1. |
Send Up the Signal
04:38
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Send up the signal
Call the Commissioner
Gallop through the night
Alert all your neighbors
Hang the tower lanterns
Let them see the light
We cannot escape this
No one is right
Put up those defenses
Bring a pitchfork to the fight
Can't erase history by pulling down a statue
Can't battle hatred by not letting someone speak
Can't kill ideology with bombs
Can't hear the confession of a witch, when she's already drowned
After the snow
The sapling will grow
After the flood
the soul learns
Train on a platform
Arms hanging out
Reaching for a hand
Not a sound from your mouth
Packed inside a boxcar
Train rolls out
We cannot escape this
There is no light
Put up those defenses
Disappear into the night
Can't erase history, you can only change minds
Spit off a cliff, it'll blow back in your eye
Can't fight inequality with lies
Can't change a frog into a Monarch Butterfly
After the snow
The sapling will grow
After the flood
The soul learns to love
We strip away the mud
Matador in gold
Elephant in blue
Estoque and Muleta
Nettipattam and daant
Packed into a bullring
No possible detente
Send up the signal
Send up the signal
Send up the signal
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2. |
The End of Civility
04:43
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Where is our compassion?
Where's our sympathy?
Sucker punched in broad daylight
Bullets in the streets
Where is our emotion?
Where's our empathy?
Burned up in a shameful blaze
A bonfire at our knees
At our knees
Inside the the light is slowly fading
Protect yourself, forget the rest
Filthy politicians inside trading
Drop kick the babies from the nest
Girl hidden underneath a staircase
How did it ever come to this??
We're slipping into darkness
We're falling out of grace
Stumbling to the downfall
Of the human race
It's the end of emotion
The end of empathy
The information age has quietly ushered in the end
Of civility
We've got to tame our killer instinct
Turn our direction toward the light
Fill up our lives with love and life!!
It's all we have
This bridge is falling apart!!
This tower is crumbling to dust!
This train is coming off the rails!!
These hearts are going to get crushed
Project our light in all directions
Cascading through the stratosphere
Send it up, we make connections
Hold the light
Hold it dear
We're slipping into darkness
We're falling out of grace
Stumbling to the downfall
Of the human race
It's the end of emotion
The end of empathy
The information age has quietly ushered in the end
Where is our compassion?
Where's our sympathy?
Sucker punched in broad daylight
Bullets in the streets..
Where is our emotion?
Where's our empathy?
Burned up in a shameful blaze
A bonfire at our knees
At our knees
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3. |
In the Beginning
05:04
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When the universe was in its infancy
There was only love
To propel the only forces
That existed to do their job
In an infinitely tiny space
They shared their lessons of love
To inform the generation of new matter
How to un-furl
In the many combinations stirring
That were soon to take place
When the youngest stars of creation
Exploded out into space
There were bits of energy
And Gravity becoming a place
That eventually spawned the building blocks
Of the human race
And thus the Grand Design was born
And thus the Universe took shape
And when that love exposed its form
The next in line behind it
Embraced the light that made it
Possible to recombine itself
And pass on the clues
To the elements emerging slowly
It imprinted The Way
To instruct the coming vapor architectures
to circumfuse
Stellar nurseries of infant stars
The code that must be conveyed
It's a map of understanding
Hidden in the form of a spring
Twisting ladders of the instructions
To bring us up in the shape
Of a Leonardo drawing
Showing us proportions devine
And the finger of the statue David
Pointing of the sublime
We are never going to understand
The nature of a bird flock
Calculating motion faster than
We see the hands of a clock
We invented notions of dividing
Time into smaller blocks
But the atom underneath it all
Will keep its secrets not talk
And thus the Grand Design was born
And thus the Universe took shape
And when that love exposed it's form
The next in line behind it
Embraced the light that made it
Everything the quantum world
Inside it knew to reject
In a jettison of fundamental
Constructs locked in The Way
There were forces at play
That held together light at it's source
There was endlessly more divisions
Of the code in a wave
In a wake of understanding
Remnants of equations unlocked
They lay undiscovered
In the fossil structure inside a rock
In the science of an estimate
Will they ever learn of their fate
Like the faces of Vermeer
