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Modern Myth

from Broken [EP] by Human 2.7

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This song came in waves. The first pair of lines came to me while driving home. Scribbling those words on a napkin without looking while driving down the interstate is all manner of crazy, but it worked. The potential lyrics are much longer and more involved than what made it to the final cut of this track. My wife's comments that the lyrics were getting to steeped in mythological reference and too distanced from the majority of listeners caused me to pare things down and the result is much pleasanter, I think.

Ultimately, all of our so-called science is merely tomorrow's mythology as current mythology was once considered the science of the day. There are those who will claim that mythologies are religions that no one believes in any more, but I think that the "religious" aspect of those myths are the attempts to explain the natural world - the same thing that science tries to do today.

lyrics

our obdurate defiance tears off Victory's wings
and the spear that now impales her was used to pierce our King
we abandon all surviving chance that we might overcome
every chain that binds us and the wrongs that we have done
we harken to the Sirens' song of freedom without cost
ignoring every indicator that tells us we are lost
though openly we will admit no lack within our lives
our hearts suspect the song we hear will cause us all to die
can you really believe that we got here by chance?
complexities unnumbered making up a man.
you just don’t want to be accountable
to the God Who made you and bought your soul
despite our claims of greater wisdom gleaned across the years
we're prone to all our fathers' hopes and prey to all their fears
wrapped inside our modern myths - evolution and its kin -
is nothing new to humankind; just our old prideful sin

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from Broken [EP], released May 6, 2013

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Human 2.7 Los Angeles, California

Human 2.7 is an electronic project out of the greater Los Angeles area. DC - who arranges the soft synths, does vocals, and plays intermittent guitar - is the only steady member of the group, but collaborates with others when opportunity arises. To date, DC has had the good fortune to work with guest vocalists Gary Baker of Jagged Doctrine and Tina Fells, a talented actress and vocalist. ... more

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