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Natsukashi
05:28
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Memories haunt me through these sleepless nights
Sing me to sleep
All these dreams left unanswered have taken flight
Please let me be
Take me back home where mornings fill with euphoria
No worries to burden us
Please take me back to paradise
I long to smell the summer air filling my lungs with its sweet breeze
The oppression of human suffering will conspire to deceive us all
The obsession of human enlightenment will not be our downfall
We all drown in a sea of apathy that feeds and lies
My heart it cries out:
Now we all must rise, break free
We are slaves of the endless suffering
How can we rise, break free,
when we are slaves of this human enlightenment?
Light shines near
The end is here
It’s not too late to reach for the stars
As time passes we are drowned in it all
Solo: Marchand
Solo: Jeong
~The Fall~
If we reach to the end of the surface
we will find we’re lost
Wandering submerged in my dreams: eternally
Reach out to find a new purpose
then you’ll know it’s at cost
We’re too young to move on ourselves
Settling into selfish stagnancy
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2. |
Close My Eyes
05:35
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How can we ever feel alive?
Numb to our worth
labor as advertised
Are we only born to dream?
Is this what we really aim to be?
We, the cognizant
of our separation from suns
risen from mindless teeming
chemical fruit born conscious
We, the blessed with a chance to escape
selection of the fittest
resort to hierarchical subjugation
Arise to find a darkness overcoming all life
In time the taste of triumph will be infinite
Our conscience falters
Look yourself straight in the eye:
We will rebuild the world again
I close my eyes and let the whole world fall to its knees
When living is not to understand
to free ourselves, is to free all the Earth
I will not rest until I close my eyes
Are we prepared to realize
the fire inside burns alive?
We, the wasted away
born into chains of wage
misled by your Pax et Lux
survival is submission
We, the scribes
authors of all knowledge
available but ignored
the blood on which we build ourselves
We, the enraged - but not enough
for the fear of death is strong
No choice but to kill or starve
so we kill to prolong
I’ll fight for you and be ostracized
Until I end this life
Solo: Marchand
What I am is not what love demands of me
What we are is less than we can be
Set me free
You and I
walk hand in hand
when all act in love
Solo: Jeong
Worshipping sacrifice
Consuming suffering
Wasting our conscience
We will rebuild again
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3. |
Laboratory
04:13
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4. |
Impermanent
06:45
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Silence! I can hear their wings below:
a piercing lullaby of death
Destroyer, I’ve known you from long ago
You plagued me with pain I can’t forget
You were summoned by the evening light
draped in velvet roaming through the night
four black horsemen giving life to plight
taking vengeance on the right of life
Onward! They pave the road to hell
as we lay dreaming in deep sleep
Forward! You hear the angels yell
This right of passage cuts so deep
The heavens open up, the sky is frayed
They’ve left our corpses out to rot: our debt to pay
Unworthy of our earthly throne,
take our souls to the underworld
Ghastly vapor forms arise
as life leaves before our eyes
We have succumbed to the underworld
We are the nations whose dreams have crumbled
We are unknown to the other realms
Our seas of grief have devoured millions
We are alone and we are unwell
We confide tonight
Indeterminate
Take us from this life
We’re impermanent
Clenching the souls of millions
They extract us
We are incapable of resilience, sinful beggars!
Can’t you see that time has absolved us?
We are ungrateful warriors
The dead beneath us say, “It’s our time to suffer!”
You were summoned by the evening rite
draped in velvet roaming through the night
four black horsemen giving life to plight
taking vengeance on the right of life
In this life eternal we rise into one:
the responsibility of the divine
In this life immortal we thrive through flesh and bone
The exclusivity of the mind
Solo: Marchand
Wake up my dear the skies are turning
Embrace the night and embrace this life
In futility we fight!
The heavens and oceans collide
Towards the demons of night
Persephone’s revenge on us all (leaves us broken)
Feel them piercing your flesh as you are forced down under
Blade, sunk into the human frame
You can try but this is it: all that is all that ever will be
Plague, writhe at her feet in rapture
for eons
We confide to night
Indeterminate
Take us from this life
We’re impermanent
Solo: Jeong
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Abandoned
06:21
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Sober machine
programmed in lovemaking motions
Reminisce
on love, abandoned
For whims of working death
cortisolic rage and wisdom
The buzz of the road and wander
this selfish pull, uncollective
Push until the edge -
yet no release
from meritocratic crushing
Love me, apparition
Transitory absolution
Palms grasped together
reaching across the bed
for tactile comfort, shallow
Fused hearts to fill the void
through subterranean pulses
In narrow space between
rush to the surface
Confide and retreat together
in love ending
united forever
Oh, hypocritical love
tearing everything apart again
Elope with me my darling
Cling to my memory
A love unfurling
A whirling cavernous
Catastrophe
Solo: Marchand
I will restore the order
I will become
unable to sacrifice
Intoxicated
we kill the love within us all
Confide and retreat together
Unending pain
United forever
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6. |
Solar Sea
07:36
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In transit we orbit around everything we love,
never giving enough attention to ourselves
Restructured by others and full of fear that smothers
Time has passed and now we’ve missed our aim
Entangled and strangled
We reach out to breathe but our gasp is burnt by the solar sea
I’m burdened by this illuminance
The Earth it turns so slowly as perspective closes in
My vision has become blurry as I reach for a remedy
Cut! this submission
Cut me from this line
of slavery and degraded minds
Rush! Rush the blood back to my head
so I can feel alive again
Life! Let’s drink the elixir of awakening
to restructure time
and make everything ours again
Rewind!
