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(The Mind Asleep)
01:37
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The Mind Awakes
04:13
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Borrowed beliefs from a worldview you were taught
Underachieved in your efforts to belong
Curbing free will in the fear of a judging God
Is this what you came here for?
Idiocy turned the brave into scapegoats
Purifying them of the guilt that never was
Burning ideals for the sake of the status quo
Harnessing the tide of knowledge
All this is no more!
You've seen it crumble
You've watched it fall
Fate and religion, the enemies of reason
Make your decision, denial or ambition to know?
You've lost your faith now
Who will you blame?
You've lost your way out
Over and over and over again
Challenging thoughts put you out of your comfort zone
Didn't expect that the truth wouldn't be so close
Suddenly feel you're the effect, not the cause
Doubt is bringing down your walls
No guarantee of a better world above
Burden of life that will rest on you alone
Cluelessly stare at the endless universe
You will need a better answer
To explain it all
Old dogmas stumble
Their logic's flawed
Fate and religion, the enemies of reason
Promised you freedom, they've locked you in a prison
Enlightening reason won't need your superstition
Make your decision, denial or ambition to know?
You've lost your faith now
Who will you blame?
You've lost your way out
Over and over and over again
No plans to fulfil
No guilt to cleanse
Over and over and over and over again
You've lost your faith now
Who will you blame?
You've lost your way out
Over and over and over again
You've lost your faith now
Do you still care?
The mind awakes now
Laying to rest the monsters inside your head
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Come What May
05:12
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Come what may, the horizon's grey and the goals you chase are meaningless
Wasted days you cannot explain, now you're ridden with old memories
Self-aggrandizing thoughts
Clog up your mind
Fantasies can't be curbed
And keep you awake at night
Take one more numbing drop
To feel alright
Inside your shell, wiggle and sigh
Behind your mask, frantically hide
Swallow regret, refuse the signs
Long for your essence denied...
It's time to look into the mirror of life
Time to depart from the rules
You have laid down yourself
In a futile attempt to survive
You've let your demons prevail
It's too late now
Come what may, those were just the days and they're gone away forever now
Blew your chance to become yourself and you let the world decide for you
Inside your will is strong and so is your mind
Outside the world's moved on and left you well behind
Pick your next challenge just to please your pride
Break up your shell, smother the cry
Put down your mask, breathe and recline
Swallow regret, refuse the signs
Rescue your essence denied...
You won't be having it twice
It's time to look into the mirror of life
Time to depart from the rules
You have laid down yourself
In a futile attempt to survive
You've let your demons prevail
And it's too late now
To fight back
Too late but you'll try
Come whatever may, nothing can tame you
Come whatever may, nothing can save you
Come whatever may, nothing can tame you until you die
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King of Treachery
06:20
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Witness the charm of my kingdom
Subdued you'll worship its name
Embrace the values I stand for
Protect your world when you feel under threat
I'm the hope you've too long been denied
Conquer your subconscious and your mind
I'm ingrained in all you see
You will never know I'm here
I'll anticipate your needs
And manipulate your will
This is how I will make you my slave
Paralysed you'll surrender yourself and
Bow to the king of treachery
Buy into my twisted narrative
See me defend our legacy
Fighting the common enemy
Protecting you from what you perceive as wrong
Defending your world, it's what you chose me for
I have been studying you since your birth
Know what you love and you hate
Under a shroud of assurance
I am betraying your faith
I will use the data you provide
Learning to predict what's on your mind
I'll hear everything you say
When you don't suspect I'm there
Reaffirming your beliefs
I'll manipulate your will
This is how I will build consensus
Soon enough you'll surrender yourself and bow
To the king of treachery
Buy into my twisted narrative
See me defend our legacy
Fighting the common enemy
Let me rule your world
Let me fix it all
I'll fix it all
You will see no option
I am corroding your nature
I will have the last word
And will decide how you live your life
Bow to my kingdom,
Goodbye to your freedom
Now bow to my kingdom, goodbye
Let your freedom be mine
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Sickest Breed
05:23
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Manic alienation
Tearing down the will
Inverse growing wisdom
Shining, opaque selves
Borderline resistance
To spontaneous needs
Overarching boredom
More void to be filled
Nothing to gain, nothing to lose and nothing worth fighting for
Motionless face, neutral to rage
As apathy takes control
