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Step back and see...the memories as they go. (Oh…)
Awash, the dreams, cold...now covered in the snow. (Oh...)
And it takes more each time...we let the feelings grow. (Oh...)
And yet it seems more real...portents begin to show. (Oh...)
It's becoming harder to face this...I need strength to define it.
This feeling that I'm losing control.
Time takes its toll...I know, you know, all I know.
And as it’s all laid bare...simplicity in the throes.
And it teaches us to replenish, thus…making our own way.
In ourselves we trust…But is it enough?
The battles that we fought alone, so close to home…
And is it enough, to not worry us?
The battles that we fought alone always come home...
When will we?
Ever know?
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2. |
Fixation On A Co-Worker
04:42
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And you look fine tonight...I wonder what you taste like?
You'll see the whites of my eyes before the Sun's up.
Miss, on the beat...the time we have to make up.
A kiss...oh, so sweet...I know you are the one for me...
Now I must stress through gritted teeth...for my manners, I will make up.
To you and your kin...this objectivity of you is not my usual thing.
You see...I'm usually much more caring in the dignity,
I give...to guests...that I have for dinner but I feel some unrest.
I...found...empty.
I...found...the nothing.
I...found...the hollow.
Eye...
I...
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Roll The Bones
05:05
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Now I'm frustrated and angry...and I want someone to blame...
I'm dismayed and rejected...and I just feel this way every day.
I'm disconnected and fraught with fear for what may come.
I'm disillusioned with my choices and the way I see.
May I reap what I sow and get what is coming to me...
So, let us...
And let us...
Now let us...
So, let's just...
Roll them bones...make your own a miracle.
Place two hands on the neck so that it does not feel at all.
Behead the snake…give the bones a shake.
See what comes out when you step back and smile at all the fake.
Now see the bones...they signal more.
The restitution of your pride begins to move things forward.
Give the bones a shake...
There comes a time in everyone's Life.
Where you just have to say…that I'm tired and won't take it again.
The peak of enragement.
That lack of containment.
Let the words spill from your lips…and be the conversational pre-requisite…
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Lumiere
07:08
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My love…the future is unwritten. (Unwritten, my love!)
And when we choose…on our laurels, we won’t be resting.
So, let me light a candle.
Let me hold you when it’s dark.
Let me wipe the tears away that fill you with a black so stark.
So, let us light a candle.
So, as to see when it grows dark.
Let us wipe the tears away that seem to hold us back.
Let us light a candle…
Oh…
Eve, try…
Oh,
Eve, try…
Oh…
Please, try…
A needless sea that calms the river.
A lightless dream that calms the sinner.
(Uh oh…Uh oh…Oh)
Oh, we…owe…an agony…
(Let go, Let go, Let go, Let go, Let go, Let go…)
I see…a change in the weather.
I feel…amendment to this forever…
And when the fear obscures your sight, hold on…
…to the light in your soul.
To the brightness, around it all.
And when the doubt grips you tight, hold on…
Maybe we will never truly know why we’re this way.
Fumbling through our life and stumbling to the end…
Is this our gift?
Is this our reign?
It’s not beyond our comprehension or reason to just accept that this really could be all there is.
So, make your peace and live with it and just embrace the way…everyday…
…like it's your last…
(Let go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go)
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5. |
Drive Bi 69
04:09
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You look like Hell on wheels and all “Hell's with feels”…
To put it mildly, A cleaving knife to cut through the mire?
A consummate pro, an online following to your show...tricked out with opinion even if the facts go below…
Below…this constant noise.
Behold…this empire of lies.
Reaching for more likes…across the deadlights.
Let's just analyse a catalogue of empathic fails.
As your audience grows, your lack of modesty flows.
Your need for love from those; from those online that you simply don't know…
Grows…
Control…you've lost it all.
So low…you're just human though…
It's not love…
It's not real…
3-second attention span...just hurts a wiser man.
Appealing, Viral...Depression received down through the wire.
Teaching us to learn how to "celebrity vermin worm"
“Followers” are not your friends…and "friends" are not your mend…
Now we know! What this noise is!
Seek calm…by signing out…
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6. |
The New Human Agenda
06:24
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I saw the razing of Babylon...the Persians claiming thee.
A changing of the times...that meant the end it seemed.
I saw the temple’s ground beneath...the feet of the enemies.
