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Fata Morgana

by Incognito Effect

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1.
I watched in disbelief, Beheld the horror of a crumbling reality. The world I thought I knew dissolving before my eyes And leaving nothing but confusion to fill the void The day the scales fell from my eyes The veil was ripped away I watched them shed their skin, Become the instruments of vile and malicious men. And far too easily they gave up integrity. The pain of vision and unblemished reality. The scales have fallen from my eyes. And now the world that I inhabited is some forgotten dream And now the faces of my friends are warped and unrecognized by me There was a separation made between the sighted and the blind We have been marked forever by the things we witnessed on that day If you had seen what I have seen, You would be terrified to sleep If you had seen what I have seen, It would deprive you of your peace. We have been marked, the threshold was crossed There can be no return to ignorance Our integrity lost, our naivete gone, What we wouldn’t give to get it back I watched them abdicate, Abandon dignity for lies and conformity, Abandon all pretense to value autonomy The lines were drawn and there were choices made on that day That now forever haunt my mind
2.
Destroyers 05:55
You came to us as a savior, A beacon of hope and transformation. We waited too long to resist you. Now we’ve dearly paid for our indulgence Of your dream. And after all you’ve wrought, you still play messiah, Saving us from ourselves. And after all we’ve lost, we reject your promise. We’re taking it back for ourselves. We saw your brave new world, We saw your brand new sky, And we lost our minds. Awake from slumber, and the spell is broken now You played the part of the prophet And we followed the path of your vision. But we’ve seen the shape of the future you would have made. Your utopia dies. And after every failure, you won’t be shaken. You’ll follow your dream to the end. And after what we’ve seen, we can’t let you triumph. Indifference will be our death. Awake from slumber and the spell is broken Now we see what you would bring. Alive in spite of what you tried to realize. Now we see your true face. We’re reasserting and reclaiming what you tried to steal Our right to be And after all you’ve wrought, you still play messiah, Saving the world from itself. And after all we’ve lost, we reject your promise. We’re taking it back for ourselves.
3.
Shines Forth 04:07
There’s a phantom that’s always just ahead of you. There’s a mystery always just beyond your view. There’s a longing that’s never been satisfied. There’s a dream you’ve had every night all of your life. There’s a question that defines the very heart of you. There’s an answer that forever has eluded you. There’s a voice that speaks but never is discernible. Since the day you’re born, always you have felt the pull. When you’ve chased the sound, you’ve found it only dissipates. When you’ve gotten close, it suddenly evaporates. You have tasted it in moments of serenity You have heard the whispers at the edges beckoning in. Follow it. Further in. When the meaning shines forth, follow where it leads. Don’t believe the lies that tie you to the natural, Or the voices that deny you of the spiritual Don’t resign yourself to listlessness and emptiness Don’t surrender to indifference or hopelessness When the forces of faithlessness come to you, When the worshippers of reason try to weaken you, When the merchants of nihilism lambaste you, Don’t renounce your claim on that which you know to be true When the meaning shines forth, follow where it leads.
4.
The serpent eats it own tail. Conceived in frustration, It breeds only chaos, And dreams of the end. This never-ending upheaval is by design The mission creep of the righteous never subsides Don’t believe that it ever can be satisfied The snake devours itself The movement feeds on its own. It masquerades as defender of the oppressed It claims to speak on behalf of the weak and helpless Preying on your compassion, demanding your life The most committed disciple will be sacrificed The snake devours itself The movement feeds on its own. A creature borne of resentment And hatred is fated To consume itself Conflict is the lifeblood of the Endless social revolution Hatred and resentment feed the Drive for so-called “social justice” Ignorance of history Enables them to push their dogma The advocates of equity Are satisfied to watch the world burn The snake devours itself The movement feeds on its own. A creature borne of resentment And hatred is fated To consume itself It self-destructs by design, It cannot be pacified. Don’t apologize Or renounce or claim On the truth you know Stand defiant to the end.
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In Longing 04:58
Torn away from the past, no future. Set adrift on the waves in chaos. Middle children without hope or voice. Predetermined to live without choice. Left alone to pursue fantasy. Bred and raised to believe in nothing. Underneath a veneer of anomie Something vital awakes in longing. Find a burden to bear And then freedom awaits. Take a step and behold Then the path is revealed. Strike a match in the dark You are never alone. Speak a word to the void And then meaning will come.
6.
Recognize when you’ve been beat Realize your time has past You’re a useless relic, Expendable and standing in the way So your time has come and gone You’re irrelevant and weak Though we needed you, you’ve Served your purpose. Welcome to the end. We invited you to change, To renounce your dignity. But you obstinately refused to crawl And worship at our feet There’s no room in our future For the backward and obscure You are relegated to the fire, so Abandon any hope Underneath the gears of progress, We crush every reprobate rival who gets in our way If you cannot evolve, Destruction is all you deserve There’s only one fate for your obstinate kind Surrender to darkness and quietly die The graveyard of history beckons you in And your extinction you cannot resist Refuse your extinction We defy you to resist Deny us at your peril It’s in your nature to be a slave So it seems that you still stand You’re determined to go on You’re the thorn in our side, Arrogant and clinging to your pride. This was not supposed to be Your revolt should long have failed You were never meant to Rise again and Reassert your will
7.
Here I stand. I can do no other. Here it ends to define the struggle. The catastrophe didn’t ruin me. The collapse is here, but I’m not afraid. I have chosen this hill to die upon. If the end is here, I say let it come Here I stand. I can do no other. Here it ends to define the struggle. Every choice I made culminates today. Every step I took has led up to this. I commend myself to the hands of fate. When the moment comes, don’t avert your eyes. When you take your stand, take it all they way. When this day is done, tell them what you saw. What is my voice made for If not to speak for this? What better use have I Than to confront the storm? I've got enough strength in me left for the fight Got enough left for one last run Here I stand Here I draw the line This is where it ends On my honor, come whatever, I will not be moved
8.
We march in lockstep And call ourselves unique We’re unified in Our nonconformity We are the vanguard of subversion We are the hive mind of free thinking You can’t persuade us Our knowledge is complete You’ll never shape us We’ve ossified We perfectly mimic each other in being distinct We are the doctrinaire enforcers of heresy Champions of the diverse, you can’t tell us apart The dogma of total inclusion demands that we Hate those who disagree with us We take our orders Like faithful dissidents We’re self-appointed The priests of unbelief We are the arbiters of free speech We are the silencers of those we fear We can’t be bothered to suffer the unenlightened We perfectly mimic each other in being distinct We are the doctrinaire enforcers of heresy Champions of the diverse, you can’t tell us apart The mantra of tolerance spews from our lips as we Kill all cognitive dissonance We hate those who disagree with us, Stifle all of the excellent, Kill all cognitive dissonance *** Break from the pattern That defines the crowd, That would steal your voice, That would steal your soul. And cut the strings That can’t be seen Then find your voice And speak the truth. Notice the walls inside That would stifle you and deprive Refuse their control, stand on your own, Stand and then cut your strings. When you awaken from atrophy, Rediscover your sovereignty Feel the sun on your face, cold light of day, Giving you back your name. So escape your captivity And reclaim your own sovereignty Depart from the hive, bid them goodbye, Cut your goddamned strings Find your voice And speak the truth You know your name So cut your strings When you find your voice, Then you’ll speak the truth. And you’ll know your name, So cut your strings.

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released September 1, 2018

Richie E. Castaneda - guitar, keys; Jacob Turner - drums; Jason Livingston - vocals

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