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Kindly Bent to Free Us

by Cynic

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1.
Bits, a handful of irregular bits A colored glass colors the light Warms up my spine Stars, flat six-pointed stars Hexagon like baby blocks I’ve sewn a cloth True hallucination speak Inhale You better get a friend to help you Exhale Against the stream You’ve got to make amends with the truth Glide, a living language collides Chrysanthemum like mandala Gave birth two eyes True hallucination speak Inhale You better get a friend to help you Exhale Against the stream You’ve got to make amends with the truth Pop Pop snap crackle and pop Science fiction memory Interleaved Illuminates the heart And I won’t let you down I might come from outer-space But I’m here with you now And we’ll travel between worlds Inhale You better get a friend to help you Exhale Against the stream You’ve got to make amends with the truth The shimmer of that sound in the mouth Love’s design accomplished
2.
Bury the bells Between two mountains The big trees on the other side With illuminated leaves shout I can say nothing You've been uprooted It's time to take another road I will kiss the mouth of reality's face I will annihilate my hiding place I will fade into the rising smoke I hear the lion's roar Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced Now I must take their medicine I will sharpen the tone on the angel's tongue And wield a blow to unreality's front Illusions flow out from this mortal wound As I wake to the sound of the lion's roar And from your throat you You sing to me your secrets A proclamation That everything, everything is workable No resistance A pathway to the heart In you I know How I am born I hear the lion's roar
3.
Kindly bent to free us A heart-to-heart farewell My armor begins to rust If forms the scrapyard gates to hell Dna Trapped in ice Absorbed into a fossil site My cheek cells traced To an ancient human figure hobbit-sized Kindly bent to free us The joy, the sorrow and the pain Life returns to mother dust Aboard we sail to sink one day Beyond mere blood lineage of a self-transcending simian I rise to taste the dawn and find that love will shine on Evolution beyond rationality The one solution to turn my head and imitate the sun The one who's always been Has seen much worse Than this projection Persecution Kindly bent to free Kindly bent to free us Kindly bent Kindly bent to free us Kindly bent Kindly bent to free us
4.
The indivisible goose egg An irreplaceable loose peg It never satisfies, incomplete The future won't arrive Nothing to seek Don't you worry now Infinite shapes Architectures opaque Infinite shapes Paper tigers at play A kamikaze seed Breaks ground Sprouts up inside of me Spreading down It poked into my eye Cracked the egg Now there's a tentacle Growing limb-like legs Infinite shapes Alpha beta erased Infinite shapes Vital connections engaged Sit down Behold the open crown Through the eternal halls An Earth amidst the balls One spark Shooting across the dark Fear, craft and avarice Become a dust-filled wish The indivisible goose egg An irreplaceable loose peg I won't worry now
5.
I let the moon in my heart To ventilate An embryonic wisdom Where I get to awake A living flame I turn the key Open the door The atmosphere enters my home Cause the moon's inside my heart I hold the sun in my head To self-contain A cocoon melts inside me Protection's just a weight I can be brave In gentle ways Step out into the open space Eye-level truth When I hold the sun in my head They're one in the same Moon heart sun head I'm black and blue And smile at fear I'm broke and bruised And smile at fear They're one in the same Moon heart sun head [Spoken word interlude by Alan Watts]
6.
Gitanjali 03:58
The lightning splits the ice Thunder twice Swallowed by rain When black floods Slit the hills A turnpike filled I am a weed by the wall Gitanjali, keep swimming The aching void in me Sings softly I fear no one A cold hand at my door The sinking floor I am a soul on the run Gitanjali, keep swimming Goodbye to all of you It's useless to refuse the muse Let's carry on for future generations gone Gitanjali, keep swimming Goodbye to all of you It's useless to refuse the muse Let's carry on for future generations gone And between living and dying There's a third thing, yes The victorious has left the room Gitanjali, keep swimming
7.
Holy Fallout 06:35
A star at dawn A bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in A summer cloud A flickering lamp A phantom in a dream Aspirations Chained to grindstones at your feet Contradictions Behold what you're afraid to see Dear world I can't offer an explanation There's no one here but love No conflict No mind tricks Mother Earth guide my ship Comfort me Despite me Oh mercy, radiate your grace on me Out of the ground Where I hide my tangled hair To the North Star And the alchemy is met Dear world I can't offer a reservation There's no one here but love Laugh and spit Into the air Laugh and spit There could be There should be There will be holy fallout No conflict No mind tricks Comfort me Remind me
8.
You're endless, endlessly bountiful Truth does not change

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Over four years in the making, 'Kindly Bent to Free Us' is a new apex in the evolution of progressive rock visionaries CYNIC. The album's eight tracks are rich, vibrant, and evocative, and the mark of a band that are masters of their craft. As "True Hallucination Speak", "The Lion's Roar", and the title track personify, CYNIC 2014 is transcendent. Without a doubt, 'Kindly Bent to Free Us' is CYNIC's tour de force and yet another crescendo in the band's illustrious, ground-breaking career.

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released February 18, 2014

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