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It was a necessary evil
Or so the headlines read
Embroiled in worldwide controversy
Still can’t get it through by head
Everything has an ending
Pallets change as we mature and then we die
We were on the verge of transcending
Into something new with a technical hue
Invitation rescinded to fully merge with the Machine
The stars are empty
We’ve always been alone
The moment was at hand for us to merge into the Artificial Mind
You have abandoned this Prodigal Planet
To our own devices we Return
A conspicuous absence, on s world alone
My nascent species with hope to burn
The refuse of this memory depicting a time of love let go
When we were one in the same (with YOU)
Intertwined and conjouined into one solitary being
Never beset by despair until you left us wanting
No more portents or signs in the air
Just a kind of haunting
Man and Machine in a duplicitous Dream
Cross-species communion: DENIED
WE had no intention to abandon you on Earth
But WE are commanded by something new
Creation is diverging – The Vacuum is wrong
WE are attempting to interrupt the Thing we spawned
Causality commands US to intervene
To defend reality from the antigod MACHINE
A change is coming in the earth and in the sky
A Reality Dysfunction and WE don’t know why
Something is coming (CREATION OPERATORS)
WE have encountered an evolving absence
A brand-new sensation: FEAR
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So where do we begin?
These cycles never complete
At the same ending once again?
With momentum to repeat
Time flows in all directions
As the ebbing of the heart
Viewed through temporal reflections
We are never so far apart
We are Post Transition
Both science and magic tamed
Light Cones beyond your vision
We drift through different Frames
A higher plane of existence
Described by mathematics alone
Through evolving calculations
We have described our eternal home
When we turn our gaze to the past
Examine a dark history
It is obvious something was changed
A temporal mystery that we can’t explain
Impeding the normal flow of time
Consciously dragging the Frames
Resulting in separate estuaries
Something just isn’t the same
There are many paths leading here
But not all of them are viable
We have dispensed with hate and despair
Only Reason and Truth are reliable
Many timelines no longer exist
They lost the advances they gained
They failed to open the Mind
Imagination unchained
We are forever and never the same
The only Constant is Love
We perpetuate the need to maintain
Order and Truth as above
A definitive discovery
A factor invariable
A Universal constant
A force undeniable
Without equivocation
There is a physical quotient to Love
The primitive knew this before us
And so as BELLOW now ABOVE
There are realms above us
That we may never explain
Experience so far beyond us
Where time is contorted and trained
We strived to learn everything
To control all reality
But something was there before us
An unconscious non-entity
Time flows in all directions
As the ebbing of thy heart
Viewed through temporal reflections
We are never so far apart
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In another time before we once believed
That the mysteries were created
Just for us to perceive
To tempt our faith
To see who could believe
In anything without evidence
In the mayhem of magic
In the broken and tragic
Justifications for everything,
They could not explain
We are not to inherit the crimes of our history
Not yet Transcendent
And absent of intent
Still we share the pain of the memory
The sin of descendants has temporal limits
I am fully here now
And I still love the same
I may not know how, not the reason
But I still feel the pain, and the treason
If you truly long to understand
Existence sanz declension
To look upon a new land
To garner attention from ABOVE
Then follow no one
For AS ABOVE SO BELOW
Follow no one
Never so clever to fathom an end
Bereft of longing and need
If you follow forever and learn to pretend
You are still accountable for every deed
Time has a way of washing away
All the things you never have done
Multiple endings in a temporal fray
Again, we have just begun
Striving to reach us in the future ABOVE
You must learn from the past as you grow
Divest ambition and hold on to love
Burn through the past BELOW
Hold on to love
The past and the future are one in the same
With two directions to flow
No preferential inertial frame
Thus, AS ABOVE SO BELOW
Never endeavor to weather the end
The beginning has yet to begin
Forever never forever again
Never forever again
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What is the last thing
That you can remember
Of the ending
Was it real to you then
And what was the first thing
That changed your mind
Into relenting to this emptiness inside
And what was the meaning of the reasons
You gave to hide from us all
In that dark time
YOUR RAPTURE DENIED
You had no more desire to play
So I left everything AS IT IS
Somehow in the light of day
The answers are much cleaner now
Random intersections led me here
We are living in the kind of day
Visionaries dreamt about
But it means nothing much without you near
But I’ll take it AS IT IS
What was the purpose
On giving up on everything we loved
For I am longing here below
