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Universe 25
04:10
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Universe 25
Pretend the world is yours
it was made for you it
Evolved and grew as your
forebearers evolved and grew
The perfect habitat
A place for you to shine
As a vulture on the road or
An deer in grassland thrives
You think it's for you
It isn't true our
Kind blundered into form
Accident on top of fluke
It's not for you a
blip in our planet's story
It became and
Briefly so did we
We destroy our habitat but
our world spins on
We can fight nature but it won't
miss us when we're gone
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Cassini
04:07
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Cassini (Burning Up In Space)
Through unknown dark for 20 years
The only one a witness here
20 years of frozen skies
And sights unseen by earthly eyes
I did it for you, the earthbound man
Who cranes his neck, his feet in sand
To show beyond what you can see
As though your planet is out of mysteries
It isn't fair to call me brave
I served just as I was made
I, lone observer of this place
Cassini, burning up in space
I've seen Dione's icy face
And Titan's rivers of methane
Saturn's rings with rocky grooves
And sent my story back to you
My watch is ending, my remains erased
Cassini, burning up in space
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The Last Whole Earth
03:57
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The Last Whole Earth
In catastrophe's face, we say
Don't try, I won't change
Live through all time or die by suicide
Stubborn we close our eyes
I was an american in my country's final days
I was a human being worried for my species' fate
Could we put pride aside and figure this out
Only a fool fights in a burning house
A student of history, what did I hope for
For every year of peace there's been 400 years of war
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Suspect Terrain
04:12
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Suspect Terrain
Countless fables contemplate
Where our world began
A gift dispatched from holy hands
The birth of earth and man
Instead of sacred origins, my story
Is earthbound
Against genesis, geology
Is vastly more profound
No holy diver or divine spark but
Colliding plates and lava floes
Eroding mountains into sand
Compressing sand to stone
Writing history in layers
In the structure of forever
In a way, you don't exist
In a way, you'll always live
A stratum in a long and deep
planetary timeline,
To be a tiny piece unties
the ropes of human time
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Withered Rivers
06:08
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Withered Rivers
Glacial melt in
Azure lakes
Ancient ice
Cracks and breaks
How relieved
the rocks must be
No glaciers left
to pull their teeth
To tear their skin
To form the land
The age of rocks
Is now at hand
The age of ice
Is almost done
Once hidden bones
Lie exposed
The age of glaciers
Will be no more
You'll find the ocean
At your door
Drowned in floods
Engulfed in flames
It was too late for our
Home to be saved
In bare remains
Of once green land
The age of rocks
Is now at hand
I wish you'd seen my planet
As it used to be
Before blue lakes went brown
Before the rising sea
I want to tell you about my planet before
my species went extinct
Before the storms and fires
and my town began to sink
I wish you'd seen my planet
As it used to be
Before blue lakes went brown
Before the rising sea
I wish you has seen how idyllic
Abundant and green
It was on my home planet
Before I had to leave
I want to tell you about the end
A stunning thing to see
It happened just like anything
Slowly first, then suddenly
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Aricebo, On Deaf Ears
04:45
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Aricebo on Deaf Ears
Buildings fall
Roots take hold
Familiar cities
Soon unknown
This human minute
Just a strange mess
In layers of rock
Ages ahead
years to alpha centauri
at the speed of light
to find we're alone
in the expanse of night
In a vast universe
We were alone
We left nothing but an
odd layer in the stone
Our planet spins on
Our forests regrow
The cosmos don't care
We were here alone
We were here alone
And not for long
We evolved, we built
We destroyed and were gone
Our structures decay
What did we leave behind
A layer in the rock
For no one to find
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Universal Veil
06:58
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Universal Veil
I entered this world
Empty
But luminous threads
fill me
a recollection of
The totality
before sentience
I was everything
Universally shared
Unrememberable bliss
A boundless element
Of the infinite
Torn from the ecstasy
Of the limitless
Thrust into the pain
Of conciousness
I cannot muster fear
For non existence
Once before
I survived it
You see the void
As abject, a threat
But I have spent
My life with it
Our experiences live
In dark corners
Not unknowable
Awaiting an explorer
Consciousness is short
but memory is long
My body knows
unheard of songs
A fantasy
Or truth repressed
A tale left out
of the narrative
Express in screams
What predates words
Within me is the tale unheard
Express in screams
What predates words
Inside me is
the song unheard
Being is short
Memory is long
My body knows
unheard of songs
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