Let’s rebind each lost chapter
Each promise was broken
Dependency on a single figure must stop because we’re only hurting ourselves.
Obsessive emotion
swiftly integrated as we are stars imploding
Our timeline’s receding
The Earth it turns so slowly as perspective closes in
My purpose becomes blurry as I reach for serenity
Cut! this submission
Cut me from this life
of servitude to the distorted spine.
No! know Salvation, when the blood drips down your head
Know that we can be alive again
I can see it
We can find the image
if we only knew the way
This haze is blinding me
I can feel it
We can paint the image
if we only knew the range of pigment within us...
The colors are distorting, twisting, writhing, and hurting me
Celestial bodies are the only thing guiding me
through this life, in time, we thrive through survival
The Earth it turns so slowly
Solo: Marchand
My mind is spinning
in this metropolis
I must find a way through this chaos
My heart it spews
in clenched fists of the betrayer
A collection of blood and anger is all I am
What use is breathing with what I’m seeing?
My wounds, in thousands, are ancient
yet no solution in present
We’ve left a shadow cast onto the journey of the other
We’re responsible
No care to carry us
No love to marry us stronger
Rip me to shreds
Poseidon raise your trident
Extend to the unknown
Solo: Marchand
The earth it turns so slowly
as I reach for a memory...
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7. |
Malaise
05:52
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Solo: Marchand
Entwined in enteric tendrils
helplessly pinned
to watch the enshrined violence:
Malaise in me
Open me!
Split my Earth, my sternum
this soul, this fire
Empty me!
Drain the marrow from these bones
Restless, entranced
We wait for change
Dare to say to me
about inadequacy?
No flag to veil your shame
Draped in righteous linens
doused in empathy
we summon the conscious machinery of death
Eyes alight with the destruction
of the other unfortunate
Swims through our blood, foul
a disease
Misguided failed intention
With tectonic strength
I release
the pain that claws me away
Taught to paint the walls of our cells
to obscure the suffering prisoners
Why adorn your walls
when you can tear the motherfucker down?
Deconstruct me!
Force me to find my answer
Miasmic hand is choking
Empathy won’t save the margin from ruin
as we are not compelled to fight
Who will die for you
to step out and intervene?
Who will die for you
to stop feigning empathy?
Violence will come
and shake your dream
this is prosperity!
Why pursue upward mobility
when deep inside you know
you’re killing those below?
Solo: Marchand
Solo: Jeong
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8. |
Spiraling
06:26
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Watch as these two worlds collide
and form the combat in my mind
I cannot speak;
these thoughts are deafening:
spiraling chaotic refrain
Break the divide (to materialize)
Belie! Thought to life
Sworn to die
“It was the curse of mankind that in the agonizing womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling...that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
This wave brings me under into the abyss
Wind’s spiraling downward to strike my atlas
This cave of blue color is echoing this:
“There’s no vision so grandeur, you’re just not convinced”
All our lives we were born to die
Listen to me while I speak
I’m so sick of the words of the weak
Please listen to me, what I say is not evil
Moral cortex obsolete
as I stalk and I kill those like me
Plunged into sedation cerebral
My fate enacted
Violence inside
is violence projected
They come by in millions, each color each vision
Brought by liquid immersion
Such destined precision
Only by air and water will we find the gold…
such a desired treasure I long to hold.
All our lives we were born, sworn to die
Break the divide: materialized
Spiraling through all this change
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9. |
Nightshade
08:35
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Retreat into serenity
Impede the weight from crushing me
In Holocene’s end,
extract me from complexity
Replace Earth of its purity!
Interweave me into all the sentient beings
I bleed for the succulent savior’s second coming
I was waiting for the sign
of luxury within the vine
We’ve ravaged in our greed
emerald in true design
Forest crawl to claim that left behind
Considered the masters
of a droplet of rain
hurtling through space
unknown
As we fade away, relax
humanitas
Will you lay by my side
if we drown in a droplet of rain
Will you lay by my side
my beautiful clandestine
Rise again!
worms and forms
of fetid flora mysterious
never known in man’s tenure:
Rise again!
Fossilized, interred, petrified
in extinction preserved
the mightiest hand of monarchs
Innovation transformed to artifact
to be unearthed from stone
all trace of Homo sapiens
Considered the masters
of a droplet of rain
Gods on our throne
unknown
As we fade away, relax
humanitas
Do not mourn us
in the afterlife:
a paradise
Cello: Eden Rayz
Our blood is all the same: a beautifully dark sanguine stain
A sequin in the dress of a universal goddess
Rain down, now and forever
Terror is evolution’s careless hand
spinning plastic forms to graze upon a future land
Broken prayers spoken by cries of fear:
“Nightshade in the rain:
satiate our pain
Tears of Belladona
Born to perish
Weep to nourish”
Celestial darkness reign
Rain down forever
Our memories will reign
Rain down together
Now let me drown by your side
Lay with me
Belladona
Sing to me
Belladona
Embrace me
Belladona
Reign with me
Belladona
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