The Music
The Words
Prologue: The Descent
A vacuum can sometimes prelude
An unwelcome power
Both within and without
The questions remain
But should they be answered?
Be careful when peering into the Abyss
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Caesar
Once started
It may never stop
An insatiable desire
To foray ever deeper
Into the mysteries of old
Once started
Your world ends
Forever
Fight fry
Fake it take it
Do or die
Make it break it
Open your mind
Discover the bind
Fake it take it
Inside your mind
A time to decide
Better pray for mercy
Before you
Break
Fight fry
Fake it take it
Do or die
Make it break it
Suffer to find
Own your own grind
Forsake it hate it
Inside your mind
A time to decide
Better pray for mercy
Before you
Fight fry
Fake it take it
Shatter the bind
Crush the supreme
Destroy the dream
Unchain your face to
Open your mind
Passing through the edge
Of all known reality
Beyond all horizons
Beyond all information
Phycological entropy
Into the unknown
Beyond hope
Do
Die
Make
Break
Fall
Shatter
Break
Break
Once started
It may never stop
An insatiable desire
To foray ever deeper
Into the mysteries of old
Once started
Your world ends
Forever
Music and Lyrics by: Richard Luke and John Dunlop.
© 2025.
Breaking the Robot
Believe me when I say
Your hell just doesn't satisfy
You have no power over me
Sign the line?
I'm fine
Just please fuck off and fucking die
Take it down
Kill your sound
Love me for I will lock you down
Think you're fine?
Sign the line
What is yours is now all of mine
Don't be late
What's at stake?
Earn your life or else seal your fate
Sit tight
Don't bite
Now you owe me your fucking life
Believe me when I say
Your hell just doesn't satisfy
You have no power over me
Sign the line?
I'm fine
Just please fuck off and fucking die
Take it down
Kill your sound
Love me for I will lock you down
Think you're fine?
Sign the line
What is yours is now all of mine
Don't be late
What's at stake?
Earn your life or else seal your fate
Sit tight
Don't bite
Now you owe me your fucking life
Nobody cares to know why
Operate
Nobody cares to know why
Assimilate
Nobody cares to know why
Operate
Nobody cares to know why
Know your place
Take it down
Kill your sound
Operate
Think you're fine
Sign the line
Assimilate
Don't be late
What's at stake?
Operate
Sit tight
Don't bite
Now you owe me your fucking life
Now you owe me your fucking life
Now you owe me your fucking life
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
CLSTR FCK
The storm
In the mind's eye
Projects your life
Reveal
Just relax
Nothing is under control
One and the same
We are
One and the same
Transmute
This sovereign moment
Just let their chaos reign
Temp not to
Relinquish
Squander your
Power
Just get it fucking done
One and the same
We are
One and the same
One and the same
We are
One and the same
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Epilogue: The Becalmed
Soundscape by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
That Good Night
End the recital
Break the cycle
Something's wrong
You've strayed from your quiet desperation
The daily recital no longer serves?
There's comfort there, remember?
I rage the dying light
Cease logorrhoea
Wrapped up in a dull ache
The story's the same
But the faces change
Rinse and repeat
Why leave now?
Erase the goddam smile
Won't go back this time
I see
One more rerun won't solve the crisis
The story's the same
The faces change
Seduced once again by the Devil of the Better Known
Rinse and repeat
Sleepwalking a daily recital
Until now
A miraculous fall from disgrace
And a terrifyingly violent awakening
What to do?
What to do?
Alone and becalmed
A spirit remembered
The universe awaits
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Stress Fracture
Music and Soundscape by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Time Waster
You're a fuckin' time waster
Waster
Stick it in your facer
Second place
Lose the race
In ya face
A waste of space
In the human racer
Time waster
Waster
Stick it in ya facer
Debaser
Losin facer
Back in your placer
You waste of space
In the human racer
You waste my time
Blind lead the blind
You're a fuckin' time waster
Waster
Stick it in your facer
A head case
Outa place
No grace
A disgrace
To the human racer
Time waster
Waster
Stealin' all my baser
Defacer
Outa placer
From outa spacer
You disgrace
To the human racer
You waste my time
Blind lead the blind
Drag me behind
You waste of time
Waster
Waster
Losin' all my baser
Defacer
Outa placer
From outa spacer
You disgrace
To the human racer
Waster
Waster
Waster
Waster
Time waster
Time waster
Time waster
Time waster
Time waster
Waster
Stick it in your facer
A head case
Outa place
No grace
A disgrace
To the human racer
Time waster
Waster
Losin' all my baser
Defacer
Outa placer
From outa spacer
You disgrace
To the human racer
Dark place
Dark space
Outa time
Outa ya mind
In my way
My digital delay
Dark place
Dark space
Outa time
Outa ya mind
In my way
My digital delay
Time to find
A replacer
Lyrics by: Richard Luke.
Music by: Richard Luke and John Dunlop.
© 2025.
Knife Edge
To unlock the delusion
To all balance
On a knife edge
Above the chaos and pain
The twisted mind
Caught between
What to think and fear
Fight to switch the blade
To saner times
Waste your life
Grind the tool to use
On your own grave
Dig six feet at a time
Or end recital
To break the cycle
Before your thought police
Take you down
Come from within
Seek
Unravel the illusion
The mask is a farce
Live and be sure
To unlock the delusion
Don't retreat then
Accept defeat
And disarm your way
To safer ties
Don't appease them
Submit to please them
What's real is cradled
Beyond the mind
Come from within
Seek
Unravel the illusion
The mask is a farce
Live and be sure
To unlock the delusion
Come from within
Seek and aspire
Unravel the illusion
The mask is a farce
Live and be sure
To unlock the delusion
Fall and begin
Seek and destroy
Fall and begin
Seek and destroy
Come from within
Seek
Come from within
Seek
To unlock the delusion
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Mind Crime
Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow's story
Strive to untwine
Fear not tomorrow's story
Waste no more fucking time
Fear not tomorrow's story
Find your mind crime
Wait
No more time
For your time
No more time
For your time
Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow's story
Waste no more of your fucking time
Come and stake your claim instead
Of hiding in there
Behold your darkest self
Seek your freedom
My
Friend
Wait
No more time
For your time
No more time
For your time
Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow's story
Waste no more of your fucking time
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Requiem: The Exodus
It's like a comedy
Isn't it?
A big
Beautiful
Tragically-divine
Comedy of errors
Leave the play
For the wolf does not perform
In circus
Cry
Laugh
Or
Choose again
Choose again
Choose again
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.
Blood Crisis
The righteous cry for a fight
With biased eyes
The tribal plight to divide
Confines the mind
Shackled to a seductive truth
Sold by charlatans
Rise above your crisis
Strike the score away
Feed not on what's given
Tomorrow forgets
Repeat
Today's insanity
Safety in suspicion
Need not be the play
To define your legacy
Tomorrow forgets
Repeat
Today's insanity
Fall in line for a time
To realise
The diatribe of the hive
Curses everyone to
Refuge in a seductive fear
Sold by charlatans
Rise above your crisis
Strike the score away
Feed not on what's given
Tomorrow forgets
Repeat
Today's insanity
Safety in suspicion
Need not be the play
To define your legacy
Tomorrow forgets
Repeat
Today's insanity
Rise above your crisis
Strike the score away
Feed not on what's given
Safety in suspicion
Need not be the play
To define your legacy
Rise above your crisis
Strike the score away
Feed not on what's given
Safety in suspicion
Need not be the play
To define your legacy
Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop
© 2025.