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REST STATE

from Proof of Concept by GREGORY

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ლიტურგია

Teetering on the edge
Then and there, I understood the end was a black lie
Anticipating every breath to be among the last
A template for everything proscribed

I cannot remember time before my birth
Not even blackness, no silence, no worth

I feel the coming ages
Streaking towards infinity
An absolute lack of sensation
The rest state of nihility

Can anything exist without perception
When nothing has its own reflection?

A flash - an after-image - a soothing requiem
Leagues of caring angels chanting seraphic hymns
Or simply hovering above a dark abyss
I fear nothing waiting quite as real as this

I am on my own. The facts agree
Absolute absence is all I see

I’m trying to comprehend an end
Devoid of all perception
Although I was not, I cannot remember when
I realized my own inception

Light at the end of a tunnel?
Brimstone and fire and hungry naked beings?
I wonder…

Even time will fade away
Space expands in an accelerated dance
All matter gives way
Creation evaporates in photon decay

I try to imagine
A universe without me to feel
I try to remember
Myself before creation: Unreal

Without me, the world will keep spinning on
Three generations of portraits and I’m gone
Nothing but nothing in Deep Time

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from Proof of Concept, track released December 21, 2011

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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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