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VIVID DOMINION

by GREGORY

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1.
Forgiveness 06:08
“As for me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination.” -Ambrose Bierce, December 26, 1913 Confronting the afterlife, will there be a place for me? Consorting the astrolabe, the heavens reeling toward decay Conforming to endless strife, a stranger in the strangest of lands Contorting through the day, I’m kneeling but I have yet to pray Trading in the service of one god for another Intolerance in details pits one against the other Catalogue a variance to prove a point of view Negotiations fail. And so we go to war for God? I forgive you And all your sins are washed away I won’t forsake you Or leave you here to find your way alone Wicked Whims and Whimsical Ways We are defined by what we crave Our earthly passions fall away As we near the time to seek the grave Killing for a fairy tail we languish in the glory Variations permeate scriptures full of wicked stories If only one faith defines the true theology Then the rest of the world be damned! Is that what you believe? Did I confuse you Citing things you once believed? Did I abuse you In your fragile sensibilities? I believe in misery That a soul’s reprieve Is to cease to be No release from Eternity Repent for wasted Time The appearance of miracles Does not mean that you are saved High science misconstrued as magic Not portents from beyond the grave If I forgive you And all your sins are washed away If I release you From every lie you once portrayed If I can free you Of all the guilt you keep inside Would you forgive me The indiscretion of wasted Time?
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Progeny 07:56
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats - 1919 "Hello from the children of planet Earth." -voice of Rod Roddenberry (son of Gene) immortalized on the Voyager spacecraft - 1977 Are we a Devine inspiration or but a mere fascination? There are dark forms squinting through the void Vile things this frail world must utterly avoid The continuance of peace is a mandated separation Extending an open hand we risk our planets amputation How do we define our synthetic presence here? Born of the Earth, the enhancements are clear For thousands of years we have been refined The Anunnaki improving our genetic line We are the product of accelerated evolution We are ordained to take to the stars Destiny calls us to leave this world behind And seek the Obligate Host Heaven screams to us below Eyes to the sky; Learn and go! By our very design we need to know That we are not alone Mankind In Extremis Progenitors in absentia “Is this all we know?” “That is all we were told.” We have all but forgotten our history Columbus sailed and a continent fell into misery If they come, there will be gods among us (again) Strict benevolence is nothing less than quarantine As Lords of temerity, we are sanctioned To stave off another Maunder Minimum Shorn by severity, we are anxious To breed through the far millenniums We launch into vastness The virus spreads or dies Seeds upon the celestial wind A tempest plague in disguise In these haunted hours left unto us We still covet hatred, fear, and lust We seek to breech biology Horrified, we return to dust We blast off Shems to the cosmic sea Primate fear cast off Behold Humanity unleashed! The Purveyors of Provenance we are seeking To answer for our being No longer confined to a single star The Universe is singing: A chorus of consumption Of predators and prey We live by the grace of a naïve assumption That the gods still want to play The bitter maledictions of a tethered goat We have announced ourselves We are no longer hidden in vacuum The children of Earth proclaim, “We are on our way to greet our makers!” So let us pray…
3.
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 “By this Act of Remembrance, I have forestalled a grievous forgetting and imbued the Dream with a feral resonance of it’s own awareness and thus changed the course of my own redemption five-thousand years hence forth. I have redesigned mine own continuance, a subtle charm to try me again. I am now waiting in death, in this Act of Temporal Attrition, to be beheld once more: the reconstruction of my persona, forever.” - GREGORY 2012