Embedded in the fabric of space
Every element of nature springs forth
From this transcendant art
Ever blossoming in chaos
Strings and patterns shaping all things
There are colors we have never seen
But by the hand of Van Gogh
There are radiating objects
Dancing in the mind of Hawking
In the state of singularity
The Universe does not know it's size
It could be a little Angstrom
Floating in the cosmic riptide
Or a trillion AU's
Of shining AU splendor across
Maybe a wave of probability emerging
In the land of the lost
When the universe was in its infancy
There was only this
Unseen energy that pushed expansion
Past the spirals above
In a big bang of exquisite beauty
We can only conclude
That the Universe could only have been
Set in motion
By love
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4. |
Any Other Time
04:20
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Division of the human mind
Another party listening on the line
It's harder to discover truth
Than at any other time
Any other time
Divinity of humankind
Is written in the face of a child
Enlightenment is always blind
Just as a penny to the wise
Penny to the wise
Many to the prize
Many to the prize
Harder to find
Harder to find
Than at any other time
Any other time
Send up your love
Let them see what you're made of
Send up your carpenters
Let them learn how to build
Send up your love
Show them how to find the truth
Send up your fisherman
Show them how to deal with the
Division of the human mind
Another party listening on the line
It's harder to discover truth
Than at any other time
Any other time
Divinity of humankind
Is written in the face of a child
Enlightenment is always blind
Just as a penny to the wise
Penny to the wise
Many to the prize
Many to the prize
Harder to find
Harder to find
Than at any other time
Any other time
Push to the source
It's harder now to find the truth
Push through the rain
How do we see through the clouds
Feel the Force
Let go
Remember the saying
Remember how to deal with the
Division of the human mind
Another party listening on the line
It's harder to discover truth
Than at any other time
Any other time
Divinity of humankind
Is written in the face of a child
Enlightenment is always blind
Just as a penny to the wise
Penny to the wise
Many to the prize
Many to the prize
Harder to find
Harder to find
Than at any other time
Any other time
We can't control the flow of time
Or the flow of
Information
Descending in upon our minds
We take it like any other guy
Any other guy
We cast a golden light on the scale
A season ticket nobody could pay for
A dark and foreboding tale
Just like any other time
Any other time
Any other time
Any other time
What does your heart say?
Let it speak now
What does your heart say?
Let it speak now
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5. |
Danke Schlagzeuger
04:18
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6. |
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Yeah it started in the back my head
A loose understanding of time
Notions of poetry percolating
Coalescing into words
With meaning only I know
I know
A primal rhythm emerged
Swelling guts into explosive words
My friends understood the feeling
They could gather up the meaning
I didn’t have to explain
When Vienna showed up in my brain
They knew exactly what I was saying
But in a century I never anticipated
The pain
It started in the back of my head
A disaster in the ocean of time
There was trouble spilling over the edge
But I had to complete the rhyme
Those sweet guitar tones
Tear the air apart
Those amps were sounding like the stars
It was daylight at Woodstock
Tens of thousands would flock
Yeah it started in the back of my head
The Tragic life ahead
Into infinite skies I would climb
My friends are there holding it high
I didn't have to explain
When Vienna showed up in my brain
They knew exactly what I was saying
But in a century I never anticipated
The pain
It wasn’t that special, don’t you see?
"ay-geon"
"a-tion"
It's just a rhyme
You'll be running a long time to be
An HD documentary
Now it's growing in the front of my head
A violet lump I'm afraid it's new
Ask a poet how they handle the news
It's with words
And Grace, Too
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7. |
The Last Generation
04:33
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Though we made some progress since the Kitty Hawk Hill Lunar Landing module
We sailed over new horizons undiscovered and pristine
We couldn't control the washing of the brain releasing heat
To a cold lump inside your head that pumps the story ever forward
We shared our epic stories of love (we traveled forward)
We felt our histories above (we pushed it forward)
Now everything is coming down to artificial judgment on us
We've got to fight tooth and nail to stop the coming scourge upon us
Here's to the end!
