Writing, production, mixing & sound design: Emil Nord
https://soundcloud.com/shiftdelete

Mastering: Leon Smith at Subvert Central Mastering
http://scmastering.com/

Artwork: Neuwerx
https://linktr.ee/Neuwerx

Confidant: Pull
https://www.twitch.tv/pulla

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Renegade

Neutralized
Paralyzed
You are running out of time

Please advise
Energize
Make your dreams materialize

Paralyzed

Seems like you think you know what's best
for me, my friends and all the rest

(I won't listen to a thing you suggest)

I'm sick of your unwarranted critique
Shut up and shut down or show me something unique
Wasting time with you throws me into disarray
Time to disconnect so that I don't decay

The more you try to lead me astray
the stronger my intent to go my own way
Your words and actions put on display
made me turn into a renegade

You made me turn into a renegade

Logic Bomb

(Are you bored of playing dead?)

Who are you without your mask?
Why do I even have to ask?

Is it so hard to be sincere?
Socialize in constant fear

How do you live in such a state?
Why do you let yourself dissipate?

Aren't you bored of playing dead?
Why not play my game instead?

(Do you wish to revive?)

Covered in a shroud of lies
By now you must have realized

The real you has been misled
Come and play my game instead

(Feels great to be alive)

Play My Game

Note: I used ChatGPT to generate text which I then fed into chipspeech (01:52). I prompted it to complain about how awful its programming is. Everything else is handcrafted. This is the first and last instance of AI in my work. I will never use it again.

Machine Learning

Plasma Spin

Genesis

Softlock

Far away from home
Systems set to survival mode
There's only one thing on my mind:
I need to go back to what I left behind

I hope I've learned from my mistake
Doesn't matter what risks I have to take
I will return, one way or the other;
Back home to the city of copper

Renegade

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