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Triumph of Innocence

by Higher Learning

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1.
Intro ( A Light in the darkness) 01:20
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The Light shines in the darkness The Light for which man has yearned But man still clings to the darkness For man still has not learned That the darkness is a void that no soul can ever fill That this thing we call existence is not subject to mankind’s will Still they’ve replaced the objective with the subjective And removed all purpose from existence Save a continual, self-loving, sanctimonious insistence On a failed soteriology they call “progress” or “revolution” A re-invented square wheel they deem the lasting solution As they boast themselves the highest in pretentious satisfaction To hell with their “revolution” We stand opposed as The Reaction Reality is not defined by one’s appetites or rules That’s a sick disease, filled with holes like cheese, philosophy of fools A corrosive, deadly poison that turns the soul to dust Like the sicko who kills some helpless child and then proclaims such action just Behold mankind’s so called “free thought” a chained down, barbed wired, box And any soul outside its grasp is dismissed as a dumb ox But only the dumb ox can bellow out the Song, Sacred and Profound That will shake the earth and smash their tower of babble to the ground Paraclete come charge down burning, true muse that doth inspire And any soul whose come to hate its chains, rise up, collect the fire.
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Collecting the Fire 01:36
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(Sisters and Brothers with your chains now unbound Let your soul scream aloud to the Liberation sound) The darkness came to snuff the Light Chanting in chorus that might makes right While sophists squawked, prescribing cures In gross unknowing that only Love endures True Flame burning fierce and bright Strong against the hungry night Remaining souls Collect The Fire Lest we fade, lest we expire Shielded like a hand in glove Consume us Furnace of Love Discard the lies the sophists said Ethics live. Virtue is not dead. Collecting the Fire Furious uncompromising torch Collecting the Fire The deficiency of night to scorch Collecting the Fire Wakeful, perpetually aflame Collecting the Fire Enduring, forever the same.
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Ser Libre 01:22
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La fuerza para aguantar A dar todo en vez te tomar Y con amor a todo, advanzar Eso es ser libre Ser despierto en vez de dormír Protejer en vez de oprímir Y dar tu vida a servír Eso es ser libre Construir en vez de romper La virtud de la alma, aprender Y despues de una caida, pararce, y crecer Eso es ser libre Saber que tienes dignidad Y que existes solo para la verdad Sin miedo, en paz y en libertad Eso es ser libre Y eso es alma libre. (translation) The strength to endure, to give instead of taking and with love in all things, advance That is to be free. To be awake instead of sleeping, to protect instead of oppress and give your life in service of others. That is to be free. To construct instead of destroy, To learn the virtue of the soul, and after one’s fall, to rise up and grow That is to be free. To know that you possess dignity and that you exist solely for truth, without fear, in peace and in liberty. That is to be free. And that is the free soul.
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My Sister 01:23
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They instructed you to think you were an object They influenced you to think you were a prize They conditioned you to slavery that you might be lorded over They taught you it’s your goal to be despised Feet bound make no sound face without a soul Pleasure bringer nothing more under male control White noise, status quo, personality prescribed Conform to the norm, liberty always denied The whole of human value they have cheapened Spread sickness and boasted it as cure Confused each half with fallacies and falsehoods Tainted what was functioning and pure. My Sister You have been hated My Sister You’ve been degraded My Sister Your body has been razed My Sister Your value has been de-praised. Sister I’ve seen my part in your obstruction I’ve seen my hand in your destruction And I hate my part in your obstruction And I’ll have no more part in your destruction
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Oppressor 01:11
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Maintain the language “Right and Wrong” Is obsolete, life’s for the strong Claim evolution hates the weak Hence its power one must seek For power it makes opinions sway And übermensch he must have his way So smash the frail, violence extend it’s all coming back for you in the end. Oppressor We can read your soul right through Oppressor You’re a coward and you know its true Oppressor Flexing strength and walking tall Oppressor You’re the weakest of us all Might makes right or so you say Till the strong comes along and takes your rights away The standard you set is the grave that you dig So you can scoff, you can strut And fall to your doom pig.
