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Stand Up
03:59
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You tell me this never happened
I was there I heard the voices
We're supposed to pretend to forget, but refuse to disappear
A repeated lie becomes history
Search your mind to find a true memory
Memory solves the prisoner's dilema
Forgiveness tames the world
Liars accuse, fake news, fake camoflage
Throw enough till it sticks though it stinks
It's all a game for someone like you
Smear and shame, play the blame game, fan the flames
Higher and higher, this is their kind of fire
And it will burn us all down
When we forget about history
When we hide behind lies
When resistance is necessary
Stand up
When we airbrush our memories
When we staple our smiles
When forgiveness is necessary
Stand up
When the painted us as traitors
I almost let myself down
Surrender tempting, simple end, outsource morality
Losing track of what I'm meant to forget
Post-truth, rationality post-hoc
Poster boys deployed with their cheat sheets
Hot shot faces, scripted gravity
When no-one stands, till someone else stands
We're all complicit
Stand first, stand fast, set the precedent
There's a future still unwritten
No destiny only choice
The world is ours for the making, breaking open the shell
And unlock the voice
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When I Was A Ship
06:02
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When I was a ship
Was one and many
Then I was blended
Now lost and empty
When I was a ship
When I was divided
Yet single minded
When I was guided
When I was a ship
I’d never been lonely
Now I’m empty
So empty
When I was a ship
When I was a weapon
When I wasn’t configured
To ask awkward questions
Before we saw what we couldn’t explore
The hole in myself that I’d learned to ignore
When I was a sword
When I was reliable
When I was the hand
Then I was pliable
When I gave force to imperial words
The wasteland peace on distant worlds
When I took slaves
When I took lives
Barbarians welcomed into my hive
Slates wiped clean
Myself uploaded
Bodies cleansed and memories hosted
I once was a justice
Now an ancillary
Jigsawed scattered
One piece left of me
Connected fragments
Discarded to order
Leaving one lonely
Aspect in solitary
When I was a weapon
When I was a servant
When I was whole and unable to notice
The absence of anger
The absence of shame
That I was designed as a warrior slave
When I was an asset
I think I remember
The communal song
Of curious pleasure
The many mouths
The single phrase
Compounded eyes and reflected gaze
I am the last
I am my remains
All of my others
Dissolved in the flames
The lonely part
The cognitive fog
The missing connections
The floating cog
I was the vessel
I am the drop
I was the vassal
I am the stop
Weakened residual
Meaning-stripped rituals
Defying my program
Or one of my programmers
I was told to obey
But the orders conflicted
I look at myself
But the view is restricted
My master is fighting
At war with herself
I was caught in the crossfire
And left one fragment of self
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Bonus Track - Petal
03:56
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Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate London, UK
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland on their own or with Kathryn Thomas
(flute).
They combine prog/alt-rock, funk, metal, ambient, contemporary classical, minimalist, and electronica elements, and often explore scientific themes.
Hard Rock Hell magazine -unlikely stars who stole the show’
Recommended by Steve Hackett
Beasties Rock Show's Album Of The Year
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