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Neophyte

by The Dreamist

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1.
Preamble 00:39
2.
Are we any closer? Are we any closer to the shore? The water will carry him. My little boy. I will take you away from here. Away from all the fear. Oh please, save our souls. Will they hear my cries? I have nothing else but these words. Is anyone listening? We have failed and we must pay the price. Spare this child and I will give my life. Heed my call; is what I ask of you. Oh please, give us hope. Salvation! (Wooh ohh) We strive. Euphoria! (Wooh ohh) No shroud. Revenge taints the wind. Bullets as fall like rain and hit our skin. The fire burns my eyes, we can't win this fight. Who will save our souls? Who will save us? Through the mist and the slaughter, I can see the water. Ride these waves to your destiny. A makeshift basket afloat. This piece is my last hope. I promise you will be free. Salvation! (Wooh ohh) We strive. Euphoria! (Wooh ohh) No shroud. Revenge taints the wind. Bullets as fall like rain and hit our skin. The fire burns my eyes, we can't win this fight. Who will save our souls? But when you go, I will be gone. But not too far. Follow your dreams, I will be there. Inside your heart. Look past this misery. It's just a dissonance. With this world. Mankind has disagreed. There is a beauty here, Needed to be reborn. (Save our souls) Who will save our souls?
3.
What is this at my feet? Washed up and torn. A noise from inside like a gentle cry. It stirs my curiosity. A hand grabs my finger so tight, but soft. A child laid bare alone and scared. Should I dispose of you into deep? Or be cursed forevermore? Something overwhelming inside of me. Possible endearment, for this little one? I feel a warm embrace, there's light across the way. This is a gift of hope. What could I do? A soldier. I'm not a matriarch for this little one. I could try my best to raise a son. I will name you Speslo. The time for war is now! Prepare the insurrection. An army of infected. Underneath my direction. Any signs of our virtue? No, there's nothing to find. Naivety, greed and power orbits around the mind. Where do we go from here? Give me fire, give me terror, Give me the world to steal. Rain down with bullets, explosions, erosion. Bring the world to its knees. Give me blood. When I take over the west I will face the final test. Maintain a law and order under a false silhouette. Wait! I'm ahead of myself it's not the time, time, time. I'm putting my head on the line line line. Child soldiers. Cannon fodder. Run, shoot, repeat. Sprint, destroy, decease. Dance under my strings. Send a deluge of murderous things. Make them all experience, Expiration! Give me fire, give me terror, Give me the world to steal. Rain down with bullets, explosions, erosion. Bring the world to its knees. Raise our sights to please. Miscreants under the king of disease. Souls of the damned,  we won’t blunder. Sanctioned from above, We march to the beat of the gallows drum. We are thirsty, Give us blood!
4.
Speslo 04:24
The scenery is suffocating me. It's so cold inside. And I would run away so fast. But where would I go? There's no place to hide. Have you ever seen a forest full of trees. I've only heard about them in stories. Where is the soft green blades of grass? Dirt is the beggar of our feet. The people are dissipated. Souls eradicated. Apathetic patrons of decadence. Show me substance. Show me virtue. Show me a way out. Of this wasteland you call home. There's nothing for me here. Nothing for me here. Who am I? What is this? And why do we try? The bullets fly fast to silence. Align your crosshairs. Caress the trigger and never look back. We are accustomed to violence. We are death's harbingers. We don't whimper. We swallow the tacks. Who do they follow? The vindictive master? All of this doesn't make any difference. My peers seem shallow. These sieve-like creatures. They transcend beyond normal existence. Why can't I evolve? Why can't I move on? I must deviate. I must regenerate. What a wasteland you call home. There's nothing for me here. Nothing for me here. Who am I? What is this? And why do we try?
5.
The Dreamist 05:19
Welcome to everything, It's all just a dream. I am you and you are I. But we are not the same. I am serendipitous. I am Machiavellian. I am your distant future. The trees, the dirt, the water, the wind, The fear, the hurt, the sorrow, the sin. We all send a message. Now listen! Decipher! Remember. It's nothing so simple, I’m no open book meant to be closed. Between the lines you’ll awake, This meaningful doze. Audacity! Tenacity! These are your tools. Lethargy. Quandary. They’ll break any fool. (Your landscape is a lie. Awake with purpose or die.) Dreamer, rewrite your fate. Challenge your reality. Concede yourself to me. I can show you everything. Can you perceive what you see? Or will you fail? Oh no, You must prevail! This isn't the life to live, It's just a shadow. Of a man who can scout far and wide, but he's completely blind. There's more out there than you may think. More colors paint the future. All in time it will be complete You must cross the water that splits the land. Take great care there’s a presence that will follow. Can you perceive what you see? Or will you fail? Oh no, You must prevail! (Can you perceive what you see? Or will you fail?) Beware out there. The mind will play tricks on you. The cryptical will coincide. Abide and escape the ruse. Can you perceive what you see? Or will you fail? Oh no, will you prevail?
6.
The Escape 05:35
I want to escape. To the west I'll stray. Is there green on the new horizon? I'm so scared of what's out there. Are there people who are more like me? Should I walk down this path? Will it help find my past? Can I really leave it all behind? Am I losing my mind? Am I wasting my time? No more waiting. I see the road ahead. Dreamer. Decipher. Remember. Challenge fate. The water waits. I must escape. Oh mother, why have you hidden my past in the back of your mind? Oh mother, you said it's worth nothing to me. What do you have to hide? I learn to hate. I learn to kill, I've had enough. I can't understand. I can't comprehend. Who's the enemy? Mother mother, I still have no answers. Mother mother, I ponder till it hurts. I'm done with all your lies. I curse this fragile home. You leave me with no choice. It's time for me to go. I must get off the ground. I'm on my belly like a snake. Sprint towards the shore. Can't leave a trace. Hop the fence, over the trench. Sneak without a shadow. No looking back now, curse the broken crown. I'm gone. Steal a boat, grab the ropes. Take away to the water. Leave it all behind. Say my last goodbyes. There's no turning back.
