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Adrift

by ELETE

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1.
observatory 03:11
let me divert your attention through billions of points in the sky i'm speaking of one in specific just one little blue point of light televisions and religions cars and satellites starving infants and inventions made to take a life now focus the lens to your liking make sure you can see the details we can't miss a second of fighting we have to know if sanity or hunger prevails televisions and religions cars and satellites starving infants and inventions made to take a life smart and senseless watch their wrenches build machines to fight no one finches as they witness all their hopes and futures die
2.
right now what you know is real could very well be lies we have rendered consequence that has yet to transpire we will come to face it the surface will fold it all just gets wasted nobody recalls just how to be human we burn up the day destroying ourselves and anyone in our way and first came a human and then came a mind then there was a concept and then a design and then came a shelter and fire was found and then came the weapons that would turn it around gears and oil built a path to progress in our lives fireworks to celebrate and bullets to define a hunger for power a struggle for souls they all get devoured and who's in control corrupt politicians a priest on a show the smallest decisions have affect on the whole and first came a human and then came a mind then there was a concept and then a design and then came a shelter and fire was found and then came the weapons that would turn it around and then came a shelter and fire was found and then came the weapons that would turn it around but first came a human and then came a mind then there was a concept and then a design and then came a shelter and fire was found and then came the weapons that would turn it around
3.
you are wrong for disagreeing i have voices i have light there is proof that you're not seeing because you lack the will to lie evidence unnecessary faith is all you need to fly leaping from the edge believing you won't be afraid to die age old exploitation and the promise you won't die they know that fear of death is what you're most inclined to buy fantasy the emptiness is filled with purpose fallacy it doesn't matter this is worth it now to read the greatest book that ever surfaced bow to me and you will live forever until you die they should have taught you from your birth that you are put here on this earth to do his will fulfill his plan that's how you muzzle common man and make the masses bow to powers that the people need to stop slowly now the cord gets pulled on disconnection eminent one by one their education questions everything you print now the sun is truly rising brighter than the fires of hell now the truest faith can find us now we can have faith in ourselves i have an imaginary friend and he's with me everywhere i am i've had an imaginary friend since i was old enough to stand i have an imaginary friend if you don't have one it's a sin i have an imaginary friend real life is worthless next to him unconditional love on the condition that you give up your say unconditional love on the condition that you bow and obey
4.
simple pleasures dilute our compassion deny our conviction it's not who we should set out to be no one cares if no one cares to be thoughtful success is our gospel regardless of what we could achieve we've marched and we've murdered to be pressed to this our hearts have deserted us to senselessness that marks the demise of what we could have become if we knew what it was to be human nobody gives a fuck so sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up if it's up to me then you're fucked collect the dollar and pass the buck we have followed the path of a prophet collecting a profit it's higher than the deepest belief but tomorrow we see we cannot stop it it skyrockets and now we're sinking into the deep there is no redemption it's a matter of me it gets me attention and i'm flattered to be a fucking pompous bottom feeding piece of our legacy i will prosper through the demise of my brothers nobody left to save corruption's taken our souls we've stumbled to a grave and bury bodies in gold this is the greatest tragedy that's ever been told the story of a race that dies so painfully slow your dollars don't make sense blood on the hands of dead presidents nobody gives a fuck so sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up if it's up to me then you're fucked collect the dollar and pass the buck
5.
everybody is afraid to die but they just let the world keep passing them on by a string of days that seem so sensible we wear ourselves so thin that we're invisible all eyes are on the endless loop that we all stumble through there isn't time to see just what it is we're here to do each one has stumbled on a path that forms a ring repeating that takes you back to where you were erasing every meaning frozen a daily crawl for your sanity no one can save us all single handedly so just give it the best that you can and please hold on and show them we are what this world can believe everybody is afraid to live they'll never shake your hand because their fist is clenched too busy bickering to see the colour's glare an iron shell of cold embattled empty stares a million grains of sand eroding through the heart of you clutching to fallacy the selfish keep on grinding through always so treacherous and challenging to find the truth so anyhow you'll be worn down and one day you're not you frozen a daily crawl for your sanity no one can save us all single handedly so just give it the best that you can and please hold on and show them we are what this world can believe i know that it's hopeless and i am like you we're small and we're broken but we know the truth i'll be by your side when they see what we do we have to keep hoping we will make it through
6.
they chose their destination and they made their promises and they said we'd see tomorrow but taking was making them forget how to give and no man is truly an island and no soul is truly free 'cause you're trapped here with these tyrants the tyrants that are you and me no one wants to rock this boat now we all sit in silent fear getting by with a bolt on your mouth don't speak up or the big bad wolf might hear you've got a footprint on your back that you can't see i'll never let these assholes walk all over me there is a cat that's got your tongue and you can't speak i'll never let these motherfuckers silence me their mental isolation and their choice of selfishness is just half of this equation the ones at fault are the ones who could care less and no man is truly an island 'cause we let it come to this somebody has to stomp out their shit 'cause when it burns it could be your porch next everyone with oars in their mouths rowing on this sinking ship much too busy working to take notice when they drown in shit! row you've got a footprint on your back you cannot see i'll never let these assholes walk all over me there is a cat that's got your tongue and you can't speak i'll never let these motherfuckers silence me
