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Evil Magician

by Shepherds Crook

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1.
Primitive? what you mean? You mean, when we used to feel? Emotional, feeling free, primitive, emotional Want to be free Knock on wood Won't believe their lies Knock on wood Cover your ears and eyes Knock on wood When things ain't what they should be Knock on wood Paranoid? what you mean? You mean, when you suddenly see patterns in nature- you're not supposed to see? Realize we're in prison, not free Need to be free
2.
The Shed 11:29
Look in the mirror to see the person inside Realize you're the only one who knows it's all hurt in the eyes Hard to possess a smile When all you want is to die Might be wrong, might be right When in doubt, know your way out At the crossroad, follow the snake Shed your skin, get rid of the old Old and gray, but here to stay Question existence, stay awake How deep are you willing to go? Drop the hammer, kill your ego How deep are you willing to go? Drop the hammer, now!
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Let's go, let me take you below to the lowest low, Let's go where the demons go Instinct driven Cold blooded skeptic, paranoid Gotta let go, you know we're all reptillian (no) let go or embrace your reptillian brain Evolve, break patterns Control your lizzard mind No compassion to life, only to survive What's normal to the spider- chaos to the fly
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Breathe, you need to breathe Take what i give you, you need it to breathe Loosen up, you need to loosen up You will do what i tell you, You will need me to be But you don't know where you're going You're going far, you're already way past the stars It's all become greed It's all become a need You need me to breathe You take what i give you, You will need me to be End of the road, where to go Go to where the dreams are real But all your dreams are dead View of strange patterns, sacred light Keeper of secrets, restore sight No self, truth cease to be We're all blinded, can't find eyes to see Perception percieved through eyes, see Vision modified, they reroute the importance of your life Create battle of mind Stand in line, you'll be fine
5.
As i watch from the darkest corner I'll be walking among the living Formless on another vibration In the shadows lurking to harvest souls High roller, shot caller Drunk and mean, with a cold shoulder Lone rider on a pale horse Lo behold, death has come As i watch from the darkest corner He be walking among the living Serpent headed but appear to man as men among men When you see the eyes of fire no need to run
6.
Complicated, a different kind Got no fucking feelings, just a crazy mind She's nothing but trouble, hartache and sorrow The kind to keep you on your fucking toes, But what she really wants, no one knows I'm all lost in confusion, Hypnotized, all taken by surprise It must be an illusion, Fuck, i'm falling for those spiral eyes Complicated, a different kind She got no fucking feelings, just a crazy mind She comes off as cute and cuddly, Could be fun, but it's fucking ugly You better run, leave her alone I need a drink, I need to smoke, I need to think, there is no hope Rather die on my feet, then live on knees Be careful, don't get your life stolen Tools of misfortune bang on the wardrum And the wind of vengance keeps blowing Fight harder, when you fuck fight harder (I don't give a fuck about anything) Hard as fuck, you see, I don't give a fuck about any of you Just to let you know...
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Dark skies, clouded mind Live in the shadow of time Fallen far from light Soul vanished into the night Circle in flight Join the murder As fog lies dim in the hollows They muster in high in the bare boned trees Loudly strike their claim to rule the feast Come join the murder From the sky they scavange In the trees they wait Come join the murder Leaves black with rage Shaking violently with hate Today is the day they all gather In the old oak From high above, striking below Loud cries from this murder Sound of no hope End of the rope Have you ever laid eyes on a murder of crows From the sky they scavenge In the trees they wait The summit is now concluded They took flight, now they're gone In a dance of death is done Leaving silence in their wake

about

"As I was listening, the thought occurred to me: this is what happens when Electric Wizard had been dragged to hell and brought back as a demon with a dirge in one hand and a death wish in the other. The more I hear it, the more I love it."

- Billy Goate of Doomed & Stoned

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"There was an evil magician. He lived deep in the mountains and the forests, and he had thousands of sheep. But the problem was that the sheep were afraid of the magician because every day the sheep were seeing that one of them was being killed for his breakfast, another was being killed for his lunch. So they ran away from the magician's ranch and it was a difficult job to find them in the vast forest. Being a magician, he used magic.

He hypnotized all the sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it.

He then told different sheep...to some, "You are a man, you need not be afraid. It is only the sheep who are going to be killed and eaten, not you. You are a man just like I am." Some other sheep were told, "You are a lion – only sheep are afraid. They escape, they are cowards. You are a lion; you would prefer to die than to run away. You don't belong to these sheep. So when they are killed it is not your problem. They are meant to be killed, but you are the most loved of my friends in this forest." In this way, he told every sheep different stories, and from the second day, the sheep stopped running away from the house.

They still saw other sheep being killed, butchered, but it was not their concern. Somebody was a lion, somebody was a tiger, somebody was a man, somebody was a magician and so forth. Nobody was a sheep except the one who was being killed. This way, without keeping servants, he managed thousands of sheep. They would go into the forest for their food, for their water, and they would come back home, believing always one thing: "It is some sheep who is going to be killed, not you. You don't belong to the sheep. You are a lion – respected, honored, a friend of the great magician." The magician's problems were solved and the sheep never ran away again."

- George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (quoted in P. D. Ouspensky's book In Search of the Miraculous)

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released December 14, 2018

Vocals and lyrics by Nestor

Drums on #1 #3 #5 #6 by Audun Kvam

Drums and drum recording/drum mix on #2 #4 #7 by Pål Leer @ Bunker 18

Guitars, Bass, Riffs, Arrangements, Tracking, Mixing & Mastering by Ole Hell @ Dockland Studio for Blue Light Nebula Productions

Logo and cover by Ole Hell

Released by Luftwaffel Records

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