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Our Future Past
01:59
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We had a good time
Somewhere round the start
Its our last trial in fire
Oh My companion star
But don’t let it die
Don’t let it slip past
Into final darkness
Into our future past
Reading about the river’s not the same as fishing and it’s something that we never got to do
If I could reach into the past then I could spend that time with you
But all I have are bits and pieces of puzzle that resemble something of a distant memory
And if it’s true that this is all I’ll ever have then you can rest assured I’ll keep it for eternity.
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2. |
Middleground World
03:18
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Is there any way to get it?
memory in my eye
It just came crashing in
Now I feel I want to die
(Or be there)
I can smell everything
I can taste the air
The memory now
trying to get out
Try to get out
What i can’t get out
Things I forgot about
Wisdom id thrown out
Connections that could bring me about
And put me back where I was
But it’s just too quick a look
What am I supposed to do
With broken words from a book?
And why now
when I’ve come to accept
Annie’s never coming back
The numb little world I cater to
Where everything fits
Is missing bits
And I have come to notice this
Middle ground world
Its not it
It’s not it
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3. |
Convincing Myself
03:13
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The Door throws wide a clear blue lake
I stand paralysed in its wake
convincing myself that it’s fake
With every step back I take
haven’t been here in a long time
Still Hearing your voice in place of mine
Forgotten what it’s like to (feel)
(Feeling again for the first time in so many years)
Too afraid to allow myself to heal
(Healing and yet I don't recognise anything here)
I figured that this day would come
(Come time to clear the slate, write a new program again)
After All of the signs had come and gone
(Gone are the days where I let myself get that "sucked in"
The program’s become standalone
(Alone in the darkness I think I can find a way)
I Convince myself and the seed is sewn
(Backward through time to a place I would like to stay)
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4. |
The Problem of Time
04:27
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Shut up in my room I took down from the shelf my best wine
Went stumbling backwards trip fell clipped the table behind.
With a bump to to the head I went out for a while in the night
Deep in a dream i was headed fast towards a
blue light
The final sum id begun working on to overcome the problem of time
two parts of the equation lay to each side of the answer obscured by its shine
Stepping up closer I feel my feet sink down before I can reach the answer in time
Scrambling up from the muck
I see the parts fall away down a well
The closer I get I can make out the shape of a symbol in blue suspended in air
Heart beating faster I reach out to grasp it and take it before it’s pulled into hell
Bring it back home safe from the dream to complete the ARC lest I should wake from this spell
Annie’s suspended somewhere in time
But I feel she is close and she’s ringing her bell
Clasping the sign all at once I can see the shape how elegant it was in the end
Unaware how my body was stretching and bending down into darkness pulled by the well
Down into Darkways and downways I went holding the answer in my arms I fell
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5. |
Reconnaissance
03:29
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How much of it did I outrun though the void?
See I never had a chance to look behind me.
Tell me how bad do you wanna live?
Are you willing to let it go?
Are you busy clearing a path through all these windings?
Displacement
Remember what this place meant?
A family album in the basement
Smiling faces lit up by the casement
But now you’re
Torn between an ever widening gap
Knowing you can never bring them back
I don’t know if you can hear me
Just want you to know that it will be alright
Somehow you are near me
My heart is letting in the light
What am I doing?
Shouldn’t I be where you are?
Why does it feel like I can’t come close?
Why does it feel so far?
I can’t think of a reason
Maybe it’s all just pride
Maybe I can’t take failure
Maybe I can’t decide
Maybe what’s left is too much
Maybe I’m scared to let go
Maybe somehow I’ll realise
Maybe somehow I already know
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6. |
The A.R.C
03:07
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The softest times
All enshrined
Took place and precedence
I’m my mind
Of my kind
Belonging to
And so I went
Memory
I need you more
Than anything
Hey Harry Hey
In time I will follow you.
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7. |
Malfunction
07:13
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Analog
Silicone
Saw a log
Thoughts of home
All I can do
See it now
Reach back somehow
Failing
Falling
Terminal
Gravity well
Silicone propels us backwards
Against the pull inward
Down inside
I feel
Somethings wrong
Built it strong but somethings wrong
Malfunction
Dream awake
All is fake
Hallucinating now
Spells our fate now
It’s malfunctioned somehow
Signal Won’t go
Can’t escape
Terminal
Pulling
Stretching
We’re the test ape
Thoughts of home
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8. |
Annie
03:06
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[Good morning captain
Your current location is earth
Please remain seated until Atom regrouping is complete]
Ok
I’m Taking off my mask
I’m tired of hide and seek
Besides
It’s getting dark fast
Something tells me
Something tells me
You’re just behind that tree
Annie?
I want to go home Harry
Come on let’s go home
I can’t
Don’t make me go searching for you
Don’t leave me here alone
I wont
Why can’t you come with me?
I can’t take this anymore
Annie I
Shhhh
As I lay me down to die
You’ll Wake up on the shore
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9. |
M.I.A
03:49
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At first I heard a call
Some kind of bird or skink
I was without my crystal ball
To sit alone and think
Slowly now returning
Small pieces of me
They were never gone
Only in hiding
Water laps my feet
I can feel the wet
receiving and transmitting
Strengthening the net
Pathways reconnect
Now I recollect
Now I recollect
Most All I did forget
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10. |
Layaways
03:13
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There you lay
My Layaway
Is Safe To Say
That youre tucked away
In Darkways?
Thought you got away
With everything I paid
But hey…
How could I forget you?
I remember!
I’m comin
Im comin
Im comin
to get you
Come December
Well I’m
Comin
Comin
I’m comin to get you
Come December
For one time in my life
Something feels so right
I feel so warm inside
I’ll take you in my stride
Together
With Arms open wide
You know I’m on your side
Besides
how bout this weather
Lying in wait
Just round the bend
It’s over
I’m coming
You’re it
The end
Wont you leave the porch light on
Lying in wait
Just round the bend
It’s over
I’m coming
You’re it
The end!
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11. |
Superposition
03:28
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A soul who cried out in darkness
(Now we are all together
We’re all here at last)
A soul who followed the sound
(Every single moment
Future Present Past)
Once found brought them family
(We go on forever
And ever we last)
The two of them were bound
(Everything is super now
In the sun we bask)
Hearts tried in fire
(By the lake we picnic
In rivers we raft)
Blasting their convection zones away
(Summer’s here forever
Fishing lures cast)
Now All that remains is a hole
(Blue sky sunny weather
Evening overcast)
Pitch black in the light of day
(All summer endeavours
Forever)
(We are all together
What more could we ask?)
Apple core
Nothing more
(Everything is super now
By the sea we bask)
Except a seed
And An open door
(Light and love and laughter
Echo down the path)
I’m the hope
Im the permanent marker
(Winds carry our voices
We raise every mast)
And I’ll be damned if I let you
rub me out of existence
(Embark the vessel
Return to the past)
You know I wont be going down without a fight and kicking
(Leave this world forever and ever)
See I’ve already filled the position.
(Future
Present
Past)
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12. |
Homecoming
04:53
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Hello darling I’m back
Home with you again
But my feet don’t touch the ground
Not a “soul”
Sweet family
Pass me round this “living room”
Tragic
How tragic
I’m my mind
I’m in hell
It was a senseless death
It was a senseless death
But when I realised the truth
It was too late
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