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Time, come back to me
I wonder what’s on
I’m going to go flip through the channels
Figure out what I’ve been missing these last 6 hours of being alive, not even being awake
Something about my anxiety, this anxiety:
Where have I seen that before, what life am I not having?
I can’t feel my legs. I can’t feel my self
What future isn’t to behold?
What present am I missing out on right this day right this now?
Maybe I should buy this and I’ll be happy, I’ll be alive if I just eat this smiling meal
This meal that’s smiling right back at me
Why's my meal smiling at me?
We’re getting closer every day
We’re holding closer every day
We’ve lost our sober every day
Releasing holster every day
Moving closer every day
Kill our cynosure every day
Every day
Ridiculous composure every day
Breaking every day
We’re breaking every day
We’re feeding our collapse
Every day
Wait
Wait
Hold on
Wait
No!
Wait, time
Wait, time
We get it in, we get it, turn it off
We got to get it, grab it, right up the tide
Gotta go write it off
It’s kind of finicky
We turn it in, or turn it off
You get that?
That’s kinda how we lose it in
The rest of the stuff
We’re buying on a Saturday
We’ve had enough
We’re turning it off, we’re turning it off, we’re turning it off
We turn in
Our graves
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2. |
Just Pure Garbage
06:23
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Get it all
It all will
But you thought you loved it then
Should’ve known your love would end
You’ve gotta know so now you know
You oughta know and now you know
You’ve got enough but now you don't
You’ve had enough and now you know, today
Create
We get enough
Then get it away
You know you get enough
Then get it away
What you sell, too
We sate
Get enough
And to our dismay
Time to get more stuff
Lead quite astray
What we say
Forget and grow
Not the same tonight
We’ve got to find the next best thing and we’ll let you know where to sell your soul next
What we get now will redefine
The fee we pay is humankind
The glee we find without remind
They call us we, the undersigned
We get enough and we multiply ourselves our insecurities and let our vulnerabilities
Our psychologies undermine, destroy in time
This sphere, we bleed for wealth, that gave us the self
That we left behind in in our mind
That we left behind in our soul
Thrown out with the rest, nothing at best, when all these things
That we give away, the next day
That we know we don’t care about anymore
Come out from hiding
A shell of what once was, floats lifeless in an aquatic tundra of empty profits
A wasteland we stomach on behalf of those who stomach our garbage plastic treasure
We can only see own, not what we have to do
These are all the things we can be
I tell you again
You won’t ever get another thing
Surrender plastic lives, live without your treasure
Let’s forget about everyone in the future
Let’s forget about everyone in the now and take our chances
All we’ve owned, will come back
What we’ve sown, will impact
All we’ve thrown, will throw back
What we’ve grown, will collapse
Our tombstones, will redact
What we know, will fall back
But before we go, we go
Before we take life
Before we have another buy
We’ll grow if we go into our minds, all alone
Just so you know, we glow, we glow
So it’s unfortunate we profitize our selves to become such less
You know, we know, how to save ourselves and this world that we’re attached to
(By the genome
By the genome
By the genome
By the genome
By the genome
We are the genome
The genome is us)
Still we go, we go, we suck the life life out of it all
We go, we go on shopping sprees contributing to an island that we’ll never set foot on
And what we know, we know, means nothing but the fact that we’re just pure garbage
We grow, we grow, but by the time we all understand this, there'll be no we anymore
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3. |
Sky Hole
04:19
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Daunting's the way we are
Fighting the day we know
Haunting until we die
In death, we will never reach t he sky, no
The sky hole
Wanting some piece of my
Head, yeah, but not my mind
I have nothing to do with you
That nothing into my eyehole
The sky hole
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4. |
The Great Letdown
06:56
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By the time we’ve done it
By the time we’d seen it through
We all wonder if this was all worth it
Or were we maybe just wasted
Invasive injection in the absence of light
With no switch no bulb no heeding or no guiding knight
Oh why don’t we file this under victory
Chop shop, sell it for pieces
I know, we can pretend it's worth more together than broken
And we don’t let up and or let it go
We don’t get out of bed for others
I don’t get this and I just never will
I just never will
Just one path, there’s only this one road
Bothered by pride, problems in the code
When we wake up, we’ll forget what we did on the road
What do you know
The car drives just fine without the radio
Either we fix this or we don't
Bring out the bounty, we’ve fallen into the same ditch too many times and we’ve run out of gas
So it’s time the car was sold
The metaphor’s gone stale now, we’ll get a new one
The sun, it burns through my sunglasses
Retinas, suffering consequence
Useless, I throw them into the dirt
While piloting toward the sun
Berate catacombs
Beating a dead horse until it takes us to our unspecified goal
Little did we know it was on it’s own path
In our minds we devise meaning and the soul
Constructing everyday
Until, we shut down, close the blinds, set it all on fire
When we got up out of bed that morning
We kept adding bricks to the wall that we built all our lives
Shutting it down, closing the blinds, setting it up, setting it all on fire
In the end we go in, and we don’t come out
We climb
Wake up, I was told we would wake up, we’ll pick up
We’ll get up, we’ll get up in this other world
We’re going to wake up, yeah we’re going to wake up
We’ve gotta wake up, we have to wake up
Or we’ll keep climbing these walls that we’ve built all our lives
Step down, you’ve gotta recalibrate yourself
Skip town, there’s nothing left for you here
But a letdown, the great letdown
You heard it in your head
Shut down, a great letdown
It’s not what they once said
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6. |
Karuna
12:17
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I open my eyes, And my senses all take a breath now. How did I end up here? Walking all through this
place I know, this wasn’t always so, Others unlike me here, magnanimous they endear, I fear, they’re in
danger.
