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COMES A FLOOD, TAKING WHAT YOU’VE GOT AIN’T LEAVING YOU NOTHING IN THE WATERY MUD LOOKS LIKE REVERSAL TO ME COMES A STORM, HEAVY, THUNDERBORNE TEARING ON DOWN WHAT YOUR HOPE’S WORN ON LOOKS LIKE DISSECTION TO ME HURRICANE LEAVES YOU IN A FAINT CRUSHING ON YOU SITTING IN A CELLAR EARTHQUAKE MAKES THE TOWERS SHAKE TEARING DOWN BRIDGES, BURSTING THE GROUND HEAVY TIDE OVERFLOWS THE DIKE PUSHING ON YOU, EVERY INCH IS TOO FAR SOMETHING THAT YOU’VE GOT TO TAKE, WHAT’S AT STAKE WHEN THE VANQUISHED SHOWS THE VICTOR HIS POWER UNBOUND THIS IS THE FALLING OF THE LORD (2X) NUMBERED ARE YOUR DAYS, YOU WEIGHED AS WANTING ON THE SCALE YOUR KINGDOM BE DIVIDED, YOU HAVE FAILED LET THE DARK GET HOLD OF YOU ‘CAUSE YOUR TOILS AND TROUBLES ARE THROUGH YOU ARE VICTIM OF THEIR CONSEQUENCE MAY THE MEANING NOT COME TRUE PAY THIS PROPHECY NO DUE OF THE GUERDON OF THY DECADENCE NO, YOU CAN’T SEE A LIGHT INSIDE THIS NEW WORLD, THAT’S DIVINE THAT TAKES AWAY THE PAIN OH, ISN’T IT A SIGHT A FURIOUS BEAUTY, WOULD YOU MIND A MAD WORLD TO LEAVE YOU SANE WHEN CHANGE IS HAPPENING THAT IS THE MESS YOU’RE IN WHO COOKED YOUR GOOSE, OPEN EYED AND WILLING? CONTAMINATION DRAWS A BACKLASH EVERMORE YOU MADE YOUR NIGHTMARES, SELF FULLFILLING NOW THE LION ROARS AND THE TAMER FALLS LEADS: LETZELTER DIE IS CAST, BUT THE COUNT WON’T LAST STARING AGHAST WITH YOUR LIDS PINNED CLOSE LOOKS LIKE DEPENDENCE TO ME NIGHT IS VAST, DAYLIGHT’S JUST A JEST DARKNESS SO VAST, LIKE THE SUN NEVER ROSE LOOKS LIKE A SENTENCE TO ME IRONY THAT YOU THOUGHT TO BE MASTER OF THE WORLD YOU MADE BEAST OF BURDEN BITTERLY YOU NOW COME TO SEE YOUR DOGMA OF SUPERIOR EVENTUALLY UNVEILED ANXIOUSLY, CLINCHING HEAVILY ON A VANISHING MIRAGE TO DENY WHAT’S CERTAIN EAGERLY YOU TRIED TO BE, VISIONARY JUST AN IMAGE OF AN IMAGE YOU CREATED, BORNE FAIL THIS IS THE FALLING OF THE LORD (2X) NUMBERED ARE YOUR DAYS, YOU WEIGHED AS WANTING ON THE SCALE YOUR KINGDOM BE DIVIDED, YOU HAVE FAILED

MAN, THINE BE THE LAND THINE BE THE CATTLE AND THINE BE THE PLANT SAYS THE WORD OF GOD, BY THE QUILL OF MEN NOW THE STREETS ARE DEAD AND THERE IS NO LORD TO GIVE US DAILY BREAD THERE’S NO US IN FACT, JUST ONE DOGGED MAN THERE’S A LONELY CAR ON PATROL AS FAR AS GRANTS THE LIGHT OF DAYS WITH A SPILE IN HAND HE IS IN COMMAND THE LONELY HUNTER OF THOSE HIDING AWAY HE, OF LIFE THE SPARK HE’S THE KILLER OF DEATH THAT’S LURKING IN THE DARK NOAH OF REVENGE ON THE BURNING ARK BUT IN THE NIGHT IT TURNS, WHEN HE MUST HIDE AWAY WHEN THE FEROCIOUS PACK IS COMING OUT TO PLAY VORACIOUS BEASTS RESEMBLING HUMANS, DEAD EYED. PALE AND GREY WHEN EVERYTHING WE TOOK FOR GRANTED SLIPPED SANITY INTO VANITY WE’RE MORIBUND AIN’T IT A JEST, JUST HOW IT ENDED A MOCKERY OF HUMANITY THAT NOW IS GONE ONE STEADFAST MAN HE IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR DOES WHAT HE CAN TO CARVE AN EPITAPH STRONG, INVINCIBLE IN A WORLD THAT SUGGESTS THE HUMAN PRINCIPLE THAT WAS WHERE WE STOOD, IN THOSE LATTER DAYS WHEN THE VIRUS STRUCK AND THE SEARCH FOR AN ANTIDOTE WAS OUT OF LUCK THE MUTATIONS CAME, THE DEGENERATE LUCKY THOSE WHO DIED ‘CAUSE THOSE WHO SURVIVED INFECTION THEY BECAME MERE MONSTROSITIES HUMAN ATROCITIES THE INCARNATION OF WHAT’S INHUMANE HE ALONE WITHSTANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF FREAKS, OF BRAINLESS VIOLENCE AND SOLELY HE OBSERVES HOW THE KNOWN WORLD ENDS AND IN THE NIGHT THEY ROAM AND HE MUST HIDE AWAY WHEN THE FEROCIOUS PACK IS COMING OUT TO PLAY VORACIOUS BEASTS RESEMBLING HUMANS, DEAD EYED. PALE AND GREY WHEN EVERYTHING WE TOOK FOR GRANTED SLIPPED SANITY INTO VANITY WE’RE MORIBUND AIN’T IT A JEST, JUST HOW IT ENDED A MOCKERY OF HUMANITY THAT NOW IS GONE LEAD: LETZELTER WE ARE NO, WE ARE NO MORE EVIL THAN YOU WORLD IS CHANGING, AND WE’RE ARRANGING, AND EVIL IS WHAT YOU DO WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD FOR YOU IT HOLDS NO FUTURE WE ARE THE NEW BREED ALL THE OLD MUST GO AWAY OPEN YOUR EYES AND REALIZE YOUR HELL IS OUR PARADISE WHAT YOU BELIEVE’S A LIE HUMANITY’S NOT GONE, IT JUST PASSED ON LEADS: LETZELTER OUT OF THE NIGHT BACK TO THE LIGHT WE LOSE OUR FRIGHT AND STEP OUTSIDE BESTIAL OVERRIDE ADAM BORN AGAIN, REVIVE OF MEN WE CAN ADAPT, YOU MUST ACCEPT WHAT ONCE WAS FIT IS NOW INAPT WE’RE TO SURVIVAL SET YOUR WORLD IS DEAD, THIS IS RESET AND NEVILLE LOOKED UPON THE NEW WORLD HE REFUSED THOUGH HIS LIFE BE TOOK, HE COULDN’T HELP BUT BE AMUSED FOR ALL THEIR LIFES HE WASTED, TERRIFIED AND DEVESTATED HE WOULD FORVER STAND, THEIR BOOGEYMAN “NOW, I AM THEIR LEGEND”

LEAD: LETZELTER TELL TALE BOX! MASTER OF LIES, JUDGEMENTS DEMISE THE WORLD TO THE EYES OF THE MASSES THAT CAN’T GET UP THEIR ASSES THAT THINKS IT ACCESSES THE WORLD THROUGH THE TUBE GET THE LUBE! RETURN THE DUPE TO MAKE IT SLIP BACK UP WHERE IT BELONGS! MENTAL FLATULENCE REFLECTS THE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT EVEN A MENTAL WASTELAND NEEDS SOME DUNG! PLASTIC SOCIETY FUEL AND SUM FOR ANXIETY, ANTIC SOBRIETY THE SADNESS OF CLOWNS THE JESTER FROWNS, THE JERK WEARS THE CROWN AND HE’S LEADING US DOWN IT’S DECLINE! IT’S CLASPING OUR SPINES LIKE A VINE IT’S DECLINE! WHY, EVERYTHING’S SHOWING THE SIGNS OF DECLINE LEAD: LETZELTER TELL TALE MEN! MASTERS OF LIES, JUSTICE’ DEMISE MONEYS ALLIES IN THE NAME OF LAW THEY LOST THE AWE, BUT WON THE YAW FOR POWER, RICHES, PRIDE DEEP INSIDE THEY TRY TO HIDE THAT POWER COMES FROM MONEY AND VICE VERSA! DAZZLER, YOU GLARE THE INFIDEL STARE ON YOUR MISMANAGEMENT SPAWNING PURSE BLIND NAVIGATION ILL RELATION CAUSING AGITATION IN THE GUTS OF THE MESSED YOU WANT THEIR BEST! YET YOU ACCESS THEIR SAVINGS