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Orchid Child (2013)

by Adrian Incarnate

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1.
Child 06:24
The fool believes that we are made all the same Don't separate the art from what’s out of frame The harder times will leave the heavier stains, you know that So many countless things to credit for our shame It's not that I blame you for the man I am But you never accepted the role you played I mourn the trust that you took from me Two of ten are the HSP But they call it insanity In dandelion's humanity Who are we now depends on plasticity Yeah phenotypes are made by nature’s decree And bees will morph to different castes when there’s need I’m sure that responsiveness is why there’s always been hate in me And from you neurosis and anxiety And this selfishness that is inside of me I still fight to escape your legacy Over the fuming range, searching to seed a plot All of the dunes are changed, the tumbleweed is lost Glad it can do the pain; others would die of shock I've never seen a rock to wake and try to shake the moss They said I had no core, but I was still alive I’ve traveled far and wide, protecting what’s inside While rats are spawning clones because they mourn alone Ain’t nearly lived enough to bring up any more their own So children must reflect these idiots and beasts That aren’t equipped to teach to doubt that shit they preach If they’d not been asleep for quite so many years Then we’d have never fallen pray to all this greed and fears Then there’s that sensitive twenty per cent of us You screw them up inside and they get dangerous That’s why I’m cynical - got in when I was green If you had taught me trust I wonder who I might have been I wonder who… Resent the love that you took from me Two of ten are the HSP Still they call it insanity That’s dandelion’s humanity Adrian Incarnate 2013
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Try to remember how the journey began Back in a time when comets pummeled a tumultuous land More than four billion ago back when our star was new Around that era something grew in the primordial stew Earth only just solidified; the seas were green The orbit of the moon was closer so it filled the scene Somehow amino acids learned to build protein Eventually a membrane would come to carry the Gene And it would try so many different ways of staying alive From photosynthesis to making shit with multiple eyes It even fed upon itself to grow its brain in size The predator began to think and soon it strained to find an answer to existential philosophical questions What was the purpose of this fucken natural selection? She watches out her window as she’s leaving the place Who knew the Gene would go to live amongst the reaches of space? We are the Gene, we are born of the stars We measure and label and classify We’re part of the dyad of space and thought The Superorganism There’s no escape from infinite feedback Observers are part of what they observe Energy transmutes through our actions Perhaps cause and effect co-arise Across the galaxy, humanity spreads We’re stronger now because we modified the way that we’re bred Communicating through the internet installed in our heads A hive brain - never hateful ‘cause the fear is now dead We transcended all our primitive emotive reactions And threw away our notions of isolate actions This led us all to see we can’t avoid interaction Defending of the ego just a pointless distraction After all, how is an individual defined? The concept relies upon supposed division of minds Barriers that separate a person from all the rest A definition really fucken trivial at its best When you consider all the particles just moving between us The mirror neurons that make our consciousness seamless The things you say and do can fucken change the weather And we could trace the chain reaction back or forward forever We are Universe, born on a membrane We conserve all information We’re part of the dyad of space and thought The Superorganism The one can be seen in the all And the all can be seen in the one It's likely the future is written Our consciousness is shared There’s no distinction between in and out Yeah the mind couldn’t think in a void When observers collapse probability Maybe that would have always occurred Adrian Incarnate 2013
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Resentment 04:57
You simple-minded egoist You condescend to preach poor science I'll never need to take your side I am alone, I won't pretend to like you A dog bites, don't breed it then I tried hard to believe a friend You won't see me grieve the dead Resentment only grows if I keep it fed Moved on 'cause I think it's shit to fight Many mates that I ain't equipped to like I won't stand no hypocrites in life I'm turned off like some cunt hit the lights Switch up the crowd, I can change my shape But lack of respect I'll always forsake Don't tell me none of your explanations Murderers have got motivations Personal I always would take it Self-esteem was fragile to break it But shit evolves and I'm disillusioned I can't pretend to feel shit for humans when I really don't You're taken in so easily By boorish mediocrity (oh you're looking trendy, ha!) Despise the lies you tell yourself, and me I am alone, I won't pretend to like being walked on All of my life it mattered so much I thought I was the way you saw me But I don't care now if I hurt you 'Cause since I broke free I can't fucking stand you The most contemplating like they were sheep So it's common place that they're way asleep Their pride determines what they would speak It's why those are fools that I hate to meet Don't give a shit you diss what I'm about Your scorn cannot compete with my doubt Rarely relate; I just wanted out Now I've come to rather brood in my house Who can say if I'm growing or if I'm rotting I can't tell the difference between enjoyment and melancholy Over the years most of my friends and family Faded away into nothing at all Sentenced to drink alone 'till the morning Now I'm defined by my exclusion Maybe I'm tearing it all to pieces So I never have to come crawling back Adrian Incarnate 2013
