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There’s a certain slant of light
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –
We can find no scar,
But internal difference –
Where the Meanings, are –
None may teach it – Any –
'Tis the seal Despair –
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air –
When it comes, the Landscape listens –
Shadows – hold their breath –
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death –
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See the business man in his smart suit
Standing there in army boots waiting for the call
See me standing here with a gun in my ear
Smiling, waiting for the hammer to fall
Behind me there's a woman doing jigsaw dances
As she downs another bottle of beer
And though I'm still confused I think I might understand
And all my feelings are beginning to clear
We're moving on
Moving up
Moving out
Once upon a time in a big house
Now he's living like a mouse begging for his food
Mickey mouse man doing singsong
Dancing 'round in long johns singing in the mood
Cut the middle man just to move ahead
Sorry if he ends up dead, nothing I can do
These things often happen, it's a matter of course
Just be happy it was him and not you
We're moving on
Moving up
Moving out
When I sleep I'll be wandering
Wandering…
Technology made a fool out of me
Robby robot ran away with my job
I won't get it back, he's everything that I lack
And he works for just a turn of a knob
Now I sit home and pretend I'm alone
As I watch the pictures flash on the screen
I'm passively moved, I'm excited and soothed
By the violent censored sex that I've seen
We're moving on
Moving up
Moving out
When I sleep I'll be wandering
Wandering…
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Just a glimpse
From the outside
One little glimpse
And I know why
Breaking through your lines
Breaking through your lies
Breaking through your tired eyes
Innocence is over
As colors to fade to grey
A city stumbles into darkness…
Empty streets, silent avenues
In the shadowlands, sent to strike at you
Eating flesh, drinking fear, pray for rain…
Innocence is over
As colors to fade away to grey
A city stumbles into darkness
As you fall into the fray
A famous lie
That everything will be alright soon
After awhile
I just get tired of rank-&-file fools
All around me there are fools
All around
Cold hearted fools
They strive for acceptance
Never reading their books or seeing their teachers cries
The streets have no name
Only light poles and alleyways
And their fitted with their leather chains
Innocence is over
As colors to fade away to grey
A city stumbles into darkness
As you fall into the fray
A famous lie
That everything will be alright soon
After awhile
I just get tired of rank-&-file fools
All around me are fools
All around me, there are fools all around
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5. |
Unitopia - Still Here
05:27
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Luz de Riada - 1915
05:45
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Tiles - Hyper(static)
04:19
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Years of sameness make us this way
Taking the blame’s no longer ok
Over and over some never stray
Tortured and bland walk hand in hand
Routines are alright – we all need some
To never fight means everything’s right?
Passive and willing – agree with everything
Draw the line – develop a spine
Static is monotony
Static’s not the way to be
Static says you’ll never change
Static means you’ve got no range
I stand in line for a long time
Who says I have to – who made this rule?
Speaking to myself isn’t going to help
Do something dynamic – why withstand it?
History repeats too frequently
No one ever learns to react positively
Whatever exists we all pay the fee
Charging ahead regardless of need
Static is monotony
Static’s not the way to be
Static says you’ll never change
Static means you’ve got no range
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Marooned on an island
Darkened seas at my shore
Alone on this no-land
Chasing light forevermore
My life a lie –an Illusion
Spoon fed memories while I’m sleeping
Wake to find them shattered, fleeting
Lorelei is laughing
In the echoes of this dream within a dream
Panopticon’s prison
Cages me no more
Free to reason
Fill the vacuum fear abhors
I search alone, and the darkness
Whispers of a long dead planet
Of the home we lost to madness
My fate to roam the galaxy
But never kiss the Sun
How many rivers will we have to cross
Before we find our way?
Please tell me, how many more?
Killing each other
In the labyrinth of hate
The minotaur is lost
Blood drunk we waltz
On the tight rope of fate
Fumbling with our fingers crossed
Is it too late?
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John Battema - Tidal
06:43
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RAIN - Singularity Redux
06:29
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This is it, open your eyes
All you can see, give yourself time
Push yourself into my arms
All you can be, mean you no harm
Home. It’s where your broken heart is
Innocence departed, fed by the fear
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echolyn - Never The Same
07:55
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What can I say?
What can I do for you?
Some are here for but a moment
Then are taken in an instant to eternity
Remember life and what's been shared with you
That you have shared
It's funny how we feel closer
With the ones that we love
When they're farthest away
You can feel them so near
Just 'round the corner the memory still clear”
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there I did not die."
I say to you I will see you again
On the other side someday
"There's never endings only discovery, "
I tell myself over and over again
Some leave their mark in our hearts then go
It's hard to continue onward
When forever comes down it comes down so heavy
Too final to forget
You've got to believe there's something more
After the song is over
The dance goes on, so dance away
When all is said and done
Remember what's been given, not taken away
But you struggle and you strain
As the undertow pulls you down
The years will spare the rod and soften the hardest blow
...but I am never the same
With time comes a certain fading and erasing
...but I am never the same
In each man
There lies a start that has no end
A means to be more
A light that shines in its own special way
Left with cold distance
I'll always be with you
We weather the cycle
I'll always be there
So fragile to balance
Too potent to harness
Life charges past the mortal in man
Remember all the life you shared every day
There's never any endings
...but I'll never be the same
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