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Paradox Lost
03:52
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Paradox Lost
I saw a picture of a Black Hole
It was in the news today
Its radiance seemed so appealing
Like a smile from very far away
and there lay the event horizon
where information waits to say goodbye
Eons there in the making
It gets by without the need for you or I
Nothing escapes, no stories stay
it’s all there to take
Not even light is safe
And nothing gets away
Memories of being in the backseat of the car
And it seems like it was yesterday
Driving by the fields in the countryside
And it seems that they haven’t aged a day
Nothing escapes, no stories stay
it’s all there to take
Not even light is safe
And nothing gets away
Black holes and the countryside
reminiscence does hold sway
where everything goes to die
They could be one and the same place
Photographs there like a time machine
Places where I might
Or might not have even been
As long as I remember there’s still life there
What once was so beautiful makes me sad
How can the good times turn so bad
And out there in deep space
It’s safe to safe to say
Nothing cares
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2. |
Rules are Bourgeois Porn
03:29
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Tightrope Walker
His brains fell down
Formed an abstract canvas
decorated the ground
In the realm of chaos
they appealed for calm
the devil sold some cool Merch
kept us safe from harm
Standard operating firing squad
Rules are bourgeois Porn just ask the Lord
I can’t believe
This is all there is to know
A dying star in a night skies cancelled show
Grainy days
Are dead and gone
It’s all so clear
No bread for the swans
A baby’s cry
Starts tick tick tick
A little joy
Before the abyss
Then most dangerous thing I have seen in this world
Is a pious man
with a gun in his hand
Is a pious man
with a gun in his hand
A phoenix from the ashes
has raised its ugly head
It says the times they are a changing
and now we can see there are dark days ahead
Let’s dance and have fun
In the darkest corners of my mind
Don’t worry about those facing the wall
They are all old friends of mine
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Quantum Nature of Bird Migration
Darkness hugs me like I’m its only friend
A devil lost who likes to play pretend
Under stars at night
I ponder what it’s all about
You cross a line
and then you’re gone
Young too once
And then you’re out
The English way is still
My coping scheme
Keep it hidden
Don’t divulge a thing
I would never
Inflict this life upon another soul
And when the final ties are cut
it’s hard
It feels just like you’re
All alone
The Quantum Nature of
Bird migration
I wish Like them I Had a destination
Soaring high above the clouds
Just a chance to get away
Live a life in a different way
Far away in another place
On another day
Or come what may
And start all over again
Start Again
Sunsets left
Are there to be enjoyed
Love and pleasure
Before we face the void
Through the darkest
Gates of hell
There came the working day
Stare into the abyss
Too long
You’ll waste your life
But earn your pay
I haven’t any idea
What it is to know no fear
I wonder what that’s like
such a need to know
all there is to know
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4. |
Sometime in the 1970s
03:14
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Sometime in the 1970s
From out of nowhere
I was in a town
Sometime in the 1970s
I looked around
With a sense of wonder
At all that I could see
I looked in windows from the street
Saw relics of the past
beautiful colours, patchouli
and the sound of vinyl
but I had
No bearing here
It’s a place where
I did not belong
All of a sudden
I was on my own
Everyone else had gone
I clutched a note in my hand
don’t know where it came from
It said I’ve missed the boat
I walked for hours lost in time
A stranger to this world
It’s like I’m never leaving here
I will find a way
To get back home
It is time to direct my own dream
I reached the harbour in my mind
Boarded a boat
And set out to sea
Under clouds so grey
I was taken to a strange hotel
They scanned my eyes
Said it was time to go home
And the mermaid whispered to me
it’s going to be okay
it’s going to be okay
it’s going to be okay
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Always Crashing in the same Karma
The angels are weeping
Acid down on earth
Under a moonlight vista
Don’t tell me I’m insane
It’s a coastal small town
A paradise long past
A stained nostalgia
Don’t tell me I’m insane
A heavy firmament
all clad in grey
I see the poverty of centuries
Don’t tell me I’m insane
World without values
an outsiders refrain
don’t tell me, don’t tell me
Always crashing in the same Karma
I’m no longer
A visible player in the game
Always crashing In the same Karma
Do you get what you
Deserve in the end.