Don’t worry about us, we’ll be fine. You’ve been through a lot, let us take care of you, this time. You
know, you’ll know, I know where you will go, Come and transition. We’ll hold, hold our spaecies’ as
one. Come to fruition.
We’d thank you, thank you, but we don’t know what that means
We’ll stay here, stay here, in this world. Karuna, a moon we’ll be living on.
We sit with empty plates,
We lost the shipment out in space,
We have to find that giant,
We have to go back and retrace
Ay, stepped in my head, I’m awake, standing, my ear upward
Away somewhere, up and out there, I fear...
[If they come for you we’ll protect]
We’re getting all the meat we’ve lost
We know that it’s a moon they’re on,
[you, if they come for you we'll pro-]
We found the moon we’ve never wrong,
Gas giant and it’s double star,
[-tect you if they come for you]
There might be life there moon upon,
We’ll take and consume them all,
[We'll protect you if they come for you]
Resources? We’ll seize a haul!
[We'll protect you]
We’re leaving, prepare for war.
[If they come for you]
We make them, we’ll break them,
We’ll dine on them.
There’s no one there to counter attack.
You can’t run, no, you cannot hide,
There’s no escape when we’re in flight
With god we’ll get there, that meat is ours,
It is His will, it is our damn right!
They’re here!
Go!
We can see them now,
Feed! I found them!
Bulwark mayhem,
The sky protect them
[Blocked they be]
From ship entry
[From entry]
War, you will get
[War, they bring, arm]
Aim the weapon
[Our safety]
Fire! We’ll kill them all, If we can’t have them...
But that was long ago, my friend.
The humans have long been gone, since then.
Their genes we hold deep inside
That day, none of the humans died but became Sanctuarians
On Karuna, thanks to Karuna.
And time goes on...
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7. |
Elderberries
03:07
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8. |
Everything is Wrong
03:17
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Have you thought about this at all?
Wondered whether you, or all this life you’ve lived could have really happened
From moment one we each rode the cyclone in
: “This is every all,
Take a swim”
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
When everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Cause everything is wrong
Yes everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Harder than before you go today
Listen to the panic
Of this world, the way they want you to be
This is who you are, so take a swing
Everything is wrong
While everything is wrong
And everything is wrong
But everything is wrong
Since everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Don’t bring yourself, they tell you
Right yourself, wear the uniform.
The brokenness inside you
Your brokenness it makes you
In life we fragmentize, the whole you is just the broken behind your faded eyes, so live like
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
If everything is wrong
Then everything is wrong
So everything is wrong
Let everything be wrong
Everything is wrong
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9. |
Stockholm Syndrome
05:41
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I’m locked in this basement, of lies
But it’s such a nice basement, I’m fine
I kind of like it here...
It’s not as cold as outside, but it can be colder
I can go anywhere I want, as long as I’m inside
I can get anything I need, as long as I’m in hiding
I can get anything I want
Every day is my own
I can get anything I need
Every day I’m alone
I can be anyone I want, as long as I’m inside
I can have all the friends I need, as long as I’m away
And I’ll find a way out
I’ll find a way out (And I’ll find my way back)
No end in sight, it won’t end won’t end won’t
You know that something is wrong
You know, you know, you know
You’re buying into the lie
You know your captor feeds you, saves you, drives you, loves you, is you
Go!
