1. |
Life Won't Last
05:10
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It’s never gonna be the same
Alteration comes like a lightning flash
Face the new reality
Preparation for the crash
The will of the past
Will outlive tomorrow
Living too fast
The reaction too slow
The impossible becomes a necessity
When disasters unfold
A societal metamorphosis
With no form of control
Life won’t last
Life won’t last
Failures and futility
Is all that you perceive
Left with the fractured debris
Blinded but free
A polemicized decision
The martial law affirmative
Married with a lack of vision
There is no alternative
Expanding forcefully
Increasing militancy
Violence a necessity
In the (realm of the) dromocracy
A new normality
Shifting gravity
Reversing stagnancy
The restart of history
A worst-case scenario
We are put to the test
Remember your humanity
And forget the rest
Life won’t last
Life won’t last
Life won’t last
Life won’t last
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2. |
The Crisis as Condition
04:59
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Fuel for escalation and disruption
Tensions heightening and erupting
Institutional downfall
Misguided efforts stop and stall
Propagate
Aggravate
Escalate
With the short-sighted solutions for long-term concerns
The problems keep evolving, amplifying in turn
Deflecting from the root cause to maintain the status quo
Business as usual, uphold the flow
Dismissing the signs
Distorting the minds
In a race against time
This is not a crisis
This is a condition
A systematic failure
An era of submission
A slow motion catastrophe
A demonstration of incapacity
Pain and suffering in unequal distribution
Building the ruins of dissolution
Propagate
Aggravate
Escalate
Accelerate
This is not a crisis
This is a condition
A systematic failure
An era of submission
This is not a crisis
This is a condition
A permeating meltdown
Forced into submission
The crisis as condition
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3. |
A Future to Weave
04:00
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Setting course for the endless stream
Engineering immortality
Reversal of past mistakes
A mission of escaping fate
Nothing stands in our way
No limits to restrain
Stretching out to extremes
To fulfill the greatest dreams
Reshape the promise of tomorrow
A pledge to achieve
Resuscitate the will to live
A future to weave
Infinite dimensions to explore
We strive to reach
Divine immortality
As we seek to believe
Utopia, a broken prospectivity
The future is not what it used to be
Revolving trajectories
Of hypersonic speed
Wired and energized
Motorized mobility
Distract to ignore
The glaring gap between
Your hopes, dreams, aspirations
And stark reality
Reshape the promise of tomorrow
A pledge to achieve
Resuscitate the will to live
A future to weave
A steep climb turned futile
As we seek to believe
A fatal fall, an end to our flaws
As death comes to retrieve
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4. |
Last Remains
06:22
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A foreshadowing of ascending smoke
Cessation as the gap starts to close
Observing as the future brightens
With the sight of a burning horizon
Shaping a civilizational tomb
Seek shelter as disintegration looms
A vision of firestorms to come
Step closer to oblivion
Clashing adversity
Disasters and tragedy
A land to devastate
A realm to incinerate
Those who don’t make history
Will be made history
With the crumbling pillars of earth
It can always get so much worse
A test of our perseverance
A challenge to uphold
A threat to our existence
A farewell to the world we know
The greatest fear is to see
The worst predictions come to be
From a lighted spark to full-on calamity
Eruption of war, the world’s hygiene
To disrupt and divide
Separate and disunite
Reconstructing the desert plains
Into our last remains
To perpetuate with violent means
To eradicate nature and faith
To annihilate and obliterate
To disintegrate into our last remains
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5. |
Frenetic Standstill
04:02
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It seems that we have lost our way
Forgot what we set out to change
Fleeting memories we reach to attain
Running faster just to stay in the same place
A paradox of temporality
Processing rapidly
The crisis of time is near
The time of crisis is here
Getting nowhere fast
Grasping time won’t last
Moving for the thrill
In the frenetic standstill
Keep on rushing through
Adrenaline as virtue
This is not a drill
The frenetic standstill
Decreasing spatiality
Global simultaneity
Placeless and synchronized
Altered and compromised
Alienation and isolation
Results of the transformation
The rearguard left behind
Disconnected and stigmatized
Getting nowhere fast
Grasping time won’t last
Moving for the thrill
In the frenetic standstill
Increase the adrenaline rush
Foregone conclusions to crush
This is not a drill
The frenetic standstill
A compression of time and space
As we move at a faster rate
Permeate and outpace
Surpass without a trace
Starving for time
Leads towards death
Or never beginning
Beginning to live
The closer the distant
The further the near
A flattened horizon
Corruption of the sphere
To break with the stubborn illusion
To shatter the temporal confusion
To break the perpetual state
Is to free and emancipate
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6. |
Mutating Fractures
04:44
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Another casualty
Of changing anatomy
Degenerating cells
Succumbing to the death knell
Increasing atrophy
Decline and incapacity
The will to live contracts
As the disease attacks
Will we prevail over this ordeal?
Mutating fractures do not heal
Broken bones do not bleed
Underlying invisibility
Plunging head first into recession
The impending crashes loom
With multiple shocks to the system
The impact an open wound
Like an addict injecting toxin
Directly into their veins
Infecting the social body
A self-sabotaging state
Will we outlive our own ideals?
Broken societies do not heal
When the ends justify the means
The social fabric’s ripping at the seams
Another casualty
Turmoil and insurgency
The power starts unraveling
As chaos spreads from the pathogens
A global order in decline
Humanity’s ship capsized
A deteriorating hell
Succumb to the death knell
We won’t prevail over this ordeal
Mutating fractures do not heal
Taking time that we don’t have
There is no turning back
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7. |
Move in Strife
10:32
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Expand the possibilities
Extend the authority
With power and extraordinary means
Take control and dictate the needs
Keep down, suppress, and exploit
As we reach the tipping point
Moving hastily off the tracks
Normalcy is never coming back
This is the moment
When the future arrives
A critical transition
A sign of the times
A permanent state
Of emergency
A radical change
Of prospectivity
A future we will weave
Out of hardship and misery
Face the new reality
The end of history
To be alive
Is to move in strife
To compromise
And exist in spite
Collective paralysis
Apathy and anxiousness
Stranded in uncertainty
Calling for urgency
The exception becomes the rule
The rule becomes the law
The law becomes the order
And the order must fall
This is the moment
When the future arrives
A critical transition
A sign of the times
This is the moment
Of the irreversible
And the world turns
Towards the terminal
The promise of a better future
The promise is a lie
A permanent state
Of emergency
A radical change
Of prospectivity
A future we will weave
Out of hardship and misery
Face the new reality
The end of history
To be alive
Is to move in strife
To compromise
And exist in spite
To be alive
Is to move in strife
To reconcile
With your own demise
One day the day will come
When the day won’t come
As we take the last orbits ’round the sun
And come undone
Gather under a sky painted black
And strive to cope with the instability
To tackle obstacles with fierce opposition
And strike your adversaries down with force
To destroy and to build in equal measure
To hold onto life through the greatest ordeals
To find the seed in the mold of despair
To maintain a hope against hope
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Terminalist Copenhagen, Denmark
Hyperthrash project based in Copenhagen.
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