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Qlippot Sophia
02:08
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QLIPPOT SOPHIA
Well I’ve been an asshole but nothing quite like this
Getting in the way of myself has its limits
But I’ve come back, always on fire, stronger and wiser
Usually good at not feeding the beast
How did we fall apart?
This doesn’t feel like us but who else would we be?
Destined to fail by our own accord
But these life lessons can be so interesting, don’t you think so?
Maybe we were born with it, maybe it was engineered
How we just fall apart, fall apart for the art
Maybe I don’t even want it that bad
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FELIX CULPA/[ I CAN’T WITH(OUT) YOU]
I can’t entrust you to keep me free, I don’t desire a sick, sad end
I can’t imagine what you’ve been through we’ve only just begun sifting
Four score and I don’t care how long ago we split hairs and fucked it up
I’m not sure what we expected as if pretense itself was enough
Falling down makes us stronger, doesn’t it? We can take it, take it all
It’s strange when he looks back at you, those judging eyes and that unending truth
Make sure you make him happy, make sure and he’ll make do
Forthwith it falls apart
I’ve severed these ties, I’ve made up my mind
I’ll be a victim not one more time
You’ll search forever and still not find what makes you happy if you lack mind
Forgive my trespasses and I’ll pretend that I’m fine, don’t worry I’m fine
And now, there’s no one welcoming us
If we’re the same why’s distance mean anything?
With only half a conclusion we’ve got a long way to go
Headstrong until the end, so far we’ve failed
Just as we did this for us I do this for me
Headstrong until the end, this is not me
As we did so for us I do for
I could pretend to see you fail would give me pleasure, a hollow sort of victory
Instead I’ll carve all the tools I need out of this mountain, enough to set all of us free
With the highest of affections and the lowest of cares
This is all of me there is to give, every piece designed to share
There’s only so many ways, there’s only so much time
There’s more than infinite ways, there’s only notions of time
There’s only what we believe, there’s nothing in our way
Get your shit together, motherfucker
Break out of the rote
Make us see a thing we could die for
Make us believe in us
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3. |
Babylon
04:45
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BABYLON
Temples raised to the stars black out the sun
Radiating imagery, subconscious themes
Forgetting what we came here for, what we intend to be
Disavowing our desires for a facsimile
You think the industry remains isolated? With no oversight from the power structure?
There’s too much at stake to just leave to chance
Millions of mislead minds so prime for hypnotizing
The currents of mass suggestion run swift to wash the mind away
Appeasement through guilty pleasures
A war is on for your amusements and projections, the disarmed populace is lead in one direction
We must as what’s the sum of this attention? What is all of it for?
Explosive information will barely get a nod, we’re numb
It falls to the wayside
Altars set for the stars in moving pictures
Decadent debauchery for the unknowing
Underlying rituals of blood and fire
We choose, we suffer
We worship insane depictions
We live vicariously through others false accomplishments
Benign to us and we think it is the only way to live
We feel the emptiness in bronze and copper speech, we hear disparity in what the choirs preach
And they have cursed the day they taught us how to read between the lines of their self important kings
We know that we don’t need blessings from royalty to craft the subject of our reality
They are us, we are all, we are the only thing that matters
Make way for the king inside you
Katabasis
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Quantum Entanglement
03:03
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QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
Priests and poets have recommended that we abandon self for the other
But they hold fast their illusions speaking with one lip in each reality
Audi vide tace si tu vis vivere
Keep your head to the ground, make sure no one can see your convictions
Blasphemy if you change a mindset
I live to break the institutions set before me by societal mistakes
I can’t believe that any human knows the answers any more than me
Blind faith, goddamn, this is your folly
Even the scientific minds with their lack of humility and openness
When will they come to understand that they are just as bad as those they hate?
When will they see their own hands are the ones holding them back?
God saves itself and doesn’t forgive the ignorant
God saves itself and dismisses attempts at piety
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Pleroma
03:07
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PLEROMA
Channeled information in an infinite expanse of eternity as fluid as it is intangible
We are only what we decide to be, assemblers in the junkyard
Forget these notions of separation, Pons Asinorum, Failure is weak
I can’t give you what you want but I can give you what I have
I can’t make you but I can make me
I never realized how easy it was to summon demons from out of the woods
When scarcity abounds distrust the buyer
Move to the city, be guns for hire, higher
We only seek to do what proper sparks must do
Shall I call you Apollo? Should I lead or just follow? Shall I call you Chorizon? How will I know when I’ve won?
Make sense or make it up as you go, deeper into the beyond
All we are is holding on
Last chance before you go will you start a fire?
Last chance make it quick cuz the car is running
I have no expectations of the possible I dare not place a bet I couldn’t handle
I’m a man on my word
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Rex Infans
02:02
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REX INFANS
I can’t stand, can’t tolerate, when I don’t get my way
Foolishly I compete with the invisible
Tantrums in my nature, they are unavoidable
I just can’t fucking win, I just can’t
I don’t feel a lot of love
Set up the breakdown, selfish pilot
Crash this, who cares, not yours anway
This isn’t yours
You fucking liar
King Me
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