1. |
Chasm
06:36
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Street lights
Shined down
On scarlet
Stained snow
His overwhelming
Sense of apathy
Questioned
His lack of remorse
He had no intent
No agenda
No spite
No reason
Lights blurred his vision
And the cold (vexed)
Simply by coincidence
He pulled his knife
In the very next moment
An innocent
Or maybe not
Was dead
Loved ones
Least forgiving
Demanded his life
“Let’s watch him burn”
Pointed fingers
From flagrant disgust
The arbiters of justice
Fated him to die
He laid behind his bars
Waiting
All things end
Eventually
A God’s pathetic instrument
Entered the chaplain
“You can save your soul” What smug piety
Strapped to his chair
Allowed his last words
“Can you tell me what justice means?”
In death
He laughed and smiled
The world watched
In overwhelming apathy
Their familiar lack of remorse
In the hearts of men
Lies an infinite ocean of emptiness
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2. |
Vertices
02:04
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3. |
Elevator
06:38
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[The Absurd Struggle]
Resolute to find order
No matter the consequences
We created an infinity
Of metaphysical speculations
That reduce to nothingness
It’s our failure
To be less ignorant
[Sartre’s Ontological Approach (Partly)]
A fellow stranger
He said hell is other people
Each one
Narcissistic, righteous, and doomed
In the same way
[The Faith Approach]
A determined preacher
Begged for your attention
He demanded you love
A God
Who you must also fear
[The Meursault Approach]
An impassioned rebel
Abandoned hope
Faith and appeal
Unscathed by existence
He took pleasure from his indifference
[Live to Love]
A girl with brown hair
She took my hand
Despite our failings
She accepted me
And I’d never let go
[Resolution]
A fellow stranger
Said hell is other people
Bound by the same condition
We’re all strangers
To each other and ourselves
Perception’s inherently flawed
Faith tries to escape
Indifference pretends not to care
With an awareness of our limitations
To be accepted might be enough
All we have left is each other
If hell were other people
I’d wish for an eternity in hell
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4. |
Thanksgiving
04:28
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The crashing of waves
Against our feet
Basking beneath the moonlight
There was something
In the distance
Far beyond our reach
I wanted to know
Day by day
Others lived mechanically
Their routines
Escaped the mystery
I had so many questions
So desperate for answers
No answers
Day by day
Others lived mechanically
You took my hand
We swam together
Into the unknown
Despite our best efforts
When I couldn’t find answers
You were there to console me
The warmness of your soul
Brought the comfort of home
But in the depths of absurdity
It’s a strange world
The dissonance
It changes people
You grew the eyes of a stranger
And I’m so sick of feeling alone
I can’t find my way
I can’t find my way home
I looked in the mirror
A stranger stared back
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5. |
Light Field
05:39
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What a curious predicament
So cold and confused
Do I already have
The strength
To create some purpose
And capture the light
The hearts
Of our loved ones
When it all seems
So perpetually futile
Our lives are contradicted
At the fringes
Of our reason
The only way back
Is through verbal convolution
The foundations begin to crack
And it all comes crashing down
We start over again
Find our way back
Or out
If it’s too much for us to bear
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6. |
Cave
02:03
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7. |
Shooter
07:01
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Temptation
Eludes reason
Animating
Inanimate
Seeking patterns
Where there are none
Arbitrary attachments push us apart
I know
You feel victimized
Desperate to blame
You victimize too
Can you tell me what justice means?
This place’s so hard
Take me to some reprieve
I won’t continue this way
The quest for truth
Is absurd
Can you tell me
What justice means
Can you tell me
What justice
Means
No matter how loud you scream
The world stays the same
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8. |
Sisyphus
05:40
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Slave
To myself
Free without choice
So lost
Lost
Every time, I followed the sound
Of laughter echoed through these walls
No matter how hard I tried
Gazing in the haze
Across the ocean
Deep in my heart
There’s a storm
I am searching for
A reason
With each wave
Comes another question
I’m reduced to emptiness
I won’t
Continue this way
The quest for truth
Is absurd
We don’t need reasons to love
We don’t need purpose to love
Deep in my heart
There’s an ocean
Of empty answers
We don’t need reasons to love
We don’t need purpose to love
Within this endless storm
Can end our suffering
Wage a war
Against the absurd
I can show you
Create meaning against all odds
Slaves
To ourselves
And free
All at once
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9. |
Empty Offer
01:26
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Within these shackles, I have nothing to offer.
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10. |
Chasm (Instrumental)
06:36
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11. |
Vertices (Instrumental)
02:04
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12. |
Elevator (Instrumental)
06:38
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15. |
Cave (Instrumental)
02:03
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16. |
Shooter (Instrumental)
07:01
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17. |
Sisyphus (Instrumental)
05:40
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They Seem Like Owls
They Seem Like Owls is a home-studio project with a broad range of musical influences including progressive rock, post-metal, experimental, and non-musical influences including Albert Camus, David Lynch, and Justin Bieber.
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