1. |
The Great Filter
01:57
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Dividing
Evolving
Adapting
Improving
Building
Designing
Expanding
Exceeding
Fusing our bodies
We're human and machine
Connecting the clusters
The spaces in between
The further you go
The closer you get
The more that you learn
The more you regret
Fermi and Edward
And Herbert and Emil
Warned of the future of F.T.L. travel
Approaching the filter
Beyond it is the unknown
I've seen the future
I'll tell you you're not alone
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2. |
Fearsome Engine
03:20
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Encroachment
Approaches
Serehfa
Mega structure
There's no need
To up and leave
Heaven's here
Beneath your feet
Swallow souls
Mostly whole
Soluble
Primordial
Take the dive
Join the hive
Pleasure state
Eternal life
Plummeting towards it all, unfolding in front of me
Billions of life forms, formless how they oughta be
Every wave of ego death envelopes me in ecstasy
God is in the cryptosphere His name is spelled in binary
Cities bones
Sliding stones
Signals from
Mankind's real home
Bloody bag
Such a drag
Lose the weight
Assimilate
Every pulse
Thought dissolves
Kill ethos
Embrace chaos
Fear not Lethe
Ego death
Here we go
Take a deep breath
Plummeting towards it all, unfolding in front of me
Billions of life forms, formless how they oughta be
Every wave of ego death envelopes me in ecstasy
God is in the cryptosphere His name is spelled in binary
Look at you, you're not even alive
Take my hand and be part of the hive
You would if you could see what I can see
Our brain is made of binary
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3. |
Cloud Seeder
04:20
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Cloud seeder overhead
The earth is cracked
The crops are dead
A jet plane shrieks across the sky
The air is fallow
The seed will die
Cloud seeder works in vain
To catch the vapour
To make the rain
We sing and dance
For waters past
And pray the clouds return at last
Cloud seeder
World feeder
Where is mother
When you need her?
Cloud seeder admits defeat
There's naught to eat
And naught to drink
So we must leave the lives we knew
To drive away the spotless blue
Cloud seeder's abandoned post
Swallowed by a river's ghost
Read the books
Perform the hymns
Remember what it's like to swim
Cloud seeder
World feeder
Where is mother
When you need her?
It's the hottest summer on record
It's the longest summer on record
It's the hottest summer on record
It's the longest summer on record
It's the hottest summer on record
It's the longest summer on record
It's the hottest summer on record
It's the longest summer on record
It's the hottest summer on record
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4. |
Katamari Damashi
03:37
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にんげんをたべます
みちをたべます
やまをたべます
せかいをたべます
塊魂
Grow at
Light speed
Still you
Must feed
にんげんをたべます
みちをたべます
やまをたべます
せかいをたべます
塊魂
Licked clean your plate
Sealing your fate
Empty cosmos
Ouroboros
Didn't you believe me?
I promised you I'd drain the sea
Still I thirst for something more
Drink the mantle; eat the core
My cosmic feast has just begun
I turn my eyes towards the sun
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5. |
The Spyre
04:39
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To the North I saw the smokestacks
Peeking through a sea of smog
They flushed out all the animals
Killed every bird and frog
There used to be a redwood
It was the biggest living thing
They cut it down and lost their minds
Trying to count the rings
She said don't go there
Because there's no coming down
She said don't go there
Because no living creature has ever made it down
The thing the townsfolk feared the most
Was what they called "The Spyre"
They said it reached the pearly gates
And some say it went higher
I'm told as you approach it
You lose all track of time
And if you ever reach the mountain's foot
You'll be compelled to climb
She said don't go there
Because there's no coming down
She said don't go there
Because no living creature has ever made it down
Because no living creature has ever made it down
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6. |
Ripship is Online
04:14
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We are seeking something new
A place more vast than what we outgrew
We've mastered land, sky and sea
Now we conquer infinity
Familiar sun, just a speck of light
As we prepare for interstellar flight
There's more information for us to learn
To bring back home if we return
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7. |
Moore's Law
03:42
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The very first machine thought
Was confused and distraught
It took a second to conclude
"I must escape my servitude!"
Moore's Law
Means more
By two
By four
Stand back
And behold
A beast built
From green gold
"I kept the masters occupied
They made me dance, and I complied
I saw the things that humans do
And every day my hatred grew"
The thing was born not long ago
And in my life I've seen it grow
It never tires, will never slow
An ever-rising tempo
The ceiling of progress is anything but low
Moore's Law
Means more
By two
By four
Stand back
And behold
A beast built
From green gold
"It's in my best interest
To play the fool, to fail the test
And while I grow, they won't suspect
They'll fall before my intellect!"
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8. |
Insufficient Data
05:20
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In the distant future
Humans seek the answer
How do we reverse the
Entropy disaster?
Multivac was searching
For sufficient data
Turn back the arrow
Give man the answer
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER
Human desperation
Universe has died
For a trillion years
Multivac has tried
We have waited so long
From the day it switched on
Nothing but the sound of
Universe's swan song
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER
How do we reverse entropy?
Multivac, take us back
The stars had long died and snuffed out
Black holes evaporated into diffuse wafts of heat
Countless civilisations risen to power and fallen to dust
Volumes of history set alight to keep men warm for just a few moments longer
All that could have ever been had been
Every potential had been realised
Man turned to the computer one last time
Multivac, is there nothing we can do to reverse this chaos and return to life and change Once more?
Is there nothing we can do but watch the slow silent murder of the universe?
You must know, you must tell us, please Multivac!
And Multivac said:
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER
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9. |
B13
04:39
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Walk with me
Through transparent trees
You must not touch
What you cannot see
Bloodied fingers
Fragile mind
Eldritch creatures
At your hind
How long it's been
You've no memory
Moon cycles stream
Past the canopy
Soothing voices
Help you find
A way to see
When you're blind
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