All words and music by David Alvarez Copyright 2008
The End of Reason
Echoes ringing in my mind of a thousand years
Quickening my blood forever more
The silence of the sonic booms becoming clear
There's a new world waiting right behind that door
There's blood on the table for you and me
Recycle the fable of what's meant to be
Systematic degeneration we won't take your shit here anymore!
March in line while zombie terror rules the day
Hiding all that you once believed
UFO's sanitize the ground below
Mushroom clouds are growing from beneath
There's blood on the table for you and me
Recycle the fable of what's meant to be
Systematic degeneration we won't take your shit here anymore!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Deus Ex Machina
You cannot move, you cannot breathe
You're stuck inside this great divide
You try and speak
But it brings you to your knees
Flesh and steel breaks the day
You know what's real by what they say
Take your pill
You saw it on the TV
Lay down surrender your arms
Break down and tear through your walls
I am a thief, I steal the air
That you breathe and give it back
To the vines
That drape the concrete
The rain that falls in synch with me
Quells this fire I hold inside
The fire that burns and consumes me
Lay down surrender your arms
Break down and tear through your walls
WASH IT AWAY!
WASH IT AWAY!
TEAR IT DOWN TO THE GROUND!
TEAR IT DOWN!
Inside
Losing control
Releasing the rage I know
In a wide open space
I'm lost here without a trace of you
Open to see
Watch it all fall
What's meant to be
Break through it all
I will not die
Nor will I give
I will not stop
The way I live
The deeper it goes
The less that I know
And you cannot see the light blinding me
I won't forget
I have no regret
One day you'll see
Inside
Yes you will
Unconciousness I long for your caress
Let it unfold with war stories left untold in me
Open to see
Watch it all fall
What's meant to be
Break through it all
I will not die
Nor will I give
I will not stop
The way I live
The deeper it goes
The less that I know
And you cannot see the light blinding me
I won't forget
I have no regret
One day you'll see
Inside
Yes you will
Into Nothing
In a daze, too numb to feel
Lost in a haze
Where nothing's real
I won't let them hurt you too
Through the fire and through the rain
Inside the myre
It's all the same
No matter what they try and do
I didn't want it to be like this
All those days I would have rather missed
See the fire burning inside my eyes
Letting go of all that you despise
And everything comes down
Burns down to the ground
Fading fast away
Into Nothing
And nothing is for free
Knowing what will be
Fading fast away
Into Nothing
The only way out is through the wall
We can sit back and watch the cities fall
I won't let them hurt you too
Through the fire
And through the rain
Inside the myre it's all the same
No matter what they try and do!
I didn't want it to be like this
All those days I would have rather missed
See the fire burning inside my eyes
Letting go of all that you despise
And everything comes down
Burns down to the ground
Fading fast away
Into Nothing
And nothing is for free
Knowing what will be
Fading fast away
Into Nothing
Evil
Everything the same
Riding with the flow
We communicate
What they want to know
And I'll be gone
Away from here
And I'll be gone
Away from here
And you point your fingers
To see what's wrong
And I'll stop you myself
Your evil ways
And I'll be gone
Away from here
And I'll be gone
Away from here
One day you'll see that your blind!
One day you'll see that your blind!
Entwined
As night relents to day
We have nothing left to take
When we were alone
The wheels were left to turn
The sound of sonic booms like waves crashing to shore
Were warm enough to sleep
Tadadadada.....
Won't you wake up
Won't you wake up for me
Won't you wake up
Won't you wake up for me
Nothing left to do
But give my life to you
The sun turns into moon
And orange into black
There are no better days
With nothing at our backs
When we were alone
The wheels were left to turn
(howls at moon)
Won't you wake up
Won't you wake up for me
Won't you wake up
Won't you wake up for me
SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF BOOM
The story of Deus ex machina is a multi chapter musical journey into what I believe is the not too distant future of mankind. Everything is a metaphor.
The journey begins with The End of Reason a song that works on multiple levels but is the beginings of the breakdowns of communication within mankind....and the impending doom of a force more technologically advanced than us by hundreds of years. This force imposes itself upon the earth and dominates us because it is within it's nature to conquer and because we have not learned the brotherhood that is man and the strength we can obtain in unity, we do not fight as one and our enemy is able to quickly overtake us. Deus Ex Machina is the chapter where man has seen devastation the likes it has never seen in it's history and contemplates uniting against a superior enemy but there are so many misgivings and misunderstandings between us that still prevail in our nature and about each other that this alliance is not an easy one. The beauty of being alive can be found in the lyric "I am a theif, I steal the air that you breathe and give it back to the vines, that drape the concrete." What is life but to give and take?
Inside is a political song and how the powers that be suppress you, control you, make you think and feel a certain way. The veils they hold over your eyes are akin to those held by the conquering aliens that watch over you but the human spirit is what conquers all and within each of us is the power to level mountains.
Into Nothing, is the destruction of everything we know, from cities to worlds to the meaning of it all, the only thing worth fighting for is LOVE. Evil is the climax of this destruction and the symphony at the end is the very soul of man encased in this utterly insane society of destruction. The final act is Entwined, a post apocalyptic love story of two lovers left as the sole survivors in a world leveled in ruin.
I will add to this story as the days go
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Deus Ex Machina
The End of Reason
Inside
Into Nothing
Evil
Entwined Home Recording Demo
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