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Passengers

by Simple Machinery

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1.
Drive 06:34
What drives inside lie on the out Ripping apart everything at the seams As if without a doubt a dream holds deep reality Passion bending distant realms that bring you to your knees Perpetuating the very things that substantiate your needs Driven by design Driven by desire Hidden beneath the veil they draw the arms so callously The meaning lost in our exchange, words failing now As we strive to maintain our ascension How the tables turn when the purpose loses face Their driven gaze, so blinding now Sets the midnight race Rising now beyond contrition Killing now our vices loved Rising from the remnants missing We’ll become what we’ve envisioned Rising from the dust now, driven with the purpose The end will surely come! Come inside, buy us all a round There’s conversation to be found I’d rather die than to give you my soul hand wrought Fall to a void of your social control construct Mirrored with purpose, a means to an end Is not out of reach if we drive
2.
Ultimatum 06:51
I woke in the morning with those thoughts on my plate And it led me into a world of solitude My ideas seemed foreign With a side of hesitation and perhaps fear With the way things are going now it shouldn’t take long For my mind to catch up with my attitude As I struggled to answer if one could live without The regrets of the common man Close your mouths now, You’ve got nothing that’s worth saying! And from now on numbers stand as names! I’ve got little patience for those who act out of line, Do as you’re told and you may just stay alive! And I have seen the men who are standing in that room With the rope around their necks, Yeah they’re calling for their heads I don’t wanna be one of the men inside that room With the rope around my neck I am only a man wondering how to pass this test A carbon copy in retreat from the rest Constantly filling their plates with ambitions and dreams Devoid of drive Calling my name now I answered the door Only to find myself right where I was before But the gravity has now began to sink in The tightrope dance has unjustly began And I have seen the men who are standing in that room With the rope around their necks, And they’re calling for their heads I don’t wanna be one of the men inside that room With the rope around my neck I hang my hat beside the door and take a seat Have I seen this scene before? It seems as if the weight of the tide is pulling me And I can’t seem to find the shore They say, “Lay your head down, get some rest now. It’s always darkest before the dawn The battles are restless but our spirit remains strong Find your hope now, as patience will pay off Time and space and all those things held dearly Will drive us through the fall” Yet it eludes me The solution I seek Failing to find that balance in our constant struggle to find peace The risks that we’ve endured in search for strength we need We may be worn around the edges with patience paper thin But don’t you fret my darling, the future holds great things Lay your head down, rest now We’ll stay here for a while, lay here for a while Lay your head down, find peace with me
3.
Circadia 07:30
Try to keep them shut The endless cycle furthers on Alpha waves crash among a whiplash of a desperate urge to stay awake Somewhat pretentious, worthy of mention The sounds and visions that dance away A solid confinement of subconscious alignment When you don’t have the words to say We sail along, we sing these songs, we drift away We move through time, our unsettled minds, to a far place In the confines of our hearts a story starts to play Sometimes leaving us but some forever stay This is the building that’s your school and still your home This is the familiar face of one you’ve never known This is an extension of your being that is one with the unknown This is the exclusive cinema that only biology holds We sail along, we sing these songs, we drift away We move through time, our unsettled minds, to a far place
4.
Today we march in unison against the lesser will of many men Whose strength in discipline is overrun by thrill (Conversion at its finest, turning a blind eye away from the greater cost) Their power is unyielding and for that I bear the cross (Of human life and sacrifice for which there is no greater march) My men and I will see it through no matter what the cost The time and the place is now We are not all like them lest we be Content to abide by unjust decree The fallacy that’s calling their names will ring within their heads And we surely will not hesitate to remind them of their debts She lay awake in wonder of what would come to be Laying in the darkness withering the cold Another lost soul, victim of their creation And she would wonder what would become of her A cigar and a box of wine await A victory in which we’ll celebrate
5.
The Gates 06:22
I woke the other day to that feeling of a fall The one that leaves you glad to be alive Complicating symptoms of a night of harsh withdrawals And the reasoning that seeks to keep at bay I can recall the faintest memories and those vivid dreams And here we’re standing at the gates and is it as it seems? Standing here in space and time I can’t decline To satisfy my own design The stories turn as pages burn into the night We’ll glorify us once again And we’ll write them away Far from retribution Suffering delusion Shatter the frame of the things you know The truth will come to be Splitting heirs of conflict No consideration Drawing the lines between body and soul Skimming through the pages yet to meet their maker Exposing colors of a man (The pages burn into the night) Will glorify us once again To radiate their minds with life once more Whoever holds the cards are excused from digging their own graves The price some men must pay and the consequence of the cyclic game Dead are the ones who proclaim to stand at the gates Mercy oh mercy thy will be undone Dead are the ones who proclaim to stand at the gates Mercy oh mercy no their fate they can’t outrun The pages turn, the fear remains The pages burn into the night Soliciting what hope remains Our dignity, we must sustain Reality now fading into a dream, I’m thinking now of a much better scene You held the power, I longed for the key, you saw a weakness you must rid of me Standing now here at the end of my time I’m surely on the wrong end of this line But for what it’s worth It’s been a hell of a ride

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Chris Perun / Drums
Brendan Robinson / Vocals
Justin Rose / Guitars
Mike Schlesinger / Guitars, Vocals
Ray Shampang / Bass

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released August 20, 2013

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by John Bolduc
@ Masophonic Studios, Manchester CT
May 2013

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Simple Machinery is a five piece progressive metal band from Rocky Hill, CT.

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