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Reset
02:55
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Remade
Always set in motion
Forward progress, future gain
Replace
Augment hearts like automata
Let no human error remain
Reset this collective disorder
On the eve of an alibi
Behold, it’s a new world order
Where machine is a state of mind
Receive
The next evolution
Merging mindsets we’ve amassed
Reverse
Engineer a new race
Made in our image at last
The chief end of man is his own end
Divided
Relapse in attention disorder
With the promise of compromise
Play God with a dangerous order
That will alter the fabric of life
An attempt to self-actualize
Have we all up and lost our minds?
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2. |
Phantom Limb
03:18
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The ever-changing world is at our fingertips
Data moves faster than the speed of our ethics
A brighter screen to cause the world around to dim
Curate experience to satisfy the phantom limb
Workplace (now in your pocket)
Clickbait (read all about it)
Shopping (an idle habit)
Scrolling (on autopilot)
Profiles (show your best side now)
Wishlist (you name, we got it)
Tonight we’re lost in the virtual
And miss the beauty as it passes by
Reconnect at your own risk
The fatal crime of a passive life
This pyramid’s so high, it’s hard to see the top
Can’t stop to think or maybe cannot think to stop
Thanks for your patience as an update starts within
It won’t be long before you’re reaching for it again
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Behind the Screen
03:20
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You keep trying to love something that cannot love you back
Its one intent is to sever your soul
Give in now before there is time to react
And find it will only take more and more (and more)
The darkest places are right inside your mind
Begging at the screen for what lies behind
You keep reaching for something but the pain never stops
Shame & denial have become your closest friends
Guiding you along the path while your eyes avert
To run away or slip into slow descent (descent)
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Profiles
02:55
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Color and control
This filter of me
Presets for the life
I want you to see
Keeping friendships up to date/connected
At the safe arm’s length of a screen
We all project to form this house of mirrors
Residing somewhere in-between
Delete my account
Start over again
This time I will capture
My aura, my domain
Show my good side
My profile
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Familiar Alone
04:16
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We’ve all found an isolated home to hide
And yet we search for strangers in which to confide
Vulnerable, left to our own devices that we can’t contain
Zoning out, our tiny vices hardly numb us day to day
It’s a familiar alone
For we all feel it
A burden too profound
For our hearts to take
It’s a familiar alone
But far from hopeless
Our sufferings can compose
Such a glorious weight
Celebrity posts have become our weary guide
As we seek truth through whatever means we deem right
Forgive us, Lord, for we have much to learn and more to learn away
May we gather around like beggars desperate for our daily bread today
Straining eyes for heaven’s light to cut through the haze
The revelation you have waited for for all your days
To reach out for the divine and be surprised by grace
The God of the universe has been calling out to you by name
It’s a familiar alone
For we’ve all felt it
A burden too profound
For our hearts to take
But we are never alone
Cry out for comfort
The everlasting arms
Of our God await
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Luke Chase Milford, Connecticut
Wrote a song when I was 10 years old. Wasn't very good. 20 years later, I'm still
writing.
I'm also in the prog rock band Notion Blue. This is a different creative outlet for me. One where I try not to write prog rock.
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