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Black Kite
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I couldn't open my mouth. I couldn't move my arms. So I crossed the yard, and took the lenses out. There was a black in the sky. I said, "That's my kite from yesterday". And we watched it creep away. Iain was seven, I was nine.
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Trellis III Tripod
01:52
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I am currently living as my former future self.
Making plans for what I eventually might become.
Overestimating my actual resolve.
Underestimating random chance and circumstance.
Not what I predicted I'd remember it to be.
Not what I remember I predicted it to be.
I am currently living as my former future self.
Making plans for what I eventually might not become.
Not what I remember I predicted it to be.
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Low Industry
03:17
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Help me down the mine
It's a living, the low industry
So help me down the mine
1899, we are living
Families and settlers, snake oil peddlers
Will help me down the mine
Help me down the mine
It's a living, the low industry
So help me down the mine
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Long Days
02:51
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(lyrics by Rob Wright / John Wright)
I grew days. I grew them long. I grew them short. I wasted them away. Long days - I wasted them away. Count the hours, count the minutes. Look into that hole, can you see what's in it? Long days - I wasted them away. See them stretch out behind me. See them crouch right behind me. See them pass right beside me. See them stretch out before me. Long days - I wasted them away.
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National Laboratory
03:55
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The last time we saw him here he walked up over the hill and disappeared. Lose your power. Grow old or don't. Bloody cold is the season of note.
Like a voice of impending doom, and some kind of sound from the mechanical room. A great machine, with people in between. A great machine. A great machine. There are machines, and people in between. People machines. People machines.
The last time we saw him here he walked up over the hill and disappeared.
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Eyes in Pieces
03:20
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In eyes, in pieces, in your own way.
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Spirit Duplicator
03:48
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In an empty railway town we are waiting for the sound when the cars pull tight and it echoes down the line. I thought we made a plan, just you and me and them - but we're waiting for a time that never will arrive. Late, lost, on the steps at Gaspar Cross.
We set out with the goods but there were witches in the woods. As day turned night we watched them all take flight and force us back to camp, to wait in dark and damp - to wait in damp and dark, where victory's a park. Late, lost, on the steps at Gaspar Cross.
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Clock
05:27
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Silent giant, creeps along the shore. When I ask him where he goes, he says, "No one knows me anymore".
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The Golden Library
03:54
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Descend, descend, so we can defend our knowledge of the universe. Send, resend, a message of our broken ship blown off course.
Carve, carve, cut tunnels deep under the surface. Starve, starve, we shrivel and die - making metal plates gives us purpose.
Descend, descend, so we can defend our knowledge of the second verse. Send, resend, a message of our broken ship blown off course.
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Mum and Dad
06:26
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Oh.
Inside.
In earth we go.
Or sky.
With equal souls.
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