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In all Creation - nothing as pure As curiosity and the primal lure to know A visitation - Angels, for sure! Escape velocity, our only limitation to inclusion We film the heavens spinning, careening by Is there all-knowing structure hanging behind the sky Angels sweep the debated heavens clean of all transgressions Enforce the quarantine And in the afterglow we are alone with no reception A silent Heaven beckons us to touch the sky A quiet lesson reckons silence from on high is quite unnatural There is no God without parity There is no mercy without suffering There is no Heaven without Purgatory There is no life without quintessential death From our very first breath, we begin to die And so we search for meaning – A reason for this life We gaze into the heavens seemingly miraculous With every observation, controversy fractures us I believe in Duality Virtual particle annihilation There is a balance in cosmology Dark begets light or shadows cannot be Faith cannot resist the pull of gravity Hope cannot escape a singularity There is no God without science There is no truth without understanding There is no hope without despair There are no answers without questioning Why would God go forth and create Universal Laws And then disregard them all to humor primates standing tall? With a hundred-billion galaxies visible from Earth We are insignificant and surely not the first The inverse of God is Parity-Inversion Not doctrines fraught with duplicitous aversion to the facts There is no God without absence There is no grace without baryonic form There is no birth without the death of stars There is no end if we do not begin to know THIS cannot be saved Flesh cannot escape the grave God is here, so you behave! Love cannot persist through the Omega Point You cannot insist to take everything on faith There is no God without reality Live for now, not for Eternity We need acceptance without acrimony Pray for devotion without sanctimony There is religion without formality Unsanctioned charity as we have so much to give There is acceptance without monetary gain Open your hearts and eyes and live for the same
5.
Gnosis 06:43
(Antiquus Dierum) γνῶσις Anthropomorphizing God is a destructive endeavor belittling a glorious nature through the eyes of arrogant primates... Something unclean has come To play with preachers Orbiting kingdoms now undone Enhancing earthly creatures One step away from Heaven, their Shems took to the sky on pillars of cloud.... Angels strip mine the Promised Land Hiding in caverns – making plans How can the way be clear to immortality With 43,000 versions of Christianity? “Let us assume that all science is one and that these are its two forms.” – Socrates “In this way, then, divide all science into two arts, calling the one practical, and the other purely intellectual.” – Plato Preacher man says that I am lost Accepts my money gives the sign of the cross Beseeching me to change my ways Then sings this song for the Ancient of Days Why would God descend in contrivances of metal? Or tithe a bleeding world to sacrifice in flesh? The creator of the Omniverse has no scores to settle These are not the gods you sought: EBEs from the Face of the Deep My God has no hair follicles..... Children in the sunlight frolic in their innocence Contemplating payment in spiritual recompense Celibate, they prostate in lieu of desire Preacher says that poverty is something to aspire to Finding demon skeletons thawing in the permafrost Unearthing evidence of the records we thought were lost Excavating Nephilim we revise our history Based on facts not dumb faith denouncing archeology If dinosaurs were demons a mere six-thousand years ago Then who was building megaliths 12,000 years Below the flood line? (Pre-Diluvian-tech) “Back then, the gift was not material stuff, the gift was knowledge. Knowledge is the currency of the Universe!” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos My God would not pretend to have a father kill his son An eye for an eye? How can vengeance ever be Devine? My God created everything – There can be nothing more to find So I’m seeking answers hidden in the grand design of all things "The works abound in such ambiguities and indeed even serious errors, as to offend Catholic doctrine... For this reason, the most eminent and most revered Fathers of the Holy Office exhort all Ordinaries as well as the superiors of Religious institutes, rectors of seminaries and presidents of universities, effectively to protect the minds, particularly of the youth, against the dangers presented by the works of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and of his followers". – 1962 Monitum of the Holy Office.