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unconscious 04:43
today i did not wake but i have always felt this way it seems that i have given in to sweet and deep decay the world that we have built and all the ways we make it turn has burdened me with guilt and deadened me with cold concern and why should i try to awake to realize the mistakes that we've made we've defined our existence as slaves and we will not escape from our ways just point me to where i can see and be outside our insanity we are defective creatures and we are unconscious and down upon our knees we walk like living dead and never question what we're told transmitters in our heads will tell us what we're supposed to know shepherds of media conceal the men behind the curtain don't know which way is up cause i'm lost in such an endless circus and why should i try to awake to realize the mistakes that we've made we've defined our existence as slaves and we will not escape from our ways just point me to where i can see and be outside our insanity we are defective creatures and we are unconscious and down upon our knees just point me to where i can see and be outside our insanity we are defective creatures and we are unconscious and down upon our knees our blindness will slowly eat away at our faith we designed this and now it just laughs in our face in our minds it's the way that we were meant to behave but i promise that no one here will ever be saved no none of us could ever be saved
9.
apocalyptic 04:22
7 billion motherfuckers looking out for themselves all you give a fuck about is you and nobody else even those of you that never could've run out of wealth it's embarrassing you barely lift a finger to help some imaginary person that they talk to alone keeps on telling them to disagree with others who don't screaming love and charity but throwing every stone they will prove that they are right if it means killing their own the world is going to end so we don't care let's burn this bitch we don't need to pretend we never really gave a shit little men who trade society for personal gain fill their glasses while the working class behave and obey they're rewarded selling out their people day after day so the wretches of society can have it their way the world is going to end so we don't care let's burn this bitch we don't need to pretend we never really gave a shit but it may never end an infinite apocalypse so maybe we should live and learn to be humans again
10.
we all see that we are broken but no one seems to care anymore we live each day in the lives we've chosen and most of us don't even know what for tell me that you believe in something something that can save us all today we are sick and detached and corrupted ensuring that tomorrow we fall we're catching insects in the palm of our hands we tell them dirty little secrets that we know they cannot understand we're treading earth where everybody began and counting all the little pieces that we broke for the indulgence of man holding on to one another in our final days we changed knowing that we'd lose each other if we did it all the same tell me that we are achieving something something that could mean everything 'cause i see a race that believes in nothing and nothing's what we're going to be we're catching insects in the palm of our hands we tell them dirty little secrets that we know they cannot understand we're treading earth where everybody began and counting all the little pieces that we broke for the indulgence of man spinning adrift into space we just get further away from leaving one little trace of anything that we could've saved we're catching insects in the palm of our hands we tell them dirty little secrets that we know they cannot understand we're treading earth where everybody began and counting all the little pieces that we broke for the indulgence of man and if we could've made it different i know that we would be a million miles from the place that wasn't meant to be home and if it matters i just wanted to say that it's a miracle we have each other even though we're slipping away
11.
with every minute passing by we see more truth the more we realize the less we have a right to an excuse sure it began with the naivete of youth but in the end the end was in the plan that we had proofed we all just waste away we point our fingers from the grave but we all share in this shame 'cause it's our fault anyway appearances are burned into hearts of men so we can be above the filth and decorate our skin look at this pretty picture painted oh so thin peel back a layer and find the monsters that reside within we all just waste away we point our fingers from the grave but we all share in this shame 'cause it's our fault anyway so many never thought to think for themselves they followed everyone else look where it's gotten us we'll care a lot when we look straight into hell realizing that we have failed there was no stopping us and we wasted it away and we all share in this grave we all just waste away we point our fingers from the grave but we all share in this shame 'cause it's our fault anyway and we wasted it away and we all share this grave and we knew we'd see this day we had it coming anyway
12.
every day that you have lived i have died knowing that you started life in captivity you have never felt the sun in your eyes too dark to see the lack of basic humanity the world is a circus of mirrors and smoke i know that it hurts but you're the butt of a joke you think you have purpose but you probably don't you wanna believe it's a lie but you can't see that you're in a prison if you were born inside of a cage you've dealt with the hand you were given nobody ever showed you the light of day any moment you could simply awake i want to save you but you're pulling your hands from me i can't reach in and try to help you escape if you believe that you're already free just one step of reason and beauty unfolds the infinite speaks into the core of your soul then you can just breathe in and give up control you open up your eyes your hand is on the wall and now you scratch at the surface and dig in the cracks reveal the luminous rays break through with these hands we were given they'll build a better world in the light of day you better brace yourself and hold on for what's coming next the sky is falling and the universe begins to stretch limitless wonder overcomes you as the lines connect and now we're all just tiny diamonds you can see see us all shine and nobody's life is a lie and we all see eye to eye and we love and cherish our lives i'm so happy that i could die you can't see that you're in a prison if you were born inside of a cage you've dealt with the hand you were given nobody ever showed you the light of day now scratch at the surface and dig in the cracks reveal the luminous rays break through with these hands we were given they'll build a better world in the light of day what if the world we've seen is a lie and we were denied reality what if we found out we could revive our peace and survive the insanity what if the hopelessness that we live is just a controlling fantasy what if we all believed we could change and be what this world really needs to be