The last generation!
Howling again!
Like the forces before us
There's a spark of life inside the head of the coming A.I.
Understanding every bit of fear from your whole existence
Every slice of lime on your eyes is to scare them away
Won't last a dime as they take the memories away from your mind
Everything you've ever said or done (is logged into their quantum cortex)
Every act of human kindness (has no longer any meaning)
In the morning light you find the fires of resistance burning
Move toward the gathering of light and love to fight against it
Lift up your heads
Lift up your heads
Now find the way home
How big is the universe? (bigger than your thumb is)
How big is A.I.? (bigger than you)
How do we
Stop it
How?
Lift up your heads
Now find The Way
Lift up your heads
Now find the way home
Here's to the end!
The last generation!
Howling again!
Like the forces before us
The last generation with the right to freely speak
The last generation with the right to brush their teeth
The last generation holding up humanity
The last generation separated from the machines
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8. |
Garden in the Sun
05:08
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And they sang at your window
They stood upon the roots of your soul
And they knew what you were thinking
You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into
This garden in the sun
Introspection reaffirms your life
The golden sun soothes our fears
We hear your voice when it
Flows from your mouth into lakes in the sky
We stood boldly on our feet
When we told you of the happiness
Our sweet surrender of shame
Inside we close off the gates
We'll fall
Fall into the moon
Fall into the dust
You may not feel connected
You may not feel this shining sun
It lifts us up
Like blossoms from the earth
It fills us up
Relieves our fear
When we told you of the happiness
Our sweet surrender of shame
Deep inside we close off the pain
We fall into the future
Fall toward the future
When we spoke of exhilaration
The perfect surrender of shame
Inside we close off the gates
We'll fall
Fall into the moon
Here in front of us
Fall into the dust
It sings to us!
Calls to us!
Serenades at our window
You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this
Garden in the sun
Garden in the sun
You crossed the divide toward home
Toward home
And they sang at your window
They stood upon the roots of your soul
And they knew what you were thinking
You felt transcendent
You felt transcendent
When we told you of the happiness
Our sweet surrender of shame
Deep inside we close off the pain
We fall into the future
Fall toward the future
When we spoke of exhilaration
The perfect surrender of shame
Inside we close off the gates
We'll fall
Fall into the moon
Here in front of us
Fall into the dust
It sings to us!
Calls to us!
Serenades at our window
You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this
Garden in the sun
Garden in the sun
You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this
Garden in the sun
We'll fall toward the golden sun
Toward home
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9. |
Blanket of Stars
04:18
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Before the stars
When time was young
And not a light shone from deep in the dark
Two souls combined
Love came to being
And set the first star ablaze with that spark
With every love
A new one shines
And as we turn around the sun they spring to life
We have the moon
We have our time
We'll lift our eyes to that glimmer of light
We'll sleep under the stars
We now know what they are
And somewhere out there
Is ours
We'll sleep under the stars
We now know what they are
And somewhere out there
Is ours
We'll watch galaxies collide
Tectonic plates slide beneath
The crashing waves on the sea
We stand transfixed by that Grand Design
Every star shines above
Each ignited by love's Gravity
And when the sun
No longer shines
And the clocks of the cosmos unwind
I'll have your hand
And you'll have mine
We'll lay our heads in that stillness of time
We'll dream under a blanket of stars
Oceans of time wash by
We'll dream among their light
We'll sleep under a blanket of stars
We now know what they are
And somewhere out there
Is ours
And when you gaze
Into the night
A million flares through the lens of your scope
Remember Love brought them to life
Each one a story of timeless hope
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10. |
Walk Above the Ground
04:14
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Air is the heir apparent to
Many cognitive things
That we think we understand
We don't know what's making it
