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Embryonic
06:28
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EMBRYONIC-what is the pain/you’ll never feel/what is the life/i’ll never heal/
i took that from you/sacrifice to know what grows inside/destroyed by me/incubated/
the life that’s born to die/i can feel it moving inside/the life is washed away/
sterile and incubated/in death the life will pay/i took that from you/i took that from you/
i will create you/i will create you/ the life that’s born to die
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Surrender
03:54
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SURRENDER-I lie alone/the fog surrounds me and I know that it’s not right/i must escape this awful state of night/
so here I tread/and standing still without a phase of sight to dread/the noise completes the pictures in my head/
you learn you must surrender/it’s taken time for you to realize/that what you felt is not forever/
you find you must surrender/and now you see the world with no disguise/and face the truth of now and never/
the rain pours down on me/ the clarity i sought would make us free/but in the depths of fate/
the answers drowned beneath this mud of hate/i gasp to breathe the cause/that brought us to this place yet here we pause/
and in the fear of dawn/the innocence I dreamt about is gone
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Delay
03:38
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DELAY-i thought there was a place/where stars shone bright with grace/
and rain fell slow to time/as wind dispersed its seed/and now I learn I can’t revive the past I’ve lost/
and I shall pay the cost/disuaded by the state that traps my mind in place/delay/there is always time/
but how much will i be calling mine today/i will search to find/a chance that else may only bring delay/
i’ll repeat the line/replace the marks insisting that I stay/towards the sun that blinds my way/
delay/ i can see now you’re lost inside the trap that holds you down/the safety of your net
creates a yearning to regress/on back receding towards a tiny place that holds you close/
to feel the dark it makes within your yearning to embrace/the fear that grows inside keeps churning every day/
as the world surrounds and moves to block your way/and now you’re holding back the things that you regret/
but reaching towards the sky brings more than you could bet
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Rewind
04:08
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REWIND-a time of changing has begun/the leaves are fallen and undone/inside your spirit starts to run/
and all my fears are overcome/i feel the time has come and that it’s for real/i see the future turn inside of me/
i find i’m ready to rewind/and erase the pain that’s haunted me in time/i watch the days as they fly by/
the turmoil ceases to subside/beyond the shadows freedoms hide/and now the chances have arrived/
i can’t escape/this feeling that my world’s about to break/and I can’t wait
for all that’s built inside to finally wake/ this time I know that what’s ahead will likely overflow/
although my fear is bound to grow/as time will show/i can’t escape the knowledge that my world is full of hate/
i can’t resist the urge to seek out all that might exist/as I tread on the world may think i’m gone/
and erase the pain that’s traced what I’ve become/it’s all undone
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Still
04:18
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STILL-Still I can hear your voice/still I await the choice to find/your peace of mind/still i awake so cold/
still hear your breath unfold/your hand on solid land/lost I await your call/lost I can hear you fall/
the same cold misty rain/here I am found at last/here I’ll forget the past/and find what’s truly mine/
i can hear your conscience dancing/i can feel the fear unfold/i can see the tension grasping/
now I know the still you hold/now I know the still you hold/ i can still hear you/i can still feel you/
you left a mark that will not ever change/now that I will find your peace of mind/your path awaits me/
i can’t erase the/unending touch that makes my breath unfold/i’ll be here until you break the still/
i’ll be here until you break the still
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X-ray
04:21
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X-RAY-What’s inside me? A part of me awakes/to light that shines against the knowledge that we break/
and as you tear it down/i see the truth that binds your answer’s frown/what’s inside me?/
i see what you can’t find/i see what’s inside me/what’s inside me?/what you can’t find/
i see you walk away/i cannot share the fate that I have seen/I know that what’s to come is not so far away/
and love is seen beyond the answers laid in front of me/another way to see the path that leads me in my dreams/
and here I wake to be embraced by love inside/now I cannot hide/now I cannot hide/you’ve grasped until you breached/
all the light is gone/and waked before the night had dawned/ponder my mind alone/
now I can see beyond your throne
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Incision
03:23
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INCISION-You cut right into me/i didn’t think you’d leave yourself to see/
