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Child
06:24
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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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Superorganism
06:35
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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
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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
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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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Prison or Poison
05:40
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8. |
Fields of Consciousness
09:20
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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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10. |
Probe
05:19
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