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Chapter I: Return
01:31
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Preincarnate
03:27
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My true self revealed in the absence of all but thought
Awareness itself is the light that fills the void
I feel the weight of the infinite in this endless moment of indecision
Frozen by the polarity of heaven and earth
Pulling at me
Wipe me clean
Let this life unfold through this body
Let my self be known
Wipe me clean
Let this life unfold through this body
Let my self be known
Separation beckons me to the sphere of self discovery
I know I must return as a beacon for humanity
I feel Gaia calling me back into her fertile realm of creation
Urging the source toward manifestation
Wipe me clean
Let this life unfold through this body
Let my self be known
Wipe me clean
Let this life unfold through this body
Let my self be known
Can you hear it collapsing?
Can you feel it collapsing?
Can you hear it collapsing?
Can you feel it collapsing?
Can you hear it collapsing?
Can you hear it collapsing?
Cause I can feel myself breaking away
From father's arms into mother's domain
Separation beckons me to the sphere of Self-discovery
Separation beckons me
As a beacon
To free humanity from this death march
Toward a future of lobotomized subordination
To show them all their true potential
To heal the wounds of our beloved Earth
I sacrifice this transcendent existence
For limitation, mind-body confined
Separated from the one true reality
As I enter the plane of physicality
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3. |
Lost in Illusion
03:24
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Inertia
I feel your iron grip take hold of me
This ego yearns for sovereignty
Sign after sign passing me by
Not for me, not for me, I've got someone to be
With a voice inside my head that says I'm living a lie
Look away, look away, there's just too much to see
I cling tightly to my selfish needs
Blinded in this matrix of my programmed beliefs
I'm imprisoned
By conceptualization of thought
Separating myself from the whole
Warden, oh warden
Where have you left the key
To free myself
From this bitter, lonely reality?
A self-constructed cell
A self-constructed Hell
Sign after sign passing me by
Not for me, not for me, I've got someone to be
With a voice inside my head that says I'm living a lie
Look away, look away, there's just too much to see
Everything so meaningless, my personal fiction
Terminally drifting here in my world of endless contradiction
Inertia
I feel your iron grip take hold of me, this ego
Yearns - for sovereignty
Disconnected
Yet I feel right at home
Alone inside, so alone
I'm tearing at these walls that surround me,
Something's got to break
Holding on for redemption, for some holy escape
Some kind of light at the end of the tunnel
Whatever it might be
I can feel it calling me, so warden,
Where have you left the key?
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4. |
Moment of Clarity
03:07
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Suspended in endless time
This dormant serpent lies coiled within me
Trying to feel its way out of this stasis
But where to begin?
There has to be a purpose
There has to be a point to all of this
The patterns run too deep
The voices won’t let me sleep
I see the edges of the tunnel that’s restricted my vision
Slowly coming into focus
My adopted, limiting thoughts
Begin to fade into oblivion
Who is the witness to these thoughts I call my own?
Where is the substance to this life that I’ve been shown?
Reach through the veil, I can feel you watching
Expose the truth surrounding me
Synapses reconstructing,
I internalize reality
I’ve discovered the key
I’m overcome by a familiar warmth
As suddenly it all makes sense
Awake
I feel why I’m alive
How blind I’ve been to purpose
Through soulless eyes
While Mother’s been here all along
Her beauty, her perfection
How far we have strayed
How far we have strayed away
I hear The Way, I know The Way
We are the only way
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6. |
Dead Words
03:03
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Can you hear me?
Please tell me you can hear me
Dear God I can't be alone
I'm finally here, I'm finally here
But not a soul in sight seems to be anywhere near
I verbalize, only to be met by a pair of blank eyes
Feels like I'm wasting my breath again
Feels like I'm wasting my breath
Programmed, homogenized
Blinded by the veil of a lifetime of lies
Led by the shepherds
Into the valley of the dark
So I have come
In an attempt to illuminate
Paralyzing fear, our most deadly creation
Dissolving a shroud of self-ignorance
Bringing to light the reality of the unconscious
Our perspectives collide
Waves lost to the wind from the inside
I keep trying but I can't break through
Dead words to deaf ears
The truth only enters as far as the mind
Is ready to hear
So can you hear me?
