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The Center of It All

by Cyclical Melancholy

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1.
Lemme tell you bout the carrion corvid And prickly pear prophet's fate Trapped inside this melancholic Technicolor nightmare ritual Visual kaleidoscopic blaze Ain't a thing we can do 'cept search And wait for a way out So close for so long To the sea within my dreamscape With the fractalated flange all up in my Nanogates and mind machines But it's so far out of our way In your wildest fever dreams and Where can we go now? By pure coincidental chance A way out has presented itself This juiced-up bit of space junk Will suffice as a means of travel Nothing stands between us and the infinite Save for the asteroid belt But is it better to turn my ass around And go back to that dusty old planet? There's nothing for us back there But what in the hell could possibly be out here? Ok i'm not gonna lie I never thought that i Would be receiving direction From a space alien guide But now we're going to the place where time is space I'm headed for that heptahedron How far can we go now? If i'm gonna be lost I don't wanna spend all That time staring at a map Panic attack Driving at a brick wall Hoping to get all The way to 88 mph Before impact And all you really seemed to want Was to see me fail To no avail Breaking the shell To stop caring what you think And stop thinking you care Cause I can no longer dwell In this self imposed hell I'm unable to look up at the sky Without getting a flashback And I got these demons Wanting my flesh, hunting me But if we keep searching for the pattern The pattern will set us free
2.
Ghastly 09:01
Go! I fell from outer space just to get left in the mist Not to know where I came from but I need to know what's out There are so many spots in life where I do get stuck Without knowledge of the truth but I choose to battle through I am so confused about this whole entire thing Like what is my origin and how does that interpret How can I make it out of all of this awful drit That has been clogging my pipes and stuffing my brain tonight If you want me come get me Stop complaining If you wanna play ball then let's play ball If you wanna know me then get to know me Stop overthinking If you wanna play ball then let's play ball If you wanna show me what I oughta be Try supporting If you wanna play ball then- You make me obtusely sick for all of the pain you caused You did not even assist when I was trying to find What is my purpose? Why was I put here? When we be set free and see finally the end? I went from feeling good to popping my sedan's hood Cause there is never an end to the struggles we live with Whether it's what I want or if it's just what is up front I will do what I'm told and I won't fold or withhold If you want me the come get me Stop forgiving If you wanna play ball then let's play ball If you wanna know then get to know me Stop contemplating If you wanna play ball then let's play ball If you wanna show me what I oughta be Try believing If you wanna play ball then- It's ghastly it's haunting This life constantly restarting's Ghastly it's haunting Is there nothing that I can do? (Red, green, blue) I see the colors as they are starting to shift Into different opportunities I see everything as it's meant to be seen You cannot corroborate and make me feel harsh defeat I don't need that in my life anymore and I need you to know that You can't control me anymore I've got sanity and then I've got Good people that love me the way that I need But serpents keep on slithering into the abyss that I dig I need to know that what I'm doing Is moving forward and not slacking Can you help me in my learning? IS there something you can teach me? What I need is to believe in myself And if I cannot that this is the end I will not stutter while my superiors skip When I tend to their sheep so vicariously I feel empathy of a single being Please do not elaborate defile then compile defeat I need you to know that I want myself to go so far I cannot deny that there's so much inside my heart But I cannot continue to allow you to lure me in What I will turn into will be chosen by my command You need to know that what you showed me Wasn't why I backtrack nor how I could succeed Can't you realize? I'm just growing Lean into the nature that you could only dream to be in Don't you worry I'm just floating like an AFK UFO with headlights beaming It's ghastly it's haunting This life constantly restarting's Ghastly it's haunting Is there nothing that I can do? Without your touch I feel like a vulture in a deer Scavenging for lunch like our culture isn't clear Papyrus under Lesotho trees wallow in the pain bestowed for free Lycans forever depend on me they're hunting wouldn't you agree It's creepin in, indecision It's seepin in, let the thoughts seep Reverberate Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop (Doo-wop-doo-wop-wop) Reverberate Let the thoughts seep, it's seepin in This decision, it's creepin It's ghastly It's haunting This life constantly restarting's Ghastly it's haunting Is there nothing that I can do? Rising from the mist of life where I do get stuck You can no longer diss cause I cause no causes You don't have to change the world You just have to change yourself You don't need to fight, react You just need to fight intact If you act disrespectful When you get disrespected Then you earn respect in This inadequate perspective It's ghastly It's haunting This life constantly restarting's Ghastly it's haunting Is there nothing that I can do? It's ghastly It's haunting This life constantly restarting's Ghastly it's haunting Is there nothing that I can do? I might make it I might make it I might make it I might make it I might make it I might make it I might make it out! I might make it I might make it I might make it I might make it out!
3.
being a human is so fucking hard watching the birds and chasing the stars it's all fucking useless growing up i didn't know how to do this i notice that i'm climbing the ladder of success as i'm pacing rubbing one out right before dawn gives me a tingly sensation knowing that i'm not important really gets me going going through the motions but it's just another day another sunday back and forth i go feeling so patched then feeling so broke man i don't even know feeling so used brokenhearted since the day that we started when all is said and done i watch you leave im sad that you are gone i should not be sad but you hurt me and you made me wish i had taken my own life why did i think you could be my wife? wandering through the memories that we once shared wishing that they were gone wishing that they dissapeared i can't take any of this stress that you're giving me i wanna love you but you make it so hard i open my heart to you and you respond with "k cool" cutting myself and making a blood pool taking all this hate out on my family just because they are next to me i know that's what you wanna see, all this blood pouring out of my arteries got me feeling so depleted but you're acting so conceited always acting all heated for no reason but with me you'd be completed and now i'm feeling defeated i know i know i know what i said and i know i know it's too late and i'm already dead when all is said and done i watch you leave im sad that you are gone i should not be sad but you hurt me and you made me wish i had taken my own life why did i think you could be my wife? when all is said and done i watched you leave im sad that you are gone i should not be sad but you hurt me and you made me wish i had taken my own life (taken my own life)
