1. |
Great Filter
03:10
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Great filter in the distance
Will we make the other side
Will we survive ourselves
To the promise of post-scarcity life
As prisoners of the dollar we plunder in chains
In a world wide awake sleeping through our days
No harvest of the sun
Type zero in our ways
Greed and indecision
Led us astray
Oh I've seen it burning in the fields of the resource wars
In murder of potential, our progeny
There's no time to buy anymore
Great filter in the distance
Will we make the other side
Will we survive ourselves
On some grand interstellar ride
Oh to dream that far
Oh a sea of stars
Evolve and exceed who we are
Great filter in the distance
Will we make the other side
Will we survive ourselves
Beyond a fading glimpse in the night
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2. |
Letter From The 21st
03:09
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I'm sorry you can't drink money
It suited us just fine
The causality of your age
We didn't want to pay the piper
for our wine
I'm sorry you can't breathe consumption
The legacy of narrow minds
It's there for you to see
Where New York used to be
The ruins of millions instantly gratified
Empty lives capitalizedAs I write this from the outside
Marginalized
But I hope you find forgiveness
For all we let fall away
I hope you find the courage
to be the century that I dream of
as I write these words today
I hope you've learned to love
I hope you've learned to love
You know I should be there with you
If only there was a way
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3. |
Return From The Dream
03:20
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When he returns from the dream
He tries to remember what he's seen
He knows that most won't understand
The philosophies in his better land
The best he can hope for is to foster the change
To spare a few minds in this age of decay
But he knows the burden that brings
The isolation that fell upon him
Oh he knows
He can't take it to the grave
Oh he knows
These visions fade away
He sits us down one by one
Sharing the breadth of his head
The subconscious mysteries and oh that city
Now keep me awake instead
Now keep me awake instead
Oh he knows
He can't take it to the grave
Oh he knows
These visions fade away
When he returns from the dream
He tries to remember what he's seen
He knows that most won't understand
The philosophies in his better land
The philosophies in his better land
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4. |
The Time Traveler
02:57
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Its hard to know when I've been
With a mind in so many strings
Visions of timelines I've changed
Lives rearranged
The afterthoughts of all the years
Still dance in my head
Resonating dreams and fears
Was it for me or them?
When I get home I'll destroy the machine
Throw the pieces in the paradoxical sea
Try to come to resolution inside me
Believing the present is real
In my head
In my head
In my head
In my head
It's hard to know what to think
When the multiversal voices sing
Echoes of timelines I have changed
leave me deranged
The afterthoughts of all the years
Still dance in my head
Resonating dreams and fears
Was it for me or them?
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5. |
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Headlights cut through the rain
Thunder from Mansfield to the lake
Visions pass in the gypsy wind
Outflow draws the travelers in
They fill the valley with thoughts
for which no one has the time
They question the answers we'll never find
with the courage to breathe,
breathe on the outside
Headlights cut through the rain
Thunder from Mansfield to the lake
Visions pass in the gypsy wind
Outflow draws the travelers in
They fill the valley with thoughts
for which no one has the time
They question the answers we'll never find
with the courage to breathe,
breathe on the outside
So we stand and mock them in envy
as prisoners of unnatural order
But to them we're afterthoughts
thrown across the ridge line,
far from the water
Lives occluded by fear
Lives occluded by fear
Remnants of ourselves
consumed by the lie
Delusions of grandeur
consumed by time
Headlights cut through the rain
Thunder from Mansfield to the lake
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6. |
Everybody's Story
04:08
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Everybody has a story tell
Everybody has something to sell
A look into one's eyes for authenticity
and you realize we're all scared as hell
Watch the moon rise above world
Lighting our journey from behind
7 billion fights for tomorrow
In the speeding away of time
The universe speaks nothing of our plight
Everybody has a story tell
Everybody has something to sell
A look into one's eyes for authenticity
and you realize we're all scared as hell
Maybe there is solace in love
Shattering infinity above
The thoughts the significance of it all
nd you'll find the greatest minds fall
Watch the moon rise above our world
Lighting our journey from behind
7 billion fights for tomorrow
When all there is, is tonight
Everybody has a story tell
Everybody has something to sell
A look into one's eyes for authenticity
and you realize we're all scared as hell
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7. |
Clocks On The Wall
02:41
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Staring at the clocks on the wall
Frozen when my body falls
Echoes fall into the noise
Doubt challenges my poise
I'm tired fighting this room
I'm tired of fighting with you
I'll keep the battle to myself
A redress of me and no one else
Staring at the clocks on the wall
Frozen when my body falls
What if can fill my head
But what was is gone and only lives the ghost of regret
I'm tired fighting this room
I'm tired of fighting with you
I'll keep the battle to myself
A redress of me and no one else
Oh these moments are all my own
Oh these moments are all my own
Staring at the clocks on the wall
Frozen when my body falls
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8. |
Einstein-Rosen Bridge
04:28
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He steps off a train
in world of stolen lives
Cold wind blows down the road
and tears well in his eyes
Locomotive tears down
the pathway of scars
Quiet desperation worn
on people's faces in the cars
He's just looking for the room the breathe
Words of wisdom lost
in what society's perception sees
Temporal madness has carried him this far
In his mind a hall of mirrors,
a false shimmer of the stars
It's a hard truth riding these rails
Light falls through thoughts forgotten
as past in silence fails
He stands upon the ivory precipice
where dreams are held for too long
and time becomes meaningless
He's just looking for the room the breathe
Words of wisdom lost in what society's perception sees
Temporal madness has carried him this far
In his mind a hall of mirrors,
a false shimmer of the stars
Just a half mile from the Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Just a half mile from the Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Just a half mile from the Einstein-Rosen Bridge
He's just looking for the room the breathe
Words of wisdom lost in what society's perception sees
Temporal madness has carried him this far
In his mind a hall of mirrors, a false shimmer of the stars
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9. |
Great Escape
04:01
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The night behind me
The dawn before
I'm hiding between the days
Time suspended
Stream of thought has ended
I'm back to being cliche
I walk through the city
I fade into the gritty scape
I walk through the city
I fade into the gritty scape
Full moon waves from side to side as the night drips down through mind
Full moon waves from side to side as the night drips down through mind across the pines
I could walk away from it all
I could walk away from it all
and who would ever know
The night behind me
The dawn before
I'm hiding between the days
Time suspended
Stream of thought has ended
I'm back to being cliche
I make my great escape
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Jeremy Gilchrist Raleigh, North Carolina
Jeremy is a Raleigh, North Carolina songwriter by way of New York and Vermont. Jeremy's music contends with the era of late-stage capitalism and the trials and tribulations that brings.
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