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Logically I shouldn't give a shit when humans die 'Cause everything they ever told me was the hugest lie It's the suffering that they inflict when they're alive (that) triggers empathy and brings a tear from in resentful eyes Not really saying that I wouldn't miss the ones I like I'm only saying I accept that Change is part of life The energy that passes through the universe survives Chuck 'em in the compost heap to grow into the skies So many of them that I wish were in a grave already It's personal; there's no objective morals, if you get me There's just some rules for reaching goals that benefit subjectively The cops employed by politicians that we keep electing It ain't a black and white definitive that they're protecting Because the universe is grey, although you keep forgetting Not that I blame you 'cause I really doubt there's free will It's arrogant to think you're isolated like Bedini's Wheel There is no evil in the world, we made it in our heads There's no reason we should tell another person how to live Yeah you know we're all connected so there's no one we can blame Our empathy (is) our one respite from the war for private gain We will always be the ones to stand and question all the rest and though we might befriend a sheep it still could not have our respect When I walk among them I wonder if our species diverges where the monkeys in the food courts talk with burgers in their mouths I have never felt like I'm a part of their society with their religions and their egos and their prejudiced opinions They disgust me, most of them, their condescending crude assumptions and pretensions, yeah I wouldn't mind a bit if they all drowned/burned You could say it's really just an issue of semantics But your lack of real precision leads to harmful antics If you sacrifice the principal to gain a win you open doors for many kinds of prejudice and suffering The discipline of pragmatism, then, is paramount If we ever make exceptions then we throw it out The moralist has double standards damning life that's over 'cause he'd never argue there's no beauty in a supernova The only thing that I believe is that belief is shit And so I even will concede that that belief is shit The words we use possess the power to define our thoughts so I will never claim that my ideas are right instead of yours But what I will say, is that I fucking hate the priest And if you hurt someone I love then you will wake deceased Like I said before, good and bad are personal It's selfish when you claim you can determine what will work for all Every moment we're alive, we die Every moment we're alive, we die... Adrian Incarnate 2013
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Uncertainty 05:56
No matter how clear you're perceiving Never fight for the shit you "believe in" Only fight if you must for freedom The truth's evident if you ain't self-deceiving A real zealot is trapped, you can't free them Whether faith in gods or atheism Try to be a paragon of reason Fuck having any convictions - no need for them It's like starting a war to save peace Breaking the law to catch thieves You're so obsessed with protecting your pride I distrust anyone who wants me to pick a side But I ain't saying we should come to a standstill Act on the understanding at hand Still, one man's law is another man's crime and some new evidence can always change my mind (that's all I know) The truth is in the world around And so it need not be defended Truth be told, I'd like to leave all conversations open-ended It matters not who wins the round Inconsequential we agree 'Cause now I see that we have always been truly brothers, you and me Yeah, you should call me a "pure agnostic" Without belief there is so much wonder That's why I try to be truly neutral I will never stop asking questions If I can I'll destroy my ego And I'll watch as the world goes through me Our religion is why we suffer My rebellion is logical I gaze deep into universes While you're terrified you've no purpose You made gods to explain the circus But I just keep learning, I don't get nervous I stay open, so fuck your opinions And fuck churches and all of their minions I'm not saying I can prove them wrong but I despise all the harm they've caused for way too long Weak cunts fear being alone Just grow balls and face the unknown Don't be hindering Scientific advancement Why should we suffer 'cause you can't understand it? And stop hating on gay cunts and women, too This ain't your Dark Ages, we ain't in them, true I make sure that I check for lies If evil exists, it's the fear that's inside (why I hate you) Adrian Incarnate 2013
