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Railyard
03:33
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There is light at the edge of a shadow
It's a glow that you might not detect
It's like gold at the tail of a rainbow
A treasure you can not collect
Friends I am calling, I want to be near
All that I have is in you
There is night at the edge of each morning
It is day that will always come through
It is life in mid-act of forming
Like a wish that can only come true
Friends I am falling but I feel you near
All that I learn is from you
Memory calling and focusing clear
What I now see is through you
There's a train at the end of the railyard There is a train at the end
It is standing abandoned alone coming to you my friend
The vines are graffiti are growing the vines have finally grown
The words have found their home
There's a star at the end of Creation
It seems very far and alone
Quasar is pulsing
The heart is still beating
Hope against hope to come home
Gravity's shrinking, it's floating away
Far, far from this place
Gravity take me and pull me away
My body to space
My body to space
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Waking
Up from the dream
I am alive in a walking machine
Robot
Answer my call
Nobody knows what it's like
In the virtual
Lately
Nothing means anything
I am alive in an adding machine
Honey
Don't be unsure
Metal is nice when the circuit is pure
Robot
Answer my call
Robot
Don't tell a soul
'Cos nobody knows what it's like in the virtual
In the virtual
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3. |
A Storm of Cats
02:34
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Where have you been my sweet cat Delia
Where have you been by the potting shed?
I have been sunning by the barnyard
With my eyes closed
I noticed no dead
Where have you been my fierce cat Freda
Have you been by the potting shed?
Nay, have I been gathering long grass
Chasing my tail
I discovered no dead
And where were you my sleek cat Celia
By the shed have your little paws tread?
Rarely would I be dallying thereward
Thru puddles?
I never encountered the dead
When all my cats were gathered together
And we did go to the potting shed
A violence so awful I care not remember
The stems and the petals
'A twisted and dead
The stems and the petals
'A twisted and dead
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4. |
Never Gonna Go
03:43
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One day down, a day away, a day away
One day down, a day away
In Quentin Quick's cathedral, I was ensnared by something evil
And snatched into the spotlight - A god to fool the people
I'm stuck in this tomb – Everyday - I'm never gonna get away
I don't like what I do - I don't like what I say, but I'm never gonna get away
I can't be the one to free them - I am a puppet of the Priests
There's no escape, they trapped me like some domesticated beast
But something stirs inside me - An appetite that wants to feast
Some accidental transfer and I have been unleashed
..I will be released
The times they are a'changing
One day down , a day away, A day away
You're never gonna get away, get away, get away cuz I'm never gonna go away
You know I know it's over
And I will be okay
I know you know it's over
Will never be the same
I know I know it's over
But I will rise again
You know although it's over
I'll never go away
I will be okay
I'm never gonna go away
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5. |
Pyramid
04:13
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I always thought that it was true
I always thought that you had been there too
Among the million bits of sand
Everyday I come for you
I'll be there in your dreams
And you'll be there with me too
I always knew we were entwined We are three
I always knew that we three were entrined Three is what are we
Beneath a hundred million stars
Every night I look for you
I'll be there in your dreams
Every night I wait for you
And you'll be there
Too
We are all we knew
We are only what is true
Amid the hundred million stars
All my days I offer you
I'll be there in your dreams
And you'll be there with me too
All my days I offer you
All my days I do
I never thought that I was wrong
I always knew we three belonged
To some primeval family
All my days I offer you
You'll be there in my dreams
And I'll be there
For you
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6. |
There's Only One of You
02:37
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The fury of ten thousand years
It flashes once then disappears
I stand by and gather tears
It's all because of you
It all comes down to you
It's all because of you
It all comes down to you
There's only one of you
There's only one of you
All men face a thousand tests
Springing from their loneliness
Lately I've abandoned rest
All because of you
All because of you
There's only one of you
There's only one of you
The fool who caused a thousand rifts
Was feeling psycho-generous
Holographic litmus test
That I'll explain to you
I'll explain to you
I'll explain to you
I'll explain to you
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7. |
Orangutan
02:57
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Orangutan waiting for the perfect vine
Orangutan don't you know I love your side/sign
Orangutan waiting for the other side
Orangutan motion from the other side
Orangutan don't lose your sand
That used to drive you wild
Orangutan you lose your sand
Waiting for the other side
Just waiting for the other side
Orangutan banging on the garden wire
Orangutan don't ya know I love your fire
Orangutan I wish you could go outside
Orangutan I'll see you another night
They say that you will be extinct by 2085
Because the space that is your place will no longer be wild
Playing on the other side
Orangutan ain't it good to be alive
Orangutan don't ya know I love your mind
They say that you and I will walk together miles forever
They say that you and I we share a vine that can't be severed
Playing on the other side
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8. |
Sick of Me
05:41
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I'm sick of me - I'm sick of me
I hear my voice - I want to scream
I'm sick of me and what I see
In your eyes when you look at me
Eyes that say I'm beautiful, they are so wrong
I don't belong in your company
Hands above the clouds and underground
I want to join with you somehow
I'm sick of me - what I've become
I loved you more, more than anyone
You think I'm so wonderful, it won't be long
I don't belong in your company
You don't know the half of it and if you did
You'd want rid of my company
My eyes say you're beautiful - They are not wrong
And you belong in my company
I'm sick of me - I'm sick of me
Because of you what you must see
I'm sick of me - All I can say
I look at you - Make it go away
I still say you're wonderful, the way you are
The way you are in my company
I want it
I love it
I need it
Yes I do, yes I do, yes I do, yes I do…
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9. |
In Search of Bitter Ore
04:05
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Saints forgive me
I have chosen to wander with the wind
Beside the ragged nasturtiums
I have fasted but for them
Saints preserve me, I was broken
But that was then
Honour avenge me, be my armour
I will follow to the end
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10. |
Body to Space
05:34
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I was there, your dear cat faithful
Up the tree by the potting shed
Aye, but I was very careful
Nobody knew
I saw what they did…..
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11. |
Watching Machine
02:28
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I been telling you
All tomorrows will change
I been telling you
I been telling you
Everything's getting strange
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Yeah
We are viewing the world
Through antennae eyes
We can see who you are
Isn't that nice?
Before we had war
But now
We have sight
It's a watching machine
And it knows what it's seen
Yeah
We are watching you now
From remote satellite
And we've seen it all in the surveillance light
Now the walls have eyes
Isn't that great?
Once there was a choice
But now it's too late
It's a watching machine
And it's cold and it's mean
Yeah
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Yeah
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Yeah
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12. |
Run Singing Tiger
03:37
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Run singing tiger
Like you've never run before
Run if you want to
Right across the floor
Beware the stinging viper
That lurks outside the door
Run if you got to
Til you can run no more
Run singing tiger
Like you've never run before
Run if you want to
Right across the floor
Beware the swimming hydra
That's moving from the shore
Run if you got to
Run and run some more
Run for Paul
Run for Silas
Run for Julie
For us all….
[Inspired by a poem by Devon Moffat which included the line "Run Singing Tiger"]
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13. |
Benediction
04:05
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We breathe upon the land to grow
And root into the deep to know…
We dig into the sand to find
the grain of matter made divine
We cheat the death that night will bring
By everyday awakening
[Recorded live at 5 am]
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