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9. Kenopsia (Aftermath)
Words and Music By: Jesse Lacharite
Album: The Pleasure of Harm

Empty streets
Overwhelming
No sounds
Just quiet...

All around
Familiar sights
Now fallen into ruin

Nature overtakes
And slowly suffocates
Modernity
Under a carpet of green

One hundred years ago
When the bombs fell
The land died
Driven by extremity
Old wounds
Never fully healed
Ripped anew
With terrible ramifications

All the world
Burned in cupidity
Sewn eyes
Never really see
The thin veneer
Of superiority
Lent by
Emerging technologies

In the flames of perdition
A new identity is forged
Self-centered and arrogant
A danger to us all

In the pale light
Of the burning cities
As the black snow begins to falls
A vein of misery
Reaching out into nothing
Strewn across the land

The fields
Lay thick with the freshly dead
The reek of purulency
And radioactivity
The lonely clicks
Of a long forgotten Geiger Counter

The sum of progress
Cancels humanity
Spinning our wheels
On useless things
Directed energy
Into moral insanity
The last gasp
Of a flawed species

The echoes from beyond
Reverberate into eternity
Scorched earth
Our only legacy

The dust of history
Lays us to sleep
The remnants of society
Laid to rest

Under the mantle
Of everlasting night
The curtain close
As we fade from sight...

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9. Kenopsia (Aftermath) - The Pleasure of Harm