1. |
Cut Off The Head
04:01
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Walk with me
We’ll go slow
The powerlines
are hissing in the snow
Standing in the cutting
where dead track lines run grey
We cross to where
the river overflowed
Something broke
in the starlit place
The veins that brought it life
leaking poison
We retrace those sinking steps
and stand with our mouths open
Something’s pouring in
A something slides away
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Walk with me
in cities built on blood
Stone lions and stone dragons
want to pound us down to mud
Heat seek the source
Sub-surface rivers pool
Where clay and fat and poison rags
Standing born to rule
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Cut off the head
Walk with me
We’ll go slow
The powerlines
are hissing in the snow
Arc light flash
Lights our way
Across from where
the river overflowed
Something broke
in this starlit place
The infrastructure of the past
just rots and melts away
The veins that brought it life
leaking poison in it’s place
Something’s pouring in
A something slides away
Walk with me
Walk with me
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2. |
Compulsory Games
03:58
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That purple sky is nothing
beside the storm inside
We're getting changed
against our will
We're choking on our swallowed pride
The mud the blood the kneecaps
They'll give out in the end
but now we will get
toughened up
in icy scrums with fickle friends
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
Monkey mind came in endless sets
and set your pants on fire
Swimming round the hot jets
Dressed as angels
plucking lyres
Girls and boys excuses nooses
So touching to play dumb
The tears the rage the recriminations
The sorrys and the revelations
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
The fools that waste your time
and changed your mind
enforce the grinding grey of life
Cut the harness with the knife
Cut the harness with the knife
Whatever happened to the sky
You used to dream you used to fly
Slit the fear and slit the strife
Cut the harness with the knife
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
Compulsory games
You have to play
Compulsory games
There's no getting away
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3. |
Dead News
03:19
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Dead news
Talking about dead news
I see the dead news baby
Lying on the floor for you
I’m closing the door to you
Don’t want to hear the dead news
Dead news
Dead news baby
Creeping round the floor with you
It isn’t what you want to do
But it’s what you’re bloody going to do
Dead news
Sold to the job
Walking in your dead man’s shoes
Ticking all the time again
Walking round your last meal
in your dead man’s shoes
Now it’s all over, yeah
It’s all over now
Yeah it’s all over, yeah
It’s all over now
Dead news
Talking bout the dead news
On the floor
Dead news... Baby
Dead news, do you want more
Short fuse
Subject to the focus groups
Everybody’s nudging you
In suits
and out of their minds
Look around it’s
all over now
Guess you better find a job
It’s all over now
It’s all over now
What you gonna do with your skills?
You haven’t got skills
Apart from lying
Lying and walking in dead shoes
Dead news
Talking ‘bout the dead news
See the dead news baby
Lying on the floor for you
I’m closing the door to you
Don’t want to read the dead news
Dead news
Dead news baby
Creeping round the floor with you
It isn’t what you want to do
But it’s what you’re bloody going to do
Dead news
Dead news baby
Creeping round the floor with you
It isn’t what you want to do
But it’s what you’re bloody going to do
Dead news
Dead news
Talking ‘bout the dead news
On the floor
Dead news... Baby
Dead news, do you want more
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4. |
Service Economy
03:02
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Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
You don’t own me just because
I served you what you wanted
You don’t own me just because
you’re rich and you can flaunt it
I may be faceless to you
as you lack imagination
but my creativity
is beyond your articulation
Give you service with a smile
I will go the extra mile
But when you treat me like your slave
I will teach you to behave
When you treat me like your slave
I will teach you to behave
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
I may be faceless to you
as you lack imagination
but my creativity
is beyond your articulation
Give you service with a smile
But when you treat me like your slave
I will teach you to behave
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Oh well you know you’re outnumbered
And don’t you know you’re outgunned?
Don’t you know you’re outnumbered?
Don’t you know you’re outgunned?
I give you service with a smile
I will go the extra mile
But when you treat me like your slave
I will teach you to behave
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
Service economy
I’m just making money
Not your accessory
I rule like Ptolemy
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5. |
Killing Girl
03:20
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Watch her
Go slow
She’s the killing girl
with the killingest flow
Lights off
You know
She’s the killing girl
with the killingest flow
Eyes are mirrors
Strange company
Are you gonna hit me
Are you gonna leave
Heard a rumour
Is it true?
I’m not the first and there have been a few
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She likes what she does
and it’s so sweet to see
I’ll incorporate her company
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
Some kind of logic
I can’t see
But when I look at her I want to believe
Softly pacing
Coiled spring
I can’t look away
I can’t leave the ring
Will you tell me
Is it true?
