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Magic Consciousness
04:04
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beware the enemy within, meet the killer inside me
this is what it’s come to
you don’t have to stay here, go kiss the ring of your defeated king
fall all over yourself, while we disengage the false narrative
he is a shiny object, to divert attention
and stay in power
there must be resistance out there
why don’t you show me? come on and take me
I won’t get dragged down by your conspiracies
imagine if we had followed the science
and embraced the blazing art of the poet priestess
racing, riding raw streams of magic consciousness
we are the living laboratory, the ones still making the scene
we have a real role to play
our systems are aglow
find out where doubt lives, and let it go
just because the flame is out, doesn’t mean it’s over
bring it on, raw streams of magic consciousness
while we’re here, we might as well set up a government
take advantage of the soft targets
the crush of crowd pushing up the stairs
but beware of bright promises, miscues, false alarms
the crooks, the blatant opportunists
bring it on, raw streams of magic consciousness
to wake us from this nightmare
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Mad Kingship
05:06
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chasing the beat of unsettling allegations
stranded on the inside, while outside flags are burning
who will stand up to the aiders and abettors
the reckless peddlers of lies and misinformation?
it’s conscious, deliberate, corruption is no accident
he’s a walking talking crime wave, an industrial strength noise machine
that’s what happens when rumors run rampant
and causes aren’t linked to effects anymore
we’re waiting, counting the days
until the voice of reason itself goes silent
I wish you could have seen
the huge clouds of dust
a mob of angry protesters, tearing the place apart
hold steady, here it comes
the dysfunctional, mad kingship
nothing to see here but ghosts
in the pattern recognition machines
I wish you could have seen, the huge clouds of dust
a mob of angry protesters, tearing the place apart
hold steady, here it comes…
the dysfunctional mad kingship
nothing to see here but ghosts
in the pattern recognition machines
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Neutralize The Outliers
03:18
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Face to face it’s time to embrace the fear
Armed in charge uniformed gathering the intel
In the Information Age
Where nothing is accountable
It's easy to lie, harder to forgive
Look sharp and straight
They’re clever bastards
No time to aim
Don’t wait for answers
One by One
Neutralize the Outliers
Lock it up
Tear it down
Raise the flags to let em know we're coming
Charge the barricades with our fists
Negotiations are a waste of time
No one cares to believe it, no one dares to change their mind
Look sharp and straight
They’re clever bastards
No time to aim
Don’t wait for answers
One by One
Neutralize the Outliers
Lock it up
Tear it down
Climb shout shake it
Rise rage run break it
Claw plow lunge kick it
Lie steal burn now rip it
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would you consider letting go
melt away what should have been, could have been
is this the moment, you explain it to me
having failed to find a strategy, for staying together
we put off this moment far too long
your words keep getting lost
in your echo chamber, my consciousness shredder
tell me your story again
from your discrete echo chamber
having failed to uncover
a strategy for staying together
fearing your fears won’t blow away
these things happen everyday
these tales from the echo chamber
my consciousness shredder
we could just let go
melt away what should have been
I thought I knew you well enough
but your answers to my questions
are scaring me half to death
so what if i never live you down
I can’t stay transfixed in this time, or place any longer
I will never live you down, live you down
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5. |
Chords Of Inquiry
04:21
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the one is everywhere
wherever you want it to be
that was the shift I felt
as my life progressed, it got harder
that’s what i saw behind the scenes
the dangers of disrupting the fabric of day-to-day life
I wanted to stay close to my instruments
to analyze the wire, as it catches fire
most lines of sight don’t end on stars
but on their fading flow
the jury is out, whether the light you reflect
will illuminate a path, through the dark times ahead
no point looking back, all color has disappeared
I have no sense of where i belong
who’s to say what contributes, to a term of mental illness
when it gets in your blood, it’s really hard to shake
I thought i knew all the standard deviations
but try and stay focused when your head is exploding
they were gonna bump my allotment, cancel my certification
I couldn’t just sit there with everything up and running