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'Adrift' is ELETE's first full length album. Recorded, mixed and mastered by the band on a zero dollar budget, this album is a 12 track foray into the intricacies of a dystopian world where an intelligent race has lost their way and ultimately must discover a path that will will lead to their survival and salvation, or vanish into the cosmos as a relic of the evolution of the universe.

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released September 20, 2013

All songs Β©2013 ELETE DEPLOYMENT
Album concept and art by Roman Phillips at Dalton Digital
Executive Producer: Roman Phillips
Co-Producer: Ted Gabriel Williams
Mixed by Roman Phillips at Dalton Digital with consulting by Ted Gabriel Williams
All percussive arrangements written by Roman Phillips and Chris Van Meter with consulting by Ted Gabriel Williams
All recordings mastered by Roman Phillips at Dalton Digital
All songs written and arranged by Roman Phillips except:
Observatory
Guitars Written by Roman Phillips and Ted Gabriel Williams
The Book of Genesis
Guitars Written by Roman Phillips and Ted Gabriel Williams
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Written by Roman Phillips and Chris Jensen
Keep It To Yourself
Written by Roman Phillips and Chris Jensen
If You Only Knew
Arranged by Roman Phillips and Ted Gabriel Williams
Shutup & Row
Arranged by Roman Phillips and Chris Jensen
Captivity (The Light of Day)
Arranged by Roman Phillips and Ted Gabriel Williams
Concept consultation by Chris Jensen
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Guitar: Gabriel Williams
Drums: Chris Van Meter
Vocals: Roman Only

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