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Alice in Afterland
08:53
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You did not deserve her
Alice is the worlds cure
Projecting strength but fragile
she was more than meets the eye
Now we never get to see
What a girl could hope to be
I hope Alice haunts your dreams
I would pay to hear your screams
Is it right or is it wrong for you
to think that alone she couldn’t do it
Did you ever stop to think she could
do this being on her own
Where do you get off when you objectify
all the things that made her stronger
If only you had realized
what alice needed you to say
She gave you her all
You gave her only the means to fall
Self loathing, with your lies,
tipped over the lever in her mind
Guess we’ll never know what could have come to pass
If you’d only been her pillar
Just a little bit of positivity and she might still be here
I guess technically your hands are clean
but mentally you’re morphine
So in the end to kill a mockingbird
all you had to use were your words
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Cool Kids
06:59
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Can you hear me?
Hear me through the noise?
Can you see it?
Through the girls and boys
It’s never what you thought
or you could quite derive
It’s hard to picture this
as somewhat less contrived
What does it even mean for you
to say you’re cool
Performing for the idiots and fools
Can you touch it?
Does it make you rich?
Can you see it?
You’re a little kitsch
What are your goals in life
why don’t you read a book
You might explore the world
and take a different look
Your popularity and fame will fade
So why not give your brain a free upgrade
We’re the cool kids
We don’t give a shit
Won’t regret it
like those hypocrites
Oh God I see it now
I’ve wasted all this time
To not explore the world on paper is a crime
A finite time to search not ramble on
Let’s try and fill my brain before I’m gone
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The Fall
05:20
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I could pull those shackles tight
I like it better when you fight
Please won’t you try to resist
I will slowly break your wrist
I love the taste I love the smell
My new heaven is your hell
I’ll remember you were brave
While I’m digging up your grave
You can run but you can never hide
I could make it look like suicide
You’ll fight back but I’ll still take it all
Dance the dance before you take the fall
When I pull away the blind
you can look into my eyes
Then it’s back to solitude
You will learn some gratitude
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4. |
Don't Blink
09:47
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If I had a tardis
I would make my life mine
Maybe I’d travel to different worlds
and change my timeline
That fleeting chance I had
with Carolyn in ’99
I could have said the right thing,
I could have read the signs
If I had a tardis I’d explore the galaxy
Maybe meet lifeforms I couldn’t imagine
or couldn’t even see
Don’t blink
or you might fix them in your reality
Your time and relative dimension in space
would have a sudden finality
Don’t Blink. You might just miss it
Don’t Blink. You might regret it
Don’t Blink. Oh you just don’t get it
Don’t Blink. Or you’ll never forget it
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20/20 Visionary
05:46
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Gain focus and fight back
More reason, less rhyme
Pro human, less hate
We can save the species
there’s no such thing as fate
If you’re pro life
Then care about the living
Focus on charity
Try some altruism
What donation
Could change someone’s position
If you’re tempted
Don’t be a politician
What’s my purpose
Is not a valid question
Life gains meaning
Through works and self expression
A or not A
There’s no excluded middle
Deal in logic,
and not in fucking riddles
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6. |
The Historian
08:10
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I have won the war
Cause I will write the history
To the victor the spoils
Choose what we’ll ignore
Sharpening my pencil
While I blunt my sword
1st person revelation
Must be seen by more
Tyrant or a saint
These words don’t apply
I will make my case
With ink like blood and paint
Take my worst mistakes
And say what you will
But I have won the war
So what was true is fake
Speak no more
of what came before
Futile revival
Forever denial
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My Occupation
08:49
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Revelation
You’re never gonna get it and
you’re never gonna understand
Segregation
There is us and there is them
and you will never get my homeland
Usurpation
Give it up and give it all
I’m never gonna give it back
Misdirection
You’re broken and you’re rotten and
we’re gonna help you
get back on track
Violation
People won’t believe you
and their never
gonna change their minds
Disaffection
You’re evil and dishonest and
you’re tainted and you’re feeble
so I’m laying down the law
and now I think that it is
time for you to go
My new occupation
Total domination
I will be your leader
I will treat you better
You will be my subjects
You will show me respect
You will not question
My new occupation
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Juxtaposer
06:02
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Juxtaposer
You may be my juxtaposer
Oh I hate you more than life itself
Oh I hate you, hate you like my nemesis
Two little angels sitting in a tree
One shot the other and the other shot me
But I’m not picking any sides
between my Jeckal and my Hyde
Anti-hero
You could be my anti-hero
Oh you ruined every one of my plans
Oh you break apart every single one you can
You may be my ultimate demise
You think you’re all knowing and all wise
Oh you are my conscience in disguise
A cancer that’s metastasized
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Brain In A Vat
07:22
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Everyone I’ve ever argued with
was arguing with me
Everyone I’ve ever hated
Must have really hated what they see
All the things I think I’ve learned
I’ve learned before and didn’t earn
All the lives I thought I’d touched
invented fictions not so much
I have to assume that this is real
All the things I see and all the things i feel
I have no other point of reference
So my wishes gain my deference
I created everything.
Every human all offspring
I wrote every single book
from The Illiad to Captain Hook
I invented all the noise
all the TV, all the toys
I discovered DNA
was simply G,T,C and A
Do you think you’re looking through
a solipsistic looking glass?
Do you really think that you discovered
what gives objects mass?
You equate irrelevance
with new levels of arrogance
Isn’t it more true to say
that you don’t matter in anyway
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Nostalgia
08:58
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Do you remember when we were kids?
When you smashed your face right above your eyelid?
It never even crossed your mind at the time
That you could have died or ended up fucking blind!
Remember when we all went to Magaluf?
We discovered Dream Theater and Ryan drank 100 proof
A “what would Jesus do” bracelet covered in sick and bile
He never lived that down, but I think about it once in a while
Seemed like endless teenage summers at the club
hitting tennis balls then sneak into the pubs
Remember we kept stealing all those cans of lilt?
We never got caught, and I still don’t feel any guilt
If I could go back to a year it’s 17
Life was close to perfect all be it a little green
Mesmerized as I learned human evolution
Or the 1940’s jewish persecution
We camped out that night in Magheramorne quarry?
Now that’s where they film the Game of thrones story
Bill and Ted was better than any mans religion
Be excellent to each other while we’re living
And so my childhood friends have mostly drifted away
Nelson, Craig, Andy, Ryan, Toad, Mark and Wiley
At least social media helps provide me with the means
To see what my friends have become since we were teens
Now I’m twice the age I was since my favourite year on earth
But nostalgia skews my hindsight.
Admittedly the years have been progressively better not worse
And so I hope my daughters have the youth they deserve
Fill their lives with memories and moments in reserve
I’ll jealously relive my youth vicariously through their eyes
And hope I live to hear their children’s cries, and then do it twice
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The Cyberiam Chicago, Illinois
Comprised of some of Chicago’s most accomplished musicians, The Cyberiam have come together to create their own unique brand
of hard/heavy progressive rock.
Influenced by bands like Dream Theater, Marillion, and Rush, their music has been described as the “heavy, atmospheric prog of bands like Porcupine Tree and Tool with a good melodic and pop sensibility”. Their live shows are simply stunning.
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