1. |
Heart Lay Down
03:04
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Heart lay down
Don't over-protect yourself
Unblock the way around your paricardium
Heart lay down
And perforate distress
Delete the iron around the constellations left
Expel all residual doubt
Relight, allow them in before you shut them out
Belly up
Raw way
Rewrite the ritual now
Unlearn the lullabye
Heart lay down
Expose the pith inside
Peel of the smothering hull of a possessive rind
Fragments all strewn about
Grind down the callouses before you seal them out
Don't tense up
Wrong way
Unplug the cycle this time
Long way
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2. |
Rotate The Mirror
03:01
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Who can wait?
Beyond a trap door with rusted-shut hinges
Demonstrate how all to get through the blushes and cringes
When all else fails who will ask all the questions we don't know the answers to?
Without a doubt we can't rotate the mirror until we are ready to
Without a rock bottom angle to read from we'll never see the essential truth
Without a doubt it'll be too late to save us despite what we've all been through
Future unmade until a leap in the only direction
Separate the woven from the waxy emulsion
Blooming late...
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3. |
Say It Again
01:42
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Whites of the eyes exposing tiny lives that live red line to line
Composed of brittle parts that crumble as you zoom in to analyze
Replete with heavily intricate details designed to take you for a ride
All set to traumatize please realize it's your last breath
Speck amplify tentatively creep behind faint ridges all align
Cycles revive spitting up every audible angle made concrete in the mind
Recalibrate the needle it wanders polar realities collide
Listen for the crack to rattle
Repeat repeat repeat
Say it again, and then...
Tightness inside cacophonous echoes hide one breath to clarify
Anchors alight melting from the day to the night blank pages leap to life
Psychic divide fingertip comb every inch for the buds along the vine
Stop time, now realign repeat repeat repeat
Say it again, and then...
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4. |
Dirge For The Pacifist
03:05
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Light a candle for the lives lost
Dog a grave for the facts glossed
Fissuration of our timeline
Misinformation for our memorializing shrines
Sing a song for the Pacifist
Clear the way for the Capitalist
Charred screams from the women's lips
Say their names and then ask
How long will this carry on?
Distraction weakens opposition
Fingers pointed by the more corrupt
Fennel kisses for the lives snuffed
Hold our breath til the smoke clears
Suffocating for five hundred years
Sing a song for the Pacifist
Pave the way for the Capitalist
Charred screams from the witches' lips
Say their names and then ask
How long will this carry on?
Cooperate with historical obfuscation
Building blocks of the modern day
Won't accept it's the civil way
Waking hours like a bad dream
What we get is a pyramid scheme
Sing a dirge for the Pacifist
Bow down to the Capitalist
Charred screams from the women's lips
Say their names and then ask
How long will this carry on?
Complicit in our mollification
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#SayHerName for the Black and Indigenous women & gender variant people slaughtered as witches for resisting the violence of capitalism, silenced by the brutality of colonialism, victims of white supremacy.
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5. |
Unserving Lie
03:02
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Can you list your allies?
Who can exist otherwise?
Re-examine our lives
Deep resistance inside
Sirens do not synchrontize
Outgrow the safe confines of ceramic life
Roots flail in the air and blister in the light
Tendrils stretch and swirl
Holding on to what haunts is an unserving lie
Breathe in to breath and let it go
Holding on to what haunts is an unserving lie
Breathe out to breathe in and let it flood
Lost the lush storyline
Tune in to catch it in time
Vibrations between hearts and minds
Time to un-anesthetize
Shake out the sand from your eyes
Congealed oyster spit surrounding jagged specks
Protecting scarred insides from learned reflex
Count every pearl
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6. |
Ecstatic yes
02:19
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Who can take another offense?
Who can make in this far "undamaged"?
If it's not ecstatic yes
Hear the resounding no
Makes asses of "innocent" assumption
Lick ignorant interpretation
What are these claims of entitlement?
Get away from me
No one owes one anything
Under no obligation
No place for commodification
Lick ignorant interpretation
If it's not ecstatic yes
Hear the resounding no
Makes asses of "innocent" assumption
What are these claims of entitlement?
Get away from me
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7. |
The Hook
02:36
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Just a wrinkle
Up on a down beat – hang on
Corners crinkle
All recognize the uncomfortable
Unread sequel
Rewrite the long dream – hang on
Programmed people
Push back and away from all the ways we can't understand
Chances wasted
Make the space, soften into acute awkwardness
Not made simple
Perpetual upkeep – hang on
Foreign angle
Catching the hook before it catches you
Missing shingles
Tepid surroundings – hang on
Tensions mingle
Refuse the urge to chew a human head off its neck
Habits definitive
Something new: relax into acute awkwardness
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8. |
Future Dreams
02:32
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Hey, kids of the world
I got something to say
Please listen to me right now
Okay you're right, things could be worse
But nevertheless I'm fed up with this world
I've got this feeling in me, so hard to explain
But I know there are millions who feel just the same
Humanity's dying with silent screams
Take a look at this world, perhaps you'll see what I mean
How long will it take til you know?
The revolution's inside you
Deep inside your brain
Why don't you join the upright crew
And make another dream come true
Ok as it seems, I gotta face the facts
The perfect world's a dream cause mankind's bad
Now why should I give up all my hopes and dreams
As long as there are people who try to break the schemes
So tell my how much longer will you follow a way
That step by step leads to the world's decay
When will you finally know?
We can
Future dreams
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SILENT ERA Oakland, California
Silent Era is no longer active. Our music shall remain free for download of course. All donations are appreciated and will
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