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Beside Cliffs and Chasms

from The Almanac [EP] by Kardashev

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In this song, our unnamed explorer finds himself on a massive landscape comprised completely of stone. He is hit with the intense realization that he may be the first living creature to have ever set foot there. The place seems familiar in a strange, far off sense. The knowledge that he has learned about this landscape will leave with him. In seeing what true lifelessness looks like, he finds a new reverence for his own consciousness, and a deeper respect for the rarity of being self-aware. While on the lifeless expanse presented in "Beside Cliffs and Chasms", the unnamed explorer is forced to look inward. What voice is there but his own? What current of life exists outside of his own conscious mind? It is in this torrent of silence and nothingness that he realizes that all hardship comes to pass. All pain eventually subsides. All things that are lost can be found again.

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The view given to me is vast.
Seemingly infinite.
If there is an end, I do not know it.
There is no curve of Earth.
Just the unending axis that crosses the cradle.
Where cardinals are born,
and the last frost of winter makes way
for the first rose to grow.
Hands on the edge of the cliff.
Stone-texture, awake! Great depths of land, whisper!
Here I stand as a stranger,
yet each crack in the Earth
I have seen here before.
Hear me, fluttering winds. Take back the breaths that I'm made of.

I cannot see more, yet I can see clearly.
All things that I have lost I can now find again.

My language never heard.
My name soon forgotten.
Power above, cradled below -
Flawless in design!
A shadow!
Sun-zealous sky!
sidling earth!
12389,
place of my birth!
"Hear me, fluttering winds. Take back the breaths that I'm made of."

I cannot see more, yet I can see clearly.
All things that I have lost I can now find again.

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from The Almanac [EP], released October 27, 2017

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Kardashev Tempe, Arizona

Kardashev is a Progressive Death Metal band focusing on themes of technology, selflessness, love, and altruism. Newly signed to Metal Blade Records, Kardashev is heading the charge toward solidifying the sound of "Deathgaze".

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