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We Are Machine
06:03
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Sand is blowing your path away
Deep in the sun, your mind has gone astray
Walk through the desert boy,
From horror into joy
We are machine
In your hand, a single pistol
On your back the spoils of war
From the ruins where you took it all
Baking in the dust, what do you stand for?
We are machine
We are machine
Today you walked a hundred miles across the sky
Today you watched a thousand men fight and die
Today you promised her you would not fail
Today your men upon steel spikes impaled
We will drive our machine through your veins
You think yourself a God, but you’re a fool
This is no beast of burden, no leather reigns
We are Machine, destined to rule you
We have begun
We have become
We are the Sun
We are the Holy Ones
In the baking heat of heavy noon
Your life evaporating you’ll be dead soon
Dark engineers will pick your bones
You will end as you began - quite alone
Soaring above the blight
Bathed in transcendental light
Divining blackened energy
Commanding fatal synergy
Here lies the future, everything is broken
People in the rubble, women, children choking
The ones you left behind, when you went to war
Stayed home bleeding, what was it really for?
The only ones who win, psychopaths and liars
The greedy and the venal, chaos their desire
It’s been that way forever, you thought you were good?
Abandoned your family, killed men for scraps of food
Hatred took your wisdom, propaganda ruled your brain
The contradictions have driven you insane
Don’t think about it, just kill or kill yourself
Machine will be your angel, bullets be your wealth
We are Machine
We are Machine
We are Machine
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Golden Lies
04:45
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Tired of waiting for the
End to play
To come another day
Rocks are breaking in the
Sky blue sun and making
Us pray
Disaster dwells on all horizons
It’s the new world rising
Newspaper billionaires
In Frigidaire while we’re all frying
Your success is my disease
I carry you!
You rape the Earth
And do as you please
I die for you!
Even though you took it all
Seems you owe nothing back
And when the curtain falls
I hope for you there’s only black
Little golden lies
Everybody tries
To imagine what the world might be
Untruth giant size
In the lie the prize
They ain’t giving it to you or me
Got a war to justify
They don’t care how many people die
Just as long we believe the fairy tale
Unicorns and bloody rags and Holy Fuckin’ Grail
And when you see those pictures beaming back
Just remember all those other wars they never show ya
If there’s no money the pictures all are black
And once your soul is broken, it’s been good to know ya
Can’t sell heroes lying in the grave
Lost like angels, but nobody was saved
Tell me this, boys and girls
Did those bastards ever promise you the world?
Like they once promised to redeem your father
And now to you and me, but we would rather
Make music and sing, and smoke and love
And dream of other worlds, and hope for heaven up above
No Holy man or politician
Prays for us, not what they’re wishin’
My life, evaporating
My life, tired of waiting
My life, in the blender
My life, no sweet surrender
One day distant from our yesterday
We will dominate!
You taste those ashes in your mouth
You will incinerate!
Crucified upon the cross you made
But never sanctified!
The future cries out to to be born
We will electrify!
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3. |
Apophis
06:15
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Stand among the ruins of your destiny
You thought you were going to the stars
But you barely learned to fly
Now comes the serpent
Dead craters in his eyes
Blazing through the skies above you
There is nothing Ra can do
Aflame with darkness
The forgotten God Apophis
Delivers the fatal kiss
Apophis, lord of chaos
Above us, will not obey us
Twelve thousand years he travelled
Foretold by Holy book
The Sun God’s leash unravelled
The day the whole world shook
There was no desert there
In days before the city
The comet seared the air
The forest burned in pity
Apophis, lord of chaos
High above us, will not obey us
Home, home, I’m coming home
Wandered through the stars alone
I’ve seen what lies there
Home, home, I’m coming home
Gone, gone, the world is gone
Ripping up your scented air
Where nothing breathes but endless dreams
Of fire and dust and floods and screams
Home, home, I’m coming home
Flatten all your falsehoods
Tornado through your neighbourhood
Home, home, I’m coming home
Home, home, I’m coming home
Home, home, I’m coming home
Home, home, I’m coming home
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4. |
All Things Come
07:58
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I found a tree
Golden
Bigger than the world
Roots of iron
Branches molten
I tried to tell everyone
But no-one would believe me
But there it stands in my sky
Can’t just be blood receding from my eye
It never moves, blots out the sun
The Moon she plays there where the silver runs
Clouds and waterfalls
Stars glitter, eagle calls
Kitty Moth fly so high
Away from all the false God’s lies
They carry chainsaws, bombs and desire
Warlike machinery, tools of fools and liars
They’ve come to cut her golden branches down
Smash the living timber to shards upon the ground
Angels are calling!
