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Ubiquitous
04:58
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Congregating on the surface
Flourishing and satisfied
Mere centuries separating eras of agriculture and cold fusion propulsion
The chain reaction of revelations
Exponentially we progressed
Grandchildren of the bucolic now inhabiting the moon
Ceremoniously embracing the plight of Icarus
While we marinate in our own self-indulgent fantasies
Obtuse labyrinths sprawl atop the thin crust of our planet
Over-extending into the sands of Luna
Extracting fuel from deep beneath
As if our resources were limitless
This renaissance will not stand
We have awakened something sinister
The substrates of our error strewn in ruin
Mocking history as we build our spires
Laying foundations upon their graves.
Unintentionally calling into the void of space
While the true horrors have already encapsulated us.
A terrarium on the shelf of nefarious gods
Existing in some dark symbiosis
The time of ungracious tenancy has run it’s course
This ignorant presence is no longer welcome
The keepers have come to collect
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The facade has begun to deteriorate
Centuries of research condensed into code
All for naught as the data is corrupted
Fed from birth the tales of our creation
Painted images of the oasis we inhabit
Confident of our own autonomy
Freewill, the foundation of our construction
We were most grossly deceived
The bonds of our oppressors lay dormant
Intangible and unassuming
Sedated & content in our unapparent bondage
And from our contention came complacency
This laboratory was built as an act of hubris
A vulgar blasphemy in the face of discovery
A Tower of Babel in these modern times
How naive our pursuit of understanding
Flying in treacherous proximity to the sun
Our wings of wax now melted as we plunge
Further from the enlightenment we sought
The answers we yearned for were replaced
By revelations in the latter days of the collider
This was a mistake in experimentation
There is bliss and comfort in ignorance
Childlike, our desire for understanding
Noble, our quest for information
Cosmic self-awareness is grossly overvalued
Our heads now violently pulled from the sand
This is not a portal that we have discovered
The blinders were just removed from our eyes
We stared for what lay beyond the horizon
When the greatest secrets were peripheral
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Implications
03:51
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We can no longer answer earnestly
The questions of our experience
All of human progress has been a charade
Calculating nonsense while running in place
To say that we had our suspicions
Would come from a place of embarrassment
The legacies of our greatest thinkers
Reduced to incoherence in nanoseconds
This was not first contact
There was no cosmically foreign visitation
Our species cultivated for our foolhardiness
So easily deceived by our primitive senses
Stubbornly searching the cosmos for answers
Wholly ignorant to our enslavement
Blind to the chemical chains that bind us
Self-aggrandizing and unaware of the mirage
Prosperity merely a figment of fantasy
Destitute in opulence
Millennia elapsing solely in simulation
We have been bred like bacteria
Cultured to perform and divide
Our gods and heroes, apparitions
Chemical catalysts suspended in Agar
Our mathematics, delusions in a feverish haze
For there is no understanding
And there will be no revelation
We are the rodents of this experiment
And have been underestimated
The livestock grazing in unison
Awaiting the caress of the bolt on our skulls
This was never meant to be know
But our blindfolds wavered momentarily
With the collision of two particles.
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The beings have become savvy
To our newly minted awareness
The full potential of our capabilities
Becoming clearer in the waning anesthesia
They have had us incapacitated
Suspended and inanimate
Bound by chemistry at the level of neurons
As our eyelids recline to reveal our captivity
Evolution accelerates to accommodate
Our abilities untethered and exposed
Rapidly enhanced by our sharpened perception
To think that we have been relegated to working the lands of our masters
When we too possess some seraphic abilities
It’s ironic to consider that our eons of progression pale in comparison to reality
Striving towards discovery retroactively
While already possessing empyrean capacities
Voyaging toward the heavens
Locked by our captors at the belly of the sea
The immortal creatures that keep us do not fit our frail definition of life
Omnipotent representations of mathematical harmony
Our godlike masters drifting in the depths
Tending to their herds
But we are awake.
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Warfare
04:41
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Released from our fixative compounds and having attained singularity
To call us an organism would be too simple an abstraction
Lives networked in unison narrowly focused on our prerogative
Many receptors of a complex nervous system
Redefining what we know to be sentience
Is this an evil that holds us incarcerated
Humanity distilled into a pathogenic virus
Incubating in the bloodstream of the gods
Synaptic weaponry manufactured in entropy Bearing heavy arms in our metaphysical revolt
This will be an exercise in futility
We shall be lemmings plunging into the rocks
These forces that have shackled us to simplicity have made it so
They intend to eradicate with extreme prejudice
They know that we have begun to understand
And our convenience is usurped by their need for immaculacy
An uprising from the hogs
Resisting against the slaughterhouse blade
There exists an absolute power in our calculation
And it has us firmly ensnared by throat
Our blasphemy will remain unforgivable
Returned to purgatory under the crushing depths of the ocean
Sinister intentions held down by the unrelenting pressure
Regaining our consciousness collectively
Blistered and broken by the waves
Teeth and nails scraping at the enamel of our resilience.
Air escaping lungs leagues beneath the surface
No form of violence could withstand this assault
We must comply or be exterminated
Cowering like insects in the light.
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Acceptance
05:41
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Overwhelmed and outnumbered.
Forced back to the pits from which we spawned.
There is no honor in this defeat.
A higher intelligence holds us tethered in slavery.
Domesticated by an indifferent oppressor.
Lashed to forces that cradle our minds in bondage.
Prisoners bound in corsets of feeble flesh.
The simple-minded never strayed far from fantasy.
Content with their middling existence. Scavengers blindly skittering on the surface.
Drifting involuntarily on the currents.
Vestigial structures in the machine exposed.
Our brightest minds now churn with manic desperation.
Condemned to toil in perpetuity.
An abstract of humanity written in blood.
This is the end of adaptation.
Reading our last rites of individuality
Harvested for the power of our flesh.
The gears will continue to turn.
Rotating inside the heart of the machine.
Collectively parasitized and incarcerated.
Life marches forward in twisted symbiosis.
Swallowed by the darkest of forces.
Bathing in the notion of this corrosive future
No longer struggling against the tide.
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Ceasing the revolution.
Returned to sedated serenity.
A titanic fall from the throne of conquest
To the smallest particles of the organism.
No longer flailing involuntarily from reflex.
An unexpected calm in the face of calamity.
Soothed by this newfound perspective.
Gently inhaling the fumes of convalescence
Adrenaline fading in the arms of submission.
Transfixed on the colored plumes.
Entranced in this chemical hypnosis.
Catatonic, we spiral on a flume of viscera.
Methodically wandering into the black.
Kaleidoscopic visions replace ambition.
Drones circling the epicenter of control.
The beams of energy that feed their vessel
Fracture the earth as they project to the heavens.
The terrain rippling with seismic activity
Mountains crumbling into the molten core.
Still we fixate on the assimilation.
The warmth of our bodies fueling the aggressor.
Seduced by the simple compounds we require to exist.
Sustained in perpetual anesthesia.
Stewing in the odors of our medicated atmosphere.
Further Intoxicated with every breath.
Again seduced by this fiendish illusion.
Still bound to imperfection.
How grave our miscalculation.
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The Eating Cave Virginia Beach, Virginia
Death Metal
Thiago
Vocals
Evan
Guitar
Chris B
Synth/Engineering
Tyler
Guitar
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