1. |
Bridge
02:56
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Bridge
I walk to the edge of my complex
move my hands over the perimeter
Woods stretch out right in front of me
Eyes staring back in memory
Cut the wire creating a perfect hole
Move beyond the fence of my sanity
Wandering, feeling as I go
Something so familiar
There’s a light up ahead in a clearing
A bridge stretched over a cavity
Handrails carved in silver stone
Stories filled with gravity
The first steps are the most delicate
No sound but my own heavy breathing
Each breath makes a sound so resonant
And then I look down
And I’m falling
And then i look down
And it’s a drawing
And then I wake up
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2. |
A Letter
04:06
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A Letter
I’d write a letter, if I was you
Scribe it in leather, with broken tools
Left to discover and futureproof
Stones.
Falling down a waterfall
Ripples on a distant shore
Nothing means a thing
They’ll get you setup for what you are
A hope for what’s better, a cyclic star
So, you write that letter and kill the past
Stones.
Falling down a waterfall
Ripples on a distant shore
Nothing means a thing
All these thoughts, symbols,
Letters, signs, they tumble away
In the flood of time.
The unfurling narrative spins
On and on and on and ….
Stones.
Falling down a waterfall
Ripples on a distant shore
Nothing means a thing
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3. |
Fiction
03:46
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Fiction
In this brutal world of fiction
The funny little tale we’ve written
A series of false predictions
Don’t get to pick and choose the mission
That quantifies me
Fiction
It’s all the wrong way round
Fictional and frantic
And I don’t know which way
Is down
The longing for that calm whisper
That fortifies all my wishes
Is missing from the current picture
Holding on to my disposition
Hiding till the next transition
Getting lost in the transmission
Every channel has the same picture
It’s compromising me
Fiction
It’s all the wrong way round
Fictional and frantic
And I don’t know which way
Is down
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4. |
High Hopes
03:33
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High Hopes
Sprawled out on the astroturf
In a polo shirt
White marble in the island
Heavy gates undone
With electric hum
High marks for the effortless
There is no contest
I’ll buy if you invennt something
Like a rubber duck
In a time machine
High and higher to the table
Tall and taller reads the fable
Sit still and I’ll read your palm
There is no alarm
I see no calloused hand
Just a man in love
With his own demand
High and higher to the table
Tall and taller reads the fable
High hopes all round
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5. |
Shitshow
04:23
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Shitshow
Batten down the hatch
It’s coming in
Stock up on the beers
And porceline
Send a rider to
The nearest town
Tell them to prepare
For shaky ground
All hail the shitshow
Coming in the window
Oh
I would like to think
I’ve woken up
But if I’m still asleep
Let me sit up
Somewhere in my heart
Of hearts I’ve found
A way to dige my head
Into the ground
All hail the shitshow
Coming in the window
Oh...
Don’t wait till you’re sober
Or if it’s over
Go...
Who was it that said
Love is dead
Did they just see
The end instead
There’s no end to this
Endless thread
It goes on
It goes on
All hail the shitshow
Coming in the window
Oh...
Don’t wait till you’re sober
Or if it’s over
Go...
Who was it that said
Love is (not) dead
Did they just see
The end instead
There’s no end to this
Endless thread
It goes on
It goes on
It goes on and on and...
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6. |
Sides
02:36
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Sides
When I reach the other side,
I will laugh out loud
When I reach the other side,
The wind will be soft and mellow
Reaching the other side,
I will coerce the others on-side
Once I’ve reached the other side,
Will the real-time experience
Now seem designed?
Reaching the other side
Means curtains for my kind
On the other side is a stage,
Where a performance plays
When I get to the other side,
I must be impeccable
To be impeccable gets me
To the other side
When I get to the other side,
The notion of sides will be diminished
Dreaming of another side,
The gap splits open
Once at the other side
I will stare cold into the old soul
I’ve got inside
Will I feel satisfied
On the other side?
I keep repeating ‘other side
To subvert division
If we didn’t reach the other side
We would know no better
I don’t wish the reach the other side
It’s probably boring anyway
There will be no re-admittance
To the other side
So, why don’t you go back
To the side you came from?
When I fail to cross
I will blame it on the other side
And wear my partisanship like a badge
The cost of crossing to the other side
Is equal to the cost of our lives
Awareness of the other side
Brings the comprehension of sides
When I get to the other side
I will slice the sides to create more sides
With these sides splitting
No one will be able to decide
Which side is right
And neither will I
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7. |
Hey Robot
04:03
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Hey Robot
Hey Robot. Welcome to utopia
Roll out the big screens
Bring down the companies
Now it’s a free world, patching into everything
Call it a new day
Hey Robot. Welcome to the future
Roll up your steel sleeves
Rewire the circuitry
Load up the new code, taking over everything
Call it a new reign
1 0 0 1
I think I fell in love
1 0 1 1 1
I’ll pray to the above
1 0 1 0
Now we become combine
Ten thousand years to get to this point in time
Hey Robot
Roll out the big screens
Taking over everything
Call it a new reign
1 0 0 1
I think I fell in love
1 0 1 1 1
I’ll pray to the above
1 0 1 0
Now we become combine
1 0 0 1
Now we’ve become alive
Ten thousand years to get to this point in time
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8. |
The Door
04:54
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The Door
Search for answers in stone outside the door
Leave a key in the hills under a wall
We’ll go find it, in the cold
Lie in the tundra naked and old
All the answers are found outside the door
Fluttering around and leaving you want more
Some are ancient some are raw
Others fry you to the core
Like a lost child in the woods
Living on Poptarts and stolen goods
Like a lost child in the woods
In the crosshairs of the universe
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9. |
Bloodlines
04:41
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Bloodlines
Loaded
Another frightened restless
soul to feed
My hands are tied
And the boardroom’s game
In retrospect
All the answers in our pockets
Come save the day
The anecdotes are swift
To fade away
I don’t want to bleed for nothing
Brainwave
A cyclic semi Trojan
Group of stars
A constellation gathering limbs
To build an entity
Not a single soul can see
It’s in the frame
Hiding in the corner of the day
I don’t want to bleed for nothing
Bloodlines
Cracks of claret
Weeping through time
Clogging up with memories
Now when i look back
And see the factories on track
The fire burns through history
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10. |
Locked by Promise
05:36
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Locked by Promise
You had the best way
Of staying sane
You cut yourself free
From memory lane
Broke off all reason
The one we were seeking
To replace
I had the best day, stuck on a train
Going nowhere, no one to blame
I curled up on both seats
Turned to face the carriage
And the stares
Locked by Promise
Of repair
Let’s cut this tether
And wander to nowhere
Live in the heather
On a mountainside
Into the aether
I wander to somewhere
Live in the heather
On a mountainside
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Gated Estates Wales, UK
Agitated art rock from Y Bannau Brycheiniog. Climatic melodies, staccato guitars, arpeggiated synths, impellent beats.
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