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Difference Engine

by Known Universe

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1.
Scales 03:59
Scientists hinted at a middle earth existence that we all sense, what we do as a scale of symptoms molecules or strings it makes no difference A universe expands as futures lay unwritten, or is it? Illusions, past and present really are non-sequential scales come unbalanced in experimentals zoom out, see this plane through a lens that is tenfold quasars calibrate coordinates like sentinels, now machinery keeps a whole world lit up at night we sit up, no sleep just business commerce, trades vying for local supremacy might makes right, the way its meant to be streets obscure many entities with pot hole engine steam benevolent machine is many things from scales of the nano to scales of the piano these words cut deeper than paths of river channels our lives on the anvil, forged by flames or discarded to landfills of course pain is pardoned by how time can standstill We can make sense of the scales if we make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales if we make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales/ make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales/ make sense of ourselves Blood fills a cove along migration routes, Death spreads from a fishing people's to adjacent towns Algal blooms uptake all dissolved oxygen cull involved operands, no more cauldrons of collagen Phase shifts be given this world a face lift Pearls we've wasted, merely sand encasement Weighed then appraised on scales at remote points of sales From aquaculture ventures to reach throats poised and frail To prove make we scratch glass, to move weight react fast We tube steak, sentient meat all action but no use case To repel death some can pay to scale Everest While they contemplate scaling market share via leverage Diabetics Synthesize insulin inside of crevices Overhaul Entire metrics, titrate vital remnants we've summoned revenants to cope with Failure states Our skin turns to scales as we enter what hell awaits   We can make sense of the scales if we make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales if we make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales/ make sense of ourselves Make sense of the scales/ make sense of ourselves What are we now, just a bio-film stretched to form fit fossils of urban orbits, forced to forage like flies among orchids Naut atop the fortress, through monoculars spot the warships Corvettes, in formation to threaten water sources Liquid percolates, cleaned by top soil that's still good No more Reverse osmosis cause we can't produce the filters Ions across the membranes, cross cuts across the  end grain Cost us the forests now my culture has no end game value crisis in times of need, blame ourselves condemn our seed to transmit myths - humans: monolithic in how we see It's not that scales limit us, in fact the scales limitless Lets overstand exactly what it is scales have given us In every part of the whole, there's a whole of the part If we deny this then we live with a hole in our hearts In every start of a flow, there's an end that can grow Can this scale, time well tell how far this can go Our stories are just a few that can scaled across the globe Lets tip the scales for different tales, so other worlds can unfold
2.
Full Stack 04:52
nautilus practice advanced analytics, my eyes glance past the limits surpass any cynic, that round insufficient digits Sacrifice precision only to waste time with symptoms Design prisons, split us apart like light through prisms We live under crushing weights of isosceles, written into existence western prescriptions of philosophy poverty we suffer, in material and spirit packed so close together but none familiar with nearness forced to be fearless inside copper mines with no equipment Buried at sea when your body expires during shipment what is this? culture spread in the most lethal fashion legends of Eve and Adam have us all believe in madness We going full blast Don't settle until we got the full stack this sprawl they gotta pull back Now its no longer who solders and who pulls the breaker Who sold the sacred, full stack with open data We going full blast Don't settle until we got the full stack they sprawl they gotta pull back Now its no longer who solders and who pulls the breaker Who sold the sacred, full stack with open data There ain't no fall back, Known Universe we call that like paying your salt tax in all cash I never lost track, rake through arbitration and alt facts Clovis was Carbon dated as a wrong match Inflated coffers fund Kevlar stitched under gore-tex good thing after pyrotechnics you just left with scored flesh Skim tops off like transactions in the Forex Well versed as a quartet, as drone s deliver to our doorsteps Set up comms to send encrypted databytes 2 way communiqués inside dead satellites Hunt for deals, at least a black edge or better Hyperbolic discounts, tracking the ledger Are you a friend of me, or an enemy big data overlay to overload my sensors These memetic beings resistant to bio degradations, afforded macro-views