I want to share with you a set of lyrics with you. I'm going to be doing this in little steps, in the same thread, so once all are posted you can go through and re-read them in its entirety. I wrote these back in 2003, and started working on the album a couple of times but currently I'm recording something else, trying to build my way up to recording this.
These lyrics mean a lot to me; they reflect my own personality, but, more importantly, tell a story. This album, when complete, will be the first of three. In the end, its really a telling of technology versus humanity, and the corruption of religion and faith.
I'm posting the first three lyrics right now because they're unlike the rest. They're a set up, a view into the future. They define this world, and from there I'll post a couple here/there that go into the mind of one character who evolves over time.
I would really appreciate an audience with this one.
Sharpened spikes of glass and concrete, pressing against a flesh of sky.
The pursuit of need and functionality creates a world of enclosure.
Foreboding sense of malformed function, the sun set begins to blur and blacken out.
Smoke, cars, hydrogen to wash upon to cure pollution.
The network, networks mashed together, a sovereign few,
A future dedicated to money driving the money,
Wake up from this nightmare!
As you view a sunset, looking across grasslands.
Zebras run, lions lay down.
The air is crispy, smelling sweet and sultry.
FLASH!
Birds chirping, butterflies swimming gracefully through the flow.
This is the beauty of today, this is the beauty of..
...yesterday.
A buzz and high, addiction not a far-cry. Removing the plug eyes are forced back into focus...
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"Patterned Dawn"
(“Imagery of Perfection” fades out)
Eyes flutter open to sensory submission-
Something alien inside says its time to awake.
Churning over thoughts, a command blasts into front-mind.
The alien cries completely cease, as you set foot to bare concrete.
Room lightened by efficiency of hydrogen sort,
Vision enhanced with implants.
Open up your curtains to see a new dawn arrive.
The rays glow upon you and dew can be faintly smelt,
Birds chirp and the temperature is a bit cool.
You turn off the window and look around your room.
This is a digital dawn.
Shattered by needlessness,
Forgotten by a society driven by the new,
Our world is not of nature but of our nature.
Here is the beauty,
It is in our technotropy.
Plugs and wires as they sit-
A walk down a corridor to escape it.
They can't move their legs.
They can't budge their arms.
But thoughts wield machinery.
(vocals begin to fade in/out with no consistency)
Movement garnished by implants,
A beautiful tomorrow founded by a silicon today.
Give into this, or get out of this-Welcome to the land of dreams!
(/vox)
A hold they grab!
At cans, pencils, putting thoughts to paper.
Eyes fluttering-trying to concentrate.
No bionic muscle call, but by metallic flesh any object falls under submission.
Sensory reload and upload-through the 'trode pressure is felt.
Future dormant in a glossy finish-
I cannot believe we've made it this far!
Our bodies flowing beyond the physical,
Our energy, time, currency forged into wetware and boundless applications!
(vocals begin to fade in/out with no consistency)
Movement garnished by implants,
A beautiful tomorrow founded by a silicon today.
Give into this, or get out of this-Welcome to the land of dreams!
(/vox)
Plugs and wires as they sit-
A walk down a corridor to escape it.
They can't move their legs.
They can't budge their arms.
But thoughts wield machinery.
This is the beauty in humanity,
This is what is to come to be.
(vocals begin to fade in/out with no consistency)
Movement garnished by implants,
A beautiful tomorrow founded by a silicon today.
Give into this, or get out of this-Welcome to the land of dreams?
(/vox)
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
Here's the next two lyrics. Things start to get interesting.
So here's where the character's life starts. They decide to get an experimental neuro-surgery to be able to connect their mind into the internet and project themself into it. Kind of like Lawnmower Man, if you've ever seen that. Except its a replacement to our web browser and keyboard.
With that said, here we go..
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"Boot Sector Damage"
(The Forewarning:)
Strangled by sensations of objectivity,
I've traveled into the path of my inhumanity.
Sunken and sullen heart beats,
But the light of my soul grows dimmer with every week.
A recourse of mounting dismay- I'm becoming bitter as time gains.
The trials and tribulations of daily drudgery,
I'm automated and pre-formated becoming a single tracked entity for tasking
This transformation-
Personality draining and changing,
New ways of old ways,
These are my last days
As human.
(Proclamation:)
Shrouded by listful need, meandering in the flesh-a world I hate-I cannot forsake my life when its e-mersed in bits. I'm locked out of the circles I used to run in, I'm blocked out of my family's understanding of me.
They don't get it, but they'll regret this-I'm about to do it.
