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Cherry Farm
03:36
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A lycanthropic display of emotions
Floating in an ocean of confusion
So sweet, so tender
Pasteur pipette drops a mischievous potion
Moving in slow motion, mind diffusion
Untreated splendour
Do what the doctor said, take another pill
Ignore the grand delusions and make sure you lie still
They put the voices in my head with lightning in my brain
A flash between the temples, delightfully deranged
Spinning in the fields
Daffodils reaching high to the sun that’s glowing
None of this is real
Butterflies melting slowly, I am holy
I am not okay, but that’s okay
Psycho-spiritual parasites
Driving my reactions as they scurry
Repeat offenders
My skull full of cobwebs and stalactites
Echoes of distractions and worries
Oh, just surrender
I am not my thoughts, they’re not mine to regret
They’re tadpoles in the river and I catch them in my net
Just release them when they’re caught, no need to be upset
Our brain is like a sieve, take in the wisdom, don’t forget
All is mind, the universe is mental
What we think is what we feel is what we see is what we get
And nothing ever rests
Everything vibrates, eyes dilate
Entwined, we share the same mind anyway
Life is but a dream
Losing my emotions, the commotion melts away like plasticine
Nothing’s what it seems
Look beyond the veil, see the trails leading you behind the scenes
Repairing from the healing
Sapling reanneeling, let it fill you
A kind reminder
Staring at the ceiling
Grappling with these feelings so familiar but
I can’t find the words
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2. |
Thermal Underground
06:40
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Move with the herky jerky motions
Got to hit the open road
Stop, drop & roll, underground’s out of control
We’ve got to go, hear that sound, it’s going to blow
Views of the churning murky ocean
As the waterfront explodes
Wake, bake, and shake
Earth will quake, this takes the cake
It’s far too late
Time is up, accept your fate
You hear that sound and run
From a molten megaton
Chalky ash lines your gums
As your body gets numb
From the heat of the volcanic scum
Crumbling and rumbling, something is coming
Humbling that we are nothing
In the grand scheme of things
I want to be part of something much bigger
Cosmic death will make me feel more alive
Vibrations in the ground
Deepest shade of red that I ever saw
Blazing sky turns brown
Living in a land of grey forever more
Bathing in the thermal underground
Chain reaction, liquefaction
You don’t want to die
But you will anyway, so get used to it
Run a river through it
Hold your breath and put your back into it
Dive deep, swim below
Kiss the earth before we barbecue it
Step on the cracks
Break your back, asthma attack
Whack the meat in the sack
Charred and black, we can’t go back
Our fingers have melted to the trigger
Humanity so disfigured
All the people have drowned
Blistered children, red and raw
Gazing at the mound
Kiss the ring on the devil’s claw
Praise him in the thermal underground
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3. |
Swamp Fling
04:58
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Come and take a little walk with me, try not to misstep
Stay awake but do not talk, we’ll be in the abyss yet
Crawl through the gardens and the grime
The water’s stirring, I can see you lurking through the inlet
My vision’s blurring, and my body’s jerking, tries to reset
Ancient trees I climb to see, and find out where I’m supposed to be
Wrapped up in the symmetry of leaves and trees and vines
Hear you breathing as you sniff the air, and I produce sweat
Interweaving with their skin and hair, you get the noose wet
Take all the children wrapped in twine
That I will give to you, my darling serpentine
Sickening appetite, you pull the strings like a marionette
Flickering candlelight reveals the things behind your silhouette
Chanting voices, grimoire hymns, I reach the void and swim far in
Trembling as you taste my skin and place me on the shrine
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4. |
Gemini Method
04:01
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Hired gun on the run, can you see him
Hunt for sport, life is short, carpe diem
Take the riches you seek and kiss them goodbye
Underground in a dark mausoleum
Never found, oh I wouldn’t wanna be him
There’s a price that you pay at club Gemini
Eye for an eye
Chosen son overrun by his brother
Bible in one hand, and a dagger in the other
Persephone weeps, Adonis on fire
Take a towel, press it down, get another
Hold him on the ground, fire a round, feel the shudder
Grab his feet, get the sheet, let’s go for a ride
My alibi
Eye for an eye
(Oh, another hired gun,
Got him on the run,
He’s the chosen son,
But we’ve gotta get it done)
I can feel the spasms of the phantasm
Posthumous orgasm building, now it has him
Webs of ectoplasm fly around the cavern
Pass out from the gas and dream of scattered patterns
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Filth & Fortune
04:03
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The world’s not controlled by lizards, but it’s ruled by pigs
Dark hermetic wizards with a penchant for kids
They dance in the glare of the prism , free from fear and guilt
Black magic hedonism, do what thou wilt
Numbed by their power and position, they need another kink
Sadistic disposition pushed them to the brink
Rabbit hole’s getting deeper, take the shovel and dig
Adrenochrome flows down the river, take a swig
Hey Lolita, so excited to meet ya
Come to my island to play
A perfect creature, do not fight it, we’ll eat ya
They won’t believe what you say
Don’t worry about a thing
Everything is under control
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6. |
Wabi-Sabi
04:29
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Embrace the imperfection
Try to learn to love the flaws
No room for correction
You should do it just because
The curse of your ambition
Makes it hard to climb the wall
Let it come to fruition
One step at a time, can’t have it all
Face it, embrace it
Trace the oasis
Replace your introspection
With the will to accept the faults