of insurrections stamped out across the pavement Austerity creates vagrants who find shelter among quarries inhaling salt mixed with chlorine sprayed from quad copters soaring We going full blast Don't settle until we got the full stack this sprawl they gotta pull back Now its no longer who solders and who pulls the breaker Who sold the sacred, full stack with open data Neoprene off gases to Violate ASHRAE standards safety seals will tampered,  investigations will be hampered They'll look for Anthropocene within beads of Amber conclusion, increase in cancers among prayers unanswered A renegade Stuxnet, reach for a hundred plain suspects each with a hunch that they unchecked As if Dengue spread through wifi and usb Receivers run fevers, heat maps reveals intrigue It ain't after centrifuges, as most spin empty it's investing, time, energy, in different settings Hedge against the condemned, penned by devils rope Your rent in debit affects your credit quotes We sip a credit yoke, amassing forces that threaten folk You just a cell from when you woke to your name set in stone These streets seen more battles than Eyes of Xenophon  We don't battle demon spawn, we have to seek a calm I keep my people close, but I keep my heat closer Talking about thermals, what you think? That I'm packing toasters We can't see them but we battle full blown creatures Been around before the mounds of Cahokia To blast through it's crucial we cover all verticals Full stack crews, we base reality, not just virtual
3.
the Known be blasting vegan edge cats on the beat, one on the rapping living among the madness in a world run by madmen   It wasn't Much back then if you arrange verbs to flow now the mission statement is about making this universe known Most trapped in the crap shoot, finding beauty in gold quote unquote precious stones, Building moats around they homes the illusions be producing altered states of security methane in the tap from frack retains its purity secret prisons torturing, water board for information free us paper chasers from dodging unmanned drones aiming We live in times where every day is uncertain The burdens of modernity means we only learning How to get by, its time to open up your mind The known universe emerges through emergent design We live in times where every day isn't guaranteed The struggles in streets, smoke from flesh doused in kerosene Its not enough to survive, its time to open up your mind The known universe emerges to service our kind Fiberoptics underneath the seas relay petabytes cybertronic parasites prep for the end of life as we know it, our maths will outlive the poets poison gas mixed in with snow drift as the ozone opens UV rays concentrate, stray satellites collide escalate a chain reaction, there's no relaxing world war means chains of command promulgate to raise the taxes, to slay the masses, creating havoc island nations have been uprooted now they drift with the currents nuclear truce as deterrence against foreign ships determined to defend contested sea routes, or They try to reroute only cold blood for ones we got to leave out How many more quarters until the stocks hit their targets? Cause Market price don't reflect the true cost of the carnage we be armed with more than a mind if you go against warriors its war you will find this world offers more but machines bottle up its nectar they wanna mine asteroids for ores to construct the death Star eyes to the sky with bodies wrapped in Kevlar The Known Universe, We see farther than the Kepler We live in times where they watch us from the tower Externalize scarcity, so they charge us by the hour Soft power can be broken, its time to open up your mind The known universe emerges from the start of time We living in debt, live off our sweat and see no rewards When existence is a threat, I guess there is no recourse Against creators of this mess who have no remorse The Known universe,  we the tour de force Masses pay homage to overarching Mother culture its just cover for blood lust upon another alter from troops in Malta in transmit to bring stability to the planet, use of force as a course of civility we'll forever pay increasing amounts tribute loyal to the grave, but how we behave ain't the issue its coming for your kinfolk, fiending for your tissue its takes an unseen hand to guide the flying missiles Its clear that the beast is implacable so we spread out across the land like seeds of the daffodils a shift in priorities, no more dialogue no future in these networks controlled by Viacom to work within the system is to work within they vision no perfect search for wisdom but preferable to they prescriptions The crimes they commit daily just the raise the tension it pays to keep populations less than sentient We live in times where the air is unfit to breath Where corral reef competes for sunlight with the plastic in the sea We got one life, one struggle, one fight Until all are liberated so let's make sure its done right We living in times where the heart is discounted Broken mathematics drill oceans, remove mountains Collective suicide, its time to do or die The Known Universe, in struggle, see through truth and lie
4.
