Immortalise (I Am The Program Suite)

The original version of Immortalise, titled Jewels, has been published in All of Me Vol. II, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Karol Bąk.

Listen to Immortalise by Richard Charles Stevens (I Am The Program Suite)

Listen to I Am The Program by Mega Drive

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The eyes are the prize
The eyes are the prize
The eyes are the prize
The eyes are the prize
(Immortalise)
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Take the reins
Be bold and brave
Resolve complaint
Show no restraint
In making plain
You aim
To claim the prize
Collaborate with days of old
Reanimate the great unknown
Seek the place wherein famed jewels reside
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The eyes are the prize
This is where the jewels reside
This is where the diamonds sparkle
Lighting up the gorgeous skies
This is where the broadest sunrise activates its flawless rays
This is where the smallest trace of faith can bathe in waterways
While floral sprays blossom top to bottom at incautious pace
(Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise)
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This is where the mysteries of ancients are translated
This is where illumination dresses up our faces
This is where a single look reveals us to be naked
Even when we stand there fully clothed
Immortalise
This is where we vocalize unspoken prose
Localising open roads to boundless destination zones
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Free from obligations owed
Free from obligations owed
Free from obligations owed
Seen
Renowned
Then taken Home
Seen
Renowned
Then taken Home
Seen
Renowned
Then taken Home
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This is where we gain control of every pain that takes its toll
Play creative role of reawakened soul to make it so
To make it so
To make it so
Reanimate the great unknown
To make it so
To make it so
Collaborate with days of old
(Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise)
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Only the creators know the weight of our foundation oak
Only we can translate ancient code
Only eyes confide of where precisely precious stones reside
Relish in the treasure troves
Embellishing our pleasure thrones
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Relish in the treasure troves
Embellishing our pleasure thrones
(Immortalise)
Embellishing our pleasure thrones
(Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise)
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Unbeknownst to those who only trust what they can see
Those nonplussed by hope as it denotes to them complacency
Those foreclosing masonry
With signs that state
No vacancy
Waiting for the late night train impatiently
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Too finnicky to picnic with infinity
For principally vacated seats are all they see
When always speaks its ornate piece
Rewards are great for all with faith that halls of fame reside inside us
Those whose souls light up their faces peeking through the ornate blinders
Many of us deemed outsiders
Which just means that we’re survivors
Look into our eyes and glean within a sea of swimming diamonds
(Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise)
Look into our eyes and glean within a sea of swimming diamonds
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Beggars fools and thieves may look to feast upon the blind
Yet they will never learn the deepest secrets in our eyes
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Cry a river
Try forgiveness
Be yourself
Through health or sickness
Find a cure for wellness
When it tells us to expel uniqueness
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Pick up from each hiccup
With the ears to hear sincere and prick up
Let them think you’re tickled pink by every pickled stink they kick up
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Drop a nickel in their tin cups
Or a shilling
If you’re willing
Should you be short on tourniquets
There’s always penicillin
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No need to play the villain of the piece
Place imposition at their feet
Take ammunition to extremes
On course collision to retreat
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On course collision to retreat
Take ammunition to extremes
Place imposition at their feet
To play the villain of the piece
(Immortalise)
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Let them see the prize
The gorgeous skies
Where all the jewels reside
Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise
(Immortalise)
Set thoughts aside
Divorced from sight
Get cool and fly
Immortalise
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Home is where the heart can heal in luminescent rays
(Immortalise)
Home is where we artists spend our ever present days
(Immortalise)
Home is where the diamonds shine the brightest in night skies
(Immortalise)
Home is at the heart of widest eyes
(Immortalise)
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Nothing cloak and dagger
Just a stunning open hangar
To the highest tides our minds can ride astride
(Immortalise)
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Take the reins
Be bold and brave
Resolve complaint
Show no restraint
In making plain
You aim
To claim the prize
(Immortalise)
Collaborate with days of old
Reanimate the great unknown
Seek the place wherein famed jewels reside
(Immortalise)
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Seek the place wherein famed jewels reside
(Immortalise)
Weep with grace
Embrace the jaws of life
(Immortalise)
Eyes without a face
Can make a late date reacquainted
Let them shine and thine night skies be painted
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Seek the place wherein famed jewels reside
Weep with grace
Embrace the jaws of life
Eyes without a face
Can make a late date reacquainted
Let them shine and thine night skies be painted
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