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On Dying
00:30
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Human Remains
02:06
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The high priest doesn't know your name
Human remains are reproduced the same
We bend our limbs to serve the bureaucracy
Our minds thread through the code of the machine
And terrorize my dreams
Data slaves, we do not want to be free
We search through time and space for connectivity
Carbonise, curate trans-inhumanity
And lose all sense of that which connects you and me
The Singularity
We don't distinguish work from play
We rate performance on info exchange
High wire stunts garner acclaim, form influence
Separate parts to transcend sentience
Monster intelligence
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3. |
Girl Gone Missing
02:18
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She was a lonely high school girl, gone missing
She led a secret life
You know that story needs telling - we're salivating!
She's no commodity, no
She's an individual
So sad to end up as a photo on a tv channel
How did that girl go missing now
How did that girl go missing?
How did that girl go missing now
You know the story needs telling
To keep selling
It was a sunny day, the birds were singing
Such casual cruelty in this bland obituary writing
Her mama waited up for hours for her to get home
Her daddy pacing the floor pounding the cops on the telephone
Vultures at the door with cameras and microphones
But someone's not coming home
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This is the decline of Middle Europe
The matinee has become a freak show
And I don't wanna have to change
But that's a chance we have to take
There's so little that we know
And there's so much at stake
All I want to know
Is will you come or go?
Time goes fast but moves so slow
Take my hand
Tomorrow - another land!
I don't wanna stay here, I just want to go
I don't wanna stay here I just want to go with you
I wanna go with you
This is the decline of Middle Europe
The Empire has one last exile to force
There's a fire in your eyes
From the furnace below
I think of all I say
I think of all I know
But all I really want to know
Is will you go?!
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5. |
Trauma Team
03:20
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Jesus knows that sometimes marks don't show
But night school taught me everything I know
Like code red triage decisions can gain
Precious moments for a soul to save
Don't talk to me of cleanliness and order before God
There's blood all on my hands and frantic movements in the crush
My Faith's utility and I work down on my knees
Just keep your peace
You don't want to have to meet the trauma team
Lean on me
Is the only sentiment I care to preach
Breathe in deep
And be thankful that your head and heart don't bleed
As the day breaks I pray to fall asleep
Stop those death blue sirens calling me
Good folk I was taught are heaven sent
But I have slouched way beyond Bethlehem my friends
My family atrophied and are gone
The void expands and my work is never done
So lean on me
Sometimes I dream of diving down into the fitful deeps
To resurface the bodies that the earth had sought to keep
Return them to their parents so to lay them down to sleep
But I sink into disorienting blackness and can't breathe
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6. |
Superforeclosure
00:56
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Big futures we dreamt
Fresh with new wet paint
Generations passed through this home
Sex like newborn rain
Fleeting moments saved
Rendered in our children's fragile frames
You can tell me nothing lasts forever
I'd tell you our memories are long
I once thought this system was a just one
This fucked up system went and proved me wrong
Superforeclosure
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7. |
Jennifer Unit
02:15
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In the bleak mid winter rain
I hear her voice inside my head
Driving me insane
Jenni are you near?
I feel your omnipresent frequencies like needles in the air
Measuring my fear
But Jenni you can't understand despair
In the cavernous store room
I haul freight 10 hours a day
Fixing orders to the tune
Of Jenni in my ear
Her dulcet monotone directs me to dismay at my career
But I won't shed a tear
Jenni is a voice that doesn't care
When her lights go out
I know she sleeps without a doubt
And I know that tomorrow brings more of the same old noise
This town's a rusted satellite
Automated out of life
I don't know a soul who feels they've got much of a choice
We're on our own
Jennifer Units on
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8. |
Unreasonable Man
03:21
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Unreasonable man said
If a foe's drowning to death
Put a hose in his mouth
Send him on down to the depths
Don't get discouraged
It's nature's way
I am birthing angels
I built a mountain
And beckoned the heavens came
Lay waste to fortune!
Unreasonable man made
A landscape from hell
He looked out his window
Said 'progress is beautiful'
In teeming rows where oranges once fell
There is carbon wasting
I am unreasonable man, I am
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9. |
Grey Goo
02:40
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Grey goo isn't true
It's a febrile science fiction
Invisible, divisible
Self-replicate to annihilation
We'll cry on Day 29
Why can't we live forever?
We'll find a way to survive
We're gonna live forever!
Day of doom coming soon
One bad actor can lead us to the surfeit
Eat the earth, graphene's curse
Plenty of room, the bottom's just beneath the surface
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10. |
Kill Chain
03:08
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Eddie's in the kill chain
He is gonna die tonight
He smokes a cigarette in his last twilight
Eddie is the enemy
Living on borrowed time
Took a snitch jacket, now pays the price
Eddie wants to lie down
With a girl he knew one hot July
Something about her hair
A bedhead beauty with no cares
Died on her last drunken beach joyride
Eddie thinks they might just reunite
Eddie can't stop pacing
Adrenaline keeps him high
Can't keep a single thought straight in his mind
Rubs his bullet scar
Recalls how he fought for his life
But Eddie can't remember what that felt like
Eddie wants to lie down
With a girl he knew one hot July
Something about her hair
That bedhead beauty's in the air
Eddie senses movement in the light
Hopes the gunman doesn't see him cry
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BarCreeps London, UK
'At times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind'.
Thomas F. Hornbein
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