-Ephemeral-

A distant vision
In the closest of moments to my being
Standing free of design, an entity of my own
And with eyes opening, it shatters within a breath
But already the thought lost my mind in question
Beyond reason

Say goodbye to the world as we knew it
To the eyes that couldn't see
Now we're dying trying to find out
What this life could mean
So say goodbye to the world as we knew it

The incidental fortunes that are our moments
To feel and see, create and dream
It is our duty to live while we can

Say goodbye to the world as we knew it
To the eyes that couldn't see
Now we're dying trying to find out
What this life could mean
So say goodbye to the world as we knew it

-Moment Marauder-

Don't blink, I think there's tragedy chasing after me
Finding the perfect moment to take its life
I don't think that I'll have the strength to survive this one
But maybe the means to escape

It's breath is heavy on my shoulder
Hanging on like a cruel passenger
Who won't remove his hand from the wheel

And though I dare not face it
I cannot simply forget it's there

Don't blink, I think there's tragedy chasing after me
Finding the perfect moment to take its life
I don't think that I'll have the strength to survive this one
But maybe the means to escape

Taking in the signs left in wandering arrangements
Across memory and time, a scattered landscape
Underneath it all, I'm dying to find its meaning
Underneath it all, I'm dying to find where its leading

Don't blink, I think there's tragedy chasing after me
Finding the perfect moment to take its life
I don't think that I'll have the strength to survive this one
But maybe the means to escape

-Automaton-

Oh where, time do you go?
When my pulse falls behind
The rhythm on top my wrist
Showing ten seconds to clear my mind
The gears pulling forward
Always falling into place
This battle I know is over
Despite the effort and haste

We can wait this out
Because I know that we will find our way back
We can wait this out
Because I know that it will be worth it in the end
It's too soon for us to say
Whether or not we can win this way
Patiently commit to all that is at stake
Because it's too soon for us to say

Oh where, inspiration will you be
Upon escaping this vacant automaton
To save me
The gears pulling forward
Always falling into place
This battle I know is over
Despite the effort and the haste

We can wait this out
Because I know that we will find our way back
We can wait this out
Because I know that it will be worth it in the end
It's too soon for us to say
Whether or not we can win this way
Patiently commit to all that is at stake
Because it's too soon for us to say

-The Self Surrendered-

Gracefully flowing in streams of harmony
Unified by one dance, one song, one pulse
Unified in the core that binds them
To take them forward

Free of self or identity
The nameless can live painlessly

There's no harm in knowing what the future will bring
To know that it is safe
So we set the stage for them to live and breathe
Strung to our fingertips

Free of self or identity
The nameless can live painlessly

Reflections remain unclear
What is seen in themselves, what is seen in the mirror
The self surrendered are after all
Minds reduced to marionettes
Forever performing on our stage

-Breathe-

[Instrumental]

-The Escape-

Even in a simple exchange I can tell
Whether or not you swallowed those propaganda pills
The steady overdose that we've stomached since our birth
That makes us content with our simple and obedient existence

Breathe this in and let this dose be of reality
To the world as you were truly meant to perceive it
Infinite shades of reason and truth
Of fulfillment and identity, of vices and virtues

Let the curtains close across the stage you've known
And the spotlight fade for the chance to see
What resonates within your very core
Will light the stage that you were meant to perform

Allow yourself this moment to move freely
The walls will crumble from around you
What echoes now will be from within
So believe in what it is that you hear

Breathe this in and let this dose be of reality
To the world as you were truly meant to perceive it
Infinite shades of reason and truth
Of fulfillment and identity, of vices and virtues

Let the curtains close across the stage you've known
And the spotlight fade for the chance to see
What resonates within your very core
Will light the stage that you were meant to perform

-Atlas Hour-

Nascent eyes braving their first light
The lungs first breath to come through
New life fights its way to the world
In an assembly line delivery room
Familiar features in focus
Of a docile development

Bringing to the surface
The carbon kinship at the very core

A greater purpose will be served
Within this life and the next
Beyond the short-sighted desires
Of a simple being's fulfillments
Through functional dependency
We endure conformity
A greater purpose will be served
Within this life and the next

Listen and do not speak a word
Contrary to those which you have heard
There is no need to find new truths
Opposed to those tailored for you
Solace awaits in the ventures put in place
Along the path before you

Bringing to the surface
The carbon kinship at the very core

A greater purpose will be served
Within this life and the next
Beyond the short-sighted desires
Of a simple being's fulfillments
Through functional dependency
We endure conformity
A greater purpose will be served
Within this life and the next

-Siren Sound-

Mayday, mayday
A deviant on a tirade
Broadcasting hearsay
Sirens sound the evacuation call
To clear the streets and make your way back home
Target in custody, awaiting cleanse
Listener debriefings and loyalty assessments

The simple survive, whose battles are few
Loyal only to all that they've been told
The fate that you embrace is yours to behold
The simple survive, whose battles are few

(Sirens sound the evacuation call
To clear the streets and make way back home
Target in custody, awaiting cleanse
Listener debriefings and loyalty assessments)

Mayday, mayday
A deviant cries
Cynical slander
And faithless ideology
Fear not the visions of the blinded
Preaching only panic
To take from you your peace of mind
Target in custody, awaiting cleanse
Listener debriefings and loyalty assessments

(Open your mind at your own risk
You may not like what you find)

The simple survive, whose battles are few
Loyal only to all that they've been told
The fate that you embrace is yours to behold
The simple survive, those whose battles are few

-A Voice Within-

A bolstering surge rushes through our veins
Through the core shared between us
Strength as it's never been felt before
An awareness of unique purpose
No longer will our being be quantified
Summed in numerical numbness
We are unmapped shades of these lifeless codes

The space between the walls that surround us
Is only as confined as our hearts and our minds
In time we all will hear what resonates from within
The voice that we must find and embrace to guide us

Sparks in an artificial sky
Give color to dulling senses
System failure to feel digital wounds
Or suffering surveillance sources
We are the identity of these misfires
The present yet the untraceable
We are the order yet the free in thought

The space between the walls that surround us
Is only as confined as our hearts and our minds
In time we all will hear what resonates from within
The voice that we must find and embrace to guide us

The chance, the fate, what brought us to now
We can't help but to admire its beauty
To feel, to see, to create, to dream
It is our duty to live while we can