I’m not the first and there have been a few
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She likes what she does
and it’s so sweet to see
I’ll incorporate her company
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
It’s some kind of logic
That I can’t see
But when I look at her I want to believe
And I’ve dreamed of the day when you finally take me down
I’m not making excuses I’m running myself out of town
Give her a licence
Make it official
She deserves all her mean mean feats
Give her a licence
Make it official
She deserves all her mean mean feats
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She likes what she does
and it’s so sweet to see
I’ll incorporate her company
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
She’s the killing girl with the killingest flow
Some kind of logic
I can’t see
But when I look at her I want to believe
Want to believe
I want I want to believe
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6. |
Rainhead
04:39
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7. |
Nightclub Mishap
03:44
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I’m going to the dance
And I’m going to take a chance
Because I like to have a
A big fun
You can listen for my shoes
but I won’t give any clues
I’m a sneaky tiger on the run
While you watch the horizon
Feel the noise inside you
Levitation ride into the sun
I’ve been a digging in the dark
While you whistle in the park
Should have known it was you
holding the
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
UV cocktail faces beaming
Silent fire exits screaming
Thicky vapour smells so sweet
No one seems to mind the heat
We’re sweating and shaking as one
Johnny gets an eyeful
and Patricia has a rifle
She’s never gonna make it as a nun
The fog is thickening and the smell turns sickening
There is something floating in my rum
We’re stomping and a thrashing
And we all look very dashing
Should have seen
there was a fall to come
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
UV cocktail faces beaming
Silent fire exits screaming
Boulder men roll in like walls
Saw you kissing in the stalls
Lost under fluorescent lights
Out my way tonight’s the night
I’m going to the dance
And I’m going to take a chance
Because I like to have a
A big fun
You can listen for my shoes
but I won’t give any clues
I’m a sneaky tiger on the run
While you watch the horizon
Feel the noise inside you
Levitation ride into the sun
I’ve been a digging in the dark
While you whistle in the park
Should have known it was you
holding the
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
UV cocktail faces beaming
Silent fire exits screaming
Boulder men roll in like walls
Saw you kissing in the stalls
Lost under fluorescent lights
Out my way tonight’s the night
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
UV cocktail faces beaming
Silent fire exits screaming
Boulder men roll in like walls
Saw you kissing in the stalls
Lost under fluorescent lights
Out my way tonight’s the night!
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
Nightclub mishap
Fallen in a glitter trap
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8. |
Confession
03:36
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Never let me in ‘cause there is nothing to say
Never let me out I’m in the dark anyway
Outside inside it’s all the same
Unless I dream the answer this is where I’ll stay
It’s time confession
It’s time confession
This crime confession
It’s time confession
Ever seen that look on a kid’s face when he lies
or the moment he falls over but before he cries
Outside inside do I confide
Am I living in a box or am I dead inside?
It’s time confession
It’s time confession
This crime confession
It’s time confession
I’m looking at your face and I am counting the lines
and when you look at me you look between my eyes
Through this mirror there’s no divide
Together we’re the whole system personified
This time confession
It’s lies confession
This crime confession
It’s lies confession
This time confession
It’s lies confession
This crime confession
It’s lies confession
Outside inside it’s all the same
Unless I dream the answer this is where I’ll stay
It’s time confession
It’s time confession
This crime confession
It’s time confession
It’s time confession
It’s time confession
This crime confession
It’s time confession
Confession
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9. |
Unbecoming
03:27
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Broke down to the back of beyond
Dirt bath under a blue sky
Cracked glass on the face of the dial
Rust waits
You never said goodbye
See strangers fall, those who dare
Lost in the moonlight there
We’re strangers all, past despair
Lost in the moonlight there
Unknown
Unbecoming
You were only simulating
Out of bounds
Lost and found
Nature’s path is devastating
Torn up shreds of tyre on the road
Your feet wander uprooted
Untread all the lies that you told
Lost all memory of what you did
Unknown
Unbecoming
You were only simulating
Out of bounds
Lost and found
Nature’s path is devastating
Time rolls back and forth with the road
Off track
Can’t shake your shadow
Salt ghosts
Rivers that you left behind
Lie low
Never returning
Strangers all, past despair
Lost in the moonlight there
Strangers all, past despair
Lost in the moonlight there
Unknown
Unbecoming
You were only simulating
Out of bounds
Lost and found
Nature’s path is devastating
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10. |
Always On
04:09
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Click click click
Fingers in your mouth
Numbers going South
Is what it’s all about
451 gonna lick the floor
Gotta be adored
S’what you do it for
Click click click
Kindle and the fire
Now your card expires
Throw it on the pyre
451 snarling on the floor
Gotta be adored
Gotta be adored
It’s always on
That thing is always on
Everything seen through a mirror
Can’t touch reality
Why would you want to be
flesh it decays so easily
Pixel vitality is immortality
Constant stream
you’ve got eyes to feed
Give ‘em what they need
‘till your fingers bleed
Fickle glory’s hard to quit
Now you’ve made a life of it
Going too fast to get off
Can’t tell them you’ve had enough
It’s always on
That thing is always on
Always hungry
Always watching
When you awake from this
you’re gonna miss the life
that you have lost
Now something’s burning
Always hungry
Always watching
When they collate all this
they’ll make a second you from chicken boxes
and dog meat
Click click click
Numbers in your mouth
Fingers going South
S’what it’s all about
451 gonna lick the floor
Gotta be adored
S’what you do it for
Everything seen through a mirror
Can’t touch reality
Why would you want to be
Fickle glory’s hard to quit
Now you’ve made a life of it
Going too fast to get off
Can’t tell them you’ve had enough
It’s always on
That thing is always on
Death to the future
Death to the past
Things worth having aren’t meant to last
Death the future
Death to the past
Always hungry
Always watching
When you awake from this
you’re gonna miss the life
that you have lost
Now something’s burning
Always hungry
Always watching
When they collate all this
they’ll make a second you from chicken boxes
and dog meat
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11. |
Lullaby
04:21
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It’s growing dark already
The moon is blood
The door is locked
against the night
Sleeping in the attic
The windows
and the shutters
and the bars shut tight
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
I want a lullaby
I want a lullaby
Promise broken promises
You live forever in the light
You know it’s for your safety
You’ve spent our whole life running from the night
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
I want a lullaby
I want a lullaby from you
I want a lullaby
I want a lullaby from you
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
It’s too late to
run away from yourself
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12. |
Battery Operated Orchestra Newhaven, UK
Chris + Brigitte make inter-dimensional indie synthpop.
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