1. |
UTTERINGS
03:16
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Spending time inside the cab
I came to realise a truth
I could not utter
From here life was a lightstream pastiche
you would not believe
what one person will do to another
now i can’t walk into a cinema
without forgetting who I am
some call it paranoia
an American schoolboy gone bad
but when you’ve seen what I’ve seen
kicking in teeth
it just ain’t kicks enough
and now I can’t listen to the 7 o clock news
without forgetting who I am
and we were all banking on the end
to bring it right
it just made headlines
it just made headlines
doomsday for the yeasayers
doomsday will never come
but when you know what i know
and when you’ve seen what I’ve seen
you’ve seen enough
because the thing
that you are searching for
is not material
you see the thing
that you are searching for
is not material
and doomsday will never come
and doomsday will never come
and doomsday will never come
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2. |
EXEGESIS
05:05
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EXEGESIS:
They’ll track you down on the subway
for subtle exercise
in this cinema for novices
lost feeling
and they don’t need a reason
to break your face on the curb
and the years fall down
new needs present themselves
colour bleeds into the cell
you’re receiving the signal
but it’s weak
and when you find the reason
they will surely come
and the years break apart
like brittle shells
time
in time
in time
in time
this time
quiet they fade you out
in time
in time
in time this time
a narcotic age breaks down
and the years break apart
like brittle shells
come undone
like nstillborn souls
and the years
fall
down
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3. |
FTO
03:49
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Today I fear the outcomes
the premises for action
glowing white and golden
paralysis sets in
and genesis comes undone
a violent reaction
the hand of cards has folded
there is no game to win
from the outset
I’ll join the disillusioned
and disavow reaction
to break the chain that’s moulded
the established grip
if i seem somehow saddened
by distant splintered factions
and friends i have forgotten
it’s only one more fractured step
from the outset
from the outset
desire becomes form
a distant door has opened
let me in
let me in
my desires have murmured
cleave these small hands apart
and watch the air grow thicker by the hour
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4. |
FTF
04:27
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Before equal eyes
left for the hungry feeding the few
'you’ll carve a way to your own self'
promises that wither in your arms
it’s so easy to shine
saying nothing
facing the fall
the door opens to nowhere
ascend the stairs
bodies move in darkness
it was you all along
an eternal remind
announcing itself
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
rings out
rings out
more than hopelessness there
and before equal eyes
left for the hungry
feeding the few
it was you all along
an eternal remind
blood poured into form
a shadow you found
and you kept from the others
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
rings out
rings out
more than hopelessness there
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
i thought you found a face for your trial
bright eyed pieces burning
two halves
while the water laps at the fate of it’s asking
new walls emerge to replace the divide
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
rings out
rings out
i thought you found a face for your trial
and before equal eyes left for the hungry
feeding the few
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5. |
SYNCHRON
04:57
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Gaining the self
but losing a sense of the other
where form is refined
footsteps too far to redeem
a living space on the shelf
discovers the law of your lies
now all that remains are the thin sheets
that cover your eyes
but the shape of your neck
and free will align
a discordant house of cards
now in synchrony
contracts ripped up
reflections torn apart
while wisdom is left for the wise
the voice of reason
devours its opposite
now all that remains
are the thin sheets that cover your eyes
where the shape of your neck
and free will align
corpse abandoned where it’s cast
and defying anaesthesia
where the seer is found to lie
your unsurest hairs refined
now in synchrony
sure hands lead to your arm
while abandoned ideas surround us
a plan to answer your I
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6. |
COLOUR
05:31
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Lucid, defiant
wakened from slumber
past selves repeating
mirage of the past
dream now replacing
all sense of value
stumbling blindly
through wax walls and the arch
but they can only fail
the systems they prescribe you
when the price of desire
is rising with the tides
will time forgive
these half wracked insurrections
replayed through sighs
new souls awakening
defining fate
that we might have this moment
is history more
than memory stained on skin
I have seen the colour
no longer seeking to hold on to
through the mirror we unravel
all while searching for your heart
first answer spoken
strangles old falsehoods
seeds planted backward
quicksand of the hour
inside reflects
a brief break from the darkness
the wounded myth
escapes now soundlessly
abandoned weight
at falser altar’s worship
confusion fooled
if love is all there is
I have seen the colour
from the stars the gutters whisper
through the mirror we unravel
all while searching for your heart
will the seas now bask in wonder
from the gutter the stars whisper
through the mirror we unravel
all while searching for your heart
all while searching for your heart
all while searching for your heart
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7. |
THE CLEARING
05:19
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A house in which the law is leaking
where history and person are conjoined
but slaves are slaves until the term has ended
democracy
new worlds appearing
new worlds appearing
your spine is the snake uncoiling
democracy
new worlds appearing
wake up, wake up, wake up
dream and memory combined
wake up, wake up, wake up
you call and there’s no answer
but the silence is the voice
as i glide through the silence
shards of light they scan me
mosquito takes my sample
now my blood can fly
a sense of being stared at
when we’re side by side
taken by the horizon
as our worlds collide
and as the darkness dies
dreaming in disguise
new worlds appearing
new worlds appearing
new worlds appearing
wake up
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8. |
ATHEISM
04:29
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Your face appears above my glass
though which side I never knew
I had fallen for harder
the imagined or the true
cold eyes are turned away
when life is breathed into a stone
death is drawn closer now to love
a whole world decays
the old ways
but your image is persistent
seven days under review
an oasis I imagined
in your arms
in your arms
cold eyes are turned away
when life is breathed into a stone
death is drawn closer now to love
a whole world decays
the old ways
and who knew
you could breathe life into a stone
who knew
you could breathe life into a stone
and who knew
you could breathe life into a stone
the old ways
the old ways unlearned
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9. |
HISTORY
06:30
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History
between us
snapping our fingers
in the spokes
history
between us
both crushing our skulls
in our hands
but i see no end to this
see no end to this
to this
to this
history
time crawls out from the docks
now all our doubts
lay shattered in the dust
it’s just a sign
to recall
forever just outside your reach
your history
and searching for the colour
in union
we find the other hollow
but i see no end to this
see no end to this
to this
to this
history
and time crawls out from the docks
now all our doubts
lay shattered in the dust
with the cruel hand
wipe the venom from your mouth
it’s just a sign
to recall
forever just outside your reach
your history
to be reconciled
torn apart
your two hands
to be reconciled
oh to be reconciled
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