1. |
Through the Circle
02:45
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Never old
Never new
Trudging along the sphere of conflict
Humanity's need to interdict
Feather strikes the pulp
Codifying the myth of progress
Barbarity's permanence
Consolidating power for violence
Perpetual
Operating as a whole
Replicated
Expanding toward the infinite
Feather strikes the pulp
Codifying the myth of progress
Barbarity's permanence
Consolidating power for violence
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2. |
Zero Day
02:12
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I want to televise the technocrats
Buried in the sand up to their necks
Drowning in piss-soaked sewage
Rising higher and higher, higher and higher
New mandate, surveillance state - zero day
Key the code, scramble the node - zero day
I've got a little something you don't know - zero day
Watching you, watching me - zero day
Discovery
Vulnerability
Filled with lead
Visions of red
Overwhelmed with dread
Knowing you're fucking dead
Drones and missiles descend from the sky - day zero
Tell me what is life like without light - day zero
Digital exploitation, data manipulation
Systematic annihilation - day zero
Discovery
Vulnerability
Attack
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3. |
Bottom Feeders
01:58
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Predetermined
Embrace the absence
Bottom feeders
Never made the cut
Undecided
Stuck in a rut
Question power
Crush the cowards
Bottom feeders
Shooting the eye
Living in the sky
It's been years
Since we've bathed in light
No - no future
Going somewhere, maybe nowhere
No - no future
Going somewhere, maybe nowhere
I know - I know I should try
But I - but I don't know why
Bottom feeders
Scour every inch
Impossibility to unclinch
Teeth adhered in unison
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4. |
Engineer
02:32
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Deconstruct
Re-purpose me
Into something... into something that I'm not
We construct devices that destruct
A peaceful way to earn a buck
Try out college, come on test your luck
Does it seem like I give a fuck?
The world
Doesn't need a guy like me
Nothing good, nothing pure
Could possibly be free
We construct devices that destruct
A peaceful way to earn a buck
Confined to a salary
Without work, I'd bereave
Confined to addiction
Need my alcohol
Pass that adderall
Benzos down my throat
God willing, I'll finally choke
We construct devices that destruct
An earnest way to make billions
Turning profits off of terror
Turning profits off of terror
Engineer.
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5. |
Night Terrors
02:25
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Lines lengthening
Breath is trembling
Three sides multiply
Exponentially till I die
Transfer to blue, even next to you
Consumed by hyper-vigilance
Paranoia - my stimulus
Clairvoyant visions of mindfulness
Night terrors
Inhale once, exhale twice
Dreaming of dancing with the devil
Cars want to make their way through
Acting as a leveler
I can't seem to see the worth in those who stroll the fucking earth
Inhale once, exhale twice
The angels watch me overnight
Praying I won't cause a great fright
And if I die during my sleep
I pray the lord swallows my soul
Take my body - grind me whole
And if I wake to see the sun shine
I pray to you, choke me blind
Because I can't take another day
With every unchecked inspection
Question built on misconception
Phantasmagoria
Waves of nausea
Overheat the core
Violence
You think you want it more?
Yet you've seen it all before
Wake up
Back to sleep
Dozing off
Skinning sheep
Catacombs
Joyride
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6. |
Final Will
01:42
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Playfully deceitful
It's completely legal
Your concerns
Purely mental
Your concerns, purely mental
Reactionary... judgmental
Playfully deceiftul
It's completely legal
Maybe learn a skill
Nine to five, support the hive
Just another day
Just another dollar
Deplorable
Unmanageable
Playfully deceitful
It's completely legal
Rub one out like you're told to do
When you can't seem to make it through
So sick of daily life
Sick sick sick of daily life
Perhaps I'll learn to kill
Fulfill my final will
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7. |
Long Live
03:38
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Conscious - failing democracy
One voice enters
And another one fucking leaves
Society's fatal error
Placing faith in the holy official
Intruders in your home, barrel to the dome
Architects of cultural terror
Collapse - ruling mobocracy
Shifting power
Deconstructing the ivory tower
Society's fatal error
Placing faith in the holy official
Don't you wish you knew the guerrillas coming for you?
I'm so repulsed succumbing to my impulse
Reality... constrained
Bound by invisible barriers
Long term solution
For moral pollution
Reject the hand that feeds you
Crystallized by every attempt
Propaganda of the deed
Long live anarchy
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Shiftless Citizens Richmond, Virginia
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April 13 at Gallery
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April 18 at Gallery House
April 29 at Magnolia House
May 3 at the Bastille
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