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The Calm
03:34
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Cast out from a life we knew
Comfort by the gallon
Safety by the ton
Cast out from a life we once knew well
Comfort that died in vain
When clouds begin to roll in and show
The ugliness inside of us
No amount of self preservation will
Pull us back up
The void that swirls around my head
Casting the pain and suffering
When I realize that the clouds are all mine
I am the catastrophe
I designed a casket in a fitting form
Perfectly designed for me
This is my divine dream
To coexist with the enemy
Something I created in the spitting image
Of the worst parts of me
This isn’t looking good
A solution to a bigger meaning that
I refuse to consume
And internalize
So what happens when light has shown itself
But we decide it’ll never be enough
I will never be enough
I will never be enough
Everything that was ever said
Sits in my head like a fucking void
Eating away at me
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Holocene Extinction
08:00
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No gods no relinquishment to come to these fragile minds
With a look to the sky for answers
What do you see in the clouds?
Nothing but shapes and empty promises
A hope long gone, for a better life
What do you see in this?
What do you see in this?
My mind drifts away at night expecting to find a solution
A short term reprieve from the planet we continue to choke
Consciousness slowly fading
Internalizing anguish for a dying world
The calamity of dreams came falling down across the surface.
Against all odds we fucking survived.
But what was the final cost of our ignorance?
To continue to exist.
No new dreams will be born
A fragile state of being
Brought on by self inflicted
Greed
Designed to annihilate
When all we have left is hope
It gets ripped out from beneath our feet
A life of decisions that lead to nothing
A terror that lives as a part of us
Will continue to control us all
A universe of possibilities broken by unbending will
By unbending will
The catastrophic event that lead us
To our knees
An extinction event to end all life
As the sun grows dim
The sky turns black
Up from the earth
Eruptions of ash
The oceans turn to wastes
Salt flats riddle the earth
As the night falls
Day never comes
The old gods watch and laugh
As vermin scream for their lives
A planet scale suicide
A reluctance to accept our fate
That we brought on ourselves
There’s no turning back
Entropy encapsulates our thoughts
And belief systems that we held onto
For longer than we should
It’s no wonder we never could
See the world for what it truly is
A wasteland, awaiting a fitting end
An energy exists beyond our understanding
Watching over us in a perpetual torrent
But never a god, nor a savior
An unknown entity
No choices are determined by destiny
A string pulled from above a monarchy
A nightmare to behold such a being
Breathing only between our various stages of life
So how has it come to this
How has it come to this?
When we let it all
Go
We fucked up our only chance
At prosperity
We fucked up our only chance
At a decent life
Our children will scream
Burn and freeze to death
Because of what we left
Unchanged, bereft of intellect
Our eyes have been pulled from our ruptured skulls
Held to the blood soaked walls of eternity
A sun born from the abyss
I am death
I am without form
I am nothingness
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