Colony Rot 04:46
We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy I was not born here, but call me a native son White saviors with right behaviors to change these native ones You got spears, I got guns, you got land, I got funds You often offering us more of what we already won I know my place, among higher consciousness my mind relates to divine rights of kings my kind stay faithful ill betray you, my word is worth less than your myths Your gods you forfeit, your options now: Forget or forgive your stories not important,  learn ours, imported, paint borders now we cordon off forests to make our fortunes When our blood mixes, counter to survival of the fittest create castes, sub-systems, anguish within genetic suspicions Weaponize diversity, history's verses forget the worst of me My name will be an anniversary furthering, trauma inter-generational struggle for meaning, with no stated goals you find no hope where only hatred grows colony rot, let me ask who will take control? We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy My eyes dazzle by reflections of glass monuments Statesmen who slayed communists, patriarchs of the populace Annotated environments means less you know keep pumping by any means, like stilts in my ventricles Facades dimensions are form found and calculated To blend shadows, return on investment is calibrated To the tenth decimal, we are fed powdered vegetables Buy and sell seconds, never mind hours in our schedules My man squire makes a living fixing boxing matches Said its better for his habits, cant float on Walgreens' average Hes hooked on caffeine, but we all got to up our output From code monkeys to hired hands reeling in halibut But by how much? Saline solution to jogs memory cells remembering, to wake and stop the hemorrhaging Mistake ancient artifacts as bones of dragon We cloned for brackets, ingest unknown reactants Study graphs for Omens shown to match with Same shock waves that block free flow of traffic We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy Lay of the land, punctuated by unmarked Graves that we've slated to span Operations through where perch breed, we mustn't awaken the clans Porous pipes that spill poison right Where they've taken a stand Its imperative, forget what's Aryan or American we need areas to mine fairy dust, a false hope will carry us Our armies return damaged, traumatized and in tatters we told them to win battles, not trained to come back to A place were we chant valor, while they sleep between towers surrender to grant power to contracts that advance cowards Never mind how platoons raked bodies over coals left boulders over roads, deaths overt odor rose to remind me how my story was over blown All glory to metropoles, with divine overtones A dmz as Demarcation, EMTs restart patients resuscitate each heart pacing, we all die slow in isolation My neighbors locked and loaded they scared to be frightened of unknowns when thermo-siphons can longer keep out cold winds from flowing   No faith tomorrow comes after the setting of the sun Freeze our zygotes, delete our files, we can restart what we've done Can we estimate timescales, how much we probably got Peel back veneers to reveal cankers and Colony rot
5.