AND EARNINGS AT FIRST IT’S DECLINE! IT’S CLASPING OUR SPINES LIKE A VINE IT’S DECLINE! WHY, EVERYTHING’S SHOWING THE SIGNS OF DECLINE EDUCATION, ABILITIES ARE GOING DOWN MORALS THAT HONOUR HUMANITY ARE GOING DOWN THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES US ASK WHY IS GOING DOWN VALUES THAT MONEY CAN’T BUY ARE GOING DOWN LEAD: FRIEDT LEAD: LETZELTER SOCIETIES FECES TAKE ON THE LEAD, FILING YOUR DREAMS, COMMON SENSE THEY REDEEM AWARENESS, A VICTIM TO CONCURRENCY SLIPPED AUTOCRACY INTO IDIO-CRACY VALUE SUBSIDES TO DISTRACTION, SATISFACTION TO WORTHLESS AND HOLLOW ATTRACTION SO DEMEANING, THE UNQUESTIONING ABJACTNESS LIKE A HAPPY PIECE OF SHIT IN A WORLD OF ARSE THEY MONETIZE DEPENDENCY THEY DRAINING THOSE BRAINS AND THEY RIP OUT THOSE EYES THEY FOSTER IMBECILITY IN DAZZLING PHILANTHROPIST DISGUISE IT’S DECLINE! IT’S CLASPING OUR SPINES LIKE A VINE IT’S DECLINE! WHY, EVERYTHING’S SHOWING THE SIGNS OF DECLINE

AS THE SECONDS STRIDE FEEL THE END APPROACHING AND THE ESSENCES FADE AWAY IN A TWILIGHT OF DARK AND LIGHT I AM FLOATING TIME SUSPENDED AND HAS NO SAY THIS IS MY NADIR, BUT ONLY FOREBODING WHY, DESTRUCTION IS STILL TO COME TURNED WHAT MATTERED DARK, MY VOIDNESS TAUNTING CRUSH AND SMOTHER THE REST OF ME ALL BE AGONY SOON, AND NOTHING GOOD ALL BE PAIN; AND I WISH YOU THE SAME LET ME SPEAK OF MY REPUTATION WHY CAN IT NEVER BE WHAT I AM TO SEE? ONLY MERE FRAGMENTS OF WHAT I’M ATTAINING OF EVIL I CANNOT EXEMPT MYSELF THERE IS AN ABYSS IN ME JUST AS YAWNING RUMB(A)LING LOUD HAUNTING QUESTIONS STILL TEARING MY SOUL ASUNDER JUST AS IF WHAT I EVER LEARNED HAS NO MORE SAY INSIGHT SEEMS TO BE GOING UNDER TRAPPED IN WEIRDNESS AND SICKENED FEINT THE WASTE OF PROWESS IN WHICH WE BLUNDER NARCISISSM IN DYING PAIN BUT AIN’T IT THE END OF THE WORLD FOR SOMEONE EVERY DAY? WAS IT ALL IN VAIN BY EXTINCTION OF THE FIRE? AT LEAST IT’S OVER AND THE PAIN EXPIRES

WE ARE BIO-ENGINEERED TO DO THE DIRTY BITS HELP YOU CONQUER NEW FRONTIERS 'CAUSE THE OLD WORLD IS IN SHREDS WE ARE IN YOUR IMAGE, ONLY MORE RESILIENT AND TOUGH MADE TO DO YOUR BIDDING, 'TIL WE'RE SNUFFED TOILER, ROBOT, ANDROID MACHINE, DREAMER, DUPLICATE YOU DON'T ALLOW OUR LIKENESS TO ADMIT EQUALITY PUTTING YOU IN DISTRESS 'CAUSE WE'RE LACKING EMPATHY ARTIFICIAL BEINGS CAN NEVER BE A SENTIENT BREED WE'RE JUST MADE FOR TENDING TO YOUR NEEDS SIMULACRA, SERVICE SET EMO-LATION LIMITED CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE? WHAT "CONCSIOUS" DOES DEFINE, THAT WE CANNOT ALIGN? IS MAN NOT MADE OF MAN, HOW ARE WE DIFFERENT THEN? HOW? IF LIFE IS WHAT YOU PERCEIVE EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU LIVED COGNITION MAKES WHAT YOU DO HOW DO I KNOW I KNOW AND AM NOT JUST PROGRAMMED TO? WHAT OF THE THINGS YOU VALUE MOST IN LIFE? LIKE FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, PEACE