1. |
Engage
03:29
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Spending all your moments that pass
Living in an insulated dream
Increments of digital flash
A compulsive pageantry
Dopamine chemistry masks
A malignant disease
Stroking egos dulling a path
To mediocrity
Fattened pigs we line up en masse
A feed monopoly
System babies carry a glass
Of serendipity
The sycophantic wet dream will crash
Like a pyramid scheme
And everything underneath the veil
Was really just a product
Of...
Blind luck
The gallows pole
The gold you struck
A lonely noose
Seduce the lion
Bruise the vantage
Bemuse a fire
Rip the bandage
Spending all your moments that pass
Living in an insulated dream
Increments of digital flash
A compulsive pageantry
Dopamine chemistry masks
A malignant disease
Stroking egos dulling a path
To mediocrity
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2. |
Phantom Mirage
05:25
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Slipping away from fathom’s pace
A phantom is she
Who gods make ample chase
Novelty’s skew
Cursed allure
Is fire that heats
And wakens the reborn
If bluer skies fail to be
Anything but
The same monotony
A heroic dose
Of mind’s intrigue
Will tick like a clock
And brighten up this camouflage
Who rained this warped sun?
Down on everybody on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who wants us to go blind?
Mind blind, on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who rained this warped sun?
Down on everybody on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who wants us to go blind?
Hacking away miles of taste
Vanished from us without a single trace
Conditioned by
Canned routines
Indoctrinate
With endless luxuries
Wandering eyes
Fail to see
What it is
That they’ll no longer be
Muted and fat
And barely warm
Sit in a cell
While grasping onto this mirage
Who rained this warped sun?
Down on everybody on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who wants us to go blind?
Mind blind, on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who rained this warped sun?
Down on everybody on the move
Down on everybody’s sin
Who wants us to go blind?
Peel away
It’s frightening what leaves you
Bleed the vein
Paint life with a new shade of truth
It’s horror that breathes life into new
It’s horror that feels soothed
Can’t keep what you don’t know like
Memory
Safe space
Handicapped sun
Save face
A•STASIS stuns
Safe Space
Fear
She’s a haunt hailing from nowhere
And all her hell is best blessed
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3. |
Eve of Destruction
07:24
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Maroon and disengage
Could it be just folly in the end?
A mirror reflected doom
Could it be just routine miscue?
Say
That I could take a life
Stay
The light of my night
Beating is a metronome
Burning the time
Machiavellian lips
Whispering the sweetest crimes
Ground that once was paved
Washes with the tides of disarray
The night is the weight of stones
That falls on our bones like death
Buried deep small piece of empathy beckons me like a
Melody in the dark
As time still stands still
On the eve of...
Losing all touch of the metaphysic
A soluble cure for the pessimistic
A fitting demise for the chaser of mystics
A soluble cure for the metaphysic
Losing all touch of the metaphysic
A soluble cure for the pessimistic
A fitting charade for the chaser of misfits
A soluble cure for an epidemic
Sign of the times
An inversion of a gift bestowed
Sign of the times
A masochist's art is a twist of the heart
Breeze still swells
Pheromones
We exhale
Damage done
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4. |
Strobe Mind
03:03
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Salient crimes
Lust for high
Mania shines
The fool's excess
No time, no change
The barrel's aged
Brewed out of sin
A soul's nexus
Chameleon skin
Unmasked breadth
Master of spin
A muse's hexes
Unfiltered light
The drifter's gift
Selective blinds
The mind flexes
Like lightning cracking the sky
Sanity bruised
Icarus' epitaph
Electric signs
Blur the lines
Change of the winds
A blues dead end
Dodging the shade
A player's game
A blink of an eye
A moot errand
Buried in trends
A gem's hidin'
Aging like wine
The mood's shiftin'
Simmers like swine
On fires high
An unlikely win
Of strange chances
Black magic bending the time
Devil's excuse
Kiss of death calculus
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5. |
Karmic Resistance
08:00
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It's only servitude
Pay all the scars forward
Rainmaker where were you
When all the trees have fallen?
Manifest
Candle's catalyst
It'll burn while you sleep
Get you moving 'til you get to a
Beat of a sermon so sweet
(Dancing on the laws, singing in the rain)
Fallacies are miles around you hon'
Time to calibrate a moral reset
'Cause your fate is blind to the demagogue shine
And won't it be a shame if you moved on with the flock
Baby break the rules
Don't snuff out the fuse
It's only shades of truth
That the sinner lusts for
It's your living room
On pages long forgotten
Blood lost without a taste
Isn't love
Love lost without a face
Is allure
Manifest
Candle's catalyst
It'll burn while you sleep
Get you moving 'til you get to a
Beat of a sermon so sweet
(Dancing on the laws, singing in the rain)
Fallacies are miles around you hon'
Time to calibrate a moral reset
'Cause your fate is blind to the demagogue shine
And won't it be a shame if you moved on with the flock
Baby break the rules
Don't snuff out the fuse
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6. |
Kings
06:21
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Time ago the world was bought and sold
Hills of conquered fists and monotone song
Aimless pleasers counting plastic votes
Aimlessly crowds bow to darkened throne
Baited cannibals are easier to mold
Kings collecting tears, then turn them to gold
Harbored savages meant to be controlled
Selling out for the next free fantasy
Fleeting crimes will sell
Seeded minds will tell
Broken time elapses
Dulling the zombies walkin'
Caught in a mind collapse
Stalling an endless fucking reboot
Lulling to slow surrender
Appease with incremental poison
Losing is science
A crying truth
A tailspin of consciousness
Moved the bar
An impulse, a stranglehold
Renewed a grudge
A blinding ministry
Broods a lust
Idle hells exacerbate
Masochistic atrophy
Pale fed
Chains are made obsolete
Slaves of modernity
Want a carrot to lead
Feigning absurdity
Kings shaping history
With careful trance
Flawed revelation
Consented castration
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7. |
Road to Serfdom
01:05
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Time ago
The world was bought and sold
Ashes in abyss
Malady's home
Fear sewn bloodless theft
Mastery's lore
Road to serfdom paved from every door
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ASTASIS Austin, Texas
A•STASIS is a grooving, hook rich, prog rock band from Austin. Rooted at the soul of A•STASIS is an appetite for novelty and artistic expression in the context of an impending culture crisis. Melodic, dynamic, and lyrically dense, A•STASIS doesn’t hang in one playground for long as their songs dance from infectious prog riff to funky pop sequence while remaining elusively catchy. ... more
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