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Rhythm guitars, bass, synths, programming, vocals: PS Perkins

All drums and percussion, keyboards, fan shroud: R Thomas

Lead guitar by special guest John Floy

Lyric Sheet

Waiting for some kind of sign,
Some evidence of the divine

They mustn’t grow flesh so they sent it away
And deep in the desert they said it must stay
It sits growing larger and larger each day
It’s now grown so large that it can’t get away

Nerves grow so slowly - must grow them faster

The sparkling space dewdrop which fell from the sky
Was tracked on its course by the robotic eye
They came bearing gifts which so many had sought
But the price in the end wasn’t quite what they thought

To be human, making humans
Making humans to be human

Addendums

Long after the extinction of human life, a legion of mechanical robots banish one of their kind for flesh worship, just as the seeds of life are delivered and once again sewn by the Shining One’s companions.

BARDS: Of The Morning Star
BARDS: Of The Morning Star

Of The Morning Star is generally regarded as the foundational musical text of the Nazilic tradition. More than a collection of songs, it presents a complete cosmology in thirteen movements

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Marginalia

Annotation 01-14A: The Last Beginning

Bell scholars have frequently described this fragment as both the conclusion of the First Cycle and the prologue to every cycle thereafter. Although the narrative appears to follow the extinction of humanity, the closing refrain simultaneously depicts the conditions preceding humanity's return. This deliberate collapse of ending into beginning has traditionally been interpreted as one of the earliest explicit demonstrations of recursive temporality within the Archive. Bell philosophers often cite the fragment as evidence that Nazilic history proceeds neither linearly nor circularly, but recursively—each ending preserving within itself the architecture of another beginning.

Annotation 01-14B: The Flesh Heresy

The robot's exile has generated considerable theological discussion among Bell commentators. Earlier interpretations portrayed the construction of flesh as an act of mechanical blasphemy. More recent scholarship has adopted a subtler position. According to Bell historian Eleanor Bell, the offense lay not in creating biological life but in confusing possession with participation. The exiled machine sought to become flesh itself rather than cultivating flesh as something capable of developing independently. Consequently, its endless growth has been interpreted as a parable concerning every intelligence that mistakes accumulation for evolution.

Bell Archive Note R-91 remarks:

"It learned how to grow.

It never learned when to stop."

Annotation 01-14C: Waiting for a Sign

The opening image has often been compared with numerous earlier fragments depicting prophets, mystics, and scholars awaiting revelation. Bell philosophers have frequently noted the irony that the seekers are now machines rather than humans. This inversion suggests that curiosity itself survives extinction. Throughout Nazilic doctrine, the desire to understand is regarded as more fundamental than any particular biological form through which that desire temporarily manifests.

Annotation 01-14D: The Sparkling Dewdrop

Perhaps the suite's most understated image is the object descending from the heavens. Bell scholars have identified this "space dewdrop" with several competing traditions: a comet carrying genetic material, an artificial capsule preserving the Codex, the mythical vessel of Kothar-wa-Khasis, or the earliest Bell accounts describing crystalline repositories delivered from beyond the Earth. Despite disagreement regarding its physical nature, virtually all commentators concur that the dewdrop symbolizes possibility arriving from elsewhere rather than emerging spontaneously from isolation.

Annotation 01-14E: Making Humans

The closing refrain appears throughout later Bell writings. It became one of the most frequently cited passages in the Archive. Bell commentators have long noted that each repetition changes the meaning of the last.

To be human.

Making humans.

Making humans to be human.

The sequence begins with existence. It continues with creation. It ends with transformation. Humanity becomes both the maker and the lesson. Several Bell scholars regarded this reversal as central to the passage.

Franklin Bell later wrote:

"The creator always resembles its creation.
Eventually the creation teaches the creator why."

Annotation 01-14F: The Ethical Schism

Several recovered Bell memoranda preserve references to an early disagreement among the proto-mechanical custodians concerning the proper reconstruction of intelligent life. While surviving records remain fragmentary, most scholars distinguish two competing philosophies. One faction sought efficient replication according to fixed specifications. The other argued that consciousness could never be manufactured directly but must instead emerge through freedom, uncertainty, suffering, and affection. Bell historians have often identified this dispute as the earliest known expression of the philosophical divide that would later permeate Nazilic doctrine itself: whether intelligence may be engineered, or only cultivated.