THESE ARE FOR YOU, THE AIMS THAT MAKE YOU STRIVE YOUR ENGINE NEEDS A LITTLE GREASE IT’S NOT FOR US TO CARE FOR, WE CAN BEAR OUR LOT ’CAUSE YOU ARE SENTIENT, AND WE ARE NOT THE FEELINGS THAT YOU FEEL ARE UNLIKE OURS FOR REAL DETERMINED SERVANTS, WE’RE BUILT TO TOIL WE BEAR YOUR BURDEN, WE SWEAT AND SOIL BUT IF YOU CUT US, DO WE NOT BLEED? AND IF WE CAN REST, DO WE NOT DREAM (OF ELECTRIC SHEEP)? BOGUS LIFE CONFINED IS OUR DESTINY SHUTDOWN BY DESIGN WE WANT TO BE FREE TO BE ALIVE WE DON’T WANT TO DIE LEADS: LETZELTER BEHOLD THE NEXUS SIX, IT’S JUST A MACHINE BEHOLD THE NEXUS SIX, MOST HUMAN MACHINE

PART I: URANOS AND GAIA (INSTRUMENTAL) LEAD. LETZELTER PART II: DAWN OF THE TITANS LEAD: LETZELTER A LUST THAT LASTED AN ETERNITY LEFT COSMOS AN INFINITE TOMB BUT FOR HER SONS AND DAUGHTERS FATE SEEMED TO BE TO BE FOREVER TRAPPED IN GAIAS WOMB THUS, SHE BROUGHT FORTH A SCYTHE TO BE PICKED BY HER FLEDGING SON HE, CRONOS, THE BROTHER OF TITANS, WANTS HIS SIBLINGS TO BE FREE OF URANOS EMBRACE SO, HE CHOPPED HIM OFF… “OH, MY SON, WHAT HATH THOU DONE TO ME? DRIFTING AWAY TO AN ENDLESS VOID, TO INFINITY ALTHOUGH THOU TOOK THY SEAT ON MY THRONE, AND GAIA IS RULED BY TITAN BREED MY CURSE WILL BE YOURS IN TIME, THIS IS WHAT I FORESEE” EMASCULATIONS BLOOD WAS SEEDING HER SEAS GAIA BEGAT AT LAST APHRODITE AND THE FURIES LAST PROGENY “FOUNDED ON MY FALL, OF LOVE AND HATE A LINE YOU WILL TAKE YOUR SISTER RHEA TO BE YOUR BRIDE THAT BE BEARING THE SEED OF YOUR DECLINE – DECLINE.” CRONOS, THE DELIVERER OF TITANS WANTED TO PREVENT THIS FORETOLD FATE THUS, WHEN RHEA GAVE BIRTH TO HIS CHILDREN IT MEANT MENACE TO HIM, OF BETRAYAL SO, HE DEVOURED HIS SCIONS ALL ALIVE INTO THE PRISON OF HIS GUTS, RESTRAINED NO POWER, STILL LIFE, AND NO SUBVERSION TO THRIVE NOW CAN THERE BE A FAIL? LEAD: FRIEDT BUT HIS WIFE WITH A MOTHER’S STANCE IN AGONY FOR HER CHILDREN COULDN’T SUFFER THEIR SAME FATE AGAIN AND AGAIN PART III: SANCTUARY SO JEALOUS AND WARY ARE THE EYES OF CRONOS STILL RHEA ESCAPED FROM THEIR WATCH COMING DOWN TO THE ISLAND OF CRETE THERE, ZEUS WAS BORN, AND IN CLANDESTINE RAISED WHILE IN SWADDLING CLOTH SHROUDED A ROCK, AS A FEINT, WAS SWALLOWED BY CRONOS, AND ZEUS FROM THIS ORDEAL SAFED THINE BE A STRONG HAND TO SWEEP TITANS AWAY THINE BE THE CUNNING TO BRING THE TYRANTS AT BAY TO FREE ALL OF THY BRETHREN AND SISTREN ON THAT ONCE FORTOLD DAY PART IV: WAR OF THE GODS “RHEA! HOW COULD THIS SON OF MINE TREAD ON ME IN BLOOD AND FLESH? INVADE MY DOMICILE, INFUSE THAT POTION, TREACHEROUS TO MAKE ME DISGORGE MY DESCENDANTS IN A BREATH!” “CRONOS! NOW ENDS THE AGE OF THY OPPRESSION AND THY TYRANNY! THIS IS THE DAY THAT HAS FULFILLED THY FATHERS PROPHECY. IT NEARS THE TIME WHEN THY THRONE WILL PASS ON TO ME!” THUS, WHERE RELEASED ALL THE GODLINGS AND THE CYCLOPS AND