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Northern Mantra

from Worldbuilder by ThornBrain

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They followed her here

0:00 - i) "Northern Mantra"
4:12 - ii) "Colony Collapse"
6:53 - iii) "We're Not All Here"

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The future didn't last long did it
The future didn't last long did it

Our blood doesn't pump
It flows more like a river
No heart, no beat to stop
Our actions are programmed memories
Our predilection to eradicate as we please
Now you are up for the chop

You may call us evil
We're too human for that
You may throw your heroes
Back in our face
You may call us monsters
We're too human for that
You may play to defeat us
But we're the ones you loved in the first place

Spikes upon our backs and our shoulders
Laughing at your world in monochrome
A new army of unlikely allies
We want the same as we did back home

Are we violator
And how human is that
We will fight your heroes
On anyone's land
You may call us villains
And how human is that
You may play to defeat us
But the plot won't always go as you planned

Down an army rode from the mountains
Out she called for them to disappear
Her words only brought more beyond the horizon
Numbers rising right beside her fear
If this is all my fantasy
Why has my power abandoned me

They have come for me
Wreck my colony
Bring back everything
I threw away
They're a part of me
The dichotomy
Of my life
I will not replay
They have come to
Collapse my colony
Now I know I can't
Get away

Every one of them she recognized
Why were none of them from a fiction
Her blood ran cold as she began to wisen
Her own desires called a malediction
If this is all my fantasy
Why did my nightmares follow me

They have come for me
Wreck my colony
Bring back everything
I threw away
They're a part of me
The dichotomy
Of my life
I will not replay
They have come to
Collapse my colony
Now I know I can't
Get away

The first wave hit the castle walls
The second broke the cathedral doors
Fire, metal, the blackest magic burst from their hand
And at her feet, the man in charge took his stand

His face at last
She saw it clear
It was the last face she saw
Before she first came here

The first words he said
Made her body freeze
It's been a while
Can we go home please?

You've done well
But now your break is done
We're not all here
To ruin all your fun
There's some back home
Who couldn't come along
We're not all here
There's more where you belong

She slumped with a defeated frown
But as he monologued her hand reached down

You were wrong
To run off all alone
You think you
Could live out on your own
You can't take care
Of anything of yours
Your life was spent
In fear of the outdoors
We're not all here
To take care of a child
There's nothing left
Of yours to be defiled

But before
He began to laugh
He felt a sword
Split his skull in half

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from Worldbuilder, released March 1, 2019

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ThornBrain Sacramento, California

Music and experiments by Mikaela Thorn. Punk-inspired, experimental, electric, electronic, trans and queer as hell.

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