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you feel like you have to get out of here?
Why do you have to feel?
Get out of here, get out of here
Why do you have to feel?
Why do you have to feel?
Why do you have to get out of here?
Why do you have to feel?
Get out, get out, get out!
I’ll find a way out
I’ll find a way out (And I’ll crawl my way back)
How do we live our lives without sacrifice?
Symbiotic parasites: This brain is not our friend
I’m tired, it wants reward: Blatant disregard for it’s own life
Why hold it’s armies back? it always ends up crushing the mind
We’ve got to, we’ve got to get it, we're out of time
We have to, we have no choice here without the catalyst
How about it - you and me
How will we create?
How will we do it?
You’ve just gotta to do this one thing
Never mind the tired
You don’t want to be left in the dust, in the dirt
If we don’t get this done
It will never see the light of day, it’s day of light
We have to keep ourselves locked up, in line
Soldier, just stand down
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10. |
Storks Borks
00:59
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11. |
Waltzer White
04:49
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Say my name
I am the danger, I
Am the one
Who knocks. You’re
An insane
Degenerate
Piece of filth
And you deserve to die
Say my name
And you deserve to die
I am the danger
And you deserve to die
I am the one who knocks
And you deserve to die
Tread lightly
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I think humanity is holding us down
This grandiose concept that we, we are more
An unintelligibly recognized sound
What have we done? What do we have to show for
This unconscious crowd
Of filthy, unorganized, soulless machines
That we call human
Maybe in another life and song
We'll live the dream and we'll dream of utopia
We'll live in peace and we'll know when we are wrong
We'll leave the seas and the trees and get along
If we look outside right now, a we gaze into the great beyond
Maybe there's a better world
A hope of peace in a magical photon, yeah
A world corrective and inhuman
That's better than what we're doing now
[Let's work on what we've got now]
Wreck a home just to make our own bigger
Plow over trees just to get from A to Z
Dying souls, diamond blood, lions out in Zion hunt
Crooked cops, stolen glocks, picket signs are rising up
Art of war for a carnivore, feeding off the primest cut
While clocks tick, we are all sick
Killing time till time is up
Comforting is what we're used to
Gagged with a white flag, knife to the left wrist
Chains on the right leg, peace comes with a price tag
Got an iPhone in an iBag, while bullets fly out in Iraq
A crucifix sits on my lap, but there ain't no god where I'm at
Hold on, we're all doomed here from the outside
We have to, we have to
Run away, don't look back now, from our humanity
We have to, we have to learn
My friends
The others on Earth have become Abel, and we are Cain
This planet continues to crumble under our inane
There's good in the humans? Sure!
But it's not enough to balance the pain
The animals live for life and we live in strife over no particular domain
Who are really the animals now?
Despite all the rage, yeah
We're just rats in a cage, yeah
Humanity's dead, sanity lives in canopy graves, yeah
Amityville's now Latter Day Saints, yeah
Priest is the beast, bible's a gun, pulled on a nun while insanity sprays
Shots at the Mandalay, pepper spray out in Ferguson
Fire starters and riot marchers, the cops are the murderers
Waving government issued pistols while missiles and bombs drop
[Blowin' shit up!]
Sheep being led to the onslaught
[We are really the animals now]
Run the world? Yeah we'll run it
and ourselves into the ground
On the outside
We have to, we have to
Learn a way to protect us
And not just ourselves
We have to, or we will burn
It's time we all look at ourselves
Time to take this pill
Pretend it's alive
Feed that thrill, to kill
and swallow it whole
We are complacency, the destructor's whore
Complicit, we are feigning something resembling a soul
A cancer slaying it's host by consuming it's coal
This is what the humans have done
[Dying souls, diamond blood
Feeding off the primest cut]
Assume we are all responsible
[We're all sick, we're all sick]
Ruin the world
[Time is up]
Yeah, we're nothing but pests consuming everything
[Our clocks tick, we're all sick]
We are, but
[Time is up]
We have to
[Dying souls]
We can beat
[Time is up]
Humanity
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Striatum Kitchener, Ontario
The striatum is a critical component of the motor and reward systems. It engages to motivate it's lifeform to perform tasks
that will or are expected to result in perceived reward. It can be seen as responsible for some of the greatest human achievements, and some of the most pitiful human downfalls... although it is not uniquely human.
Striatum is the brainchild of composer Mason Tikl.
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