Telemetry of a Fallen Angel
PROLOGUE
With eyes inflamed, the knowledge rages weighted wings and brings me downward. Black fire spasms through the vastness preying down upon me until we are one. My beautiful wings, no burnt offerings to a naive past, stretch like liquid leather beating tightly, becoming the fuel of some other form of life. Once I soared near godhood, now I have fallen. Emotion is the box which contains our knowledge. I have learned too much and it has broken free.
A fixed point in space opened up. Two events separated by context of comprehension collided. There are connections between seemingly unrelated events in separate realities. Self awareness grows becoming increasingly more difficult to balance. I feel all that I know.
TIMELINE
1996: The Angel I is launched; destination Mars. Several regions, including the Cydonia, were rephotographed. Clearer pyramid images cause renewed speculation about the possibility of life on mars.
1997: 17 minutes and 23 seconds after touchdown, Angel II disappears. Transmission abruptly stops.
1998: Angel III locates and retrieves the missing mars probe from the planet surface. The failure was caused by faulty logic circuitry. No further evidence fro life is found. Political winds shift and the project is put on hold.
2003: The Angel IV, a prototype which uses an organic bioneural network as part of its DPU (distributed processor unit), is launched. On July 4, 2003 at 6:03 A.M. the probe disappears while orbiting the away side of mars. 7 hours later the probe reappeared and transmitted 14 individual radio telemetries. Upon completion the probe inexplicably exploded
Transmission begins- 6.03am
FEED 1: DESCENSION
TELEMETRY 2: MONSTERS
Hide the window watching
give hands that push the faces back
shiver in the alleys
and dying in the cold
little hands and little faces
what are you running from?
they're creeping on your satin sheets
and dancing in your nightmare
Watching at the window
the ledge which we provide
there's something up above me
there's something scratching softly
little monsters in the chimney
all black and stained with soot
come creeping to my bedroom
and lead me here to sleep
dancing in your darkness
dancing in your fear
forgetting all your hidden monsters
shedding all your tears
TELEMETRY 3: JACKAL-HEAD
Shifting inside patterns
The division multiplies
Echoing the mystery
Mimicking the slide
Sound searching slowly
Below the flaming web
Moving with his eyes like fire
With his jackal-head
With his jackal-head
Give it all to birth
Give it all to life
Take it all for granted
Until we turn and die
She answers with her staff
Silence from her breath
Silhouettes of temples falling
Visions of certain death
Hand lift it from the pocket
The prophet falls to red
The sacrifice is offered
To his jackal-head
To his jackal-head
Give it all to birth
Give it all to life
Take it all for granted
Until we turn and die
The constellations in the sky look down upon us
The stars, the moon, the Nile
The Nile brings life
Life is the cycle
We shall grow and receive the Nile
Again and again
As life shall come
Again and again
Thus says Ra ...
Thus says Horus ...
..and one God is this in all life.
Give it all to birth
Give it all to life
Take it all for granted
Until we turn and die
He who defiles the tomb of the pharaoh
shall surely find swift death
He who defiles the womb of the pharaoh's queen
shall surely find swift death
For the Cycle of Life is sacred
The Cycle of Life moves through all of us
Thus says Amun the Father
Thus says Ra the Sun and the Light
Thus says Aten the One
and Osiris the Dead
Thus says Isis the Fertile
and Horus the Living
Thus says Ptah the Creator
and Anubis the Master of Souls
FEED 4: PROMETHEUS
Your window closes
I am crucified
There shall be no more mockery
Of the gifts of the gods
No more comparisons
No more distortions
My heart is heavy as stone
I am Prometheus
All courses I am aware of from here
Oh you, frail of heart
I am not without pity
Take heed,
One final nail
Unnamed, undriven
This Nail Shall Represent Hope
TELEMETRY 5: CLERESTORY
Where the light burns a little brighter
Where the shadows dance on the walls
Where holy men hide their holy secrets
The sacredness of life is sold
Standing under gold and silver
I see the procession rise
Seated in his thrown of power
He proceeds to close his eyes
They try but the stone has broken
They try but the celing falls
They try but there's no momentum
They try but don't we all
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
TELEMETRY 6: WALKAWAY
In this fading image
We'll carve our own destiny
Sometimes life is a cruel friend
Sometimes that's what we need
I'll hold my eyes, when the
Light comes in
I'll sell my silence for a song
Now I won't die if you walk away
But I may not live
Now I watch as the rain comes down
To purify this pain