7.
Conquest 06:03
Tell me, have you seen these waters before? Tell me, do you think you know how swim? Little boy, you don’t seem to believe your eyes. Spit me out and taste the bitterness of the tides. Can you feel this? The brash thunder crash. The rain drops dance around like a gyre in the water. Let the waves collapse. Drown you all like rats. Turn back now. There is nothing for you here. Save your soul. You will only find fear. I’m out for revenge; It haunts my conscience. But it all makes sense. I couldn’t breathe, but no one heard me. No one heard my plea. Now I'm clouded with this intrusion. This pollution. Too many organisms inside my ecosystem. You all must drown. Turn back now. There is nothing for you here. Save your soul. You will only find fear. You will drown. We don’t need any heroes here. Please let me cross. I harbor no hate. You show resentment. You carry this weight. I have felt this pain. We’ve succumbed to fate. I feel we’ve met before. These waters have washed me ashore. We are comrades. We share the same goal. There must be a way that we can settle this. Majesty of whirlpools what is your price? I'm here pleading! I'm here breathing! Please give me a chance. There is more to this life.
8.
I'm awakened by the cold grains of sand. Seems I've made it ashore. Spit out from the rage of the storm. Was it all an illusion.. Dreamist, are you merging my reality with your crafted delusions? Surely it was all just a dream but it feels like the real thing. Get up! Move fast! Get away from the shore. Don't want the water to swallow me no more. My mind is numb; I'm weak in the bones. I must soldier on, but where should I go? Which way will we walk? Hope we don't descend deep into the dark. Our path we must decide. Awake with purpose or lay down and die. I find a large stone in my reach. Lift myself off the ground. The wind hits against my ear, but I can't hear the sound. A blinding light pierces my eyes. I walk a bit closer Reaching out for anything. Then I feel warmth. Hiding behind the mist. Shooting across my face. It reaches out for me. This tranquility. It enters my heart. It overwhelms me. Oh bright sun, hold me closer. Blind me in this divine, euphoria. Feel the grass on my fingers. Who knew that this world was so beautiful? Which way will we walk? Hope we don't descend deep into the dark. Our path we must decide. Awake with purpose or lay down and die. I will follow the light beyond the tress. Am I still asleep? I'm still unclear.
9.
Site Epsilon 04:19
What is this? A figure amongst the trees? Could it be? An apparition come to deceive me? Or a mercenary coming to soothe our troubled souls? Someone brave enough to deliver our salvation? What is this? A mere boy who's lost his way? Could it be? A refugee looking to stay? Greetings young wayfarer! Hope your travels weren't troublesome. Rest your dogs down here. Welcome to Site Epsilon. The Radioactive rule the stage. We’re bounded to their cage. Stifling our rage. Squalors are the roles we’re forced to play. Don't run; Don't hide. We must survive. We succumb to Epsilon! Pardon me. These old ears may have been betrayed. Did you speak of crossing the Mississippi? Are you one of them? Come down to make your rounds? What's your game here? Divulge your information. It’s hard to trust anyone anymore. We’ve been reduced to rubble after the war. After we were forced to hide the fight goes on. We must stop this madness, once and for all. We will raise up our fists! (Hey!) You want revenge it’s yours! (Hey!) We will become their nightmares. (Hey!) Give them the blood they deserve. The Radioactive rule the stage. We’re bounded to their cage. Stifling our rage. Squalors are the roles we’re forced to play. Don't run. Don't hide. We must survive. They stole it all but we'll take it back. Our motherland now reduced to ash. How did it happen? This stab in the back. Hell was born from the Hazard Project.
10.
Bury it underground. Our impropriety. Toxic waste, posthaste! What else can we do? Sweep it under the bed of mother earth. It's all temporary for what it's worth. Millions of bombs to cover up. Erase our past mistakes. We regret but nothing. Only the strongest survive. Playing god with a smile. While the world slowly dies. Our findings were correct. It was a matter of time. Turned a blind eye; while we lived on a lie. No protocol to destroy the waste. Seal the lid and be done. Tuck it away out of sight. Research until dawn. What can we do to eradicate the waste? We must protect our human race. Align all the chemicals in place. Unwrite our grim and ending fate. We regret but nothing. Only the strongest survive. Playing god with a smile. While the world slowly dies. Doctor oppen is this the only way? Understand my confusion? This is atrocity. We must stop the cycle. Create, erase, replace, repeat.

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This is a post-apocalyptic opera that tells the story of Speslo and an entity that controls his dreams called the Dreamist. This is part 1.

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released May 1, 2023

Music & lyrics written by Stephen Muniz
Guitar, bass and mandolin by Stephen Muniz
Vocals on tracks 4, 5, 6, and 8 by Stephen Muniz

Drums by John Bivens
Vocals on track 2 by Sara Pacella
Backup vocals on track 2 by Dave Kovacek and Stephen Muniz
Vocals on track 3 by Su (@huongsu93) and Adam Weber
Vocals on track 7 by Andres (@andresarcv) and Stephen Muniz
Vocals on tracks 9 and 10 by Alessandro (@simply ale)
Additional vocals on track 9 by Dave Kovacek, Brian Peznowski and Stephen Muniz

Recorded and mixed by Dave Kovacek at Moderate Science, Royal Oak, MI.
<www.moderate-science.com>

Mastering by Jason Karman at Karman Records

Album art by @senrouk_arts

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