1. |
The Getaway
04:31
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This room, this town is closing in
I can't stand your contented grin
I know this road
and where it goes
Escaped I fly beyond this view
In dreams for now
but someday true
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in the clouds
Step by step I'll climb through air
and make my getaway
I look eagles in the eye
Leave behind the county line
I see the same life on repeat
in all the faces on this street
It's not for me
I will be free
Someday you'll see me fly away
at last you won't know what to say
You never knew
what I could do
Step by step I'll climb through air
and make my getaway
I look eagles in the eye
Leave behind the county line
This room, this town is closing in
I can't stand your contented grin
I know this road
And where it goes
Escaped I fly beyond this view
In dreams for now
but someday true
Breathe in breathe out
Breathe in the clouds
Step by step I'll climb through air
and make my getaway
I look eagles in the eye
Leave behind the county line
Step by step I'll climb through air
and make my getaway
I look eagles in the eye
Leave behind the county line
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2. |
Origami Car Swan
04:30
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Origami car swan
Standing in the steel dawn
Everything you knew is gone
Listen to the swansong
You are not the only one
Kneeling at the feet of Mammon
Dizzy from a bad prawn
Sanity is long gone
Didn’t aught to be thinking that
Didn’t aught to be in love like that
I’m folding metal, I’m folding metal
To make it better, to make it better
Break you out of prison
Holding onto reason
Rust and sparks in rhythm
Listen to the swansong
Origami car swan
Standing in the steel dawn
Beaking the wing
Insane metal thing
Sanity is long gone
Incapable of going slow
Blinded by the static snow
In this world that’s rusted, twisted
When we could all be
living in the stars
Didn’t aught to be thinking that
Didn’t aught to be in love like that
I’m folding metal, I’m folding metal
To make it better, to make it better
Origami car swan
Origami car swan
Origami car swan
Listen to the swansong
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3. |
Lady Megawatt
04:22
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I’ve got the building to myself
I’m gonna turn everything on
It won’t be harmful to my health
At least not in the short term
I’ve got no idea where you are
Ignite the force of the stars
to find you
I could kiss my aerial
One million watts of power
My fuel assembly works so well
Heat heat without any fire
I’ve got no idea where you are
I steal the light from the stars
to find you
Real friends are hard to find
No connection with my own kind
Invite the people in my mind
Real friends are hard to find
No connection with my own kind
Invite the people in my mind
I leave lines open for your call
But don’t expect to be answered
In my booth I’m ten feet tall
All doubting thoughts have been cancelled
I’ve got no idea where you are
Ignite the force of the stars
to find you
Real friends are hard to find
No connection with my own kind
Invite the people in my mind
I’ve got no idea where you are
Ignite the force of the stars
To find you
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4. |
Mr System
02:57
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Mr System is smiling
He’s connected without wires
He impersonates a human
With all their sycophantic smiles
You know who you are
Yeah-yeah-yeah
You know who you are
Yeah-yeah-yeah
You know who you are
Yeah-yeah-yeah
You know who you are
We’re just treading water
This doesn’t last forever
Popcorn for the end of an empire
No nothing lasts forever
We are just treading water
But when we wake up
from this dream
You’ll turn to steam
See them drunk dialling
Starting little fires
Impersonating humans
Ignorance beguiles
Your arm around her shoulder
Grin into the lens
Writing in the book now
Count your famous friends
You hit the dust
You hit the town
And we can’t wait to see you dive
You hit the ground
You’re cracking up
And we can watch it happen live
Mr System.
Mr System is smiling
Connected without wires
Impersonating humans
Practice sycophantic smiles
Yeah-yeah-yeah
You know who you are
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5. |
Looking Up
03:23
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I wake, and blink. The sun, I drink
I listen for a cue. The beat, of you
Been rolling around like mercury
I had no magnetic sensitivity
The ache inside
won’t let me stay inside
I’ll follow the leylines, till I find ya
And oh I’m lost in solar winds
I can hear your voice
but I can’t hide my sins
And oh I’m blind from cosmic rays
so I call back to you
to lead me out of this maze
Ticking the time up!
Got to look up
you know you've got to look up
In opposite seasons we flew apart
We went underground
we hid in the dark
I’ve lost you before
I know what you saw
This time I won’t let go
Yes! You’ve seen me
fall from great heights
Fluttering blind under city lights
You! Like a buoy in a storm
You stayed afloat while I was hanging on
Yes! I've been running all night
Calling out strangers
getting into fights
You! Will you wait for my train?
When I see your face
it gives me hope again
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Look up!