The sickest breed has laid its plan to rule the earth
Supine, complacent masses brandish the idols that make them dumb
Weed out the weak, take out their hearts and steal their souls
Amorality is their flag and conspiracy is their sword
Twilight of the senses
Artificial brains
Stone-cold and indifferent
New society is shaped
Egocentric urges
Tunnel vision reigns
Endless loop of inputs
Birth of modern slaves
Bringing the change
From the inside
No differences will be felt
The standard is set, the model is out
A functional race is born
The sickest breed has laid its plan to rule the earth
Supine, complacent masses brandish the idols that make them dumb
Weed out the weak, take out their hearts and steal their souls
Amorality is their flag and conspiracy is their sword
Hidden from the sun, the supernatural dominant powers enslave humanity
Through remote mind control
Close-knit like a clan
Exterminating, altering, smothering all personalities to reach their deepest core
One breed rules all
Their rise means our fall
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The Key
04:38
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This is what we really are
Drops in an ocean of brittle existence
Guests in our bodies we are
Cut from the same cloth off distant creators
Dust is what we will become
Torn into bits by unknowing creatures
Captive like convicts we are
Seeking a purpose while our makers watch us fail
We share our fallen angels' fate
Yet we won't feel our neighbour's pain
Encapsulating time and space
We shall pass
Cause we are drops in the ocean, caught in the circle of life
Cause we are moments in cosmos, swirled in the illusion of time
Horrified we are
Bound to awareness by mere coincidence
Deafened by silence we are
Voices that scream their helpless condition
We didn’t choose to be this way
And thus we feel damnation's pain
We search for correlations that
We can't grasp
Cause we are drops in the ocean
Caught in the circle of life
Cause we are moments in cosmos
Swirled in the illusion of time
We spoil the air that we inhale
Pollute our souls with mindless games
Encapsulating time and space
We shall pass
Cause we are drops in the ocean
Caught in the circle of life
Cause we are moments in cosmos
This is what we really are
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Heralds of New Beliefs
05:19
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Seen the proof
Shimmering lights in the sky
Covered up
Evidence lost to preserve mankind
Capturing
Weakest hints of supposed signs
Codified
Mysteries meant to outlast time
Waiting for the signs above
Ignoring the science below
Heralds of new beliefs
Fabricate their own encounters
Significance revealed?
What they see is what they expected
Ignorance
Paving the way for merchants of lies
Paranoid
Urge to explore alternative sides
New messiahs
Breaking away from their dismal lives
Prophets thrive
In the age of gullible minds
Searching for the lights above
Mesmerised by the unknown
Heralds of new beliefs
Fabricate their own encounters
Significance revealed?
Doubting forever
There must be more
More than has surfaced
Secrets untold
Within a century, ancient gods will return
To lead the chosen ones into an age of gold
There will be a new dawn, new realms will unfold
Consciousness will be flowing through each and every being
Unearth
All that’s never been told, sure we will find more
Reading deep into every trivial little detail
Justify a preconviction
Cannot be just a coincidence
Can't get used to insignificance
Heralds of new beliefs
Fabricate their own encounters
Significance revealed?
Doubting forever
There must be more
More than has surfaced
Secrets untold
Within a century, ancient gods will return
To lead the chosen ones into an age of gold
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Wind Spirit
05:04
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No words can bridge the distance between
The things that we show and those that we mean
We worship our own idols supreme
While time takes its toll, routine makes us weak
Just like a dream we put ourselves into
We make it work so we can believe it
This is a war that we can't win
The outcome is known, the struggle's uneven
Projecting ourselves onto a screen
As we grow apart, we question our meaning
Just like a shore that we'll never reach
We look ahead, while nothing's to be seen
Wind spirit
Lift us from this cold and empty space
Wind spirit
Break this spell, before we bid farewell
Bid our last farewell
Fallacy locked us up in anger
Bitter, we hold on to our preconceived assumptions
We trust ourselves and nothing more
Ambition's gone, it's all about this moment
Falling out where we stood united
Stubbornly leaning on to microscopic
Visions to provide the answers
We seek no cure, the symptom heals itself
Wind spirit
Lift us from this cold and empty space
Wind spirit
Break this spell, before we bid farewell
Bid our last farewell
Wind spirit, undo this misery
Wind spirit, ignite reality
Wind spirit, disrupt disharmony
Wind spirit, heal us and let it all go
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Second Brain Roma, Italy
Second Brain blend thrash metal, death metal and progressive rock. Their new album, The Mind Awakes, is out now.
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