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I write down these painful anthems My disdain blows out the lanterns Skeleton in a haunted mansion The cobwebbed king of the mournful phantoms We're standing upon the event horizons of black holes, where we're left surviving We just can't pinpoint the mold 'Cause this chain reaction's old And that told, killing all pretensions We've gotta try and cut through defenses 'Cause though meaning is perception The vampire loathes seeing reflections Yo, if I lost respect for you tomoz You know I'd soon reject you too, because I'm well selfish in lots of ways, since... Long ago when I lost my patience And now I don't give a damn what you hacks say Although I love when she holds on me that way If I could die, there'd be nothing else But I must keep trying to defeat myself And I must kill my goddamn ego I took a lot from that Eastern credo It made sense with the quantum maths Forget fools 'cause I really don't want them back, you know that? In fields of consciousness Each node appears subjective Beautiful paradox It's only our illusion If we could measure all Then would we know the future? Complexity's too great The gods are unpredictable The new hatchling lacked the prudence But soon came to despise the rudeness Never time for a competition Revere those who just want to listen 'Cause I'm pretty sure all the board connects Yeah, I don't care who the horde elects But the guilt that your bullshit lord injects Takes control of the mind like cordyceps So my pantheon's entropy Gravity and the chemistry Electromagnetic energy The weak and the strong forces behind everything The Chaos of determinism The great wave that we all exist in No separate organisms No finite definitions I'm aware of Ideas lose wings when they're defended The ego is blind Beware of forming your beliefs 'Till we've seen inside In the wave not independent Chaos star is the pendent Ideas never defended Friendships left open ended I no longer need surrender To the childish moral endeavors of the common social zealot I won't listen to how they sell it And now all that is left to end it Is to overcome resentment But so much that is broke inside Near drives me to suicide And I think to myself "don't need 'em" "Solitude can bring me freedom" Their egos will devote to sides That gets in the way of an open fucking mind We think we fight to be ourselves But we "think" together Collective neural chain reaction In the mental field Our sentience not what it seems If there's no freedom of will The quantum cosmos hides the secrets Capitulate rather than compete Make no corrections For I know that truth persists regardless of your misconceptions As we observe the infinitesimal We quantize analogue to mental Measurements create confusion Perhaps Time is a great illusion Uncertainty gets the floor In this realm of the Second Law A tangled hierarchy seems to rule this plane that's made of dreams and made of nightmares and misconceptions The idea of a "soul" I question Neurons build new connections We're just transient cell collections And that's why no private end games Influence flies right through membranes But you've always held us down And that's why I resent your crown We think we fight to stay alive But it's all a process Collective chemical reaction Since the last big bang For now the consciousness survives But soon will tear asunder Only silence will remain Adrian Incarnate 2013
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There is a cold dark dream far below the blue waves Where the light is long forgotten, only music pervades I've brooded here for an eternity, how long I can't say Impossible to measure time without the reference of day But as a child I heard the story of the fire and the wind There was so much potential then and energy was the king Mother Death was only young, she couldn't wait to begin Change was the greatsword that she'd creatively swing Eventually she made the Earth and all its suffering beasts And left me here to listen to them all lament their defeats They won't seem to understand, despite the lessons I teach That they will never find the meaning they so desperately seek Still unaware that as they're fighting her they help her increase And all believe they have to take a hold and never release They want to measure everything, but definitions are weak The closer that we try to see, the more the pattern repeats I would offer all that is me To unpredictable energy Death will take us eventually Do not fight the flow of the sea So the living sought survival, they were frightened of loss They brought society and order and the corporate boss But when they worked to gain control it always came at a loss They thought they were immortal but the cycle never would stop Without decay the universe would just be resting inert Time itself would lack a reason not to move in reverse Unbalanced, actually a state required for birth If they would only just embrace it they could never be hurt For even I will see an end to this perpetual drift When all the heat is gone and nothing can be traded to shift And all the forms that I've assumed will just be lost in the mist It doesn't take away the fact I momentarily existed So, all the world as it passes be let Everything is part of nature, even bricks and cement All the meaning that we made was just contained in each step I feel sorrow but I don't regret, no Nature doesn't give a shit about you Life is a struggle, as Darwin knew Disorder nurtures a new order King Protea releases seeds after fire Fools personify Death as a foe It holds no meaning in itself A fig tree murders its host Volcanoes make new lands I revere the Supernova Our cells are a gift from the stars It is my empathy, not religion (that) makes me pity those who suffer The only thing I am certain matters Is my world and my few companions How could anything be unnatural? We all decide our own right and wrong There's no escape from interaction I'm just not sure that should mean I care Let go Have no pride Expect nothing Adapt to the world around me Countless things involved I remind myself: I can't predict my fate Embrace Chaos; The Great Interaction The Gene's just a part of the eternal sea
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Probe 05:19

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released December 4, 2013

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