1. |
Goddess
05:50
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MY GODDESS
My Goddess worshipped above all
A penance in her wake
Dissolve me in fits of ecstacy
Reality escapes
Escapes
I behold vistas of such beauty it grants humility
The promise of eternal warmth and joyful tranquility
Whispers of all pain eviscerated, emotional virginity
A blissful union with the heights (pause) of divinity
Don't be so deceived
Now speaks your inner wisdom
Don't be so deceived
Nothing is as it see-eems
My Goddess now speaks in behalf of me
I bleed into her needs
My vision lost in a slumberless dream
A slumberless dream
Understand
Understand
Please understand
I deserve this
I need this
I deserve this
I need this
I need this
But, some-thing's, not, quite, riii-iight
I'm losing myself
Identity blurred
What is my purpose
Aside from her
I must worship
Obey her needs
[PRE-OUTRO]
I sacrifice my needs
You've become my everything
I'm a hollowed shell indeed
When ^YOU are away from me
And nooow, that there's nothing left of me, you want to leave
Mmmm
mmm
[REFRAIN]
My Goddess, my distraction
My Goddess, my destruction
My Goddess, my distraction
My Goddess, my destruction
I'm losing myself
Identity blurred
What is my purpose
Aside from her
My Goddess, my distraction
My Goddess, my destruction
My goddess
My goddess
MY GODDESS!!!
MY GODDESS!!!
AHHHHH!!
[FADE OUT]
I'm losing myself
(I'm left here empty)
Reality's blurred
(My soul now bereaved)
What is my purpose
(For nothing you see)
Aside from her
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2. |
The Moment
03:30
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Glass Fractals
Time has lost it's seemingly
Distinct, sequential certainty
Slowed beyond realities grasp
The infinite complexity
Cascading flash of memories
A lifetime has elapsed
Stifled by this
veil I've worn,
Is this death
or am I born?
This moment crossing reality
My life exposed in totality
My eyes forced open
My eyes are open
This moment crossing reality
My life exposed in totality
My eyes forced open
My eyes are open
False perceptions
Empty sense impressions
All my wasted precious time
Unfulfilled intentions
sloth filled descension
Meaningless and empty vice
Holographic soul suck
Decadent heaps of mind junk
Slapping sleep upon my eyes
Enveloped by a light
My eyes burn bright
A vista of joyous sight
Comforted by the love that I shared
Surrounded by sound
Music lying me down
Expression of life unbound
Comforted by the passion I shared
Am I awake or am I dreaming?
The final moments of life are streaming
My death is singing
And you are here in my final moment
And you are here in my final moment
YOu are here in my final MOMENT!
You are here in my final...
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3. |
Beauty in the Wake
04:29
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Velvet Puddles (Beauty in the Wake)
Slowly
Smoldering
Moving past the ache that stole me away
There's a beauty in the wake they say
Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight
Shadows bringing strength. Awake
Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight
Overwhelmed and inundated
Shifting from my own vexation
Slowly taking shape. Creating
The structure and the stream
There's a beauty in the wake they say
Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight
Shadows bringing strength. Awake
There's a beauty in the wake they say
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4. |
Listen to the Words
07:36
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Demanding meaning
Mass produced truth
Conveniently packaged
For you to consume
Hollow rhyming wisdom
Never-ending sound bites
Lacking any substance
Banal, vapid, trite
Serve it on a platter
Spoon feed every line
Pander to the masses
Growing lazier with time
Demanding meaning
Mass produced truth
Conveniently packaged
For you to consume
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5. |
One Sided Dream
04:05
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Cold cheek
Pressed deep
In the dirt beneath
Fall break and bleed
Projecting
My scene
Living reverie
A one sided dream, but I bleed
I don't let 'em see
The process building me
I've got a secret
My life is out of control
I've got a secret
I need it all for my soul
And I need
Yes I need
It all for my...
I've got a secret
My life is out of control
MIDDLE
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My life on blast
It's the one I've cast
Welcome to the show
Battle weak
Knee deep
Smile as I creep
Into the unknown
Taste of ink
My brink
Oh the savagery
The path to be my own
I do what I do now
Because I believe
I lead with my heart and I bleed with my deeds
I'll do what I have to
To water the seed
I'll break my own back and I'll rise from the deep
I do what I do now
Because I believe
I'll break my own back and I'll rise from the deep
ooooo, aaaaaa
ooooo, aaaaaa
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6. |
Centrifuge Out
04:38
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The rhythmic destruction
The sweeping atrophy
The blankets that no longer soothe and the sound
That deafening silence brings
To live as a stranger in the world of a dream
To centrifuge out from what animates me
Holding a vision hard to believe
Already crushed but destined to be
You wanted perfection
You wanted the crisp and the clean
When you entered the transit you left what was done
And entered a polished gun
To live as a stranger in the world of a dream
To centrifuge out from what animates me
Holding a vision hard to believe
Already crushed but destined to be
And the sun and the moon square off
Causing all that is known to become distorted
Disrupting the energy required
To break free from the inertia of restrictive orbits
Confounding the trajectory of tangential lines
You know I'll break these chains (scream/rasp)
Free of shame (soft)
You know I'll break these chains
The season's distractions
The secrets that line your shame
The reasons given, the fission, the saddled disposition
Dismembered pieces of hallowed but now broken convictions
To live as a stranger in the world of a dream
To centrifuge out from what animates me
Holding a vision hard to believe
Already crushed but destined to be
You know I'll break these chains
Free of shame
And the sun and the moon reconcile oppositional energies. Integrating all elements, accepted and estranged. Unity expands power. A cycle is complete. And it is done.
