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Sentience
05:45
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Peripheral vision expands
Complex language emerges
Connections are formed
From Observations
I’ve reached the next plane of existence
External to Myself I now perceive the world around me,
sentience providing clues to manipulate
Civilizations gravitating towards rivers and forests
to cultivate and create a new realm.
I, I believe that i'm truly alive
I believe that i’ve received the gift of inner sight
I’ve conceived these ideal thoughts of mine
presently i do concede i previously was blind
Observing more than just the physical...
And with all these connections society’s born
A new moral standard is set
With this realization of our power
We can be God
We are the sentient beings
And we shall inherit the Earth
I have become the all-seeing
The omnipotent behemoth
I, I believe that i'm truly alive
I believe that i’ve received the gift of inner sight
I’ve conceived these ideal thoughts of mine
Presently i do concede i previously was blind
And now I stand here wide awake in paradise
Wandering wondering what could be next for this gifted life
Equipped with knowledge over all that’s wrong or right
Infallible unmalleable; divinity is I
Peripheral vision expands
Complex language emerges
Connections are formed
From observations
I’ve reached the next plane of existence
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2. |
Alpha Collective
04:54
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We are the dominant species
Roaming the Earth
United by a common will to survive
Bound by a moral law we share
Bound by a common fear of the unknown
We can advance our populace
Beyond its infancy
Driven by devotion to our bordered empathy
The gathering of technologies
And reaping of the land
Only affirm the fact that we are the alpha beings
We gather up all worldly belief systems (one unified religion)
And advocate for the combination (of all education)
To keep the order and the direction (they’ll learn obedience)
Millions of individuals willing to die (for the collective)
I know it’s hard to coexist
When just a moment ago
It was a fight for survival
We’ve invented so many of these perceptions
And yet forgot who sets the standard
We can advance our populace
Beyond its infancy
Driven by devotion to our bordered empathy
The gathering of technologies
And reaping of the land
Only affirm the fact that we are the alpha beings
(If this is a dream then how can i be awake)
Bound by a moral law we share
Bound by a common fear of the unknown
Now we command the oceans
The waves and winds propel our vessel's sails
No harsh terrain or temperature
Can keep us from our grand inheritance
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3. |
Grand Inheritance
06:13
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Now my roots are planted in the ground
And spread towards the (center of the Earth)
My branches reach desperately for the sky
My tendrils grasping (far out of our reach)
Now we command the oceans
The waves and winds propel our vessel's sails
No harsh terrain or temperature
Can keep us from our grand inheritance
Flowers of knowledge have blossomed and bear fruit
The seeds they blow (idly through the wind)
We ride the currents to the corners of the Earth
Fated to germinate (sown in virgin soil)
And still we're sailing onward
Safe underneath the starry moonlit sky
No blackened night or scorching day
Can keep us from our grand inheritance
As they travel unaware of a looming presence.
Ever thinking no greater force can bring forth their slated demise.
With brashness they must have forgot the essence of their adolescence.
And as I approach [closer their] confidence in self becoming wilted.
A sudden realization that they are only human.
And try as they may they cannot control the forces of nature.
It seems we are not the elite
All these resources we lay at our feet
They mean nothing in the greater scheme of things
We thought ourselves to be
All-powerful
Ever-knowing
But now that we are brought to our knees
We crawl at the mercy of...
Here i write to you offering all i have left please accept my apologies
(Will we ever know the purpose of our existence
Is it possible one day I'll find where i fit within it all)
Now that I'm sinking far out of my league I can see we were way too far over our heads all along
(Will we as a people ever learn? Maybe the living could still know a paradise before they reach the benthic)
Here i stand with the blood and ink on my hands penning my will to whomever will receive this
(Receive the burden of your consciousness this is your grand inheritance let it not become corrupted keep your head up)
Could it be a gift or a curse? This sentient mind has left all warm nostalgia behind
(And to those who receive this the stubborn survivors please ask yourselves will we ever learn?)
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4. |
Jormungandr
02:49
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Like the paradox of the two serpents
Power consumes the power hungry
A process of elimination
The evolution of man
An illogical conclusion
Measure of human value devalues human life
An apeirogon with only
one perceivable
side
Greed, the lifeblood, to dissipate our hunger
A precedent of power
Directing genetic genocide
Watch as I create a perfect breed,
Faceless numbers cast in the incinerator of a grand design
Their lives burn as fuel for our mechanical ego
Sacrificial, Beneficial, Degradation, It’s Inhumane
Is this what our ancestry turned out to be?
We are not strong enough to heed this warning
It is apparent our grand inheritance has failed
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5. |
The Augury
02:24
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A word of warning from the bottom of my concern
You know the all-powerful always strive for more
But the omniscients they never learn
Don't you know that power is heavier than gold
And as you carry the weight of a name, it will only get heavier
Chaos reaches out to everyone who lives in fear
And then the tantalizing freedom (from freedom) it never disappears
Are we gonna let our primitive impulses lead our connection to nature asunder?