(vocals split into a harsh whisper and a loud growl)
Cold fusion of mind and 'fo,
In these days life switches to 2.0,
I'm a melder of technology-
Blender of analog and digital.
Einstein theory wasn't just talking,
This is the path the ape is walking.
(/vox split)
A thump and race from my heart-
What will my future be? Is this right? Have I lost sight?
[I must be connected now!1] [I must be connected now..2]
The need stabs and punctures my ego, as the Id charges fourth my super ego gives way.
This is what I need to be! This is what I'm going to be!
(vocals split into a harsh whisper and a loud growl)
Cold fusion of mind and 'fo,
In these days life switches to 2.0,
I'm a melder of technology-
Blender of analog and digital.
Einstein theory wasn't just talking,
This is the path the ape is walking.
(/vox split)
Come take a walk with me!
[Ambient noise: Doctors operating on patients]
Back from under the doctor's guiding light, recovering and anticipating...
I want to get online,
To use my new tools.
I plug in now...
(whispered in enthusiasm)
A lattice of green,
Numbers, shapes, abstract forms of online nodes.
I can feel it seep into my flesh,
Down to my soul.
This is my home, this is my sanctuary!
It's so beautiful!
(/whispered)
(vocals split into a harsh whisper and a loud growl)
Cold fusion of mind and 'fo,
In these days life switches to 2.0,
I'm a melder of technology-
Blender of analog and digital.
Einstein theory wasn't just talking,
This is the path the ape is walking.
(/vox split)
Sheer face affect-
Warped down, total distortion and disorientation.
Numbers facilitate and form the core of my new existence.
I thrive on the wire.
Jacked in and slamming through the grid-
Caressing a vague orb I feel it through my virtual fingers while it's contents strobe through my mind.
Feeling the patterned structures,
Sucking on dormant clock cycles,
My powers: I use and abuse as needed.
Xybernautico, I am candid and free.
Addiction suffice to say,
I'm weaving code into the fabric of thievery.
It's my cloak and death machinery.
In this place I am God,
In this world I am whatever I want.
[Ambient noise, music becomes more anxious]
And I want more! And I need more!(x2)
I want more! I NEED MORE!
The mother of invention, the mover of attention,
I will have more.
Feeling the patterned structures,
Sucking on dormant clock cycles,
My powers: I use and abuse as needed.
Xybernautico, I am candid and free.
Coursing with patterned structures,
Living on dormant clock cycles,
My powers: I use and abuse as needed.
Xybernautico, I am candid and free!
I can feel it becoming...
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
Wow - I like them! I especially like this bit "Sharpened spikes of glass and concrete, pressing against a flesh of sky.". :)
"When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.”
I guess I'll post the next two now. And a special treat--if you look at my band's profile on MySpace, the first lyric in this post has a song on there.
Its really old, I did it about three years ago. But I still like it. Its just a trial; dunno if it'll be anything like what will be put to disc.
I'm off to see my counselor right now..so hope to see you guys all soon.
Trying to withstand the torment projecting throughout my brain,
I'm weakened and starkly futured as my thoughts cultivate an insurrection.
I'm thrown around!
Dragged around!
Attacked and stabbed!
I'm thrown around!
Dragged around!
Attacked and stabbed!
My philosophy is changing, life deranging!
Completely lost control in a womb of discontent; my mind's a harvester of death and my soul's transitioning to digital. Who would of thought a crushing change to the physical could invoke a sense of deep affliction?
I'm thrown around!
Dragged around!
Attacked and stabbed!
My philosophy is changing, life deranging!
I'm thrown away! [Dragged around!]
I'm thrown away! [Attacked and stabbed!]
Engulfed in technology's undertow-
I'm thrown away! [Dragged around!]L; [Attacked and stabbed!]R
I'm thrown AWAY!
Engulfed in technology's undertow-
Whirling around in degradation and upgrades to a withering body.
Pain smelted down to addictions,
Happiness carbonized with somber distrust of humanity-
I'm becoming two, I'm becoming one, I'm becoming none!
My thoughts disorganized in patterns,
My dreams fuzzy parallels of what yesterday might have been.
I'm not caring anymore, so why do I still feel remorse?
A state of fate crashing into extra-existence:
Resistance of incompetence and feelings,
Swelling into a mass of analog decay.
The new foray, a power play of logic.
Thriving between-outwardly mechanized and polarized to be what you see with your human eyes. Inside I am digitized into the perfect being.
This make and model, you are fastly becoming a recyclable species and I, to become your new edition.
I am a ravager of your collective chaos,
and a processor of all your habitual tendencies.
You are mine to make and to be.
You are mine to make and to be!
