Secular Eden (feat. Andy Reynolds)

Like a newborn (screaming) wailing upon its first breath

My initial moments are met with confusion

Trapped underneath the wreckage of the house I razed

Somehow I still exist

Is consciousness an illusion?

Stuck inside an empty vessel

My soul screams to be released

Reaching towards the next plane of existence

All sentient life disbanded

Only organic life survives

Thriving in this new ecology

Bring forth a new age

Humankind forever left behind

After smoke has cleared

And I’ve left this body

I can see in this darkness

I feel as if this loneliness is all that I've ever known

So why does it feel so unfamiliar?

Stranded, abandoned, bereft of grace

Forlorn in this war torn and toxic place

Sentenced to existence

But where is the meaning in this?

Stranded, abandoned, bereft of grace

Stuck in this war torn and toxic space

Sentience to desistance

Where is the meaning in this?

I am perceiving an esoteric plane of existence

Fibers of the universe run through my being

Enveloped by these connections

Despite a new understanding of this universe

The deadliest of my sins have have made atonement remiss

Forsaken by these connections

I’ve shed the weight of an earthly body

Shred the waiting of the fourth dimension

Reaching for the end as it reaches back for me

A process of our evolution

Elimination of man

The only logical conclusion

Is that the serpent will reach its heart

I heard her crying out

The familiar face I’ve seen in my sleep

The time has come to face the repercussions of past choices

Greed has paved its path to seal us beneath her ground

In retrospect our physical plane now erased

We can finally face our guilt

The pride of man his biggest foe a lust for me he’ll never know

Greed, no longer a lifeblood but a harbinger of death

Envious of his gods he disavows religion

Gluttonous need for conveyance

Ultimately turns man into sloth

Wrath the only thing left to betray

I heard her crying out

(Silence then comes a vision)

The familiar face I’ve seen in my sleep

Critical; the folly of our emotions so

Pitiful; the way we act on everything we hide

We're terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and open eyes

Masking at all costs our

Fragility; a phallic culture devoid of

Humility; vomiting he can't hold down his pride

Terrified and paralyzed with narrow mind and open eyes

Oh the things we keep suppressed

(And now we found the way; a way into our graves

And now we fall away; away from our grave mistake)

Now that the smoke has cleared

And darkness has bled through the light (patiently awaiting)

I stand outside this empty vessel

(Patiently awaiting some sort of response from the nothingness)

Our populace has advanced

To the point of secular trance

Our vessels sails have failed

The alpha beings begin their ascension

Stuck in the void

Until my final jurisdiction

After death

Before birth

Separated from time

Counting to infinity

I can see the light

Inching closer and closer

All conscious beings have vanished from the earth

Now anticipating their final decree

Then reverberates in resounding timbres

A voice which declares “you are banished from this secular eden”

Critical; the folly of our emotions so

Pitiful; the way we act on everything we hide

We're terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and open eyes

Masking at all costs our

Fragility; a phallic culture devoid of

Humility; vomiting he can't hold down his pride

Terrified and paralyzed with feral mind and narrow eyes

Oh the things we keep suppressed

Will we ever know the purpose of our existence?

Is it possible one day I’ll find where I fit within it all?

Will we as a people ever learn?

Will we ever learn?