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Demo

by Retina

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1.
One 05:17
Breathless vitality expelling dust The mother of mothers from which all was born I wade through your radial rejection I see past the spire my kin have erected I loathe in its shadow armed and contemptuous Let them rise from their battered knees And taste the abrasions in blissful deliverance Let the blockade divulge and crumble Rendering revelation For in my dreams I have awakened to a sacred remembrance lost As we plunged our spear through the mammoths side Lucid affinity gently transmitting my body The torrent of vision, infallible and innocent Reclaiming my loyalty to her legacy Her infancy The infant sea
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Two 15:51
Humble children once flourished in discord Primeval wisdom was locked with the tide With wings bound by weather tethered and tangled Reason remaining unborn Confounding visages painted in the sky Justified and gave way for a voracious rebellion Retina awakens diluting the blood of ravenous emperors “What’s become of this passport to consciousness? Should the ill survive at the expense of the humble? My only regret….” The cries of a million now trapped with the whole Death follows closer than reason “Gentle the giant now crushing us all she’s the weight of our past pushing closer We fly to burning horizons we fly” There is no construct replacing this organ Pulsing beats of memory that never forget “Our mother never forgets Surrender to all that you are Break slow Stand at the alter and fall Into memory and regret Welcoming” Believing the hour of death is the hour her children will rest Our brothers will rest “Ride down the scale where no man can breath relieving this chapter of wandering purpose and resist as she claims our bodies” Resurrected corpses float In better directions to complete the whole Lamenting mistaken inception the dawn of redemption brings light to the blinded Rebirth is promised prosperity They wait for the call “Consider my comrade your direction as if you hadn’t a choice and dance in the light of the bay” “For who can surpass this misguided effort Should we not embrace our new welcomer and rebuild and rejoice” “We now belong to our new ‘father’ seized by sea, our withered mother let our ancestral deities stay confined to a page” “Voyage back to the womb Retrieve the golden grain and rebuild and rejoice.”
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Three 05:31
Nursing the foundry A being of light Transposed from bodies A threat nullified What futile resistance to deluging tide Expendable kingdoms compacted to dust But were they not children with vast aspiration, Too bold for their conscience to bear, Emulating their mother Benevolent factions warring for dominance Each in pursuit of frivolous outcomes A manifestation of the influence of gravity’s pull Forcing consumption, destruction, and rebirth

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released August 27, 2012

Recorded and Mixed at Legitimate Business in Greensboro by Kris Hilbert

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