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The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic lyrics



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01. Triassic

You feel so disconnected, and yes, I get it
But there is just no point in further confrontation
Disfunctional communication skills
You undermine our mutual
Resolution strategy
With your condescending, patronizing
Habitus of false modest

You feel so disconnected, and yes, I get it
But there is just no point in further confrontation
Disfunctional communication skills
You undermine our mutual
Resolution strategy
With your condescending, patronizing
Habitus of false modesty

A sole survivor
You'll carry the flame

You feel so disconnected, and yes, I get it
But there is just no point in further confrontation
Disfunctional communication skills
You undermine our mutual
Resolution strategy
With your condescending, patronizing
Habitus of false modest

You feel so disconnected, and yes, I get it
But there is just no point in further confrontation
Disfunctional communication skills
You undermine our mutual
Resolution strategy
With your condescending, patronizing
Habitus of false modesty

A sole survivor
You'll carry the flame

You're wandering all by yourself (Yourself)
Across this arid land
Dead trees in seas of sand
You're wandering all by yourself (Yourself)
Dead trees in seas of sand

A dry wind blows
Across the barren plains
Dead trees in seas of sand
Stretching to the horizon
Black trees
Burnt monuments to compassion

You're wandering all by yourself (Yourself)
Across this arid land
Dead trees in seas of sand
You're wandering all by yourself (Yourself)
Dead trees in seas of sand

02. Jurassic | Cretaceous

Pieces are shattered, once again
You're no longer innocent
And no, this did not come out of the blue
How exactly did you expect me to react
When you keep pushing it?
Keep pushing the needle in?

Pieces are shattered, once again
You're no longer innocent
And no, this did not come out of the blue
How exactly did you expect me to react
When you keep pushing it?
Keep pushing the needle in?
(Pushing the needle in?)

Out
Out of the cave
You can feel the weather change
Blazing ardour in the shade
Out
Out of the cave
You can feel the weather change
Blazing ardour in the shade

We thought this would be never-ending
You bathed naked in the planet's glow
But now it's clear: Collision is impending
How exactly did you expect me to react
When you keep pushing it?
Keep pushing the needle in?

Out
Out of the cave
You can feel the weather change
Blazing ardour in the shade
Out
Out of the cave
You can feel the weather change
Blazing ardour in the shade

Radiant collapse
Planetary scale
Our indecent errors paved the way
Truth long known before our last deeds
The world we know will go down in flames

Lie awake
It won't be long
Lie awake
It's coming close

With out memories of a clear day
We're both still here
And the needle head in the sky is on fire
Can you see?

Lie awake
It won't be long
Lie awake
It's coming close

We are just like repties
Giant rulers of the world
Within the blink of an eye
Wiped off the face of the earth
We are just like repties
Giant rulers of the world
Within the blink of an eye
Wiped off the face of the earth

Melancholia has arrived

The atmosphere red hot
From the debris storm
All sunlight eclipsed for months
Photosynthesis all but stopped
Giant forest fires
Consume the earth
Barren trees stripped of foliage
In the rain of tektites

We are just like repties
Giant rulers of the world
Within the blink of an eye
Wiped off the face of the earth
We are just like repties
Giant rulers of the world
Within the blink of an eye
Wiped off the face of the earth

We are all alone
So save your sentimental considerations
For the moment when it hits
No hideout
No safe retreat

Out of the cave
You can feel the weather change

Melancholia has arrived
Antares was a lie

Existential emptiness
Existential emptiness

03. Palaeocene

Broken bones, onward
The seed to be in defect
Open void, silence
We said we would never neglect

The unknown deliverance
Embrace, feel the far
In search, rememberance
Words unspoken, be heard

Give it back, the truth they never had
Walk away from the past that was never there
Raise the sword, slowly feel it die
They tried, we tried, did we try?

Broken bones, onward
The seed to be in defect
The unknown deliverance
Words unspoken be heard

Give it back, the truth they never had
Walk away from the past that was never there
Raise the sword, slowly feel it die
They tried, we tried, did we try?

