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The Equation
03:58
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How do I endure coexistence alongside of irrationality?
Absurd and unrealistic, defies comprehension
Twisted joke of existence, false ascension
I’m to respect their lies
Told not to pry their unopened eyes
Cognitive dissonance
Backfiring arguments fortify
Drowning in a sea of ignorance, fearing ships will do them harm
Yet demand respect and reign, to shape the world and form the law
There is no sanctum free from fools, no alternate dimension
Untenable yet inescapable, consumed by cruel irony
How do I endure coexistence alongside of irrationality?
The square root of negative pi
Divided by none
is somehow equal to one in this world
This unreal and irrational equation
Will bring about our downfall
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Audaciousness Of Him
07:10
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Such hubris from man
That he believes the world was built for him
Hoarding all that he can
As if entitled to possession
When mankind emerged he thought himself unique and chosen
That he was gifted all within the world he rose in
Guzzling the lakes he finds
Leaving dregs and trash behind
But all that’s here is all for him, ‘til all is wasteland, sludge, or frozen
Surely, all the lesser creatures are under his command
He’ll bend them and he’ll break them ‘til they’re eating from his hand
He tells himself their brain
Cannot know fear or pain
Forgetting he was once a simple ape not long ago from where he stands
Audaciousness of him
Consuming all within the Earth
When the white man arrived he thought himself superior
And all without his skin and dick, weak and inferior
The dark of flesh saw whip and chain
Lifebearers, scorn and disdain
Ignoring we’re all brains and blood and meat, in myriad exteriors
Thus man built his mighty empires to conquer land
As if to own the mountains, trees, and grains of sand
Regardless of the peoples there
Innocent and unaware
That these marauding men would raze their homes and cultures, who could understand?
Audaciousness of him
Consuming all within the Earth
When mankind emerged he thought himself unique and chosen
That he was gifted all within the world he rose in
Pumping fossils from the Earth
Seeking only wealth and worth
Burning to enrich himself, ‘til smoke engulfs and all is frozen
Does he know he feeds upon the ground beneath his feet?
Insatiable, he’s destined to be drowned in molten heat
A balance must be struck before
Him and all that he adores
Is buried under mountains of the toxic fecal matter he excretes
Audaciousness of him
Consuming all within the Earth
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3. |
Narciscystic Pustule
01:26
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Lying narcissistic pustule
Commander of a festering wound
Malfeasance and corruption spread like necrotizing fasciitis
Depravity and vulgarity boundless
Whipping up frenzied fanatic addicts of demagoguery
Feeding off the fury of antagonistic masses
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4. |
Masculine Toxin
04:38
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Drink the sordid lies
Construct your disguise
Look for the escape
Play along to survive
Just biding your time
It’s the only way
The toxic rules commanding you
Enforce or your life
Fear of retaliation
A cycle of strife
The toxin, dictating that aggression makes us whole
That virtue is a hard an empty soul
The masculine, a stone that never grows
When will we free ourselves of self-inflicted plight,
Learn to be a man is more than just to fight,
Bursting all emotion to the light
Society moulds us and who we are
The systems that hold us in place
The hammer that built is the hammer to crack the wall
Soul of mankind can be saved / Threat of this nightmare erased
The toxin, dictating that aggression makes us whole
...The masculine, a stone that never grows
When will we free ourselves of self-inflicted plight,
Learn to be a man is more than just to fight,
Bursting all emotion to the light
True strength is vulnerability
The stoic know no sadness or joy
Take all the bricks of the modern man
Smashed down to build him up once again
True boldness is kindness and nurturing
Not callousness, cruelty, or rage
True alpha, the hand of the caretaker
This soul of mankind may be saved
Oh, help us to redefine
This meaning of man
We must find the antidote
For masculine toxin
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Her patience wears thin
The atmosphere grows thick with carbon
Not since the Permian
Has such a path incurred her wrath
This gift of life
Is conditionary
Our neglect
May see it shrugged away
A blatant disrespect for the world we dwell in
All in the name of wealth and power
Consequences are catching up to us
Mass extinction spells our final hours
Every day
We wither further away, away
From the only god that ever mattered
Gaia Shrugged mankind away
Her gift of life is all but worn and frayed
When all the fires of industry have burned out
And all the fuel is spent
Who among the dead will claim the riches, who among the dead
Gaia Shrugged mankind away
When all the fires of industry have burned out
And all the fuel is spent
Who among the dead will claim the riches, who among the dead
Who among the dead
We have no other home
Nowhere else that we can go
For we have abandoned the creed of the goddess of Earth
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Sleeping In Traffic Edmonton, Alberta
Sleeping In Traffic is a four-piece progressive band plotting a course for sounds uncharted. It is an amalgamation of artistic aspirations and inspirations, held together by a code of limitless creativity, and unbound in sonic curiosity.
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