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ROTATOR

by Zophim Override

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1.
Discharge 05:25
Discharge There's a hill, before the valley Where a regent found a flail among the statuary, so tempestuous. He laid an iris there, amid the ruin of devastation. We have assembled now to receive you here. We'll storm the north lands, where the city walls depict such impudence. Approach their forces through Aruna to Megiddo. Into the driving spears will fall the brazen sons of Canaan. Unfurl this senseless end, I will falter to my own. In the hush of dawn A golden disc appeared above the mountain ridge as though by clouds had carried it. Some forbidden devilry, host to winged seraph, shine. If not by the light of day, then what for are these beings? I can't get my head around it, fear the worst and scorn the naysayer. The calm looks so inviting as this volition rises. I can't slip my hands around it, steal to hurt, and hurt to sustain. It's just a gross assertion as this condition worsens. Must we wed apart from trust? I can see no virtue in it. The house of god approaches us. Open just enough for you. Together we will offend none, examine each nefarious whim. Something in your bowels moved, Something in your rib cage wiggled. I'm never gonna sleep again I'm never gonna sleep again I'm never gonna sleep again I can't get my head around it, fear the worst and scorn the naysayer. The calm looks so inviting, as this volition rises. I can't slip my hands around it, steal to hurt, and hurt to sustain. It's just a gross assertion, as this condition worsens. I can tell, you've been in the mucus the whole time. Waiting for the cell to erode and the visceral fluid to discharge. I can tell, you've been in the mucus the whole time. Waiting for the cell to erode and the visceral fluid to discharge. I can tell, you've been in the mucus the whole time. Waiting for the cell to erode and the visceral fluid to discharge.
2.
An Artifact of Gravity I crunched the numbers, till my ink ran out. I lit the candle at both ends. (Slipped out of focus) Pinpoint the orbit path and calculate the blue shift. I'd peel my eyelids back to quantify the distance. A better man than I, So admired. Once said that truth is partial information. I'd scan the infra range and target fixed positions. I'd grid the whole thing out to estimate the friction. A wiser man than I, So admired. Once said, what's done can never be rewritten. I'll build a box around the stone that fell from up above. I'll build a box around the stone that fell from up above. I'll build a box around the stone that fell from up above. I'll build a box around it. A box around the stone that fell..... ...it fell Elliptical, Product of the field Elliptical, Praxis of the law Am I fooling myself? Am I less the only system that I've known? Was it liquid within? Was it simply nothing that you had assumed I'd ever do again? Am I dowel to spine? Does the trepidation sputter while I spin away? Little beam of something Breach the skin and spark Rise to your vestal Raise in your hearth Total mass inflation, compulsory... gravitation Total mass inflation, compulsory... gravitation Constant circumvention of particle... restitution Constant circumvention of particle... restitution Based on observation, It's not gonna... stretch forever Based on observation, It's not gonna... stretch forever
3.
Achilles Tendon She paints herself, a victim I've sunk a fathom deeper The accusations fly I can't respond, though I want to see it conclude I've wasted all I've added We choose to differ and to cheat life out of it Temptation hunger passes I never hesitated She took a bite and the blood came rushing in For this transgression I know We're at the mercy of time I'll tear it all I'll pull the flesh right from the bone Pulling it out, squeezing it off, I'm fighting it Pulling it out, squeezing it off, I'm beating it It doesn't matter, it never mattered Push it off on someone Pulling it out, squeezing it off, I'm fighting it Pulling it out, squeezing it off, I'm beating it I keep on pulling, and pulling it Run straight home and tell on... You, Nero, and I Share the fear of sudden consequence And as... as it burns, to watch is a natural curiosity So, I walked, Down there Silence gathers overhead As the hours drift I brace myself. All glued back up Picture perfect son Doubt breaks the smile Like an infant Like it never occurred Useless are we, Achilles tendon We've run so hard, our movement only dissipates Dejected are we, Achilles tendon It's a stolen portion that empowers us I never thought that it would end like that, you see... You built so much and then it all collapsed on you There is no mercy in humility There is no progress in the hollow ground All stitched back up Caught in perfect checkmate Doubt breaks like frost Like in autumn Like it never occurred. It found a beating heart, and I let it in too fast It shifts in phases, and it... It has ensnared itself You know when death and envy are indivisible It's wise to take what there is It's all reciprocal I left my home In search of nomad sand I've poured myself away The priest will find a psalm conceived by no one Poured myself away I cut my ties Concealed my face I have poured myself away
