The Silver Cord Album Lyrics by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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Theia

The silver cord, a glowing thread
Binds us to the higher divine
A bridge immortal and unspoken
Helping us to truth-align

Theia, Theia, Theia
Theia, Theia, Theia, Theia

Theia, a force of destiny
Fate intertwined with that of earth
A ticking clock of new reality
A spiritual rebirth
And when Theia it did impact
The silver cord did snap as well
Leaving the soul to sail on a journey
Beyond that which we dwell

Theia, Theia, Theia
Theia, Theia, Theia, Theia

Meet our maker
Dance with Theia

So perhaps our Theia's collision
Was not just a cosmic death
But also a means of fusion
And the day we took our first breath
Towards a higher, truer ego
In the vast and honeyed sky
Leaving behind our mortal coil
Silver cord now torn, the spirit flies

Theia, Theia, Theia
Theia, Theia, Theia, Theia

Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
Meet our maker (Theia, Theia, Theia)
Dance with Theia (Theia, Theia, Theia)
Meet our maker (Theia, Theia, Theia)
Destroy Thei- (Theia, Theia, Theia)

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The Silver Cord

The apostle of conscious dying
Whispers to me, "Keep on trying
Stay tethered to the cosmic sacrum
Safe within the Bardo playground
You'll cry tears that fall up to the sky
While wrathful gods chant your name
You'll never scream, you have no breath
No refuge in between your death"

Power made by Ptah (beautiful child of love, the gods ascribe praises to him)
Traverser of the celestial heights in peace

From the womb I materialize
Terrified, uncircumcised
My mothers love, Hypericum
Awake for the caesarean
Like a dog on a freeway
I commit my life to end it my way
I am deaf, I am a mute, I am blind
And I have broken through

I am a vessel
I'm just a poor boy travelling with my bodies
Bodies, body imagery, imagery
I am free, I am marooned and tied to my bodies
Bodies, body imagery, imagery

I am a vessel
I'm just a poor boy travelling with my bodies
Bodies, body imagery, imagery
I am free, I am marooned and tied to my bodies
Bodies, body imagery, imagery

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Set

Snout of a jackal and tail of a snake
Slithers and slinks through the desert, awake
Gorges on moonbeams and bathes in quantum foam
Unchallenged in the infinite unknown

Tornado bore down and lifted him high
Throwing Set around with a windy cry
His bones did shatter and his flesh did rend
But still, the god did not bend

Osirus of Geb, of Nut and dead
Dutifully did what he was beset

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Governs sandstorms with but a gesture
Squeezing day into night with supernatural pressure
God of duality and king of the fight
Right eye is the sun and left the moon's light

His followers screamed, his enemies cheered
As they watched their golden god disappear
Be unto your storm with a final breath
Set, it's time to meet your death

Osiris of earth, of sky and birth
Cut the cord, kill the king and reset

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

The god of death and rebirth too
Out with the old and in with the new
Ashes to gashes, the past of new life is made
Brightened up the shadows, light up the shade
Horus gave Set the downstairs snip, snip
Poked out his eyes and ripped it to pieces
Eighty years of conflict
Crocodile-dog-birth, Lucifer inverted
Slender usurper, piece of work
Struggling stranglehold akin to poison and going for broke
An eye for a sun and an eye for the moon
Love letter death threats written in the tomb

The seed is set
Cow-horn-headdress
The seed is set
Hieroglyphic

Set, Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set

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Chang'e (The Silver Cord)

Who should we please?
Who's to believe?
Who should we change for?
Who could we be?
When my race is done, how did I run?
Did I par the course and pass the baton on?

Vote with your feet
Make company
Form a military of peace and kill the king
Be a citizen of planet earth
Be a bigger man or woman
'Cause we all can
Change, change, change

Change for its own sake
Uniformity gave me a belly ache
I want a mutiny
My mind is finally awake
Who could we be given equal opportunity?
What could we see given equal chance to actually
Change? Change, change
Change, change, change

Is this what we consider changing for the better? Maybe
Is this what we consider changing? Ah, save me
Is this what we consider changing for the better? Maybe
Is this what we consider changing?

I'm changing, I'm changing
Is this what we consider changing for the better? Maybe
Is this what we consider changing? (Change)

Is this what we consider changing?
I'm changing, I'm changing
Is this what we consider changing?

We're changing pace, high stakes
So called heroes wearing fake capes
Critically acclaimed, clinically deranged
Push the buttons, keep on frontin'
'Til they hear the thumpin
Somethings coming up the hallway
Out of the left field lane, hey
My stomachs turning from the vermin up-skirt observing
Power hungry tryna draw the curtains from the public person
But there ain't no slicker villain that's deserving a
Serving on the killing floor
Put 'em on the chopping board for all to see

I'm a sniper hiding in the tower
I'm picking them off one by one
Gateway drug to the only solution
Cutting out their tongues before they jump the gun
I'm the like the cupid trying bring the love
But you keep getting out of my range
No strings on my bow with broken arrows
Running low on ammo to make a change

Buildings that you know, people come and go
Are a certain way, always are the same
And then you get the news that obliterates your view
Amputate your truths, the significance has changed

Hospital inane, meaningless and grey
But lie within the walls and the significance will change
What would it take for us to change the game?
Maybe our existence is significance in vain
The significance has changed
Maybe our existence is significance in vain

