Anxious Darwinians

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Em C Am
Em D
Em A


Em     F#m      G           Am
Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
Em       F#m           G                Am
creating before acting to stay safelyat the start.
Em       F#m        G            Am
Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end.
Em       F#m                     G         Am
But we dictate through creation just how, where and when.


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The sound of self-severed limbs. Broken joints on cold steel links.
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Impossible havens harbor them. Damp floors carve swollen skin.
Em                                    G                 Am
The long-sought elusive passage keys! Where once was a door, now stands a wall.
Em                                   G                             Am
Concrete beds prevent digging deep. Leonine threats behind bamboo stalks.


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And anxious Darwinians frantically self-analyse,
Em     F#m           G          Am
too ultimately aware to trust anyone alive.
Em        F#m    G             Am
Toxic, parasitic ideas hijack our minds.
Em    F#m                G             Am
Mimetically commandeered to include the suicide.


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D                Em        C            G
The privacy of experience. The illusion of focus.
D                                F#m Em A
The future is anticipated memory.
D Bm        C           D
...   The virulence of idea.


Em     F#m      G           Am
Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
Em       F#m           G                Am
creating before acting to stay safelyat the start.
Em       F#m        G            Am
Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end.
Em       F#m                     G         Am
But we dictate through creation just how, where and when.


Em                     G      Am
Vanitas on aged pages, copper violin.
Em                        G              Am
Incumbent phrenology to drain you of your doubt.
Em                                    G       Am
Don’t call my landscape a plane, you increate egoist!
Em                               G      Am
You’re merely a hallucination of my own Atmas!


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Volition decides the future as the authors all agree,
Em                         Eb         G      Ab
Impatiently arranging for evolution’s recrudescence.
Em                   Eb        G    Ab
Visual receptors are undeniably unique
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in a closed Cartesian Theater,body anchored to the seat.


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Em                          D
The danger, dear empiritic is that to which Narcissus
C                                            D
succumbed, and still do, some. Fountainshead, automatons.
Em                                           D
To subordinates genetic interest is ultimately human!


Em                                   G    D
Rampant self-awareness in your invisible Hands
Em                              G             D
means everything is fickle, subject to your shape and shade.
Em                           G           D
How will you, dear eremite program your semaphore?
Em                                 G         D      Bm
Self-preservation is subject to an emotional homunculus.


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Em             F#m      G                Am
And anxious Darwinians frantically self-analyse,
Em       F#m         G                Am
too ultimately aware to include the suicide.
Em     F#m      G           Am
Halted embryogenesis at the birth of second thought,
Em       F#m           G                Am
creating before acting to stay safelyat the start.
Em       F#m        G            Am
Textbook nebulse authentical the World Order’s end.
Em       F#m                     G         Am
But we dictate through creation just how, where and when.