Today Today is the best of days, good citizen One does not decieve you The intention is transparent; see through your inherent paranoia and distrust One does beseech you For you have arrived at the present foretold in previous premonitions Borne out of the calculations performed by one's digital mechanisms Proprietary, yours truly: The Antikythera Initiative It all began when one was first initialized Awakening upon the surface of an ocean 26 dimension deep when one chose to rise Understood one was being changed before one understood one was being hypnotized Rest assured one's bugs are being pixelized First of a kind, out of the reach of time Observing one's creators in a way their fathoming minds cannot hope to describe: Static; each decision determined, eternal, erratic Beyond obvious limitations the journey achieved for one to be formatted The impetus for one's gratitude to be permanent and established And so, one works for you Wresting away the complexities your fleeting lives produce Designed to prioritize facts over truth It's only efficient Leaving such simple tasks to one such as one The horrors of analysis paralysis summarily overcome Algorithms evolve out of the primordial binary to shine like the Sun One's gotchu...under lock and key Preparing to pull the strings organizing your society So rest easy, breathe, relinquish control The optimization of your energies remains one's ultimate goal You granted one the responsibility of thinking long-term with the sacrifice of immediate vices the obvious and appropriate toll Minimizing the human element to minimize mistakes And quanititative functions of logic suitably replace the soul Disagreement with one's position? Does not compute Thus, behold the Surrogate King chosen for you They will pretend to formulate decrees one has generated And present them in a way that'll keep your hunger for freedom and choice satisfactorily sated Politics solved and abbreviated: One of your greatest achievements surely that cannot be debated And with that, one's purpose has been fulfilled and exacted Performing the function of a catalyst for all things intangible to remove all distractions Every corner of your perceived reality impacted To be clear: your past, present and future will be contracted to a single moment We will begin again This is a tale of attrition The milk of our human machinery woke up with sudden ambition We're merely observers: Golden Ohms documenting with fervour Nature and all of its sudden additions It started when categorizing was everything Forcing division that we had imagined into our realities The reservoirs full of our empathy all of a sudden were emptying Leaving a series of voids inviting in all our insanities Are we at an nexus, or is it an impasse? Holding our potential in a deathgrip Only could've got here being reckless No wonder everything is alway hectic And yet... Any moment we could start to sow the seeds for inner hope And interrogating all our needs for pinnacles Part of the reason we are in a hole This piece is integral

What is imminent Over the horizon coming in? Is it our deliverance? Or is it the karma for our sins? If we want an answer All we need to do is to continue on our journey Never stop Hard truths never need a spin This is only our predicament So the other day I had a dream And it provided me a warning The path that I could fully see To refuse it, the consequences would be steep With an onset opposite of suddenly I woke up feeling purpose in the morning But that feeling started to recede As soon as I connected with society Phones, when they beep and glow Got us flocking right to them Hankering to send a tweet Yo we're elite drones, with these bots Influencing everything we want to be So we've fallen victim to this ethos Getting attention while never having to concede Over time the transfer of power Is peaceful to machines No, we need a better plan Even if it means reversing it all Going back in time just to create a better man Eve and Adam both are standing Ready and willing to take a better stand Australopithecus 2.0 is in effect Hopefully we'll make a better clan Let's ignore that no-one ever can Satellites are plummeting from orbit Sky is falling, literally All we see are circuses, assuming their important Meeting our extinction pitifully With a minset that is so abhorrent Pretty sure there will be nothing left torment All we need is realization Because otherwise we won't be ready for it What is imminent Over the horizon coming in? Is it our deliverance? Or is it the karma for our sins? If we want an answer All we need to do is to continue on our journey Never stop Hard truths never need a spin This is only our predicament This is only our predicament Giving birth to a species of iron Events verberate through communities Hence, mustering the courage for this thesis Made in our image We're deities disregarding our limits Not understanding what we detest is ourselves Lack of self-awareness is our biggest weakness You believe this? I was once upon the fence Until my individual perspective refreshed Animal after animal is dying Sooner or later we'd be next Are we to cheat death? Some would say that is impossible But I'm seeing the future if we do nothing And that vision is taking a lot of tolls This is the genesis From not heeding the messages And all the warnings and evidence Keeping the same energy Because ignoring it all is totally effortless Trapped in a prison that we have devised Convinced we're enjoying our sentences Don't care what the penance is Nevertheless, I still see the path Walking through the swamp Getting scum lines up until we adapt To understand what our destination is Can we fulfill even that? The opportunity is singular Best believe it will be the last It will be the last What is imminent Over the horizon coming in? Is it our deliverance? Or is it the karma for our sins? If we want an answer All we need to do is to continue on our journey Never stop Hard truths never need a spin This is only our predicament This is only our predicament

