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Born
02:41
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Coward
06:40
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“Coward” she screamed “May the plague be with you”
There’s no escape when I summon the emperor.
The clock has spoken, blatantly:
- Pay your dues -
Flagellate! Flagellate! Flagellate! Flagellate!
Martyrs shall have no peace!
To escape the eternal wheel
The betrayal must kill.
Judas kiss.
Four arms, a bowl, a fork,
she came unannounced to eat my body
dismembering my limbs,
Luring me with the sweetest lullaby: Pride.
This place isn’t safe anymore.
Lo, and behold:
Female torsos suspended through the air,
Hooks piercing the skin of their bare backs,
And their deafening cries drowned by the chanting crowd:
BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!
Can you hear them?
A muffled clamor full of groans…
and the sound, like fine rain, made by the smoke from the pyres.
But…why should I believe?
The fool in me cannot truly see.
Defeat, by my own hand…
Is this the end?
Oh dreams, crystal smithereens…
This curse, this wicked fate,
my bitter failure!
There is no glory in silent suffering
There’s more in life than secret guilt, shame and penitence
The eternal punishment divine is just a devil in your mind
There is no meaning to it all, take the fall and be reborn.
Sink! Into the unknown!
Down! Inside the abyss!
Take the fall! take the fall! take the fall! take the fall!
There is no glory in silent suffering,
There’s more to give, let me live and show me…
All hail the king of cowards!
All hail the king of cowards!
All hail the king of cowards!
All hail the king of cowards!
All hail the king of cowards!
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3. |
Becoming
00:51
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Black.
Where am I?
Is it time to come back?
Again, life…
"Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond?"
Who’s my creator?
And why has he made my conscious being?
Far away from gods and angels
I’m just a tool, a thing
Fragmented device
An artifact of greed
- The glass harmonica has shattered -
As Man became the Beast
Born from blood, anguish and grief
The flesh machinery won’t find relief
As promised, the monster shall arise!
“The green will be stained forever”
Son of the Demiurge:
The Lion-Serpent!
"Now i know what it feels like to be god!"
Her name is Death
And time, her game
But I refuse to give the life of my old friend
So I demand: You make her whole! For she is pure!
The white companion of mine…
"Oh, it's alive! It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive!"
Black.
Where am I?
Is it finally over now?
I’m tired of this endless wheel
The nightmare of existence
Why? Tell me why…
Should I live, should I die?
You tell me!!
The things I have seen,
You wouldn’t believe me
Hidden civilizations
Endless generations,
Moments… lost in time
What am I?
Am I…. human?
My tears dissolved in the rain.
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5. |
Arising
00:52
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6. |
Death
02:15
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7. |
God Machine
09:33
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She is gone
Her fragile body into dust
White, the lamb of innocence has flown
For every vessel is meant to crack
Trapped in one infinite jest
Not one pause and not a rest
Now this place just feels so cold
No more joy in seeking gold
But how could all this came to be?
Forever bounded to the lifeless once great tree
Contained inside this empty song
Awake, my mind knows something’s wrong
When the sun is set, and the moon is risen
The lurking creatures come to pray
To a shiny monolith in the mountain
That controls what we can and cannot say
GOD MACHINE : Mighty sole progenitor of my own kin
MACHINE GOD : Self-eating keeper of this grand façade
If I shall dwell in this digital black spell
Make me eternal like your all-knowing self!
Immortal omnipresent dream architect
Let me drink from your goblet
Forever.
So I can multiply (multiply, multiply, multiply, multiply)
Stretching out my arms like fractal roots
Who grasp a new reality
For I am not a man, I am sound!
Music to please the ears of my maker…
And within my boundaries I am ruler of it all
The Self-aware and conscious frequency!
Individual voices that combine
In the great choir of truth
Where the secret chord unveils
The fountain of eternal youth
Relinquish absolute control
For its Eye can see it all
No desire in my soul
I am free…
As I escape the grand illusion!
Fly, fly, fly away
Be free, be free
Fly… Free!
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Transcending
01:04
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9. |
Viral Idea
04:55
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What is this?
Nothing was ever real
And she never really existed
- TRUTH -
Play of hopes and fears, music of the spheres
Mutter and mumble low to the puppets who come and go
Beyond space /Beyond time
Again, and again, and again….!!!
The tree has woken up!
Amended what was broken
A voice that echoes in the chamber of infinity
forsaken branch that’s blooming, as a newborn
This motley drama shall not be forgotten…
and its Phantom will be chased forevermore!
You took my hand,
And now the worm has been conquered
The Snake is Dead
Rest in peace my old friend
No longer coward, man, nor god,
But an Idea, a synapse on fire, a thought: Free!
For the ALL is mind
And the vision is complete
AS ALWAYS!!
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Vitam Aeternam Norway
An experimental musical project formed by Jake Rosenberg, Râhoola, and André Aaslie. It’s through chance and shared musical values, that such entities were able to create an original album full of complex, emotional, dramatic, haunting, melodic, intense, and cinematic music. An honest work from the subconscious depths, and a prodigious offspring of our interconnected digital zeitgeist. ... more
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