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The Watchmaker's Lament
01:51
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Man sits still, hurling at a million miles an hour through an ever expanding universe - Holding tight to the unpredictable reins of his fragile mortality - He stares vagrantly at the ticking hands of an abstract man made device - Shackled to its illusory laws within his special limitations - And even the deities expire within the fractal of time - Paralyzed in contemplation of the absurdity of existence - As the past disappears and the future is now - As the past disappears and the future is now
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Vigilante Equestrian
04:17
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Apocalyptic horsemen - The clock has died of shock - The trumpeters descend - The devils drum will never stop - So I tighten up that saddle, got that six string cocked - I'm riding into battle on my horse called Rock {So let them locusts fly till they block out the sun - Let the rivers run red - Let the frog rain come} The sky it blackens and the continents sink - The seven horned lambs, seven eyes don't blink - Hear the earth’s death rattle - Hear the cold hand knock - I'm riding into battle on my horse called Rock {So let them locusts fly till they block out the sun - Let the rivers run red - Let the frog rain come} Fire and Brimstone - The earth opens up - It's the foretold return of the Beelzebub {On my horse called Rock}
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Nowhere to go when you're standing at the nexus - They say the road to freedom is always paved in excess - Pills to make you human, got ya thinking you're conforming - Consuming and consuming - Got you drinkin’ what they pouring - Like some complacent cog in a homicidal mechanism - I make the widgets - Proficient in illusionism - Toxic microscopics plot the new world alliance - Beyond the pale of science - In the fingernails of giants {Bow down to your microscopic overlords - Bow down to your heroes and your chemicals} Oh not of this world - No not of this place - Far beyond the grasp of time and the vast grasp of space - They poison from within as we're soaking in the sin - Fill the hole through mind control, the game is rigged never to win - But under six feet of earth we all one size and all equal - The opiate of the people; The banality of evil - And he who sees too much is he who's truly cursed – Yeah the lie tastes dry but the truth tastes worse {Bow down to your microscopic overlords - Bow down to your heroes and your chemicals} {I opened my eyes so wide that I turned inside out then I went blind - Complacently we think we're free and build their castles within the shackles inside the mind}
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I'm already half way there - Ten million miles from home - Just drank a tank of diesel fuel - Ten million miles to go - And I always come prepared - Pick fights along the way - One or two might escape my grasp, but they never get very far away - My ship is made of iron - My ocean vast and black - I busted off the rearview mirror, ‘cuz I'm never looking back - My nerves are made of steel… Not nerves but actual steel - Show no mercy - Make no deal - {Interplanetary Mercenary} So I stop on this planet - I keep an eye on the scene here - The planet demands it, and I charge a handsome fee, yeah - I don't understand it - The fuck is goin' on here? - That's not how we planned it - You ain't supposed to be here – The emperor needs to know about this, alliances were broken – “There's robots here in Monster World” – “The messenger has spoken” - So pick up your guns, a war begins - Believe me I ain't jokin' - I leave behind my human form - This demon has awoken {I, He who monsters fear - Run for your lives and pray to all your lords - I won't be leaving here until the balance is restored} {Interplanetary Mercenary}
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Set The Pale Horse
06:31
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Set the pale horse toward the path of the sky - To the place all the great heroes go when they die - Where the wolf stands on guard and the great stag he struts - so said the seer – The Reader of Rooster Guts - Thor's hammer thunders, the gods they crave war - To die bravely in battle is to live evermore - So Hey Hallo-Ho - Spill blood like wine - Tonight in Valhalla we dine - Past the vast fields of Asgard the Valkyrie delivers - Where dew from the antler of the stag form the rivers - Through the great gates above where the giant eagle soars - We enter the kingdom of five hundred doors - A roof of gold shields of the valiant deceased - And the smell of the beast being prepared for the feast - So Hey Hallo-Ho - Spill blood like wine - Tonight in Valhalla we dine - 'Neath shimmering sword light we cuss, fuck and fight - Eat the immortal boar cooked and then whole the next night - Drinking mead served by Valkyries from enemies sculls - Our revelry and merriment shake the great walls - We stand and give thanks for the warrior is home - And we drink to the dead as Oden takes his throne - So Hey Hallo-Ho - Spill blood like wine - Tonight in Valhalla we dine
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They say no man's an island but I'm no man, that don't apply - Everything I see is mine, I'm 12 feet tall and just one eye - Thought the Gods saw fit I'd roam alone for evermore - Then a great storm blew your ship and crashed upon my jagged shore - My vision's 20 baby - There ain't nothing I can do - I'm a lonely, love sick cyclops honey and I got my eye on you - From behind the vail of night I snatched the captain and his crew - Crept the trail by torch light leaving no one only you - Silencing their moans as I grind up flesh and bone - You wake up in the morning and you find yourself alone - My vision's 20 baby - There ain't nothing I won't do - I'm a lonely, love sick cyclops honey and I got my eye on you {Zeus damn - Lost my mind when I heard the sirens sing - In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king} I'll tell you of my dreams - Of my father and my mother - Tales of odysseys when Ulysses killed my brother - As Zeus as my witness I'm gonna make you mine - Come Hades or high water until the end of time - My vision's 20 baby - what's a poor monster to do? - I'm a lonely, love sick cyclops honey - and I got my eye on you
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The Stew
05:04
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They call her the witch and a godless heathen - Set to burn at the stake for heresy and treason - The town gathers round –Accusers wait breathlessly - But she’s got the plan, yeah she's got the recipe - One part gun powder - Two parts lead - Add spice to taste and this whole town’s dead - Wings of a blackbird - Legs of a mantis - Her last words heard were “Sic semper tyrannis” - Oh my lover how you've done me wrong - Since that rendezvous at the break of dawn - It was reckless love and a passion wild - Oh you left me heart broken and with child - A man of the cloth and a peasant lover - Accused of witchcraft lest you be discovered - So the night before I burn I will make my stew - I'm taking you with me and this whole town too {They've all come to see the witch burn} The priests and the public and the magistry - They're claiming black magic and the courts agree - Death by fire in the town square at dusk – “Oh my lover you'll pay dearly for this break of trust” - So I light that cauldron and I make my brew - A hearty, grandiose most explosive stew - I eat it all up to my life’s misfortune - Death to the tyrants when they throw the torch in {They've all come to see the witch burn}
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Deevolution
08:56
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I went on down, down, down to the river to see my reflection - I saw a webbed and gilled result of unnatural selection - Oh mother nature's choking now, there's no more air to breathe - Most will parish but some will return to the seas - You know that water's rising, now you got to adapt or die – You just can't turn back time, no matter how hard that you try - Ain't no use praying honey, get on up off of your knees - The sky is dying and we all got to share its disease - Those who came before us saw the anatomic mutation - They fear and covet us equally our aquatic adaptation - But when the final sun sets and the last breath is taken in - Get on down to the river, honey better learn how to swim {Devolution, abandon the land - Back to the water from whe
re we began}
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