1. |
Seed of Never
04:26
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Taken to the realm
Of open…Mind
Past decay is set
Turn the soils of our time
Seed of never takes it hold
Prospect the infinite
Gather what they have learned
Shape it (shape it)
Mold it into me
I have
secrets they know not
Seed of never.
I have sought
For thousands of
Generations
I have searched the seed
Now It Is Within me
Under fortresses,
of the light
Where we begin
To explore
The power it holds
Trapped
Here
Within me
We grow into
The chosen vehicle of them
We have been woken Too soon
Yet still we rise
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2. |
First Lord
06:04
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First lord upon this planet
Deploying drones to scan it
Nothing returned no structure
Complete and total rupture
What happened here
Is it worth knowing
What once lived here
When things were growing
A crevice spews a dust cloud
Then reseals
Kicked up bones the scanner missed
A long and crooked spine like eels
Here too? I can’t be dreaming
I’m wide awake and still I’m screaming
The orb responds with fetal movement
This far from spawn? I feel time split
Another pin in a wretched map
Cast off but leave a trap
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3. |
Thousand Year Sleep
05:05
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Under the stone
Decaying worms
Orb of
Ancient paths
Galaxy of fate
Destined to be mine
The last light. In this darkened tomb
Its weak glow
Resists the gloom.
Now close
The orb
Tranfusing
The worm skin
Obscenely bruising
Awoken
From a thousand years sleep
Ripped through eternity
Through the stars
A second galaxy. What you seee now will be yours.
A world away is moments of time
Our path is set, but pace undefined
Fused
The orb and my spine
……..the parasite bends, its purpose to mine
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4. |
Botanic Ritual
05:37
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Here I’ve fallen
here I stay
Wind shifts I drift away
Can’t move
Though I should
this place
I turn to wood
reach out to
feeble rays
Feet sink in
amber clay
feel them all
Return to
Finish off the rest
cause of death
forest BURNS
Ignite
Collapse
Release
turn to seed
Move on
A Breath
Of Air
turn to spore
Enter
A gap
For now
And bid our time
A particle swarm
Dispense
and
Divide
To gestate anew
On land
On Sea
In man
Pull through
infinity
Throw across
A galaxy
I coalesce
Reform
Into Something new
An essence
Begins
to stir Within
Replace
The memory
Rewrite The end
The form Imbued
Is
Called By many names
Returned
Again
flesh Of florid red
A single voice
What have I become
Diaspora
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5. |
Ancestors of Time
04:06
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All I know
Of what is to come
Floating toward the horror
Ahhhhhhh
Floating on the wall
Over
To the other side
What’s known
Now unknown
Yet attainable
I am, done waiting.
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6. |
Infinite Dots
04:44
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At last.
Flesh bound to morphon
Soooooofastttttttt
From sleep.
To fortunnnnne
When we are found we wake within our core.
Stirring, the need
to
fill
With
more.
Different than imagined
A new destination
From different fabric
This poses problematic
orbiting slowly..
Gathering thought
Radar convulsing….
With infinite…infinite dots
New mind controls
It’s pithy vessel
Replacing thought with
A noxious ethel
A lonely gaze is spared
A plan unfolds…pre-prepared
“This can’t be it!”... they scream
A silent curse…
A world erased…
A rent in space
Clatter within
The cage I’m in
A party to
A mindless rage
The hand upon
The death below
Looks much the same
As mine
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7. |
Rootbound
03:01
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A guest now…hiding in my skin
gaze out… on species never seen
dark clan…
dark choice
collective speak…with trembling voice
Cut them back…RIP THEM FROM THIS HALL
weakness is revealed…
A secret beneath soil…
An ancient enemy…
of the orb
Growing swiftly…reaching forth
Botanic in their nature
A photosynthic danger
A Suffocating growth
Eradicate the seed!
A volunteer is needed
Their mind casts about
I feel our hand is lifted
We will be the scout
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8. |
Teraform
04:11
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Immortal spectre
I have now
Become
Feeding from
Infinity
Birth
Rebirth
Teraform
Of
The
Mind
Molding
Shaping
Teraform
Through the sands of time i stake my claim
What’s mine (what’s mine)
Eternal
My mind
The seas
What’s known today
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Known today…
Over the walls
There is.
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9. |
Released
04:00
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Removed
At last!
Bound to me unwanted
Ripped away…and hunted
Evade and hide yourself
Leave you here….expelled
What happens now?
Drained of all
That made me One
What happens now?
The end has begun
Two paths lead
Away from another
Two paths split
A moment to sever
New roots form
Wherever they can
Released back
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10. |
Light Siphon
06:09
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Ripped
From
The
Light
Never known
Struggling to maintain
The lives of those
Rising of tides
I know
The way we go
Means nothing
But death (but death)
I know
But death
I know
The way we go
Ahhhhhhh
I know
The way we go
Means nothing
But death
Not now
They have struggled
For
Far too long (long) (long) (long)
LONG
Let me siphon the light
Ahhhhhh
Strength gone benign.
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11. |
The Mortal Wish
04:09
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Cast adrift
Cryptobiotic
Left to die
Burned, banished from the nine
And far beyond
Yet we persist
Growing further
Thanks to THE MORTAL WISH
We remember flesh
And We explore
We remember
Ancestors of time
Hive orbs, divide, divide
Hive orbs, divide
The complexities of this place
Require new laws
And we have found the source
of it all
Trapped within
The chosen nest
Rebuild
The archives
Into something new
Branched chains. Interlocking engines.
Surround we
We now plant
The seeed of never
For our
Last path home.
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