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Dream Analog
04:11
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I'm done with cybernetica
and manufacturing prosthetica
I'm missing out on my old soul
I left it back in a time long ago
Dream analog on my own
Digital life isn't home
Go on, go, without me
I'll be fine here, before '90
Fire up the portal with no regrets
I'll turn 20 years into a matter of minutes
Take care of these droids, we used to call them humans
Before their souls were captured by computers
Dream analog on my own
Digital life isn't home
I'll dial from my rotary phone
Here cellular isn't known
We've traded fundamental needs
For subservient hi-tech machines
Luxury is control
If you have nothing, then you have it all
Be analog, be alive
Don't be digitally desensitized
This is who I wanna be
Untainted by new technology
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Separation Anxiety
03:41
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No way back from the path we trailed on
But what we had is more than I could ever want
We burned the bridge behind us, to make it hard to find us
I'm scared to see the evil deeds that only one called time does
Decaying relations
Just let the worms consume remainders of our patience
Metamorphosizing into a stranger
You let the demon intervene within the angel
Now I'm not aware of what you have become
Because my inner workings have also been deformed
Decaying relations
Just let the worms consume remainders of our patience
I'm still in love, I'm still in love
With all the times we suddenly have given up
Sever these ties
As we savor these goodbyes
Accept our history's demise
Fondest memories get euthanized
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Unknown Frequencies
03:18
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What if ghosts are fossilized memories?
Documents recorded by residue of energy
What other beings walk amongst us without our interaction?
Our eyes aren't trained to see so much around us existing in all directions.
Just because I cannot hear the sound vibrations through the air
Or smell the scent, or taste the flesh, it doesn't mean it isn't there
Some days when I'm alone, I don't feel as such and question why
Something in my brain feels A presence that I cannot identify
Things you can see
and things that you believe
are incomplete to
the nature of reality
Most of it won't trigger our senses
Energy goes Undetected
At first It was radio and electric
Unknown frequencies that affect us
Be fair to science and leave room for possibilities
To believe in the undiscovered is to fuel the quest for infinity
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Seeing Is Believing
03:58
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Sleep your days away
Keep the noises at bay
Ringing voices in your head, what are they telling you
Whispers of truth infiltrate what you thought you knew
There comes a time for everyone to let go
Of all the the useless ideals guarded by the ego
Sometimes seeing is believing
Sometimes beliefs are worth leaving
Your thoughts may change with new information
Don't be a slave to your old interpretation
If the entire world was one big conspiracy
You'd still look at it as if it were a theory
You fail to see the legitimacy
of the things you love being your own worst enemy
I'm not asking for your heart to die
But just to approach your heart with an open mind
There's a war between the darkness and light
It isn't always visible in plain sight
There will be a dividing line
Between the knowing and those who'll be left behind
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Seconds
03:19
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You think in terms of time
But time is only a matter of the mind
Figmentation of our imagination
That past and present as correct interpretation
To move forward and only forward is the greatest lie
Every second leading up to this one is the past
The future is every second since the one I mentioned last
The now is over before you can process that it ended
By that time future is now, Now is no longer the present
Being immersed in it
Makes the future possibilities infinite
Every breath can make a history
Completely different than those running concurrently
Linear reality. Limitation or a guiding light?
Have we considered that this timeline is but a single thread
of a blanket covering a small boy dreaming in his bed?
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6. |
Are You Awake?
03:58
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Release and shine on the world around you
Be free of the cross you're bound to
Shake off the daze
Wipe the frown off your face
Tell me, how does it feel
To emerge from the fear?
With your mind in a place
that your body isn't near
Be one with everything, the whole
Be free of illusory views of separate souls
What does it take
for you to illuminate?
Tell me, how does it feel
To emerge from the fear?
With your mind in a place
that your body isn't near
Tell me, are you awake?
Do you feel your presence accelerate?
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We need to breathe
Energy
As received
by stellar castastrophe
Thriving off a legacy
Something else's ingenuity
Corruppting creativity
With basic human need
The sea of great ideas
Flooded by mediocrity
Quantity over quality
Bankrupting monopolies
Too bad we're getting sloppy
There's no art in hobbies
Lackluster brilliance
is reeping in millions
Corruppting creativity
With basic human need
The sea of great ideas
Flooded by mediocrity
Goodbye innovation
The clones now own creation
We put the power in their hands
Now everyone has a chance
So hard to tell us apart
Who's the fire and who's the spark
The kingdoms burning down
Impostor kings now have the crown
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She journeyed to the place where spirits rest
To dance with ghosts and the physically limitless
Her mind wanders more than a nomadic tribe
A brief interruption of linear time
Amnesia of her insomnia
Her inner voices are speaking through mediums
She brings emotion back from the other side
Sadness born under the lids of her eyes
Curses from the realm of slumber
Unleashed unto the world around her
The clock ticking opens the gateway home
She lives in a monotone wasteland of monochrome
She walks among the lifeless ghouls and fiends
The barren city of godless machines
But when the midnight moon rises above her head
She'll ride the beast that's waiting in her bed
She brings emotion back from the other side
Sadness born under the lids of her eyes
Curses from the realm of slumber
Unleashed unto the world around her
Confused by consciousness shifting and swirling
Drifting and twirling, Her notions are flirting
With creatures and serpents who exist in versions
Outside of familiar universes
Awake, the accuracy of a memory fades into a state of lunacy
She leaves her focus back in another life
Her inhibitions are cleverly disguised
As those she knows who lived in another space and time
Blood of the innocent shed for the images that committed the crime
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9. |
Better Summer
04:38
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Heatwave
Are you hear to save?
For you I pray
Under skies of grey
Burn me
I'll be a flame
Feels like a better summer now
I feel the warmth
The beating heart at the center of the earth
Sunstorm
Rays be radiant
We bask
as reptilians
Warm water
Grazes my feet, while I'm sippin on something sweet
Feels like a better summer now
I feel the warmth
The beating heart at the center of the earth
This is a better summer
I feel at home
Bright light of white be monotone
All Winter I waited
All Spring I was jaded
With a love of extremes
From liquid to steam
I sincerely
wish you a joyous season
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Mission
03:23
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Trapped underneath the middle class
The nice guys finish last
Decide our services worthlessness
and keep us in the trash
Just take my hard earned dough
And blow it up your nose
Paralyzed by signs
reading s and twin vertical lines
I'm a broken instrument
When neckties choke the points of pyramids
Easy to blame the executive
For the way us insects live
But he's merely just the queen bee
Blame the workers, who make the honey to fuel this hypocrisy
But I am not for hire
I'm just a part of this spontaneously combusting hobofire
We're all just sperm, we're not good samaritans
Racing to impregnate middle management
Six figures keep our bodies full figured
While these cubicle walls keep my finger on the trigger
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12. |
Send Me To Hell
05:43
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Forgive me
I'm learning
to cope with these elements
Discovering
the mysteries
of the essence
And there lies adversity
in planting the knowledge tree
So send me to hell, show me the worst
life has to offer
We didn't descend
Just to walk on water
We came prepared
But we had forgotten
All of the code
We started scared
Alone at the bottom
of an uphill road
But the more that we travel
The more strands unravel
So send me to hell, show me the worst
life has to offer
We didn't descend
Just to walk on water
I'll do whatever it takes
To stay awake
Harvest the heartaches
Consume the mistakes
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