We move as one, what has been, what will become Less apparent, these errant projections of elysium From dots of quantum to paper free of typos Replication fidelity equals keys to survival These beast also speak through our dreams as we sleep Where we seek relief, where we pay homage to our deceased To master entropy they must be free to reach sovereigns breach deep sea territories, make extinct dolphins My team boosted, we raise our own as captives i only detect faintly when my timeline matches With their rumblings, often, I'm within colossi shadows they lumbering forwards, towards more unaligned backbones Mormons vs Lutheran's unlike poorest verse super rich Identities shape behavior, hyper-egos as a crucifix for a proven niche, It's all about the mind share They moving with as they find more to do with us A human unit, atomized to be recombined We don't deify what we can't see and what we keep inside Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole One cell in a organism that's neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call it our own Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole Just cell of organisms neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call them our own from pressurized gas to liquid acetylene Each method varies in molecule assembly Humans store energy potentials to power many things Colossi is a level above matter that controls machines So the dominant propagate Fructose delivery Which interact as liver fat that spread to peripheries We now susceptible to crave short bursts of meaning It seems the thirst of demons need us hurt and fiending Colossi roam another world but they cause ripples in our space they coordinate massive efforts to secure coordinates This is half a decade since Peabody crashed but still there's fly ash on lilacs beside streams next to shafts it's extreme how they tapped eons to keep alight beacons Banish nights so the industrial complex increases I'm part of life forms separating earth into pieces Divide and conquers each while replacing all other species Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole One cell in a organism neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call it our own Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole One cell in a organisms that's neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call them our own with weather patterns disturbed, it's perfect for merchants to continue searching for uncharted routes through the north pole to earn they reimbursements From Young minds in Cali guided by VCs valleys of silicon ideate new treatise who affords to peer beyond time horizons Allocate efforts to disseminate and accord science findings Individuals, or are we minuscule? Each life a fleeting sequence inside of unending interludes affiliates, networked, optimized, for when it really gets to points of a histories we ain't feeling yet It's no surprise how they attack eccentrics want you to regress back to centrists, or they won't cap your sentence 25 to life for thought crimes leave you thrashed or deadened All threats trigger cascading immune defenses as will as ruthless severance If your views are toxic to the usual topics, then Meeting antibodies of gigantic bodies is your future prospect And if you don't evade, then you'll be erased you'll be retrained or you'll be replaced, you'll be reclaimed No matter, akin to skin shed through metabolism Colossi live on appetites that extract our sentience Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole Just cell of organism neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call it our own Parts of a whole, we like parts of a whole One cell in a organisms neither carbon or bone We parts of many entities that all offer a home To symbolic comprehensions we can call them our own Fall into holes or walled and enclosed When you feel the immense presence you either dwarfed or exposed How do you fight gods when you resonate as material We can lash at each each other but can't scratch ethereal Forgotten bodies atop bedrock buried at Battle crossings If you wanna fight the system? Might as well be shadow boxing Human beings, we capable of as parts of a whole Nothing's destined as net negatives for hearts that are full Human beings, we do live in shadows of Giants The fractals remind us that it's not natural to merely grapple with tyrants My team boosted, we raise our own as captives We combined our minds to put forth life into practice Systems only change when another system replaces We build within ruins with what we find in the encasing Colossi are the sum of us, bigger than anyone one of us We raise our own to be aware when and where they summon us
6.
Shock Front 04:34
What's beneath the surface, corpses of many murdered servants mass graves of ones who were here before us at dusk, we utter their names as a silent chorus brush aside bloodshed as well as violent torture no peace on stolen land, we reach with swollen hands at golden sands slipping through cracks, no hope for man They flooded the lower ninth to save the upper wards dynamite to crumbling levies just one way to fuck the poor we barter oppression to commodify who suffers more The shock front, no options for us under war To refugees, running for your life, find your way To prisoners of conscious, escape the firing range To all peoples, who have to live under climate change This crisis isn't normal, we just forced to fight the flames The current state of the union produces actions that are ruthless armed factions of vigilantes on the look out for looters blood in the sewers, race riots, this how they do us every four years, a hero myth is how they fool us these tunnels we prepare, lined with metal piping we hasten our steps to avoid foul air, squint through poor lighting gotta reach day break but the path wont stay straight our life depreciates with the falling exchange rates we duck down to bide time, but struck down and side lined bodies wash out at high tide, reflection of high crime to counter radiation we eating iodine through spectacle, in plain views to hide they crimes mass panic over bread, they institute martial law giving birth to resistance modeled off the art of war precinct slaughter