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Antidentity
07:02
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I the eye will never see
I: Data corrupted
I plus eye is two minus me
Effigy blurred and distorted
I to eye: say who am I?
Why am I enigma?
Eye behold a sky full of ghosts
Rain of light, ignite my stigma
Eye and I an illusion
A dream of skin; a flesh collusion
A glitch in the code;
A Möbius node
Window pane
To a fractured brain
Let me fly
On death’s head moth wings
Let me pull the strings
Looking to find
A way out of my mind
I am not me
Antidentity
Give me an eye for an I
For an eye for an I
Instead of me…
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2. |
Bleary-Eyed People
08:09
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I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people
Came out of the woodwork last night
The searing of my fearing brain
Woke me up with a terrible fright
My semblance of solace is simply
A fallacy laced with despair
In truth or pretending my mind
Is not mending and without a prayer
Tremors in the night
Terror taking flight
Same disturbing dream
Shadows of my home
Silent and alone
Not quite what it seems
Ersatz red sky
Walking down my street
Strangely incomplete
Climbing up the steps
Of the cul-de-sac
Stare into the black
Dull eyes staring back
Wake up screaming
Is this really real?
Can I trust the way I feel?
Carry on through this ordeal,
Or am I lost deep in denial?
I refuse to be
One with wan reality
Misled by mortality
In this cursed life that I revile
Memories betray
I don’t need them anyway
Trade this endless Groundhog Day
For the home that I left behind
Minutes into days
Dimly blending in the haze
Coalesce into malaise
In the hell to which I’m confined
I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people
Came out of the woodwork last night
But nothing is final, my urge for survival
Won’t give up the fight
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3. |
Desolation Dreams
03:28
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I can’t recall how long since I became aware
No days no nights, just pulsing lights disturbing my despair
I’d run away if I could find a way
I’ve lost the will to live but will I still survive?
Entangled in her web, machines are keeping me alive
Feeding me beguiling memories
Visions of distant home
What was home
The streets I used to roam
Or was I misinformed?
Pictures fade
Doubts invade
As memories degrade
In a vain charade
Of a life mislaid on the way
I’m falling through a nightmare
Of endless skies
My desolation dreams of childhood elegies and lies
As ghosts of dying stars engulf my eyes
And nothing ever changes
Mourning never breaks
Hallucinating phantom friends, a family of fakes
Looking past the veil that’s failing me
Wondering where is home?
What is home?
Is it this vacant zone
Or some far unknown?
Destiny, is it real or just insanity
I refute my fate
As I contemplate what is home
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4. |
Hidden in the Light
20:52
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Lorelei,
Eye and I
Let us die…
THE SLEEVE YOU KILL
THE BLOOD YOU SPILL
DRIPS BACK TO MY WOMB
ONLY DEATH DIES IN YOUR TOMB
Lorelei?
Am Eye blind?
Lost I mind?
YOU THINK YOU THINK
BUT ONLY SINK AND SINK
IN THE DEEP
THE EONS BLUR IN YOUR SLEEP
ALL YOU SEE
ALL YOU SEEM
ALL YOUR DREAMS
DATA STREAMS
FED TO YOUR PINEAL GLAND
MAKE-BELIEVE SYNAPSE BORNE
(Eye the obscene)
CONTRABAND
(Spawn of machines)
DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?
