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The Reckoning
04:57
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The time has arrived/This is where you make your choice
This is where you take your stand/This is where the heavens meet the earth
And everything you ever believed/Crumbles into the dirt
For these are the days of the reckoning/These are the days we came here for.
Come, Come, whoever you are/Wanderer, Dreamer, Lover, Schemer.
It doesn’t matter. We don’t care/This is not a refuge of despair.
Even if they’ve broken you A thousand times/We’ll still go forth.
Come, Come, whoever you are.
Chorus:
These are the days you’ll find your freedoms
These are the days you’ll win your fight
These are the days you’ll become your own gods
These are the days you’ll bring your light.
The old world is no more/There’s no going back.
They’ll try to keep you in fear – to hold you back.
Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.
These are the days to break those shackles.
For These are the days we came here for.
Come, Come, whoever you are.
Our time is now.
Our time is now.
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Running [machine voice]
before we can walk
Talking [machine voice]
before we can listen
Thinking [machine voice]
before we can feel
Feeling [machine voice]
into the Within
The stars our destination
The ground at our feet
There is a place in the ethers
Where we can meet
And I’ll take you with me
Til there is no more
The stars our destination
Running just to Fall
Running [machine voice]
before we can walk
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I feel like I’m surfing now
The waves are riding high
I can feel the waters soaring
I can feel the storm surge rising
The cosmic winds are blowing
The earth is shaking down below
Yet all I know is that I’m going out
To surf these tides tonight.
I’m a safe-surfer baby
You don’t need to worry
The dark waves won’t catch me out
The deep waters won’t get my body
They’ll never catch me now
Cause I’m a safe-surfer survivor
They’re messing with the moon
I can feel a strange gravity
The waters of the world are trembling
Our homes are under siege.
The ignorant remain on the shore
Fearing the wetness of the sea
The ones who knew all along
Have learnt the art of surfing.
I’m a safe-surfer baby
You don’t need to worry
The dark waves won’t catch me out
The deep waters won’t get my body
They’ll never catch me now
Cause I’m a safe-surfer survivor.
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Alibis
05:25
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We don’t want your false excuses
We don’t accept your sanctity
We don’t want your unholy mess
We don’t accept your puerile lies.
You can’t give us your alibis
You can’t make us your puppets
You can’t persuade us of your blessedness
We know all about your emptiness.
No more passive listening
No more nodding of happy heads
The time has gone for reasoning
With the dark kings of the pyramid.
We see your structures crumbling
We see your petty fears
We see all your plans in disarray
As a greater future nears
We’re tired of all your ordering
We’re tired of your obsessions
We have no need for tyrants now
We’ll never be your possessions.
You can’t give us your alibis
You can’t make us your puppets
We’ve come to tell you the Game is done
We’ve come to claim our Day
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Clear skies, no more lies
The wretched of the earth
Are leaving us.
Bright lights, future hope
The dark dictators
Are leaving us.
Vivid sight, open hearts
The old emperors
Have no more clothes.
We are sacred amongst the profane
We are life amidst the tame
We can be killed but not sacrificed
We can be told but not controlled
We are the hope of which it is written
We are awakening against
The sleep of State.
We are arising against
The prison of hate.
We are taking back
our minds
our hearts
our truth.
We are sacred amongst the profane
We are life amidst the tame
We can be killed but not sacrificed
We can be told but not controlled
We are the hope of which it is written
Clear skies, no more lies
The wretched of the earth
Are leaving us.
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More Goodbyes
02:43
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Dropping down
So many
Without a word
Without a wave
Leaving us
So early
Without farewell
Without knowing
Suddenly out
Of the Game
Without finishing
Without a score
There, on the ground,
Empty eyes
Facing skies
More goodbyes.
There, to be found,
Wondering why
They believed lies.
More goodbyes
Dropping down
So many
Without a word
Without a wave
Suddenly out
Of the Game
No more flame
To burn inside
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Revelations
04:55
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The body is breaking down
The wounds are seeping
We hear now of truths creeping
Out from the mouths of greed
Into the mass society of need
Revelations are coming,
Whistles are blowing
The truths are leaking
To awaken the sleeping.
Your edifice of avarice
Your fortress of gluttony
Will destroy all your false hopes
Your new dawn will not arise.
Your new order is a parody
Your great reset a mockery
Your elitism is a travesty
Within the people’s world.
We await the surprises
That will be arising
From the ashes of the old.
Many ancients have foretold
Of the new times arriving
When humanity has decided
Its future to behold.
Healing is emerging
From the sores of the past
And all the cracks will reveal
The bloody mess of history.
And the revolutions coming
Have foreseen the shadows plunging
From their flights of fantasy
For these are times of revelations
And this shall be our sanctuary.
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Neither Sun Nor Death
03:46
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Can you feel it
Coming in…?
Can you feel it
Coming through…?
It’s coming in
It’s coming through
Rushing across
The galaxy to be
Finally transmuted
Through me and you
We cannot stop it now
We cannot hold it back
The sun shall shine
Like a micro nova
The earth will shake
With a thunderbolt
Call it love, call it hope
Neither sun nor death
Shall tear us asunder
For we are made
Of greater stuff
Let it come down
Nowhere to run to
Nowhere to hide
Only open minds
And a clear inside.
The seconds pass
The seasons flow
The earth is rumbling
As the cosmic winds blow
But everything’s fine
As life goes on
Time around again
And again. And again.
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The darkness has erupted
Through you
Destructive energies race
Through you
Yet your flame is not extinguished.
The shadow manifests
In dark distress
The chaos runs amok
In your murky mess
Yet your light is not extinguished.
Many incarnations will you reap the costs
Many times will you right your wrongs
There is always hope before the end of time
Redemption awaits at the close of your fate.
The dense vibrations
I can feel within you
The madness and disarray
I can feel within you
Yet your spark is not extinguished.
Your harsh lies
Your misdirection
Your falsity
Your misconception
Is all within you
All within you
Yet your flame is not extinguished
Your flame is not extinguished
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Farewell Saturn
04:14
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Bye bye black sun,
Goodbye tyrannic titan,
Your rings have lost their power,
Your stellar age has now passed.
The black rock is crashing.
Saturnalia is not in fashion.
No more red carpets
Alongside your pagan wand
Of broken spells.
Farewell, Saturn.
Adieu dear Demiurge.
The changing of the gods
Does not require you, old man,
Nor your sons of Belial.
Farewell, Saturn.
So long, old light-bearer.
You can sleep the deep sleep
For another great age.
The new world doesn’t need
The old songs of love and hate.
You want it darker but you
Also killed the flame.
Lord Shiva doesn’t dance for you.
Not in this part of the seventh ray.
Your outer rings have made
The final broadcast of the day.
So, Farewell, Saturn.
Adieu dear Demiurge.
The changing of the gods
Does not require you, old man,
Nor your sons of Belial.
Farewell, Saturn.
So long, old light-bearer.
You can sleep the deep sleep
For another great age.
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Kingsley L. Dennis UK
Kingsley L. Dennis has written and published over 20 books. He always dreamed of doing music but his muses wouldn't let him....until recently. He lives & breathes...
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