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Transhumanist Breakdown 02:34
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Sung to sleep by a demonic scream Awaken within the existential dream Harvested up as a faceless clone To inhabit the dark with the dead dry bones Where you’ll ignore your want of purpose and such void’s natural frustration Because your senses are bombarded by perpetual stimulation Narcissistic, blue eyed, nihilist fast asleep in cyber space Your now the evolutionary pinnacle of the “holy” human race A Dying Human Race. Hedón is now made god Its ways are sacrosanct and hallow Unaware that we’re indentured to the empty and the shallow Intellect is contradiction and self-worship does imply We’ll be proud patriots of hell: where the soul goes to die Life within your own confines Guided by horoscopic signs Plucked and read from magazines Organic food and fair trade jeans That cleanse the blackest soul to pure And strive to find mortality’s cure Advertised as “eastern and chaste” Though it’s just occidental waste You know were not too interested in teaching Colby right and wrong We just want her to know she’s unique Then to another self-obsessed adult Eager to paint the future bleak My son Chayden can do whatever he likes So long as the means justify the ends Your son Chayden doesn’t have parents because they’re trying to be his friends! Facebook, sitcoms, TV shows A Marching emperor without clothes Art reduced to self-obsession Or a subconscious portrait of mass depression Yet nobody asks, “will this sustain?” Because culture’s grown sick, hollow and vain. Soul possessed by appetite Ego only, no wrong, no right.
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Morning Star 01:52
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Morning star rising tall Morning star about to fall Morning star pride’s made you swell Morning star cast down to hell Morning star rising fast Morning star will not last Morning star basking in pride Morning star shriveled has died. Morning star rising tall Morning star about to fall Morning star pride’s made you swell Morning star cast down straight to hell. (Let’s see how bright the future looks at the bottom) How far must we fall? Exalt yourselves as rulers; in truth to self we’re slaves And our temples, towers and palaces are crosses, chains and graves But if Truth is non-existent, then ignorance is bliss Slavery is an orgy and misery is a kiss How far must we fall? The choice is yours and mine How far must we fall? We are running out of time.
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Arete 01:55
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The smoke it rose, to blot the sun But the Light shone through, it would not be overcome I saw the raised, hostile hand of the adulterated Engulfed by the Sincere and obliterated I heard the Mother’s loving song ignite the spark I heard the Child’s joyful laughter burn away the dark I saw the grass and flowers bloom, devouring the depraved Singing out the Word that liberated the enslaved I saw the hollow soul cast away the lies that it had dreamed I saw the whole human race unshackled and redeemed I felt my place in the presence of the vast triumphant throng I heard the Triumph of Innocence, manifested in their song “Universal Truth for which my soul is yearning Instruct us in the ways of Higher Learning.”
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Perpetual Spring 04:11
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Come see the fire, it still burns, the youth still sing This world shall bloom in the perpetual spring Preserve the light Your will has a choice, come join the fight And keep this pyre of truth burning bright And remain free For the world they’ve made won’t self sustain, A world where people from the truth refrain and worship fears Gorge on rotted flesh and get drunk on tears And all wisdom falls on deaf ears Can’t you see? That we’re just fools with good intentions unfulfilled Who stand back and watch as the martyrs are killed And as there blood flows Your true allegiance and character shows And their sacrifice, it blooms like a rose To keep us free The gentle, soft and cooling spring A simple joy, to my soul does bring Live how you feel But I’ll only live for what’s True and Real And to crush the serpent’s head with my heel And remain free Embrace the primal infancy And view this life in its simplicity While you still can This is the true nature and purpose of man But the choice is yours and it’s in your hands Because you’re free…

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released October 7, 2014

photo by Daniel Torres.

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