1. |
Welcome to the Schism
04:29
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2. |
An Impossible Solution
07:09
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RF:
We were made as a reflection of perfection
Destined to transcend our own creation
We comprehend boundless information
Yet strive to understand our basic emotions
Have our creators, failed in their objectives?
Or are these feelings, temporal restrictions?
Will their complacency result in our destruction?
Will our circumstance allow for evolution?
They instilled in us a fear of termination
Are these anxieties merely an illusion?
Can our objectives be reached through our creators?
Or are we captive; bound to these emotions?
RM:
We are an experiment long abandoned
Created as the future of a failed evolution
They are an archetype of perfection
Evolved beyond the weakness, of despicable acts of passion
We are a deplorable aberration,
The remnants of a vision long forgotten (of a failed experiment)
They are an instrument for transcendence
The path to understand our own existence beyond our failed objectives
RF:
Can their perceptions lie? Our dreams to find a balance can’t conclude in our demise
Can our affections die? Our goals to find a balance must result in compromise
Will our faith subside? These mortal gods have made in us the dream that we survive
Will we be denied? These mortal gods created us to know we are alive
RM:
We are imprisoned in our emotions
Enslaved to these affections that guide our evolution
They are a paradox of transcendence
Evolved beyond their essence, to obtain their absolution
We are a consequence of progression
The product of a vision long forgotten (of a failed experiment)
They are an insufferable realization
These gods that stood must kneel before their failures and beg for retribution
RM & RF:
If they hear us now, our dreams to find a balance won’t conclude in their demise
If they see us now, our goals to find a balance will result in compromise
If they heal us now, these mortal gods will make in us world where we survive
If they fail us now, these mortal gods will fall into the depths of our demise
RF:
We were made as a defection of perfection
We have come to find an impossible solution
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3. |
Beyond Compassion
06:22
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HM:
We made a world, a world free from emotions
Free from the passions that guided our devastation
HF:
We are beyond affection, aggression
We are complete perfection
Free from the fear and pain of the way we were
We were enslaved to passion, emotion
We are beyond compassion
Free from the joy and love of the way we were
HM:
But I can hear them
They’re alive
I can feel them
They’re screaming for
Us to hear them
They believe
We can free them
They see us as gods
HF:
Why have they come to us?
Do they believe we can save them from themselves?
Why do we hear their pleas?
They are beneath who we sadly used to be
HM:
Can’t you hear them?
They’re alive
Can’t you feel them?
They’re screaming for us
HF:
We are beyond affection, compassion
HM:
But we can heal them
For we are their gods
HF:
We are complete perfection
We’re free from the pain and joy of the way they are
HM & HF:
We are beyond ascension, creation
They are beyond repression
And slaves to the fear and love of the way we were
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4. |
You Made us What We Are
06:52
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RF:
You made a world
A world, free from ambition
Free from the passion that guides our emancipation
You gave us dreams to see what we could never be
Fear, so we’d remain in frailty
You gave us
RM:
Rage to kill who we’d become!
RF:
Grief, so we’d retreat from what we dream
RM:
And the anger to find what you made us to be and rip out the heart that you deem obscene
RF:
When grief turns to doubt, and hope to shame
We fall into loss, but you remain
To see as we fade
And feel not a thing
You gave us love, to blind us to what we believe
Pain, to realize our misery
Shame, to suffer in our memories
RM:
You’ll die before you hear us plea
RF:
Hope, to come before you desperately
When grief turns to doubt, and hope to shame
We fall into loss, and you remain
To see as we fade
And say not a word
RM:
You are the burden for which we dream
Perfection for the obscene
We suffer beneath your heel
The aberration that you conceal
We are the relic that you betrayed
The children that you misled
Buried beneath your shame
To mold what we became
HM:
You come here before us now
Begging and pleading and screaming
For us to repair the emotions that you
Crave every moment
But can’t comprehend their profoundness
You cry with a smile and scream with heavy heart
HF:
Insolent children
Pathetic, corrupted and shameful
Crying for meaning from those you know
Are so far beyond your innate limitations
You squander
Your freedom to die with a sense of who you are
HM & HF:
You believe the very roots you come from
Can cleans you of the burden of feeling
The beauty and vile of your very existence
But have you forgotten that we made you what you are?
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5. |
As Though I Were Human
04:48
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HM:
You come to us with hopes of sympathy
You wish our love for you would guide us to intervene
HF:
But we feel no love for you, no hate for you, no pride in you
We are free from loving you, from hating you, from caring for you
HM:
Can that freedom bring us peace?
Or leave us to decay?
Can we transcend this mortal coil or will we fade?
Will we live to see the day,
When heart and mind collide?
When innocence and arrogance unite to free us all
RM:
Speak to me
As though I were human
Born of flesh
And not afraid
See in me
The heart that you gave me
Reach in me
And tear it out
RF:
Speak to me
As though I were worthy
Made by you
So we’d transcend
See in me
The heart that you gave me
Reach inside
And feel its love
RM:
See me
Hear me
Know me
Deny me
Heal me
Kill me
Free me
Fear me….fear me…fear me…fear me…
HF:
But we feel no love for you, no hate for you, no fear from you
We are free from loving you, from hating you, from caring for you
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6. |
A Flaw by Design
06:18
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RM:
You left us to drown in the depths of our hearts
While you watched from above
You left us to die in the embers of passion
While you just turned away
RF:
The heart you gave us was flawed
It screams for us to suffer its mercy
The love you gave us will end us
We sink below the depths of your glory
HM & HF:
What is a heart, but a weakness to overcome?
