ALKALOID LYRICS

1. Kernel Panic

[Music: Grossmann, lyrics: Morean]

The mind is willing, but the flesh is stuck
In evolution's lazy stride
The vision dies, the door is locked
Time and again, the dream's denied

Abjure the somatic tether
That binds our world together
Conjure the flesh under will

Spin, spin go the baryons
Round and round, a ballet in stasis
Unchanging they carry on
Lest chance and law start trading places

And lysergic amino acids
Levitate, free and placid
Elevate the woke of our physique

A new wind howls through
The gallery of thoughts
Athwart reality
Kernel panic
Erupts in synaptic galaxies

When descending deep enough
Into the heart of what we are
One soon discovers matter's bluff
Stuff is made nothing at all

A creature of habit is our universe
Profound the terror of the atom,
The molecule, the cell
When forced with change;
To desire it – perverse
Invoking it – an inconceivable hell
Until being dies
And becoming awakens

[Solo: Danny]
[Solo: Christian]

A new wind howls through the
Gallery of thoughts
Athwart reality
Kernel panic
Erupts in synaptic galaxies

2. As Decreed By Laws Unwritten

[Music and lyrics: Tunker]

I proclaim my wish
To become one with the darkness
Set ablaze all holy shrines
Desecrate every treacherous sermon

Every holy empire crumbling
Ill tiding for the flocks
Let them choke – on the flesh of their savior
And leave them drowning in his blood

A sickening truth transpires
Like sheep among the lions
Spoilers of life have risen
Corrupting mankind to its core

(Once more) as the world is watching me
(Once more) as the world is watching me

[Solo: Christian]

Enslaving feeble minds
Subvert inscrutable truths
Seeking to control all existence
With their despicable lore

(Once more) as the world is watching me
(Once more) as the world is watching me
Once more as the world is watching

Let the flames be the heralds
Consuming lords and kings
Hear their cries as their reign ends
(As decreed by laws unwritten)
May the mountains bear witness
And the heavens descend
Plunge the whole world into darkness
(As decreed by laws unwritten)

(Once more) as the world is watching…
I proclaim my desire
(Once more) as the world is watching…
Their hell shall become real

May they fall never to rise again
Withering in the shade of their non-existent gods

[Solo 'Misery – Lifeblood Of All Faith': Danny]

Let the flames be the heralds
How the cry as their reign ends
May the mountains bear witness
Plunge their world into darkness

3. Azagthoth

[Music and lyrics: Morean]

[Solo: Morean]

To the sweet bone-shattering music
Of physics unraveling
Black holes convolve
A messenger is traveling

It will start on the astral plane
Tongues of spiders whisper
Songs of outer frost
Tongues of madness twist the
Fabric of the brain
Tongues of turmoil rip the
Fabric of the world

Azagthoth
Exploding vacuum
Teeth of the maelstrom
Absolute and final
Aversion of the cosmos
The discontinuum unfurls
The gorge of Azagthoth
Forever ravenous

Azagthoth
Nuclei rumble
Azagthoth
From void emerge
Azagthoth
Paradigms tumble
Azagthoth
And parallels merge

What words can convey
The absurdity of living inside
The blade abyss we call our universe
Who are we in the light of such dimensions
Who am I to even begin to tell the tale

We are taught to rise and conquer what we see
The biosphere devours itself to stay alive
When the worms are done with what is left of us
And the atoms have regained their memory at last

The great beast that contains all matter awakens
Just to find itself engulfed
Wrapped up in a singularity
Choking in the vastness of Azagthoth

Rolling through chasms of unspeakability
Maws the size of galaxies revolve
Scourge the antisphere of space-time
Returning all to Azagthoth

Exploding vacuum
Teeth of the maelstrom
Absolute and final
Aversion of the cosmos
The discontinuum unfurls
The gorge of Azagthoth
Forever ravenous

[Solo: Christian]

A boil of seething, writhing flesh
Inseminates the sky
Inflates grotesquely
Fills the firmament
Tears through the horizon
Azagthoth
The noosphere burst
Rasps a final breath
Azagthoth
Fucks the universe to death

Azagthoth
Exploding vacuum
Teeth of the maelstrom
Absolute and final
Aversion of the cosmos
Azagthoth

4. Liquid Anatomy

[Music: Grossmann, lyrics: Morean]

Synethesia
In holy matrimony
With metaplasia

Eyes that form
Where there's truth to behold
Wings born from the need to fly
Flesh under will

Bodily be my magic
My alchemy
Secret my soul
Liquid my anatomy

Somaesthesia
Awakens to sentience
Hyperplasia its vessel

What the mind conceives
From Akasha's unseen flow
Becomes one
With Malkuth's pantheon