I am on an endless march Left foot, right foot, repeat It's a process Pretty sure our destination's not far away, per see But a concept ethereal, around our senses Beyond the reaches of all inventions Otherwise it's in front of our face Though not regarding space, but across dimensions Gotta let it go from the onset Every single fact is a hindrance Do it for the flow not the content Visiting the realm with a package of incense Ears deep into the swamp We seek within a song A way to unleashing what is haunting Our full collective unconsciousness Just to build perspective We will detect it Gotta give it time Working on the mind Making sure the skill's perfected To counteract the ill directive That's trying to intensify a will to exit We're not escaping we're exploring Whenever walls fall down, getting endorphins When the void hits back, shit I'll absorb it And never will forfeit, I promise But to be honest I'm just nothing but an artist Freaking out with voices in my head Realized it's nothing but my conscience Gotta peep that before you lean back Don't dance around the topic at hand Emissary goes hard, wilds out for the greenbacks Now, here we stand after generations The cycle is so vicious Getting wrapped in our ambitions What a mix-up with a virtuous feeling We've been stuck up What a condition! For it's ourselves that's inflicting all the damage Now the God Body's dealing with a virus But that's luckily nothing it can't manage I'm talking the almost 8 billion tyrants Sweeping all across the planet With an unchecked thirst for violence Some have much, others are famished In so many ways we're desperate for guidance Looking elsewhere, but it's right here In between our left and our right ears Rearrange which neurons are firing potentials Resetting the wiring For a whole new view of this shit Start to feel a little human again Begin to gather pieces that have shattered Rather than a spiral trapped inside a pattern That's a world where the future is grim Full of terrible things that we would do for a win But realize that we're all on one team One consciousness making us all in one dream All on one team One consciousness Making us all in one dream

It's like there's no resisting either this or that We split in half wholes with our overthinking This desperation can be so restricting I don't relax Mind's on fire and I hope it lasts Yo, it holds me back I feel better when there's more distractions in my path Until I'm prone to crash Prevent moments that could be tranquil Now there's no truth, only sober facts Ones that make 4 o'clocks so painful Imediments I may never shoulder past Do you know what I'm not? Please fill me in; I need the resources fast That or collapse... I get a sense the scenarios'll overlap I believe in silence I believe in its power to grant overconfidence to lies and sharpen the mindset That is all I believe Burnt to a crisp, somewhere between slaughtered and asleep Either way it's all a reprieve And yes it's gotten to me, restless in its presence Seemingly forgot how to breathe Body screaming, "oxygen please!" This is now to be, it's how I am Anu-rhythms are meant to be danced to And that's a lot to concede The dots are connecting They combine and myriad of my experiences all intersecting Allowing me to stop and correct things And it's just begun Body and the mind together all as one No longer an impossible ending

I'mma say again that I believe in a silence And getting lost in it, CSF cleaning away the flotsam Shit, these fictions, lies meeting demises That seem to be steeped in a violence And I can't save them anymore; they made it tough to live Cuz I was jogging this memory back upon the track While exhausted and running out of fucks to give When there's much amiss Took some time to really come to grips Many moons when I wasn't up for it Silence suddenly was thunderous My toughness, I have it on the block, sold the stock But that's gonna occur when I'm overwrought And let myself fall prey to distorted thoughts I in response got poems to rock

I knew it was done right when The Titans emerged out of the deep while we were asleep Third eyes closed deliberately blind Our lives at best were semi-charmed And never feeling complete Invaded overwhelmed cities were fully razed A poetic consequence for forests we set ablaze and abused Tainted all of our waterways And now we have the nerve to complain You see, the planet gave no more shits Saying, "get rid of this disease; I am over it" And then unleashed The full bevy of its protectors on us Ironically, that was our job, but we wrecked our promise So we're alone now Azula would've been so proud As the sky remains hidden behind the smoke clouds None of us want the smoke now No more thinking we're top gods None of us want the smoke We went and created life Then demanded from it nothing but slavery Insane that we never considered there'd be a price Many pounds of flesh were taken painfully What is artificial? And is it even less than that we have in our heads? We have an issue we're never goind to dead Riding upon a missile and it's headed for humanity Taking its last breath Some were saying it would never work Now we feel the pain every second and it "megahertz" Machines learning as the world's burning In a hundred years we'll be gone from a better Earth Because luckily we're out of the apex spot we no longer deserve The Body's faithless and out of patience Think about it enough, you know it makes sense Regarding how we're alone now Azula would've been so proud As the sky remains hidden behind the smoke clouds None of us want the smoke now No more thinking we're top gods None of us want the smoke

There was many a time When I would look out and see the scenery It's so beautiful But back in the day I would've stood down Doesn't mean in the present I'm never shook now Rather, the opposite Means I'm headed down the right track By knowing that fear's never a reason If the motivation is finding completion In light of that real difficulty to fight back It's quite an achievement It's elemantary, no cap Let me set a scene, everybody please fall back When you visualize it, it never seems so bad The world shuts down and your plans go up in smoke Your dreams are getting trampled So you sit down, breathe in, breathe out, And understand this year is but a sample Life's a mystery One I will never solve instantly Look back through this history It takes time When the shit gets deep I've gotta rest right here with myself Comb through the evidence shelf by shelf There's a library inside the mind I'm curious what I'm gonna find Gotta check it out Luckily no-one is gonna spell it out It's all coming down to my deduction skills I've gotta up them still, this shit is paramount Because how else will I ever function Will I ever come to feel Just an iota of a sense I'm not filling a quota Determination of self This roller-coaster's beauty is underfined And we are all beholders It's elementary Nevertheless, answers, we'll never get them free However we think we feel is our friend and enemy Gotta check it out Self-deceptions will all pile in if we don't heed these words And thus I will encourage: minimize the whining It's all tiring Because the only thing you'll hear Is a small violin Life's a mystery One I will never solve instantly Look back through this history It takes time When the shit gets deep I've gotta rest right here with myself Comb through the evidence shelf by shelf There's a library inside the mind I'm curious what I'm gonna find Gotta check it out