SIDE A

1. STAGNANCE

[Written by Kent/Nukaga/Niederhoff - December 1997]

The closed mind of my species
Holds me down to force feed me
A way of life I can't conceive.
Why not just let me believe reality?

All our ancestors'
Traditions have lost meaning
Through time.
The human animal
Falls prey to it's own ignorance
And failure to evolve
Beyond the limits of the past.
And now we're trapped
In a rotting pile
Of human misery
And yet we carry on,
Afraid of change.

Our survival depends on our ability
To adapt to any kind of change,
Especially what we've caused ourselves.
With yesterday's solutions, we shall surely perish.


2. DETERIORATION

[Originally written by Choi/Niederhoff/Nukaga - August 1994
This version written/arranged by Niederhoff/Kent/Nukaga/Ruel - April 1997]

[Speech sample of Noam Chomsky]

Worthless, lifeless being.
Beaten beneath strain.
A life gone to waste,
Struggling to exist.
Born into ruin,
Forced to find a way.
Crushed by all the weight
Of a selfish world.
Live to labor,
Cope with humans'
Endless misery,
Perish lonely
And know no one cared.
Bleak existence,
Fraught with anguish.
Search for meaning -
Finding nothing
But more suffering.

Life on earth - the product
Of celestial forces
Far beyond the tiny grasp
Of human control.
Billions of years.
Infinite evolution.
Human existence
Amounts to the smallest sliver.
Just one more attempt,
Our species is a dead end
In a process that aims
To achieve living perfection.

[Speech sample]

Human's failure to grow
Beyond its selfish hate
Will lead to a stronger strain
Free from human greed.
We will see the rise
Of altruism and compassion
On a scale never known to
Present day human beings.
At that point what we know as
Human will be gone
And a superior
Species will thrive.


3. SYSYPHUS / NARROW WAY (PINK FLOYD COVER)

(Instrumental)


SIDE B

4. OIL REMOVED

[Originally written by Kent/Nukaga/Niederhoff/Ruel - May 1997
This version written/arranged by Kent/Nukaga/Niederhoff - December 1997]

Dependent upon rape to survive every day,
But your victim is dead and she gave you life.
Jones for the fuel, Oil Junkie.
Killing for more, like a fiend.
Stumble and fall, weak and sick.
Tapped the vein once too often.

Oil Removed.
Human Failure.

Human chose its fate. Efforts to escape
From the hell that we create
May prove to be too late.
Crushed by the wheels of consumption,
We choke on the air we breathe.
Blind to the effects of our actions,
We're made to believe that we had no choice.

[Our civilization's unrelenting reliance on fossil fuels is widely understood as a path to global tragedy. As finite resources dwindle, the human recognized the folly of mass conumption.]


5. THE SLAVE

[Written by Kent/Nukaga/Niederhoff - October 1996]

Without cover she becomes
Inhuman like the pages in a book
Or the image on a screen.
Her existence is no less valid
Than those that hold her down.

His guilt is washed away.
He hides the lie beneath
His wealth and shame.

Forced to walk behind, she remains second class.
Stripped of her Self and of her dignity,
Denied the rotting human inside,
Allowed the only power that he wants her to have.
The Slave.

[Our speices has created a gender dichotomy which assumed that differentation is indicative of a superior / inferior relationship. The weaker sex is that which exploits the other.]


6. ERODE THE PERSON

[Written by Harvey/Kent/Nukaga/Niederhoff - November 1995]

[Speech sample of Richard Nixon]

Born into a state of decay
The spirit, like soil, erodes.
Devoid of sustenance,
All life withers.

Infected from the beginning,
Bred of negativity.
Engrave my hate in bitter skin.
Drift into a comfortable abyss.

Embittered from years of this,
Time and time again.
My spirit has been soiled,
Maintained by perpetual hate.

Incapable of growth,
All seeds feed the disease.

I'll always be alone,
Like I've been since I was born.
A battered, weakened stray,
Embraced by my dejection.

Yield to grasp of self-worthlessness.
Yield to grasp of self-worthlessness.

[Each human becomes associated with its environment through a medium it calls the "self". The person that extends from the self to the outside world is nourished by the enrichment of itself, and grows stronger as the world draws it in. When the medium is not enriched, however, the growth is distorted, and is not drawn in. Each seed of rejection presents an opportunity for repair, but as each flaw in the self surfaces, the lack of enrichment becomes a contaminant itself. The seeds of the anti-self are buried deep in spiritual soul. As they sprout, the self in which they drow is broken down, ripped apart and rendered useless.]