Buried Future - Act of Sedition

Track 3 off of "The Symphony of Unnecessary Surgery"

Lyrics:
Devour, and live, devour.

Cyclic in nature,
Gory in us.
Considered by many
An uncivilized act.

Consumption of cow and pig
Are needed for you to live.
Regardless of how you feel,
You're out of options.
All that you drink and eat
Wastes away energy,
While sources are lacking--
It can't be saved fast enough.
There's not enough to go 'round,
The optimists lie to themselves.
Sustainable living
Can't catch the masses fast enough.
We treat our decline
As a means of affliction--
We tend to forget
We're due for a mass-extinction.

By no means
Should we consider this
The end of the earth
Because it isn't.

Some will survive,
Many will die, that's all
We won't be wiped out,
Stop going hysterical.

We could meet our end
In an act of sedition,
But to me that sounds like
Too active of a proposition.
Right now, I would doubt
Many would turn
From computer screens and magazines
To watch the earth burn.
After all, it's in HD--
Live! On CNN,
With tons of bloody visuals
To fill your family t.v. den.
Probably we'll get to see
Whatever it is from where we sit.
Personally, I'm rooting
For a zombie apocalypse.

I'm a pessimist.
Every day I wait for it:
Cataclysm,
To keep things interesting.
Reminds us of our roots,
That while we think we can
Advance beyond our current state,
We're animals in the end.

Hurricanes, earthquakes, these are the most mundane of all the
Options for slaughter of every human being living.
I'd like to see something more exotic in the mixture,
Something more frightening, well worth the price of admission.

Something carnal,
More than usual.

Cyclic in nature,
Gory in us.
Considered by many
An uncivilized act.

Nobody wants to admit
Our actions are driven by chemistry,
Reaction upon reaction
Defines every part of our being.

[Guitar solo.]

We like to think that our culture
Has taken over for nature.
But this, naturally, is a pretense,
An imposed kind of cultural defense.

Sublimation.

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