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Cynic

by Drowning Susan

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Vocoded: "Cry Out"
2.
Cynic 05:00
Cynic We already know that things are awful And it only gets worse each day But that’s no excuse not to be thoughtful And apply a little effort to change All of this got the way it is Through general neglect and decay Maybe if we gave a damn about things Well, it wouldn’t turn out this way I can’t defend these modern times Too much excess corrupts our lives It falls apart before our eyes We let it happen, we must be blind Everything sucks and it’s all your fault You people just make it worse on yourselves That’s the truth if it need be told Wipe the slate clean, start over I know… I guess I’m a cynic, I guess I gave up Can’t help but look around and wonder “what the fuck?” We’ve made a mess of things, I think we’ve done enough We fucking had our chance and it’s time that we’ve laid off It’s pretty clear where it all went wrong Things were fine till we came along Rinse, repeat, ‘cause it’s always the same We break, burn down, we smash, decay Everything sucks and it’s all your fault You people just make it worse on yourselves That’s the truth if it need be told Wipe the slate clean, start over I know… I guess I’m a cynic, I guess I gave up Can’t help but look around and wonder “what the fuck?” We’ve made a mess of things, I think we’ve done enough We fucking had our chance, it’s time that we’ve laid off I can’t defend these modern times Too much excess corrupts our lives It falls apart before our eyes We let it happen, we must be blind Maybe you’re all just dumb (we must be blind) Can’t be I’m the only one who sees I guess I’m a cynic, I guess I gave up
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HUMANS Let’s face it: two is a crowd and three is unseemly Add any more, you’re a mob, and they run amok easy It takes a greater strength than I’ve found to be around people It takes a leap of faith so profound to make them even seem real You know you gotta hate some, on mankind Before you can understand the slant of my perspective and why I gave up all hope for their plans It only leads to madness to think that you can conquer the world It only takes a human-like trait to poison the well for us all It’s time we faced the facts, Our species is awful But we persist in spite all of that, still our future is doubtful Cause your intentions are far from pure and your methods deemed unsound We forgot what it was to be sure, we’re to reckless while earth bound You know you gotta hate some, on mankind Before you can understand the slant of my perspective and why I gave up all hope for their plans It only leads to madness to think that you can conquer the world It only takes a human-like trait to poison the well for us all You people are the worst, You’re too much to bear You can call me misanthropic, I don’t care, I don’t care
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CAPACITY There’s nowhere left to run to, there’s nowhere left to hide Population is growing larger It’s an ocean full of people; it’s a swelling tide At some point we’re gonna reach the brink Then some of you must go It’s coming sooner than you might think The day is soon upon us when this place will be full We’re exactly like a ship at sea Except there’s nowhere for us to dock We’re adrift by ourselves you see And with limited supplies we’ll have to use what we’ve brought Soon there’ll be no space left There’ll be nothing to eat or drink The world is closing in around us There’s too many people, this ship’s gonna sink There’s too many people to ever be alone There’s too few options to let it go on Soon there’ll be no space left Maybe you should stop fucking Time will come when there’s no more room Everyone will die, It will all mean nothing We act like there’s nothing wrong, like somehow it can all just stay the same All the people are half the problem , we should stop before it’s far too late But facts be damned, we can’t help ourselves, we have to procreate If we don’t fuck ourselves to death then the noise will surely kill us, make us insane
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Hope 04:37
