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
credits
from ROTATOR,
released September 11, 2016
Written and recorded by Zophim Override
Produced by David Pine
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