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Dawn
02:19
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Oculus Window
04:24
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Beyond the body
The soul travels
To seek answers
To seek nothing
To find questions
To discover all
Through the doorway
Of the mind
Transmigrating
Through the doorway
Of the mind
Reality and imagination
An unchanging uniformity
Slumber of the ego
Awakening the infinite being
Gaining perspectives
Gaining perception
Through the doorway
Of the mind
Transmigrating
Through the doorway
Of the mind
In dreams
The soul takes back
What the mind has shown
Through the doorway
Of the mind
Soar through the window
Of the ether
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Walls of Impermanence
07:07
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From within the city walls, Uruk knew not of the threat that came beyond
A king so dire and great, an empire in the midst of creation
Defenders of the city forced to flee, for the city walls had collapsed
And the plundering of old begot the formation of the new
Sargon of Akkad, overlord of Sumer
With an iron fist he led his men to war and conquered
City by city taken by brute force
When Sumer fell, Empire was born
Divine right, anointed priest
Weapons washed in the lower sea
He conquered Sumer in its entirety
Through the winters and summers of the third millennium
For a century and a half lasted the Dynasty of Akkad
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Gilgamesh
Two-thirds god, one third human
King of Uruk
Onslaught of his weapons has no equal
None will rival
Despotic behavior angered the gods
Strength be challenged
Enkidu brought forth to defy our king
Tame Enkidu
Lead forth the whore
Strength will diminish
Wisdom attained
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Together now stand
Pine Forest they will venture
To slay Humbaba, guardian of the land
Ominous dreams they had
Humbaba knew of their presence
Gilgamesh, ax in hand
Chopped at the forest
Who has injured the trees
Who has felled the cedars
Sword struck its neck
Humbaba fell, dead
Dream foreshadows death
Enkidu falls by the hands of the angered gods
Gilgamesh
Fear of death overcomes might and strength
Immortality
He seeks through Utnapishtam
Let me not see
The death which I ever dread
Everlasting life, unattainable
Death until eternity, inevitable
Gilgamesh, king of heroes
Returned to Uruk a wiser man
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Drifting Orphan
02:31
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A nameless man will begin
By naming himself
A self-baptized orphan seeking meaning
In a both dreaded and desired sea
Seek not to extract meaning but to project
For all meaning is but a projection of the orphaned self
Onto a world of white void
The journey must be taken
Futile and disastrous as its end may be
For the futility will be painted with the bounteous colors of meaning
And the disaster shall be masked by the sublime sea
Seek not to extract meaning but to project
For all meaning is but a projection of the orphaned self
Onto a world of white void
It shall subsist only until your role has ended, oh drifting orphan
Then all will collapse
And the great shroud of the sea will roll on
As it rolled five thousand years ago
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The Swerve
04:18
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Retribution Waters
07:45
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Enlil, leader of the purge will send a flood
Cleanse, purify mankind
Enki, betrayer of the plan warns the wise one
Sympathize, guard their lives
Appearing in a dream
A dream of Atrahasis
Build a boat said He
And flee the coming of flood
Survival of man
Resting in the hands of one
Carpenter carried his axe
Reed worker carried his stone
Rich man carried the pitch
Poor man brought the calm before the storm
Appearing in a dream
A dream of Atrahasis
Build a boat said He
And flee the coming of flood
Up in the skies the gods look down on man
Made to serve
Overpopulation fills the land
Plan to purge
Eradication of mankind must come
Come to pass
To be ensued by a rebirth of life
All must die
Forevermore
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Eternal Seed
13:04
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Out of Chaos
Nature propagates its seeds
Seeds of infinity
Moving because of matter
Because of void
Like the soul
Moves the body
As the mind leads
Pushing through infinity
Random swerve of atoms
We are
Pushing through the void
Out of Chaos
Nature propagates its seeds
Seeds of infinity
Moving because of matter
Because of void
Like the soul
Moves the body
As the mind leads
Numerous worlds
None of which are concerned by gods
For it is Man who must focus
On the nature of things
Abandon fear of mortality
Death is nothing to us
For we are life in pursuit of pleasure
Temporary though we are
Reason will tell you
Such is the nature of things
And out of Nature
Chaos propagates its seeds
Seeds of infinity
Moving through the matter and the void
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