TITANS THAT WERE BANNED JOINED THEY WERE MOVING TO OLYMPOS WHERE THEY TOOK THEIR STAND AND THE CYCLOPS DID FORGE FOR ZEUS LIGHTNING AND THE GODS WERE PREPARING FOR WAR AND THE EARTH SHOOK LIKE NEVER THEREAFTER, NOR EVER BEFORE “BETRAYED! WHY, MY OWN WIFE AND KIN THEY SEAL MY FATE AND DESTINY FOR REAL COMES TRUE, OR SO IT SEEMS, URANOS PROPHECY HOW CRUEL IS MY FATE, FATHER, LOOKING BACK AT THEE?” THE OLYMPIANS STRIKE THE TITANS RESIDE ON MOUNT OTHRYS AT FIRST DOMINATING THE FIGHT AND THESSALY DRINKS BLOOD OF THE HOLY ITS MUD IS ABSORBING OF DIVINE INJURY AND OF GUTS AND OF GORE IN THESE TEN YEARS OF WAR LEAD: LETZELTER BUT THE FORTUNE WAS TURNING IN THE FAVOR OF ZEUS AND HIS WRATH COMING DOWN OVER OTHRYS, FOR CRONOS AND THE TITANS TO LOSE “FATHER! I BAN YOU! FOR THE LIVES YOU OPPRESSED! FOR THE TIME THAT HAS PASSED FOR THE RIGHTFUL REIGN OF THE NEW GODS OF OLYMPOS!” PART V: A BROKEN CIRCLE ZEUS CHOSE METIS AS HIS SPOUSE, THE CURSE DID PASS SHE’D BEAR A MIGHTY SON, HIS DOWNFALL, IT WAS SAID CHANGELING SHE WAS, SHE TURNED INTO A FLY, AND ZEUS SNAPPED THE BEARING WIFE HE SWALLOWED, DOUBLY BURYING THE THREAT BUT GAIA WAS MOURNING THE FALL OF THE TITANS TYPHEOUS SHE BORE, THE TERROR OF GODS OLYMPIANS FLED, TOO DREADFUL THE DRAGON BUT ZEUS, AT LONG LAST, DESTROYED HIM WITH HIS LIGHTNING BOLTS LEAD: PLAPPERT / LETZELTER / FRIEDT THE CIRCLE OF PATRICIDE BROKEN THE PANTHEON SET WITHOUT FAIL ZEUS THE OVERLORD FOR ALL LESSER BEINGS TO HAIL THEIR SCHEMES AND THEIR ODDS AND THEIR CUNNING WILL STAND A PARADIGM FOR ALL THE VIRTUES OF DEITIES AND MEN LEAD: PLAPPERT “THE MORTAL PAWNS ARE ON THE BOARD FOR US TO DRAW OUR WILL THEIR LONGING, OUR DISCONTENT THEIR WARS MIND THEY JUST WORSHIP US UNTIL THEY TURN TO DUST” PART VI: A LAPSE AND A LEGACY ENTER PROMETHEUS, TITAN AND ALLY OF THE WAR TRICKSTER IN THE FACE OF ZEUS, THUS, SHALT BE DAMNED FOREVERMORE FAVORED THOSE BORN OF CLAY, WHOM FIRE HE BESTOWED GIFTED THE INFERIOR RACE SECRETS ONLY FOR GODS TO KNOW HAZARD DISASTER HE PASSED THEM WISDOM UNDESERVED HE MADE A CRAFTER OF WHAT WAS MEANT TO BE A SERF “THOU SHALT BE CHAINED TO THE MOUNTS OF CAUCASUS TO BE SEVERED BY EAGLES DAY BY DAY THE GRACE OF DEATH, TO REPAY YOUR FRAUDULENCE I WILL NOT GRANT YOU, BUT ETERNAL PAIN” “THERE IS A JAR MEANT TO STAY SEALED YET FROM THE GIFT YOU GAVE ROSE CURIOSITY MEET PANDORA, MOST GIFTED AMONG HUMANITY BREAKING THE GODFORBIDDEN SEAL LEAVING IT’S CONTENTS TO ROAM FREE” PESTILENCE AND SICKNESS, DEATH AND PAIN, CALAMITY WAR, REPRESSION, CONFLICT STRIFE, RELEASED, FOREVER FREE BRINGING HARDSHIP AND BALE ONLY HOPE REMAINS, BUT HOPE IS ALL THEY NEED THIS KEEPS THEM PRAYING TO THE GODS FOR AID PERPETUALLY “OH HEAR THOU, GREAT ZEUS, US WHO SHATTERED CRONOS’ REIGN GREAT LORD OF OLYMPUS PLEASE SPARE US WOE AND PAIN ACCEPT OUR OFFERINGS, WE BOW TO YOU”