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Through the Eye of the Image

from Outer Sunland Sounds by Mirrored Ogre

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lyrics

now you’ve been trucking for what seems like an eternity
never leave the road
engine runs on zero sleep
brain is hooked up to wires humming
48 hours straight performing

mental vision now a sculpture of perception
levered hands shape to something absolutely certain
steer it through the eye of the image
blind the beast before it dreams of carnage

this is where it ends
this is where it never began
this is where it ends
the place it finally lands
this is where it ends
this is where it never began
final message send
no business there
this is where it ends

reemerge from the pens of your enemies
as the ink recording their most trusted fantasies
we both know they treated you fairly
but it isn’t easy to accept reality
would rather run away from sunday’s lions
climb up into prosthetic heaven
in this new wave coliseum
on display now for all the kingdom

but it’s still not enough
it never was it never will be
still not enough
not even close
this is not enough
it never was it never will be
everything you’ve got
still it’s not
this is not enough

cause your eyes only telegraph obsessions
and grasp nothing beyond what they can see
existence is only paper thin now
release all your dreams
never gonna run away from those lions with you
let them tear off every piece of imagery
as my spirit shatters out through your mirror
release all your dreams

live by fire
dancing shadow
shoot arrows of fire

disassembled and reassembled so many times
stripped so that your screws no longer find their lines
always wanted to be unencumbered
now it’s only you and your number
just a coffee can full of pennies and dead batteries
never turned in to the depository
always seems to hitch another ride with you
amassing more dust every time you move
if every lie on earth could be scorched away
would you roll the dice of seeing in the nakedness of day
blown up in the light of every truth released
killing every shadow now
you could be the beast

this is where it ends
this is where it never began
this is where it ends
the death of every plan
this is where it ends
this is where it never began
nothing more to lend
just a vicious stare
this is where it ends
it’s over

now society feels small incestuous
and sick until you buy into its schemes
all the laughter grows thin and dies now
release all your dreams
back to life this world sees something in you
pumping through her warped realities
thrusting into a smartphone as your thoughts sleep
release all your dreams
the plot thins
you never drove that truck at all
it was heisted from the bank of fantasy
hacked from the accounts of your enemies
release all your dreams
been trucking for oceans of time now
should really get off the road and try to get some sleep
can’t remember how long you’ve been out
release all your dreams

truck’s on fire
jackknife whiplash
sweat bullets of fire

now the tank’s on fire
feel this backlash
cry tears of fire

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from Outer Sunland Sounds, released October 20, 2020

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Multi-instrumentalist David Ure (formerly of Insomnia Eternity and Occult Wisdom).

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