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The Science of Programming the Soul

from Album​-​in​-​a​-​Day Project, Vol. 1 by Ours By Accident

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Death swallowed me whole while I was still alive
Now I'm tickling his tonsils till he vomits me up
Life plagued me with guilt when I thought I could thrive
I was whistling in the wind trying not to disrupt

The way I knew life should go.
The rules I tried hard to follow
Put my consciousness to rest
Now I think death likes to swallow the best

Why does it feel like
The more I love, the less I'm loved?
The less I'm loved, the more I want,
The more I love, the less I'm loved,
The less I'm loved, the more I want (to hate)

The way I thought life should be
Is not what I found easily
But death is so obvious,
We all know it comes for us.

We feed off each other but we're never full
Now I'm wrestling my conscience till he gives up the ghost
He's the source of guilt within my programmed soul
So regardless how I'm built he needs to find a new host.

Give me the X and Y so I can find the point
Of latching right and wrong onto a pivot joint.
When will the moral landscape let me kill for free
Or else punish the world for how it's killing me?
These two can't coexist, at least one must be;
If we don't criminalize, then we are not free.
I was taught my conscience is the highest law,
But if my heart loves killing, does that leave us at a draw?

The more I love, the less I'm loved?
The less I'm loved, the more I want,
The more I love, the less I'm loved,
The less I'm loved, the more I want to hate.

Who am I to decide what's good and what's evil,
But who are you to tell me that I'm wrong?
And who are those nine unelected officials
With no right to reinterpret the law?

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from Album​-​in​-​a​-​Day Project, Vol. 1, released August 19, 2016
Chase Tremaine - vocals, electric guitar, dulcimer, bass guitar, programming

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Ours By Accident Nashville, Tennessee

Ours By Accident, based out of Nashville, TN, was formed in 2014 by Chase Tremaine as an outlet to play the songs he’d been writing since 2010. However, instead of utilizing a formal band, Ours By Accident is a free-flowing collective of friends and musicians playing and singing alongside Chase. Chase also plays bass for Blind Breed. ... more

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