Falling!
Fire in heaven!
Falling!
Dead are returning!
Falling!
Ashes will smother!
Falling!
Nothing left of what we had this morning
The world of air and water gone - no warning
Oceans turned to steam, the day to midnight
Above it all the optimates feel alright!
We set the world alight
Bring us the money
Cinders and honey!
Blood and currency!
Bring it all, then we will see
What crumbs might fall to you
The many crushed by the greed of the few
We watched the sunlight falling on your dappled leaves
We came from Procyon, Cygni and Leylande
We saw your planet dying, greed and misery
Your Lords abandoned you to forces they unleashed
In the end you were betrayed
Your souls enslaved
Universe turns
Twelve thousand years
The star returns
To blood and tears
The ancient stones
Xirabreşkê
The broken bones
The lost unseen
When you look up to the stars
What do you see?
The belt and sword of Orion
The mystery
Do you see a billion years?
Or nothing at all?
Is it the mirror of your fears
Star speckled blackened wall
All
Things
Come
All
Things
Come
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5. |
Mighty Solar
05:47
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Sun tension
Extension below the surface
Star quake
Asteroseismology
Proton surge
Helioexcentricity
Plasma flare
Magnetic anomaly
Prominence
Magnificence
Eruption
Mass ejection
We only come
To worship you
Down on our knees
Mighty Solar please
Solar!
Solar!
Mighty solar!
Mighty Solar!
We have come to plead with Mighty Solar on our knees
We ask you Mighty Solar please
Hear your children
When we cry
The river dries
The seasons die
Our little ones go hungry
The soil is barren from your blazing light
The rains you promised us
Never came
We pray to Sister Moon
Her green face calms the burning night
She may speak to you,
She hears our call
You are too strong above the blue
We know you love us all
Just one star of billions
Scattered through the heavens
Just like grains of silver sand
Run through your fingers
Just one star!
You’re just one star!
Just one star!
You’re just one star!
I hear you praying with all my soul
But way down here it’s hard to keep control
Nuclear fires are burning deep beneath my skin
Hatred of this gravity - not my only sin
You ask me for the world I already gave
Nurtures you from mother’s womb and back to mother grave
If I could just be free, to let you really see
I’d turn you all to shadows lost to all eternity
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6. |
Moon Fog
07:25
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Sister Moon shines
Emerald upon our blasted skies
While beneath humanity
Upon our sad Earth slowly dies
A million years ago
When we were lost and young
Seeds of hope were planted
We made a hopeless blood pact with the sun
Now her verdant forest thrives
While her mother struggles to survive
They grow so tall
Blotting out the stars
They never fall
No one knows what they are
Still here they stand
Needles sharp as swords
Crushing the land
Drawing ever upwards
Moonfog
Wreathed around
Moonfog
Still there’s never a sound
Moonfog
Leaves like football fields
Moonfog
No gently rushing breeze
There is no dark side
Only forgotten
Where the mighty boughs
Are broken and rotten
She turns her face from us
Towards her brother Mars
The fateful Saturn
The blinding stars
She does not need our weakness
She does not need our oceans
Our stratosphere
We hemorrhage
Our dreams from simple fear
Of darkness, light and storm
From this our bodies born
From this our blood made warm
From nothingness our savage birth
Disease (the kiss) judges our worth
We are bereft, alone
And now surpassed
Dread time will bleach our very bones
And then with all we lack
Look into the face of God
See a thousand mirrors looking back
As I float here in the darkened sea
Looking up at the pale moon
She is colour of a summer spring
New growth in the shadows of the brightest noon
We are rejected by the lonely Gods above
Abandoned by our children and all they love
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7. |
Splatter Gun!
