1. |
Common Era
04:02
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"Common Era"
I don't feel distress
I don't know how I feel anymore
What follows this mess
won't be different from what came before
My father died today
Or maybe it was yesterday
I don't know
Everything has changed
Or maybe everything is the same
I don't know
I anticipate what comes next
But my conjecture isn't written word
I should probably expect
the same imbalance as what came before
My father died today
Or maybe it was yesterday
I don't know
Everything has changed
Or maybe everything is the same
I don't know
Common era
Still life, paranoia
Winter comes
And stays forever
My father died today
Or maybe it was yesterday
I don't know
Everything has changed
Or maybe everything's the same
I don't know
Common era
Still life, paranoia
Winter comes
And stays forever
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2. |
Two Evils
01:44
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"Two Evils" (Georges Bataille quote)
(I think there are two opposite kinds of evil. The first is related to the necessity of human activity going well and having the desired results and the other consists of deliberately violating some fundamental taboos like, for example, the taboo against murder or against some sexual possibilities. - Georges Bataille)
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3. |
Invisible Hand
05:09
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"Invisible Hand"
Throw it all away like it's nothing
Honestly, you'll feel better inside
Slow decay ignoring your existence
Retreat in disarray and fall in line
Hold a match to what's left of the pieces
Disintegrate like burning celluloid
Only then can you begin with something
Disconnect and reconstruct your life
When they say that they will listen,
Will they even understand?
Will they ever make a difference,
When they are led by the same hand?
Broken minds ruling nations
So divided they all stand
Archaic concepts guiding masses into ruins
They will be conditioned to demand
Disappear and forget this ever happened
In the night that mirror stains your mind
Drifting embers signalling your exit
Soon enough the guilt eats you alive
When they say that they will listen,
Will they even understand?
Will they ever make a difference,
When they are led by the same hand?
Broken minds ruling nations
So divided they all stand
Archaic concepts guiding masses into ruins
They will be conditioned to demand
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4. |
Melancholia
03:20
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"Melancholia"
Two worlds collide
In between days
Open your eyes
While the overture plays
In the background
Everything falls in slow motion
Someday this will all cease to exist
Until the end of time, this will unfold beautifully
No need to hide
Push the vanity away
And close your eyes
While the epilogue fades
Behind you
Everything falls out of motion
If tomorrow never comes
Then this will be it
Until the end of time, this will unfold beautifully
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5. |
Lady of Light
02:27
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"Lady Of Light"
Holy apparition
At the end of the hall
Creeping over floorboards
Covering us all
Holy apparition
Moving through us all
Make us come alive
Make us want to fall
Lady of light
Dancing with the sun
Keep on dancing
For everyone
Lady of light
Dancing with us all
Keep on dancing
Until the day is gone
Holy apparition
Sing to us in sleep
Circle all around us
Moving through the street
Holy apparition
Sing to me in sleep
For when the morning comes
That is when we meet
Lady of light
Dancing with the sun
Keep on dancing
For everyone
Lady of light
Dancing with us all
Keep on dancing
Until the grey is gone
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6. |
The Flame
05:17
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"The Flame"
Burning all the memories
Buried at the core
The flame will come to life
And the past will be no more
Is it any wonder
Why it always falls apart
When all their lives are broken
before they can even start
All your words are weightless
spewing cowardice and shame
You’re a drunkard and a liar
and you have yourself to blame
In a chain of circumstances
that will never end,
your feeling isn’t guilt
because it isn’t over yet
Burn, burn it all
You offer an apology
With sorrowful regret
But now it is too late
For all the words you left unsaid
You can go to mass
And see the priest and to repent
But when your life is over
Know that there will not be a next
You betrayed yourself
And your whole life became a lie
Your fear is in control
Until the day you die
When i close my eyes
And feel the burning at the core
The flame will soon rise up
And you will be no more
Burn, burn it all
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8. |
Dissent
03:49
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“Dissent”
What lives in me
Is in place of me
I dream and dream
Both strange dreams
Shadowing
Cut from me
Following
Anything
I believe
That I don’t see
What you see
To believe
Hypocrisy
Concerning
Identity
Industry
I believe
I don’t see
What you see
To believe
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9. |
Requiem
05:24
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"Requiem”
The dust settles
in black and white
Daydream spring
Still the march of war
Spray of roses
Falling petals
Greyness of death
Open casket
I don’t want to say
That there’s nothing
But there’s nothing
Left inside
I don’t want to say
Now there’s nothing
But there’s nothing
Left to hide
Funeral parlour
birthday party
Candles at the altar
Tolling of bells
Hospital bills
Government checks
I’ll let you
fill in the rest…
I don’t want to say
That there’s nothing
But there’s nothing
Left inside
I don’t want to say
Now there’s nothing
But there’s nothing
Left to hide
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10. |
Anthropocene
03:53
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“Anthropocene”
Tightrope walk
A new routine
Strange and fragile
Anthropocene
This could take a while
This balancing act
Juggling mistakes
To remedy the past
Casting stones into the night
Cradling fragments of your life
Casting stones into the night
Cradling the fragments of your life
Tightrope walk
A new routine
Strange and fragile
Anthropocene
This could take a while
This balancing act
Juggling mistakes
To remedy the past
Casting stones into the night
Cradling fragments of your life
Casting stones into the night
Cradling the fragments of your life
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11. |
Exile
06:50
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“Exile”
Well, I’m so far from having hope
And there’s no way I could have known
I’ve grown so tired of everyone
And acting out this foolish show
From this resolve
No right or wrong
Only what will become
To any faith
I don’t belong
So, I will wait for this to all fall, fall
“I am conscious about myself and everything,
and then suddenly, or slowly, my consciousness fades out.
Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling.
That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.”
- Ingmar Bergman
Well, I pay no mind at all
And I’m not missing anyone
When all of it is spectacle
There’s no meaning to their call
From this resolve
No right or wrong
Only what will become
To any faith
I don’t belong
So, I will wait for this to all fall, fall
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