4.
The Abortion 06:29
The Abortion All this time I've been thinking What if I had not been? What if I had become Something right? Last in line At my side Found a friend No, she turned around again It's no surprise Not to me Ransom and effigy I can see the wisdom I can see the wisdom End my vital functions My vital functions My vital functions I can see the wisdom Never saw it coming Never heard it coming Never had it coming Don't blame the mother Don't blame the mother, please Don't blame my mommy. All these years I've been scheming What if I, stole it back What if I kept attached Shackled there Up inside A ruptured drum A punctured lung Severed umbilical Tried and marred Soiled and bent Prompted that pang, again I saw the blood, grabbed a phone Whats it feeding on? Felt it kick, heard it breathe Get this thing out of me 'Woke up to find that my head was in cellophane In a dumpster in Hoboken "Cygnus" inscribed on a hemlock in Central Park Adoration and praise for the hunter I'm laying my foot in the soil, now Maybe I'll drink Maybe I'll thirst Laying my foot in the dirt, now Maybe I'll drink Maybe I'll drink it Waving my arms in the sunshine Maybe I'll dry Maybe I'll wither Waving my arms in the sunshine Maybe I'll grow Maybe I'll flourish Back in the womb I was nay but an axiom Brought by mitosis, and Billions of molecules Lept from the zygote Life, so far ahead Reaching for certainty Fain to embark, but I'm dead. I'm dead I'm dead I'm dead Murder Murder Murderer Murder the surgeon for me. Saw the blood, grabbed a phone What's it feeding on? Metatypical pregnancy Felt it kick, heard it breathe Get this thing out of me Hark, the child of the swan constellation Let me be close to the fountain again Let me be close.
5.
Maura 09:26
Maura (Intro inaudible) I do believe, the late man said beware the hour that rose to reckon I do believe, the late man said It came on quickly It rang succinctly Yeah, it was a vindication of the phenotype and the capacity of narcissism Yeah, it was an explanation of the natural order and the inequity of innocence I do believe, the late man said beware the hour that rose to reckon I do believe, the late man said It came on quickly It rang succinctly Slight, as a word Loses vast amounts of meaning From the slope of the vertices There's barely room for sound to fall We reach and retract And the spiders weave such complicated traps In the thick where the briar vines ripen green If you're just a victim it doesn't matter. If you were the victim what does it matter? If you're not the victim it shouldn't matter. If you're just a victim what could it matter? If I were you I'd build a house of timber dense and granite polished of gold and ivory and beams of cedar The angel spoke and kept repeating... If you're just a victim, it doesn't matter. If you were the victim, what does it matter? If you're not the victim, it shouldn't matter. If you're just a victim, what could it matter? In servitude we cleanse ourselves In servitude we purge the notion Mortal wounds dressed in salt In servitude we bridge the river Follow... I can count them with two hands open, yes and... I can count them among the chosen, then. I can usher them unto the assumption I can shield them from Newton's first injunction. In time, were all for yourself? Will you offer yourself? In time, will you offer yourself? Were all for yourself? In time, were all for yourself? Will you offer yourself? In time, will you offer yourself? Were all for yourself? May you one day seek as you you have been sought through pointless incarnation I bind my prey encased by the stratum of a very thin layer If I were you, I'd hurl myself, From high atop The palace tower Forty days and forty nights You sat around and fed your ego, and for Forty days and forty nights You passed the test, your ass got dusty And if... You're just a victim it doesn't matter. If you were the victim what does it matter? If you're not the victim it shouldn't matter. If you're just a victim what could it matter? How dare you stifle my ambition? Callous hands constricting my throat Swift to greet exoneration Meek, restrained, impunitive throes Infamy and veneration, Matricidal grievance upheld Yeah, it was asphyxiation and hypoxia, a deficiency of hemoglobin Yeah, it was an exhibition of a lower calling and the dichotomy of imminence. You must... Die to ride the golden hippopotamus Die to ride the golden hippopotamus...down If you're just a victim, it doesn't matter. If you're just a victim, it doesn't matter. If you're just a victim, it doesn't matter. If you're just a victim, it doesn't matter. The river of weaving spiders is rising higher.
6.
Deconstruct 04:27
