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Marida
03:49
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Funnels emerge from within the shell
Forty eight psychonomous assault drones
A swarm of metallic hornets unleashed
Shredding mobile suits in a cloud of beams
A devil
Hidden behind four armoured pauldrons
A devil
Built to instill absolute terror
In the hands of an average pilot
It would be above par
But at your command
It’s an eldritch horror
A placid surface
Hiding a boiling rage
A life of trauma
Getting paid back
Born from a lab
Part of a matched set
You watched your sisters
Get annihilated
Somehow you survived
Unspeakable things
How could you forgive?
Now let violence ring
Funnels emerge from within the shell
Forty eight psychonomous assault drones
A swarm of metallic hornets unleashed
Shredding mobile suits in a cloud of beams
You take the battle in close
Sub-arms unsheath
Ensnare the enemy
Your beam sabers eviscerate
Emerge from the explosion
Unscathed to kill again
A woman
And her mecha
Brought together through psycommu
Your mind brings machine to life
Reaction times enhanced
Your lethal will be done
Created to fight
Sent out to die
Hunted and trafficked
Yet still you survived
Now pay back every scar
Embody terror
With your four winged
Warrior
Kshatriya
NZ-666
Now, you know what do.
KILL!
Funnels emerge from within the shell
Forty eight psychonomous assault drones
A swarm of metallic hornets unleashed
Shredding mobile suits in a cloud of beams
Funnels emerge from within the shell
Forty eight psychonomous assault drones
A swarm of metallic hornets unleashed
Shredding mobile suits in a cloud of beams
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Esper
03:09
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That glimmer of precognition
Awareness of the enemy
Your machine can't keep up
You react too quickly
This is how it starts
You can feel across space
And soon you feel
A new type of trace
Dizzying waves
Nausea permeates
You see a soul
Call out to you
As it leaves
Behind its body
These ghosts will
Remain with you
Evolve before our eyes
(Sense beyond sense)
Perception beyond sight
(Become the esper)
What a horrible time
(for these gifts)
To awaken and connect you
(To the world, esper)
If only everyone else
Could feel what you could feel
If they could communicate
Without misunderstanding
The blessing of orbital life
Blossoming far too soon
While those who command
Would only weaponize you
Evolve before our eyes
(Sense beyond sense)
Perception beyond sight
(Become the esper)
What a horrible time
(for these gifts)
To awaken and connect you
(To the world, esper)
This is what they talked about
You prove the Newtype theory
That moving beyond gravity
Would force us to improve
But still it takes
Someone with empathy
To truly understand
This next step
Evolve before our eyes
(Sense beyond sense)
Perception beyond sight
(Become the esper)
What a horrible time
(for these gifts)
To awaken and connect you
(To the world, esper)
But this had to happen in war
And we can only hope in vain
That as more of us awaken
We can create systemic change
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3. |
Extreme Reaction
04:03
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I have seen far too much
For my mind not to be
Damaged in some way
Scarred beyond all belief
So much blood on my hands
Actions I can't forget
How can I ever cope
With what I've done?
Adopting this identity
I am what has saved me
If I can ever be redeemed
I must transcend humanity
And so
Ore wa
Ore wa
Ore wa
Gundam
I am become
I am become
I am become
Gundam
To atone I will be the machine
To bring about global peace
I will wage war against the world
To bring them together against me
Targetting escalation
Attacking oppression
Silencing aggression
I live in combat
It is all I have known
Since I was just a child
At least now I can know
My path is right
I descend from the sky
A Celestial Being
I fight as Gundam
To uphold my ideal
Ore wa
Ore wa
Ore wa
Gundam
I am become
I am become
I am become
Gundam
To atone I will be the machine
To bring about global peace
I will wage war against the world
To bring them together against me
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4. |
Test Subject
03:54
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Commencing Test 7-82A
High voltage, low amperage
Hippocampus stimulation
To force spatial precognition
It hurts
Why are you doing this?