all, M16s cut like Islamic swords feeding off of death, some sort of carnivore to ensure safety we secure our own transmissions speaking enigma over lines they tap and listen they trap and imprison, slash, bash in our dominion not hesitant to suppress uprisings and black sedition Our pasts are given, but it seems that our futures shifted it's not in their interest to keep our spirits lifted To the refugees, running for your life, find your way To prisoners of conscience, escape the firing range To all peoples, who have to suffer climate change This crisis isn't normal, we just forced to fight the flames suspicious of our autonomy,  how we live consciously corroding their control through organic technology grow our own food so Monsanto not profiting set up our own school, defend against false prophecy polish our own jewels, acknowledge our own rules harvest our own energy, sharpen our own tools know who is the enemy, believe our own destiny war has 2 sides when we maintain our own identity Remain beneath suspicion for now to avoid attrition photovoltaics on roofs top drive hydroponic systems methane from bio reactors got the pot hissing all the surplus we keep in the cellar or the kitchen cant reach the masses cause the scales pale in comparison itll be years before the facade starts wearing thin Wave lengths broadcasts to sell ideals mad direct achieving homogeneity with mass effect, overrun with pacifists people gather beneath the Golden arches feeding their kids carbs and frozen starches flesh from carcasses more tarnished than the tar pits send the waste out to space in metal barges this ain't no way to live, we sooner waste our gifts than weigh the amount we need to repay what we've missed every achievement is fodder for next election they offer more protection, but instead opt for more depression every victory we bleed for is short lived tomorrow is morbid when history is poorly written Memories fade while nature erodes the evidence how can we Excel if we're Surrounded by precedent how do we prevail if we confounded by pestilence can't achieve excellence when we buried underneath sediments To the refugees, running for your life, find your way To prisoners of conscious, escape the firing range To all peoples, who have to live with climate change This crisis isn't normal, we just forced to fight and pray The shock fronts is more than troop divisions or nukes and what we doing with them, its every ruthless dictum its that spy satellite panopticon supervision its that looping news segment, about soup kitchen nutrition its fossil fuels, its prescription drug induced sickness its the crucifixion against truth and wisdom its pollution that scales cause science is superstition Lucid visions with no use to mention Surrender just live in their perfect fantasy Whatever the famine brings, we can manage things Surrender to the shock or fight to stop the calamity our lives are front lines in this war for humanity
7.
Limits 04:27
Its difficult to roam not exposed to signs of recruitment everywhere multitudes partake in modern communions among the ruins, glass facades frame institutions built upon quicksand, they still want to expand The marble around me, colder than mountains its stripped from language I speak, contains colonial logic in dictums fruits I eat, coated chemically like trees it was picked from engineered to grow thick skin to survive prescriptions hydrocarbons shape shifted to battle insect resistance infected with sickness by clicks who oversee business interests shipped over seas or imported, makes no difference now that we devoid of seasonals, there ain't no limits To rise above it all, we create god in our own image, we don't mention finite suddenly has no limits, we don't finish what been started, bring to market modern curses, full speed towards the furnace, is this actually worth it? To rise above it all, we create god in our own image, we don't mention finite suddenly has no limits, we don't finish what been started, merchants market modern curses, you buy to fight the current, but is this actually worth it? millions converted to images of white models and movie actors return billions in profit for skin bleach and Hair relaxers its unseen, yet showers the earth like sunbeams struggle to cover up multiple nightmares with one dream of utopia, found in fields of opium Found in shields of policemen Found in buildings folding in after tectonics opening found in electronic potency that amps up dopamine Found in empty fountains, found in expansive postal grids subliminal messages, how we supposed to live slipping false dichotomies like testosterone verse estrogen look out through port holes either fields of corn rows or a city of human morsels a false prophesy foretold from a mouth of a cynic self fulfilled prophecies are supposed to be cyclic modern mystics traverse elevated sidewalks lifted off the district look out to the distance, buildings attempt the heavens with mere ascension dependent only upon the weakest weld or rivet I guess it's a given that this systems got no limits   To rise above it all, we create god in our own image we don't mention finite suddenly has no limits we don't finish what been started,  bring to market modern curses full speed towards the furnace, is this actually worth it? To rise above it all, we create god in our own image we don't mention finite suddenly has no limits we don't finish what been started, merchants bring to market modern curses you buy to fight the current, is this actually worth it? I'm trying change the system while they try to change the climate set up hierarchy for you to climb it, while they consolidate combining Bad men who got your mattress bugged live in a world where atlas shrugged Sweep through laws that strafe like Gatling guns what happens after the suns blackened, nihilist fashion gains traction, nautilus takes action how we move forward if we trapped in silos and don't learn its like arson to their prisons, concrete don't burn on bomb beats, Naut competes with noise that constructs towards infinity, churned out by industries and delivered individually the past is unwritten, our futures can be different renounce their myths and image, and recognize our limits
8.
