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Silence Is A Statement
04:24
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When we say nothing - we speak
When we say nothing - silence is a statement
Nothing isn’t neutral
Quiet is compliance
When convenience prioritised
Silence is a statement
Silence isn’t neutral
When silence covers violence
Bitten tongues condemn us
And silence is a statement
Quiet isn’t neutral
Quiet is compliance
Silence is a statement
We could stand together
We could speak to each other
Or we could keep quiet
But silence is a statement
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Back Where I Started
04:44
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And when I find myself
I find myself back where I started
I let the same mistakes make me again
Come from another place
Another chance to write the story
And every redrawn path leads back to the start
Such misplaced confidence
In my ability to learn from experience
Such humility
Against all the evidence of 50,000 years
The technology changed
But the principle’s the same
The past as the draft for today
I get the narrative
What could possibly go wrong?
I thought as I strapped myself in
But the machine was so seductive
I’ve been round, I’ve been round I’ve lost count
I’m cycling time, changing lanes in my spiral
Each fix in the past, trips me up
The changes I make don’t work out the way I’d intended
New problems to solve, dig me out from new holes
And I’m, and I’m getting nowhere slowly
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End Of The Line
06:54
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There were rumours there was an end of the line
Somewhere where the single row of homes and shops and workspaces stop
An end suggests an outside
Something better left unspoken
We don’t ask anymore
A loop or a line?
There’s only one way to know
To walk to the end
There's only one way to go
Just keep walking till I find, find out if I’ll cross my path again
I’d never met anyone who’s travelled
What’s the point when the all blocks repeat?
We used to burn the loopers or the liners
but now we are more discreet
I walked and walked and I saw
Someone’s name scratched on the side of a door
I didn’t recognise the name
But I’ve been walking such a long time.
I can’t quite remember
what I used to be called
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4. |
Perky Pat
06:03
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Instrumental
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World War Terminus
03:12
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I don’t remember World War Terminus
When it started, who won?
Who caused the dust that brought the birds down?
Was it accident or design?
World War Terminus
The gap in history
The gaping wasting never ending scar
The forgotten reminder of
How far we can go when we go too far
World War Terminus
Another war to end all war
World War Terminus
Nothing left to fight for
Aggressive defence left a planet betrayed
With a sickness
It’s just the last world war again
A blank screen in history
World War Terminus
Tabula rasa
Wiper of slates
Nullify states
The elite escape
The left behind wait
I imagine we all suspect
The other side started the war
Whatever side of the planet we’re on
When no-one knows who’s to blame, where does forgiveness lie?
In a radioactive grave
I can feel what it’s doing to me
Where my mind used to be sharp
Now thinking through fuzz
I can almost feel the words in my head
But they won’t come out
My mind’s stuck, my mind’s stuck
it’s not personal
But World War Terminus
Look what you’ve done to me
Trapped on a dying world
You and I
The people who made it could afford to escape it
People like us are stuck
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Pretending To Breathe
06:31
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Instrumental
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Another Plague
07:29
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The first faceless body
The tidemark on the shore
An anonymous hand clutches a toy
Another faceless body
Under the cold flat light
The chalk cliff reflector, unveils the night
Another plague, another threat dividing
Unrecognised, unmade
Another plague, invasion of the faceless
The influx of the nameless
Landing at the shore
Another plague
Vectors cross the border
The panic spreads, on a plague siege island
Another plague, another quarantine collapses
Another plague, rear-guard fight at breaching borders
Another plague, another face that’s disassembled
All the pieces there, but the patterns gone, it spreads
I dissect, I stain, the tissue’s secrets prove
One of many, hidden away
Searching for the parasite, but there’s nothing there... there’s nothing there
First those with the least, the ones we’d hate to be
Then it spread, stealing faces of those who look different
It’s now so widespread, we’ve given up containment
I can’t recognise my friends, they don’t recognise their children
I’m scared of the mirror, I’m hiding from the image
The blind spot in the picture, as my face disappears
There was nothing to see in the skin and the bone
No problem with the fragments, the problem with the whole
The combined isn’t born in the world, it’s made inside
I turn my attention to the underside
The fusiform gyrus, yellowed and shrunken
The distorted spindle of cortical ribbon
The infection that summons
The killers and eaters
In the grey matter structures of facial recognition
The pathology not in the face of the victims
But deeply embedded in those who bear witness
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Refuge
10:23
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Instrumental
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9. |
Interlude
04:04
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Instrumental
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The Confidence Trick
06:31
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Deep inside there’s a flaw
That draws us towards the worst in us
The worst of us
It amplifies the certain
The confident and cruel
While the quiet and the grown up are ignored
We’re quick to fall for
The confidence trick
To fool ourselves
To let ourselves be used
We’ve fallen once again
For the confidence trick
And we never learn
We never learn
We’re so quick, to lose ourselves to the confidence trick
We want to believe
We’re happy to be deceived
We sell ourselves for nothing
To the oldest trick
The confident incompetent
Narcissistic slaughter-men rise
We fool ourselves that this can go on forever
Keep trying to believe all the way to the slaughterhouse door
The fool ourselves, the willing mark, for the confidence trick
And we never seem to learn, we never learn
We rush to throw ourselves under the boot of the confidence trick
And we never seem to learn, we never learn, we never learn
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11. |
Lava Lamprey
03:16
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Instrumental
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12. |
All Empires Fall
03:23
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You can take, but you can’t keep
Can’t hold forever under pressure stopping cracks spread
Watch the shell break
Watch the walls shake
Watch the slaves bail
As the empire fails
Everyone born dies
And everything made is left behind outside
In the end
Every state fails
Every head falls
Everything fades
No one’s keeping time
No one ends up alive
You rise, and you’ll fall
All empires fall
Ascent is a temporary state
It won’t last
The peak will crumble
The now will be passed
Entropy wins
Energy pales
Every state fails
Nothing is promised to be fair
Entropy wins but it doesn’t care
In the end
Every state fails
Every head falls
Everything fades
No one’s keeping time
No one ends up alive
You rise, and you’ll fall
All empires fall
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Cygnus
01:13
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No-one could have guessed, except they did
Wargame Cygnus brought to life, the gaps between the shrinking systems
No-one listened when you tried to speak
Preparations overpriced when death confined to abstract numbers
We stripped the armour from our heroes, the stockpile cost too much
We sent them to fight
Armed with applause
And it wasn’t enough
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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’
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