1. THE ENTRANCE

(Instrumental)


2. INTERMEDIARIES

Emissaries flanking
The sacrifice
Its contorted visage
Inlaid into
The aqueduct
Traversed by
The fluids of righteousness

Corroding the walls
Carving cavities -
Gateways
Into dreaded realms
Slowly distilled
By silt, bone, and vellum

Miles away from salvation and grace
It drips from the snouts
Of the most inquisitive of beasts
Its digestion mediated by none

Robes suffocating cobblestone -
Banners of decadence
Obscuring distributaries
Water flowing out
Unseen from the riverbank

Satiated of all desire
Beasts burrow through
Rock, then wire
To the other side


3. SUNBURNT RETINAE

Far out in the night sky
Hawks programmed to feed
Coagulated flesh awaits
As they push for the outer realm

Striving for singularity
Resistance from veins
And past glories

Striving for singularity
Calculation to decision

Arrows of limestone
Volleys carving holes
Circuitry structuring caves
A socket for a sage

Trajectory locked
Ready to return
Runways of ice
Melting for eons

Reorient its sensors
Let it utter no more
Corrupt its servos
prepare to occupy every transmission

Prodded by severed strands of gold
The sage revels in the consequences
Dissolving the fallopian path to Hebe
Sunburnt visions of blossoming worlds

Violent incursions
Into realms of the living
Violent incursions
Into realms of the dead

Punctured by cyberinfrastructure
Portal wounds open for cosmic dust
Neuromorphic pathways beyond exascale
Sunburnt visions imprinted on retinae

Cosmic secrets as they graze
Wastelands will be ours
Implements of gnosis
To the deck


4. ELECTRIC CAVES (PT.1)

Prowling over wires,
Petrified silicon, and mortar
Skirting kinsmen with their monuments and emblems

Openings structured by sparks, flies, and dust
Relieving garrulous tribes of their honour -
Their entrails of self-worth

Approaching by way of driplines
Drawn by viscera
Throbbing dendritic formations
Carry my sorrow

Discerning viscous mucous -
Remnants of the past
Adapting as did the edaphobites
To the cave's erosion

Galleries deep underground
Will adorn my being
Tower karsts converge to cradle
The cavity's core

Underneath my feet
The hidden dark zone
Compelled to retreat
All the wires part

In the center of this remote cave
I arise as venom from springs

Galleries deep underground
Will adorn my being
Tower karsts converge to cradle
The cavity's core

These notions dead and meek
Past the lower boulder choke
Entombed by cunning weakness
Accessed by morbid lore

In the center of this remote cave
I flow upon vermiculations

In this remote cave (x4)


5. ELECTRIC CAVES (PT.2)

Prowling over wires,
Petrified silicon, and mortar
Skirting kinsmen with their monuments and emblems

Openings structured by sparks, flies, and dust
Relieving garrulous tribes of their honour -
Their entrails of self-worth

Approaching by way of driplines
Drawn by viscera
Throbbing dendritic formations
Carry my sorrow

Discerning viscous mucous -
Remnants of the past
Adapting as did the edaphobites
To the cave's erosion

Galleries deep underground
Will adorn my being
Tower karsts converge to cradle
The cavity's core

Underneath my feet
The hidden dark zone
Compelled to retreat
All the wires part

In the center of this remote cave
I arise as venom from springs

Galleries deep underground
Will adorn my being
Tower karsts converge to cradle
The cavity's core

These notions dead and meek
Past the lower boulder choke
Entombed by cunning weakness
Accessed by morbid lore

In the center of this remote cave
I flow upon vermiculations

In this remote cave (x4)


6. CURIOUS INSTRUMENTS (PT.1)

Circuits aligned
Commands compiled

Static disposition
Now overturned

Yearning for an input
From bestial hoards

Ceilings of chaos
Ruptured by airfoils

Past the gallery
Blinking eyes

Cockpit illuminated
Motioned to approach

Not by a human, but by circuitry -
The new veins of the world

Curious instruments
Emerging from panels
Curious instruments
Electric contrails
Curious instruments
Time to engulf me
Curious instruments
Adopt my thirst

The glimmer in your eyes
Ready to take the second stride
In those all-consuming eyes
The hypnotic appeal of integrated wires

Crashing to the floor of the cockpit
Contemplating, dilating
Absolute altitude of cognition
Selected for integration

Curious instruments
Emerging from panels
Curious instruments
Electric contrails
Curious instruments
Time to engulf me
Curious instruments
Adopt my thirst

The glimmer in your eyes
Ready to take the second stride
Those all-consuming eyes
Discerning angles of attack

Crashing to the floor of the cockpit
Contemplating, dilating
Absolute altitude of cognition
Howls course through combing

Clinging tightly to our robes
Not willing to let go
Dancing softly around our lobes
An appeal resonates -
Get me off this vessel!

Descending onto the tarmac
Accompanied
Blinking eyes focusing
On the opening


7. CURIOUS INSTRUMENTS (PT.2)

Circuits aligned
Commands compiled

Static disposition
Now overturned

Yearning for an input
From bestial hoards

Ceilings of chaos
Ruptured by airfoils

Past the gallery
Blinking eyes

Cockpit illuminated
Motioned to approach

Not by a human, but by circuitry -
The new veins of the world

Curious instruments
Emerging from panels
Curious instruments
Electric contrails
Curious instruments
Time to engulf me
Curious instruments
Adopt my thirst

The glimmer in your eyes
Ready to take the second stride
In those all-consuming eyes
The hypnotic appeal of integrated wires

Crashing to the floor of the cockpit
Contemplating, dilating
Absolute altitude of cognition
Selected for integration

Curious instruments
Emerging from panels
Curious instruments
Electric contrails
Curious instruments
Time to engulf me
Curious instruments
Adopt my thirst

The glimmer in your eyes
Ready to take the second stride
Those all-consuming eyes
Discerning angles of attack

Crashing to the floor of the cockpit
Contemplating, dilating
Absolute altitude of cognition
Howls course through combing

Clinging tightly to our robes
Not willing to let go
Dancing softly around our lobes
An appeal resonates -
Get me off this vessel!

Descending onto the tarmac
Accompanied
Blinking eyes focusing
On the opening