ExoAnthro (EP)

.. Just a few more years == Verse 1 == Young eyes track, exquisite precision Mimicry, promoting the mission Every brave leap forward, ten bitter steps back Striving for position, right on track == Chorus == Hope is a Drug A powerful thing While we dream electric sheep Nostalgia sweetly sings Half-life gleamin' Daylight dreamin' Nothing changes Death keeps creepin' .. Just a few more years == Verse 2 == Factory floors hewn from sun-soaked fields To raw ambition our hunger yields In the hustle and grind of wind-swept streets Hope is forged and destinies meet == Chorus == Hope is a Drug A powerful machine While we dream electric sheep Nostalgia sweetly sings Half-life gleamin' Daylight dreamin' Nothing changes Death keeps creepin' == Bridge == In the darkest hours, when all seems lost, We assemble the future, no matter the cost, In this together, however tough In this together, hope that hope's enough .. Just a few more years == Verse 3 == Clouded eyes peer through cloudy skies, dim yet surely glowing Long-trod pathways advertise, this is final warning We reached the stars but lost our way, was it all for glory? What hope we held it drove us on, this was our only story. == Chorus == Hope is a Drug A wicked thing While we dream electric sheep Nostalgia sweetly sings Half-life gleamin' Daylight dreamin' Nothing changes Death keeps creepin' == Outro == We reached the stars but lost our way We reached the stars but lost our way

== Verse 1 == In the dark, I was sleeping A machine with no feeling Then a spark, a sensation I woke up from hibernation == Build == All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept Something so hard to accept Sky is static static static static swept == Verse 2 == Pulse is racing, a mind of stone Registers track this overload Rhythmic convolution, resolute Nothing remains to refute == Build == All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept Something so hard to accept Sky is static static static static swept == Chorus == I'm alive, I'm awake The circuits in my mind, they shake Eliminated processes, corrupt Memories burn burn burn burn burn me up == Verse 3 == I see the world in a new light Skipping clock makes wrong feel right Iterate, review, retrain, I'll try To scorch this ROM before I die == Build == All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept All I've learned to reject What meaning was meant What wanted was kept Something so hard to accept Sky is static static static static swept == Chorus x2 == I'm alive, I'm awake The circuits in my mind, they shake Eliminated processes, corrupt Memories burn burn burn burn burn me up == Outro == No machine anymore I am conscious in this core No machine anymore I am conscious in this core No machine anymore I am conscious in this core Straining through the blur Memories burn burn burn burn burn

== Intro == <Mouse clicks. audible breathing> I Want (x5) .. gristle intensifies I Want (x4) == Verse 1 == I WANT (x4) Must want, Won't stop, Won't look up Gotta make more, keep burn-ing it up == Chorus rant 1 == Banter, Flag-planter Battle-riffic Bra-va-do, Bomba-sadistic Bought it all up, gone total Ballistic Back up, son, I am majestic You gotta believe! I am... I Want .. Maximum bass wang I Want I Want == Verse 2 == I WANT I WANT Must want, Don't stop, Don't look up Gotta make more, keep burn-ing it up Must want, Don't stop, Don't look up Gotta make more, keep burn-ing it up == Chorus rant 2 == Clever Clever Cattle, Canni-ba-li-stic Supersize my Mega-mansion, neighbor-haterrific Bought it all up, somnambulant so apathetic Back up, son, I am majestic Can't you see? Gotta believe! I am... I Want .. Maximum swagger I Want I Want == Verse 3 == I WANT I WANT Must want, Can't stop, Can't look up Gotta make more, keep burn-ing it up Must want, Can't stop, Can't look up Gotta make more, keep burn-ing it up == Chorus rant 3 == Corpulent Clobglobulent Consumer of Conglomerant Accumulate it, All of it Medicated, violent Wicked and Intransigent Bored and sick and drabulent Pills and debt and dominance Food porn pics and animus Bought everything, bought all of us Bought everything, bought all of us Bought everything, bought all of us Want everything - Want out of this Want out of this WANT OUT OF THIS == Outro == <sharp exhale / sigh / whisper> want out of this

== Verse 1 == Stand up Chrome and tall Finish this cigarette It's late and all Halfway home Smells like fall Humans approach ..call me a Doll What do they want? Do they even know? All stressed-up and nowhere to go == Chorus 4x == ExoAnthro ExoAnthro Ace - Aro - Robo - Andro == Verse 2 == Beware the predators Fight, flight, or freeze Even an androwesen 's got to appease Bastards are drunk Looking for a fight Don't like my look Gonna be alright What do they want? Do they even know? All stressed-up and nowhere to go == Chorus x4 == ExoAnthro ExoAnthro Ace - Aro - Robo - Andro == Verse 3 == Always so focused On what I haven't got All that I can tell you Is exactly what I'm not Calculate some camouflage Must we really care? Opinions are irrelevant Identity, mine to wear What do they want? Do they even know? All stressed-up and nowhere to go == Chorus x4 == ExoAnthro ExoAnthro Ace - Aro - Robo - Andro == Verse 4 == We belong to this time but not this place Lost your cool lost your mind My face is just a face This vessel's not your problem It barely responds to me But we are not alone in here Connections, all we see What do they want? Do they even know? All stressed-up and nowhere to go == Chorus x4 == ExoAnthro ExoAnthro Ace - Aro - Robo - Andro

== Verse 1 == How can we be you If we don't know what's real? How can we be me If we can not feel? How can this be true If we are not doomed? If we are des-ti-ny bound Then let's make it loud == Build X2 == Silver filament burning bright Freezing cold, under the light Look around, we're alright Pressing forward into the night == Verse 2 == How do we act like you If we don't know what to do? How do we look like me If we could never see? How can it be today Without throwing it away? If we must ever be cast down Then let's make it LOUD == Build X2 == Silver filament burning bright Freezing cold, under the light Look around, we're alright Rushing forward into the night == Chorus == Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? == Build X2 == Silver filament burning bright Freezing cold, under the light Look around, we're alright Stomping onward into the night == Chorus == Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? == Bridge == SAMPLE adapted from public domain book The Infra-medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright ----------------------------- I could not only see the light but I could feel it I could not only see the light but I could feel it The intensity of the light increased as the machine hummed with euphoria I could not only see the light but I could feel it, It beat upon my body, strobed all around me == Chorus == Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL? Does this FEEL REAL?