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6. |
White Lies
03:08
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There’s a blue green haze
From the countryside
No one knows what it is
Everybody’s mystified
See the little white lies
From the mediums
We’re all chasing hits
We must be idiots
Lies on lies and
Do you know where you’re from?
Your heroes and your history
We don’t recognise
Something’s coming
I hear the drumming
And you can only see in black and white yeah
Something’s coming
The engines humming
No up and down and no left or right now
Blinding blinding
When you stare at the sun
Our heroes and their mysteries
Need no alibis
There’s a blue green haze
That’s coming from the countryside
No one knows what it is
Everybody’s mystified
The day’s coming
The day’s coming
Waving the flag for our own destruction
The day’s coming
The day’s coming
This doesn’t feel like evolution
The day’s coming
The day’s coming
Waving the flag for our own destruction
There’s a thin white line
Between the sea and the sky
The broken edges of our land
We don’t recognise
Little white lies
From the mediums
We swallow it whole
We must be idiots
Driving driving
Do you know where you’re from?
Our opinions and our luxuries
No longer civilised
Lies on lies and
Do you know where you’re from?
Your heroes and your histories
We don’t recognise
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7. |
Piranhas
03:34
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Take me back to your embrace
I'm drowning in the water
Tiny teeth around my face
Blood surrounds me every day
Calling calling through the haze
I slip and slide until I'm falling
Going under losing days
Can't escape
the hands that claw me
Finding fragments in the dark
Trying to remember
I wake up but I slide back
Falling now, falling down
Piranhas
Piranhas
Dry myself walk into town
Everyone is smiling
Open mouths are open wide
Pearly white and shining
Walk me to the doctor
Lead me back to land, bite my hand
Give me something true
Can't disguise your hunger
I can't see it's wrong
It’s such a misery
It’s such a stupid dream
Piranhas
Piranhas
Piranhas
Piranhas
Take me back to your embrace
Throw me in the water
Tiny teeth around my face
Blood surrounds me every day
Why can't I forget your face
Drowning in the water
A million cuts I can't erase
Blood surrounds me every day
Forever
Forever
Piranhas
Pirhanas
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8. |
Solid State
03:42
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Never rainbows
When you’re upside down
and the falling rain
just helps you drown
Sunday morning
and the week is calling
They will never take us
from this room
We had a lot to celebrate
but the fading sun takes it away
and I dream of us far from here
Out of town
We had a lot to celebrate
with a steady supply of double A’s
but the years flash into memory
Out of time
I set a light beyond the hill
but the shadow’s growing still
Life is turning solid state
Terrified that we are
running slow
Turned down low
Please. Don’t. Go.
Days are echoes
I can trace their lines now
but they’ll never lead us
from this room
We had a lot to celebrate
but the fading sun takes it away
and I dream of us far from here
Out of town
We had a lot to celebrate
with a steady supply of double A’s
but the years flash into memory
Out of time
Can’t help living in the past
Only ideas seem to last
I’d give anything to stay
On my knees I’m praying
I see the light beyond the hill
Now there’s no more time to kill
Life is turning solid state
I hope we’re not too late
Running slow
Turned down low
We. Must. Go.
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9. |
We Bind You
03:25
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You won’t win
You’ve had your day
Well, you’ve had your week
Now we’ll have it our way
It’s just like magic
and you’re part of the trick
We hope it makes you sick
The more you try to run
the more you’re strangled
We love it when the wire
cuts and tangles
We bind we bind we bind you
You lose control
We eat you whole
As each chapter burns
you writhe in ashes
and every truth to tell
gets ninety lashes
The channel’s blocked
and points one way
In our power
You are ours
Cold white lights that
now caress the city
Cold white lights that
now caress the city
Beauty filter that
removed your pity
What big eyes you have
What big teeth you have
The more you try to run
the more you’re strangled
We love it when the wire
cuts and tangles
We bind we bind we bind you
In our power
The world is ours
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10. |
Here Come The Idiots
03:33
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Here come the idiots
Here come the idiots
You laugh but you'll be sorry
They're writing your life story
Here come the idiots
Here come the idiots
They wear the same clothes you do
They speak the lies that soothe you
You knew
it's the one thing you hate
You had to come here anyway
Legs stuck
and you're screaming for more
Around you while the water roars
You knew
it's the one thing you hate
You had to come here anyway
Legs stuck
and you're screaming for more
Around you watch the water roar
Here come the idiots
Here come the idiots
Walk tall and give your trust
Why don’t you come with us
Here come the idiots
Here come the idiots
They act the way we should
We know what’s right and good now
We put the plastic in your mind
You knew
it's the one thing you hate
You had to come here anyway
Legs stuck
and you're screaming for more
Around you while the water roars
You knew
it's the one thing you hate
You had to come here anyway
Legs stuck
and you're screaming for more
Around you watch the water roar
Here come the idiots
Here come the idiots
You laugh but you'll be sorry
They're writing your life story
Here come the idiots
All hail the idiots
They wear the same clothes you do
They speak the lies that soothe you
Here come the idiots
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11. |
Bezmenov
04:34
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25 years of learning
have brought you to this point
You can't turn back
It's feelings that guide you
Forget the facts
We would like to show you
the right way to behave
Unstable citizen
in the world
and the home to the grave
Demoralisation.
