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By Design
01:52
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Oh well
another iteration
new management
I hear they mean well
But the Piss Is Old
Note to self
Dislikes I encourage
The beautiful now benign
The stain is now permanent
Motion to re-live
A state with many refills
This doctorates well received
Its an old familiar tale
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MPIPJ
02:58
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It's verbal diarrhea
It's read in a book somewhere...
Caught In The valley
Feeling contempt
I'm never able
To let things go
Caught In The valley
Feeling contempt
I'm never able
To let things go
The mynah bird recalls
Familiar patterns arise
Deja vu
Closed circuits
No way in
Taking in Pause
no change in policy
Closed circuits in
No way in
Taking in Pause
no change in policy
The mynah bird recalls
Familiar patterns arise
And these options
They fell on deaf ears
It's one way traffic
And nothings getting through
So these options
They fell on deaf ears
It's one way traffic
And nothings getting through
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Highlights
02:19
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Brass gears
Are baring teeth
At high tension
So we wind the mechanism
To achieve clockwork solutions
You'll find it written in the fine print
There's a prediction
That all publications
Will cease silently
For on the thread
That bore heavy traffic
Will be no more...
Highlights
Yeah there were some
Highlights
At the end of the day
All that's said
And all that's done
Highlights
at the end of the day
Highlights
Highlights
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Ballast
01:38
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It's contrary to popular belief
Slide of hand, Disinformation..
Integration
Its a broken structure
Of misdirection
But with ballast weight
We turn
Mitigation Goes against the grain
Blinking signals
In the rear view mirror
We turn
Another blind eye approach
Out of sight and out of mind
left on the firing line
Awaiting deportation
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Unwound
03:50
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Well yeah the current date does suggest, that when travelling between urgh point A to say point B
Urgh... this would yield similar results, to say the previous round.
Ah it was later concluded not to be true and in fact we found that time just, it doesn't wait for anyone.
And yet we never really saw eye to eye did we?
But, that was half the chemistry, the yin and yang
One balances the other
Well at least that's how it felt at the time
Anyway Ah, I hope you've been well...
Rewind
We're Back at the start
Travelling in circles
Never a straight line
We Fall through the cracks
It’s never the right time
We're circling the drain pipe
And Swimming in thoughts
Ten four, yeah they've been talking about it on the radio. I hear it's not looking good, but hey you know...
Way back at the start
it's another reset
We're Traveling in circles
and Never a straight line
We fell through the cracks
It's never the right time
We're circling the drain pipe
And swimming in thoughts
Hey, did I ever tell you... well, it was always in the back of my mind, right place right time.
Yeah one day you wake up and we'll, you know... everything's different now.
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Inland Sea
04:02
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Inland Sea
2000 years
Marine Transgression
Reduce Mass
Crystallisation
Land Deposits
Treading on water
Undertow
History recalls
Its written in the annals
Tectonic event
We're caught in the current
Enveloped By Sea
2000 years
Sea levels rising
2000 years
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Sideways
01:53
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Stumbling
To this place again
Where i find myself
In the same old stupid situation
Now...
I'm heading in the wrong direction
Now...
Lost in the dark
I'm lost in the dark
Sleeping in subways
Loops muted perceptions
It occured to me
It's a long way
Down
Heading in the wrong direction
Now
I'm lost in the dark
Lost in the dark
Now
I can't find solid ground
Now
I'm lost in the dark
Lost in the dark
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Daydreamer
03:10
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Some days I hold little hope
And this hate it keeps on manifesting
And I'm sick and tired of all the game play
We're all walking blind and out of sync
Without thought
It’s all been bent under structure
A pallet smothered, in what's new
And it's never quite what you needed
Perhaps a pointless exercise
Left for another day…
Day dreamer
Head in the clouds
Daydreamer
Head In The clouds
Daydreamer
Head in The clouds
These words are holding little weight
tensions running hot the cold
So I recoiled from this heat
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Objects
04:10
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Laying still
Like objects
We're stationary
Laying still
Like objects
We're stationary
Marketed as Leasure
Marketed as Health
Marketed
It sold at a good price
Normalised
Behaviours
Will Fall into line
Supply and demand
Its cause and effect
We bend
We buckle
The blind
Need convenience
Conditioned at birth
To feed...
Cold
And calculated
processing the data
The Statistics
Are formed
To take the breath of others
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