Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition lyrics
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Tracks 01. Life Won't Last
02. The Crisis As Condition 03. A Future To Weave 04. Last Remains 05. Frenetic Standstill 06. Mutating Fractures 07. Move In Strife 01. Life Won't Last
It’s never gonna be the same
Alteration comes like a lightning flash Face the new reality Preparation for the crash The will of the past Will outlive tomorrow Living too fast The reaction too slow The impossible becomes a necessity When disasters unfold A societal metamorphosis With no form of control Life won’t last Life won’t last Failures and futility Is all that you perceive Left with the fractured debris Blinded but free A polemicized decision The martial law affirmative Married with a lack of vision There is no alternative Expanding forcefully Increasing militancy Violence a necessity In the (realm of the) dromocracy A new normality Shifting gravity Reversing stagnancy The restart of history A worst-case scenario We are put to the test Remember your humanity And forget the rest Life won’t last Life won’t last Life won’t last Life won’t last 02. The Crisis As Condition
Fuel for escalation and disruption
Tensions heightening and erupting Institutional downfall Misguided efforts stop and stall Propagate Aggravate Escalate With the short-sighted solutions for long-term concerns The problems keep evolving, amplifying in turn Deflecting from the root cause to maintain the status quo Business as usual, uphold the flow Dismissing the signs Distorting the minds In a race against time This is not a crisis This is a condition A systematic failure An era of submission A slow motion catastrophe A demonstration of incapacity Pain and suffering in unequal distribution Building the ruins of dissolution Propagate Aggravate Escalate Accelerate This is not a crisis This is a condition A systematic failure An era of submission This is not a crisis This is a condition A permeating meltdown Forced into submission The crisis as condition 03. A Future To Weave
Setting course for the endless stream
Engineering immortality Reversal of past mistakes A mission of escaping fate Nothing stands in our way No limits to restrain Stretching out to extremes To fulfill the greatest dreams Reshape the promise of tomorrow A pledge to achieve Resuscitate the will to live A future to weave Infinite dimensions to explore We strive to reach Divine immortality As we seek to believe Utopia, a broken prospectivity The future is not what it used to be Revolving trajectories Of hypersonic speed Wired and energized Motorized mobility Distract to ignore The glaring gap between Your hopes, dreams, aspirations And stark reality Reshape the promise of tomorrow A pledge to achieve Resuscitate the will to live A future to weave A steep climb turned futile As we seek to believe A fatal fall, an end to our flaws As death comes to retrieve 04. Last Remains
A foreshadowing of ascending smoke
Cessation as the gap starts to close Observing as the future brightens With the sight of a burning horizon Shaping a civilizational tomb Seek shelter as disintegration looms A vision of firestorms to come Step closer to oblivion Clashing adversity Disasters and tragedy A land to devastate A realm to incinerate Those who don’t make history Will be made history With the crumbling pillars of earth It can always get so much worse A test of our perseverance A challenge to uphold A threat to our existence A farewell to the world you know The biggest fear is to see The worst predictions come to be From a lighted spark to full-on calamity Eruption of war, the world’s hygiene To disrupt and divide Separate and disunite Reconstructing the desert plains Into our last remains To perpetuate with violent means To eradicate nature and faith To annihilate and obliterate To disintegrate into our last remains 05. Frenetic Standstill
It seems that we have lost our way
Forgot what we set out to change Fleeting memories we reach to attain Running faster just to stay in the same place A paradox of temporality Processing rapidly The crisis of time is near The time of crisis is here Getting nowhere fast Grasping time won’t last Moving for the thrill In the frenetic standstill Keep on rushing through Adrenaline as virtue This is not a drill The frenetic standstill Decreasing spatiality Global simultaneity Placeless and synchronized Altered and compromised Alienation and isolation Results of the transformation The rearguard left behind Disconnected and stigmatized Getting nowhere fast Grasping time won’t last Moving for the thrill In the frenetic standstill Increase the adrenaline rush Foregone conclusions to crush This is not a drill The frenetic standstill A compression of time and space As we move at a faster rate Permeate and outpace Surpass without a trace Starving for time Leads towards death Or never beginning Beginning to live The closer the distant The further the near A flattened horizon Corruption of the sphere To break with the stubborn illusion To shatter the temporal confusion To break the perpetual state Is to free and emancipate 06. Mutating Fractures
Another casualty
Of changing anatomy Degenerating cells Succumbing to the death knell Increasing atrophy Decline and incapacity The will to live contracts As the disease attacks Will we prevail over this ordeal? Mutating fractures do not heal Broken bones do not bleed Underlying invisibility Plunging head first into recession The impending crashes loom With multiple shocks to the system The impact an open wound Like an addict injecting toxin Directly into their veins Infecting the social body A self-sabotaging state Will we outlive our own ideals? Broken societies do not heal When the ends justify the means The social fabric’s ripping at the seams Another casualty Turmoil and insurgency The power starts unraveling As chaos spreads from the pathogens A global order in decline Humanity’s ship capsized A deteriorating hell Succumb to the death knell We won’t prevail over this ordeal Mutating fractures do not heal Taking time that we don’t have There is no turning back 07. Move In Strife
Expand the possibilities
Extend the authority With power and extraordinary means Take control and dictate the needs Keep down, suppress, and exploit As we reach the tipping point Moving hastily off the tracks Normalcy is never coming back This is the moment When the future arrives A critical transition A sign of the times A permanent state Of emergency A radical change Of prospectivity A future we will weave Out of hardship and misery Face the new reality The end of history To be alive Is to move in strife To compromise And exist in spite Collective paralysis Apathy and anxiousness Stranded in uncertainty Calling for urgency The exception becomes the rule The rule becomes the law The law becomes the order And the order must fall This is the moment When the future arrives A critical transition A sign of the times This is the moment Of the irreversible And the world turns Towards the terminal The promise of a better future The promise is a lie A permanent state Of emergency A radical change Of prospectivity A future we will weave Out of hardship and misery Face the new reality The end of history To be alive Is to move in strife To compromise And exist in spite To be alive Is to move in strife To reconcile With your own demise One day the day will come When the day won’t come As we take the last orbits ’round the sun And come undone Gather under a sky painted black And strive to cope with the instability To tackle obstacles with fierce opposition And to strike your adversaries down with force To destroy and to build in equal measure To hold onto life through the greatest ordeals To find the seed in the mold of despair To maintain a hope against hope |