep letting them go, with the rope in your hands
And then you proceed to lead yourselves up to the gallows
While we kill what we breed, we all follow, don’t lead
Consume and complain, we only feel with disdain
We witness and weep, we are shocked and then sleep
See the abyss and we leap
Tell me, how do you sleep?
Tell me, how can you sleep?
You see the nearing end and then you sleep
Is this the lesson we learned?
No pain felt watching our skies get burned?
Are we willing to try to shed our apathy and no longer stand by?
Is this the choice we have made?
Forever dormant, unobtrusively dying
And we all know it’s too late when the noose is tied with silver linings
Still holding on, we bring this to our homes
Find your resolve and never let it falter
Take a good look
All the wealth, in vain
For each one they’ve slain you cheered them on
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All Its Grace Mainz, Germany
New Album "TO WHAT END?" out October 13th on Bastardized Recordings
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