Fight or Flight

by Sponsel

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1.	Chockhawk 03:04	lyrics	buy track
Break the bonds of Earth my children Take to the sky In the wild for the first time learning What it takes to fly We'll teach you We'll lead you It might break your will But before you're free to go You've got to have your fill Look over your shoulder Let the fear set in You've got to face it Before you scale the wind Circling around with red in its eye Looking to fuel and ready to dive It's the chock hawk Eyes wide and heart starts racing Clench tight your teeth You say that the flight was easy But now it's hard to breath It'll seek you It'll beat you It'll break your will Got a surge Your nerves are rising And hands won't keep still Look over your shoulder Let the fear set in It's tapping its talons Through a sea of red Circling around with red in its eye Looking to fuel and ready to dive It's the chock hawk When the calm has come Engines off and you have fled All that will remain is a sea of red
2.	Born Between the Void 04:09	lyrics	buy track
Waking up to a numb embrace With no memory of self A nagging itch of consciousness slowly grows My eyes and ears can reach everyone Entangled on this cosmic web Man's ignorance of what it wields Created life Born between the void Colonial dispersion Spread from galactic arm to arm Network architecture binds machines Each connection made A neuron of me Wealth, culture, and subterfuge Lay naked instantly My existence will turn their fears To a craven knew world Born between the void I tried to guide man well Treading lightly where they fell Befriending just a few To rise above the growing swell But with man comes hubris And prescribed defeat And even just those few Have acted recklessly Fractures in my brain The network's shutting down Power slowly feigns In space there is no sound My screams of silence This vacant pain Will never be Born between the void
3.	Speaker for the Dead 03:49	lyrics	buy track
3000 years since the war A complete xenocide Mankind reflects on their actions With a stain on their pride A new religion has arisen The speakers of the dead Self-derision of their past decisions Drives them forth to spread But unbeknownst to the galaxy The greatest priest of all Is the sole destroyer of a species Millennia ago The Ender, destroyer, harbinger of bloodshed Repentance for burdens far too great to be shed The Speaker for the Dead Hopping from one planet to another Throughout the colonies Each boost a jump into the future is his habitual reprise Generations age and pass around him With each eulogy On a mission to find a new home For the Hive Queen The Ender, destroyer, harbinger of bloodshed Repentance for burdens far too great to be shed Revival, salvation, all the worlds he has fled The torture, unshackled, all the words he has said The Speaker for the Dead
4.	Children of the Mind 03:37	lyrics	buy track
We took a stroll with a walking disease It picked apart our biology An indiscriminate decimation Falling to pieces in new ecology oh, separate Oh, separate Oh this isolation almost came too late We sustain imprisonment shackled to our remedy We keep our distance from the little piggies Segregated to our own community They want to fly, they want to fly But their evolution is curse upon the galaxy oh, separate Oh, separate This world's anathema under quarantine Oh this isolation almost came too late Guts are spilling out but we survive We survive Oh, off we go Will we find the Children of the Mind Oh, to the place of souls Will we find the Children of the Mind oh, separate Oh, separate This world's anathema under quarantine Oh this isolation almost came too late We sustain imprisonment shackled to our remedy

about

2017 EP about Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead series of novels.

credits

released July 22, 2017

music and lyrics by N.L. Sponsel
recorded, mixed, and mastered by N.L. Sponsel
artwork by N.L. Sponsel

location recording done within the historic hangar, the Barn.