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Cynic - 1991 "Roadrunner" Demo lyrics



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01. Uroboric Forms

Music by Cynic
Lyrics by Paul Masvidal
Self is the universe, not separate
The state before the fall into self consciousness

Nothing is himself, everything is world

Primordial egg retains
Consciousness unborn
Pre-personal perfection
Bliss's screen yet untorn
Uroboric forms

Find itself as a separate entity
An ego germ is just beginning to be

Wherever there is other, there is fear

Birth, primal paradise
No gap distance or separation
Between self and environment
Unconditional omnipotence

Nothing is himself, everything is world

Consciousness unborn
Uroboric forms

02. The Eagle Nature

Music by Cynic
Lyrics by Paul Masvidal
Learning, discerning, how to arrange
Thinking the haze will just not clear
Viewing, computing, our minds will stage
A vehicle inside we feel the eagle nature

Everchanging river flows high and low
Panoramic vision is undefined

For unfocused consciousness, the eagle nature
Precaution for a stream of risk, the eagle nature
It sees changes clear

A crystal goblet so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time

Noting the fall of a sparrow
Attending the slightest scratch of flesh
Earthly ambitions weigh their share
The vastness of life, it doesn't care

A crystal goblet so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time

Earthly ambitions weigh their share
The vastness of life does not care

03. Pleading For Preservation

Music by Cynic
Lyrics by Paul Masvidal
A choice, a chance to grieve
The tides of change
Plant a seed for preservation

Oils are drilling, whisking earth's insides
Persistence, man's resistance, such a burden
Childhood luck naivety
But she'll get your attention, when you proceed

A simple pattern
Grants a sale to the old fools
Cast a stone

The end of circumstance
Unconsciously needs time to build
Fears inside you
Grow in time to
Plant a seed
Pernicious thoughts just feed
Germinating constantly, helplessly

Now derived from inside you
A fear that reeks a mind misused
Charges fail without values

What vile you lent interpretation

Pernicious thoughts just breed
Scattering, helplessly
Time remains