Buildings that you know, people come and go
Are a certain way, always are the same
And then you get the news that obliterates your view
Amputate your truths, the significance has changed

Hospital inane, meaningless and grey
But lie within the walls and the significance will change
What would it take for us to change the game?
Maybe our existence is significance in vain

What would it take to build an ark for me and my friends?
Escape this old place with all that creeps and fish in the sea
And all that flies and all the bugs inside of me
Take all the good things and leave the human beings

Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh
Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh
Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh
Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh
Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh
Bah badah bah duna boo bah bah, bah banah banah boh boh (change)

(Burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up, change)
(Burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up, change)
(Burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up, change)
(Burn it up, burn it up, burn it up)

Woo

Woo (burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up)
(Burn it up, burn it up) woo

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh

A fiery temper, stranded in the deadly blender
Weeping human clay, no surrender
The pale death-threat sender leading him astray
Ferocious, slaying feuds to gain the fame
He's left to fend and hold the reins
He can't protect the wolf-pack from the sun-god Shamash combat

Gilgamesh
I vow to disembowel
The battle begins
The heavens turn to darkness
Gilgamesh

Five visions of biblical downpour
Tearing the rags and hairs tossed to the river beds
Fire breathing warblers perched on fallen
A prayer of shelter from the peaks

Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh

Glorious photon, invisible traveler
Light and energy, galaxies zooming past you
A particle pure magnificent one
Emitting glow, shining
How long must I journey on?

Bone dried swamplands swallow me
The lion skin are wearing thin
The passing scorpions guarding
Wandering wild with passing misery
The key to immortality

House of dust, land of bone
I ate dirt, I drank stone
Beneath the razorback
Wished to be insomniac
Swam the flood
Cleansed my sins and flew on thirteen winds
Gemstone trees and scorpions
Did it all, lived my dreams
Now I see mans folly
Killed the bull, crossed the sea
C'mon snake, punish me
For immortality

Great and ancient light
Infinite distance
Leaving its birthplace
Going on adventures
A galaxy spinning
Many sights unseen
Endless aeons
Space, an unbroken chain
Hear my name

Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh

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Swan Song

Drink your booze and smoke your weed
Drain the vein and bleed for me
The ground is swaying beneath your feet
You can't see shit and you can't breathe
Kicked yourself in the teeth

Drowning young in the fountain of youth
You followed those breadcrumbs like a sleuth
Once was full of youth and ruthless
Now you're frail and limp and toothless
Everything you say is useless

'Tis the mothers voice on meek winds
"Be unto the void for your sins"
Flowers droop their heads in sorrow
Rivers run with no tomorrow

Throw in the towel, hang up your boots
The last leaves falling, ripped from roots
Diminishing hubris, sunken crown
The sphere a jagged, arid mound
Dumbest jester in the town
The wrecking ball is fast approaching
Engulfing spirit lingers, floating
We bid farewell, all hope is lost
The clock has ticked its final tock
A barren lifeless rock

Birds do mourn and no longer trill
The great death cometh to bring ill
Crystal ball foretells dire fate
Alas, the reckoning, too late

Swan song, death comes
Swan song, death comes

Let it out with a final sigh
Our mothers fade away
Leaving the world behind
Blistering in a blaze
Flickering flamed-eyed
I feel the earth shake
Splitting without a splice
It's irreversible
We're moving counterclockwise

Illuminate the finishing inquisition
Embrace the overbearing inhibitions
I lay my skull down and throw in the towel
I'm left with a bad taste in my mouth
Choking on the earth's erosion

Swan song, death comes
These breaths I breathe so bitter and bleak
Swan song, death comes
This path we chose has caught up to speed

Cut the cord, go explore
Be untethered, be unequalled
Grab the sword
Be emperor, be yourself
Be an orb, be your spirit
Don't fear it
Score the music of your essence
Be a photon, luminescent
Swan song, death comes

Stars fall from their lofty places
Earth has been put through her paces
Cosmic surgeons cut the cable
Make a new world if you're able

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Extinction

I can see everything
I can be in the music
I can see everything
I can be in the music

Knocking on extinctions door
Prisoner of others war
I see sullied, toxic seas
Poisoned soil and felled trees
Once paradise, now wasteland
Shadow on the moon expands
Set tries chaos but too late
To unseal our futures fate, yeah

Ex-tinction, extinction
Ex-extinction -tinction, extinction
Ex-extinction -tinction, extinction
Ex-extinction -tinction, extinction

Era of rapid decline
Become naught but dust of time
Rain of sorrow from dread clouds
Chang'e's tears have all dried out
Jesus left us all alone
Castles crumble with a groan
Had a chance but let it slip
Into heavens tempest rips, woo

I can see everything
I can be in the music
I can see everything
I can be in the music

The archer drops their empty quiver
Peacefully drowning in empty river
Slip into the vast astral abyss
And you can give space one last wish

You're a baby being born
See the cable being torn
Gravity-less asteroid
Zooming out into the void, yeah

I can see everything
I can be in the music
I can see everything
I can be in the music

Magenta beckons like a lighthouse
Hypnotized and pulled into a pulsar
Music of the spheres calls me to it
The last thought I think, "But am I human?"

I can see everything
I can be in the music
I can see everything
I can be in the music