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As You Like
07:13
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Dying ancient land. History crumbling like sand. Latching onto memories. Hold on tight with both hands. The angry one transformed. The scientist harnessed raging storms. The traveler brings forth disease. The old man sleeps without remorse. Crumbling like sand. Slipping through your hands. What has he really done? Raised his fury like a son. Attemping to begin anew. The world can never be reborn. Past mistakes and present plans. The future crumbling like sand. Contemplating what we knew. Hold on tight with both hands.
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Present
01:00
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Metamorph
04:20
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The double life he’s lived. The walls are closing in. Everything comes down.The reflection is dim. The optimist has disappeared. It all happens now. Never a chance to forgive. We can’t be trusted. We’ll just do it again. It all must come down. Formulating the plan. A means to an end. Never to evolve. He must never forget. He must return to himself. Fourth dimension solved. Take it up with the wind. The planet is dusted. Infected. Ancestry
dissolved. A congress between one and the same. It’s flawless. Erase all the mistakes. A genius. Invent and forsake. The witness. Going down in flames. The progress. Swept up in the shame. The fallen. Stepped on and disgraced. The righteous. Eternally displaced. Existence. Rebooted and replaced.
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Proteus
03:43
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Don’t mock the old ones. I drank the ocean. Poison the life source in devotion. Return to chaos. It won’t betray us. There’s no escape course. No way to save us. Eyes on the ending. Ever descending. Create the poison. Silence the voices. Disperse the virus over horizons. Eyes on the ending. Ever descending. Next one down. Next one down. We’ll be extinct or we’ll drown. Species die. Oceans rise. Cities sink in the ground. Leaders fail. Failures lead. We’ll starve before we feed. Forests burn. No one learns. We get hurt, we just bleed. Eyes on the ending. Ever descending.
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Future
01:00
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Archaeologist
04:11
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This machine has become our fate. Undeniable there’s no escape. All my anguish invested in all of our shame. Stand before you a mastermind. The architect of historical genocide. This is vindication for robbing us blind. Bury this before it can exist. There’s no archaeologist who will ever live to discover this. Uncover this. This is the deal you already made with yourself.
There’s no turning back. Soak up how you feel in this moment of desperation. It’s the motive you lack. Bury this before it can exist. Bury this. There’s no archaeologist who will ever live to discover this. To uncover this. The finishing move.
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Paradox
04:51
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Watch How I Fall Over
03:54
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Only love and violence could push me through time, force me to this. All this blood and silence... I’ve grown old once, I won’t do it again. This isn’t some post-apocalyptic event. I’m playing god and I’m playing to win. The future is certain, it’s already come and gone. The past is unresolved. We can change it all. This isn’t some hoax and I won’t exaggerate a bit. My presence here is an extinction event. Pull back the curtain, revealing everything at once. Consuming all that we are. Disintegrating into dust. Only mud and oxygen provided the means to evolve and ascend. It’s a flood of pathogens eating away our genetics within. Only love and violence could push me through time, force me to this. It’s a flood of silence. This isn’t some post-apocalyptic event. I’m playing god. I’m playing to win. I’m playing god.
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Past
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El Anacronópete
05:58
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Plot the course for the cleanse. Preemptive strike the land. Carry plague to the past faster than the speed of light. Missing link, born to die. Extinction rains from the sky. I never planned to survive. No remorse for what I’ve done. No concern for what’s to come. There’s no way to know if this world is my own. There’s no way to know if this world is my own.
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Farewell, Voyager
06:20
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Lost at sea. No stars above me. I’m all alone. Now my sense of direction is gone. My anchor sinks to the floor. Lost in the sky. No ground below me. No safety net. I’m falling faster and I don’t care. No, I’m not scared. Lost in my mind. Sanity escapes me. Cut out my heart. I can’t feel anything anymore. I no longer see any meaning at all. Every moment’s gasping for
breath, slowly sucking it in. I’m running out of time. Every minute I beg to exist. Every second I plead “Don’t let it end like this.” Every second’s a battle within. All my energy just to live. There’s nothing left to give. When your body starts to break down, that’s just how it’s supposed to be. When your body starts to fail you, there’s nothing more I can do. When your
soul escapes your body, please be there when I get there. Farewell, voyager. Farewell, my heart. Farewell... for now.
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Eternal Return
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Cradle
08:00
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Chest Rockwell Bowling Green, Kentucky
Est 2004
2022 interview with Lazland - lazland.org/interviews/chest-rockwell
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