Erase the misdirection
It’s a skill to seal the vault
When faced with opposition
Just keep moving, try not to halt
Waft away the apparitions
Set your brain to a new default
Just face the mistakes and let go
There’s space just to make things you know
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7. |
Tryptamine Dream
07:34
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I can see through the fog, I look around for the first time
Something pulled this body from the bog, and it isn’t even mine
Whispers in my fingers, murmurs in my feet
Revealing every secret as they grip to the sheets
Try to take it in, try to remember
Flashbacks of a future where we dine on the stars
Forking out a path on the road, let’s give reality a scar
I wanna be a lizard with you
Looking forward to the things we could do
Let’s make a mountain, burn it all down, dance in the embers
Drip, feel you slip as we take a little trip
Walk clumsily with me to the beach, let’s get pulled by the rip
Twitching with that exoskeletal swag
Muscles, bones and organs, such a burden to drag
The human urge to put blinders on is really in style
Honeycomb dome, rainbows pouring down from the walls tonight, baby
Liquid colours moving while we’re grooving to the silence of it all
I can hear the colours, feel the sounds
Geometric patterns pulsating on the ground
It’s nice to have a cosmic reminder every once in a while
Shadows in the sun, mimicking the movements of everyone
Burning their impressions in the clouds as they rain down just for fun
Everybody’s floating in the water above
Drowning like they cannot get enough of the stuff
Feel the ripples as they move
Cool vibrations, droning with a hum and a drawl
Increasing escalation that just heightens the sensation of the fall
I wanna start a blizzard with you
Let’s freeze the desert, maybe split it in two
Peel back the earth, move it around, and feel the grooves
There’s spaces in between all the spaces, I’m becoming aware
I can’t tell how much of what I’m looking at is already there
It’s that familiar feeling of the strange
Topsy-turvy, all shook up, rearranged
Can’t shake the feeling that we’ve done this before, just with a different hue
I’m going insane with you, this much I already know
Playing hide and seek with my mind, I lost it some time ago
Leave it all behind as we escape from the grid
Trading spirits for the thrill of it
If I get rid of mine, maybe I’ll give it to you
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Herd Immunity
11:53
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Blood of the lamb
Double double, toil & trouble
A bedtime story for the boy in the bubble
He hears the children as they play in the rubble outside
Dunning kruger, coming intruder
His father drinks and feels the weight of the luger
Looks at his wife and wonders why he pursued her in hindsight
His mummy tells him stories from the plastic divide
Of all the horrors other people transmit
But a little bit of love is all you need when the whole world is sick
A sterile prison in a plastic cocoon
The neighbours’ sickness makes the planet unclean
Betray the needle and bow down to the womb
And let the ignorance pass down through the genes
Sometimes his mummy, she would break down and cry
And tell her husband they should just disappear
Last time they argued the boy almost died ‘cause he’s allergic to the salt of his tears
They speak in whispers in their room at night
And pace the floor as they go over their plan
Careful not to wake him lest they give him a fright
Alert the neighbours to the cry of the lamb
His father watches the child as he sleeps
And grips the pistol, it’s time for a purge
And he reminds himself it’s for the good of the herd
He’s getting sick of his toys, why can’t he go out and play?
Mummy tells him “be a good boy, ‘cause daddy’s going away”
The child watches as she slips out the room, and wonders if there’s more to being alive
They do not love him, they think they’re above him, and only give him just enough to survive
Mummy grinds the powder with a mortar and pestle, adds methylated spirits from the drawer
She sets the table, emotions unstable, holds back her tears and gets a knock on the door
His father’s lucky he’s immune to the sounds of the parents as they weep
And so he sneaks into their rooms and kills the children while they sleep
His mummy smiles politely while the neighbours sit across from her and sip on their tea
Blaming the government for the fate of her child and claiming science is a conspiracy
She tries to call them on their lies; says “That sounds funny, are you sure?“
But they just smile and roll their eyes; say “There’s no money in the cure”
And as their smiles start to fade, and their eyes bulge out from their heads
They spit out foam and look afraid, and choke on everything they said
Grieve for the amoeba
Curse the non-believers
Cleave all the deceivers
Nurse them through the fever
The lies they’ll try and weave you
These naive fucking people
Denial proven lethal
The vial and the needle
Why did you conceive them?
They’ll die, and then you’ll grieve them
Now you can’t retrieve them
So cry, you little divas
Preventable diseases
Rain down and then they eat us
Repent before the fetus
That’s bound by the prosthesis
There is no rhyme or reason
Sickness is the season
Pustules, boils and lesions
Coughing, soiled and wheezing
Reviled, their mind medieval
Exiled and soaked in diesel
Defiled by the measles
The child, blind and gleeful
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9. |
The Floating Limb
04:44
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I’m a slave to the cravings that stir within
Set aflame, flay and maim on a mindless whim
Pull the stitch, let the cyst pour down my chin
And feel the itch in the wrist of my phantom limb
Lying tangled in the drain, fill it to the brim
Bind your ankles with a chain and make you swim
Fingertips, how they drip all down your skin
As you slip from the grip of the floating limb
Something strange, scarred with mange, looking vile and grim
Daisy chains the remains of a conjoined twin
Hear it shrieking in my ear, I can’t help but grin
All the shaking from the fear keeps me nice and slim
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