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the far enemy

by GREGORY

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1.
Love to the Nth Degree 06:25
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Envisioning a best friend to caress my sins away Someone to trust emphatically To confess my need to play Never so alone as in your company And I would rather not Be Here Now I’m praying for salvation That you might take me now I am stunned into utter silence That you can so easily let this go Years of wasted promises And we have nothing tangible left to show Loosening this death-grip On all the needs and fears I hide My last chance for resurrection I’m more alive when I’m inside you Time is passing; gorging on our dreams Feeding my despair Enthusiasm waning and you are silent As if you don’t even care I fed you my dark secrets when I was enraptured by you Feeling you on the inside is still the best thing I can do Spread your wings for me - Take flight And let me soar into your DREAM A moment of peace in a savage world There is nothing more extreme Your invigorating lessons They bite into my core Soaked in your animal essence And screaming out for more. If you really want to feel me Would you take this kill for me? Experience the pain from my side Love to the Nth degree Abandoned and discarded Just an intellectual toy for you to abuse Nothing could hit harder than the poison words you spew I was searching for life everlasting In your embrace and in your charm Spurious and incomplete I am defenseless and disarmed Denial of your essence – abandoned in your wake I need this to end – Let go, for Heaven’s sake I was envisioning a best friend to caress my sins away Someone to trust emphatically Well, perhaps another day Forever now alone, don’t try to follow me The hunger has boiled away No longer praying for salvation I’ve no more desire to play with you
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Killing the Magic 05:15
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I know experience is fleeting and everything transcends But I hold on to my favorite moments hoping they will never end Time is passing quickly, flowing faster all the time And now I’m losing something precious So where do I begin? I feel a presence in the silence now that I am without you An elemental longing far beyond me – I will forever miss you Cold in the absence everlasting, I Am Nothing is ever just quite what it seems Reality fragments and frays at the seams You taught me that love was ELEMENTARY Then fractured the fable I never believed You quoted me scriptures of fanciful things Of golems and demons and terrible beings But I’ve had my fill of horrible stories Designed to scare children to swallow their dreams But I still believed in you We exist for a moment Every flame burns out The end is not in doubt Nothing lasts forever, of this we can’t pretend Uncertainty before us despite what we intend Spooky actions at a distance Entangled with my best friend De-coherence … the end I still believe in forever but never without you I felt your pain as you let go The struggle to remain - a fading glow Entropy dictates even love evaporates You promised forever and then faded away From the darkest of depths of sorrow I was calling your name Paradise broken – now only I remain Killing the magic I was entangled with my best friend De-coherence… the end
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Oblivion Dreams [remix] 06:47
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And from the garden of our innocence, we were led away into the cold streets to play alone Would you choose oblivion over me? I failed at the game of social integration When I realized your love for me was all a fabrication Was I not good enough for you? Feeding in your wake, I tasted hesitation To bury this stake into the heart of consecration Was I not pure enough for you? I need some kind of plan Something to stake a dream to Can you understand I am for you - Forever? Acrimony burns into the night A chance encounter turns into a sordid introspection Your lust for experience relents to indiscretion Shaking with carnal anticipation Succumbing to this visceral invitation Was I not raw enough for you? It’s your final chance to feel love unrelenting You need someone to hold on to - Forever I will never leave you I will not forsake you I will not forget you I will partake of you If I could learn to hate you I could use or break you Won’t let another take you For only I can sate you I will never let this go Perhaps this time I’ll get it right From passion to arms – I’m a force to confound you Escalating chaos performing to astound you Was I severe enough? Satisfy your deepest need as I embrace you Quench your thirst for life just in case you Choose oblivion over me No use forestalling now We have played our final torrid hand We have attained this blessed ending Consecration Lay back and close your eyes Shut this life away Release a final time And dream into oblivion You have pursued me You have endured me You have abused me You have imbued me with everything that I despise I will never come this way again I will never love this way again I will never feel this pain again I will never hesitate again I will dream into oblivion I will dream oblivion I will dream into oblivion I will dream oblivion Oblivion I will dream Oblivion
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Broken Symmetry 06:15
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When the equation was in perfect balance Our center of mass was love In equivalent measure we partook of that chalice In egalitarian sums: (1 + 1 = 1) I defined myself through you Clear as my own reflection But standard deviations Refracted imperfections We were the essence of the quintessential Balanced emotional equation Teetering on the proverbial edge We redefined elation Subservient to none but each other we learned to fly I had tried to impress upon you The fact that things were going wrong Diverging, I confess to you I was never that strong Never that strong A part of me was masking the fact that I knew you were falling away A part of you was basking in that Radiant love as I bled away Flowing in parallel streams Entwined in perfect union But the pattern frayed between the seams Broken COMMUNION We frolicked existential hard core elated solipsism We demarcated quintessential virtual immersive duality Orbits in decay You are spiraling away Our tapestry has frayed Unraveled and splayed Decision through inaction We’ve broken symmetry A contemptuous reaction This, our final travesty Some things are intrinsic and irrevocable Some things we could have changed Not the first time but the last time We lost our way I was pleading fervently To balance this tumultuous equation The scales are wavering precariously Trending toward emotive devastation Our World Lines diverge asymptotically We are forever breaking symmetry Broken Symmetry Pardon me for asking What more could you derive from me? Despite our bouts of passion We’re breaking symmetry
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Dark Flow 06:52