and now we’ll never know/ the lessons you had wanted us to show/i never did remind you/
the things that you had felt I can’t recall/and I won’t find you/your selfish need for freedom made you fall/
and now you’re free/will always be/it’s hard to see/i cannot see your face/
behind the tracks you claim to have erased/and since your place is gone/i cannot feel where you and I belong/
i knelt to find you/but couldn’t help but hear you tell me not/to reach behind you/
and taste the fear that lead us to your plot/and now I can’t remind you/
that more existed than you claimed to be/and I won’t find you/your selfish need for justice made you free/
you cut right into me/i didn’t think you’d leave yourself to see/
and now we’ll never know/the lessons you had wanted us to show/and now you’re free/
will always be/it’s hard to see/and now you’re free/will always be
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Phobic
04:03
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PHOBIC- you see inside/you see inside/you read my mind/you read my mind/you survived a hellish dream/
now the light can mend the seams/ but your will wraps tight around/ watch the sky come crashing down/
you breathe/ believe/ you touch/ won't face I need you so much/ embrace/ encase/ I fear/
your love for me is so clear/ a love that's so defined/ you'll never wake the newness that can be/
a happiness so kind/ mistaken for seductive falsity/ just knowing that you're mine/
erases all reverse complexity/ the emptiness unwinds an unexpected flexibility/ I arrived on foreign land/
with no one to hold my hand/ but my guide came shining through/ from the fog alone stood you/
came shining through/ alone stood you
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Needle
02:57
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NEEDLE (a.k.a. “Injection”)-Now the names are chosen/and the cage is open/push the needle right through/
soon i’ll be without you/don’t know how I will feel inside/every day I can see it lie/
holding back the pain waiting ready to die/hold the subject down/slide the needle in place/
i can feel it inside/shows across my face/every day I can see it lie holding back the pain waiting ready to die/
go to sleep sweet angel/let me wipe the pain away/let the drug control you/just relax and close your eyes/
every day I can see it lie holding back the pain waiting ready to die
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Chosen Fate
04:38
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CHOSEN FATE- unborn I feed on you alone/ when will my soul become my own?/
soon I'll awake the world to see/ learning a false reality/ I'm left with no escape/
won't live with chosen fate/ existence is a fraud/ who says you should play God?/
the future is at stake/ a new life to awake/ a life of every wish/ perfection for the rich/
attempt to fight disease/ and put our souls at ease/ programmed lethality/ destroyed mortality/
I'm left with no escape/ won't live with chosen fate/ this time we are too late/
there's no time left to wait/ genetic engineer/ what could there be to fear?/ biotechnology/
our new theology/ created by our skill/ what happened to free will?/ specific role to fill/
still not allowed to kill/ the future is at stake/ a new life to awake/ I'm left with no escape/
won't live with chosen fate
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Apple Island
03:18
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APPLE ISLAND- there was a house inside the island/ only now it's just remains/
and still a story as we're digging/ shows of all of their lives pains/
and yet my heart is nearly broken/ you might find it's not the same/
it is the nature moving quickly as we march on this terrain/ and when you find you're not forgiven
and the trees are not quite sane/ it is the path that we have taken
that is only left to blame on Apple Island/ as the sky is shining brightly/
navigate this nature's tomb/ we're still amazed by the bright colors
that surround this clouded doom/ and as the boats approach the shoreline/
generations surging forth/ and all our notes are clearly captured as our class had done before
on Apple Island/
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Prefrontal
03:44
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PREFRONTAL- Icepick in your brain/
Stick it in/I can hear it ripping/Flesh tears so quick/Make your life a sweet happy silence/
Open up your eyes and you'll see/Soon it will be over/Won't feel a thing/'Cause inside there's no pain receptors/
You can't change my mind/ You can't make me heal/You can't make me happy/I want to feel what's real/
They tell me to erase these feelings I embrace/They hide inside my mind/I hear them speak inside of me/
You can't make me change my mind
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Chiasm Detroit, Michigan
Chiasm is a solo industrial-influenced electronic project from Detroit, MI created by Emileigh Rohn. She has recently finished writing and recording a new full-length album, "Zone" for release in 2024 and has made the collaborative project "Rohn-Lederman" her main focus in the past years with a new album there in progress!! rohn-lederman.bandcamp.com ... more
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