Name: The Seed and the Egg
Duration: P00H04M51S
Description: “When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

The Seed and the Egg

from An Old Chaos of the Sun by Novus spero

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“When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

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I am the Khmer Rouge
I am the Viet Cong
I’m the hole in the world
After the bomb is dropped
I am the twelfth imam
And the Great Satan
And there will be no peace
Until everything is dead
I’m the ego and id
I am the seed and the egg
I’m the stillborn conscience
Floating in your head
I am love and hate
I am the key and the gate
I am the light and the shade
And the void that remains
When they both dissipate
I saw the abyss in a fever dream
It looked like a man, it looked like me
A devout without salvation
A vagabond with no compass
No light at the end of the road
I am ill-gotten gain
The burdens of the poor
The hope for the future
And the wolf at the door
The chemical despair
Of a lover spurned
The irrepressible urge
To get closer till our bodies converge
I am Thanatos
I am the fear of death
I am the lust for life
In every labored breath
I am an ancient chaos
Of a second-hand sun
And the haunting stillness
When its course has run
I see a portrait of the future
It’s the same as the past, painted in our blood
A brood of theives and murderers
Conceived on the backs of slaves
There’s no light at the end of the road
I am the big bang, I’m the eschaton
I’m the face of Cain in a cloud of smog
A peptide chain in the Hadean sea
A uterus in a blot of ink
I am the messiah
I’m the antichrist
There is no escape
From the nothingness that awaits
I see the abyss in front of me
From the frigid stars to the molten loam
No light at the end of the road
There’s no light at the end
No light

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from An Old Chaos of the Sun, released March 26, 2020

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Novus spero San Diego, California

Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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