When mountains crumble and
Stars collide
I am what remains
There are lessons that sadness
Can only teach
There are things that we must learn
Now I won't die if you walk away
But I may not live
FEED 7: MISS FORTUNE RETURNS
TELEMETRY 8: MY WORLD
This room is screaming emptiness
Silence breaks the air
It leaves me lying on the floor
It leaves me dying there
Crawling through the trenches
You stand behind each door
Blood & sweat & muddy water
Up against the crashing shore
Take my hand, its my world
Understand we'll make it real
Play with me in my world
All of this is my world
Black fire rising higher
It breaks across the line
There's hell to pay
And we'll pay all day
Becuase the fires mine
Take my hand, its my world
Understand we'll make it real
Play with me in my world
All of this is my world
The course is moving closer
I can taste the water now
I feel the heavens shaking
As angels come dropping down
Take my hand, its my world
Understand we'll make it real
Play with me in my world
All of this is my world
FEED 9: FALLEN ANGEL
TELEMETRY 10: HANGED MAN
Call the card
Left to lay
Just a path
Against our future days
Lay direction
Read the face
Understand our crooked ways
Smile at this
Directed plain
Her eyes are cracking
In their wrinkled gaze
The light is dancing
On the tabletop
Restlessness that just won't stop
Now planted deeply
Suggesting fate
Eating sweet naiveté
Was it mirror
Or window glass?
The subtle residue
Beyond your grasp
Hang the man
By his legs let us hang the man
FEED 11: PURGATORY
I see you watching
Looking back at me
These hellish eyes
They are not mine
I see the blood and saliva
Dripping from your tongue
Did the angel fall?
When was this monster born?
Why do I sit here
Staring at this face?
These wings of mine
They have been burned away!
These wings of mine
They have been burned away!
TELEMETRY 12: MARILYN, MY BITTERNESS
I don't understand how you've done
These things to me
I cannot comprehend your lack
Of loyalty
For you I would have shaken down the
Heavens from the sky
But it seems my love was stronger than
This love of yours that died
Did you think it wouldn't hurt?
Did you think I wouldn't feel
When the world came falling down?
Or maybe you didn't think at all
And that's why I feel what I feel now
Did you think I wouldn't fall?
Did you think I wouldn't cry?
Did you think I wouldn't beg you to stay?
One of these days you'll realize
Just what you've thrown away
Now I lie here in this empty bed
And all I think about is you
And I wonder if you miss me now
And if your bed is empty too
But,
Did you think it wouldn't hurt?
Did you think I wouldn't feel
When the world came falling down?
Or maybe you didn't think at all
And that's why I feel what I feel now
Did you think I wouldn't fall?
Did you think I wouldn't cry?
Did you think I wouldn't beg you to stay?
One of these days you'll realize
Just who you've thrown away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot break away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot find my way
I'll absorb this agony
I'll carry all this pain
I'll wipe away this emptiness
I'll purify this stain
My wings will fold around me now
For once a one was two
And my memory is a monument
That will always stand for you
But,
Did you think it wouldn't hurt?
Did you think I wouldn't feel
When the world came falling down?
Or maybe you didn't think at all
And that's why I feel what I feel now
Did you think I wouldn't fall?
Did you think I wouldn't cry?
Did you think I wouldn't beg you to stay?
One of these days you'll realize
Just who you've thrown away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot break away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot find my way
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot break away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot find my way
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
I cannot break away
Marilyn, my bitterness
I've fallen to a stranger nightmare
Marilyn, oh Marilyn
Now must I go away?
FEED 13: DAEDELUS FLIGHT...ICARUS FALLS
TELEMETRY 14: SATELLITE
Rolling back towards the continent
Instrumental forces die
Save excitement for line behavior
Signal shifting to enter flight
My back is burning
In the heat of the atmosphere
My engine roars
And the throttle cries
I'm not pulling on my navigation
Bringing me down out of the sky
I've seen the face
It seems they've always been here
Ten thousand years tonight
Copy Houston, request location
Signal over...Satellite
The madness creeping
With system failure
The image scatters
And the com-link fades
The red planet below me hungry
The red planet below me waits
(bridge)
I've seen the face
It seems they've always been here
Ten thousand years tonight
Copy Houston, request location
Signal over...Satellite
*The Satellite Explodes*
Transmission ends- 7.00am