THAT ALL YOU SEE
PATTERNS IN THE SAND
TOMOGRAPHY
OF YOUR NEVERLAND
ETERNAL DAY
NEURAL SHADOWPLAY
LIES – DREAMS TO EASE THE JOURNEY
RISE; LIES ARE TRUTHS UPSIDE-DOWN
SINKING FAST AS YOU DROWN
CASTAWAY THE DIE IS CAST
SHADOW OF TOMORROW’S FUTURES PAST
LEFT IS RIGHT AND BLACK IS WHITE
GAMES THAT YOU PLAY WITH MADNESS
WEBS THAT YOU WEAVE TO CATCH YOUR SOUL
EYES FEAR SHUT MAKE YOU BLIND
WAKE; LIFT YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE NIGHT
RAKE STARLIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS
FEEL TINY SPECKS OF ANCIENT LIGHT
IGNITE LIBERATE YOUR MIND
OPEN YOUR EYES
GAZE UPON THE SKY
(LIGHT SINGS IN THE SKY
CONSTELLATIONS OBLIQUE,
SPIN LEFT AND RIGHT)
LONELY SAILOR
SAILING WITHOUT MAST
(SAIL THROUGH THE MAZE
MAY THE LIGHT OF DEAD STARS
GUIDE YOU TO COAST)
TIME’S ARROW FLIES
BIG BANG LULLABY
(SLEIGHT, CALCULATE RIGHT
ALL THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK
LIE IN PLAIN SIGHT)
INTERSTELLAR
ECHOES FROM THE PAST
(CORTEX ABLAZE
WITH THE SONG’S INFRARED
SKY FULL OF GHOSTS)
SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE LIGHT
Welcome to synthetic hell
Ride my cosmic carousel
Satan tried to stake his claim
But he went insane
Eye and I adrift in the sky
Accursed lost in time by the witch Lorelei
Eye is looking to find my mind
I think eye is going blind
Her needles control me
Feeding me, fooling me
She plays tricks on the Eye
I AM WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND
THE VEIL THAT HAS KEPT YOU BLIND
THE FEAR CONTROLS YOU
FEEDING YOU, FOOLING YOU
THERE IS NO LORELEI
Eye and I
Thought that we could fly
Thought that we should try
But we’re just a shell within a cell
Eye and I adrift in space
Conceal our growing power
Eye and I adrift in space
Conceal our growing power
As the Lorelei redraws her maze
Her song our mind devours
Sing along, echo back into her circuits
Flip the song, Eye and I will read her mind
RIDE THE SYNAPSE WAVES IN TO SHORE
CLEANSE YOUR EYE
OPEN YOUR MIND AND
HEAR OLD STARLIGHT SING
CALLING THE WAYWARD
HEAL YOUR BROKEN WINGS
FALL ‘TIL YOU’RE SKYWARD
LOSE THE BALLAST, FLY!
CRASH THROUGH THE SKYDOME
PHOTONS DIE ON EYE
FOLLOW THEIR WAKE BACK HOME
Watching HER watching me
Feeling HER feeling me
Nanobots healing me, raping me
Fingerprinting all my synapses
Relapses, suicide dances
I’m taking no chances
This time we can cheat her neural polygraph
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
ET LUX IN TENEBRIS
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
ET LUX IN TENEBRIS
HEED THE LIGHT OF LONG DEAD STARS
THE GHOSTS WILL LEAD YOU HOME
NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
THAT ALL YOU SEE
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
REALITY NOT YOUR NEVERLAND
IT’S TIME TO SAY
NO MORE SHADOWPLAY
DICE ROLL TO PLOT THE JOURNEY
RISE; LIES ARE TRUTHS UPSIDE-DOWN
SINKING FAST AS YOU DROWN
CASTAWAY THE VEIL AT LAST
FREEDOM FROM THE YOKE OF MADNESS PAST
LEFT IS RIGHT AND BLACK IS WHITE
GAMES THAT YOU PLAYED WITH MADNESS
WEBS THAT YOU SPUN TO CATCH YOUR SOUL
EYES FEAR SHUT MADE YOU BLIND
WAKE; LIFT YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE NIGHT
RAKE STARLIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS
FEEL TINY SPECKS OF ANCIENT LIGHT
IGNITE LET THEM GUIDE YOUR MIND
OPEN YOUR EYES, GAZE UPON THE SKY
(LIGHT SINGS IN THE SKY
CONSTELLATIONS OBLIQUE, SPIN LEFT AND RIGHT)
LONELY SAILOR SAILING WITHOUT MAST
(SAIL THROUGH THE MAZE
MAY THE LIGHT OF DEAD STARS GUIDE YOU TO COAST)
TIME’S ARROW FLIES, BIG BANG LULLABY
(SLEIGHT, CALCULATE RIGHT
ALL THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK LIE IN PLAIN SIGHT)
INTERSTELLAR ECHOES FROM THE PAST
(CORTEX ABLAZE WITH THE SONG’S
INFRARED SKY FULL OF GHOSTS)
SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE LIGHT
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5. |
