KARDASHEV LYRICS

1. Tenebris

[Instrumental]

2. Sopor

I am temporary.
Seeded by progress,
Formed by intention.
I am temporary.
I question the assumption
That nothing exists.
Conscious thought-
Infinite landscape of chemical reaction.
I am human...
Conscious thought.
How could I?
How could I think this?

3. Somnus

This is where all things are forgotten -
Craft of our hands feels nothing as
We fade away.
Meaninglessness -
The first creation.
In every action, in every breath,
Strength of illusion.

Torn in two -
The sky breaks like a seed
Spreading its blueprint on the Earth.
All things beyond the man-made
Culminate and fall...
Passionate. Intentional.
Assault your lungs with the greatest of all war cries -
We are! We exist!

I, the offset -
The only word we know.
Light, alignment -
A truth that can be known.

Veil held across the sun,
Only we can burn you!

This is when all things can be sacred -
Held to fire.
Removal of all that we know.

Torn in two -
The sky breaks like a seed
Spreading its blueprint on the Earth.
All things beyond the man-made
Culminate and fall...
Passionate. Intentional.
Assault your lungs with the greatest of all war cries -
We are! We exist!

4. Somnium

Intentional omission.
Quiet, fertile ground.
Unfinished thought...
Hovering word -
Rising up from the Earth.

Steps with no echo.
Breath heard by no one.

Wake up!
Waking!

Dried dirt and grit in our teeth.
Cracks in the mud on our hands.
Breathing out the dust in our lungs -
Unity without a sound.
Until the light takes us,
Until the dawn...
Bleary eyes that see the sun -
Unity without a sound.
We step, and the clouds move!

What place is this?
Should, and should not -
Swaying field of convention.
Knowing and doing simply to choose.

Follow!
Fall!
Stand!

5. Aurora

[Instrumental]

6. Lucido

Be still and at peace!

What is the equation of this?
What is the sum of all parts?
Here, all things grow on their own.
Earliest of mornings -
Awareness before birth.

It was there -
In my dreaming...
Pressed tot he ground.
Every law, and all I had felt
Dissolved into sound.

Now I have come to know
That all of this is meaningless
As I fall deeper into love,
Waking from this slumber.

7. Umbra

I
Once had
Conscious thought.
Are these landscapes
Truly infinite?

Who am I,
But an eclipse of the sunlight?
Who am I
But an eclipse?

8. Vigilo

[Instrumental]

9. Conscium

Thrown into the wind to create.
Held under the dirt for seven days.
Nothing is hastened,
All things are done.

O, evening to morning!

"Then come to me in bright defile,
Where judgement day is not a thing
That can be delayed for overlong."

Silence at dawn.
Everything in its place.
Slow moving tides reflect cinnabar skies.
The Earth is beautiful and one day
I shall die.

I'll step into forever,
Where the edge is gone.
The Earth unseeded -
The sun sets upon nowhere.
Beauty as emptiness?
Oh, what will I do with such
Beauty as emptiness?

And now in light, and in knowledge of this...
What must I do?
What must be done?

Millions of embers have gone out
Behind my back.
Four hundred billion more
Stare at me from the dull horizon.
Where do I stand?
What claim to make?
So I will let the scales fall
From my eyes -
For here in this light I am speechless!

Who am I to speak of morality?

10. Lux

Wake!
This is silence and silence is still!
Blossomed fist! O, altruist!
I am immortal. I am dead.
I have everything. I have nothing.
I am immortal. I am dead.
I have everything. I have nothing at all.
Nothing at all.

At each core, soft approximation.
Delicate abstraction.
Function and form.
So maintained -
Ceasing acquisition.
True manifestation as I become dust.

Great reversal!
This - a fleeting formation of matter!
Self defined!

We are immortal. We are dead.
We have everything. We have nothing.
We are immortal. We are dead.
We have everything. We have nothing at all.
Nothing at all.

Yet now my eyes on a darkened mirror -
Seeing everything in part.

We are awake!

Millions stare back! All of our kind!
We will know each other as we are known!





KARDASHEV LYRICS