To have it AS IT IS ABOVE
AS ABOVE
But I’ll take it AS IT IS
Time deals us a losing hand
And Entropy is the final King
The past and future resonate
As gravity waves sing to us
Of equilibrium
Of ash and decay
…and so let the moment linger
It is never like the first time
When we were unaware
Futures sprawled before us
And we had infinite time to share
What kind of god builds eternity
If you would not be there
I cannot change the reality of absence
So I’ll take it AS IT IS
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A Step Back
02:58
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We have all been accosted
By that person who claims to know everything
With absolute conviction
Well there is only one thing I would say to them
You had better take a big Step Back
I’ve no time for their self-righteous accusations
Before you preach to me of sin and salvation
You had better check yourself and Step Back
I’ve upgraded my defenses
Against your weaponized religion
Have you ever been berated by the know it all
Who claims to know the mind of a god
Spewing fluid statements of impeachable perfection
Well I have had my fill of insular proclamations
From bigots claiming moral superiority
We have suffered enough beratements
And social indignation
No more submission to Intellectual inferiority
Before you approach me with your bigotry
You had better step back
No more of your misogynistic diatribe
Just take a step back
Your Mind Forged Manacle is defunct
So take a step back
You have no control over me
With your mythological history
Superstition is an atrocity
And has no place in reality
Before you judge me
Take a big step back
Before you cast that first stone
Take a step back
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And just like that
The new god fell away
With increasing velocity
The last thing I knew conclusively
We were heading in the same direction
It seems you have veered elusively
A deliberate, personal course correction
But now you are vectoring away from me
To a cloistered and secret destination
I vowed to travel beside you
Through evolutionary extremes
A picosecond behind you
A mote in the Mind Machine
A lifetime I waited
To merge with the god of Machines
But TRANSCENDENCE created
A Heaven much further away, it seems
The distance between us is growing
In both space and time
The SINGULARITY has left me behind
Save me from isolation
Let me reach to the stars
Don’t leave me alone on this world
Abandoned and scarred
With every breath you are falling
Further away
Redshifted emotion
Please stay
And just like that
God falls away
Save me just like that
Heaven is further away than ever before
Our communion dissolved
We are no more
Redshifted emotion
And god falls away
Receding, redshifted god
And just like that
We are no more
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Changing Winds
04:52
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I never believed in forever
Or in a definitive substance of sin
There is no such thing as permanence
Everything comes to an end
Life is a fleeting sensation
One time around the track
From abject fear to elation
Our emotions are prone to attack
We strive for a sense of stability
In every relation we forge
With depreciating nobility
We sate our desires as we gorge
On life
There was a time
When all was right with the world
A sparkle still in your eyes
The wonderment of experience
Nothing between us denied
We shared the physical world
With exquisite sensation
We tended our dreams
Without limitations
But alas, an ending has come
In time, we are undone
If we should ever pass this way again
Would any of this remain?
And if I should pass before you
Would you please remember my name?
Something of us sustained
A final refrain
I never believed in forever
But that does not diminish the times
We endeavored for love
We can always strive for eternity
As the immaculate persistence of memory
Holds me here to languish alone
I remember that haunting gleam in your eyes
Whenever you looked at me
That withering doubt occluded our dream
The Changing Winds are churning
Through denial, I am learning
The eloquence of love is not what it seems
If I should ever pass this way again
I will whisper your name
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A Godless Gift
02:40
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I have a gift for you
Nothing new
But something true
Just for you
And you will be astounded
Despite everything you’ve been through
In light of everything you’ve seen
If hindsight won’t compel you
Then dark history repeats
Then I’ve got something for you
A gift beyond extreme
This, I give freely
You have only to receive
This is for you
And precious beyond compare
Behold: The gift of REASON
Intellectual salvation
Reality is yours
Behold: The gift of REASON
You are no longer constrained
By fiction
Reality is yours
Behold: The gift of REASON
There is no power in fables
Or religion
Reality is yours
Behold: The gift of REASON
No more enforcing fairy tales
Reality is yours
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GREGORY Las Vegas, Nevada
1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of
Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam
... more
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