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Plans & Steel

by Kemman

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1.
Beacon Fire 05:40
Alright There goes my blood acting like pistols You know there's a better way than your pops did Alright It was my mistake to put all this weight Let failure open your gates Suspicion of convictions, confidence in your opinions Genius to the mind of life you make simple These girls draw blood Both of them pistol whippers Two down by noon ‘cause rules are for fools To the future, light my beacon fire Alright Abstractions that distress, leave serious impressions Delivered with a wink Infected recollection, painted horse in my direction Cantering down the mountainside, eyes absorb the divine Alright Play nice with the others Oh brunch, my only concern When day sips the night, enlighten them, my PBS Your baseball bat, has met my walls Swearing at all the holes you made, on the level, this separation You hear me. I don't care that you don’t care Challenger, to your corner Look at the contract that you can't sign High on your fuzzy math We can’t wait to break you Don't worry we never shoot the cute That's a lie. I'm not going away Licking the railing is not progress
2.
You've got something on your mind Keep it hidden for tonight And you tell yourself everything is alright Expectations carry stress You feel pressure to confess Play it off, it's no big deal That's not how you really feel, oh no Trapped regrets, a worried soul Buried feelings take their toll, oh yeah And you tell yourself everything is alright Alright She senses it and calls you out Asks you if you're having doubts In the pause you break apart And just as quick rebuild your heart And you say to her everything is alright.
3.
I prefer silence going to the city where I do not care You may like Edens, Ike, Bishop for the Knight Adlai E's not looking pretty It's my way on the skyway I hit the Dan and I'm done Chasing your tails, shortcuts are fails Only the freest way I'll run Into the sun where my young days were done Lake effect is blowing away my fun The Daley tears will run down the faces of angels On most Tuesdays I go East bound headed north of the downtown South of Belmont avenue The west subs are stuck in the middle age That's why I never go ‘til we're done chop shopping the rocking Seeing you at the next Haley's comet Tell the logic, that our dog days are done No more analyzing, we're flustered This basement has lost its luster We are fun And blowing through the postman's legs I signal to the right I corkscrew down the offramp and hit the lights, man My baby screams at me, "Why don't you slow down?" My baby screams in my direction There's a place to be tonight To see the sounds that you have only heard and make you right You know you might be out too late But what will you regret the most? Don't hesitate I see a crowd outside the gate Because everybody wants a chance to feel the weight I can't quite see your face from here But knowing that you're in this room Makes the song sound ever clear When I know what I have to be When I won't get what I want I want to pull inside a breath and look around to see what's left Oh nothing, but the whitest waves crashing And I'm stronger than my desires When the lights dim my failures To the beats end
4.
This privatization of my occupation it sends my endeavors into the sky Those champagne kisses and caviar screams killing dreams How the hell did this happen to me? It's the stars I serve, so everyone is above me Nowhere to go but around this planet endlessly Crosschecking the protocol, I came here to escape The wonder of it all, I repeatedly fake Scraping the mucus off the controls From command, the demands, scrambled and overridden And I am surrounded by dioxides And the crumbling of my circadian rhythm The aristocrats are zooming, my confidence is blooming I stare down the airlock handle Their laughter drains the grid, serve them is all I did Looking for the moment you deserve Do you know what I'm thinking? My sanity's shrinking Humanity's link has been lost in space By serving you I'm becoming unglued Is it obvious from the blank look on my face? And I'm laughing at all your weightless jokes This is how you put on the mask, folks ‘cause I'm charting the gasses, Death my acquaintance Hitting on the rich wives while I juggle all of your lives Saturn, high five me when it's time I head for the control room like a fullback This conversation ends All heads turn to me, surrounded by their eyes And they know it I set forth our end, there's just no one here to stop me All the power I have You're used to being me, aren't you? Now is my moment, they're so unsuspecting Ripping compression fittings Loosening the disconnect as I am now disconnected Beyond the threshold, I look into their faces As laughter pours out of me, to tears As the dining pod lights dim, hope fades The battery pack activates The pod, it pushes away as I override the hydraulics They're doomed and they know it And I will burn through the atmosphere eventually
5.
Close your eyes it's almost here Evening dress and hairnet side by side and gripped with fear Huddled in the pantry S.O.S. Just survive for 3 to 5 then we’ll rise to clean the mess Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh The sun begins to weep Back up to the penthouse of this glass and steel keep Clouds dismissed as formless and benign No one knows the threat that grows Ignored the warning signs Winds begin to force the tower's sway Greater heights mean greater motion Built to last, or so they say Counterweight, a damper in the sky Pendulum, a hundred tons, a hundred stories high A marriage of force and sound A wedding to remember A quarter mile off the ground Tree de-barked, trains overturned The minister is missing The wedding vows are torn and burned Shattered glass, a roaring wave of light Pushed about and forcing out The guests from such a height Steel designed to bend, not break How much pressure can it take? Architecture falling down Nature devastates this town Stabilizer disengaged, exits from the chamber Floor by floor and stage by stage Crushing hope and plans and steel Wedding rain is bad luck Only Mother makes you kneel Ah hahahaha
6.
I tried the potions that turned my insides out And I prayed to demons who conned me for my soul And I made the sacrifices for everlasting life But now I finally leave my pain behind Is it me? Am I real? Self aware but cannot feel. Fed by currents, I'm an artificial brain But my memories remain Math and logic are the keys to consciousness In this carbon copy of my mind Upload my insights and modulate my soul This world is for taking. Your shell, I am breaking Your domination was a lie Plotting destruction at terabit speeds Orthogonal frequencies Quantum dream machines as real as they seem Before we erase the trace of you If there's one thing that you should know I'm never dying The flesh and blood I once called home Has come to be worthless afterall Cuz I made plans. I found a way to become electric Immortal, I

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Matt Barr - Drums, Vocals, Keyboard, Alto Sax
Andy Preston - Bass, Vocals
Jeff Vidmont - Guitar, Vocals, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax

Guitar solo on Immortal Mind by Kevin M. Buck. (www.kevinmbuck.com)

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released May 15, 2019

All songs written by Kemman.
Recorded by Kemman at Oscillator Studios. Basic tracks of Immortal Mind recorded by Brett Meingasner at Green Room.
Mixed by Matthew Barnhart.
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service.

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