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Northern Star
06:31
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I know we'll never see the northern star
and our eyes turn at home so far
As the land is bare like our fates
our return the spring awaits
Are we still those who left
or just a name in an empty shell
Are we still worthy of our name
We, who return broken and in vain
Fight charge wait shoot march live die
always as you’ve ordered us to
Leave suffer mourn pray cry
always like you never wanted to
I know we're still those who left
We’re not a name in an empty shell
Are we still worthy of our name
We, who return in vain
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Agenda
04:12
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What compromises did I accept
what would I’ve missed if I didn't
What liner notes I have not read
I did never understand the manual of this Earth
And above all I might just ask
have you ever been fondly proud of me
but the answer is not necessary
Will I be able to take care of you
or I'll be fool enough to continue on my own
We cannot decide who can guide who
but with the correct questions
we can define another truth
Have you ever been fondly proud of me
but the answer is that I've never been of thee
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Cactus Flower
07:54
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I have no home to drive to tonight
outside of the windshield
only raindrops and scattered lights
That shadow is not my friend
just a shadow into the night
A night that here has never got an end
Years have passed since the last day began
I drive through a grey land
where the air of war still stands
I pass by distorted faces
craving their way in these blind places
I see misery dressed as authority
insanity squared in dignity
A child is smoking greedily
as traces of beauty are vanishing quickly
Then I realise
something everyone tries to hide
we programme our own ruin
we are architects of a bleached reality
And when a flower shows its colours
we destroy it
and falsely mourn in sorrow
I stop at the river bank
Someone's waiting to drown
others staring at their phones
longing for an answer
scared by the unknown
They’re next in line
loneliness, it is not fine
Sick blameless river
slow down your water
and enjoy the view
clusters of empty bodies
looking for a cure
Tired feeble moon
I’m begging you, throw me
a last memory of your light
and I’m sure I'll see
there’s no hope for me
pain and bliss left me
We are wrapped in our doom
trapped in a grinding machine
forever unable to see
that even a cactus can bloom
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Homo sapiens
04:21
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Hysteric actors upon a stage
your part is to not clearly behave
If you don’t act well anymore
the world will look at you as a sore
Homo sapiens has lost his legs
put his existence into a bag
Send the corpse back to Mother Nature
let her create something better
So imperfect, so regrettable
we’re pointless and unbearable
Unconscious electrical waves
move our bodies to decay
Use our last kinetic force
and send us back to our source
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Fallen Leaves
05:28
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I found an old backup
it came from my emotionally distorted past
Am I still a child?
We were wandering in an ocean of fallen leaves
I wanted to scream but my lips were sealed
I wanted to confess but was afraid you would leave
I could have talked back then
we had no hurry
and could fix everything well
but I have wasted every occasion
and three simple words are now lost
I am writing these letters from places
that we’ve never been together
and I’m becoming terrorized
just to take a journey through my mind
Am I still a child?
Hiding encrypting misleading
in so many layers of different realities
No light can pass them all
In this labyrinth I am paralysed
Leaves have now reached my neck
but in 20 years you never came back
I've tried to replace you, but I can't
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Torrent
03:37
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I am a torrent that no longer flows
I am fragmented in so many parts, I no longer know
I didn’t want to be unmasked
so I decomposed myself
I left clues to different friends
gave everyone an incomplete sketch
a sketch no one can understand
Now is time for the curtain to be raised
and paint the whole miserable scene
The passcode to my life I need to regain
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Elegy for a Dying World
07:00
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Is this the air we're breathing in
Fragments of me and atoms of fluorine
Is this the tear of a dying tree
saturated in mercury and fragments of thee
Water is no longer one of your rights
drink this mercury and cyanide
you can’t be poisoned
you’re already dying
Weep on all the entities
that you might have been
if you only pushed boundaries
further than eyes can see
Tell your children one sorrowful last lie
let them vanish in hope
and let them die
The best ones, the bright ones and the worthy ones
They’re already gone in a place forgotten
We’re all strangers in a world of other lords
our end is the amend for the time we stole
And don't follow, I'm not sure where to go
I've got pain that’s washing me ashore
Mistakes and regrets darken my day
but I’m glad, that with me, you’re staying
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Eka Aether Venice, Italy
Carlo (Eka Animans) + Gianmarco. Formed in 2008.
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