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Beginnings
01:50
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Don't you think that all the best beginnings are also endings?
Don't you think that all the best beginnings are also endings?
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2. |
Beyond Mars
03:08
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It was cold as the Twitter-scape.
It was fake as electric vape.
There was only a sense that there could be more than this.
There was nothing about the place
but a sign called hope
close to the door,
and the sign said
watch me singing karaoke,
hear me playing my acoustic,
latest internet sensation due,
drug me, stop me feeling sad,
out here in space, far away,
on a planet beyond Mars.
Make a wish upon a planet.
We began to feel ill again.
It was time for a pill again.
They were given out for free so it was not hard to refuse.
To be honest they gave a certain sense of not caring at all,
makes it easier to
keep on singing karaoke,
keep on playing my acoustic,
keep on following the facebook feed,
helps me, stops me feeling sad,
out here in space, far away,
beyond Mars.
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3. |
House of Glass
03:11
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I'm alone but I'm with my friends;
I type out a message and I pretend.
Follow me to a world of things that I like,
and click like.
You can count popularity,
you can see who I like and see who likes me.
It's a game, only this game never ends,
so come and play in the room in the screen of life,
with the friends you don't know,
and me in the house of glass.
I'm a clown with a painted smile
to show to a world that is in denial.
It's control and we all have bits of a string we can pull
I would like to request you as a friend,
as a friend,
friend.
You can leave,
but I must make clear,
that your work, love and friendships are all on here
you can pay to be famous if you want.
so come and play in the room in the screen of life,
with the friends you don't know,
and me in the house of glass
spend your time at the screen of life,
with your friends and pretend,
with me in the house,
with us in the house,
alone in the house,
of glass.
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4. |
Looking for a Lover
03:46
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Welcome to the love zone...
Lookin' for a lover?
Look online.
Lookin' for a one night stand?
Lookin' for a lover?
Take your pick:
woman or a man.
Lookin' for a lover?
Look online.
Everythin' we got on show.
Lookin' for a lover?
Look all day.
It's all free to go.
Lookin' for a lover,
look all night
knowin' that they won't look back.
Come a little closer, come
into the trap...
Specify your desire...
All free...
All free...
All free love.
Lookin' for a lover?
Look online.
Everybody lookin' there.
Lookin' for a lover,
black or white;
everybody got a share.
Lookin' for a lover?
Look online.
Get it over in a blink.
Lookin' for a lover?
Sit and click.
Love at your fingertips.
Lookin' for a lover,
look all night
knowin' that they won't look back.
Come a little closer, come
into the trap...
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5. |
Masculinity Two
04:08
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You can blink at me slowly,
you can flicker your lips,
but it won't get to my,
metal heart.
You can signal me baby,
send me sex in your sips,
but it's ice in the soul,
of the dark.
Welcome to the new paradise,
what do you want to do?
Want to come and a play game with me tonight?
Masculinity two.
Welcome to the new paradise,
What do you want to do?
Want to come and a play game with me tonight?
Masculinity two.
This is what you all wanted.
This electro control.
This is love into fire,
into death.
So keep signalling baby,
I'll keep looking away,
as I drink as I die,
as I play.
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6. |
The Trees
06:48
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Here
in the trees
of people we
hide from the
sound of their
wooden bones
that crisp
and creak we hear
them whisper about
us their voices
control us
the voices
we speak to,
type to,
at night;
they are trees.
They are trees!
Their voices control
us they shout
as one they
shout the trees
shout the trees
of people.
The trees
of people
silence us
make us scream
inside
the trees
make us
scream.
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7. |
Love in a Hopeless World
03:44
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In the search box
wandering from thing to person
looking for a new attraction
for a brief dis-traction
in a dead fog
in an ice void of thought
like a lost astronaut
grasping for comfort
Seeking love, love, love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
Make excuses
anything to be evasive
thinking of a god to play with
something to escape with
these are cold streets
need a beer to keep warm
I'm a sparrow in swarm
searching for comfort
Seeking love, love, love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
Love in a hopeless world
Love! Love!
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8. |
Two Kinds of Animals
04:16
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There are two kinds of animals in this world,
the ones that are useful within this world,
and ones that are useless within in this world...
There are those that like towns like the fox and rats,
and those that avoid us like birds and bats,
but unless they can help us we put out traps...
There are those that have comforting barks and meows.
and those that we eat like the sheep and cows.
but the rest are a pest and are not allowed...
They must all be our slaves!
Be our slaves or die!
Message from central control: all humans must report to unit four for reprogramming.
What kind of animal are you?
What kind of animal are you?
Are you useful to us?
There are two kinds of animals in this world,
the ones that are useful within this world,
and ones that are useless within in this world...
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9. |
All the Broken Flowers
03:18
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All the broken flowers that she gave me
as Christmas presents, as birthday gifts.
She gave what she could, but had nothing.
Oh how pitiful, the anguish.
All the broken flowers that she gave me,
lined up on the window sill waiting for entropy
to eat them away, like her bones, her hair
now grey and lost, the anguish.
Eight summers since we met, five of rain.
How being downtrodden can be addictive,
and how romantic nostalgia is
hiding the awful truth in a cloud of pink scent
of flowers.
Eight summers since we met, five of rain,
and now she is gone to heaven.
How romantic nostalgia is
like a cloak of comfort for the tears.
Perhaps if I'd loved the flowers more
she wouldn't have broken.
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10. |
Notes from Space
03:48
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Night rain falls
I stare in from outside
Watch the lace-wings of water die
head first cascade into deep tumble
whirls of moonlit dust
a straggle of refugees
grey pink explosions
across the plate of the earth
beings deep crushed inside
hazelnuts, bathyspheres, deep crushed
the ice rain bites
blades of water scream
and crash through
falling night.
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11. |
Coming Back to Earth
06:46
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Hello from the sea,
you look lost,
did you miss me?
I was dying.
Now I'm free.
Now I'm back to save you,
Be happy.
You look like you've been through a tough time
through the wars, on your own,
your sunken eyes and paranoia,
feel like a stranger in your home,
but it's all over now.
Yes it's all over now.
Yes it's all...
Lookin' for a lover?
Here I am.
Switch off the power to your master,
take my hand, to your heart.
The years of emptiness are over,
all it took was a god...
and a miracle!
So it's hello from the sea,
take my hand, come with me.
I was dying.
Now I'm free.
Now I'm back, for you.
Be happy.
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12. |
The Stars
04:31
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I like to look at the stars light
glitter, like my mind
silver ice, like my mind
alone in the sea of night.
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13. |
Endings
02:09
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Don't you think that all the best beginnings are also endings?
Don't you think that all the best beginnings are also endings?
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Mark Sheeky Crewe, UK
Mark Sheeky is a surrealist artist from the North of England. His music began as synth, game influenced, music then experimental classical piano and art rock/art pop, and surrealist rock music.
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