Destabilisation. Crisis.
Normalisation.
Can’t you see we’ve always known
you will do as you are told
In the world as in the home
To keep you weak, to have and hold
We would like to show you
the right way to ignore
the writing on the wall
the symbol on your door
Demoralisation.
Destabilisation. Crisis.
Normalisation.
Don’t misunderstand us
We’re most grateful for
The life you live, the love you give but we want more
We would like to show you
the right way to behave
Unstable citizen
in the world
and the home to the grave
25 years of learning
have brought you to this point
You can't turn back
It's feelings that guide you
(Feelings that guide you)
Demoralisation.
Destabilisation. Crisis.
Normalisation.
(The feelings that guide you)
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12. |
Golden Spiral
03:07
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Every day I fight the same old fight
I need it don’t you know?
When I close my eyes I still see light
Come find me take me home
Perfect rituals
Painted eye
Mirrored surface
Furnished lie
The minutes
taste like dust
Empty hunger
Stolen touch
Golden spiral
Hollow tiger
Golden spiral
Hollow tiger
Trading futures
Wipe the past
See the truth in
coloured glass
I’m the butcher
you’re the calf
I can cut the
world in half
Give the price
not the value
Empty hunger
Stolen touch
Giant pictures
with no meaning
Dipped in powder
Take too much
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13. |
The Dissolve
03:54
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So this is the place
where we used to meet
On broken ground
with uncertain feet
Nothing to hear, nothing to see
Too many ghosts along this street
Say that it's over
knock this place down
Too many ghosts along this street
Say that it's over
knock this place down
Concrete and steel
bulletproof glass
Zone one people
a blur as they pass
Advertising
sings down from the screen
"Embrace the dissolve
become what you see"
Too many ghosts along this street
Say that it's over
knock this place down
Too many ghosts along this street
Say that it's over
knock this place down
Everyone made compromises
How can you feel no shame?
Let me go - I'll exorcise this
It's over, over, over now
Too many ghosts along this street
Say that it's over
knock this place down
Too many ghosts along this street
They knocked down the place
where we used to meet
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14. |
World Over
03:19
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The world is finally over
Don’t worry darling
everything will be fine
The sea is finally boiling
We’ve seen it in the movies
since we were aged nine
Put your head out the window
and scream if you like
Scratched on paper
Etched in bone
The world is finally over
Don’t worry darling
all your dreams will take flight
It'll all be over by morning
Leave your things where they are
can’t you see there’s no time
Put your head out the window
and scream if you like
Scratched on paper
Etched in bone
Time to rise. Stop despising
We are all in the same boat
Time to rise. Stop despising
We are all, all the same now
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15. |
We Are Ghosts
04:07
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A flash of light
between the two eternities
A silver halide fix
Sensors and senses
just do the same old stupid thing
You raise your eyes to mine
Faint signals pass, but yes
you return to ground
but your silence is not heartless
the space becomes a sound
We are ghosts
The static sparkles
don’t touch that dial
We are ghosts
The deep-cut paths repeat for miles
We are ghosts
The clock stopped at Lahaina noon
We are ghosts
Closed eye picture of a room
In the floor
in the walls
and the objects
that you will never touch
In the shoes that take the form
of feet that walk no more
A flash of light
between the two eternities
Sodium chloride
from your eyes retrieved in a night
we can no longer leave
We are ghosts
We stay forever, we walk behind
We are ghosts
The photograph that you can’t find
We are ghosts
The chemicals inside your cells
We are ghosts
Condemn and lock you in your cell
We are ghosts
This is the end of all desire
We are ghosts
These are the ashes in the pyre
We are ghosts
Recorded sound that you hear now
We are ghosts
It starts to feel like we’re here now
We are ghosts
But someone else is stood here now
We are ghosts
But someone else is stood here now
We are ghosts
But someone else is stood here now
We are ghosts
But someone else is stood here now
We are ghosts
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16. |
今 (Ima)
04:20
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