Citadel 04:22
We exist in constant motion, elicit bonds unbroken we links of chains that stretch back to before beginnings of our omens I bow before the sun above, pray for rains to ward the flood I'm the remains of those who lived and loved In this city, you balance id and ego ratios it's appetite is insatiable for the nameless whole lineages cut short by highways, epidemics by pipeline extensions, a planets lifeline is ended a night time suspended by lights and moving traffic we try so hard to move fast but to me we moving backwards The GDP don't mean anything when we get by through any means survival among enemies guarantees conflict eventually it was all was envisioned in the architects decision create nation state monuments and structures that cage women yoke the labor class to gas and grease the pistons wear down our defenses to promote and spread the sickness consume to validate your existence, re-calibrate to established norms set forth by magazine subscriptions all the while oblivious to the living hell this citadel is just physical its our mind that's the prison cell Oblivious to the living hell, this citadel is physical its our mind that's the prison cell Few of us living well, fewer will live to tell, the sick and frail don't make it within the citadel Travel via roof tops, the view unravels like loose knots advertisement produce wants we opt in to shop so no need to cut the coupons we stopping to gawk at  fads that have already moved on the horizon lays bare all its wasted potential from up here its clear the sprawl is exponential a sea of sheet metal, no peace at street level police appease devils, more heat than tea kettles inside the mayhem, legacy of Ronny Reagan witness the last days of failed civilization, weak and strong all are hurt within the melee stay away from Windows and Men donning the black face paint organized groups who choose to embrace hate no where to turn, we have no examples to learn, Before it destroys them they internalize the poison, through their bodies and then homelands it be coursing Protectors of privilege, not of the innocent target the outcast, demonize immigrants, we penalize differences no caskets on the daily news, drone attacks on schools are rarely viewed a culture of violence will turn on itself eventually for most this is a spectacle, for some it's their destiny a culture of violence will turn on itself its from within comes the fall of the citadel
9.
Shell Fish 04:14
The market crashes, spells doom for the starving masses who breathe in fumes from the garbage patches the mega-projects funded by lender prospects end up abandoned at the end of the tail end of returning comets drain rivers into flood plains, so silos have enough grain but rains come no more so we war over unnamed sources of nourishment, convert fossils to heat which turns water to steam, in turn fires the beams of light reflected and interpreted controlling machines which starts the process over the world over, just as a means To see the end, what it seems to me is to see the start A new beginning, this world's ending, but I play a part What is here tomorrow depends on what i build today The present the informs the future, its the past that leads the way Drones In the sky as democracy in disguise The history they revise so atrocity is reprised when all is said and done its that they fear a brown planet script new narratives to construct the brown phantoms A hidden Menace, like bullets from a smith and Wesson end trains of thought which reveal the missing lessons kingdoms of the Kushite threaten faces that don't look right ancient Pre-Islamic civilizations which took flight from math to martial arts, stacking higher forts crafting iron way before they ever did in the global north part of human legacy erased by modern agendas ones that keeps 99 percent out of Mensa one that pits materialists against those who bow towards mecca plots to distract from how every species ends up as a memory, remember you can't fight entropy the Universe is far from our worst enemy To see the end, what it seems to me is to see the start A new beginning, this world's ending, but I play a part What is here tomorrow depends on what i build today The present the informs the future, so its the past that leads the way Core samples from deep under tundra, no relief from the dissonance, the sickness is  between the rings in lumber the atmosphere is changing, from concrete in foundations bombings of Eurasia, slash and burn farming in tribal nations forced to compete with mechanized systems of extraction armed factions grabbing Land, attack with AKs verse they javelins the end of the old ways, Defense of the modern Last of the cold days, The past will be slaughtered as the oceans rise from massive glaciers melting calcium carbonate will be stripped from the shellfish another record of days before lost to the ether have we crossed beyond no return, to be buried in the deep earth To see the end, what it seems to me is to see the start A new beginning, this world's ending, but I play a part What is here tomorrow depends on what i build today The present the informs the future, so its the past that leads the way The past leads the way, We can't afford to resist reason cease and desist they drafts to eclipse the sun with oxides of aluminum, influencing flux the beacons they construct with plasma providing the thrust a spec in the cosmos, onward towards regions of dust elemental particles which are the basis of us Deep imaging to pierce the darkness back into time our minds reflect, deconstruct the numbers back into primes We asking many questions but are we masking our crimes nothing lasts forever, are we the last of our kind
10.
