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Refactor
02:37
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Reclaim, refactor
Modern times
We’re fed a blueprint
To build a life, to perpetuate
The machine that powers growth
Manufactures dreams
Feeds on our desires
Metabolizes our consumption
Starve it to be free
From death, rebirth
Modern times
We erect monuments
To excess
To emptiness
The machine that powers growth
Leaves a void in its wake
One we can never fill
Reclaim our autonomy
Refactor our culture
Open your hands, release
And reach for what’s
Worth holding on to
I’m reaching out
Invest in those I love
Repair connections torn
Live a richer life
Where less is more
Refactor
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Meet me in the vale
We’ll make camp tonight
Sleep if you can
Beneath cosmic light
Awaken to a world reborn
Welcome rays of sun
Embrace the warmth
Thawing blood and bone
Turn to face the mountain
Greet your challenger
Bathe yourself in morning mist
Purified, start to climb
Senses awaken
Navigating
The path uncertain
We’re exhilarated
Our lungs search for air
They never seem to find
But we dig in
We muster will
We carry on
Upward now towards consciousness
Gasping through this breathlessness
If I die here now at least I spent
My time climbing toward betterment
With love I see the forest floor
The growth of all things is what we live for
From our point of view
Fears diminished as we grew
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
New strength from every pain
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3. |
Battle Trance
03:05
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I see you through the flames
Eyes locked, blindly engaged
Arrows rain at the flick of a wrist
Trumpets sound from smiling lips
We fight for what?
Energy so easily misplaced
Remove the shell
Pull away the skin
Reveal similarities
Quiet fearful hearts
That we may hear
To better understand
Forces arouse with shadow hands
Fueling our endless quarreling
We’ve chosen to believe
That our (minor) differences
Are greater than the weight
Of ways we are the same
Weapons down
Torches down
Fires out
Let ash become the soil
As we cultivate common ground
A new plot to nourish ourselves
We are the same blood
We are one
We can bridge the gap between
We can end the wars
I can look you in the eye
Embrace who you are
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4. |
Immersion
03:38
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Before the sun
I see the world
Cast in lunar reflections
Revealing forms
I watch as breath
Escapes the stillness
As the symphony begins
I am silence
I am stillness
Arrivals serenaded by minstrels
Perched to observe
Waves of color slowly spill over
Uniting shapes with their names
Each one in harmony
Nestled in arms of oak
Concealed by golden hands
Warmed by the light
Watching as life
Reveals itself
Observe ancient form
Connected to what’s dead and born
Remembering what’s been known
By those who’ve come before
This act awakens my soul
I am one with the earth
Relish the seasons of life
Playing a natural part
Life eats life
Primeval exchange
Skin soaked crimson
Forming another link in the chain
Each one in harmony
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5. |
Network Failure
04:34
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With a knot in the neck
And weary eyes
Emerge from the depths
Of shallow mines
Searching for gold
In rubble below
Searching for ways
To bare your soul
Blind to those in front of you
Down here
We don’t see each other
Step into the light
Leave it all behind
Surround yourself
With a different kind
This was a network
Constructed to connect
Now designed to divide
Contagion courses
Step into the light
Leave it all behind
Hold your head up high
Live the truth inside
I heard voices
Calling out my name
I turned to listen
They had nothing worth to say
No compassion
Just ignorance and pain
I walked away
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6. |
Imposer
04:51
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The stench of hubris
Poured from mouths that glistened
Exciting ears
And exposing the fangs
The gnashing teeth howled for cleansing
Under the banner of morality
They began encircling
Devour uncertainty
To maintain purity
Silence dissent
In the name of god
Remove the tongue
Behind every question
Hate for your love
Imposer
Mistake belief as truth
Wield it as power
I won’t conform to your kingdom
I am the heathen
As you subject the rest
To the shackles of your righteousness
I won’t be told how to live
I am the heathen
When all reason has been silenced
They will come for your choices
They’ll enforce their commandments
How to live and die
Smother heresy
To maintain supremacy
Silence dissent
In the name of god
Hate for your love
Imposer
Mistake belief
As the truth
Wield your faith
As a weapon
What kind of god
Revels in the suffering
Of their creations
What kind of god is this
What is a man
Who devotes himself
With a fury
Fueled by blind faith
To becoming
The oppressor
The subjugator of mankind
Your heart, misguided
Your faith, misplaced
Open up your eyes
Open up your mind
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Nick Wellner Minneapolis, Minnesota
Formerly of After the Burial, High Hopes, Kaizen, Captive Years, The Harlan, and Down Risen.
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