Hope With all your high hopes and all your pipe dreams You’re so deluded it’s so exhausting Although the daydreams really don’t excite me Low expectations: the only way to right things See there’s nothing left to hope for And we should all just learn to embrace the end If you’re wondering how you’ll cope, well Maybe you can start by eliminating false pretense It won’t be okay, I don’t care what you say Anticipation, the impact will be frightening When all your prospects that used to seem inviting Replaced by doubt no more at ease a tight line You’re losing value closer to the deadline See there’s nothing left to hope for And we should all just learn to embrace the end If you’re wondering how you’ll cope, well It’s pretty much determined that you failed, so just face the facts I don’t care how much it hurts ‘cause All your whining won’t help for the wounds to mend So play the victim all you want, well You may as well give up, say your prayers, let the world cave in It won’t be okay, I don’t care what you say I don’t care how much it hurts ‘cause All your whining won’t help for the wounds to mend So play the victim all you want, well You may as well give up, say your prayers, let the world cave in With all your high hopes and all your pipe dreams You’re so deluded it’s so exhausting Although the daydreams really don’t excite me Low expectations: the only way to right things See there’s nothing left to hope for And we should all just learn to embrace the end If you’re wondering how you’ll cope, well Maybe you can start by eliminating false pretense I don’t care how much it hurts ‘cause All your whining won’t help for the wounds to mend So play the victim all you want, well You may as well give up, say your prayers, let the world cave in The day will come when you wise up and You’ll be joining us waiting for the world to end You can still pretend if you want to Our certainty of course assures reality soon sets in
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Be-Ing-Me 04:10
Be-Ing-Me What’s worse – being me or being you? Being me, I can’t help but hate you all Being me, I can’t find any peace at all Being me, it’s quite easy to hate Being me, I make a ton of mistakes I’m glad I’m not you. I hate myself. I’m glad I’m not you. I hate myself. It’d be nice if you tried to be better It’d be nice if you tried to be more Being me, I can’t help but hate you all Being me, I can’t find any point to it all Being me, it’s quite easy to hate Being me Being me, I can’t help but hate you all I hate being me. It’d be nice if you tried to be better It’d be nice if you tried to be more
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Survivors 04:03
Survivors If we could just hold it all together Well maybe we could somehow avoid the fall Unlikely as it seems it could just happen (I hate to admit) So maybe we’ll survive ourselves after all (then what will we do?) And if by some chance we see tomorrow Will we have learned from yesterday, or even today? I doubt that we could get out shit together I doubt we can somehow find a way (let alone not kill ourselves) Otherwise, all of this just ends Otherwise, we become no more If we could just hold it all together Well maybe we could somehow avoid the fall Some things are better left alone Some things are better left unknown Some stones are better left unturned Would we rather be safe or just let it all burn? Let it burn If we could just hold it all together (Let it burn) Well maybe we could somehow avoid the fall (Let it burn) Let it burn It’s culminating, accentuating, reaching a peak that I’m not hating I’m not hating the idea of the end The end is coming for us All of this must end The end is coming for us What do you plan to do?
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Signs It’s been out there waiting – It’s been out there all this time – no sense agitating don’t worry your pretty little mind – this thing’s deteriorating while you’re still looking for a sign if there’s a grander scheming, there’s no intelligent design Seems to me that there are things that go unnoticed through our day a slice of shadow, a slight of hand in which the darkness plays like we all know that things are ending but unwilling to say that it’s complete, the end, fini, we can’t accept decay Plain as can be you chose to ignore What’s right before you, I’ve said it before There’s a reason things are falling apart But you refused to listen right from the start Explain the truth you’re seeking – what kind of statement will suffice? What form of deluded thinking provides the answers that you’d like? It’s clear you gave up making any attempt to do what’s right and as a population, you really disappoint. You won’t believe until the whole damn world comes down upon your door that darkness lurking there, emerges now and hides no more escape from ignorance, the curtain drawn reveals beyond its frame a world that’s drowned in sickness, a world that’s lost in hate Plain as can be you chose to ignore What’s right before you, I’ve said it before There’s a reason things are falling apart But you refused to listen right from the start It’s been out there waiting – It’s been out there all this time no sense agitating – don’t worry your pretty little mind this thing’s deteriorating while you’re still looking for a sign if there’s a grander scheming, there’s no intelligent design Seems to me that there are things that go unnoticed through our day - a slice of shadow, a slight of hand in which the darkness plays - like we all know that things are ending but unwilling to say that it’s complete, the end, fini, we can’t accept decay It’s been out there waiting – It’s been out there all this time no sense agitating – don’t worry your pretty little mind - this thing’s deteriorating while you’re still looking for a sign if there’s a grander scheming, there’s no intelligent design
