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1. |
Deceive Yourself!
07:12
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Never again will we be sincere
For our innocence springs up from lies.
Never again will we call us ourselves:
Self, such a deceitful word.
Do not trust that subtle I, expecting
To find the one from the many,
Breeding something out of nought.
Aren’t we but a stream of beings,
An endless variation,
A storm of forms – figure and thought?
I isn’t me, my friend, and I am not it,
“Car Je est un autre.”
Deceive yourself for you never are
Who you do think you are.
Define yourself as the undefined.
You’re boundless if you fool your mind.
Never again will we claim or swear
Our assumed identity is real.
Never again will we indulge in this trap,
This treacherous prison of ours.
For the greatest of all deceptions is
The self, a cage with something
Tragic throbbing inside,
A trap with masks and disguises,
A buried hole where something
Absolute and dark does hide.
Defy yourself in a war of tricks,
Astuteness, unfair mortal fits.
Deny yourself and delve into the abyss.
Divest of the impostor you feed.
Delete yourself, erase and expand,
Turn over and turn off your mind.
Deceive yourself before you get deceived
By someone who is nothing indeed.
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2. |
Cargo Cult
08:12
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They bring the secret and the sacred
On floating cities.
On gigantic iron birds
They carry food and wealth.
They bring a message from the skies
So that we get redeemed.
Look! From the heavens they descend.
Hail the gods of cargo cult!
From the sea they approach our land.
Come and join the cargo cult!
The white man is taking away
Our ancestors’ souls – ghosts of our past.
O forebears, we make fields for temples
And welcome you to land on our poor ground.
We build red crosses and with heart we pray
That a prophet may reveal divinity unto us
For gods have the meaning we need to take us
Through the darkness of our world.
Hence believe and nothing more demand.
Have deep faith in cargo cult!
For god is everything we cannot understand.
God is merely cargo cult!
The time has come to open eyes and mind.
God is cargo cult.
There is no answer you can find
In the worship of a god.
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3. |
Who Is Next?
08:58
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Our life – a bitter trip – is a riddle we can’t solve.
We live as strangers with blindfolded eyes.
Nobody knows
Why we suffer, why we die.
Our common fate – departure – is inescapable as sin.
We die as losers that have lived in vain.
All the time, we paint with gestures
The progressive shape of our death.
Sometimes we feel the pain, sometimes the joy
Of this sentence we serve – bleak countdown to nothingness.
We feel the anger, a grain of pleasure, hope and despair,
Till when we vanish in the final farewell.
Who’s first amongst us to pass away?
Who’s next to leave?
We all are doomed to our demise.
Who’s next to die?
Who’s first amongst us to fade away?
Who’s next to cease to be?
We will all give up the ghost.
Who’s next to be no more?
Here in the unfathomable fields of the living
Each and every one of us brings inside
That seed, unknown, that hideous crime
Against life that at one point or another
Shall fatally bloom, exploding into death
Our carcass flower and its petals dyed red.
No matter what, for those who remain
Nostalgia comes in the shape of a desert.
And yeah, I know I will mourn all the ones I love
Except for those who will outlast me when I am gone.
Who’s first amongst us to turn away?
Who’s next to disappear?
We all shall perish on our way.
Who’s next to fall from here?
Who’s next to be taken away?
Who’s next to turn their back to life?
We all have got to die.
The end is certain. Death shall come.
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4. |
The Great Whirlpool
09:50
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We sail and cut through open water
(You know all sailors are in search of a course),
But our ship has got no destination
And we stand firm on the deck, infinite beings
Crossing the finitude of the seas.
Vastness is what our souls aspire to.
Reason has depths deeper than the deepest
Abyss. The winds do not scare us,
Nor does the storm. There can be gloomy places
Where the black covertly shines out...
Moving South, East or West,
We roll on just the same towards
The great province of Nordland.
Ho! We were cast on the enchanted ocean
To sing our hymn to the unknown!
Ho! We sail larboard and starboard.
We were flogged away from the ground!
Ho! There’s no place for us on this earth,
No island to rest our tired bones!
Ho! Only death shall be waiting for us
Till our hearts are full drowned!
Slowly we approach the all-swallowing throat,
The insatiable eye of the sheer precipice:
“This can be nothing else than the great whirlpool of the Maelström.”
The darkest black
Hole. Water snakes coiling up.
Shadowy turmoil and foam.
The surge.
The increasing sound
Of fury. Grinding currents.
The boisterous moaning from
Hell.
The shattering whirlwind.
All feelings crushed into a waterwall.
The terrific funnel engulfing
It all.
We the survivors who stared into the dark below,
Yeah, we were meant to meet the netherworld.
Our travel companions are fear and unawareness. The flow
Leads us to war against our monsters and maelstroms.
To forgotten harbours we shipwrecked belong.
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Hertz Kankarok Acireale, Italy
Hertz Kankarok is the nom de plume of a Sicilian musician who, at the end of 2012, gave birth to an unconventional metal
solo project that explores the beauty in darkness.
Author of music and lyrics, as well as singer, Hertz Kankarok composes his songs using a computer and then draws upon valuable and indispensable partner musicians for the arrangements and the recordings.
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