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Holocene Extinction

by Jolly Jack and the Jazz Flutes

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1.
The Calm 03:34
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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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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Two songs from two radically different states of mind. Neither perfectly coherent. The Calm shows imposter syndrome of any person in modern society, while Holocene Extinction, the title track, is the exploration of life born from a space between our reality. It shifts and moves through perspectives like Abholos I / II.

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released November 26, 2021

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Jolly Jack and the Jazz Flutes Ann Arbor, Michigan

A solo game developer with a passion for music.

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