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The World Without Us
01:52
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Fragments that never go away
Passed on from factory
To user to landfill
To animal to cancer
To death to ground
And there it lies
Beyond humankind
Our legacy is not fossils
Left for future explorers
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(chorus)
Our great cities
Collapsing into the rising sea
Poisons created
Forever a part of this world
Our great cities
Collapsing into the rising sea
Poisons created
Forever a part of this world
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That can’t be hidden away, or abolished
It’s wholesale extinction
Caused by short-sighted gain
Leaving permanent effects
Ten million years after us
(when we’re all gone)
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(chorus)
Our great cities
Collapsing into the rising sea
Poisons created
Forever a part of this world
Still causing harm
That’s our legacy
A world without us
A wild eden where venom lies beneath
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2. |
Tuned Out
03:04
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I’m making this space my only home
I’ve seen enough and I’m staying in
It’s gotten too cold, it’s gotten too frightening
There’s too much hatred between people
There’s too much violence towards the land
Defeatism. Denial. Decay.
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(chorus)
Throw yourself at the wolves
Jump off the edge of the earth
Throw yourself at the wolves
What’s fear when you’re always afraid
Throw yourself at the wolves
Jump off the edge of the earth
Throw yourself at the wolves
What’s fear when you’re always afraid
So much easier to turn a blind eye.
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I’ve heard the facts and I know what I know
I’ve listened long enough and now I’m shutting off
Cannot keep pace with what others do
You and yours stick with your side and I’ve got mine
Can’t see it, don’t believe it, get out of the way I’ve got nowhere to go
Defeatism. Denial. Decay.
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(chorus)
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3. |
A Stray Away
03:01
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Who do I see before me
That face I came so far to see
Forever and a day, or so it seems
Absence of presence and what that means
That ocean of distance has dried
Passage of time measured by new lines around eyes
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A stray
Away
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And now here we are after it all
Still present to answer the call
In mind I never left
Clever strategies to maintain memories
The way it has to be for familiarity
As long as I’m a voice between miles
A picture to ease this trial
Determined, no denial
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A stray
Away
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(chorus)
The distance is so great
The weight of waiting
So far away with no way
To sway the tide of fate
The distance is so great
The weight of waiting
So far away with no way
To sway the tide of fate
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I’m low, slowed down by the box I’m in
A matchstick boat in a circular sea
Retreat round and round
The sound of home
Embedded in the crashing waves
But I swear one of these days
We’ll be reunited, no longer divided
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A stray
Away
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(chorus)
The distance is so great
The weight of waiting
So far away with no way
To sway the tide of fate
The distance is so great
But I’ve done my waiting
I’ve been away for endless days
But now the tide is calm, at least today
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We get. We take. We give. We’re gone.
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The time has come
The time is fleeting
All the buzzards hover
Clover above the ground
Where my ashes disperse
Reverse all that hourglass sand
And pretend that not a moment was wasted.
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(chorus)
Illusion of choice
We’re bound to gravity
Illusion of choice
We’re bound to time
Illusion of choice
We’re bound to gravity
Illusion of choice
We’re bound to entropy
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Grace guide me into a lasting impression
Immersion in the art
Partake in a worthwhile endeavor
Sever negative impact and evil intent
Give all to the world so that it may prosper
(Her as earth proper)
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(chorus)
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We get. We take. We give. We’re gone.
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No use for intention
Re-invent when you see the need
Perfection- the enemy of the good
We should strive to be at peace
Believe that our impact
Is through actions of empathy
The world spins on without us
Be kind with how we proceed
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(chorus)
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5. |
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Time
Time does not wait
For you, for me, for us
It is not up for debate.
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As we multiply and justify
Our dominance over this earth
Time will not be a slave
To what we think we are worth
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(chorus)
Do you know what’s in front of you?
Can you see the present,
Informed by the rearview?
I don’t know what’s ahead for me
Just do as much as I can
With the time I’ve received
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What we perceive and what we believe
A bias is a locked gate
The ‘rather or not’: freeze on the spot
Pretext to unfounded hate.
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(chorus x 2)
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Don’t lose sight
The precious time we waste
Flexing our might
Who’s wrong and what’s right
‘Cause when you’re in the ground
You won’t make a sound.
No protest against time (x2)
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6. |
Repetition
04:00
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*Originally by Helmet
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Headless Horse Rochester, New York
East-meets-West riff test.
Cross-country idea exchange.
Rob (Achilles, Longest War, etc) gave songs to Ryan (Dialysis, Hex Records, etc) to put words to.
Finished music came out the other end.
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