Broken bones, onward
The seed to be in defect
The unknown deliverance
Words unspoken be heard

Broken bones, onward
The seed to be in defect
The unknown deliverance
Words unspoken be heard

04. Eocene

Charity is your demand
But you never showed me any lenience
Empathy and violence
Reconciled under your austere diligence
How can you see yourself
As a proud child of disobedience
When you just said to me
You've always lived on the leash of my convenience?
(You promised me, you promised me, you promised me)

Charity is your demand
(But you never showed me any lenience)
Empathy and violence
(Reconciled under your austere diligence)
How can you see yourself
(As a proud child of disobedience)
When you just said to me
(You've always lived on the leash of my convenience?)
(You promised me, you promised me, you promised me)

Yes, and this is how it ends
Everything's been said
We're good, we're done now
Purified and calm
Look at me once more before you turn around
Defy the debris storm

Charity is your demand, never showed me any lenience
Empathy and violence, reconciled by your diligence
How can you see yourself as a proud child of disobedience
When you have always lived on the leash of my convenience?

Yes, and this is how it ends
Everything's been said
We're good, we're done now
Purified and calm
Look at me once more before you turn around
Defy the debris storm
And defy the debris storm

05. Oligocene

[Instrumental]

06. Miocene | Pliocene

Creature, get up on your legs
The world around you's gotten more complex
Your needs diversified
Assign priorities, sedate your mind

Recurrence for the weak
Eternal spiral of self-defeat
Set out to find your niche
Relearn how to use your teeth

You are unique
But you'll disappear
From this bleak
Celestial sphere

Time is not
A line to connect the dots

Creature, get up on your legs
The world around you's gotten more complex
Your needs diversified
Assign priorities, sedate your mind

Recurrence for the weak
Eternal spiral of self-defeat
Set out to find your niche
Relearn how to use your teeth

You are unique
But you'll disappear
From this bleak
Celestial sphere

Time is not
A line to connect the dots
Cosmic wheel
Cyclic history, repeat, eternally

07. Pleistocene

We all can only take so much
Some more than others
And our individual tolerance
For stress, for loneliness
Is so subjective
But there's not tolerance at all
For hopelesness

Yes, you sure did your best to smile
When I dragged you once more to the isle
But all the serenity
Just served to augment your pain

You've always been intrigued
By death and the other side
You got yourself too close
To the, to the abyss
And no, no one of the closest ones around you
Realized how your stare turned empty
How the flickering faded from your eyes
And emptiness invaded

Yes, you sure did your best to smile
When I dragged you once more to the isle
But all the serenity
Just served to augment your pain

And no one could tell the moment
When you disassembled
When your restless heart froze
And you sank below the ice
Eyes wide open

Your savior's soul is consumed by guilt
Your faith in him won't be saving you
Your savior's soul is consumed by guilt
Your faith in him won't be saving you

My whole life, I've been searching
Digging deep
Turning over every stone
Questioning everything I know

Maybe there's no fire
Far behind these mountains?
This light is something else
We are just atoms

Colliding, clashing
Melting, merging
Existing, spinning
Colliding, burning
Out (out, out)

08. Holocene

Brace yourself
You feel nothing
But you see
Your limbs are black and frozen

A swell of ice
Descends from the North
Caps the land
Old thoughts under the surface

Lift me up
Into the stratosphere
It's cold
And breathing becomes a challenge

I'm floating high (High)
Bird's eye perspective
Sets you free
Now let me take my distance

We are alone
So save your sentimental considerations
For the moment when it hits
No hideout, no safe retreat

We are alone
So save your sentimental considerations
For the moment when it hits
No hideout, no safe retreat

You feel so disconnected, and yes, I get it
But there is just no point in further confrontation
Dysfunctional communication skills
You undermine our mutual
Resolution strategy
With your condescending patronising
Habitus of false modesty

Lift me up
Into the stratosphere
It's cold
And breathing becomes a challenge

I'm floating high
Bird's eye perspective
Sets you free
Now let me take my distance