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Beast of Possibility

from The Human Cost by Stormland

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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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from The Human Cost, released September 30, 2022

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Mecha-heavy death metal about Gundam! Multi-instrumentalist Justin Pierrot uses increasingly progressive & technical death metal to tell stories using the Gundam meta-series as narrative lens.

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