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The Astronaut

by lyrids

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Matt It follows its trajectory with the brutal elegance of a space capsule plummeting to earth.
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1.
Seek 06:58
At nightfall, gazing skyward, he exults, godlike, he projects himself upon the darkness. At first light, gazing farther, no sign of life... still Searching, for what he knows not, and finding nothing. Does what he seek even exist? Did it ever? Riddled with emptiness, beyond and within, his search is in vain. The void is a mirror reflecting nothing. Alone Weightless Burning Stone Life Storms Silence Vagrants Casting a swarm of machine seeds of a new life. Propagating like a plague upon new worlds. Far outreaching fragile flesh, Touching new worlds. Inseminating celestial womb With a new life.
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Sol 07:10
Rays of the Sun, Give unto us. Build us a world, Light our way home. Rays of the Sun, Take of us, Swallow our world, Light our way home. A pallid landscape, ashen and dead, What of ourselves must we give that we may live again?
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Daylight 05:01
Claw back into the sunlit spaces between your many worlds of darkness. Lay down your head, unburden your weary bones, and bask in the knowledge that the stars remain turning above. You exhaust yourself weeping for God knows what.
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You beast of burden, hillclimber Sisyphean, cast aside your stone, summit the peak of eternal light, descend as a god then rise as a man. Again and again put your shoulder to the stone Again and again put your shoulder to the stone With the sun in your eyes and a life in your hands, the weight you bear becomes your salvation, a brief respite from eternal nothingness, your earthly struggle is glorious. To begin again is to never end. To embrace the stone is to become the stone. Neverending is the wheel we're trapped within. An ongoing death, the sun rises and it sets.

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released January 13, 2015

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lyrids Frederick, Maryland

Dan- Guitar, Vocals
Rick- Drums

Recording by Bryan C.

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