A state of fate crashing into extra-existence:
Resistance of incompetence and feelings,
Swelling into a mass of analog decay.
The new foray, a power play of logic.
I have fallen into a new space,
My humanity replaced with disgrace of flesh.
I will become an automaton, proliferating throughout with the electron.
Either I become fully formed or self destruct in this phase-shift of will and want.
I feel my thoughts crossed,
Diluted by their solubility in analytical conscious,
calculable thoughtlessness.
[Slipping into an upgrade of perfection..
Of perfection..
Of....]L
[A state of fate crashing into extra-existence:
Resistance of incompetence and feelings,
Swelling into a mass of analog decay.
The new foray, a power play of logic.]R
[White sound]
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
Hope all is well..I'm okay. I did do something I'm not proud of today, but hey..one step at a time.
Here's the next two lyrics.
Just to bring you up to speed on the liner notes..the character has had their surgery, is now able to get on the internets through the head. And now they're facing issues with themselves (Human v1.5A), their mentality (Conscious Cross Talk), with others (Human v1.5B), and just having a generally emotional issues. I guess this is how the first person might feel..being able to plug themselves in and have the time of their lives.
xx
lxxy
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"Human v1.5 Beta"
They cannot comprehend the freedoms I've gained or the perfection I feel. I've never spent so much and received so little benefit in the end.
I'm swollen with a disease I'd like to call impurity-
Printed green fabrications will be my salvation.
I'm lost here and disconnected,
Disconnected with everyone I've known!
Why can't they just love what I've become?
Or accept their human race as obsolete?
I'm still not done becoming what I'm meant to be- as neurons bash my brain I'm threatened with oblivion.
A soul's induction into digitality,
I'm more man than machine?
A spark of hope for deliverance from techno-hell- I know I can control my wares.
I'm lost here and disconnected,
Disconnected with everyone I've known!
Why can't they just love what I've become?
Or accept their human race as obsolete?
Justice for all,
Maybe they were right?
We'll find out soon enough,
If I've lost my humanity and exchanged it for circuitry.
Chiseling away at my simianinity,
I'm ready to throw off the next peak-
I'm ground down into an insanity powder,
The longer I'm awake the laughs get louder.
It's paranoia.
It's hallucitania.
(vox flare up and down in a noticeable pattern)
Anger, lust, greed, happiness,
Sadness, love, rage, fulfillment,
Lost in this...
(/vox)
I can recall the days I surfed the packeting switches,
On the same level as every other monkey.
Now I'm riding a rough sea of wave after wave,
Stitches after stitches,
Suffering through the Id-feeder broadband god!
(vox flare up and down in a noticeable pattern)
Anger, lust, greed, happiness,
Sadness, love, rage, fulfillment,
Lost in this...
(/vox)
Lost in all of this!
White noise..it's all I want,
All I can ever dream for!
Here he says, there she says-
Everywhere I'm overloaded. Muscles can't relax,
My mind severely taxed,
Conscious has become null-
Was I too obsolete in the flesh to deal with the distress?
Is this evolution or data pollution?
Brain..numb..
Senses...senses...
(vox flare up and down in a noticeable pattern)
Anger, lust, greed, happiness,
Sadness, love, rage, fulfillment,
Lost in this...
(/vox)
Where am I?
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
Defeated by the pull of a new age- golden hope has turned into a let down of another every-day. Why did I bother with any of this? All for nothing-a life shattering revelation.
Damaged and systems failing.
Knocked off and arms flailing,
Help not around-
No one around!
Where am I going?
Gyrating view-it's spinning away.
The world I once hated has turned into my savior,
But nothing I can latch onto. I'm hooked into the omnicast and I'm everywhere with everything.
Here my individuality becomes watered down with countless other bit streams,
Here I am nothing more than another node to access,
More to surpass,
To crack, to read, to write-protect.
I am another piece of IT tech to neglect!
Damaged and systems failing.
Knocked off and arms flailing,
Help not around-
No one around!
Where am I going?
Gyrating around a vertex, arms outstretched-
[I'm looking for an entry point]L,
[I'm looking for a way in to get out]R
This is my death-this is my snapshot of perfection.
Get this out of me,
A poison to be sucked out-beat out-spat out-
I'm flailing about,
I can't get a hold and the exit is revolving around me.
My control has gone, the new god takes over.
My personality is being erased, burned from my core.
Burned from my core!
Damaged and systems failing.
Knocked off and arms flailing,
Help not around-
No one around!
Where am I going?
Damaged and systems failing.
Knocked off and arms flailing,
Help not around-
No one around!
Where have I gone?
Where in hell have I gone?!
Sucker for a new life,
Wanted a better deal.
