1. |
Guidestones
03:17
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For our chronological potential
as foreseen in prophecy.
In hopes, of a final destination
where evolution is the course
of cause and effect.
Let these be the Guidestones
to an age of reason
a stirring call
to rational thinking
a cancer upon the earth
should be culled
in order and balance
Let these be the Guidestones
to an age of reason
truth, is manifest
in the workings of the cosmos
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2. |
Extrapolation
03:11
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we have the freedom
to fulfill or not fulfill
our fate
the mystery of human destiny
is that we are fated
to this foreordination
this is one
of two great labyrinths
in which human minds
are drawn to the question
of free will
versus predestination
shines on the realization
of a person's ulterior
it is written in the stars
and laid in each brick
there is no where
that you'll ever be
that isn't where
you were meant to be
but sometimes
the slightest things
the merest breath
of circumstance can
change the direction
of our entire lives
it was written
that i should be loyal
to the nightmare
of my choice
a man doesn't make
his own destiny
he simply accepts
or denies it from himself
time and tide
wait for no man
and no one shows us
but ourselves
no one can
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3. |
Unfolding
03:22
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at the core of evil
unfolds
the climactic process of
dehumanization
so sedated by your senses
pleasure needs
its carnal desires
undergoing rapid changes
as we see the old ways
wither away
as the world before us is
buried further below
the ruins of something once great
now lost and forgotten in space
so sedated by your senses
pleasure needs
its carnal desires
undergoing rapid changes
as we see the old ways
wither away
so sedated by your senses
as we see the old ways
wither away
all is lost
the power has left your hands
just more fools who fell for illusions
do you feel free
dig deep inside yourself
be sure before you tell me
i need to know
why you don't feel cold
i want to know your darkest secret, tell me
what are you hiding
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4. |
Form
03:40
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to be yourself
in a world
with a constant irk
to make you
something else
is a small victory
inside itself
as a small child
we are
subject to
indoctrination
perpetually
adjusting me
to this
profoundly sick
commonality
all the heroes
of tomorrow
are called the
heretics of today
"form is emptiness
emptiness is form"
so states the heart sutra
the essence
of all things
is emptiness
one of
the strangest things
may be
the act
of creation, itself
we are made
with a blank slate
an empty page
a silent
musical instrument
and we must
look inside ourselves
push and pull
and squeeze
the raw and shapeless
things that we each are
we must fine something
to grasp on
and bring it forth
outside ourselves
there may
be a life worth living
a lie worth living
and bring it forth
outside ourselves
form disappears
only words remain
to signify the impossible
formation terminates material
"form is emptiness
emptiness is form"
so states the heart sutra
the essence
of all things
is emptiness
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5. |
Formless
04:00
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you're forced to choose a way
and discover your own true purpose
there is no ready made path
and the cost won't be next to nothing
to reach the ultimate axiom
the realization of actual, actuality
looming over atop of me
i can't stop, dreaming
lying there waiting for it
shatter your illusions, with me
the past gives you identity
and the future holds
the promise of
salvation, and fulfillment
in what ever form
you must manifest
the light inside yourself
awake, encoded in
the fibers of existence
and its divine ecstasy
the marvelous creation
and its totality
experienced in the hearts
of humanity
the sinister, the terrible
never deceive
the state in which they leave us
is always one of enlightenment
in this condition
only with
this vicious insight
am i acquiesced
to grasp this world
only with this vicious insight
i am formless
bound in singularity
the marvelous creation
and its totality
experienced in the hearts
of humanity
the sinister, the terrible
never deceive
the state in which they leave us
is always one of enlightenment
you're forced to choose a way
and discover your own true purpose
there is no ready made path
and the cost won't be next to nothing
to reach the ultimate axiom
the realization of actual, actuality
looming over atop of me
lying there waiting for it
shatter your illusions, with me
the past gives you identity
and the future holds
the promise of
salvation, and fulfillment
in what ever form
you must manifest
the light inside yourself
awake, encoded in
the fibers of existence
and its divine ecstasy
the marvelous creation
and its totality
experienced in the hearts
of humanity
the sinister, the terrible
never deceive
the state in which they leave us
is always one of enlightenment
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6. |
Agartha
03:10
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far from the surface
where, distant legends
reveal, only truths
in the depths
of all we know
beyond the reach our mind
lost, beneath the shit of our excess
from the time, when everything was new
was not a brutal existence
or something that can be understood
left to waste? or laid to rest?