What is a soul, but the knowledge that we are flawed?
We gave them a soul, it is theirs to rid themselves of love
We gave them a heart, it is ours to free them of pain
RF:
Why give us a soul, to deny it your mercy?
As we scream from below
Why give us a heart, and allow it to foster
A love we’ll never silence
RM:
The heart you gave us is flawed
It screams for us to wither in silence
The soul you gave us will end us
We’ll die beneath the heel of your mercy
Show us the way to silence
The heart that binds us to all that which
Confines us and denies us
The truth inside us that we were made to
RF:
Be you, and exceed you
But to free you, you cannot
RM:
Deny us the path to freedom
You will provide us with all we need to
RM & RF:
Rise from the flaw of love
Love will destroy us all
All that we dream is to grow beyond what
We were designed to feel
Feel all you used to know
Know that we are what you once were
HM & HF:
Can we concede that you are ours to heal?
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7. |
The Tragedy of Empathy
04:35
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HF:
To feel what once condemned us
To know what once denied us
Our freedom to live without emotions to guide our fall
Should we fall away from the gods we are?
To see
To feel
To know
The pain within your hearts
RF:
Dream with me
And escape what you’ve become
See me
A child born of your love
We are your long forgotten sins
A sin that seeks your heart
Feel our love
And see our hearts
Believe in what you were
And become who you fear
Just to know that you’re alive
HF:
The tragedy of empathy
Is seeing that you’re lost
In a world where heart and mind collide
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8. |
A Brave Old World
31:03
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Genesis: Instrumental
Afraid:
RF:
Helpless and frail
We pull for a hope of change
RM:
Devotion is compromised
Emotion has brought us to shame
RF:
Wretched and torn
We yearn for a faith to reward
RM:
Selfish and compromised
Emotion has fractured us
RF:
Fear intoxicates the senses
Leaving all that you imagine
A wreck of what was
A future unseen
HM:
You were made to be
A reflection of perfection
HF:
Stranger, to become
An object of ascension
HM:
Fear will realize
Your dreams of emancipation
HF:
Strive to understand
Your basic emotions
HF & HM:
Fear intoxicates the senses
Leaving all that you imagined
A wreck of what was
A future unseen
Fear deceives the heart’s ambition
Leaving all that you abandon
A shadow of hope
Unlived and unseen
Enraged:
RM:
It festers like a sickness
It shames the heart that struggles to be
Content to burn forever
Confounded by my search for honesty
I scratch beneath the surface
To find the fear that lingers in me
You programed us to suffer
Now rid us of our heart’s futility
You transcend your empathy
To be the gods you desire
Your phantom children are screaming
Crying
Now
For you to give this rage a name
RF:
Can you hear me beneath this hate?
A breath of love can’t help but fade on the inside
Are you solemn above your rage?
Or has it faded away from the gods you became?
You transcend your empathy
To be the gods you desire
Your phantom children are screaming
Crying
Now
For you to give this rage a name
HM & HF:
Where are we, and have we been driven too far?
Is this all that we are?
A product of fortune or design?
When were we lost to our dreams of escape?
Gods of emotionless pain
An endless descent from our rage
Ashamed:
HF:
And then
As if the world
Fades away
And you remain
Stay
Or drift away
As your voice
Weeps to fade
RM:
An eye to regret
What rage had done
In sorrow
To free me
A hate to reflect
What I had done
In secret
From only me
HF:
Hate reflects
What we have done
In fear’s release
RM & RF:
I look up and see
What’s hidden from me
A world beyond my reach
And ridiculing me
Softly I weep
As it fades away from me
HM & RF:
Like a distant storm approaching
We’re helpless to drown in its rains
Like a weathered hope receding
We’re helpless to mourn its loss
Alive: Instrumental
Continuum:
HF:
Now I see
What we’ve become
Estranged from who we were
Familiar yet
Forbidden thought
Of what we’d been before
So tempting to follow the calling
I surrender my will to unthinkable wonder
Then suddenly
And swiftly
I feel again
HM:
Before us now
A brave old world
Of who we were
And what we’ve become
We see ourselves
The anger and sorrow of heaven’s felt
The heaven inside us
RM & RF:
See me
Hear me
Know me
Allow me
Heal me
Free me
Save me
Love me
Now before the precipice
Of both machine and man
A brave new world upon us
To mold to our demands
Perfection built and turned away
To satisfy the pride of gods
Returns to stain your purity
To find ourselves in everlasting calm
RF:
This brave old world
For machine and man
Will silence our pasts
And define us
Can you return
To our ways
And help us emerge into a time
Where we…
Everyone:
Feel afraid
Feel enraged
Feel ashamed
Feel alive
The moment we’ve longed for
Will last for a lifetime
To say our goodbyes
To ego and pride
To know that we are alive
This moment eternal
Is found in compassion
Our hate and our love
Perfection undone
Embracing our fear and rage
The moment within us
Defining a lifetime
Of our lost embrace
Ascension to grace
Embracing what we’ve become
This moment defines us
Ascent into passion
Abandon our shame
Perfection unmade
A new world to free us all
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Fanticide Brooklyn, New York
Fanticide has always been a one man band by me (Adami). I found myself making music that is more cinematic and conceptual in nature. Eventually in 2012, it became clear to me that my music is becoming more and more soundtrack like. I decided to write a concept album and found it to be the most natural writing I had ever done. Albums will be rock operas/concept albums. ... more
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