the billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons
with opiates of silicon Big Brother seems to rule the nation
all of my neurons are functioning smoothly yet still I’m a cyborg just like you
and the food on your table is more plastic than protein
it’s deadly and alluring, the sound of pounding heat
the world rotates and will evolve without you constantly
have you ever heard yourself the orbit that you are in?
extinction, degradation: the natural outcomes of our ordered lives
I don’t know if the billions will survive but I’ll believe in God when 1 and 1 are 5
...
He’s up there with the others laying low
this room is overcrowded man and I need air to breathe
the vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep
will I live forever? I’ve got just a short time to see
...
production and consumption define our hollow lives
and we’re all going to fry
and eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time
on a ride down a blind conduit
I sit on my ass all god damn day
kneel down and pray here comes your JUDGMENT DAY
I’m gonna surely walk away
I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea
a pang of consciousness at death and then you will agree
...
the full moon is rising over dark water
here comes oblivion
a miniscule duration, ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight
life on Earth is but a flash of dawn
given our pathetic course our destiny is known
excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less
and every fuckin’ where I go I see the pathos that I know will
spell the termination of us all
...
but soon enters dusk as the last surrey rusts and a new day
upon us results
credits
from DARK SIDE OF THE BRAIN,
released August 5, 2009
Sampled: Bad Religion, Suffer, No Control &
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