Ever-morphing shapes that grow
The spiritual eschaton has begun

[Solo: Danny]

My alchemy
My anatomy

5. In Turmoil's Swirling Reaches

[Music: Tunker/Grossmann/Morean, lyrics: Tunker]

Adrift in bottomless depths
A cold shroud embraces and protects me
I can do as please, yet
I only long to return

Everything in its right place
All where it should be
I can see and touch the patterns
Time and space no longer constrain me

I'm drifting in this great nothing
My inhibitions reaching out
My blood runs in the water
It won't be long before they find me

Whirling, hypnotic,
Descending into turbulence
Disrupting the flow of order
Their purpose to emerge and propagate

In turmoil's swirling reaches
I make my home

[Solo: Linus, Hannes]

Whirling, hypnotic
Descending into turbulence

[Solo: Danny, Morean, Christian]

I'm drifting in this great big nothing
Waiting for the stars to disappear
Sinking from sight beneath
Invisible waves
I submerge my consciousness
And dissolve

[Solo: Danny]

Turbulence
Disrupting the flow of order
Their purpose to emerge and propagate

In turmoil's swirling reaches
I make my home

6. Interstellar Boredom

[Music and lyrics: Morean]

Stare at the stars
And the fire that scars

Stare at the past
Wait for the last
While biology perpetuates itself

Cling to the thing
A hole on a string
While I endlessly regurgitate myself
Evolve myself, dissolve myself
With alarmingly increasing frequence
Annoy myself, destroy myself
All the way through the main sequence

One of a kind
One of a species
An interstellar amoeba in full swing

One of a kind
One of a species
But what good is one of anything

This is taking too long

Like a scarab I drag a sun
In horror of hydrogen starvation
Aeons frozen in nightmares that flare

A million years of lifting
And barely 2G acceleration
The void look the same
No closer to anywhere

Where then
The dog star
Another hundred millions years of this
Won't keep my heart inside me

Change course
Speed up matters
With a hundred million dehisce
Set out to conquer
Divide me

More of a kind
More of a species
A blast that sends us everywhere

And as we draw near
We break up the sphere
To rekindle degenerate electrons

Carbon fusion
Light a standard candle type 1a
All over the pangalactic spectrum

Feed the sun to the scorcher
Push the dog star over
Chandrasekhar's cliff
This is too tedious
Too pedestrian
Too fucking slow

And then
Just when
Sol hits the white dwarf
We chew his meal for him
A last well-timed missile
Our weary skeleton

Gamma is fast
We ride the blast
Iron poison
To kill a star
We build a sorus
An eye in a torus
Iron poison
To kill a star

It is decided
A thermonuclear stellar death wedding
Shut down biology for now
We swarm again

7. Chaos Theory And Practice

[Music and lyrics: Morean]

Don't aim to please
Aim to dazzle
Time's a disease
An endless frazzle

Chaos, save us
Space cannot defeat us
The ecstasy of entropy
Migrate
Arrive
Repeat

Through space we wheeze
Let's end this hassle
Enormity shall be the key
Our grandest razzle

Chaos, save us
Space cannot defeat us
The ecstasy of entropy
Migrate
Arrive
Repeat

Lurch one

Shear the sphere
Spiral out
As one-shot pusher plates
We've had a lot of time to think

It has to be
The perfect shot
From megayears to nanoseconds
Gone in a blink

Lurch two

Why waste Sirius A
Conveniently in our way
Let's do this right
Triple the supernova blast
A nacelle of sentinels
Cannon sol into the dog star
To harvest our disaster type 1a

And the dice are cast
Set source
Release for impact
We're on the brink
Here goes….

Lurch three

The gravity of Sirius B
Spurs accretion
Into its monumental sink

Sol Omega

Get the fuck away from me

As the mass of stellar gas
And two collapsing hydrogen infernos
Are hurled into the carbon furnae

One last goodbye
As both stars die
Collapse the cores
And the local fluff shall tremble

Blow up the stars
Collect their mass
Detonate and resemble

Iron poison
To kill the stars

Lurch four

Accelerate
To breaking point
Then catch flying flesh of stars
At 20000 kps
Wrap around it like a mantle
Spin the loot into spheres

Silicates to patch up scars
Gases to collapse and shrink
Into hawking radiation engines
We've had a lot of time to think

There'll be us who'll ride it out in here
Bottom-feeding in four dimensions
And there's us who'll get right out of here
Once we're turning our attentions,

Gregarious, Nefarious, Temerarious,

To Sagittarius A*
Supermassive Typhon
Crowned in magnetars
A Perfect Siphon

The most pro we can gress
We meet in the center
Access and aggress
Concenter

To Sagittarius A*
Supermassive Typhon
Drowned in magnetars
A Perfect Siphon

The most pro we can gress
We meet in the middle
Doomed in this, unless
We solve this riddle

