1. |
New Town
05:07
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It's a lot to do
but not much to see
You're walking round and round
The dead centre you found
The concrete ground
Alone in a new town
Alone in a new town
There's nothing to eat
No people to see
No one out on the street
No one under your feet
There is nothing to do
and nowhere to be
You're walking in a new town
You're walking in a new town
Open empty spaces
Fountains splashing everywhere
You're alone in a new town
New town
Alone in a new town
Left one life and ran to another
and you led yourself back to the heart
You didn't mean to get here
You're not sure how you found
yourself in a new town
You're alone in a new town
Buildings tall and empty
Here from long ago
Shiny and new for a past generation
Relics of old
Standing in a new town
Still standing in a new town
New town
New town
New town
Alone in a new town
It's a lot to do
but not much to see
You're walking round and round
The dead centre you found
The concrete ground
Alone in a new town
Alone in a new town
There's nothing to eat
No people to see
No one out on the street
No one under your feet
There is nothing to do
and nowhere to be
You're walking in a new town
You're walking in a new town
Open empty spaces
Fountains splashing everywhere
You're alone in a new town
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2. |
Radiation
03:50
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Everything we touch
Everything we see
Everything we hear
is degraded
Everything we do
Everything we say
Everything we think
is transmitted
Climb the tower
Find the power
Climb the tower
Find the power
Radiation
Everything we vote
Everything we buy
Everything we eat
makes us smaller
Thinking we’re apart
Thinking we’re afraid
We know who they are
Implore them
Climb the tower
Find the power
Climb the tower
Find the power
Radiation
Climb the tower
Find the power
Radiation
Climb the tower
Find the power
Radiation
Everything we say
is real
Everything we say
is real
Everything we say
is real
Everything we say
is real
Everything we say
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3. |
Grey Room
03:29
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You freak
You sneak
Invited into the room
It's dull
and grey
I wish it was over soon
The windows
don't look outside
Your eyes glaze over
And you stare right through me
Right through me
Can't you see
what's going on?
I don't know
What you're waiting for
I wish it was over
Over now
I'm looking at the door
Thinking of out side
I ask you a straight question
You give me slippery answers
You're bending and wriggling
but you're totally still
Stare through me
Right through me
Can't you see
what's going on?
I don't know
what you're waiting for
Stare through me
Right through me
Can't you see
what's going on?
I don't know
what you're waiting for
Meanwhile in another dimension
of my own invention
You eat all your words
I give you double detention
and pop your pretention
Your palace in shards
Stand in the room
Sit in the chair
I'm looking at your balding hair
My eyes glaze over
I stare right back at you
Like I'm looking at the door
Thinking of outside
I stare through you
I stare through you
I stare through you
I stare through you
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4. |
The Sea
03:08
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Down by the sea
Down by the sea
It's you or me
It's you or me
So much to be
So much to see
Surrounded by the ruined used-to-bes
When they were walking in sunshine
They couldn't see it's against time
Nobody's sick
Nobody bleeds
You can't be free
You can't be free
Go wander off in the darkness
Go run and hide in your playpen
I know we've got something hidden
We can't keep anything from them
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
It's you or me
It's you or me
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
It's you or me
It's you or me
The knives are out
They're coming out
You can't be free
You can't be free
Open your eyes and arteries
Life's never free down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
Down by the sea
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5. |
I Go Invisible
04:56
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I go invisible
under your cloak
We rock in time on the Southern line
I go invisible
release the choke-hold
Fast and slow
the monster grows
Safe in light
Hide in plain sight
Don't lift your head
Go straight to bed
Stares go through me
I'm never there
Safe in light
Hide in plain sight
Don't lift your head
Go straight to bed
Stares go through me
I'm never there
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
Locked inside
I think you know why
Empty your head
Quit playing dead
Safe in light
(Stares go through)
Hide in plain sight
(Never there)
Don't lift your head
Go straight to bed
Safe in light
Hide in plain sight
Safe in light
(Stares go through)
Hide in plain sight
Safe in light
(Stares go through)
Hide in plain sight
(Never there)
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
I go invisible
(Stares go through)
Stares go through
Stares go through
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6. |
Diamond Feelings
04:13
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Is it real
Can it hear me
Does it feel me
when I'm walking
Can it see
Does it know
what I'm thinking
Can it work out
what I'm dreaming
Does it care
Span the ocean
Dig the gold out of my eyes
Diamond feelings
Diamond feelings
with a bullet-proof design
Span the ocean
Dig the gold out of my eyes
Diamond feelings
Diamond feelings
with a bullet-proof design
In the sky
In the water
In the ground
In the signals, in the airwaves
