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There's More To Us Than You and I

by Elision

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1.
I always feel like I'm losing my sanity All around me humans yet no humanity Withered not by age but by hate Come and see First as tragedy then as farce What will it take to learn from the past Fallen out of one the two is drew Never needing me and you The third to hate lost in a quaternary fate Oh I don't know what to mend what to leave behind in the end Do I save the cabal? Or free them all It's time we learnt that we're out of sight, we're out of mind Forever lost and left behind That's not a chip on my shoulder It's your foot clamping down on my fucking neck Out comes an evil that lives amongst us It is not you or I, it is us, and it will be the last of us All that is solid will melt into air Where will you stand when all that's left is their despair Come and see, soon enough every one of you will see that They won't die for the Dow At the end of the day, at the end of it all Did we learn anything? Anything at all This crisis is us, we're going out with a bang We don't deserve a second chance, we deserve to hang They bid me Come and see us
2.
Say their names And in the absence of us What might come about? Maybe power would grow? Or might they beat it out We are not able to vote this away, the time has come for us to disobey No, we’re shattered now All that’s left of us, reduced to dust We’re draining the sun, of all the light it can give Ripping the lifeblood they gave as a gift What is the end that will justify our means? How will we justify their screams? Does it truly run in our veins? (Dylan Gillies-Parsons of Gravemind) Or is it injected into us? Does it feed off the fear? Leave us to hate and poison the atmosphere. We are to sleep, never to wake, never to even learn to make, something of ourselves We’re shattered now And all that’s left of us Will be reduced to dust Must I unchain the earth from the sun? Just to show you what we have done Is this really all that’s left of us We’re going nowhere
3.
Utopia 04:01
Like a bird above a flooded land, we circle eternally We try to find a single strand of humanity in the human condition Stuck in this looping regression, nothing short of obsession We're addicted to the pain, we love our chains I want it to end, an escape from the descent The endless descent The plains are high on fire But I'll sit back and admire how composed you remain, all throughout it stays the same But no, it doesn't feel the same Now that we're this way Emphatic hatred will be all that remains When they get their day As words wrap themselves in a damning silence I give up on myself and accept their violence No it's not about me, nor him or he, it's what comes about in unity I couldn't even fathom what it meant to me to reconcile with infinity I thought all these thoughts were all I was ever to be, that there wasn't more left to find right inside No signs from heaven came today so I subjected myself to an object of hate Not a second to think, nor a chance to abate, oh I've been washing away The light that guided me, now wilted and decayed As words wrap themselves in a damning silence I gave up on myself and accepted their violence I forgot who I was, I forgot what it meant to be How many times must I right this wrong? I sing as if this is a joyous song Say their names, speak aloud, don't forget, don't ever relent
4.
Creatures 05:26
If I glare beyond the sky, above the clouds, into the eye Will I see what I want to see? Or will there be nothing left of you and I? So get into the spirit, The spirit of violence It's all that remains To keep us righteous Oh aren’t we righteous Do you even know my name? Do you only think of me as that which is not the same An empty vessel to lay your blame We are more than that, you will learn our names Feel the beat of the drum overload your senses Feel your heartbeat synchronize, with the crowds softest sighs This burden is mine, and there is more to us than you and I There’s a strength in unity, more than we know There’s true love to find, real places to go But none of that will ever be real If we give in to ourselves, and forget out to heal Dissolve in the fear, acquiesce to the hate We are not creatures that live by a sense of fate Its high time we realised “We’re not outnumbered, we’re out organised” We just needed someone to blame Something to hate, one that’s not the same There is no end, there is no reprise This is not suicide. They’re killing me. And we’ll all have died inside, before we see That there is more to us, than you and I
5.
You cannot sit in silence if you stand for change There's nothing stopping us from making waves Waves in the stasis changing who we are But we were never to know what could have been And when we break these chains they'll become our whips No longer will we be stuck throwing bricks Forced to embrace the flames by marketing scum Reminding me of a nation's stains Reminding me Endless Calls for an end to the endless bloodshed Screaming into an ear but the nerves are dead We can run all of this without them But without us they'd be condemned It's us versus them While they drink up hate like it's fucking water Will we bide our time and just watch the slaughter? I guess we've found our way learning to love the disarray Engendered with such misery it is clear to me That you're your racist ancestors' deadbeat progeny The humane face of the human race will disintegrate It's looking bleak at best Will we ever rest Or will we kill it at the root? Kill it at its toxic root

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released June 17, 2021

Recorded & produced by Kofi Badu.
Re-amped, mixed & mastered by Buster Odeholm.

Guest vocal performances by Buster Odeholm & Dylan Gillies-Parsons.

Elision is Lachlan Boundy, Oliver Clark, Elliot Koroneos & Kofi Badu.

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