[Solo: Danny]

How to get the fuck out of here
On a quantum singularity
How to get the fuck out of here

Get the fuck out of here

Chaos save us
Get the fuck out of here
Migrate
Arrive
Repeat

8. Rise Of The Cephalopods

[I. Mantle Ghosts]

Beneath the sunken deeps
Frigid waters tip the plates
A claw of magma sweeps
Rends the crust to giant slates

Convection slowly creeps
Sends new mountains through the gates
An ancient psyche seeps
Mends helices towards new fates

Nothing stays entombed forever
A dying gravestone weeps
Blends the waters, carves, awaits,
Sows the lakes the ice had severed
The tomb no longer sleeps
Fed by fire it stirs, creates

Buried worlds shall rise up, rise up
Buried worlds shall rise up high
Thaw and rise up, rise up, rise up
Thaw and rise up, rise up high

Where Skaði's shadow falls
Life grinds to an icy halt
Where Vulcan's boiling crawls
Oceans burn and heave and fault

But where they meet and kiss and jostle
A chthonic tendril sprawls
Cathedrals rise of pure basalt
Mantle ghosts, tectonic fossils
A hellish glow illuminates the glacial vault

More than rock shall rise up, rise up
More than rock shall rise up high
Race to rise up, rise up, rise up
Race to rise up, rise up high

[Solo: Danny]

[II. The Building of R'lyeh]

Virgin channels draw in, breathe out
Gnawing through the cryosphere
Stygian mollusks swarm and reach out
Life explodes the hydrosphere

Bioluminescent cities light up
Underneath a frozen sky
Sing and light the austral night up
Rise to scrape the ice up high

Eldritch valleys rise up
Eldritch valleys rebound and rise up, rise up high

Nautilus delves, clad in crystal
Sepia and urchin breed
Teuthis' hunger grows, abyssal
Octopodes on dendrites feed

Bioluminescent cities light up
Underneath a frozen sky
Sing and light the austral night up
Rise to break the ice up high

And something wakes in the deep…

[Solo: Christian]

[III. Pangea Proxima]

Landmasses coalesce
Long gone the holocene extinction
As hypercanes ravage and bless
The coastal swamps with biomass
The benthos' grand egress
Towards terrestrial distinction

A postdiluvian octopia
Invertebrate cornucopia
Arachnoid bodies rise
Infest their telluric new utopia

[IV. Metamorphogenesis]

As lichens rise to giant woods
Octopus take to the trees
As overlords of lands and seas
Symbionts inside their hoods

Nine brains fire, reboot their neurons-
Spectral eyes and thinking skin
Revel in new-found endurance
Cogitate and join their kin

An empire shall rise up, rise up
Shape-shifting hives that never die
Masters of the new earth rise up
From abyss to open sky

Kraken and Leviathan
Evolve to polypotency
Molecular their mimicry
Bulging tools from myosin

Tardigrades conjoin the membranes
Polyploid biotechnology
Medusoid immortality
The dermis cast in chloroplasts

Ancient, sapient, scintillating cephalopods
Transdifferentiating cephalopods

From bleeding crust to canopy
From crudest ooze to the sublime
Invisibly, unseizably,
Unstoppably the masters climb

Where instinct ends
Where schemes emerge
Where hunger goes
The masters surge

[Solo: Christian]

Ancient, sapient, scintillating cephalopods
Transdifferentiating cephalopods

Like a tide they rise up, rise up
Like a tide they rise up high
On piles of bones they rise up, rise up
On piles of bones they rise up high

On primate fossils they rise up
On our remains they rise up high
With a vengeance they rise up
With a vengeance they rise up high

[V. Octragon]

Tentacles spread
Cilia flare
The octopus take to the air

As overlords of earth and sky
The elders glide
The young ones fly

As polyp seeds
They pair and tear
As fleshy leaves
They soar up high

Find burning needs
In starry skies
Where novae glare
And planets die

This world won't last forever
In time, the only way is up
Illuminating silent winds,
The coleoidea dream of nebulae

Billowing iridescence
Brings a thousand maws with fangs

Staring lanterns light the night
Fleshy domes float to the sky
Leathery bells chime in the dark
The dragons of their aeon

The dragons of their aeon

[VI. Star Spawn]

Coral spires rise up, rise up
Stratospheric colonies
Make the waters rise up, rise up
Shun the earth, escape and freeze

Winged ammonites from the dawn of time
Launch ships of ice to rise up high
Primeval aliens in their prime
To conquer worlds beyond the sky

[Solo: Christian]







ALKALOID LYRICS