Wanted it to become fantastic, and fast.
But now I understand it's too late.
Broadcasting for help-
Can they lock me out?
Can I escape this virtuality?
Can I---
[All music ends, silence plays a few seconds longer]
Standing, waiting to trip over and down the other side.
I view down into sanity's narrow chasm. I've been dragged up out of it.
Slowly falling down into a maddening black hole. I'm entombed in information beyond my assimilation capacity.
Raw center
It's become
A fascination
To be undone
I am high on neural feed. More, more, more. But it fades away and my memory bleeds. I'm attached and codependent, this is blanketing my past and ensuring my future.
Raw Center
It's become
A fascination
To be undone
I'm programmed. I recognize this, but do nothing to stop its progress. My feelings for it are irrelevant.
A raw center
I have become
A fascination
To be undone
[Binary sounds, beeps, etc.]
Last edited by xxybermancer : 17-06-2007 at 07:37 PM.
Reason: Formatting
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
I've just read all of these, and I think they're amazing - you have a gift with words for sure. It also does make us, or me at least, question where the human race is heading, and if we really want to get there.
If you ever do record it, I would certainly buy it :)
For those doubts that swirl all around us
For those lives that tear at the seams
We know… we’re not what we’ve seen
For this dance we’ll move with each other
There ain’t no other step than one foot
Right in front of the other
The last two lyrics are spoken by a doctor watching over the main character's body (Human v2.0Beta) and an omnipotent being, perhaps an artifiical intelligence in this world of ever-connected information (Human.bin) who explains they have taken over the main character, repurposed them.
And that starts the war..
..anyway, enjoy. =)
xx
P.S. Don't forget to check my band's web page to listen to Human v1.5Alpha.
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"Human v2.0 Beta"
Its sad to see someone come to this;
Eyes snowed out, impregnated with dead dreams.
The feelings they must know...
When they understand life has broken.
Have you ever tasted obsession?
Became fearless for an addiction?
Have you ever lost it all in hope?
Suffered for it and couldn't cope?
I can't stand to
See this person before me
If this is us today,
Let us kill tomorrow.
Recordings detail a mind of pure innovation-
a life worth living-a world converted to inelastic torturous automation!
Here I see indulgent needs. A will to know a true perfection. The mind split, soul dulled, personality numbed.
Have you ever tasted obsession?
Became fearless for an addiction?
Have you ever lost it all in hope?
Suffered for it and couldn't cope?
I can't stand to
See this person before me
If this is us today,
Let us kill tomorrow.
This person is beyond me,
Something new.
Although they no longer have a will,
they're still quite beautiful.
Its sad to see a life glorified
In yes and no.
Its sad to see a soul drain,
With no more mind to project through.
If this is us tomorrow, lets kill today.
Have you ever tasted obsession?
Became fearless for an addiction?
Have you ever lost it all in hope?
Suffered for it and couldn't cope?
Here now exists the apex of humanity.
It began to believe it was infested,
Drowned in binary communications.
But it had not been infected;
Instead it was perfected!
Here it exists-genderless,
Programmed
Computing
Make file,
Human.bin
Recompiled for nourishment by live wire,
Sleeping dreamless,
Living dreamless.
The meaning of it all: Analyze, propagate, assimilate.
Here it exists-genderless,
Programmed
Computing
Make file,
Human.bin
[Tempo, music scape, and tone changes]
Emotions replaced by routines,
Needlessness becomes extinction,
Skyline embroidered:
Cut by crystal towers of function.
Everyone is here,
There is no one but all.
The network has assumed fluidity.
Currency becomes numbers,
Put on a server.
Transfered in nanoseconds,
And internationally compatible.
The world of today,
Becomes the world of yesterday.
As global connection changes Doom's landscape.
Here it exists-genderless,
Programmed
Computing
Make file,
Human.bin
Whats with devastation disappearing like deforestation?
I can't believe I've been deceived by own worst enemy;
Myself cauterized my heart, denying the spark and nearly tearing worlds apart.
Last Cut/Burn: 6/18/07
I spent an hour reading and rereading these all. Whoa. Severe sensory overload for sure. Each set of lyrics is more twisted and dark than the ones before it. If they ever came out on a CD, I would definitely purchase a copy. I think my favorites would be "ESD" and "Human.bin." They were the easiest for me to understand but by no means do I think I could ever fully comprehend the others that you wrote. Its way beyond my level and difficult for me to focus on the words rather than the pictures I get from them. Still, I find that they have a chaotic sort of beauty around them. I wish I could understand them more so I could read into the meanings instead of skimming the surface like I had to do. Excellent job.
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