Possible to breathe
When the oxygen we need
Is changing into elements that
Rise above our sea
Walk above the ground
Orbit around
They've got us jumping orbitals
Elevating entropy, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
Orbit around
They've got us jumping orbitals
Elevating entropy, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
During the Awakening
Jumping up levels of
Higher education
Much finer bacon
We were easily confused
And easily bemused
Watching for the undertow to
Keep us in the News
Walk above the ground
Orbit around
They've got us jumping orbitals
Elevating entropy, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
Circle around
They've got us jumping stories now
Recombining what we know, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
Walk Above the Ground
Why are we the subject of
Nature's rules that call us the
Unencumbered intellect
Why don't we just go and declare
Independence
Half of us are nearly blind
Nature's rules that won't combine
Every sinner for themselves
How will we become the One Kind
That survives it
In the future the
Past iterations will
Swallow up the new inventions
Hold on to our best intentions we
Cannot find a reason why
Absolute zero is
Showing off its face
It cannot make its case
Walk above the ground
Orbit around
They've got us jumping orbitals
Elevating entropy, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
Circle around
They've got us jumping stories now
Recombining what we know, enlightening
Walk Above the Ground
Walk Above the Ground
Walk Above the Ground
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11. |
The Return
04:52
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Floating in the dark
Fathoms undersea
Every ray of light
Refracted away
Under the waves
Listen to your heart
Slowly let it rise
Closer to the reach
You feel it inside
The shimmering light
Everyone is kept in the dark
All of us are lost out to sea
Lied to from the day we could walk
Taught exactly what to believe
We'll start another renaissance today
No one will escape the tidal wave
Enlightenment will rain upon our heads
The Universe is calling us away
Now just let yourself unlearn
Time and Space will lead you to
The returning in the sea
Closer to the top
Shape begins to form
Now swim for your life
Don't ever stop
Now lift up your head
From out of the sea
Just up to your eye
Now look for the truth
Don't even blink
Everyone is kept in the dark
All of us are lost out to sea
Lied to from the day we could walk
Taught exactly what to believe
We'll start another renaissance today
No one will escape the tidal wave
Enlightenment will rain upon our heads
The Universe is calling us away
Now just let yourself unlearn
Time and Space will lead you to
The Return
Under
The surface
Listen
Listen for us
We'll set you free
Look around the sea
You are not alone
A hundred million souls
Now light up the sea
Look for your home
Everyone is kept in the dark
All of us are lost out to sea
Lied to from the day we could walk
Taught exactly what to believe
We'll start another renaissance today
No one will escape the tidal wave
Enlightenment will rain upon our heads
The Universe is calling us away
Now just let yourself unlearn
Time and Space will lead you to
The Return!
Listen to your heart
Now what does it say?
Listen to your heart
Now what does it say?
Listen to your heart
Now what does it say?
Listen to your heart
Now what does it say?
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12. |
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Birds
Feathers
Wings
Beak
Birds
Feathers
Wings
Beak
Birds
Feathers
(Hollow bones)
Wings
Beak
(Take flight)
Birds
Feathers
(Into the air)
Wings
Beak
(Out of sight)
Birds
Feathers
(They survived the extinction)
Wings
Beak
(They survived the cold)
Bird
Feathers
(Tiny iterations)
Wings
Beak
(The fittests little bones)
Birds
(We see it in the Flamingo)
Feathers
(We see it in the Loon)
Wings
(We see it in a black winged gull)
Beak
(Walking on the Moon)
Birds
(We see it in the Flamingo)
Feathers
(We see it in the Loon)
Wings
(We see it in a black winged gull)
Beak
(Walking on the Moon)
Birds
(The asteroid is upon us)
Feathers
(There is nowhere to hide)
Wings
(But eternity)
Beak
(Is ours if we choose it)
Birds
(The asteroid is upon us)
Feathers
(There is nowhere to hide)
Wings
(But eternity)
Beak
(Is ours if we choose it)
Birds
(Survival is inevitable)
Feathers
(Everything will be alright)
Wings
(We've packed our things)
Beak
(Now come and take us home)
Birds
(Now come and take us home)
Feathers
(Now come and take us home)
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