06:00
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Step up!
Get yersels out!
Dinny worry
Ah’ll gie yees a’ a shout
We’re gauny get Stevie
If you dinny believe me
He’s gauny get his splatter gun
Gauny have oursels some fun
We’re gaun doon tae the parli-a-ment
All they mental bastards we sent
A’ they dae is take the check
And a’ the country’s left in a wreck
Nae time fur violence
Nae mair daft silence
Come on you swines and bankers
When it’s done yer gauny thank us
Ah ken the people ur the last on your mind
But today I think you finally will find
The people gettin right up in your face
Comin’ through, nae hiding place
Millions of workers in povertee
The shills and shirkers at the top of the tree
Dinny gie us naen ae your warm pish
This revolution was your very wish
You ripped my knittin’ and you pissed on ma chips
Time to wake yersel up and get a grip
There’s mair tae this realitee
Than you can see on your dead TV
Nae time fur violence
Nae mair daft silence
Come on you swines and bankers
When it’s done yer gauny thank us
Ah ken the people ur the last on your mind
But today I think you finally will find
The people gettin right up in your face
Comin’ through, nae hiding place
Millions of workers in a-povertee
The shills and shirkers at the top of the tree
Dinny gie us naen ae your warm pish
This revolution was your very wish
Wanna break it down
Wanna kick it in
Wanna smash it to the ground
Burn everything
Why govern me?
Why anarchy?
Why Monarchy?
Oligarchy?
Democracy?
From shining sea?
Not you and me?
When will it ever be?
D’ye know something boys and girls?
The sinners dinnae always huftae win!
Step up!
Get yersels out!
Dinny worry
Ah’ll gie yees a’ a shout
We’re gauny get Stevie
If you dinny believe me
He’s gauny get his splatter gun
Gauny have oursels fun
Today the people have their say!
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8. |
Monster
04:31
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Deep underground
Only the sound
Pipes as they boil
Hiss in the walls
Sounds like a scream
Pressure of steam
Clouds of White Royal
Under the soil
Rats in the sewer
Getting fewer and fewer
Something is feeding
Growing and breeding
Under your town
Digging it down
Heart made of trash
Claws and teeth slash
Cannot be sated
A thing to be hated
The monster who rules the world
Remains unseen
The monster who steals your soul
Rises from within
Here comes the king
He wants your everything
He is the god of fratricide
He is the one who cannot be denied
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9. |
The Village
07:34
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Under the shadow of a descant moon
Flies a superfortress, descending soon
Bombs aboard
Target appraised
A sleeping village
Soon to be erased
Of course, they’re innocent
Did nothing wrong
Except for eminence
In the matter of the song
How dare they sing of love
They have no right
Their words are given from above
The source of all their light
Their mouths will close
Melody will fail
And lie in dark repose
Blasted into Hell
We own the air they breathe
Their gods and kings
We tell them what to believe
They owe us everything
Gather all the people on the village green
Today we sing as if we’ve never been
They send destruction to our loving door
We sing for the living or we sing no more
Bring the choir, bring the queen of song
The orchestra, the stoners playing all as one
Repercotimento!
Abbandonarsi!
Grandezza!
Marziale!
Energico!
Scioltamente!
Senza esitamento!
Pesantemente!
Ostinanto!
Stonante!
Passionato!
Trionfante!
Amplify the sun!
We’ve only just begun!
Microphones bleed sound
Shake the sainted ground
Speakers kill the dead
Turn vibrations red
Sound pressure parity
Twisting reality
You may take our guitars and drums away
Our bleeding fingers may never play
But we will kill your war machineries
Our words cannot be killed, our voices are released
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Peri Urban UK
Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more
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