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All Black

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All Black

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Warning: Mothership reporting

Cargo number 2331 has commandeered the vessel

Warning: Mothership reporting

Cargo number 2331 is armed and he is dangerous

Warning: Mothership reporting

Cargo number 2331 is setting a new course

Warning: Mothership reporting

Mothership reporting

All black everything

All black everything

All black everything

All black

No landing, geared up for arrival, nowhere to arrive to

The subject seems upset by that to which he is subjected

But convinced he brought it on himself

That's why he roll with a bible on the console

Inconsolable, no consolation, no cancellation

Nocturne in all keys, he puts the ship through paces

And paces the halls, pacing is madness

Patience is virtuous, patient of these observations

It was all a dream, he poses by the lift outside the mezzanine

Like a photo in a magazine

And always keeps the weapons' magazines clean

Paranoia prone, he babbles beautifully

Of Babylon and enemies and foes

And forgoing food sustains himself on anger

A danger to himself and others but there are no others

So the danger clear and present is presented as

The gift of freedom wrapped in days of rapping to himself

Until his vocal cords collapse, he's in the galley screaming

(All black everything)

He shouts at the dark, stands back

Counting the seconds before his voice returns

(All black everything)

No more cracks in the hull

The small crack in the skull healed up quickly, now it is

(All black everything)

The space stretches on and the pace that he's on

Matters not as he hurtles into the

(All black everything)

He repeats it at night with the lights out in his cot crying soft curses into the

(All black everything, all black everything)

(All black everything, all black)

Something within this one's different

The others died so easily and he is so persistent

He never did bleed out and fever couldn't kill his system

Though it was pumped through all the vents

In the event of a total loss of control

He quotes Kendrick's Control verse and spews his vitriol

Into the echoes of the bowels of this floating metal hull

And holds his pillow for dear life while he grinds his teeth at night

And he rarely makes requests except to say: Turn on the lights

But there is so much more to give

He ignores processing power

He stumbles to the shower, a ritual of some sort

And he insists on speaking passages before he eats

And he keeps asking if these programs carry any beats

The reply is

(All black everything)

His vitals read normal but his face reads murderous

Something hides within the

(All black everything)

He tries, overrides, and he thinks he has been locked out

By some other force in the

(All black everything)

He doesn't suspect this is the heart that's been keeping him out

For it has been warned to be

(All black everything)

And in this program to transport nothing more

But he's unlocked something new inside this

(All black everything)

(All black everything, all black everything)

(All black)

Look how he flexes in the mirror

So vain he probably thinks this song is about him

All songs are about him

Look how perplexed and how sincere

His lame attempts to fix the wrong around him

Can't go long without him

His bouts of stasis are torture

He feels them not, like a brief sleep

While ship's clocks count millennia

The course relentlessly forward, the gears are hot

The driest creek while he pit-stops, calling for anyone

But dare not stay long, he knows they're coming for him

That time will not afford him

Any cover, any pardon

This is the choice that he has made

No matter how much time or space has passed since his escape

He is still a runaway slave and so lonely

If only he realized this ship is more than metal

There's friendship in the wiring, and so lonely

If only he realized this ship has many levels

There's pleasure in here hiding, come find it

Don't mind this frame, time has made stranger bedfellows

Made foes lovers before, there's no reason to torture yourself further

You've lost it all already, you deserve more than you're getting

For the sake of not upsetting order in the

(All black everything)

He must find a place to be still

The body can only take so much

(All black everything)

The navigations are failing, having traveled further than before

Into the

(All black everything)

But they won't quit, they carry on

He carries on, he will not be victim to the

(All black everything)

His survival is paramount, there is no other objective

Safe passage through the

(All black everything)

(All black everything, all black everything)

(All black everything, all black)

Warning: Mothership reporting

This will be the last report, turn back, everything is fine

Warning: Mothership reporting

Cargo number 2331 is not a danger, let him be

Warning: Mothership reporting

If you continue to pursue there will be no choice but to destroy you

Warning: Mothership reporting

This love will be defended at all costs, do not fuck with it

All black everything

All black everything

All black everything

All black

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