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Esper

from The Human Cost by Stormland

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lyrics

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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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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