1. |
Scales
03:59
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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
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2. |
Full Stack
04:52
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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
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3. |
Known Universe
04:09
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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
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4. |
Colony Rot
04:46
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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
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5. |
Memetic Colossi
06:15
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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
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6. |
Shock Front
04:34
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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
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7. |
Limits
04:27
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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
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8. |
Citadel
04:22
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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
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9. |
Shell Fish
04:14
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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
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Water on Mars
06:13
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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
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11. |
Deep Horizon
03:54
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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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