most lines of sight don’t end on stars
but on their fading glow
the jury is out whether the light you reflect
will illuminate a path, through the dark times ahead
through the dark times, ahead
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Flying Blind
04:14
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I miss my secret audience
humoring me as i disappear
I have no sense of what comes next
among sinking expectations and promises of a wild ride
while flying blind and living with fire
flying blind, and living with fire
I don’t know who’s responsible
for carrying out my detailed instructions
racking up collisions and miscalculations
amid ghosting and false accusations
saying anything provokes weeks of delay
like swimming upstream in extra dimensions
there’s gonna be long term consequences
for flying blind and living with fire
we’re flying blind and living with fire
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7. |
Party Zero
04:18
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you’re moving by so fast
like you’re in tune to a different light
in cosmic colors no eyes can see
a shooting star, burning through the night
out where no one can comfort you
when things stop going your way
I’m searching for a new way to see the sky
to detect your distant emanations
it is data that lie outside our expectations
that point us closer to the truth
and we can not underestimate the power of persuation
or the allure of self-destruction
we will not move on
as they try and get away with it
we’ll shine a light and double down
on recovering what we lost
we will not follow their decadent drift into the past
we will rally to drown out their background noise
that grows more dangerous everyday
the tide is turning, watch them wash away
watch them wash away
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we travel far beyond anything remotely familiar
the sky darkens, as the air begins to stir
we’re coming in with nothing
but something’s alive out there
something whipped up in a lab
beyond our wildest imaginations
here at the edge, the point of no return
tongues of radio fire, get closer and closer
so this is what lies ahead
gas terminals, industrial sheds
choose your adventure wisely
inhale, submerge
surrounded by wrecked trucks and barbed wire
it’s almost pitch black
I can’t even see the back of my hand
it doesn’t change much, sinking in time
diving into the wreck
but all the clues have pushed me here
screens flicker to life in front of me
Geiger counters cli ck furiously
we came here to see what the end of the world looks like
all my intimate spaces
seem ready to collapse
disorder around every corner
here inside the exclusion zone
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9. |
Turn Up The Static
04:21
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My throat is choked and dried out
From all the howling of the day
You’d think we’d run out of words
Shoulders sore from carrying the weight
And all the noise that crawls into my brain
While the same blue sky drags across the screen
Gotta toughen my skin
Gotta harden my soul
Got to fuel the friction
Turn Up The Static
Voices speak just to be heard
Spitting poison and heartache
There’s no escape
I watched them fall, I watched them feast
Grinding bones into piles of deceit
I lay my head on the hearts of the diseased
Gotta toughen my skin
Gotta harden my soul
Got to fuel the friction
Turn up the static
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10. |
Hit So Hard
03:58
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you don’t have to give yourself up
or explain to me why you left
or how you fell
for someone else’s version of reality
everything is lost in the blink of an eye
there’s a thin line between deceit and self-deception
no apologies, no guilt, no drama
when you’re dreaming from the start
like your rummaging through the ruins
with a flashlight after dark
I had to find something extreme
to occupy the back of my mind
you haven’t been yourself
for a very long time
letting yourself go
a long, long time ago
in a profound turn-around
of self-animated doubt
a desparate tantrum of style
that hit so hard
sometimes you hit so hard
you hit so hard...
I didn’t mean to make you do it
to push you out the door
I remember picking myself up off the floor
I made a promise to myself
never go quietly into the night
I’ll never play that game again, in the dark
you don’t have to give yourself up
or explain to me why you left
or how you fell for someone else
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Formed in 1982, Live Skull is considered by many aficionados to be the quintessential New York noise band. Together with Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull defined the term "noise rock" in the 1980s, spearheading the post-No Wave underground music scene in NYC with a series of legendary live performances and eight groundbreaking records released over the course of that decade. ... more
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