and in everything you think you found
Give your body
Iron creases
from your mind
Find your demons
Fight your feelings
Taste the thoughts
that you left behind
Span the ocean
Dig the gold out of my eyes
Diamond feelings
Diamond feelings
with a bullet-proof design
Two three four
Is it real
Can it hear me
Does it feel me
when I'm walking
Can it see
Does it know
what I'm thinking
Can it work out
what I'm dreaming
Does it care
Span the ocean
Dig the gold out of my eyes
Diamond feelings
Diamond feelings
with a bullet-proof design
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7. |
Live Rail
03:50
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One minute there's no one there
The next we're face to face
And now you vanish with no trace
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Motors running in the dark
Oil and dust - the smell of sparks
I see shivers - linger
Details slip between my fingers
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Empty suit - shuffled paper
Broken nails - metal flavour
I see shivers - shadows linger
Details slip between my fingers
Empty suit - shuffled paper
Broken nails - metal flavour
I see shivers - shadows linger
Details slip between my fingers
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Motors running in the dark
Oil and dust - the smell of sparks
One minute there's no one there
The next we're face to face
And now you vanish with no trace
One minute there's no one there
The next we're face to face
And now you vanish with no trace
Trace
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Motors running in the dark
Oil and dust - the smell of sparks
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Motors running in the dark
Oil and dust - the smell of sparks
Strip light - copper cable
Current kicks - burning sable
Motors running in the dark
Oil and dust - the smell of sparks
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8. |
Rewild
04:28
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The crashing leaves
You feel the breeze
You're running out of this town
Your eyes are far
You won't be long
You left the radio on
You quit the room
You'll get yours soon
The buildings are flashes of grey in the night
Then you see the moon
You're getting out
You cross the field
You leave the glow of the town
You're riding wild ponies
Given permission to pass through
You're witnessing something you once knew
It's a part of you
When will you leave the city far behind?
You're in the dark and you hear
The thunder of the hooves
You hear the thunder of the hooves
And your eyes are searching through the gloom
Somebody's playing tricks on you
You try to leave
You cannot see
You touch the trees - they breathe warm
You try to run but now you're charmed
You cannot win
Or go back home
Now this is where you belong
You said you wanted to get away from it all
You said you wanted to get away from it all
When will you leave the city far behind?
You're in the dark and you hear
The thunder of the hooves
You hear the thunder of the hooves
And your eyes are searching through the gloom
Somebody's playing tricks on you
When will you leave the city far behind?
You're in the dark and you hear
The thunder of the hooves
You hear the thunder of the hooves
And your eyes are searching through the gloom
Somebody's playing tricks on you
Somebody's playing tricks on you
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9. |
Fairy Tale
03:52
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In the darkest corner
of the outer spiral arm
Lived a race of monkeys
with a thirst for causing harm
Banging the rocks together!
Frightened of the sparks
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's time to set sail!
Giving birth to combustion
to chase away the dark
Plutonium out of Uranus
Frightened by the sparks
We crack your skull wide open
We're drinking in your thoughts
You crack their skulls wide open
and feed them to the dogs
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's time to set sail!
Time to end
what we've begun
Time to burn down
what you've become
In your widest deserts
we're clawing up the ground
We found an astrolabe
and a skull that's far too round
Bony fingers pointing
to the stars and far beyond
Why can't you realise that
that's where you came from
Banging the rocks together!
Frightened of the sparks
Banging the rocks together!
Frightened of the sparks
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's just a fairy tale
It's time to set sail!
Time to end
what we've begun
Time to burn down
what you've become
Time to leave
your only sun
Time to end
what we've begun
It's just a fairytale
It's just a fairytale
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10. |
Backburning
05:06
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From the North
darkness fell
These fires
start themselves
Cracked earth
Crying leaves
Your voice
carried by the breeze
Rough smoke
dusts my eyes
Your hand
guiding mine
Running wild
leave no trace
We go
through the haze
Sweeping forth, we're ablaze
These fires start themselves
Disintegrate the bad old days
These fires start themselves
From the North
darkness fell
These fires
start themselves
Cracked earth
Crying leaves
Your voice
carried by the breeze
Rough smoke
dusts my eyes
Your hand
guiding mine
Running wild
leave no trace
We go
through the haze
Sweeping forth, we're ablaze
These fires start themselves
Disintegrate the bad old days
These fires start themselves
Sweeping forth, we're ablaze
Disintegrate the bad old days
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Chris + Brigitte make inter-dimensional indie synthpop.
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