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Balance Lost

Entry from The Handbook in Nur Ein XV.

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Balance Lost

I heard about the handbook when I was 17
They said it holds the secret to forgotten technologies
of a race that has since gone extinct
My interest piqued, I've been searching ever since
I got a ship with a navigation computer
No crew to hassle me, or mutiny
You don't trust me and I don't trust you
In the distant future, the year 2022

Got my first clue on Pluto
To tell the truth though, doesn't seem like much
Just a credit card with 2 holes
Dude said it was some kind of key
And told me to see his informant(man) on mercury
I followed the lead with suspicion
A snitch fishin for incriminating evidence
Eliminate the non-residents and make my getaway
With another key to add to my resume

For now I'll hide out in a meteor cloud
Wait for the heat to die down
As luck would have it, while I'm floating around
A piece of the puzzle, amongst the rubble
But my translation needs some refinement
I need to decipher these alien symbols
Find me a primer, I ain't multilingual
To a gas dweller this'll be simple

Deep in the fog of jupiter, I was dubious
Can these mystics transcribe into English?
But their help came with a warning
Performing these actions can't be reversed
With repercussions unknown or worse
The first person to try never came back
Did they die o r just lose contact?
But I've come so far, it's too late to turn back

  1. Make a space ship with platinum tools
  2. fill your tanks with plutonium fuel
  3. Fly at 88 light years per hour
  4. Directly into a neutron star

Beyond the realms of our worldly existence
I am no longer what I once was
There is no I, only we.
While the constraints of time and space have evaporated
this new truth that was a precursor to time itself has revealed the infinite hope that is our very essence

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vowlvom

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I can tell you whole-assed this one, good to hear both halves fully engaged! That riff is massive, and surprisingly RATM-esque. Lyrics are great fun with plenty of killer lines, and I love how they build the story up to make the part that satisfies the challenge feel like the key part of the song. The spacy end section works really well too. I found myself wishing there was more of a melodic section to offset the rap-rock, but very much enjoyed this on the whole.

glowworm

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super badass, very Rage Against the Machine vibes

owl

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This is fun! I didn’t entirely follow the story as I was listening, but I’m on board with alien adventures, and you sold it with the energy of the music and your delivery, the ridiculous neutron star break, and I really liked some of those rhythms (2nd half of the “Jupiter” verse). I would have liked more of a change-up as far as the constant RATM guitars, or maybe this song could have been a bit shorter, but the lyrics were interesting enough to keep me listening. This was not one of my very favorites of the round, but I enjoyed it.

bennyharv3

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I loved this take on the challenge that it's both an instruction book and a retelling of an epic sci-fi adventure that used the book. I loved that grunge guitar, although the cadence of the verses just started to get a little boring, so it was a good choice to end those when you did. That robotic voice at the very end is very clipped, and it was a little hard to understand what it was saying; if you use that again, finding a way to have the voice end its words, that would help.

Cybronica

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your vocals strongly remind me of dizzee rascal on you got the dirtee love from the Brit awards in 2010. This is another cool idea that was well executed and i dont have much to say. The end was cool in a 2001 a space odyssey kind of way. Well done.

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