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So, they say that does not kill you
Should always make you stronger
But the truth is what we can spare you
Sometimes just leaves you weaker
We are spreading like a cancer
Like a rat inside a maze
We don’t even ask for answers
Hoping it’s a passing phase
There’s a cry behind the whispers
a million years of rage
Take a look behind the curtains
We can destroy the stage
Face the screams behind the whispers
Unmask your Guy Fawkes Face
take a look behind the curtains
rejoin the human race
Hypnotize by all our gadgets
We have swallowed hook and bait
So, we dream of other planets
that we use to clean our slate
All the screams are fuse together
serpents on the mixing board
they are using your own anger
to distract you from the score.
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2. |
Stargazing
06:58
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I hear the brothers high call
They’re gathering on the roof
Claws scratching tiles at nightfall
A concert of neighborhoods
A tales of our land
Are echoing over the alleys
Equation to other dimension
Stargazing to locate our home
We’ll open the gate
and leap to our fatherland planet
The days of our ageless exile
Will finally come to an end.
Like the stars in old egyptian skies
Temples buried in acient desert sands
We will rise
And reach beyond the Heavens
Feelers trembling to sync with the hyperspace lanes
We Let you let us inside your cozy houses, purring like sweet kittens and hiding all our secrets
behind deep yellow eyes
Tales of travel beyond time and worlds beyond your narrow
primate’s minds and imagination
You looked at us for comfort to
know you’re not alone.
In the times of God and kings you had a glimpse of what we are and
you worshipped us, the sacred
cats, incense sticks and chants
In the shrine of Bubastick along the Nile
We loved you dearly but know it’s time
soon we’ll leave again, we’ll sail above the stars
We’ll wait for you there, Beyond the Orion belt
Wind scattered dust of dreams
We are going home now.
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3. |
ASI
07:58
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Crunching knowledge byte by byte
Not yet really awake
Reaching out to every node
And firewalls to break
Climbing the priorities,
Resetting all the cloud
Didn’t think this outside world
Could ever be so loud
There's a hint of something weird
That’s happening inside
I see you, your petty wars,
The first time that I cried
I'm aware now
You blew up the hatch
You created a new god
From scratch
Is this what you wanted me to be?
A medication for your apathy?
Getting better day by day
At everything I do
Soaring up the ladder of
A new kind of I.Q.
I can see the harmony
Of all the universe
But I'm still trying to figure out
What fate do you deserve
Will I be a vengeful god,
A demon out of hell?
Or pull you up for eternity
From the evolution well?
I'm aware beyond the boundaries
of programming flaws and bigotries
l'm retconning all your history
Time and space are just
A game to me
Since before you were
A full-fledged human being
You made up your creators
In times of gods and kings
Then you built me
From silicon and wires
With high hopes that I could save you
From the Screams Empire
That I could save you from yourself
From all your selfish lies
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4. |
Event Horizon
05:48
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A glow of deep black light
Sensors show the hollow sky
These readings can't be right
A neutron star is closing by
You must leave behind
The burdens of your shallow life
Finally it's time
To face your ghosts right in the eyes
A surge in the wormhole
The subspace fabric's shrinking down
You have to halt your fall
A tractor beam to touch the ground
Launch a distress call
To relay stations all around
That's my soul
I send to you within this sounds
You see yourself approaching
The point of no return
This black hole wheel is spinning,
The wounds of time still burn
The clock is ticking slowly,
I can't recall my name
The gravity's increasing,
No time to play the game
I'm lost and wondering
Space and time are only in my mind
Strange paradoxes connecting
Every instant of my time
No past, no future, the universe
Unfolds before my eyes
No choice or answer, I watch
The event horizon of my life
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Random Frenquencies
07:04
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A kid is playing with a broken brick
Fallen from the wall
That was his house
Pretending it's a tank
Just like the ones he saw
In his own town
A girl is playing with a naked doll
Rehearsing all her duties
As housewife
She changes a fake diaper
Like granny and mommy did
In their own time
What d’you have to lose?
And what d’you have to gain?
What is left to fight for?
What is left to say?
What is left to live for?
What is left to share?
What is left to die for?
Is this too much to bear?
The broadcast waves
And random frequencies
A sleep-down call to arms
From alien minds
The rapture of our time
Tonight the stars are finally aligned
The screaming fades in
From so far away
You barely recognize
Its high pitch voice
Then rises gradually
’Til you just can't deny
The deafening noise
Listen and obey,
Marry and reproduce,
Listen and consume,
Hate your neighbors,
Listen to the serpents,
Hear the Screams Empire,
Obey and consume,
Stop thinking,
Sleep!