Tell me, can you hear me?
So can you hear me?
Oh tell me you can hear these dead words
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7. |
Mind at Large
03:26
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Silent night, oh silent night
Six senses electrified
The vibrations contort as my awareness enters
Into the fire of an intangible eye
I arrive at the infinite present
The inward spatial dimension
Spiraling deeper into the origin of consciousness
I gaze upon the astral glow, drawn into the roots of creation
In silence, I hear the voice of truth
Wordless, shapeless, listen
Untouched by the hands of time
These ancient whispers of collective knowledge
I have entered the shared mind
I bear witness to the mind at large
Two steps above, two steps above
To the antecedent of thought
I stand above, I soar above
The confines of fear
And in this instant, I feel Arachne’s gentle vibratory touch
Raising my frequency
Greeting me, preceding me
Sharing her knowledge of this higher reality
We’re never alone
At the origin of me is the origin of everything
All that is, interconnected in her hallowed labyrinth
There is no other way
One observed history
In the mold of limitless possibility
There is no other way
One observed history
In this moment, we choose what becomes of this
Riding the web
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8. |
Reunion
04:47
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I, the Zero, the One
I surrender to eternity
Like a black hole collapsing unto itself
The feeling of home will pull me through this
Aperture into the heavenly realms
Flesh stripped away reveals the light of my animation
Divine blood flowing back into the heart of all
I stare through these eternal eyes
Accelerating toward the absolute
I, the Zero, the One
I am everything there is and ever was
Oblivion, we meet again
How warm and familiar the arms of your embrace
Guiding me home, if only for a moment
Guiding me back to where it all began
Oblivion, we meet again
Dear oblivion, we meet again
Out of sight, into Mind
Into the moment
Empty, but with such fullness
The perfection, the only awareness
The source of creation
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9. |
Chapter III: Liberation
01:10
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10. |
The Web
03:15
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What a ride, what a secret to hide
Held in place by the illusion of time
We are insects
Stuck in the web of our own collective dream
We are the conscious vertices
Within the inter-dimensional network
Tethered to each other by the fibers of life
Every thought, every feeling
Decides the frequency we choose to experience
A constellation of sentient forms
Our minds interwoven
Come forth
Together, we cannot be restrained
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11. |
New Evolution
04:09
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We recreate, surrender our present selves
Beyond the walls of doubt and uniformity
Let go of the weight of the past to
Open the gates to the undefined
Here and now our potential unbound
With the jaws of perception liquefied
With open arms, embrace the dawn of your lucidity
Our crescendo to the absence of time
Come with me to the edge of reality
And let’s evolve as one into infinity
Won’t you join us at the edge of reality
As we evolve as one
So can you tell me what it means to be human?
Can you tell me exactly why you’re alive?
Can’t you feel the perfection?
Tell me you feel what we all have in common
Can you tell me what it means to be human?
Can you tell me exactly why you’re alive?
Can’t you feel the perfection?
Tell me you feel what I feel inside
Break through the chain of self-judgment
Reconnect with your inner sight
Make your ripple in this ocean of memories
As you project your truth from the inside
Project your truth from the inside
The love
That lives through us all
Is only an intention away
One moment, one choice
What will you do with today?
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12. |
Omega
04:27
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Ignite, feel, combust
Clear your mind, deviate from the bounds of thought into feeling
Open your heart to what we’ve all been concealing
A trust built from underneath us
Integrate yourself and come closer
I can feel it inching closer
A trust built from underneath us
I can feel we’re getting closer
Strengthen these bonds, come closer
Omega, to bring us home at last
To reunite after so long held apart
An ending to give rise to a new beginning
Flowing together in this perpetual metamorphosis
Don’t fear
(Don’t fear, don’t fear the unknown)
We are but wiping away sand from our unity
It was never lost, only buried
Shed your skin
Welcome this beautiful death
Beautiful birth
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