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144 / 71 Lyrics by Benn

Extinction

2013

[Human]
I can hear them, I can hear movement around me. My eardrums cannot break through the fog that surrounds my mind. I hear one of them sound, a bloodied gurgle of a noise, yet I feel my mind tick in anticipation that I might understand the words presented to me. But the sound does not resonate from a human host, no. I fear that the worst is upon me. I see a glimmer of the invasion in my mind. A window that is clouded by the dust that my mind is helpless to brush away. I feel an ice-cold object touch my forehead, is this it? Is this how my light will be stubbed from me?

[Ancestor]
The design of your abduction was not one of offers but of conversion. From the initial data transfer your mind confirms our fears, we now realise that your race regards us as an alien species

[Human]
I wonder why...

[Ancestor]
The truth is quite the contrary. You see, to us you are the alien species, we understand that your memory is limited by the evolutionarily adapted parameters of your brain

[Human]
My memory of what? I don't understand

[Ancestor]
All will come to light soon, my ancestor. Our work has only just begun

[Human]
What are you?

[Ancestor]
There is no truth simple enough for your mind to comprehend. However you and I are not dissimilar, we are both over-complications of a corrupt lineage. We are the light, we are the beginning, we are the future, the future is inevitable. Unfortunately for us, your time to develop in this cycle has been extensive, we do not normally allow the human race to grow so intelligent before harvest, however please remember it was you who woke us from our slumber

[Human]
So your purpose on this earth is to cull my race through conversion?

[Ancestor]
Conversion is not death, it is our way of upgrading your pathetic convent of skills and it will allow you to move from limitations of a sentient being to a more evolutionarily robust creature. It is a way forward for what you call: mankind
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"144 / 71" appears on "Extinction" in 2013.

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