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What's the Meta For?

from In the Garden of Panopticon by BAAN

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Two trains, heading towards one another on the same track
There’s a baby on board, and a mother on the other near the back
The driver isn’t with us, and neither is the driver’s buddy
The trains getting nearer, the trains are gonna crash and it’s gonna get bloody
Switch the points, dim the lights, it’s all about the electricity
Nobody knows how the girl got on board, she is so pretty
Now the people in the bleachers eating popcorn, they don’t care
Baby, moma, pretty girl, they can’t be hurt, it’s so unfair

The lines converge, there is a surge
The lights go out, someone shouts
It’s a metaphor, what’s that meta for?
Keep on the track, can’t go back
But still the pretty girl dies, the pretty girl dies
Still the pretty girl dies, the pretty girl dies

And now there’s a slow motion disaster
In real life this is all happened so much faster
Thank heaven and hell we’re not stuck down here in first gear
The engine whines, we wipe away decades of tears
We hear the bones breaking, but it’s all fake
The love you make is equal to the money you take
It’s one half life against another filled with lies
These ain’t trains, they ain’t on those tracks, she cries

The lines converge, there is a surge
The lights go out, someone shouts
It’s a metaphor, what’s that meta for?
Keep on the track, can’t go back
But still the pretty girl dies, the pretty girl dies
Still the pretty girl dies, the pretty girl dies

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from In the Garden of Panopticon, released July 21, 2019

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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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