Deconstruct (The Curriculum of Nancy Boyd) I never thought you'd be in truth So much less than what was shown Of my darkest qualms to be You have have filled them all From the rocks at Bristol, I will carve an exit Figure it out, and suck it up Better sit down and Come to terms with it Take it apart and deconstruct wrench it away from where it's fixated Follow it through and disengage dismantle you must so board the house up Swallow the filth and pass it through configure the lock and put it together All I ever wanted was to be for you All I ever wanted was to hope for you All I ever wanted was to trust in you All that ever fastened was the shame you nailed upon my face Figure it out and suck it up Better sit down and Come to terms with it Take it apart and deconstruct wrench it away from where it's fixated Follow it through and disengage dismantle you must so board the house up Swallow the filth and pass it through configure the lock and put it together In a different place we find us, ourselves In a better place you will find me not So impaired by this infliction No defined effect of sunlight All you speak is lies and all you will reap is what you've planted in so many, hapless, though I'm sure you realize you wear, so many faces Cut from inside Let go of my nervous hand Somehow you nurtured a false hope
7.
Contaminant 14:01
Contaminant Farther we've wandered, to respite from waters high Defeated, her hull upon the shoulder of Ararat Dashed in the onset the craft of the vacuous Wrought from the iron that he fashioned his weapons with What shall we place in the coffer of sin, unatoned? What shall we do with the rubble and remnant of bone? Who shall we subjugate? Now, as the architect roams Accept the change and step above Accept the change and walk beside You must accept the changes You must accept the changes You must expect to undertake it Expect to undertake it You must Accept and understand Accept and understand I said You must accept the changes You must accept the changes You must expect to undertake it Expect to undertake it You must Accept and understand Accept and understand I said (inaudible) You must accept the end has come This tired, archaic conundrum The curtain opens and it starts, With no reprieve from what you are Alone Inside The failure was due Nothing could have saved him Estranged Untied Decaying like a groom Daylight from a separate plane I have seen them, out in the open Pattern formation Static to motion What are they after? Who are they watching? What do they want from me? I have let them know me from inside Molecular sequence Secretional peptides What did they take out? What did they implant? Incisional biopsy I have heard them scatter the airwaves Duplicitous chatter Why do they broadcast? How do they cascade the source of the signal? Can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant, no You can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant No... You can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant You can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant You can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant You can't outrun, cannot hide, contaminant I dreamed two spiders came upon An unsuspecting Babylon As she lay placid in her sleep A twine was wrapped around her feet Billions of strangers behaving like canines So violent and dangerous the sapien craves pain Sealed under icecaps it's moments to light years The surface itself is our only concern In the days ahead When the ground stops shaking We will all be together Apart from him In the orchard grass Like a shining apple It will surely succumb to extinction Anxious and spiral eyed Ride on the carousel Beguiled by the vaporous punchline Come to us, little ones Shuffle your feet to this Into a mirror of a nightmare most extraordinary. I tried to find a word that spares Then let it out The only thing it wants now is carelessness All of this is accidental All of life is sabotage I wont deny it All our first works are lost Facet of the temporary blister of the empathetic Let it drain The only thing that adds up Is pain and lies Open up and shower them Open up and shower them Open up and shower them The only thing, that really adds up now Hasten to this rung and hold me up I know I'll slip on my own Though the chasm denigrates I find myself yet undigested As the smoke climbed from the stone veneer The cold green emptiness filled me Out of his mind with disillusions of grandeur This man is simpleton He never had a chance And never will again He gave himself up though No one knows for just how long he turned to cruelty, blame, and lust He fell into a small and frail reflection pool and... Drown in a state of perpetual psychosis Its clear he's unwound Nothing at the core Vanity and nothing

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released September 11, 2016

Written and Recorded by Zophim Override
Produced by David Pine

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