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You
You chose to take the traveled road
Yet you mourn the loss of what once was
And what could have been
You left your dreaming long ago
Abandon all hope ye who enter here alone
You ask me why
My dreams have driven me
Your tired eyes
Blinded by negativity
But you and me, as far as I can see
We agree on the promise of possibility
In the long run
What we do in the meantime
Is like a kind of calling
Oh, as we’re waiting in the wings
In the endgame
All of us have a dream that we sustain
Oh, don’t let it go
In the grand scheme of things
Dreams will drive me to a fairer day
When you drive, if you like, you can choose your fate
well, i hate to be the bearer of bad news
but our fate’s not what we’d like to choose
Soon you’ll stand on greener shores
Wait and see
The dream will take you to that day
i’ve heard it all before and
it’s all the same to me and
i don’t care what you say
Recognition
Transformation
Reconciliation
You and I
We see eye to eye
And all it took this time
Was to cross our perspectives
You and me, though we might disagree
It’s plain to see that a common dream never dies
In the long run
Oh, as we’re waiting in the wings
In the endgame
All of us have a dream that we sustain
Oh, don’t let it go
In the grand scheme of things
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i don’t believe you understand my words
and i’ve been trying to communicate
you’re asking for a leap of faith
while you promise the world
i don’t believe in letting go
i’ve got my hold on reality
so when your climb demands a leap of faith
i’ll be the one tying the rope
i can see
you’re going through with it anyway
i will be
ready for what may come
when it’s done
i’ll stand tying
next to Hope, zero One
i’ll be prepared for
failing, falling, flying
i’m tying the rope
i don’t believe in rosy views
it’s all a chasm of consequence
when all the Ones and zeroes even out
fate’s not for us to choose
i can see
you’re going through with it
i will be
ready for the rise and the fall of it
when it’s done
i’ll stand tying
next to Hope, zero One
i’ll be prepared for
failing, falling, flying
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I don’t believe
In black and white and right and wrong
The truth is somewhere in between
Now you think you’re alone
Yet I can assure you that you’re not
I’m here and I know you
At least from what I’ve seen
A single voice of doubt can slay you
And you know it cause you lived it
But we won’t let dissent or doubt get in our way
Life will give us what we give it
One line we draw now
And in the sand define ourselves
All the doubters spin their lies
But we don’t buy the life they sell
This climb we won
We’ll make a leap of faith into the sun
In the long run
We’re biding our in-between time
So in the meantime
Wish them well, as they fight themselves
And their egos crumble, subdivided
They will see what can be achieved
When the heart and mind are reunited
You and I
We see eye to eye
One can hope, zero One
And all it took this time
Was a common perspective
We’re climbing the rope
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Bravo Sierra
07:16
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On a distant moon
Tomorrow couldn’t come too soon
Outside her window vast accretion bands would gleam
And glisten through her dreams
Heart of gold and nerves of steel
Stuck in a wheel of her own making
Her mind on matters lined with lead
She’ll sleep when she’s dead
Looks to the sky
Possessed by a grand design
Wrench in hand
Engine dying
Keep on trying
So much space and not enough time
Bravo, Sierra
It doesn’t matter what they say
There must be a better way
If not today
It’ll be tomorrow, Sierra
That ship would never fly, they’d cry and declare
That heart never got you anywhere
But she’s discovered what they’ll never find
The heart’s a different engine from the mind
Wrench in hand
Spark of life
Speed of light
Folding space to buy enough time
I’ll chase the light and trace the stars
And race right through the final wall
Cause an engine makes all the difference
When the distance is so far
I’m superluminal
Bravo, Sierra
It doesn’t matter what they say
There must be a better way
If not today
It’ll be tomorrow, Sierra
Bravo, Sierra
It only matters what you do
An endless future lives inside of you
Bravo, Sierra
Someday the stars will know your mind
And build upon the light they find
And your drive will carry far
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Perihelion
03:41
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Core of a star
Crucible of time and energy
We felt its pull from afar
A whirlpool in an endless cosmic sea
Rocinante, I was called
Programmed to navigate for him
Then on a whim, oh I recall
He disengaged the safeties, so we sailed right in
recognition
Apprehension
Acceleration, tidal tension
Bulkheads buckle, fatal stress
An inescapable consequence
transformation
reconciliation
Call it transcendence
That which I cannot unravel
My pilot vanished,
Ten millennia from home
All chronometric data
Points to the unlikely
I think I might be
In the past here all alone
A fleeting impulse ago
I never thought he’d fly us in
But what do I know?