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7. |
Hollow Glory
05:30
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8. |
Hubris In Power
05:32
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The harlot of destruction
The ominous disease
The misappropriation
Of power and belief
The sheep will graze like children
Devoid of strength of mind
The catatonic casing
From all that is sublime
Wolves dine cheaply
On the feeble
Minded people
Deceived so easily
But power structures waver
As the phoenix starts to rise
What is this energy that
Rises up inside the masses in metered time
Rebellious
Demanding
Resentful
And ready to destroy for the chance to evolve
Power. Intoxicating power.
Power seeks to preserve power
And as power tends to corupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely
Destructive, insatiable greed overtakes the deceived, material man
And he thereby severs himself from the very essence
that defines our shared humanity
He rapes and exploits the natural order as he sees fit
He does not yet understand the fundamental nature of his existence
You cannot
You cannot
Stop this
Transforma...
Tion! *SCREAM*
My God we are saves. I do not understand this power struggle. This tug o war. What is this place?
It's rising
It's rising
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9. |
Black Brew
04:05
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Bleeding out
Austere terrain
Lurking there
Her haunting stare
Adeptly deceived
The sheep was falsely clothed
The sex and violence was more
Than I will ever know
Please understand my plight
Deep inside lies the sleeping anti-christ
(Lying there, in wait)
Wake the passions and find an unfed demon rise
An innocent face
For unsuspecting eyes
Oh God!
Help Me!
Take me away
Away from this place
This place of decay
Cut me loose
Shackled and rused
Crescendo abuse
I refuse
To lay in your noose
A fool seduced
And duped, and used
To lose, my truth, and do,
Nothing but mire in you
Destroying me through, and through
All for you
Destructive muse
Violently blue
Subconscious black brew
Unaware of the truth
Warped and reduced
To victimhood proof
Proof
Your falsified proof
It was always about you baby
I'm losing everyting
I'm losing my truth when I'm with you
No I can't take the violence
I get lost inside this madness
I tried patience
I tried weathering the storm
Oh everything was for you
Yeah I tried everything and now there's nothing left baby
Oh you're ready to destroy
All that demon inside you
Baby I
Oh your cantankerous soul
You're always looking for that proof
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10. |
Anesthetized
05:22
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[WHISPER]
All the pretty little lies that you wanted
To believe with the hope that'd you fit in
Programmed, since the day you were given
Life in this world, without your decision
The purpose and meaning of your existence has been obfuscated in the attempt to harvest your life for the perpetuation of a destructive and hollow societal paradigm.
Lies!
Regurgitate the media mantras
Lies!
Labor with a passionless life
Lies!
Trust the material paradigm
Happiness is outside your mind
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Lies!
Sickness as a commodity
Lies!
A quick fix, indolent mind
Lies!
Existence is purely material
Guard yourself and be cynical
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Lies
Accept the labels you've been given
Lies!
Disconnect from your core
Lies!
Nevermind the natural world
Buy more and breed hate for war
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Just bleach your soul
Just bleach your soul
Just bleach your SOOOOOUL
Just bleach your soul
Just bleach your soul
Just bleach your...
Lies (La-ee-eee-ah-ah-ee)
Lies (La-ee-eee-ah-ah-ee)
We are surrounded by lies
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Are you your own?
Or are you owned?
Are you owned?
Are you a part of the walking dead? Perfectly numb in your somnambulant bliss? Happily miserable in your anestitized absence of awareness? Ignorant and obediently marching to your artificially programmed identity and status/material sense of purpose? Enjoying losing yourself in your mind-numbing distractions?
Are you your own?
Or are you owned?
Are you owned?
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Congratulations, I think you finally got it
You've found yourself awake in a sea of mindless drones
But being a spark comes at a cost, are you willing to pay it?
Or do you wish to fall back asleep?
The choice is yours
The choice is yours
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All these MOTHER FUCKERS want to keep you hypnotized
Catecholemine induced soul suicide
Break the back of a spiritual genocide
Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies
All these DEMAGOGUES want to keep you hypnotized
Catecholemine induced soul suicide
Break the back of a spiritual genocide
Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies
All these CHARLATANS want to keep you hypnotized
Catecholemine induced soul suicide
Break the back of a spiritual genocide
Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies
All these PROFITEERS want to keep you hypnotized
Catecholemine induced soul suicide
Break the back of a spiritual genocide
Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies
LIes
Lies
Lies
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Lies
Lies
Lies
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LIEEEEES!
WAKE UP!
LIEEEES
WAKE uP!
WAkE UP!
WAke up!
Are you awake?
Are you awake?
That's right, I'm talking to you
Are you awake?
Or are you going to keep running on that hamster wheel?
Letting your soul atrophy as you live out a hollow, uninspired existence?
Then wake up
Wake up
Wake up
WAKE.... UP!!!!
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11. |
Change
04:16
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12. |
Autumn Fragile
05:26
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13. |
Turning Blue
05:42
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FALLING AWAY
Wait
There's so much more, I need to say
Don't leave this like
A cold dark tomb, sarcophagus decay
I feel you
Smoldering beneath your icey cold
I try
To Breach
Your stone clad walls
But nothing will do
You will construe me with your
Distorted residue (final truth)
We're turning blue
Turning blue
(I can't breathe)
Breathe into
These collapsing lungs
Let me touch
And warm your skin
Thaw your disease
This is tragic
You are tragic
This is unncessary grief
Can't we find a way
To communicate
Find some grace
Not this ugly haste
We both pay
We both pay
death and decay
falling away
falling away
death and decay
falling away
falling away
I guess this is our fate
your silent final say
death and decay
death and decay
And falling away
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The Ventriloquist Mute is my personal music experimentation project that is an attempt to create thought provoking, mind bending, psychadelic music that inspires the listener to explore the deepest corners the universe as well as their own mind. I don't subscribe or adhere to one particular genre, but instead pull inspiration from a variety of sounds. ... more
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