What do you hope to gain?
To force your evolution
To weaponize it
Then erase your sense of self
You're nothing, just a war orphan
Worthless but for this one thing
I'm a human being
Not just a mere-
not just a
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
Begin simulation
Wait what is this?!
Aim and pull the trigger
Predict your target
I can't! It's too much
My brain is on fire
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
This one's unconscious
Remove them from the chair
And prepare a replacement
If this one awakens
And seems undamaged
Prepare them for testing again
If anything is off
You know what to do
Dispose of them
Swiftly and without mercy
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5. |
Lethal Ballet
05:36
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The illusory silence
Of motors humming
Electronics buzzing
A wash of white noise
The stand-by tension
Ratchets up with each second's tick
Muscles twitching in anticipation
Of the take-off announcement
In a flash
The catapult sets me free
To battle
To survive another day
Time expands
As I dance between the beams
I shoot to kill
In this lethal ballet
I'm losing track
Of the space between
A minute? A month?
It's all losing meaning
The only thing
That matters now
When will I hear that familiar sound?
Everything else?
It's just the space between
Until I'm combat-bound
In a flash
The catapult sets me free
To battle
To survive another day
Time expands
As I dance between the beams
I shoot to kill
In this lethal ballet
Again I find myself
Anxious in my seat
I've long since lost count
Of the number of sorties
I watch the units ahead
Launch into the fray
My hands tap nervously
As I move up the chain
I move my machine
Onto the catapult
Waiting for the signal
The lights turn green
The command goes out
I burst forth into battle
In a flash
The catapult sets me free
To battle
To survive another day
Time expands
As I dance between the beams
I shoot to kill
In this lethal ballet
In a flash
The catapult sets me free
To battle
To survive another day
Time expands
As I dance between the beams
I shoot to kill
In this lethal ballet
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6. |
Rebuilt For Your Whims
02:51
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No history
Just names and physical data
Not meant
To exist as people
You call them
Bio-computers
To assert
Control
You had them raised and dehumanized
And taught only violence and hate
Series after series of drugs
Steroids, hormones, and surgeries
From stolen childhood to present
Enhanced, warped, and broken
Forced into dependency
To commit your sins
Stolen, tattered human lives
Rebuilt for your whims
Endless war crimes
By your command
Twisted to insanity
Rebuilt for your whims
Sent forth to annihilate
Those with genetic modifications
Your inhuman soldiers in
Weapons of mass destruction
No regard for the lives they’ll take
Out of your misguided sense of superiority
Your horrific spawn will leave an unrotting mass
As sick monument to your perverse quest for purity
Forced into dependency
To commit your sins
Stolen, tattered human lives
Rebuilt for your whims
Endless war crimes
By your command
Twisted to insanity
Rebuilt for your whims
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7. |
Beast of Possibility
05:01
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This is how it's always been
Just leave it to the youth
To clean up the adults' mess
To fight their wars
Perpetuate the lie that one great man
Can change our history
Your system exists to refute that
But still, the young ones try
What happens when Pandora's box
Contains such a frail, withered truth
That the simple fear of it
Outweighs it's real value?
What happens when the key
Opens so much more?
When you've been given
The Beast of Possibility?
From the harshest scars of Earth
To the reaches of orbital space
To the depths of the human heart
You've gained knowledge you can't erase
You have gone beyond the time
Gone against the pull of gravity
Yet you're the one who returned
Who did not stay as energy
You’ve been through the torture
Of Newtype experimentation
You know the horrors
Of single-minded war
The ignorance of a command
Divorced from the battlefield
And you’ll learn how revelations
Can do absolutely nothing
Systems are too big to change on your own
Even with evidence on your side
Even when you counteract their controls
You can’t always open eyes
What happens when Pandora's box
Contains such a frail, withered truth
That the simple fear of it
Outweighs it's real value?
What happens when the key
Opens so much more?
When you've been given
The Beast of Possibility?
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