1. |
The Will To Live
06:10
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The will to live peels your eyes wide
Strings your shaky limbs upright
Drives you forth to face the day
Strips off the shadow, drowns you in light
The lusting breath seizing your throat
The primal drive that winds your heart
The will to live speaks through shame
Makes a puppet of reason
Scourges you with the faces, the names
Of every soul you’ve ever loved
Subconscious sovereign
Cunning of the cornered
Master that lashes life
Onwards, onwards
You long for death, and yet you live
Chained to the earth
Fated to labor from the moment of birth
A servant of the will to live
Reluctant vessel
Surrender your wish to break
You engine of conquest
Wearing a coward’s face
Your instincts, your bridle
They revive you, their cringing remit
You will know no peace this day
You will learn what it means to submit
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2. |
The Learned Response
08:06
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It all cycles again
The pattern obtains from beginning to end
No thought, no
Reflection: you do what you do, you go where you go
As banal as an addiction
As familiar as a childhood home
Every playback brings less friction
At the dawn, when you arise alone
To perform your daily derelictions
All your rhythms indulged, all your time disowned
It’s the same old song
You know it in your bones
Your voice, your limbs
Respond on their own
Every refrain deepens the groove
Creates a coda to return to
Rote and rigid, your beat restricted
To side work, paying melancholia’s dues
This is what you’ve become
Trite automaton, willfully numb
And redundant, an echo repeating its woes
You do what you do, you go where you go
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3. |
Tautology
09:59
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When you were young, you sought and strayed
‘Til the hurt turned you inwards
Where you don’t need to find your way
You give it shape, you’re the mapmaker
Petty tyrant, private domain
Embargoed by sentry mirrors
Your iron mind has the whole say
You ask the questions, give the answers
The world is cold, but solitude is control
A self-contained system, fixed and remote
No wasting or wanting here; care for yourself
Rise by your bootstraps; make your own wealth
Sewn up, stockaded, and secure
Withdrawn from the world, becoming more pure
Anchoritism: the engineer’s way
Reuse, recycle, know your place
Learn from recursion, save more space
Audit your work; root out decay
Tested, tightened, optimized
Your hermit’s yearning near realized
You hungry loop, you autophage
Cold solo Möbius machine
Thrive on isolation, grow more lean
Toil; build your coiling purgatory
After thousands and thousands of iterations
Your program’s perfected, cleansed of complications
Your vision’s crystalline distillation
An opus devoted to automation
And in the control room, you’re alone
Enthralled in your womb, swaddled on your throne
Your labyrinth is set, oh fragile dreamer
One way out: further inwards
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4. |
The Forgetting Curve
03:36
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5. |
Deuteragonist
10:15
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The curtains rise
The kliegs glare down
You take your place
In the background
You know your role,
You play it out
Waiting patient in the wings
In harmony you're cast to sing
In duet your timbre drowns
An underscore in the background
Will-pinned to the playwright's prose
Within your blocking you are bound
You resolve to hold your pose
You grit your teeth, you gut it out
No monologue reveals your mind
No stakes arise to weigh you down
To the lead you yield the lights
Your ends lie loose
In the background
Your scripting is its own reward
To dress the set, to know the score
Second, servant, sacrifice
Spinning thrall to blinding crown
The audience will not recall
Your face
Your name
Your fact at all
The arc of drama finds its end
Without you in the denouement
You leave the stage without a bow
A cameo in the background
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6. |
Phantom Indigo
09:41
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Lurid outgrowths of shadow
Scorched into shape by the inner light
You tend forever; the faith you hold
To stoke the flame of the vivid lie
They blot out the sky
Inside you
Towers of pain, resentments on high
Billowing clouds of obsession
Smoke from the pits of sin
That smolder deep within
Perverted liturgical pyres
Chanting your name
Through the day, into the night
Echoes of shame
Resonate in the hollows of your mind
None of them real, your radiant sorrows
Garish priests in hollow ritual
Shimmering ghosts in violet vestments
Spirits cloaked in phantom indigo
Your triumphs and failures, your desires and spites
Spectral transcriptions of imagined delight
All intoned from tomes bound by intimate air
Ephemeral records, never really there
Into the void all of them flow
The moment you are no more
Molten slurry of your private lore
Slag of the self, glowing phantom indigo
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Seputus
Seputus is a long-running extreme metal collaboration between instrumentalist Steve Schwegler and vocalist Doug Moore, both currently of New York experimental metal act Pyrrhon. The band added bassist Erik Malave of Pyrrhon to the lineup in early 2015.
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