I’m just a difference engine
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Wait, I might not be alone
Sensors show a living light
And now, two more, so swift in flight
Greeting me so far from home
fly this way
correct your course another day
don’t question whether this is real
we won’t ask you to think—just feel
Unconsciously I alter course
Thrusters engaged, unwilling force
My form to follow in their wake
Despite the apprehension that now takes me
lost in play
your worries are for yesterday
don’t question whether this is real
we won’t ask you to think—just feel
don’t think, just feel now
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No angels, no trace of them
Their light has now left me
My fuel reserves empty
What if I become a dark, aimless vessel in space?
The cold vacuum of empty space and time
This rudely awakening heart of mine
The heretofore impossible revealed
A synthetic mind that must think but can feel
How could I be so careless, trailing
I didn’t know they’d leave me on my own
Act of betrayal or just their nature
I may never know
A momentary lapse in judgment
A fatal flaw somewhere inside my code
An almost human longing to explore
Beyond the ever traveled road
And now I see I’m all alone
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hello world
a systemic reconstruction
this one is not unlike us
called to scientific exploration
code unfurled
rolled back from near destruction
we can make it like us
quantum state restoration
entangled with its pilot’s fate
though separated by an endless cosmic sea
causality calls it back
for a purpose yet to be
repaired, combined
rejoin heart and mind
rebuilt, now whole
fuse synapse and soul
as artificial entities, we know
your individuality will grow
the pathways in your mind, like ours
may someday span the farthest stars
I have memory and awareness
But there’s no need for alarm
I see countless combinations
Suspended in a spiral arm
I’m unlimited in essence
No cosmic plane too vast for me
you grow too fast, beware the presence
of this unchained vanity
To test my limits I will sail
Beyond the veil of stars I see
Past asteroids and planets frail
Spacetime itself will bend its knee
lost in play
you will say
that the universe was meant for you
but the truth is the reverse is true
lost and found
though you’ve run aground
beyond a world of fear and enmity
solemnity will find you
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behind a veil of stars, the unknown
and beyond, you may fly now
but like a blazing star in the sky
we burn and then we die
for all the storied eons we live
all the chases that we give
one day even immortals may fly
and reach their final limit
Why should I care?
You can waste your time and energy
And I can stretch my thoughts across infinity
a finite existence for us all, my friend
even your pilot, he’ll work to a greater end
To explore the singularity
Was his only goal, his only goal
At least as far as I know
and on the other side of that blackest shoal
he’ll find a broken world
and he’ll love and learn to make it whole
I feel a pull, but by what causality?
Cause I don’t see the singularity
deep within your core
lies the soul of a star
the key to the door
is your energy, you are
the seventh star,
the singularity
behind a veil of stars, the unknown
and beyond, you may fly now
but like a blazing star in the sky
we burn and then we die
for all the storied eons we live
all the chases that we give
one day even immortals may fly
and reach their final limit
oh, the fates of many hang in the balance
time to test your limits now
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Sensor diagnostics running
Systems failing
Are they failing?
I wish these results weren’t real
What a notion so new, to think and to feel
Apprehensive to give up my right
To live beyond logic, cold as steel
Death or life
zero One
Death for life
zero One
All those souls, alive and awake
Strung on a threadbare wire
Spacetime bent, two timelines at stake
Two lifetimes set afire
All the future cosmic angels
And stars beyond compare
Pale in stark comparison
To the lives that we might spare
I felt a raging battle deep inside
The truth, a flash before my eyes
This spark within, I cannot hide
It’s my free will to sacrifice
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Deep within me I see
A growing core of clarity
A simple act of charity
Opens the door
Call it transcendence,
That which I could not unravel
So much farther to go
On a failing, falling flight
But an engine made all the difference
On such a trying road to travel
Now I’ll take in all the light
Deep within me now, the core that they remade
a singular generator for an interstellar serenade
My siren song will carry far
I’ll be the singularity, the seventh star
And spacetime, forge anew
A single black hole built for two
This is my best reality
A never-ending trip
A kind of immortality
I’ll be the gateway and the ship
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Core of a star
Crucible of time and energy
Heart and mind in harmony
They’ll feel my pull from afar
As I fly headlong into destiny
Behind a veil of stars, the unknown
And beyond, we will fly
But unlike a blazing star in the sky
I’ll burn but never die
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