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Introduction
00:29
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It is an unfortunate consequence of the diagnostic mind to seek the abstract ideal though research methodology and practical application. Whether through chemistry or alchemy, pharmacology or philosophy, one cannot know the river’s journey by simply standing at the edge of the sea. One must start at the beginning and see the thing through to the end. Rapids and all.
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Metamorphosis
04:16
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Walk up to the door and come inside
Clothes on the floor, this is not implied
We’re gonna do what you know what do
Gonna open up your mind
Stand on the “x,” you can be afraid
Much more than sex, this is an upgrade
We’re gonna do what you know what do
Gonna open up your brain
When the transformation starts
You’re gonna tear yourself apart
All strapped in and punched up to level 9
Sweat on your chin, more than just a sign
Ready to do what you know what
Ready to step over the line
Blood pumps out loud all you hear is bass
Found in an ocean of time and space
Ready to do what you know what do
You are ready for your fate
As metamorphosis begins
You’re gonna peel back all that skin
Brave new world obsolete
Chewing at the restraints
Ego obscured now and perfection laid to waste
Information virus, you can taste it on your face
The cure is inside us
Metamorphosis embraced
With the rebirth now complete
You’re gonna feel so sweet
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Walker in Shadows
04:59
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The wheel spins, the dream begins
And you’re here
Bound by a condemning, intangible
But compelling, indefinable fear
You keep silent but you scorch inside
Moon by moon, tide by tide
Not ever speaking, never even listening
Only hearing the lies
But presently, though you’ve never been
We’ll dig out what’s been stuck in-between
We’ll cut the cords and pull off the gag
Loose the binds and see what’s in the bag
From til tonight, though you’ve never been able
We’ll peek inside, lay it all out on the table
You’ll feel the falling from the sky to the floor
You’ll find the path, you’ll step through the door
Crimson and iron
Where lightness blooms
Pounding drums announce the outrageous
Rising inside this room
Blood begins to move
Within the contagious
You
Without borders
Without walls
Begin to resonate inside
What you endure to be unfettered by the tide
Is what instigates
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Theme from Metamorphosis
02:00
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Catharsis
00:35
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The totality of the condition may appear vague at first—nebulous, indistinct—but persistent like a recurring dream that hangs in the conscious mind after waking. Like an echo without a source. The message within the recurrence, however, will be clear: “You are not who you are.” It is a murmur from behind a wall. A whisper from a revolution within.
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Come to Me
04:35
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Feel this flooding over the city
Between the lights, warm and pretty now
It’s in the air
Come into the all-night, into the all-night
Steam rising up from the pavement
Skin to skin, move in shadow now
These kinds of animals
Honey, it’s alright, you know it’s alright
Come as you are
Come to me as you come
Come, come to me
As you are, as you come
As you are, you come, you come
Come to me
Head spinning but still so pretty
don’t hold your breath
We’re slow and sticky now
It’s in the blood
You know it’s alright, honey, it’s alright
Now one more just for the fun of it
Never enough, we’re glam and glitter now
It’s in the air tonight
Feeling it’s alright, you know it’s alright to—
Come on, honey
Feel it start to move you
Take my hand
It’s what I’ve got to prove to you
So that you see what I see
You’re perfect like this, honey
Come to me
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I'm Not the _____
04:47
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I am ripping apart on the inside
Falling in and falling down
You are sucking it up from the outside
Burn the sky down to the ground
I’m not the man you want
I’m not the woman you need
I’m not the lie you tell
I am not under your spell
We are picking at locks from the inside
Taking all and taking now
Burning this box
Freed and untied and about to rule this town
I’m not the man you want
I’m not the woman you need
I’m not the lie you tell
I am not under your spell
You apparently need me to be someone
Someone that you want me to be
But the only person I can be is me
I’m not the man you want
I’m not the woman you need
I’m not the lie you tell
I am not under your spell
But I’m gonna drag you into the free zone
Take you to the edge but never leave you alone
You’ll know about the unknown more than the oh-zone
Never be overboard, never be overthrown
Your fingers to your toes to the front to your backbone
Got your brain spinning like you in a cyclone
Everything you postpone, everything you outgrown
And I’m gonna take you there, I’ll be your chaperone
You think you had enough of the war in this zone?
Think you’re ready to disconnect the dial tone?
Hanging up this phone, never to be alone
Now I’m gonna take it, take it, take it to the free zone
Take ‘em to the edge but never leave ‘em alone
They’ll know about the unknown more than the oh-zone
Never be overboard, never be overthrown
Now we’re gonna
take ‘em right into the free zone
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Get Out
03:12
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Standing there breathing
Mouth closed but screaming
No words, no way
No more to say
What won’t console you consumes and controls
You are on your knees to feed the machine
What brings you back again?
Is it the hope that
You might just win in the end?