4.
I buy a Big Mac get it supersized Eat it to the beat as I bump and grind This is what I need it's my time to shine People like to judge make me go insane I straight murder a flow every time I am not careful Just like I murder my body with high cholesterol There are so many rappers these days that are so terrible You cannot look at me with that because I am bearable This is my parable Started unfavorable Like I would trade it all Just for a day alone I'll bring the fame along Show you these bars for fun Until the song is done And then I wait in line for another burger and some fries Got a combo with a drink but no cup holder in my ride If you are my lady just know that I'm gonna pay for ya Triple the daily value recommended caloric I buy a Big Mac get it supersized Eat it to the beat as I bump and grind This is what I need it's my time to shine People like to judge make me go insane I buy a Big Mac get it supersized Eat it to the beat as I bump and grind This is what I need it's my time to shine People like to judge make me go insane After I get through the long line I drive straight to my house Then I take my food inside and I sit down on my couch Open up the bag and see that tin foil that is wrapped Right around my juicy burger that is quadruple- Stacked to the ceiling stacked stacked so high How many patties can they fit by my fries So so many oh so many Tonight only four but I believe there could be plenty I'ma be honest I think there should be more than two Three's not enough I think four will do Five if possible but we're not there yet Bring on the price I don't care about my wallet All of the other options on the menu I do not blink an eye When the person at the other side of the window sees my weight they will cry I buy a Big Mac get it supersized Eat it to the beat as I bump and grind This is what I need it's my time to shine People like to judge make me go insane I buy a Big Mac get it supersized Eat it to the beat as I bump and grind This is what I need it's my time to shine People like to judge make me go insane (Make me go insane) (Make me go insane) (Make me go insane) (Make me go!)
5.
i know what it's like to lose life and nothing about this feels right staring up at the sun i listened with my third ear, your melody rang so clear but i'm seeing blue in the green dream, i fear talkin bout all that's said and done i can't see through this haze it's all caught in the fire, everything we made don't wanna hurt nobody, so i'll seal myself away and be controlled (control) i am left feeling barren, blind, old, and numb it seems staring at the icy cold sun went too far now living in your world, i had a really good time but i was hoping we'd build an interplanetary bridge out to mine now my black hole has a silver line what once was light from an ever-blazing star really don't want you to go but i know you shoulda done this long ago ice pick holes self-inflicted in my skull take control (control) the unforgiving cold reaches inside and begins to expand won't be long, no (now?) before a watery grave claims me and my friends keep talking... hey, that's actually a solid plan we just might be able to leave this place if you'd be willing to take one chance, yeah (guitar solo) but your mind is altered by every second of every minute, and i have been it, unholy cynic, and let me tell you everything that you ever see alters your perspective and i have seen it, the holy vision make sure you tell somebody before it's much too late the cosmic void devours, it feeds on all our hate don't let it take your memories learn from this glimpse cause your eye must now be silent once again it feels as though we're all alone it feels as though all of us are alone
6.
Closure 04:07
now i have realized every single one of them will slip away and it's all thanks to my inability to relate to other people in general maybe there's a god, but i'm pretty sure there's a devil or something lower look just like a functioning individual on the surface but still, not a person just an observer cause at the center of it all there's a great big hole it's black as the space between the stars and there ain't no way to resist its pull consuming everything we are this apathy has given me nothing but emptiness inside if i resign to be blind, the whole entire mental state unwinds the dark goat will begin to ascend pouring the floods out of the spacial rend and i can't blame god for not caring existence is monstrously barren every single one of them will slip away cause at the center of it all there's a great big hole and if you leave it as it is, all it'll ever do is grow and grow aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa maybe that's alright, ok what i have can't save me in the end but it can for the moment now i've managed to forgive but never can i forget because of how much it meant
7.
[part 1: machinery bop] when the world starts a-burning and the dead get to turning these chickens keep a-yearning for lust it's the middle of December their heads are getting dismembered for the cult made all its members from dust now the wind blows in from the east, following behind is the beast only one mission left to meet sitting on the throne is the queen, metamorphosized to intrigue making sure the nation reigns supreme little did the beast know, there's more to this than a show the cult are not all they reap and sow yet still the beast continues, erupting from within shoots out minions who were forced to choose critters crawl onto the scene, making their way to the team wobbling as fat as can be something must be inside them, there's evidence there's something whatever it is it has an awful stench what could we have ever known we are all so turned into the obvious and scared of the unknowns of trust Caged! Crazed! Craved! arranging for a meeting, can we sort this peacefully retain the market for all species far and wide maturing way too slowly or rapidly declining we are those that are deciding other's fates the queen didn't like that answer no peacefulness here, their team blocked all the exits closing in from behind, the front, left, and right the only way out is up, or down [part 2: mechanical slop] rise from the ashes of life and let your mind be free stand up for what you believe and let your body roam free fight back by simply ignoring and set you soul at ease at ease [metal shuffle] (peace) [part 3: it's over!] we won the day, we are victorious tonight showing that we can prevail in a world that we don't belong in without this chance i thought that i would end my life but there's an oasis that i have always been longing for if the battle has begun then battle must be won then we go onto the next one Rise!

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released August 3, 2023

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Cyclical Melancholy Andice, Texas

A funky prog rock powerhouse duo that bends genres and jumps planets into the future mindset, whilst delivering a present unlike that you've ever heard before in your entire past. Guaranteed or your 0 money back.

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