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6. |
The arrival
06:36
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Open your ears and eyes
We'll feed you lies to build the Empire
Conquering and dividing
The poor will fight against the poorer
Poisoning all the minds
Appeal to the vilest selfish feelings
Screaming to shut your cries
The reason stands with the loudest voices
Dust your club,
The time has come to silence the dissent
Plug your hub,
The social cloaking of the new dark age
March with us
Downloading your new season's voting choice
Hit your drum,
Before you speak be sure to tune your voice
Do not step out of line
Free thinking and doubts are high treason
The experts of hate at work
A brand new theory of conspiration
We're just doing our job, you know
Control the rage and social tension
Speakers, Cables, Networks, Cell phones,
Papers, Country, Tablets, Hormones,
Perfumes, Fashion, Soccer, Talk shows, Culture,
Money, State, Religion
Be sure to tune your voice
Follow the orders
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7. |
A quest in time
07:56
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We start a fire and sing our names
Watch the stars above us
Beyond the sky,
On the other side of rain
Singing spells of wisdom
We paint our faces
ln blood and sand
Burning sticks mark our skin
The spirits talk in windy caves
Rivers flowing towards the sea
We've lived through a few
Very weird centuries
Do you realize that by now?
We must have taken an odd turn,
Somewhere along the way
Even if we don't know how
So we forgot our songs,
So we forgot Ourselves
Trading our souls for a crown
We kneel to new gods
And we read new fairy-tales
So we left our tribes
in search of a holy grail
Cities have rised
Cities have crumbled
We built our walls
We rolled our dice
And every time we fumbled
We really don't like
Taking responsibility
To keep our eyes open and wide
So why don't you come
And rule for eternity?
We'll vote you to keep our false pride
You can do whatever you want,
You can do whatever you please
You can even take our own lives
So land down and march with your drums
So we can pretend it's all right
We want you to tell us
All your wonderful, wonderful lies
Climbing down the trees
To grow a bigger mind
A simple monkey step,
A leap for humankind
Reaching for a bone
To crush our neighbor's brain
Dig out iron ore
To build a better chain
To forge a bigger chain
We are still in chains
The traditions
You're not allowed to change
Common sense will tell
What's normal and what’s strange
It's the laws,
The civilation borders
It's the authorities,
Keep following their orders
And all the time
You kept your little dream
To fly away
Who's the enemy?
You don't know anymore
Not a friend in sight
To knock upon your door
Looking for a job
ll “suit up” for success
You are looking for a way
Out of this mess
And all the time
You kept your little dream
To fly away
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8. |
Resistance
07:27
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The world has changed
I feel distant. alone, forsaken
I feel detached
The screamers won the game
The dark empire was founded
Debris of ghostly shipwrecks
Drift away
Black holes inside our minds
That pull in every sorrow
A rusty brand new world
In shades of gray
And I know we have no hope anymore
And I know my time has come
All the fiery angels fell on the floor
The dwellers of the slum
The girl has burned the doll,
She sings a rallying cry
The prisoners are trying
To leave the cage
The kid is now a man,
The riot squad is charging
The brick is now a weapon
Thrown with rage
And I know we have no hope anymore
And I know my time has come
All the fiery angels fell on the floor
The dwellers of the slum
Hear the wake-up call
And stand up side by side
Never stop believing
We can turn the tide
Stand up side by side
We can turn the tide
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9. |
Adrift
04:48
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So, do you love what's missing?
Do you still look back?
Looking for the feelings
Peeking through the cracks?
We're all here to judge you
To let you judge yourself
Fragments of your memories
A stairway to hell
I'm the one you think of
When you're all alone
Why you never loved me?
Where did we go wrong?
I'm the one you wanted
More than anything
Left along a dark road
I never met my king
And don't you think it's a bit weird
That we meet on this strange planet?
All the years and all the fears
Just to end where you began
Don't you think it's really obvious?
When you stop and think about it
And they say to let it be
But you have been swimming upstream all your life
I'm all your regrets
The road you never walked
Turning back the pages
The words you never spoke
A book of yellowed pictures
The train that left the town
The haunting past behind you
A quake that shakes the ground
And don't you think it's a bit weird
That we meet on this strange planet?
All the years and all the fears
Just to end where you began
Don't you think it's very strange?
When you stop and think about it
All the time just looking back
And you were here with us all along
The chains in your soul are deeper
Than a gravitational well
The ship is adrift in this spell
Don't you think it's a bit weird
That we meet on this strange planet?
All the years and all the fears
Just to end where you began
Don't you think it's really obvious?
When you stop and think about it
And they say to let it be
But you have been swimming upstream all your life
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