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Event Horizon
06:38
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Vice grip of darkness spiraling down
Nil can escape, not the light of hope
Torn to shreds tofore nothing’s left
Mind your place, feet heavier than head
Pulled to the reaches of innerspace
Deep silent unknown
Radiant fringes of white hot nothing
Remind you of home
Crushing destruction
Immeasurable might
Deadly enigma
swallowing light
the higher you are the further descent
in life and lifeless
in-finite polarity nothing shall pass
singularity
Time distorts your screams and shouts
Slower and lower grows a light of voice
And I know you know where we still are
Though now you’re lost to reaches of time
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Empire's Citizens
07:16
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Turning my eyes up to the heavens
I cry aloud for Elysian fields
Though dread the prologue to holy peace
When all the sweet wind turns to decay.
Symphonies and the choirs of angels
Like Heimdall blowing the Gjallerhorn
Have urged the dawning of a final dusk
Invisible and right in plain sight
Mind closed and wide awake, loving dreamland
Slumber a lifetime, don't awake 'til death
Sleep when all of the world's alive
There's nothing to miss tonight
And nothing to know
Forsaking our souls
Here we make of it what we may
A hell when we all just take
We give what we know
Forsaking our souls
Like a painter who knows the colours
But has no image to put on canvas
Light of truth comes into all of us
Though still obscured by raw emotion.
It's the heart, I've so often heard
That will lead a man to his final rest
Yet they can't say just to what he should turn
When all its pounding finally ceases
Trust in yourself alone, alluring lie
Wrapped inside yourself, solitude sublime
Speak and shout aloud to the wind
You want to get your voice in
And say what you know
Forsaking your soul
Give of nothing but to yourself
Accepting your selfmade hell
You've nothing to show
Forsaking your soul
Morpheus told us how we scorched the sky
Demanding hell on earth as our castle in the stars
Contemplate my mystic faerie tales
And only then will you see the cold hard truths of science
The ghost of now said beware of greed
And beware the darkness of your own mind
Lightning payments for an instant pleasure
And a thousand days of bought woe
Waiting for wisdom to come and find me
I choose to see though I am a blind man
Citizens of such a dying empire
That I'm watching crash around me:
Why make your death a game of Complacence
Living without life, decadence forthright
Live although it is all charade
Potential a sickened waste
In this cage with you
What am I to do?
Here, we make of it what we may
And no one knows what to say
They seem so alone
A thousand lost souls
Hope can turn the whole world around
When even the skies crash down
Reliving it all
When empires must fall
Trust that all will become alright
There's nothing to miss tonight
With so much to know
Reclaiming our souls
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Sapientia Mundi
11:32
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I turn my gaze up to the sky
I can see the stars no more
The radiant light and a glowing haze
Dispells the night perennial day
The neon and the argon burn
Phosphorescent filament glow
A fire burns to be snuffed out
The glories of the human mind
Displace the splendour of divine
With the sledge of arrogance
Fortified steel new pestilence
I turn my gaze up to the sky
I can see the clouds no more
Nor do the dragons fly today
But made of steel they'll roar away
The lights ablaze voice in a box
Mesmerising picture moves
Distract a thousand plights
The glories of the human mind
Destroyed by slavery to time
Technologic mind asleep
Cellular dreams the devil reaps
Unholy rites that left our ploughs broken
Awake at night we barely are half living
Blinding red eyes are signs of souls taken
Giving our lives to dreams we animate
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Siphoning Consciousness
05:47
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I'll spend my life to fill it up
Hunting forever that golden cup
Like a wizard with his mystic tomes
And years of wand'ring without a home
Mirror, mirror, on my inward eye
Reflecting what I can't deny
With silence my mentor and my friend
When all around me discovery ends
A crashing noise burning my ear
And draws my gaze from all light
I cannot see when I cannot hear
My mind is sucked away from me
By your prattling cursed entropy
I live among men I know not
And pity a soul who begs for rot
In his coward society he calls a home
Comfort in ignorance of his woe
A soul is sucked out through his eyes
While electrified hands mask all his cries
That beat aloud and call to arms