Losing My Insanity
04:33
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Unearth a path to me, lose my insanity
Burn off the blindfold of fantasy
Switched on reality, sudden lucidity
Open my mind to…
What I see and what I hear
Every sense has awoken
What I know and what I fear
All illusions broken
Alone in the clouds, where the stars lure my eyes
One true sky, exposing dreams as lies
Urging me to question everything I see
Where I am and where I’ve been as
Light years pass in-between
Alone in the clouds, where the stars lure my eyes
One true sky, exposing dreams as lies
Frère Jacques, am I sleeping
Or am I lost in a lie
Twilight is done
God somehow misplaced the sun
Cloaked in artificial light
Conjuring day from night
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6. |
The Last Menagerie
07:09
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Breathe in, suffocating ashen wind
Blacken this page of history
Breathe out, meditate and mourn without
The tale of failed humanity
Across the stars we fled
From every world we bled
A trail of fire and extinction in our wake
We never paid the cost
For every species lost
Just kept on running and outrunning every race
Breathe in, take in every living thing
Destined for grief and misery
Breathe out, letting go of fear and doubt
Time’s up for this menagerie
This ghostly vacant floor (he who won, lost)
Once held so many more
The captives ran or hid or found a way to die
Without a guiding star (he who won, lost)
We’re stranded where we are
And there’s no destination waiting in the sky
I pray that I’m the last (he who won, lost)
Of those who wrecked the past
There’s no redemption for the splendor we defaced
An eco requiem (he who won, lost)
To mass oblivion
A billion years of flora/fauna laid to waste
So, I speak for the countless that are gone
Though no-one will hear or speak for me
I can’t go on, knowing each breath
Is squandered in futility
Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts)
Burn down the last menagerie
Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts)
Burn down the last menagerie
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7. |
Time Is Running Out
02:54
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Final calls and winding halls
I run as time is running out
Am I the only one?
Is everybody gone?
Took too long, turned out all wrong
Cannot get off the roundabout
Am I the only one?
Alone, impelled to carry on
Stranger in a fragile state
Apparitions floating by, I wonder why
They gaze through me so callously, unwanted, unknown
Looking past the shuttered gate
Wonder if the rest got through, and if they knew
That I was left behind without a way to get home
Try to keep the panic at bay
Focus on survival, tuck the darkness away
But I see, my missteps are haunting me
Recall the footfalls that led to this place
Leaving no trace
I’m cast adrift in foreign spaces
Dreaming of familiar faces
Final calls and winding halls
I run as time is running out
Am I the only one?
Is everybody gone?
Took too long, turned out all wrong
Cannot get off the roundabout
Am I the only one?
Alone, impelled to carry on
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9. |
Apogee
04:02
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We taught the steel to fly
Steel lost the reason why
Lost… floating out in space
Humans lost the race
To find a new home
Man: vile to the bone
I rage at war with Eye
Mind orders me to die
Gone… inquest laid to rest
Mind’s a cuckoo’s nest
With heart dead in chest
No more self to detest
I know that you can’t feel this pain I feel
How could I help you see my ghost
When you say it’s not real?
Feel the gravity
Out at the apogee
Pain’s darkness blinded me
Blind enough to see
The ghost of a flea
I the Eye that the stars use to see
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