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By the Lake
04:40
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Blood cold as ice
As I sit by the lake
Gaze into the black depths
Above, a flock of geese
Black against the blue clouds
Like the pines against the mountaintops
Everything loses focus
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Brakeless
03:58
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The train accelerates
A broken pedal
No hope of stopping
As my eyes go out of focus
An abstract speed
No more stability
Only flexibility
A dancing mania that will never end
In the hallway
We sit steadfast, trying to hold on
But there's nothing left to hold on to
As we hurtle towards synthanatos
Planetary scale artificial death
There is only one future
Only one way we can go
A train that does not leave
Until it's full, full
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Dehydrated
08:30
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Immobilized
Trapped beneath the ice
Each instant takes forever
But I feel that I age so quickly
I can't tell if it's been
Seconds or years
It just never seems to end
And it only ever gets worse
They've finally managed to merge
The boring and the painful
Everything blurs far away
All indistinct
Slowly drowning
Despite the water everywhere
I feel dehydrated
Dizzy
The water goes up my nose
Salts my eyes
Fills my lungs
I am sinking
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Raindrops
07:27
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Purple clouds, a placid sky
Light moss, bright grass, dark evergreens
The bare branches, the smell of rain
The brown leaves on the ground
The city
Crowds. A multitude of shifting faces
Perpetual motion
Montage
Like raindrops
No more stability as the world spins
Phantasmagoria all around
Entirely surrounded, no escape
Floating in a sea
Trying not to drown
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Flood
06:08
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The petrichor pervades as the flood approaches
Ready to flush the dust and ashes of a dry spell too long
Shiver in anticipation of the new
The cold clear thin air
At night the gradient of the clouds
Up from the silhouettes of the trees
Like a pencil rubbed
I am alone and deserve nothing better
No one is entitled to the company or time of others
Least of all a pathetic wretch like me
One day I will be forgotten dust
That is consolation enough
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6. |
Gallows Reflections
06:16
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My existence is blasphemy
A crime against humanity
My deeds are irrelevant
Just the role I play
I must die for the world to breathe free
Why was I put on this Earth?
I deserve much worse
I deserve much worse.
One can never return
One can never undo the damage
But at least to minimize
I must die for the world to breathe free
Why was I put on this Earth?
I deserve much worse
I deserve much worse.
Willingly I ascend the steps
No blindfold is necessary
Half an hour before dawn
Tied to a pole as the squad arrives
I smile, awaiting my only contribution
To the wellbeing of the world
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Snowstorm I
05:25
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Snowstorm II
04:50
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Snowstorm III
05:30
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10. |
Never Wake Up
13:49
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Despite the many halls
Empty and dark, never-ending
I can never escape
The grotesque masks
The illegible messages
The clawlike hands
The paradoxes irreconcilable
I wish I were subsumed
Merged with the world
Sleep is the only exit
Let me sleep
And never wake up
[repeated]
Never wake up
Never wake up
Never wake up
Never wake up
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Knight of Swords Seattle, Washington
Gothic music project of a woman and her synths
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