Destroying such belief...because their enemies…their enemy…
New beliefs that spread down the Silk Road, seeking out new territories,
The power of belief returned, papyrus churned and Carthage burned.
New power awoke again…the creation of their dynasties!
Fuelled by blood of men...I saw the end…A new belief system...a new way...
What you know...what do you know?
What you know...what do you know?
What you know...what do you know?
What do you know?
The origin story is where we begin.
Gravity wells and combustion...a combination of things...to create...
(Disease and wars)
This wealth of Life and all that we are.
A cellular marvel, made of many parts.
The progress we've made through all the shame as we aim toward the stars.
Cannot hide our fools and flaws...
Despite...coming so far.
Despite...coming so far
Coming so far...
The times a-changing every day.
Is there a righteous and a free?
Amidst the greed that was, fuelled by advertising and TV.
What you do is not worth compared to, how you’re perceived or seen online,
That bullshit roundabout of social segregation and decline...
For every new technology that creeps into your lives,
The gulf between you continues to grow, makes you alone...and that's the price.
And that's the price...
And that's the price...
And that's the price...
And that's the price...
What do you know...what do you know?
What do you know...what do you propose?
Evolution, Assimilate...
The laws of entropy...in a collapsing state.
Dissipation Driven Adaptive Organisation…
What do you know?
Technium…
Technium...
(Stare into the face of your new God!)
Archaebacteria...
Eubacteria...
Protista...
Fungi...
Plantae...
Animalia...
Technium...
Technium…
(Stare into the face of your new God!)
Technium...
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7. |
Mother Of Eyes
06:48
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Consider this early warning, Oh my Low.
That bitterness consumes all within, my Love.
Fires that once burnt now seek out desire,
Before the remnants are washed away and left to form a new funeral pyre…
Frustration...Blinded by the tears.
Completion...the cyclic burn of all the years.
Give credence to the dark and take what's given back well apart...
We're left to feel...
It's the little things that group together, blunting our best endeavors.
Coming forth, eyes strained...peer into the past.
A family that hates together, surely cannot back a winner.
Caught up in our games...so caught in our strains.
And it's the fear reinstated...It's the wary sighs, ungated.
A catalyst much of the time...yet carries weight for all our crimes.
It's the untruths aimed like arrows to pierce, our shallow egos, and worse…
They drive a divide...a division like silence, now presides...
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8. |
The Hope Sequence
07:42
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Let nothing grieve you beyond measure, for time will take its toll and the sands won’t trickle slow.
Through the hourglass, figured out, the finite of infinity…
Oh “God”, my love…
Rain down…and I’ve slowed down my thoughts to only a million miles per hour.
Oh, “God”…I know…
So, please don’t abridge your happiness.
Know your worth and take nothing less.
Put all your grievances to their rest.
Try…Now…
Then put your laurels to the test to see how…
…the bittersweet taste of success is fleeting and unbearable…that we know.
So, just let your happiness breathe now.
The purpose of which you’ll learn somehow…
Through the trials comes maturity…I know we’ll seek security…
How you forget yourself…
Go…
(Forget yourself…)
Let yourself go…
(Let yourself, just let yourself…)
Let yourself go…
Live…
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9. |
Un(EN)titled
07:35
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On hope it seems, we built those dreams and we try...
(To stay young, To stay young.)
Amongst the fears of aging…Growing old, we cry...
(That we're not young, That were not young.)
Every line on your face, tells a tale, you sigh...
(You're not young and you're not young.)
And every pain and its ache, you feel inside can't deny…
(To feel it's gone, To feel it's gone.)
And we'll just move on, aimlessly adrift.
Senseless in the worry, our mistakes are simple gifts.
Murdering the future with fear of what we've done.
Exhausted...
And still, I wanna be whole...Be a human?
I just wanna be known...as a true man?
Yeah?
And if I can say one thing, it's to never give in.
Live your Life as you should and try as hard as you could.
And don't sweat all your fears and embrace all your tears,
Because they make you your best...and simply f**k all the rest...
And still, I wanna be whole...Be a human.
I wanna be known...as a true man.
...and it's not forever, so what the Hell...whatever!
And we'll make this all better by being together.
Be!
Be!
…A human!
Yeah…be a human…
Who'd be a human?
Who'd be a human?
I wanna be alone…
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Oceanica UK UK
OCEANICA is the solo project of musician, Benedict Harris-Hayes.
(ENOCHIAN THEORY, MASS!VE DYNAM!C, etc)
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