1. |
Collateral Damage
08:18
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Rain down, the payloads
underneath a cloudless sky
collateral damage
greeted with indifference
numb and jaded from decades of war
indiscriminate genocide
reapers and predators
remorseless mechanization
haunting nightmares of blue skies
automated war machine
greased with poor blood
flies on to find the next enemy
anyone will do
sterilized, distant warfare
human conscious restrained
killing hundreds on insurgents
creating thousands more
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2. |
Epicyon
09:18
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beyond our conscious
buried below
burns the furnace
combusting and hungry
Holocene ruin
dwindling flame
somatic betrayal
legacy diminished
scion carries on
chromosomes on genetic code
survive, must not die
carry on our own essence
terrestrial tetra pods
nocturnal, arboreal
tactile limbs, soft on skin
wondering the purpose of all
one species above all others
destroying our mammalian brothers
Permian, Devonian
Triassic, Jurassic
end of life, begin the strife
can't control natural forces
we survived all the five
must resist dying in the sixth
Mya's lost in time
can't define where it went wrong
mass extinction, false predictions
who's to blame? the world we frame
rabid increase, rampant feast
the hunger of the human creature
we are the paradigm
burden of earth and time
exhausting resources
until nothing remains
architect of our own demise
it should come as no surprise
written in our DNA
strip the world of all we survey
Epicyon, the hounds of misery
that feral beast, it was never deceased
it just evolved into modern man
primeval bio weapon
ravenous degradation
exoneration of disease
plague the earth without reprieve
we are the paradigm
burden of earth and time
exhausting resources
until nothing remains
architect of our own demise
it should come as no surprise
written in our DNA
strip the world of all we survey
Epicyon, the hounds of misery
that feral beast, it was never deceased
it just evolved into modern man
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3. |
Light in the Suffering
08:39
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I find myself here again
just like visiting an old friend
ritual of misery
spiraling uncertainty
constant and repeating
routine but fleeting
impudent mental anguish
self inflicted deprivation
the pattern repeats itself
can't break the criteria
all familiar and retreating
so persistent and defeating
waiting for one to end
only to begin again
traumatic repetition
a search for light in the suffering
the shoreline seems so distant now
in an ocean of self doubt I drown
to be free from this wall-less institution
is to be free from this life itself
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4. |
A Long, Dreamless Sleep
09:55
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we begin this voyage
some where in space
some when in time
destination beyond perception
with vapid egos not far behind
on electric vibrations
we sing the songs of the limitless
displaying paths forward
hidden to the cosmic illiterate
billions of suns and skies
we inherit that which never dies
the trails left by our existence
echoes out into the void
countless lives and countless death
compassion is long bereft
indifference is inevitable
when you're finite in the infinite
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Oktas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oktas is an epic post doom metal band from Philadelphia.
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