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What would it take to shake you, wake you from this dream
To make you stumble to your feet to face the light, to feel the heat
'Cause you have slept, though prophets preach and sirens scream
To break your placid vista's silence, a palisade of passive violence
And if I can't get through to you, I fear what that could mean
So shed your signal-jamming, Goddamned vanity
We're spinning out towards calamity
The hourglass is running out
Against complacency and doubt
Infernos close that must be doused
Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house
The time is now, the time is now
No circumventing this, you can't just walk away
The blood of generations stains you, and testifies of all you feign to be
And bites the corner of your conscience just to see if you can feel
And holds you up against the glow to find out if you're real
Or are you numb, a native son of this creeping hell
An heir apparent set to watch the ashes fall
It's time to show us all
The hourglass is running out
Against complacency and doubt
Infernos close that must be doused
Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house
The time is now, the time is now
It's not a question of your understanding only, but your empathy
A test, a trial on display under the guiding eye of history
This is the moment you make clear the scope and depth of your ability
To meet the measure of your moment, to keep the promise of your destiny
The hourglass is running out
Against complacency and doubt
Infernos close that must be doused
Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house
The time is now, the time is now
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There's a static on the airwaves that I can't trace
There's a fire on the runway to a higher place
I couldn't take the euthanasia written on your face
The weight of panic on the dashboard, the stretching out of space
What do we do when words have all but failed
To break the wall, to pierce the veil
Do we try or drive the nail into the coffin?
The stakes are higher than they've ever been
Each moment calls for discipline
The kind that's rare and seldom seen so often
There's a bullet in the backline of all we have to say
There's a shiver gripping your spine and I'm the same way
The woven web is coming undone, we rip reality
And through the fissure, futures unfold and wrap around me
We take the roles of polar points
Across the Universe, we're tumbling, tossed
An infinite expanse comes down between us
I dream of only yesterdays
And wish that I could find a way
Through time and space, I raise my prayer to Venus
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Viper
05:45
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Well look who crept out from their hole
And slithered their way out into the light
What brought you here
What made you think you had permission, had the right?
How long have you been camping out
You predator, you sniper?
Was the damage done just not enough for you
You narcissist, you fucking viper?
I don't hate you
'Cause hate is more than you deserve
And it's a poison that we only serve ourselves
But I'd erase you
From every picture I've not burned
If I could keep the lessons learned and guard them well.
Oh well...
I wonder what fresh blood you've drained
Whose spirit you've infected and laid low
What nightmare have you wrapped around
The refugees of another broken home?
Your erudition can't disguise
The mind that carves the mark and passes blame
And no drug has worked to stop my stomach turning
Every time I hear your name
I don't hate you
'Cause hate is more than you deserve
And it's a poison that we only serve ourselves
But I'd erase you
From every picture I've not burned
If I could keep the lessons learned and guard them well.
Oh well...
I don't hate you
But that's for me and no one else
A gift accepted in your spite, not something owed
'Cause I won't let you
Add one more brick onto my burden
I cast you out, I cut you off, I shed the load
Now go!
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Inheritor
05:23
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This city under anesthesia
Sprawled out cold with winter rain
Holds only echoes, ancient memories
Of songs that used to ease the pain
I've walked these silent streets at morning
And wondered just how long it's been
Since I last saw the world in motion
Or heard the laughter of a friend
A languid, hazy fog goes drifting
And winds its way on through the night
And with it flow the dreams of better days
When hope was high, the future bright
A solemn sight, a bleak reminder
Finds me everywhere I go
And what to make of fate, this feeling
I couldn't say, I just don't know
'Cause I'm finding more of me, though less of everything I had
And I still see the sun and feel the wind and find I'm glad
And I could throw away the only life I have to live
But I can't shake the thought that there is more to give and to receive
So I breathe deep
A silver sun, a vacant freeway
Cracked and scarred beneath my feet
Extends ahead in endless welcome
To somewhere Earth and Heaven meet
Whatever might be out there waiting
Belongs to fantasy and faith
Until I step across that threshold
And leave behind a life erased
'Cause I'm finding more of me, though less of everything I had
And I still see the sun and feel the wind and find I'm glad
And I could throw away the only life I have to live
But I can't shake the thought that there is more to give and to receive
So I breathe deep
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And so we circle right back to this question
Uncertain now as we were at the start
Where do we go to find our shelter?
How to repair this broken heart?
What do we make of all our failings
To drive our flag into the Earth?
How do we bear the weight of being
The sum of every death and birth?
So far as sound and vision have revealed it
No solid rock on which to stand
Appears that doesn't crack and crumble
Dissolved into these shifting sands
Which through the hourglass are falling
To bury all we've said and done
Can you show me something to believe in?
Or do we lose it all before we have begun
A diamond eye eclipse enshrouds in bleeding moonbeams
(Breaking waves of weary questioning provide the)
Fuel the fire, shedding sparks of revelation
(Taking heart we touch the timeless higher vision)
Enter second stage, the sunlight dancing, burning
(Through the scars of the impermanent and dying)
Leaving only love that spans the emptiness
Raise your voice, be counted, we will keep on trying
And if the shadows take their toll
This hunger of the soul
A pain so deep, immense and unforgiving
Don't lose sight the embers glow
There's a truth as pure as snow
Unstained, enshrined in everything that's living
Here, where time and will collide
It's here that we decide
The course we'll take amidst this endless motion
Fall apart and fade away
Or flow into the day
To find we're waves within a boundless ocean
The most that we can say is that we can't say anything
The words were never writ that could, themselves, resolve our suffering
But daring still, we go on drifting in the consoling warmth of grace
With the courage to encompass all that comes in our embrace
We lay down all our fantasies with a smile on our face
We hold fast to hope and kindness, though all else may be erased
And through the cracks in all we know, we catch a glimpse of endless space
We rest awhile and then we take our place
We rest awhile and rejoin the human race
In this never-ending testament
We rebuild our broken instruments
And sing of joy and mercy as we go from here
We harmonize the dissonance
Reshape our shattered innocence
With patience as our polestar
We will go
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Synthy, cinematic prog-punk from Atlanta
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