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State of Collapse

by Sold Future

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1.
A Future Sold - [Instrumental] 03:38
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2.
The Change 04:25
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Surviving few who can remember The former world before the change Living now in a world dismembered Fears are real but don’t seem strange We’ll survive We’ll leave the change for another day World can thrive Our future’s sold, yet we still delay Blindly march to our desolation, There’s still time for our salvation Refuse to see impending doom A chance to change, our greed will bloom Exploit our resources Outbreed our environment Use what we want Change the requirements Will we survive? Can we leave the change for another day? World can’t thrive Our future’s sold, yet we still delay Blindly marched to our desolation, There’s no time for our salvation Refused to see our impending doom No chance, no change, our seed is doomed It’s too late now, we should have changed.
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Dies The Fire 04:58
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Systems failing, Leaders bailing, Crumbling walls there is no scaling Our needs feed on life Now Earth must be fed Living with dependencies Our life of gathering useless things Soon we reap those poisoned seeds We are failing without machines We survive now by any means When dies the fire Death is now life Earth will be fed Our fragile system collapses Nature rises up from the ashes To cleanse these poisoned beings We are failing without machines We survive now without any means When dies the fire Failing without machines Dies the fire Silence our dreams
4.
Doomsday 05:34
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Glowing on the horizon The wave of shadows rising Slowly getting nearer Impending doom is clearer The savage beasts within, could barely be kept in One false move, mistake Find ourselves with no escape Searching day to day, the sky is ever-grey No life within me Exist in pain, no future we can see Do you wish to die? Or do more than survive? Foolish luxury Dark despair in times like these. If you believe the voices You only have two choices: Embrace the call of darkness Feast upon its rotting carcass Encase your hopes and dream, Release them down the stream Can we come back from world we burned? We must learn, There is no return Protect these hopes and dreams Save them for the world to see If you hear the voice remember the choice that has been placed before you Please carry the fire, within your heart Protect the light, to save us NO! WE are the darkness inside you WE consume all of your light!
5.
Ash Winter 03:30
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Darkness falls with the snow Mingled with the ash Nothing left of the world we know Peering through our past The pain of cold, chills our bones A hollowed man turned carnivore We fade in this ash winter Survival forces us to splinter And we fear what we must do to live Barely survive in a land of ghosts Remains of those provide us posts To guide us through this barren land We may soon join them hand in hand And we do what we must to live
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Destruction - [Instrumental] 06:30
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7.
The Leftovers 06:30
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In the distance, hear them drawing near In an instance the body’s gripped with fear Scavengers survive, monsters rove Captured fools writhe as groups enclose We’re all that is left The best and all the worst First thought we were blessed Now we are all cursed Just stay calm, don’t fear. We’ll be safe, right here We were wrong, they now surround us Stay strong, too late they’ve found us Hold on! We know they’re here, breathe in their fear We will find them Take them all down, face to the ground There is no hope Tonight we will eat, their hearts will beat For one last time We will survive, we will survive! We are all the leftovers We won’t stop till we takeover We’re all that is left, The worst and all the rest First thought we were blessed, Now know we are cursed Some days we cry up to the sky What is our purpose? Why not just die? Do we give into the darkness? Cast our fire out Cold and completely heartless Is it better to go without? Just stay calm, don’t fear. You’ll be safe right here, I promise We’re all that is left, Becoming the worst Live lives of regret, Must rid of this curse Be the butcher to survive or line up with the cattle Survival at any cost has now become the battle We feast to survive! We are the leftovers, we are you
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Lost Technology 05:37
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A light shines across, revealing the door Locked away for many years It lights up the way parting the storm That swept away humanity A long lost place discovered Technology lost, uncovered Knowledge tossed, recovered Wind biting to the bone Full of voices tied to one Ascending towards a question: How can we ignore a pathway to a world from before? A chance to be more than savage Restore what’s damaged Machines turning on, Restarting the core Illuminating past warnings A choice don't ignore or it can’t restore The balance this planet needs The wind whispers from beyond We cannot ignore the past mistakes Of lives gone before A chance to save This power to choose what we create Our future renewed A choice to restore our knowledge Be more than savage Explore and salvage Restore the damaged A pathway to understand what we can become once more
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Sold Future 07:28
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Future sold an emptiness within Discouraged souls grieve a life that could have been Dreams are dust, cast a wind Torn from us, lost again This life's being drawn from me In this dying world of apathy Lost in darkness of eternal night We search for the last rays of dawn But facing a future devoid of light We lose the will to carry on A future sold, a uniquely human sin A sinking hole where a heart had once been in Leaving us to salvage what's left Looking past our dreams while we slept The blood rises up in me Anger shakes me from this dreamless sleep Lost in darkness of eternal night We search for the last rays of dawn But facing a future devoid of light We lose the will to carry on There is no feeling to invest Sold future When hopes and dreams are in arrest Lost in darkness of eternal night We search for the last rays of dawn But facing a future devoid of light We lose the will to carry on

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released April 29, 2022

All songs written, arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed by John Burrows except the title track Sold Future co-written with Chris McCaughan.

Written 2013 - 2014
Recorded 2021 - 2022

Additional Contributors
Doomsday: Flutes written and performed by Matt Schwarz.

Ash Winter: Flutes written and performed by Matt Schwarz. Guitar and harp performed by Matt Schwarz.

Destruction: Co-written and arranged by Russell Kummer and Trevor Van Soolen

Sold Future: Co-written and lyrics by Chris McCaughan.

Thank You

Chris McCaughan for writing such impactful lyrics that inspired me to write an entire album around this concept.

Derek Johnston, Sean Gill, Matt Schwarz, Michael Perlovsky, Sam Irving, Dino Cuneo, Erik Livesay.

Album art by Mark Facey.

RIP Russell Kummer and Trevor Van Soolen. You are both missed immensely.

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