The Agonist - Anxious Darwinians

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Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
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creating before acting to stay safelyat the start. 
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Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end. 
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But we dictate through creation just how, where and when. 


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The sound of self-severed limbs. Broken joints on cold steel links.
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Impossible havens harbor them. Damp floors carve swollen skin. 
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The long-sought elusive passage keys! Where once was a door, now stands a wall. 
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Concrete beds prevent digging deep. Leonine threats behind bamboo stalks.


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And anxious Darwinians frantically self-analyse,
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too ultimately aware to trust anyone alive.
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Toxic, parasitic ideas hijack our minds.
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Mimetically commandeered to include the suicide.


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The privacy of experience. The illusion of focus.
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The future is anticipated memory. 
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...   The virulence of idea.


Em     F#m      G           Am
Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
Em       F#m           G                Am 
creating before acting to stay safelyat the start. 
Em       F#m        G            Am
Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end. 
Em       F#m                     G         Am
But we dictate through creation just how, where and when.


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Vanitas on aged pages, copper violin.
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Incumbent phrenology to drain you of your doubt.
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Don’t call my landscape a plane, you increate egoist!
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You’re merely a hallucination of my own Atmas!


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Volition decides the future as the authors all agree,
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Impatiently arranging for evolution’s recrudescence.
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Visual receptors are undeniably unique 
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in a closed Cartesian Theater,body anchored to the seat.


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The danger, dear empiritic is that to which Narcissus
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succumbed, and still do, some. Fountainshead, automatons.
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To subordinates genetic interest is ultimately human! 


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Rampant self-awareness in your invisible Hands 
Em                              G             D
means everything is fickle, subject to your shape and shade. 
Em                           G           D
How will you, dear eremite program your semaphore? 
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Self-preservation is subject to an emotional homunculus. 


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And anxious Darwinians frantically self-analyse, 
Em       F#m         G                Am 
too ultimately aware to include the suicide. 
Em     F#m      G           Am
Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
Em       F#m           G                Am 
creating before acting to stay safelyat the start. 
Em       F#m        G            Am
Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end. 
Em       F#m                     G         Am
But we dictate through creation just how, where and when.