Sheltered by the void
Before chance, before fate,
Before light and time became a cage
Before the house we built burned down
Before flesh, before matter and before shame

Sinking in
It feels so warm, so pure
Cherish this space
Build up the wall
Absorb the grace before you

Before God
Before Science
Before peace
Before war
Before life and before all we’re meant to be
Before hate
Before love
Love

The sun and the night watching over me, nurturing me
The sun and the night watching over me, strengthening me

Set me free
Set me free

All alone, stranded, I’m counting the years
Waiting for my ignorance never to end
At last the answers appeared in the sky
In the form of benevolent satellites standing by

Obsolete tranquility now soiled by whirring sounds
The advent of independence
Strings of theory giving motion to messengers from primal times
Violating the sheltering clouds

Cyclic nuptial swirl
Fathers of your world
Swaying, swaying
(Born again, paving the way
Born again, paving the way)

Grab the strings, learn the steps
We’ll lead the dance for you
(Time is nothing as long as it’s not being witnessed passing by
Cosmic laws bear their own conception of what justice is like
Monumental spreaders propagating passion and emotions
Downscaling entropy and chaos into our piteous lives)

Nothing will ever be the same, we’re alone now, together
My race, collective consciousness, but no friends, no God

Silent guardians
Loyal protectors
Distant tyrants
Absent oppressors

Time is nothing as long as it’s not being witnessed passing by
Cosmic laws bear their own conception of what justice is
Monumental spreaders propagating passion and emotions
Downscaling entropy and chaos into our piteous lives

Clear the womb
Surrender all that made you whole

Silent guardians
Loyal protectors
Distant tyrants
Absent oppressors

Play, play with me, play with me, play with me
Lay with me, lay with me, lay with me, lay with me
Eternally

Descending before our eyes
Carriers of our demise
Ancestral floating cathedrals
As they fall, I shall rise

Your design was as sudden and pure as blooms of spring, unfaltering
Though our ending is as certain as the fall of leaves
I heard summers are getting longer
I should have known these venetian sceneries would stay with me, never leave me
But how in the world could I treasure this life sentence when death is but an open door

I failed, I went astray
I never meant to hurt you
How could I fail to see the beauty in all you wanted us to be

My selfish quest for security is leading me nowhere
Salvaging my own integrity, my own impermanence
To hell with chemistry, I’ll leave it all to chance

Barring up sensitivity
Putting up with the levity
Can’t you hear the words I can never seem to speak out loud
Gasoline slowly filling my lungs as I wave to the crowd
I was everything, everything you had dreamed of everything that you needed
I’ve abandoned you, abandoned what I had, abandoned what I was
We’re smart enough to read between the lines
And lost enough to believe what we find
And why would we find our way
When death is an open door ?

As I get to realize
We can achieve harmony, symbiosis
Every breath you take is new ground to start all over again, the five of us

Freight by the winds like spores stuck in a storm
Only time will tell where we’re headed
We may tremble on the way there but we’re carried by the same air
So we will be together anywhere

My selfish quest for security is coming to an end, I will transcend
Salvaging our integrity, our future permanence, unbalanced
To hell with chemistry, I’ll leave it all to chance
I’ll see no casualty, from chaos I commence
To hell with logic, to hell with empathy
I’ll sit back and laugh
Sit back and laugh

Blossoming under sun and rain
All the worry now seems vain
Though I’ll always feel ashamed
I’m just waiting for the end
Let’s drink to the breaking of our dams

Soon all of our threnodies will be drowned out by the sounds of the sea
Soon venetian sceneries will be all that we see
Soon all of our threnodies will be flushed out by the sea

Blossoming under sun and rain
All the worry now seems vain
Though I’ll always feel ashamed
I’m just waiting for the end

I'll be guided by the shape of your dreams
By the sound of your words, of your voice

Ravage my innocence and make me pay
Pay

Scanning my every weakness, locking eyes with my future
My path to be set in stone by forces beyond my control
At last we are sailing over the seas of granite, ambassadors of tar
Now take your leave, and let our lives unwind like clockwork
Let my life unwind

Open the gates
Paint us all grey
Open the gates
Help us mutate

Control is a souvenir
Kindness : debris of the man I used to be
Exposed for the world to see
Packed up for you to keep

Normalize, make the trouble your own
Mesmerize, let them know how you’ve grown
Patronize, let them sit by your throne
Normalize, it is all flesh and bone

Slaves, martyrs, preys, dying to fight for their right to be left alive
Slaves, martyrs, failures, dying to fight for their innocence

Magnets channeling my temper
Magnets dancing and swirling without aim

(Without aim) I’m half the man I could be
Blame the virus inside of me
Breaking my defences
Altering my senses
Fame will not be the remedy
Blame the virus inside of me
Blame the seed they planted in my rotting brain