Its been hypothesized, human survival is paramount our genetic sequence is what we care about And not even, only a small part our species if that They need structures intact to continue immortal syntax They build rockets now, wait til they find deposits on the asteroids, At the same time, they mine helium from gas voids Virtual ques to secure appointments, space for enjoyment,  really just preparation for near space deployment Who'll hit the first trillion, while we all thirst for resilience Sand storms assault our eyes as we compete as civilians My DNA as a resume, will beta rays break my endocrine how suited am I for labor behind ceramics and metal plates It's clear at my levels of bone density I'm meant to be  a sub contractor, low earth orbit intensity Assigned to space debris, one week with safety teams I'm on call, my contingent on shipments to supply space Marines Seasonal work for the rootless, we're born to roam Get contacted via haptics to meet at the Corner Stone Merchants near the docks bargain in Esperanto under shipping container condos, slipping each other envelopes I coming down the slope, I see my unit down below Suited up with IOI, company palindrome It's apparent there's been mission change I see rockets meant for long precision range on the docks taxiing , I hear the squad lead saying: We found water on Mars, the time is definitely ours Skies the limit so its time to reach for the stars We seek power on the frontier, opportunity as prophecy Water on Mars, we found our new profit stream Without clearance for working off world I'll be paid off the books Effectively a stowaway, so my employers off the hook Avoiding Zenet carcasses as we set course towards the moon Gravity sling shot over settlements of maroons The first pioneers, technicians to service machines for entire years Lessons learn from the second biosphere From Moon dust, silica was refined and moved up Founders and shareholders recouped before the boom bust Even guilds won't repatriate due to fiscal necessity You die with your specialty, contractual destiny From portholes we see strip mines raking a lunar surface Sun rays bake it, Bone dry, inhospitable to those who work it On the dark side now it's an infinite night I sit back to bathe in pitch black before we lifting the kite Nuclear detonation directed for flight Shut my eyes and engage *hibernation as I dream of the sight   Of water on Mars, the time is definitely ours Skies the limits so it's time to reach for the Stars We seek power on the frontier, opportunity as prophecy Water on Mars, we found our new profit stream Florescents burn holes in the evening Local Lexicons are permutations of business English We fed Iodine by higher minds Lack of magnetic fields endanger us at higher climbs Laser levels guide taps into glaciers, obscured by vapors in craters Uncertain dangers, as we operate base camp on Syrtus major I'm seeing floaters as they Fly to the side of my eyes Remote medicine assure me fatigue is just a sign of the times 8 hour shifts not guaranteed I never signed on the line Passing Memorials for colleagues who died in the mines News travels fast due to a record quarter A gold rush fueled by stress at borders, Cape Verde to California Waves of immigration promised a new life Replace populations who live in drains and sewer pipes So while we reach for the sick, corporations battle with cease and desist I'm on my second evening shift as I leap deep into mist We found water on Mars, the time is definitely ours The space race ain't race based, it's a quest for no cowards We seek power on the frontier, opportunity as prophecy Water on Mars, we found our new profit stream water on Mars, the time is definitely ours The space race ain't race based, it's a quest for no cowards We seek power on the frontier, opportunity as prophecy Water on Mars, we found our new profit stream I'm watching info feeds from an overcrowded sickbay I don't got no sick days so they lock me down by the wrist brace VR recordings show harvests of the last sycamores Between commercials broadcast second American civil war My bones have turned hollow, powdered food is hard to swallow Its harder to follow which nation states have been toppled Back on Earth they rationing water by the bottle crops die as cops fly above riots in Davos Wusulis