1. |
earthly bodies
00:59
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(INSTRUMENTAL)
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2. |
ENGAGE
03:31
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Engage
We
are the oldest known sentient species
in the
galaxy
We
Are the only civilization
to have become
interplanetary
Merciless
In our quest to find the
Chosen One
Foretold of in the prophecy
Ignorant
Are ye who doubt us
You will be punished
You will be no longer
Waging War on terrestrial scum
We exterminate the weak
because it's fun
You believe in knowledge
and we believe in faith
One among you contradicts us
none will be safe
Approaching
the alluvial rock
Approaching
the alluvial rock
Our God walks among them
We will not be stopped
(And in the absence of our God we are worthless)
Engage the Distortion Apparatus
And in the absence of our God we are worthless
We'll never walk alone, this is our Purpose
In the absence of our God we are worthless
This is our purpose
This is our purpose
Engage
Aperate
into the presence of the
Chosen One
Administer the sacramental drug
We can not
Be sure he is The One
Until we find the council
Of the one called Wisdom
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3. |
PARADISE
04:15
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For the sake of staying hidden
Fix this Apparatus
This Paradise is not ready
To deal with the reality
That there is light beyond their sky.
They may live their whole lives
Never knowing the glory of God
Never knowing sacrifice
There will be panic if they realize how small
they truly are
Machinery
Fueled by life
Innocent life
Taken away
Before it ever began
Before it ever began
Seize the mother
Don't let her
Interfere
Slit her throat
Endure the mother's screams
Bleed her neck
Into the inner workings of The Machine
Into the carvings along the floor
Ornate but purpose they hold
They are veins of the machine
Carved by the Ancients for the
Ritual
For the sake of staying hidden
We have killed our own kind
But there is one last condition
Of the sacrifice.
"I will never
Be happy again"
I bestow upon you
immortality
“To go on endlessly
(it would be)
Hopeless,
(without you)
Misery
I bestow upon you
Immortality
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4. |
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Welcome
to The Machine
Our home our birth our death
our everything
Welcome
to The Machine
Tonight you will become
our king
We have traversed
The voids between stars
Generations between our
Destinations
The oldest among us have not known
Anything but the Void
Welcome
to The Machine
Our home our birth our death
our everything
Welcome
to The Machine
Tonight you will become
our king.
With the blessing of Wisdom
you will ascend
To the status of
God of The Dread
All among us will tremble
under your might
Finally we will be
at peace this night
Where is Wisdom
Where is he
He should be here by now
According to the prophecy
The ship descends into panic
The Chosen One is a fake
This generation will not
be saved
Just another dead
planet
in our
wake
Oh
Wisdom hear me
I know what it is you seek
After all this pain
we've endured
We are completely at your mercy
Kill him now.
Spare us all.
And after all this pain
we've endured
We are completely
at your
mercy
The ship thirsts for the blood of its
Passengers
The scripture states
that in order to wake
The wise Wizard of old
We must experience pain
The more pain
The more blood
The more
chance we have to survive
Self inflicted wounds
The ship descends into chaos
The Priest encourages it
The crazed look in his eye
He finds sick pleasure in it
Their sanity lost
Masochist*
Never to help,
Never to hinder,
Only to provide council
After 3 days of suffering
The machine suddenly starts to quake
Rejoice the scripture for it never lies
Wisdom Materialized
Oh
Wisdom hear me
I know what it is you seek
After all this pain we've endured
We are completely at your mercy
We are completely at your mercy
Welcome
to The Machine
Our home our birth our death
our everything
Welcome
to The Machine
Tonight you will become our king.
Wisdom looks upon the Chosen One
Slowly shaking his head
The Dread all begin to cry and beg
But the wizard
walks away
All for nothing
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5. |
all for nothing
02:14
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(INSTRUMENTAL)
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6. |
HOME
05:37
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Take me home
I did nothing wrong
No
I overhear
Something sinister
They plan to erase us
Not a memory
Just a feeling
Take me home
I did nothing wrong
No
Looming above my bed
Paralyzed I stare
But then it's gone
And I can't remember
If it happened at all
I awake in a dream
They'll erase us
Not without a fight
They'll conspire against us
They'll try
Take me home
I did nothing wrong
No
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7. |
pulling fingernails back
01:41
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*An Annotation
on the nature of the masochism
that occurred
on The Machine
during The Ceremony:
Asphyxiation is a favorite among
the more traditional devotees
Others fix knives to chains
and whip themselves in the back.
Yet another method -
Peel your fucking fingernails back.
And when you cut yourself a hundred times
You will find
You hear your friends’ and family's voices
in your mind
I'm losing my mind
One thought at a time...
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8. |
PURPOSE
08:10
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(INSTRUMENTAL)
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9. |
NO PURPOSE
07:07
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Contemplate
The matters of late
When she is visited by
The killer
The ripper
How could she stop herself
From running across the room
And going for the throat
She saw red that afternoon
"Why did you take her away from me
No purpose
what God would agree?
Why did you take her away from me"
Telekinetic energy
Bound our queen
Mentally writhing and fighting
She cannot gain control
Of her limbs she is crying
And Priest he is trying
To control all the masses
But he can't
Without lying
He's been lying
"Why did you take her away from me
No purpose
what God would agree?
Why did you take her away from me
"There is something here for us
Down there on the surface
They have something we do not
We must find it
When they look into the sky
They do not see beyond clouds
They cannot possibly be a
Threat to us"
She is astounded by her own cruelty
He says "I see what you mean
Their land is full of plenty
And if we can outsmart them
They'll let us take what we need.”
She says “If only the prophecy
Could somehow be amended”
“Maybe we could hatch
A plan and join forces
Paradisians have no armies
No pitchforks no torches"
"They'll just let us take control!"
"Why did you take her away from me
No purpose
What God would agree?
Why did you take her away from me”
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