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Retroject
03:34
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This lying reflection
Unreal as in a dream
Temporary sentience affixed between the earth and the heavens
How callous, how frail this delusion can be
The wreck of time
Has found new ways to be cruel
Retrojecting consciousness into my weak flesh
Birthless, deathless
Tempus edax rerum
Birthless and deathless the heavens are bare
Nothing really ends because nothing is really here
Held hostage by the future
Ensnared by the past
Memory set in flesh hanged between earth and the heavens
How empty, how vain the minutes drift by
The wreck of time
Has found new ways to be cruel
Retrojecting consciousness into my weak flesh
Birthless, deathless
Tempus edax rerum
Birthless, deathless
The heavens are bare
Nothing really ends because nothing is really here
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Synchrony
05:07
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Every morning mocks me
Every night pale reflection of failure
I can feel I can see
The borders of this reality
The stretching of time
This trepidation between me and the void
Spirit into flesh into spirit must end
The key to cosmic truth will come
From disrupting the equilibrium
Annihilate the synchronicity in everything
Every morning a new dread
Every night filled with memories I wish I didn’t have
I can feel I can see
The constraints of this reality
From which all proceeds, and which all shall be
Filled with frailty and decay
Spirit into flesh into spirit must end
The key to cosmic truth will come
From disrupting the equilibrium
Annihilate the synchronicity in everything
Got to, got to find a way to annihilate
Got to, got to find a way, a way to escape
I want to dance, I want to sing
To the last pulse of reality
I want to feel the filaments on fire
Spreading across to tear down the wall that separates us from God
All possible
Infinite
Dissect and
Eliminate
Deterministic
Self sustained
Phase locked
Symmetry break
I sing and dance though I fear I’ll never escape
Consciousness as energy
Means even through death I’ll never be free
We got to dance
We got to sing
So loud that even God will believe
That spirit into flesh into spirit must end
The key to cosmic truth will come
From disrupting the equilibrium
Annihilate the synchronicity in everything
Got to, got to find a way to annihilate
Got to, got to find a way, a way to escape
I want to feel the filaments on fire
Spreading across to tear down the wall that separates us from God
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3. |
Etheric Visions
05:34
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I hear death chanting all day
(Death is chanting endlessly)
When we touch we inter touch entirely
In my dreams, its haunting me
Glimpses of beauty rife with cruelty
Because something in me is lost
Some intangible piece is missing from my heart
Death is chanting endlessly
(I hear death chanting all day)
When we touch it echoes through eternity
In my dreams, it’s haunting me
Brief beauty wrought with cruelty
Sending etheric visions to abrade me
Wielding memories, like a blade
They're slicing in until everything is lost
Beauty, hope and love are missing from my heart
I fell into a sick languishing
For things that seemingly can’t be given
The dream twisted in on itself
Shackled me in this body of tormented flesh
Merely mimicking, merely mocking
Like looking back on memories that never happened
Still I search and find nothing worse
Im being haunted by myself
Trying to deconstruct this purgatory that I'm in
Only to find
Beneath me, above and beside
The blades extend my way
Taking beauty, taking hope, taking love,
It’s taking me from myself
In the ethereal world, abraded from flesh
I’m haunted by things I’m never getting back
And I hear death chanting all day
(Death is chanting endlessly)
I’ll take all your beauty but you will never be free
Something in you is lost
Some intangible piece is missing from your heart
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4. |
Pain Demands Attention
04:19
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The wound, suffering body
The weapon, perceptual object
One can not be encountered without evoking the other
Benign transformation of the weapon
Distort and diminish
Malignant transformation of the wound
Abase and amplify
The struggle between these worlds is the struggle of life itself
Psychic link between the weapon and the wound
In our conscious, in our unconscious
Pain demands attention
Destroy by psychological means
Because physical wounds heal
Abase and diminish
Distort and amplify
Beliefs and actions
Hearts and minds
Psychic link between
The Suffering body
The Perceptual object
In our conscious, in our unconscious
Pain demands attention
Abase and diminish
Distort and amplify
Destroy by psychological means
Because physical wounds will heal
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5. |
Multiply The Stillness
03:21
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Everything that exists
Is expanding out towards its limit
Exhausting all into a violent collapse
Multiplying the stillness
Until there’s only a vague memory of life
This death shall lustrate
That all hearts of the earth shall find new birth
In between darkness and light the heavens sing
All your doing is redefining
The scale of your failures
Suffering, great and long-enduring
Until the world is shattered
Scattered thoughts and massless ghost
Are all that will remain
Contained and bounded in this the world
To be within until it’s complete
This death shall lustrate
That all hearts of the earth shall find new birth
In between darkness and light the heavens sing
All your doing is redefining
The scale of your failures
Suffering, great and long-enduring
Until the world is shattered
And all the days of life are utterly forgotten
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6. |
Reflect/Reveal
02:28
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Years of regret and grief unravel
So I recoil into myself
I cleansed the mirror of my heart
Now it reflects
Now it reveals
“Only by love is life made real”
As sorrow scatters and uncoils
One carries the wounds by oneself
I cleansed the mirror of my life
Now it reflects
Now it reveals
“Only by love is life made real”
So look at its heart, you won't see it again
The gentle vision strays and vanishes
As Sorrow uncoils, it writes upon the flesh
All of life is loss, learn to live with less
I cleansed the mirror of my heart
But nothing reflects
Nothing reveals
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7. |
Mocked By Death
04:32
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Behold it’s strength
Behold it’s might
Goddamn this waiting
You punish me with this form
Rotting yet cursed with life
You’re in my heart, you’re in my dreams
So come descend upon my life
Inflict upon the soul
Which we inflict upon the flesh
Willing damning ourselves
But not fearing death
Instead accept with joy it’s gift
You’re in my heart, you’re in my dreams
So come descend upon my life
So come and let me taste annihilation
You coward
All our sorrows will end
No longer mocked by death
Our voices will blend together
And “we’ll be pure in the abyss”
So come and taste annihilation
You cowards
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