Open the gates
Paint us all grey
Open the gates
Retaliate, asphyxiate, incinerate, eradicate

Scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape
Show us the way
Paint us all grey,
Grind
Show me the way
Grind all matter to dust

Fourteen years away, who am I to say
Fourteen miles a day, crawling through the maze
Basic intuition to suffer and make suffer
Communication by means of cremation

Time’s right for us to take our chances
Vile hearts and soiled minds
Once desperate to be seen
Now running from the light
And it’s finally time for me to take my chances
Frail heart, noble mind
I was once striving to be yours
Now begging to be mine

Past versions of myself staring me down
Mocking me for the mess I have made, for the mess I’ve become
Every word is armament
Every gaze is violence

Breathless ascension brought down by abstract laws
Propelling me down, the ground won’t stop us
Burn the bodies down, burn the bodies down
Say his name and count to ten
Burn the parish down, burn them all alive
Wives and children, thieves and kings

Rise, rise
Put me to the test
Stand upon my chest
Rise, rise
Bury the waste
Bury the waste and wait

Fourteen steps away, source of my dismay
Fourteen times a day, keeping me at bay

Basic intuition to suffer and make suffer
Self-preservation by means of sedation

There’s nothing to steal and there’s no-one to save,
No mouth to feed and no hand to take
Now there’s nothing to hear but chimes, there’s nobody near
Blind there’s nothing to see you’re blind, there’s nothing to fear

Distant tongues berating me in dialects I don’t understand
How long has it been dark outside ?
I thought it would be over within a year

Bury the waste, bury the waste
Frail heart and noble mind : The defects in my design
Put me to the test, stand upon my chest
Colors turn to numbers, my truth now concealed in the ground

At last I get to take my chances and become one of them
Shedding loneliness by remaining alone
Spending my days burying the waste

Convection from your body to mine, this heat is matterless gold
(matterless gold)
Taking notes on what you’ve been constructing : your frail empire
(your frail empire)
Glassy eyes and half-open mouth, you’re just so endearing
(if I could touch you I would)
Looking back at all the mistakes you’ve made, with slight amusement
(if I could smile I would)…

So many, yet so fragile
Wondering now, will you be enough ?

Memories of former leaders fill my synthetic dreams
Taking chances, rolling dice on the outcome we may meet
(But we’ve never learned
We will never learn)
You’ll never learn

Getting by with the living is a waste of time, it’s so mundane now
Dancing ashes we vaporized are hiding the night, we might as well dig down now

Unfold arousing layers
Embracing the fever
Sweet delusion

Towards the core reach out your limbs

A downward crusade, a vertical manœuvre to extinction
Undermining what we know
Automated migration spiralling down below
But our failure will be a sight to behold

Standing at the gates
Of our promised realm

(Dig down all the way down now
Down in the ground, nowhere to be found
Dig down all the way down now
Down, down
Dig down all the way down now
Down in the ground, nowhere to be found
Dig down all the way down now
Down, down
Dig down all the way down now
Down in the ground, nowhere to be found
Dig down all the way down now
Down, down
Dig down all the way down now
Down in the ground, nowhere to be found
Dig down all the way down now
Breathing fire and life into the machine)

Towards the core we gravitate blissfully
Towards the core reach out your limbs, feel the heat

New horizons rising before our stationary sun
Vacant surface, the silence of space, sole remnants of this masquerade

Hiding the smell of my own decay
Flesh and bones are all I own
Hugging my inner child until they choke
Righting wrongs once and for all
Drilling holes meticulously in the ship I’m sailing on
Pulling the strings attached to my own body
Limp and grotesque pantomime

(Dance)
My umbilical cord vanishes
(Dance)
The first of many burning bridges
(Dance)
Purpose subsides as I disengage
(Dance)
I am the womb now, I am the cage

Come what may, I’ll be gone anyway
But you’re here to stay, you’re set to make me pay

(Set to make me pay)
My umbilical cord vanishes
(Pay)
Replaced by cables and circuitry
(Pay)
Purpose subsides as I disengage
(Pay)
Licking the core of the Earth, the war I must wage

As fate and intention grow intangible and abstract
I’m looking for redemption at the bottom of my glass
The ever-inviting screeches of mermaids drawing near
The acrid taste of sultry lips now my deepest fear

You are the night and the sun
And after all life’s just begun
But can’t you see there’s nothing more I could give
I love you and I’ll always love you
But your trust is held up by vague memories

Look around, in the wake of a future you’re bound to refuse
And stand your ground, for as long as mankind wins humans shall lose
Listen now, find comfort in those simple words
Carve them into your skin :
« Nothing will ever matter
Nothing fucking matters
Nothing ever mattered »