A thousand million minds forging their harm
A vacuum head confused for overflow
And weighs like water in an iron lung
You cannot breath when you do not think
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Million Mile Man
04:59
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From coast to coast he's seen it all
Avoiding states with helmet laws
With eyes that pierced and knew the void
All have envied the Liminoid
Through blizzard cold, 20 below
His beard bombarded by the snow
Had frozen stiff and broken free
His only trim since '73
Insubordinate when he was discharged
From Vietnam, whole bodied yet scarred
He made his living on odd jobs
With his thousands of friends
Celebrity of biker spots
His road would have no end
Eight wrecks in a million miles
And he never held the blame
A man who lived far off the grid
His bike had earned his name
Miles Squire as he was called
Million Miles, as known to all
His brain had caught him though he rode fast
In Arizona he breathed his last
Only the few had known his name
Was always humble though he died in fame
The postmodern Man doesn't need a home
But the saddlebag and a stretch of road
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The Fire Queen's Song
04:48
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Her haunting melodies drift on the wind
Catching the souls of sleeping fools
Beware of innocent designs
for She doesn't know who called whom
She scorched you, tortured you
She'll never know she caused you pain
The Fire Queen has sung her song
And she left your heart aflame again
With her song she'll lull you near
And her smiling eyes lock you in place
Forever calm you soft in peace
Until she drifts off through the rain
She scorched you, tortured you
She'll never know she caused you pain
The Fire Queen has sung her song
And she left your heart aflame again
She scorched you, tortured you
She'll never know she caused you pain
The Fire Queen will sing her song
And let your heart beat free again
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The Power of Babel
06:10
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Just a gust of wind from a mind to a mind
Do you really believe if your faith is blind
Relations of thought that it can't be a lie
When the substance itself cannot defy
That the truth is unbound
By explicative sound
By a night in the mind's eye
A sliver in time
Clandestine revolution
A new mind pollution
Significance shattered
By a twist on a whim
The communion of masses on invisible boundaries
Carry thoughts on the clouds that we all fail to see
Where the elders have gone with their silvery tongues
That their debauched legacy is all that remains
When politics have lain claim
On the noise that you make
In the sad hopes of crushing
All the thoughts that you save
Clandestine execution
Of public intrusion
What's correct by the state
Cannot be right for all time
By the power of Babel comes division, confusion
That our minds will grow further apart
For the false apprehensions and misunderstandings
For the discord of fools to take root
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Exodus
07:42
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Drink the golden cup of iniquity
While your cattle god cursed you on your knees
Like the hybrid birth to Minos' wife
Gave a face to deadly strife
You glut your gut on bread from heaven
After dawn worms of Egyptian leaven
For two score years seek your resting place
Remember one man can see god's face
O that this solid flesh will melt
When we shuffle off this mortal coil
What a piece of work is man in hell
If he can't withstand his earthly toil
A tower of smoke and a pillar of fire
Is your beacon of hope in day and night
Follow parades to sacrificial pyres
Until your home is within your sight
The bread the tablets and staff enclosed
Behind the veil, curtain of the ghost
As a name evokes what we cannot see
The logos, the reason in eternity
You drink deep the cup of blood
As the hangman laughs behind his hood
The curse of death was made your friend
When your eye's off your life, on your last end
O that this solid flesh will melt
When we shuffle off this mortal coil
What a piece of work is man in hell
If he can't withstand his earthly toil
A tower of smoke and a pillar of fire
Is your beacon of hope in day and night
Follow parades to sacrificial pyres
Until your home is within your sight
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The Professor Phoenix, Arizona
Merch at: cavern-am.dizzyjam.com
Implanted in 2006 and gestating through a number of bands
over a decade, The Professor was finally born in 2016 as a DIY conceptual project drawing from a wide range of influences as part of an exploration into the realisation of Truth in all time and cultures of humanity and beyond.
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