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The Great Reset

from Fractal Cage by Gentlemen

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Place fear aside. You were never meant to hide from your life.
(Subdivide)

Every step feels like I’m sinking -
tugged at from below or pressed down from the weight of regrets in my head.
My work, my life: stagnation.
All these lost intentions and passions; I’ve chosen not to think about it.

On the road, back to the cell I call home,
My legs begin to change their course through the poorest part of town.

As I float on, keeping cold to the suffering around me,
a woman I’ve known before boldly steps up to me.
“Please, although we’ve barely spoken, my needs are great…”
I hear myself say “No, not now, another time, it’s getting late.”

Her hand grabs onto me (bones lock in place)
Eyes swivel back in their sockets
Motionless, open mouth (she starts to sing)
Prophecy

“The great reset is here (the God Machines).
You will be torn into pieces.
Defragmented and then (reconstructed).
Harvested, harvested, harvested, harvested.”

Tearing myself from her grip, I sprint to the cage I call home.
Her story’s one that I’ve been told. A lunatic’s dream. It’s lies. It’s old.
Safely settled in my window seat, I’m startled by a sound.
Peering out, I spot a monolith that’s rising from the ground.

(A colossus of clockwork - ebony black and cerulean veins. My heart stops beating.)

[A disembodied whisper:]
"Pain will subside. You must (will) learn time’s never on your side."

Now: a drop of bass like thunder as wireframe is laid across the sky, the land, my body, everything.
Layer by layer I am skinned and saved into a memory, as numbers flash by my binary eyes.
Binary eyes!

Maybe this is just what I want.
Maybe this is just what I need.
Maybe this was just meant to be.
Maybe this is exactly what I need.

Maybe this is exactly what I needed.

Reboot, rebirth, reborn.

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from Fractal Cage, track released December 14, 2021

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Gentlemen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gentlemen is a Deathcore project featuring Louis Snyder, Guitarist of Riparian and Christopher Cronce, Vocalist of :48 After.

They met in 2010 when Chris auditioned for a now defunct old band of Louis's. Despite that bands breakup shortly after their auditions, the two knew they wanted to create something together.

Their album, Fractal Cage, is the visceral musical product of that meeting. ... more

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