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The Map Is The Territory
05:12
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Mistook all the metaphors for prose
Remember your dreams
Imagining vividly the Garden
It's inside you and me
Did you think the map is the territory?
The map is gone
Who had it last?
Gone, all the songs
That we knew
Cherubim guard the rim
Gatekeepers armed with information
Nightmares spring from your imagination
The pain's not real
We can both return to the Garden
Let's not linger on
Did you think the map is the territory?
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2. |
I Am Food
06:04
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Oh wonderful!
I am the first-born of the world order
Given this day
Perhaps tomorrow I will return to the soil
We consume life
So we then shall be consumed also
Before the gods
I was and shall shine on in this most holy cycle
I tear the flesh
Of one who was so recently alive
I thank the spirit
What must have been a loving and willing sacrifice
We consume life
So we then shall be consumed also
Before the gods
I was and shall shine on in this most holy cycle
Good food for all
Nothing wasted
Harmony with large and small
They are equal
I am food!
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3. |
Plan
05:12
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I turn my camera off
Remember how it was before
I should disconnect before they find me
Can't see you anymore
That's what I wish that I could say
But I won't be able to survive anymore
I pulled the plug today
I burned the straw man, now it's me
Just a cipher with no laws to protect me
I've got some money in a drawer
Some bars of gold and
There's some bottled water stacked in the garage
Now
I can be whole
I caught some fish today
I caught some squirrels in a trap
But now I feel kinda sick
My fire's stopped burning
Can't see friends anymore
It's much too risky these days
They could turn me in
Can't sacrifice this
Plan
I can be whole
Now
I can be whole now
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Preserve the past
Embalm the future
No more good
Can ever come
Conserve what we have
No more shall we
Ever evolve
What is the past?
All once was dangerous
Your story
Was once their future
Their story
Once changed the past
Your law
Is not as old as time
Aurë entuluva (Day shall come again)
Utúlie'n aurë (The day has come)
Night is passing
Day is near
Sun is coming, change is here
Your immortality is no victory
And vacuumed out black space your reality
Externalize energy, flesh transferred to the fetish
Grey insect day equilibrium
Homo-stasis erased this feast
Sweet death of legends begetted
Meat rots and mead goes sour
We have passed the noon hour
Children are growing, sprouts will bear fruit
If we let them flower
Let's not mummify the forests
The trees is canonized, but bears no new seeds
New myths are needed
Yes, kings see epic lives, but so do simple men
Everyone writes their own story
But few know that they hold the pen
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The Queen
06:34
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Memories are golden
Treasures beholden
Pleased to meet the Queen
For tea, her guard down
We talk freely
Felt so fine that moment
And high on the wine
"If it please the Queen
Would you like to try me?"
She said yes
She would try me
She tried me and spit me out
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6. |
Addled Dreams of Youth
11:33
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National Diet Portland, Oregon
Portland prog rock nerds Jake (Rainbow Face) and Connor (Mercury Tree, Rainbow Face, Nick Prol), create songs that are melodic and complex.
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