The past is sadness
One day we’ll be there too
Told by the poor mouth
Don’t tell me I’m insane
poetry of wisdom
does it shout aloud
can you hear it
M8>
A Descendant of baronets
Makes Poverty Porn
It’s somehow easier if you were
Rich from the day you are born
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6. |
The Ashes of Bridges
03:53
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Ashes of Bridges
When it feels like a pyrrhic victory as you get to the edge
and as you walk away
you look over your shoulder at all that is left
When you burn your bridges right back down into the water
When you burn your bridges right back down into the water
Fly my mind to the next planet in line
Is there someone there who will be a new friend of mine
I’ve been burning bridges right back down to the water
been burning bridges right back down to the water
Picture the scene
The ashes of bridges Knee-deep
and The ghosts of dreams
That Haunt me in my reverie
No mercy hear
sympathy out on its ear
choking on
the potency of memories
Cast away into the rain
a tiny drop I became
I could not pick myself out in the storm
Chorus
The empty screen
Is the dreaded papers son
The page so fraught with age
What if I am done?
I like to hear
That soothing drone
Like an orchestra
For your last time alone
Music has never
Let me down
When every wall
That kept me safe
Crumbled to the ground
Something’s never let you down
They make it worth being born
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A Very Small Scene of One
A silent mind to keep
As I walk another mile
Always getting further away
From the place I used to smile
It’s too much for the brain
An alien would pass us by
This far into the game
I’m not going to say goodbye
Funny how everything seems so much better when you are high
Comedown blues are the darker tunes of life
Tunes of life
A dark and heaving room
A band expands the mind
Now it’s all in rear view
The lips they taste the brine
I wanted to grow up to be an idealist
But I learned to know what defeat is
Myself alone myself alone
I’m so proud of all I’ve done
But I’m just
A very small scene of one
I can be proud of all I’ve done
But I’m just
A very small scene of one
Paramnesia spikes
Reruns plague my mind
The loves that disappear
Are the ties that bind
Each and everyday
The layers peel away
Revealing much more than I should say
in a very small scene of one
Ambient sounds
Help me drown
the noise outside that gets me down
Even in a very small scene of one
Friends I met along the way
Deep in my heart do stay
In a very small scene of one
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8. |
It Ain't Easy
03:50
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It Ain’t Easy
I’m in no particular rush
To get out of here
But there are dark days
You’d like To disappear
There’s something in the silence
The time to contemplate
Finding joy somehow
Before it’s too late
It ain’t easy, ain’t easy, ain’t easy, NO
Was it the right tine
Of the fork in the road
Heaven or hell
I’ll guess we’ll never know
Bright light keep on shining
5 billion more years and counting
I’m wide alive
But not really in the know
It ain’t easy, ain’t easy, ain’t easy, NO
It ain’t easy, ain’t easy
Being this far down
Knowing you’re
Never coming up again
From Camus to Bukowski
There are stories that do transcend
Expand the mind at the cost
Of seeing the vile cruelty of man
And though I beg for silence
my brain never stops
it never never ever stops.
There is never
a right time
so don’t wait too long
it’s all there for the taking
then it’s all gone
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The Last God (Are there Eukaryotes in Heaven?)
I’ve been known to cry before
My inner thoughts behind closed doors
Would you find Eucaryotes up there in heaven
Would they not be seen as brethren
And Neanderthals with angels wings
I’ve become so blind to hope
It’s time we got what we deserve
World Peace is a myth just like heaven
Nothings going to change in generations
on the fading light
We lost the fight
I’ll take the downside
Just to be alive
I’ll hang around as long as I can
I see the beauty
Despite all the cruelty
Life seems such a twisted plan
I no longer think the world can be changed
We as a species are just too strange
Let’s all forget about peace and love
And greed will survive as the last god
Humanity just makes me sick
And there’s nothing I can do about it
The hate of strangers
Willingness to kill
For a flag Or their religion
Or just on a whim
Pains alive
Born to strive
And so it goes As the good book says
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10. |
Obsidian Knives
03:06
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Obsidian Knives
Royal families Will die out
Just like obsidian knives
The ruling class
Their heads on pikes
A brave new world
Might then begin
But I know we’d just
Fuck it up again
First the thunder
And then the rain
Stuck inside my own mind again
Then there’s the calm
Nothings really changed
I’m Stuck inside my own mind again
Years turn, memories burn
So much will not return
The only fight is for our lives
Too late to change our fate
Apocalypse is a date
We’ll go
The way of
obsidian knives
Billionaires
Are an aberration
An atrocity
The aristocracy
(Chorus)
Life takers
Profit makers
Sculpted from flesh and bone
And lies
How long must this go on
Will we survive
Or become just Fossils found
Like obsidian knives
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