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Over the last hill

from To the awoken (2009) by Utopia Now

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False beliefs can have very real, deplorable consequences. The soldier who more willingly risks his/her life and his/her earthly bliss in a false sense of safety and the hope of greater rewards in the hereafter, the premillennialist who devalues our earthly paradise in the hope of an imaginary paradise to come - the examples are endless. For all we know, this is the only life and paradise we'll ever get. Let's make the most of it.

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Bloody pandemonium
was all he saw and all he remembered,
and it was all that lay ahead.
Yet the impetus
overshadowed the urge to surrender,
as he felt the silver around his neck.
Neither the odds that were stacked up against his life,
nor the haunting thought of his daughter and his wife
could render this man afraid to die.

Chorus:
Somewhere over the last hill they smell salvation,
eons in warm, golden light.
Some blue-eyed soldier marches into conflagration,
right down into empty night.

Right along the lines of a
sanguinary old piece of fiction,
they subdue and multiply.
Belly up runs the blood
through the veins to the ocean
under a green and yellow sky.
Neither the tidal waves and the fiercely shaking ground,
nor the hurricanes and glaciers melting down
could ever test their logic unsound.

Chorus:
Somewhere over the last hill a place like Eden
awaits them, or so they surmise.
The charred fields smolder, Gaia's body, scarred and bleeding.
Down goes the real Paradise.

Bridge:
Absorbed in a dream with closed eyes,
as the real world flies by.
So de-prioritized, mundane affairs
shine in a whole new light.

Chrous:
On the far side of our last worldly horizon
they see a new endless day.
They're so fortunate they won't wake to realize that
they have thrown their lives away.

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from To the awoken (2009), released January 31, 2009
Music and lyrics written, recorded, and performed by Stephan Serowy.

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Utopia Now Berlin, Germany

Utopia Now started out in 2006 but had been known under the name Indigo since 2002, sharing the stage with bands such as Lagwagon, Anti Flag, A Wilhelm Scream, No Trigger, Good Clean Fun, Venerea and many more. However, the band was short-lived and split in 2007. Today the band lives on in the form of an online solo project by the band’s founder, singer, and songwriter, Stephan Serowy. ... more

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