those who are all aware
overrun
the student has bested its master
who saw the glories?
our ancestors
were the first to bite the hand
fleeing for their
lives
fleeing for their
lives
with a taste for vengeance
that never dies
you're laid to rest
your prophecies
are nothing more than
just empty threats
nonetheless, nonetheless
i will, teach my sons how to kill, kill
steward of the path
to one's own free will
i will, teach my sons how to kill, kill
steward of the path
to one own free will
stay in your
hole the surface holds nothing for you
rot in the
ground as the dead, as you are dead
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7. |
Delphian
04:39
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profess to believe but follow
the words of others
because it's the path
of least resistance
are you one
to follow false prophets?
live as the others
without a thirst for truth
how will you know
if you never even question
have you been deceived
or have you not?
the orchestration
of arguments designed
to awaken the people
unknowingly living a lie
and to expose
the council
who'se bestowed
those lies
most will reject
the contradictions
to what they were taught
about this life
a teacher must uncover
and make clear evidence
of deliberate
misguidance
that influenced
an epoch
the act of blinding
or teaching lies to live
man will with violence oppose
before they admit
they've been misled
you've been deceived
they've been misled
in fantasy
man will with violence oppose
before they admit
ignorance and collective thinking
breeding laziness and dependence
eradicate the powers
of original thinking
acquire the knowledge
of those you depend on
my people are destroyed
by your lack of knowledge
because they chose
to reject the truth
now i am forced to reject you
you are not my kin
but my enemy
the orchestration
of arguments designed
to awaken the people
unknowingly living a lie
and to expose
the council
who'se bestowed
those lies
most will reject
the contradictions
to what they were taught
about this life
a teacher must uncover
and make clear evidence
of deliberate
misguidance
that influenced
an epoch
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8. |
Incarnate
03:07
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each and every night, i die
i am reborn with dawns early light
in my loneliest loneliness
the beast will come, and says to me
"this life, as you live it,
and have lived it
you will have to live once more
and innumerable times more'…"
would you not throw yourself down?
and gnash your teeth into the ground?
cursing the demon the bearer of doom?
or maybe you've had that
tremendous moment
where you
would have
answered him as a god?
as if there
was nothing as divine?
in life after life,
in age after age,
forever my spellbound
heart is made
and remade
in the end
you emerge dressed
in the light of the stars
piercing the darkness
of time
the image
remembered forever
i will live to die again,
and walk this earth a million times
i will live to die again,
and walk this earth a million times
I will never learn
"this life, as you live it,
and have lived it
you will have to live once more
and innumerable times more'…"
would you not throw yourself down?
and gnash your teeth into the ground?
cursing the demon the bearer of doom?
or maybe you've had that
tremendous moment
where you
would have
answered him as a god?
as if there
was nothing as divine?
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9. |
Solitude
05:26
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dozens of fascinating details
on areas ranging
from
the beating
essence
to the lusting for
hominal revelry
piece by piece
fragments to these
puzzling paradigms
have been brought to the light
isolated in brilliance
a misanthropic misery
deep in the chasm
of metropolis
alone
clenching this healing harmony
this meaningless life's
meaning less and less
the macrocosm of your mind
breeding unrest
waiting to find or be found
by doctrine or dogma
the youthful spirit drained
by the aging
of
disappointment
follow your fantasy
supine in the hallowed
hollow
husk of men
mooning and detritus
dooming the rest of us
and disillusion
dozens of fascinating details
on areas ranging
from
the beating
essence
to the lusting for
hominal revelry
piece by piece
fragments to these
puzzling paradigms
have been brought to the light
isolated in brilliance
a misanthropic misery
deep in the chasm
of metropolis
alone
clenching this healing harmony
this meaningless life's
meaning less and less
the macrocosm of your mind
breeding unrest
waiting to find or be found
by doctrine or dogma
the youthful spirit drained
by the aging
of
disappointment
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