dysnomiametal

DYSNOMIA - THE FALL OF PHAETHON Cursed descendant of Helios Bound by a sacred oath Heeding no admonition Denies his mortal condition The daring youth Demands to ride his father’s chariot Ignoring his mortality And lack of judgment Grasping the reins of the fiery steeds Unaware of the tragic fate to descend upon him Not even Zeus, Olympian ruler Showed such audacity For only one, the solar deity The great car could control The daring youth Attempts to ride his father’s chariot For the first and last time Phaethon is to ascend And fall The frantic flaming horses In an impetuous rush Scorched the earth beneath And the celestial abode above Aware of his mortality And lack of judgment Charred by the ride with the fiery steeds In horror he beholds the receding Earth Through heights and chasms the chariot errs A path of destruction – its end is now near For the first and last time Phaeton now takes his plunge Fulminated by lightning As the sky turns black

DYSNOMIA - ANAGNORISIS “Não, não, isso não! Tudo menos saber o que é o Mistério! Superfície do Universo, ó Pálpebras Descidas, Não vos ergais nunca! O olhar da Verdade Final não deve poder suportar-se!” (Álvaro de Campos) Misery lurks in the spirit – tainted with madness A foe finds its way in the dark – hubris sets in In the threads of fate entangled With terror filled Horrifying epiphany Recognition of Nemesis The Gorgon’s eyes, petrean gaze Revealing the truth buried beneath The father slain, incestuous race Awakening from a narcotic sleep The sleep of ignorance The death of innocence The loss of reverence The face of tragedy Confront me And see yourself Anagnorisis

Muscle and tendons twist relentless The burden's heavy as the soul There is no meaning In your quest Your quest for meanings Is futile This boulder will never cease to tumble Torment and suffering take their toll Absurdity – the only reason Seek not for purpose in this life All gods are silent False hopes are gone The answer is in the path Source of wisdom at last Determination to move on Perform the task that never ends There is no meaning In your quest Your quest for meanings Is futile “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” * This boulder will never cease to tumble Torment and suffering take their toll Absurdity – the only reason Seek not for purpose in this life The answer is in the path Source of wisdom at last Gazing from the top of the mountain Contemplating existence Sysiphus silently rises And starts his descent, again... * excerpt taken from the book “The Myth of Sysiphus and Other Essays”, by Albert Camus

Proselyte “The tragedy of our predicament - when we are within ideology, is that - when we think that we escape it into our dreams - at that point we are within ideology.*” Fallacious factoids influence Your impaired judgement Distilling prejudice And bitterness Drowning in contradiction Such frail convictions Indoctrinate, and propagate, those seeds of hate Ignorant proselytism - proselyte Ignorant proselytism - crucify A truth that's not your own Won't set you free How generous of you To share your misery Preaching words of mercy But you want blood to be shed Revel in abnegation When it's not your own * excerpt taken from the documentary “The Pervert's Guide to Ideology” (2012), by Slavoj Zizek/Sophie Fiennes