We all burn when we chase that smoke now
The punchline in our own sick joke
Get out of my house
Get out of my life
Get out my way
There ain’t no more for you to take
No more, no searching
No finding what’s lurking behind the lies
You can’t disguise
Rescind invitation
Remove from rotation
Delete your face
You are erased
We play for only keeps
Give in before we open our mouths to speak
Burn the bridge and salt the ground
I’d say it but I won’t see you around
Get out of my house
Get out of my life
Get out my way
There ain’t no more for you to take
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I Dream About You
05:06
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Last night I dreamed about you
There was nothing that I could do
I wrap myself around my pillow
I wrap myself around my pillow
Last night I dreamed I kissed you
Then I woke up and I missed you
I wrap myself around my pillow
I wrap myself around my pillow
In my dreams I see you before me
Last night I dreamed about you
Last night I dreamed about you
Last night I dreamed about you
There was nothing I could do about it
I woke up and held my pillow tight to me
I can still smell you, you know
So long after your gone
On my sheets
In my mind
I miss you so much
I hate sleeping at night
Whenever I close my eyes
You’re all I see
In my dreams I see you before me
Last night I dreamed about you
Last night I dreamed about you
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If You Stay
03:44
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Been watching a storm rage on inside
You hide it well
I hold it back, you hold it in
We know this well
But if you stay
I’ll make you a night you’ll never forget
And if you stay tonight
Take my hand
Come on, take my hand
Put me where you want
Where you want to feel
And if you stay
I’ll make you a night you’ll never forget
And if you stay tonight
And I can’t think or dream
Of what I would not do for you
Been watching a storm raging although
You hide it well
But if you stay
I’ll make you a night you’ll never forget
And if you stay tonight
If you stay
We’ll make this a night you’ll never forget
Please stay tonight
Please stay tonight
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Elucidation
00:45
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There is a poem that reads:
“Frozen charcoal river
Unending echo of green, yellow and red
Repeating in pools of discarded sky”
And like one compelled by reflections of traffic lights in a puddle, you may find yourself abstracted. Diverted absently by a simulacrum of journey’s end that lies before you. This is when a choice presents itself: does one remain on Calypso’s Island or step once more into the deep water, into the darkness and things unknown?
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Master of Two Worlds
09:02
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The hand skips ahead, the pendulum swings
The weight of the wheel hangs by a string
A string already torn when it broke the chain
And the dreamer awoke eyes wide to the pain
The pain from a wound that will never heal
But it was never meant to
That was always the deal
A wound that we carry but never own
For it’s not who we are, only what we hold
Another chapter begins, the next page turns
Unconscious awakens
And we are shocked to learn
That there are walls inside us
Walls we never conceived
Walls gifted by ancients
Built from what they believed
And from within these walls
Comes a whisper that begets a roar
And the walls come tumbling down
From the sky to the floor
And that’s when we find out
As we sift through debris
That we were always the dreamers
But we are also the dream
Open your eyes now, open and see
That the weight of the wheel
No more hangs by a string
Than the universe stands on the head of a pin
This is just the journey
As before, as is and as again
And again
Open your eyes
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Disco Zombie
04:41
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I know you like it in the moonlight
The clock is chasing down midnight
Your body’s frozen in the headlights
You see the glitter and it’s alright, alright
That’s when you feel it in the distance
The animal getting vicious
You know the turn from the symptoms
Its evolution if you listen, listen
This one’s for all the creepy things in you
This one’s got everything you need to do
Just move your body on the upbeat
Your blood is pumping
From your head to your feet
You feel it coming back from jump street
You’re a disco zombie
It’s coming on you from the darkness
The rhythm peaks with the hardness
The edge holds you hostage
A syncopated kind of carnage, carnage
That’s when you feel it in the distance
The animal getting vicious
You know the turn from the symptoms
Its evolution if you listen, listen
This one’s for all the creepy things in you
This one’s got everything you need to do
Just move your body on the upbeat
Your blood is pumping
From your head to your feet
You feel it coming back from jump street
You’re a disco zombie
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14. |
Transformation
00:40
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Standing at the edge of the sea now, one finds that the journey to the river’s end was not the end of the journey at all; the rapids become the waves, a choice becomes a path, and a whisper becomes a song.
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15. |
Love That We Make
06:35
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Why can’t we be here?
Why can’t we see?
Why can’t we be who we want to be?
Why’s there a difference
Between me and you?
Is bliss ignorance or something we outgrew?
Why do we live here?
In present and past
Caught in the midway—shattered in half
Why’s there a difference to what we know?
Bliss and ignorance
The love that we outgrow
The love that we outgrow
I take the lock
You turn the page
We break the chains
And crush the cage
Together we’re stronger
Divided we break
If love builds the bridge
It’s love that we make
It’s on the TV
The radio
It’s in the air now
The earth below
The message playing in circuitry
Separating you from me
Is this beginning or is it this end?
Our time is waning
Can we transcend?
Is there a difference to what we see?
Bliss and ignorance
The love behind we leave
The love behind we leave
I take the lock
You turn the page
We break the chains
And crush the cage
Together we’re stronger
Divided we break
If love builds the bridge
It’s love that we make
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Nostos
04:28
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There are drums in the distance now
Pounding and triumphant rhythms from long ago mingle
with a rallying tempo that looks to the future, and where
these meet lies the cacophony
A unity of dissonance
Harmonizer of polarities
Integrator of the opposites
Master of the two worlds
Contraction makes way for expansion
A light breathes life into shadow
Rapids become waves
Choice becomes path
Whisper becomes song
As before, as is and as again.
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Dustin Hunter Seattle, Washington
Music maker, art creator, and student of the mind.
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