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Holy Madness
05:14
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Rising low in the pitch dark night
Running through the tunnel out of sight
A great hole in the middle of the earth
A beast is born in the cold black dirt
Carrying torches to burn through the rain
A wolf howls, and it's driving me insane
The moon is red, fills the sky with the light
Illumination finally takes flight
Sinking further down through the void
A crow caws in the distance, the land destroyed
The serpent's heir to the King of the throne
Is hiding deep in the castle beneath the Gold
A warrior thrives by his eyes on his keeper
The war confides, the air released with ether
The door is locked, but the dungeon is still open
The gate closes behind the path that was chosen
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2. |
Cathar
06:52
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The paranoiac, the Cathar paranoiac
She rides the witch’s broom
The Cathars flee north to the mountainside
Avoiding execution to come too soon
I can see the witch’s pages,
From which she derives a magic brew
The wet haystack rots with flies
Rotting in the wet humid sun
Miles away, the obelisk monolith shines forth,
Awaiting lightning
A sign from the gods’ throne
The arctic winds blow cold in the night
The evening brings the burnings at the stake, what a sight
For the Holy Grail they’ll fight
England, Languedoc, where will they die tonight?
The Catholic Church shows no mercy
The air is cold, but we hold on tight
The men run forth, hundreds of them
Awaiting an Astrological symbol, some kind of sign
As below, so above
Way up high, from another sphere
A crackle in the distance one could almost hear
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3. |
Musica Universalis
03:21
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4. |
Fear and Loathing
07:44
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Spoken word improvisation
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5. |
Escapade
03:50
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Running around the cage
It seems like its own bad age
The reason is not profound
It’s simply a ruling crowd
And now it seems like its own degree of emptiness
I must confess that I’ll see it more
I’ve seen it before, and I’ll see it again
Until I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead
I’m running around the bend
It seems like it’s all pretend
I feel like I’ve heard it before
I think I’m remembering more
And now I see that it’s only I, the cradle of the sky
A failure of the night, and it seems almost right
But it’s hardly in view, can you see that too?
‘Cause I can feel, can feel, can feel, can feel, can feel
The heat of the desert storm
They told me but I ignored
I’m lost on an escapade
Recovering an ancient grave
The sun burns bright
Through the night
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6. |
Princess Palace
02:48
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7. |
Interlude
01:24
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8. |
Toxic Awakening
04:51
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Future wrath is future scorn
Built and buried, ripped and torn
Whisky carrying a brand new born on down the line
Cracked and killed a thousand times
Single way to justify
Killed the martyr twice and buried him in sand
Wants to get away
Got to get out now
Tries to build his own path, but he doesn’t know how
He shall not find a way
To let go of the sun
She’s blinded by the new rays of the scaffold he sits on
Can’t afford the time to recollect a sign
Can’t afford to pave my own way for another day
Cannot see the light that shines so very bright
Cannot see the daffy circus in my sight
Returning to your fears you created all these years
Celebrating in your own madness all the Time
Cannot seem to find what transcends all of time
Can’t afford to pave my own way
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9. |
Knight of Wands
04:48
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I was riding through the forest, see
And then I came upon a Prophecy
Continued to illuminate the night
Led me to some kind of ancient insight
Where we goin’?
It’s hard to see it
The knowledge stolen
Can only grieve it
This road is golden
Hardly believe it
But this place shows it
Can we agree yet?
I was riding with my horse that night
Continued riding ‘til the sun would rise
Could hardly believe what was revealed to me
And now it’s no wonder I can hardly sleep
Where we goin’?
It’s hard to see it
The knowledge stolen
Can only grieve it
This road is golden
Hardly believe it
But this place shows it
Can we agree yet?
And then I brought it to the City...
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10. |
Hypnosis
02:11
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11. |
Winter King
04:50
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Near Prague, the Battle of White Mountain ensues
Man of Bohemia, Elector Palatine breaks the rules
The Winter King knew what he wanted to create
But in came the Thirty Years War, and by then it was too late
The Alchemical Dream was destroyed by the force of the Throne
Generations of knowledge died, too inconceivable to be known
The Scientific Method was prepared to push aside Alchemy’s notions
The Elixir was forgotten, and along with it, its hidden potions
Alchemist’s Oath:
Will you with me tomorrow be content,
Faithfully to receive the blessed Sacrament
Upon this Oath that I shall here you give,
For ne Gold ne Silver as long as you live,
Neither for love you beare towards your Kinne,
Nor yet to no great Man preferment to wynne:
That you disclose the secret that I shall you teach,
Neither by writing nor by no swift speech;
But only to him which you be sure
Hath ever searched after the secrets of Nature?
To him you may reveale the seacrets of this Art,
Under the Covering of Philosophie before this world yer depart.
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12. |
Star Regulus
02:47
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13. |
Ceremony
07:44
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Cosmosaic East Lansing, Michigan
Dec. 21, 2012 was never about the end of the world but rather the end of humanity's momentum towards ego-centric materialism
that has dominated and reached a peak in the 20th century of history. As the new millenium dawned, we took in the last breaths of this obsession
2012 is a marker point, as the wise Mayans knew long ago, as we shift gears and vibrations into a new Era for mankind
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