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Fluidic morning light courting shadows in her damp hair Curtains part in a hot breeze revealing all she shared The crimson view outside this respite is tempting me to leave To live beyond these smaller frames; to achieve (more) And I say, “Let’s go!” (I have something special waiting for you) I need to know (I know) We brave our mortal frailty and lay our flesh on the line For us to breed beyond this, we must leave soft tissue behind Welcome to your new addiction There is nothing waiting for me here In this stagnant carnal continuum “Ancillary enlightenment from pious coital entanglement assuages corporal obsession until I feel nothing. And then I am free…” In the dreary ever-after, there a mystery lies in wait The promise of something singular, I’m forcing the hand of fate I vow to hold deep inside all that you confess to me Languid sensuality – enter into my Quantum Coventry But I will not relent to the edicts of decay I will not forget you as this quick life ebbs away A pledge to lead a full life, catch me if you can Far beyond this puerile strife, I’m embracing a new plan TIME was my sultry mistress, but then that wet bitch sped away Leaving me in temporal squalor to hastily play out my last days I founded a brand new heaven between your world and mine Oh, temptress, grant me one last taste of the Devine If you would kneel before me, I should cast you out to pray But if you would stand beside me, I would honor you through the grave Master of nothing, but good at everything Conceived in subtle madness; So let it be! Just let go and soar with me into this VIVID DOMINION (I will come for you) Take me inside I remember her screaming, “Oh please, just take me with you! I have nowhere else to go" Believe me, I have nowhere else to be So let it be - I found a way around it all… We will never be the same We are forever changed I am far beyond this world; So much more to know! We form our own reality and I say, “Let’s go!” There is something that you need to see within my VIVID DOMINION (and I have so much more to show you) I have one thing left to do to complete my VIVID DOMINION (I am waiting for you) Let’s go!… Explore yourself with me I have attained DIGITAL IMMORTALITY (Lost in the brightness of this moment) Now taste the end And welcome to your new addiction Sensation eclipsing everything I have left… We are all there ever was "I wanted to catch a butterfly, Midnight, but I didn't..."
7.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - William Butler Yeats, 1919, spoken by Tammy Lier Let us calculate the absolute value of faithfulness... As the tide of all things ebbs away A dying choir sings for yesterday Gold bling and diamond rings are left behind There is no finer thing than more time A broken rosary, tarnished icons fade Evaporating holy water leaves an ungodly stain And this is the thing… Like the ache of memories, hate, and blame The pace of entropy tastes the same Another year is gone and passed away The best part of life and I cannot stay A rotting crucifix - Weeping statues wail Rancid wine in a corroded chalice - A tattered veil Lifetimes projected in linear progression The weighing of Deeds and Dreams (of falling) Hindsight perspective - A final inspection An analysis of self esteem And I regret nothing And this is the thing… Was I faithful? Was I true? To all the sanctions that life imbued? A complex conjugate - my other half above Did I pass the Turing test of love? Confabulated ministries playing with their toys Background radiation morphing love into noise A finger on a fading pulse, I close my eyes The edicts of mortality are nothing but alibis Slipping from solipsism I hypothesize There is nothing more… it was a lie And this is the thing… Did I tantalize you? Am I captivating? I did not recognize you I was engrossed in the world I felt the heat as you walked by I should have waited for you There is eloquence in perfect timing There is no use denying a parallel intention Let us calculate the absolute value of faithfulness Did I suffer enough? Am I saved? Repenting wave solutions pound the quantum bay into fruition Unto the end immaculate I have nothing more to say The darkness drops again...

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Once again, this entire original album was a spontaneous creation, each track laid without writing or practice, the ad hoc layers thrown down impulsively, lyrics scripted out when my fingers tired of jamming, the vocals recorded on first take, impromptu and unrehearsed. Again, I don’t believe in channeling, but who really knows…

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released December 21, 2012

Special thanks to the true musicians that appeared on this one: Adam McLean (adammclean.bandcamp.com), Sona Gevorgyan, and Malachi Francis who cleaned up my creative mess! Again, thanks to Huston Barger for mastering yet another album for me. Thanks to my dear friend Tammy Lier (www.TammyLier.com) for her wonderful recitations and continual encouragement.
And thanks to my friend Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from ANCIENT ALIENS (www.facebook.com#!/giorgiotsoukalosfans) for letting me use his voice, his brilliance, and the inspiration for this album!

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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
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