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IF (Shame On Us edit) All signs point to end of days We should be ashamed of ourselves now Make this a world we’re proud to have Maybe all of this is just a dream, a bad bad dream But what if we wake up to find it’s worse We’ve become the least that we can be, less than you’ve ever seen So what if we could find a way to converse…I’d like to know Second chances – Alternates to common place Transient voices – Deja vois in subtle ways We should be ashamed of ourselves now We’ve become the least that we can be We should be ashamed of ourselves now Less than you’ve ever seen Maybe all of this was meant to be, or so it seems Maybe it’s our fate to just break down We’ve become the least that we can be, less than you’ve ever seen We should be ashamed of ourselves now There’s no way out We should be ashamed of ourselves now Maybe all of this was meant to be, or so it seems Maybe it’s our fate to just break down We’ve become the least that we can be, less than we’ve ever been We should be ashamed of ourselves now We’ve become the least that we can be, less than you’ve ever seen We should be ashamed of ourselves now
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Void 03:43
Our modern life, our wasted time There’s a certain unconstructive sadness That overtakes our natural drive Self-imposed repeating cycles you can set disappointment by Excess and greed surrounds us Leaves you with this void inside We tried to fill void with power That corrupts in perverse ways We tried to fill the void with people But that produces complex hate We tried to fill the void with money But we can’t buy the peace we need We tried to fill the void with anger But we’re our own worst enemies We’re our own worst enemies Our modern life, our wasted time There’s a certain unconstructive sadness That overtakes our natural drive Self-imposed repeating cycles you can set disappointment by Excess and greed surrounds us Leaves you with this void inside We’re our own worst enemies
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Choices 03:53
Choices We poison water, we darken skies We stifle laughter, we smother cries We torture suspects, start wars with lies We drug ourselves, we’re along for the ride We’re filled with sadness but we say we’re fine We hoard possessions as we proclaim “mine” We wrecked our world and we kill mankind We can’t let it continue so you must decide Is this world worth saving as a whole? ‘cause it’s up to you to fix what’s broke If the humans stand a chance they must mend their ways And they’d better start soon before it’s too late Is this world worth saving as a whole We poison water, we darken skies ‘cause it’s up to you to fix what’s broke We stifle laughter, we smother cries If the humans stand a chance they must mend their ways We torture suspects, start wars with lies And they’d better start soon before it’s too late We’re filled with sadness but we say we’re fine And they’d better start soon before it’s too late We wrecked our world and we kill mankind It’s too late
12.
LEARNING There’s something about this world that makes me uneasy There’s a certain complacency that permeates the way we do things And never before have we drawn such a straight line difference Between what we think and do, while we follow the path of least resistance I’m saddened to think of times when living was easy We were blindly stumbling through a world as innocent as we seemed That memory’s no longer true and it isn’t returning I’ve face the fact we’re doomed, we know too much, we suffer in learning

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CYNIC, The final album in the EoE Series, released for human consumption on Wednesday, 12/12/12. The 4th album in the series detailing mankind's progression down the tubes, all fit between 11/11/11 and 12/12/12, the last repeating digits for dates you'll see in your lifetime. Enjoy. More details to come.

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released December 12, 2012

All songs written, arranged, recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Drowning Susan

Mark Gerster - vocals + synth + programming + samples
Nick Repeta - programming
Vincent Sparacino - programming

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Drowning Susan Akron, New York

Drowning Susan is Mark R. Gerster and his revolving cast of humans...notably Vincent Sparacino and Nick Repeta.

"Darkwave meets Electro-Goth blended with blatantly nay-saying pre-apocalyptic electro pop.
Mostly its just weird and dark electro rock..."
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