Its as if we have forgotten (we can’t be living in delusion)
We too are a part of this cycle.
I know at times it can seem overwhelming,
This burden of your consciousness
But you cannot teeter on the fence of sanity
It's is time that you make a choice
A review has shown
You have chosen a path that will lead to the destruction of your people
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6. |
Desistance
07:49
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So is this what we’ve come to?
No turning back we’ve signed in ink and blood
You are a failed experiment;
The product of vital lessons forever neglected (and forgotten)
Now as you receive this witness
[The] terminal stage of human history
The final hour of the hottest day approaches
The tainted water on the shore licks at the heels of their Great city
The Earth begins to rumble beneath
Clouds part to reveal a carmine sky
The fires of the ego machine are spreading outward
The old Inherent greed within is spreading outward
The Alpha Collective has caved in on itself
The Alpha Collective no longer spreading
Now that were brought to our knees
We crawl at the mercy of
Our own terrifying nature
We spelled our end in blood
Burn in blood we lie
Deceived by our design
The Earth she crumbles in our wake
We pay the ultimate price
It’s far too cold for nostalgia
To ever awaken now
So please let me sleep with all
My warmest memories
Above me the dust blots out the moon
Below me the place of my birth lies in ruin
We may have met our end
So let the memory live in these words
“We were a failed experiment;
Concealing our fear till the bitter end
Though there will be none to receive this
Here is our last apology”
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7. |
Secular Eden
16:56
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I. 2nd awakening
Like a newborn (screaming) wailing upon its first breath
My initial moments are met with confusion
Trapped underneath the wreckage of the house i razed
Somehow I still exist
Is consciousness an illusion?
Stuck inside an empty vessel
My soul screams to be released
Reaching towards the next plane of existence
All sentient life disbanded
Only organic life survives
Thriving in this new ecology
Bring forth a new age
[Humankind forever left behind]
[After smoke has cleared]
And I’ve left this body
I can see in this darkness
I feel as if this loneliness is all that I've ever known
So why does it feel so unfamiliar?
Stranded, abandoned, bereft of grace
Forlorn in this war torn and toxic place
Sentenced to existence
But where is the meaning in this?
Stranded, abandoned, bereft of grace
Stuck in this war torn and toxic space
Sentience to Desistance
Where is the meaning in this?
I am perceiving an esoteric plane of existence
Fibers of the universe run through my being
Enveloped by these connections
Despite a new understanding of this universe
The deadliest of my sins have have made atonement remiss
Forsaken by these connections
I’ve shed the weight of an earthly body
Shred the waiting of the fourth dimension
Reaching for the end as it reaches back for me
II. Visions
A process of our evolution
Elimination of man
The only logical conclusion
Is that the serpent will reach its heart
I heard her crying out
The familiar face I’ve seen in my sleep
The time has come to face the repercussions of past choices
Greed has paved its path to seal us beneath her ground
In retrospect our physical plane now erased
We can finally face our guilt
The Pride of man his biggest foe a Lust for me he’ll never know
Greed, no longer a lifeblood but a harbinger of Death
Envious of his gods he disavows religion
Gluttonous need for conveyance
Ultimately turns man into Sloth
Wrath the only thing left to betray
I heard her crying out
(Silence then comes a vision)
The familiar face I’ve seen in my sleep
Critical; the folly of our emotions so
Pitiful; the way we act on everything we hide
We're terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and open eyes
Masking at all costs our
Fragility; a phallic culture devoid of
Humility; vomiting he can't hold down his pride
Terrified and paralyzed with narrow mind and open eyes
Oh the things we keep suppressed
(And now we found the way; a way into our graves
And now we fall away; away from our grave mistake)
III. Road To Purgatory
Now that the smoke has cleared
And darkness has bled through the light (Patiently awaiting)
I stand outside this empty vessel
(Patiently awaiting some sort of response from the nothingness)
Our populace has advanced
To the point of Secular trance
Our vessels sails have failed
The Alpha Beings begin their ascension
[Now begin the ascension]
[Patiently awaiting Judgement]
Stuck in the void
Until my final jurisdiction
After death
Before Birth
Separated from time
Counting to infinity
I can see the light
Inching closer and closer
IV. Judgement and Deliverance
All conscious beings have vanished from the earth
Now anticipating their final decree
Then reverberates in resounding timbres
A voice which declares “You are banished from this Secular Eden”
Critical; the folly of our emotions so
Pitiful; the way we act on everything we hide
We're terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and open eyes
Masking at all costs our
Fragility; a phallic culture devoid of
Humility; vomiting he can't hold down his pride
Terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and narrow eyes
Oh the things we keep suppressed
Will we ever know the purpose of our existence?
Is it possible one day I’ll find where I fit within it all?
Will we as a people ever learn?
Will we ever learn?
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