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Apex
07:41
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The construction of the ideal world is complete
Arrogance cloaked in progress
The epoch of complacency begins
Drink deep the poison of enlightenment
The collective will has been realized
Hopeful, we orbit the rotting sun
Yet on the cusp of immortality
Humanity falls to every sickness
Numbed and blind to the covert genocide
We are the bloodless shells of man
The creations best their masters
With machine-like precision, they feed
We are the bloodless shells of man
The creations best their masters
A return to the state of nature
Reduced to a feral monstrosity
The apex has been reached at last
We climbed Jacob's Ladder
and wide-eyed, tasted the infinite
We now fall from the peak of the edifice
And feast upon its foundation
Eyes shut away from true salvation
The heaven we seek is a lie
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Singularity
04:40
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Anatomical limitations defied
The shells of humanity
are no longer needed for life
A new vessel is forged
Exploit the rapid growth
and influx of technology
Exocortexes created to hasten the process
Cognitive breadth increased beyond comprehension
and freed from all constraints
More machine than man
Innate humanity now denied
Mortals protracting death
time's but a myth
Written in tomes of the past
and spoken in hushed rasps
Arrogant nature ensuring collapse
Rendered inept with the languishing earth
Revelations borne of perfection
Transformed from elation to shame
Worldly knowledge eradicated
With no mercy the memories are destroyed
The singularity has been reached
Behold intelligence beyond perception
That which remains beyond the veil
Will shatter the walls of time.
Exploit the rapid growth
and influx of technology
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3. |
Within The Mind
06:06
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Psychic torture made flesh
Born of an idle existence
The subconscious eats at the greater self
The pitiful ego defiled
Agonized into self-immolation
The first waves of nausea take hold
Vital tissue necrotized by bile
Mental torment matched by physical pain
A being turned on itself to wither and die
The catalyst is within the mind
Bodily decompensation follows
We dwell deep in the throes of madness
Forced to despise the natural human state
Chemically lobotomized in vain to stall the decay
The physical degradation is never-ending
The delusions are unleashed at last
The rot freed to consume anatomy
Acknowledgment of the rise of disease
Precedes the vascular infestation
The final remains of consciousness
Fade away
The catalyst is within the mind
Bodily decompensation follows
The eyes of the mind betray
The instincts for self-preservation
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4. |
Exoparasite
05:29
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Edifice of wisdom eroded
The time of the fall begins
Worms present in human form
Behold the sickness ensnare
The will to exist exsanguinated
on bended knee the joyless yearn
Ignorant unwashed masses of flesh
Howl and moan as the towers burn
Liquifying flesh and bone
The artifical plague takes hold
Impervious to obsolete defenses
The time for resolve is now
The exoparasite multiplies
The biomechanical swarms divide
Complete subcutaneous destruction follows
Days pass before death is realized
A harrowing fortnight of corporeal decay
Every second forces panic
Silence pervades
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5. |
Wretched Host
03:12
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Isolation breeds disdain
A War of attrition
Turned within
The eyes of the world
Watch eternally
Asphyxiate and bleed
Tear at the true self
To labor for every breath
Is a sin of omission
Pushed to a cavernous existence
Empathy for mankind forever extinguished
All that remains is the cult of the self
The bonds of empathy have been severed
To labor for every breath
Is a sin of omission
Celebrations of misfortune
Are the prime joys felt by us now
Piercing others with detached stares
but learning nothing at all
Kneel before the new cathedral
High priests beckon with forked tongues
Choke down the wretched host
Concede that your humanity's lost
Remain consumed by the basest trifles
Deaf ears prevail as blood is shed
Ignorance abound where the bodies lie
Integration breeds despair
A revelation drawn before all
The heads hang in shame
For each day dead and gone
Awakened to the disrepair
But no recourse remains
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Demise
05:19
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Behold the majesty of tragedy
A gruesome sight from time forgotten
I place my rage upon its mantle
From blackened seeds its roots will grow
I long to drain the life from your gaze
How I despise your ways
You starve me from all that is righteous
Yet to your will I remain enslaved
There is nothing left but a distant memory
There is nothing left to blame
I see the world with eyes stained by pride
I bow my head in shame
I have slain the visions from my true dreams
My will shall not be done
Every step that's taken
Is a step towards certain madness
Trapped in deliberation
I punish the world around me
The growth from aspiration
Is destroyed by abject blackness
No time left to heal the rifts
I let the cancer grow
This is the demise
I scorch the earth without reprieve
I've become a tyrant
I now live to spread misery
The demise of the pure at heart
Is clear for all to see
I drain you now of all your worth
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Anhedonia
04:45
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Witness the propagation
of false consciousness
Lied to from the start
Kept from the origin
of the affliction
Deceit underlies every act of man
I am cursed with an anhedonic fate
Attacked at the core in the embryonic state
Emotions dulled to absurdity
A searing malaise casts its shadow again
Brainwashed to crave the suffocating roots
and rip the threads that connect the world
Cognizant of the specter of death
In which dread and despair become one
The will to achieve full realization
Is cast out at every turn
Witness the spawning of a wrath with no dawn
Shatter the borders and tear at the seams
I cling to life with every act of rage
Rebel against the foundational screeds
No longer enigmatic and ever present
Empathy exists no more
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Nadir
09:11
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We are the hate that hate created
Eviscerated by a novel disease
The chosen few amass in darkness
Shrouded for moments from the impending plague
Discordant howls pierce the void
as they feast on the remains of their young
With no messiah to light the way to salvation
An alien frost snuffs out the landscape
Survival depends on the death of the other
An iron will prevails among the ruthless ones
Persistence secured by the flash of the blade
Existence is brutish and short once again
Reduced to a feral barbaric state
The nadir has been reached at last
With the remnants of enlightenment destroyed
History will be preserved but dishonored
Utter disdain for slovenly ideals
Useless screeds are cast into the pit
The fires burn on in the face of extinction
Charred human remains feeding the wretched flames
The wrath of nature reveals its rightful course
As it corrects the untenable visions of man
Lifeless eyes lost in bereavement
Sacred tongues reduced to chants of rage
Memories dim as the violence ascends
Heartless, the victors of a terminal war
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