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Mor​(​t​)​ality (feat. Ovahand [Maim​]​)

from Orchid Child (2013) by Adrian Incarnate

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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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from Orchid Child (2013), released December 4, 2013
created by Adrian Incarnate
guest verse written and performed by Ovahand [Maim]

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