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Dust
02:40
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We had a funnel going into homes
filling us with best belief
We made a bunch of tunnels
from our fears fighting all with disbelief
Sun didn’t warn us, water wouldn’t say
wind didn’t whisper, fire turned dust
We shot a path but we didn’t grasp
we were lacking empathy
We didn’t worry and always hurried
into what we couldn’t see
Sun didn’t warn us, water wouldn’t say
wind didn’t whisper, fire turned dust
In and into one, one from two and moving then
Making three then four, each and then go on again
We had a funnel going into homes
filling us with best belief
We made a bunch of tunnels
from our fears fighting all with disbelief
Sun, it didn’t warn us, water wouldn’t say
wind didn’t whisper, fire turned dust
The sun didn’t warn us, the water wouldn’t say
The wind didn’t whisper, the fire turned dust
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Present Tense
02:41
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Obligate orbiter, cure connoisseur
If we can start again
start again, if we can turn if into when
Not win like less windy, when like when we make it, then
Obligate parasite, wronging every right
Anywhere we could be
We could be anywhere, in everything free
Not free like lost freedom, free like greed, like we don’t need
We’ll keep making our lists, we’ll keep taking
We’ll keep checking boxes, and take take take, take take take, taking
Obligate eolian being, wholly in
Then always dust to dust
Dust to dust, dust to dust just forever must
Not must like just musty, must like we need do now
Not now like what just went dense, now like the gift: present tense
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Glow
02:49
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You know what I love? I love in the sea and in your eyes I see the same
Circle round the glow. Round and round we go
You know what I love? I love in the sky and in your heart I feel the same
Circle round the glow. Round and round we go
It’s all surrounding us, one with us. It’s all life
We know what we love? We love in the sea and in our eyes we see the same
Circle round the glow. Round and round we go
Circle round the glow. Round and round we go
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Changer
02:51
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Changer changer rearrange my mind
Danger danger range of what we can find
Always always moving, we should be improving
Getting stranger stranger, changer changer changer
Switcher switcher twitch this time around
Clicker clicker flicker so we see you
Always always moving, we should be improving
Getting stranger stranger, changer changer changer
We go further from the start,
we go further from us always
Maker maker make me think this right
Waker waker wake us up
Always always moving, we should be improving
Getting stranger stranger, changer changer changer
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5. |
We Are
03:27
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In the air and through all dirt below
under ocean all the fire we are
below soil, above wind within us
without motion all the fire we are
Time before we could share
our brains but after we could share skin getting thin
over those days and nights we were knocked down
Under all, again we wondered
what was in the air and why weren’t we up there
In the air and through all dirt below
under ocean all the fire we are
below soil, above wind within us
without motion all the fire we are
Then we invented gods with greed,
mistakes, and egos not unlike our own
so it soon followed then that every one
became abandoned wondering
what was in the air and why weren’t we up there
In the air and through all dirt below
under ocean all the fire we are
below soil, above wind within us
without motion all the fire we are
All the fire we are
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6. |
Circles
02:21
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We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
Twist twist twist all day long
Shake shake shake all night long
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
See and let see, be and let be
Give and let give, live and let live
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
Spin spin spin all day long
Move move move all night long
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
We go in circles round the light. We go in circles round the light we go
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Control
02:50
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Well-meaning proles are of no use again
We feed, work slow, and all complain
Well-coded droids looking alive, amen
They work well, they won’t tell, they work well, they won’t tell
We march on & through the end
We march on & through the end again
Complete control is in their hands, again
They breed, die slow, and all maintain
Complete black hole of data now and then
They work well, they won’t tell, they work well, they won’t tell
We march on & through the end
We march on & through the end again
Still we roam through this empty void
breeding lemming flies with automaton souls
Somehow we can’t sleep
Third time through this thinking these thoughts again
Tangled twisted our ball and chain
Third war looking more all is loss than win
They work well, they won’t tell, they work well, they won’t tell
We march on & through the end
We march on & through the end again
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Forever
02:30
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Day after day, we can make it good
for all we can see under sun
better begins with us right now
better begins with us forever
Night after night, we can spark the fire
For all we can bring under moon
better begins with us right now
better begins with us forever
We don’t find a way, we don’t get the glow
Forever either a way or away we go
Year after year, we will go around
For all we were around the sun
better begins with us right now
better begins with us forever
better begins with us right now
better begins with us forever
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9. |
All This Again
03:26
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We all want to be here and there and now
from all things we are this nowhere know how
some say we tumble some say we spin
some say we’ll see all this and do all this again, then
we all want to be one within this sea
then to see it when we end one journey
some say we tumble some say we spin
some say we’ll see all this and do all this again, then
We’re not sure but we’ve got some rules
only for you, not me. No.
In the open ocean see moon raise sea
up and over all things wake wind make me
some say we tumble some say we spin
some say we’ll see all this and do all this again, then
do all this again, then
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10. |
Static
06:01
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Moving moving going through every space and none are new
we’ve seen this we’ve seen this over and over and over
Doing doing what we do in our life and our death too
we’ve seen this we’ve seen this over and over
like this move this way and still we turn our eyes away then static
new things new things only new we think us but don’t know who
we’ve seen this we’ve seen this over and over
like this move this way and still we turn our eyes away then static
we don’t recognize ourselves in the rippled water, in the water, in the static
Moving moving going through every space and none are new
We’ve seen this we’ve seen this. We’ve seen this over and over
like this move this way and still we turn our eyes away then static
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Eolian Denver
Eolian: (adjective) Relating to, caused by, or carried by the wind.
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