last drops compel ruso-sino death spiral Russia resurrects R 23 Kartechs, to punctures textiles Nuclear war in the sky, I see it from where I lie, with my eyes ICBMs roar with final battle cries We lost our home market, I'm just a lone carcass The price we pay to strike unknown bargains We find water on Mars, the countdown definitely starts The space race ain't isolated, we run from whatever we are Seek new meanings on the frontier, but won't reach escape velocity Water on Mars, we are driven to spread atrocity We find water on Mars, the countdown definitely starts The space race ain't new, and we won't get far Seek new meanings on the frontier, but won't reach escape velocity Water on Mars, we race to spread atrocity
11.
Deep Horizon 03:54
Approach the final frontier, deep horizons warped by iron cores sun flares lash across abyss, contact leviathans gas giants pummeled by ice and diamonds, titans rising No information escapes from beyond event horizons we look up, take notes of when points of light in alignment Equations deduce trajectories, magnitudes produce time shifts redness off in the spectrum, divide the sky into sections focus stacked lenses towards precise directions The wave lengths reaching our eyes hint at an increasing in size boundaries distinct from the sides of the regions we spy this might be the reasons for why we not overstanding our shallow contexts and the deepness of mind Look around for evidence, we got reasons to doubt They books, they sentences that say we got the freedom to bow The Known Universe too deep for the evil and foul Overstand we living lives we ain't even dreaming about Through modes of control a few be certain that worth be in the holding of gold having faith that value retained equals the value its sold but what value remains on a planet that's cold take for granted that the damage can managed in full global perspectives block out the total recessions not financial markets, I'm talking bout artificial selection genocide in the tropics, what survives are solely parasites filling voids and niches of what once was paradise we extract the final tracks of intact biomass Then latch on with tyrant grasps that impact with violent wrath Developments of narco-architecture, gardens with artful renders western standards, ratios ain't hard to measure satellite rings, surround a darkened center setting concrete emits carbon as it hardens the earth now when rains pour, aquifers no longer replenish original cultures washed away are no longer mentioned Top soil depletion cause food prices to peak riots over grain,  strong leech off the weak just eat warring over water will be deemed proactive off shore drilling coupled with fractures as standard practice a belief that to be human is to increase extraction look up into blackness, metal spines weave a caged lattice a belief that to be human is to be extractive its not our biology that keeps us captive Look around for evidence, we got reasons to doubt, They books, they sentences that say we got the freedom to bow The Known Universe too deep for the evil and foul Overstand we living lives we ain't even dreaming About Were we meant to construct metropolis with slum quarters attached boom bust cycles, with property taxes to match we pay to live, they take, we give to exist upon grey acres this calculation less logical than pascals wager what seems Megalithic, nautilus beg the difference though its hard to contradict armed men with killer instincts or neo shamans that cast more dreams than Sega systems while ours elders die slow in federal prison they want us second guessing, package problems as solutions military augment police to decrease deaths from shooting ethical slaughter, guiltless meat sold to consumers banish the night, block out the sky with urban light pollution don't mix the true dark up with layers of shadow who controls the facts yo, contradictions we must grapple as long as we keep vibing, our people keep surviving the known has shown light upon the deep horizons

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released January 8, 2020

Beatz: Josh Triboro
Vox: xNAUTILUSx

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We aim for perma-culture. A permanent culture. Visionary Fiction. Deep History.

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