Elephant - The Extinction Paradox lyrics

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What little have we learned from this perfect accident? <br />

Everything makes sense and everything is real<br />

Who am I? Who was I? Who will I become? <br />

Existence in extremis as the rim of this plane melts<br />

Who can say what is impossible? Who will be by my side? <br />

Should the victim forgive or curse them all? <br />

Is living that simple? Who knows but the dead? <br />

What is the fulcrum, what is the lever, and where do I stand? <br />

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A shiver in the basement then the falling of birth<br />

Running, accelerating, scattering, progressing<br />

The capacity of memory without stricture or cause<br />

A creator who rested after the foundation was finished<br />

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I am just another sparrow passing through the stream<br />

Of an obscure continent moving through the heavens<br />

The day is late and this will be my final sunset<br />

Crushed between the membranes of opposing times<br />

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The lovers behind the net considering the dance and the silence<br />

Through heroism and adventure I've arrived at myself<br />

Snap the bonds of paradox and swallow the wheels of fate<br />

Sequence shifts and the only truth is the present<br />

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There is one world, there are many worlds<br />

Reflections and echoes confused beneath the arch<br />

Leaves lose their pigment and hair drains to grey<br />

Are there any who dream of me? Was I ever destined? <br />

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Anadigm, paradigm, anadigm, paradigm<br />

How can anything be obsolete if it exists in every moment? <br />

Conception to execution, extinction to renewal<br />

The mantle burns, the crux corrodes, all will pass and fade<br />

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Utter endless havoc, gravitational unbinding<br />

As another universe dies, a lost and lifeless generation<br />

The machinery of the human body stagnates at maximum entropy<br />

And all I see are ashes ashes ashes ashes<br />

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Matter cannot be created or destroyed, all one needs is already available<br />

Absolute failure is just another illusion, the world will not end<br />

Uncertainty breeds more questions, more questions breed more quests, more quests breed more life, more life breeds<br />

Change, collapse, reinvention, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is fear<br />

In your hour of triumph, those who failed before you will not spite you<br />

But rejoice in your success, for you have fulfilled their lives<br />

The smallest mote, halved until infinity, can never reach zero<br />

Intrinsic value can never be eradicated - quantum immortality!!!