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Remnants
03:31
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The stars so high calling to devotees far down below
Descend, dancing, like death angels bearing gifts of flame
And we stare up above in rapture, while destiny calls
Beckoning us home
Holding onto ourselves
Searching for solace amidst destruction
Remnants of what once was
You were my last love in this surrender
We were standing side by side in this disaster
Cataclysmic waves crash, abandoned on this rock
Fading into memories of once sacred pasts
The stars so close reaching to devotees praying down below
Hear the heavens break, as life and death collide
And we dream of endlessness, emptiness,
Beckoning us home
Holding onto ourselves
Searching for solace amidst destruction
Remnants of what once was
Ascend into the embrace
Of an earth without a future
Our ashes all that remain
Ascend into the embrace
Our love burns eternal
Our ashes all that remain
Ascend into the embrace.
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Tin Man
02:16
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Fixation of Man
Technological vice
Industrial addiction
Corrupting our minds
Titanium implants
Through sinew and bone
The digital cancer
Spread into the soul
This tin man’s dead labor
A new future of a final mistake
Disposed, disfavored
How much of this progress can we take?
Pray to the gods
Of zeroes and ones
For a fleshless savior
To absolve our hearts
Engines of progress
The gears of change
Unholy rites
Invoked this fate
This tin man’s dead labor
A new future of a final mistake
Disposed, disfavored
How much of this progress can we take?
Wires…Pierce through the veins!
Strangled, ruptured, humanity is drained
The last temptation of Man was the gold he saw in the lands he stole
Once verdant with life run free, now necrotic with the plague of greed.
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Degloved
03:09
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Bound and drowned
Sinking to depths of self-isolation
Forced to conform
Resisting a cultural indoctrination
Bound and drowned
Under weight of mal(e)xpectations*
Doomed to repeat
Mistakes of the father in my past
Cry in times alone we die.
Fight to prove we are cruel inside
Bound and drowned
Sinking to depths of self-hatred
Forced to conform
Or suffer the scorn of ostracization
Bound and drowned
Under weight of mal(e)xpectations*
Cursed to repeat
The patterns we claim to despise
We sing hymns of innocence lost
While their hands smother our hearts
Years spent lashing at bystanders’ gaze
Tear the mask off a tortured boy’s face
Forgiving myself for once in my life
A malice I held no longer inside.
*Mal: Latin prefix for bad. Male expectations: The conditioned ways a patriarchal society teaches us we are supposed to behave in order to protect the system of gender-normative oppression in order to effectively reify and reinforce the dominant norms of society. Mal(e)xpectaions: A recognition of the toxic nature of patriarchal masculinity or any binary or rigid gendered norms that tell you there is only one correct way to be a man (and that links it to power and domination over other gender expressions).
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