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Harrowing in patient darkness A germinating singularity Pulling at the carnal essence Of my Particular Velocity Lingering between the pain of absence And the eagerness to delve into something new In my Darkling thoughts, I forgot about you Right then I was granted an epiphanous insight Into a world that had been hidden from me It was obvious states were changing Redefining our Future Histories Redesign our subtle nature Obfuscated by deception and scorn I only realized it later We were shattered and torn I rearrange our broken pieces Patterns align anew Endeavoring to forget everything As if I never knew you In the Dark Flow We are traveling in the same direction Our universal flow Even the Great Attractor bows unto the Dark Flow Something in the way we said goodbye Left a scar upon my life And I will never be the same, I know Shattered by your cultivated lies Discharging bitterness and strife A suffocated flame – let go Only one path remains I will never feel the same I’ve no desire to even the score I don’t even want to play anymore I’ve no fear of what’s in store It’s inevitable, so here we go The entire Universe succumbs to the Dark Flow The whole Web expanding As the tearing of my heart My emotive calcification Tends the withering of your charms Times like these are pungent and alive And I’ve grown to know them well The permanence of love for which we strive Has decayed into this manufactured Hell The distance between lonely spaces Expands forever beyond our view Nothing short of resurrection could rectify my grief Divergent paths through all Eternity Do you ever wonder where we’re going? Are we on contiguous trajectories? Subtracting lifetimes from the Sum of our Histories Something in the way we said goodbye Forced a vector change inside me And I know not where I go Something in the way we said goodbye Left a scar upon my life And I will never burn the same, I know The entire Universe succumbs to the Dark Flow
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The Age of Reason 05:52
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"Science is more than a body of knowledge.It's a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the Universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs to the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along." - Carl Sagan I remember the caustic, Sunday school lessons hammered into me Outrageous and fanciful explanations fraught with impossibilities Faith is the tepid end of investigation A cold stagnation If we never question we will never grow It’s the Age of Reason And now we know we have nothing to fear From fairy tales and superstition I’ve always found magical explanations difficult to believe Holy extrapolations break down with honest and sensible scrutiny Claims of magic are but science that we have yet to comprehend We will always learn and enlightenment will never end Intellectual treason – promoting lies to beguile the gullible masses Maintain an ignorant status quo It is a beautiful fiction, but not consistent with reality If you take it on faith, there is nowhere left to grow Dreaming poets flounder Religious zealots cease to learn As scientists dispel the miracles Consign fables to the urn “There are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. Whatever is inconsistent with the facts, no matter how fond of it we are, must be discarded or revised.” - Carl Sagan It’s the age of reason, we can dispense with lore and religion For the Truth we can no longer ignore The Age of Reason We are striving to understand the world Faith is anathema to curiosity The Age of Reason Science is not perfect; It's only a tool. But it's the best tool we have. - Carl Sagan
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The Far Enemy 04:17
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In the beginning our search for answers Failed to alleviate life’s afflictions We created gods and magical masters But religion yielded no predictions Our original sin was simple abdication Of our innate responsibility To learn and grow through investigation To come to grips with reality Science alone foretells the future Through laborious experimentation What little we know is better than praying For some magical explanation I would rather have questions I cannot answer Than answers I cannot question That fear to learn what we do not know Is the Far Enemy Our Exodus from ignorant savagery Was a long and arduous path But when we dispensed with the pomp and pageantry Science dispelled witchcraft But there are those who fear the change For they have authored this tyrannical delusion They wield the fear of god to suppress inquiry Time to dismantle this institution History is fraught with crimes of subjective validation A litany of caustic rhymes and defiled elucidations By now, we should know better than this And forgo our ignorant past Denounce this petulant hate Fostered by Religion, Race, and Cast We will not bow to the Far Enemy We will not bow to the Far Enemy I would rather have questions I cannot answer Than answers I cannot question That fear to learn what we do not know Is the Far Enemy I will never bow to the Far Enemy
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We Endure 07:06
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I remember afternoon time Frolicking with souls I used to know Excited just to be together; Said we’d never let it go Succumbing to the lure of something new Hoping the day would never end And in the evening we would dream Of times to come with our friends But then all of time stood still And we resonated The moment locked into sensual memory There was no more time to kill I could see it in their quivering eyes That realization hit that we would all one day die Time dilutes the intensity Of our favorite memories But the pure emotion remains unscathed So much has passed before us We can barely fathom The tribulations we endured Witness to awesome changes Life in staggered phases Time rearranges everything and everyone And we endure There are precious lucid moments When everything dear comes into focus With grave and daunting clarity we see In these withering spells We cannot escape our human frailty We gather for another passing With haunting revelry It felt like nothing else was real Kind of overwhelming Strangers gathered, refreshing recollections It was erotically surreal, faces growing older Youthfulness evaporated Fraught with imperfections Thunder claps across this Uncanny Valley herald foreboding storms The tempest of entropy 1 1 3 6 4 It’s clear that we are bound together Through our selfless deeds As tightly as we are Through our most visceral depravities But as the years roll by the details fade And from the pain we are spared And we reiterate the best times we ever shared And we endure Live life to the fullest And try to take chances when you can Resonate with family and always have a plan To guide the ones around you That may need a helping hand And love to the maximum every chance you can Hold on to the good times And try to rise above The only thing that really matters is The way we loved And we endure

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released December 21, 2017

Thanks again to King Richard, a life long friend and ally for REASON, for mastering yet another project! kingrichardmix.com

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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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