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Sold The Peace
04:15
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We risked it all
To set the world free
Dead or free
The opportunity cost of the unused bombs
So much invested
We stormed the citadel
Then bought the lease
We won the war
We sold the peace
The laundromat and the golden visas
The superyachts off stunning beaches
The bot farms steer the will of the people
Auctioned lunches with your chosen leaders
We spent you to your knees
We won the war and sold the peace
Kensington flats via Cayman shells
Tax is a choice for unearned wealth
Power sucked to phallic towers
Money oils and oil powers
Unpublished reports, nothing to see
Privacy trumps transparency
Secret courts and missing reporters
We beat you first but then you bought us
We spent you to your knees
We won the war and sold the peace
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800 years, the light waves creeping
An ancient mistake
A starlight weapon
I wanted to show you
How long it takes
The bright moment
Then the dark
I wanted to show you
The light of ancient mistakes
By the light of dying stars
You might see differently
I brought you here to show you
The night sky bright
The moment of radiation
The glow of expiring light
I’ve known for years
But I needed you to see, for yourself
To look up and see the silent light. And think.
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Sixteen Hugless Years
03:52
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You packed your Harrod’s suitcase and left
You didn’t even slam the door
I was left
With a hole
I didn’t grow up, I just got older
I was only five years old
Sixteen hugless years
Sixteen long, long years
I’ve grown old and I’m cold and hard but I’m told
I’m the life and soul but it feels so hollow
After 16 hugless years
You never said goodbye
You never sent a birthday card
No apology or tears
You didn’t call
You’re gone, you’re ill, you’re bad or dead
The story keeps on changing
If or when you’re mentioned at all
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The Glamour Boys
04:37
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The city has changed
The sparkle faded
The colour drained by red and black
It used to be somewhere where we could
Be ourselves
Could live be without fear
The party’s almost over,
My friends are disappearing
So many gaps
The empty spaces left
Behind the barbed wire fences
It opened my eyes
They call us the glamour boys
The punishment for speaking out
The leaks and smears and telephone taps
The hints the threat the veiled attacks
They call us the glamour boys
To force us into shadows
To warn us off from speaking out
But it’s gone too far
We were taken to a camp
Where everyone I spoke to gave the same reply
Word for word, while avoiding my eyes
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Gothi and Gethli
03:37
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“How are you”, well I’m meant to answer
It’s not like I’m trying to drag you down
But I don’t like dishonesty
And I can see that I’m veering off script now
I hate the question though it’s well intentioned
If it’s just a turn phrase, please can I pass?
Let’s skip from hello to the content
And save us both an awkward moment
I keep on, but it’s just momentum
I keep going as I know if I slow I might stop
I don’t want to give up, I don’t want to give in
But I’m scared
So let’s not go there
I keep smiling
So you might not notice
That I’m falling apart
I’m close to an edge
I need help
If this time you’re really asking
I’m tired and everything hurts
And there are times when I feel less broken
I feel like a fake, a fraudulent spokesman
Wearing a badge I look like I’ve stolen
So I push myself
My mistake, well what a surprise
I’ve done it again
I’ve pushed myself too far
And each time I tell myself
That I’ve learned to ask for help
Well I haven’t
I keep on, but it’s just momentum
I keep going as I know if I slow I might stop
I don’t want to give up, I don’t want to give in
But I’m scared
So let’s not go there
I keep smiling
So you might not notice
That I’m falling apart
I’m close to an edge
I need help
If this time you’re really asking
I’m tired and everything hurts
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Walking To Aldebaran
08:55
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The same face at every angle
That tempted me into this long cold exile
(my amateur Minotaur cosplay maze)
The traps, the drops and the gravity changes
The unpredictable air that I’ve learned to breathe
(I’m quite an atmospheric connoisseur these days)
I can’t take anymore of the the scritchy scratchy whispery whine
Of the voices in my head
I’ve become what the monsters are scared of
I’ve been changed by the mother machine
I am the thing that used to be me
I was the pilot
They didn’t mention getting lost, and eating corpses,
When I was at astronaut school
If 7 year old me was told
He’d be huddled in the cold
Trying to digest
Long dead explorers
Maybe I’d have said train driver instead
Let’s pretend we’re having a conversation
I used to talk to myself to keep me sane
But I think we’ve moved a bit beyond that, don’t you?
As I’m the only human here
I get to pick the names
Maybe I’m too sentimental
But the caterpillar men are now clive
Telling jokes to monkey insect cyborg things
I only want to talk
Let’s engage like civilised monsters -
What’s for tea?
Air dried flank of Clive again
The mother machine
Takes me apart
And builds me back cell by cell
And changed
I’d say don’t go
If I could go back again
And talk to the little me
The one with astronaut dreams
Don’t send me
I’m so hungry
I’m so lonely
I think there’s been a misunderstanding
By the light of my Clive leg torch
I keep searching
I keeping looking for someone
Someone, that looks just a bit like me
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Goodbye Cassini
04:40
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The Man Who Japed
05:10
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Burn The World
05:50
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There’s unbroken sea
Where an island used to be
The coral bleached
The sandbags breached, long ago
The desert is winning
The forest is thinning
The rain that used to fall
Now floods or none at all
And not much in between
We could have made
But it’s easier to break
We could have tried
But it’s easier to fake
We could have taken care
We could have cared
Just enough to give ourselves a chance
But it’s easier to fail
We never learned to change
All the things we could have done, and we chose to burn the world
So many chances slip
And so many of us wait
For someone else to blink
For someone else to make the change
While we drift
So much life to live
And so much life to save
From ourselves, but we threw it all away
What have we left for you?
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Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate London, UK
London based Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland on their own or with Kathryn
Thomas.
They combine prog/alt-rock, classical, minimalist, and electronic elements. The often explore scientific, sci-fi, and historical themes.
Hard Rock Hell magazine -'unlikely stars who stole the show’
Recommended by Steve Hackett
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