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That Which Saves Us

by Sleeping In Traffic

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The truth is a mountain and we’re small as an insect Knowledge is a process, we take it step by step (by step, by step) Science is a spire we’ll erect to pass the heavens We build atop the bricks of those that came before us Wisdom is the sunlight which clears away the fog A clarity of vision which guides us to the future OR with clarity of vision we look to the horizon Through method and rigor we seek all the answers Through curious vigor we'll map out the stars and heal all our cancers We learn to abandon all of our assumptions Doing away with fallacious logic To see the world, we must scour the tint from our sight The truth is a desert, and we’re but a hopeless seed Praise the folk of science, who lift us like the wind And carry us upon them to richer, greener climes Through method and rigor we seek all the answers Through curious vigor we'll map out the stars and heal all our cancers Through method and rigor we seek all the answers Maybe in a hundred years or maybe just a day Our determination drives us forth to pave a better way for humankind
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Hyphal threads Twist and turn Away from view Weaving life Beneath the ground Another realm Eukaryotes Lesser known Misunderstood Mycellium A foundation For life as we know Praise be to the beings who dispose of all the dead Who feed us with their flesh and grant us visions in our head I am but a simple mammal, show me now the way To break down all these polymers and hydrocarbon chains Forward, we must form a fungal symbiosis Symbiosis Tech beneath the earth Cities in the dirt Feeding all the trees Fighters of disease Praise be to the beings who dispose of all the dead Who feed us with their flesh and grant us visions in our head I am but a simple mammal, show me now the way To break down all these polymers and hydrocarbon chains Forward, we must form a fungal symbiosis Move forward, we must form a fungal symbiosis Symbiosis
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Look past our own Planets of home To shifting light That gives us hope Exoplanets Call us further out What we could find Through Kepler’s eyes A perfect world Where we can survive We can’t even travel very far Yet we still gaze longingly at lands from other stars Telescopes and satellites Gathering the ancient light Looking at the past to find our future Observing what was and will be Galactic timescales stretch before our limited sight We stand in awe of it’s might All our curiosity may be the saving grace of humanity It’s all a far-away pipe dream! We can’t even travel very far Yet we still gaze longingly at lands from other distant stars We can’t even travel very far We can’t even travel very far Exoplanets Call us further out Look past our own Planets of home
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Just because its older doesn’t make it more right Your ancient book of medicine does not count as insight We’ve been building something better for a century or more And we’re living so much longer than ever before Take your bullshit with you out the door! Diluting it cannot make it stronger, can’t make it last longer You’re nothing but a snake oil monger All of this time trying to save all these lives And you feed on the fools who can’t understand why Your crystals do nothing to the cancers inside Your extracts and reiki are nothing but lies Vaccines eradicate so much disease But you’d rather destroy herd immunities None of this works But you’re filling your coin purse Breeding distrust Of the science that cures us Would you burn it all down All the answers we’ve found? With your needles in meridian lines Giving false hope to the sick and the dying Holding up your alternative guise To mask you’re a vulture that feeds on demise True medicine is all that we want True medicine is all that we need Researched and proven and snake-oil free True medicine is all that we need Fight science illiteracy Fight science antipathy They’ve muddied the waters so no one can see Fight science illiteracy Epidemic memory fades Pushing death back every decade Fighting for sense in a torrent of woo Championing cures that are proven and true Our only hope now to ward off disease
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released September 28, 2019

Written by Sleeping In Traffic
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Cory Bosse & Ryan Berehulke @ SL2 Productions

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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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