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There’s a story to be told
Like all stories never old
We have grown with science fiction
Ever closer now to home
We’re all hooked on social media
Mirroring turned on machines
We’re defaulting on standby
What about AI?
We borrow from the future
The clock is ticking
All day long
I’ve been sitting here making a song
Without a care I am not elsewhere
And where should I be?
We’re still sitting in our time machines
Craving for our meanings
And we can only reap from what we are sowing
Fee-fee-feeding from a narrative
That gives us all anxiety
We want to be together
Now connected through the ether
Our identities meet with entities
And it’s a crowded shore
Pay attention to the noise
You can’t listen to one voice
We borrow from the future
The clock is ticking
All day long
I’ve been sitting here making a song
Without a care I am not elsewhere
And where should I be?
We’re still sitting in our time machines
Craving for our meanings
And we can only reap from what we are sowing
Time machines
Time machines
Time machines
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2. |
Andy Under Stars
03:26
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Hands onto the camera, is this New York?
In his mind a movie with the Factory’s cohort
He’s not seen in galleries, just goes for rides
He plays with roles, he thinks he’s Andy Warhol
Until night when the stars will surround him in the dark
When the stars will surround him in the dark
In the park on the bench unsuspecting lovers steal a kiss
Caught on camera the stars will surround him in the dark
When the stars will surround him in the dark
In the lens here is Lou as he’s coming down now the streets are red
With the sun on the steering wheel tracking Edie upon her sad, sad smile
This world is full of stars, this camera keeps rolling
It’s slowly getting dark, he just walks away
Disappears into the shop, makes provisions for the night
Here comes night when the stars will surround him in the dark
When the stars will surround him in the dark
Watching washing machines, the rise and fall of the clothes in the launderette
Counting coins, silver moons keep on rolling in the dark
When the stars will surround him in the dark
While the sound of the motor sings a spin cycle to the west
And the moon light here on the counter laid in a starlet contest
Now he goes around, imaginary car
Dreaming of the Velvet Underground under the stars
But the only place he knows too well is on this bench
Under silver clouds, a Campbell soup, a beer, a blanket
Here comes night when the stars will surround him in the dark
When the stars will surround him in the dark
Painting streets under stars in the dark
Daring dreams that seem to keep falling apart
Sleeping in a cardboard box on a cold night
And he’s gone, spark out under the elements
Then the stars will surround him in the dark
Then the stars will surround him in the dark
In the dark
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3. |
We Are Stars
04:08
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We are stars from another time
We’ve been here many many times
We’re the seers, we’re the ones you go to
When you fear there’s nowhere to go
If you climb to the top you see
We are bright, up all night, you blink
Generating sound
Here we are all around
We are stars in the great unknown
Frequencies could be the key
High and low, make the universe, the world go around
To the tune you don’t know just yet
If you climb to the top you see
We are bright, up all night, you blink
Generating sound
Here we are all around
Now you think you have found the stars
You’re surrounded
You are a star from another time
You’re the brightest thing
Obscuring our capacity
To extrapolate ourselves from your blinding light
We are stars from another time
We’ve been here many many many times
We’re the seers, we’re the ones you go to
When you fear there’s nowhere to go
We are stars
We are stars
We are stars
We are stars
We are stars
We are stars
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Since this roller coaster of a ride
That took us by surprise
We’ve seemed to want to dance
So now we dance
Never danced like this before
Every single step of tango, waltz
Dissipates our thoughts
Drill and dubstep, house and techno
Want to dance, so now we dance
Never danced like this before
Every time
Every time
Every time it’s bleak we dance
Every time
Every time
Every time it’s bleak we dance
Where the hell have we just been
I feel that we’re stepping on shaky ground
Our feet tap upon egg shells
We’d better do the light step
Don’t wanna see the peak yet
If we’re lost in another black hole
Just another black thought
We go foxing the trot trot
Clouds disintegrate
There’s hope, in the aftermath we blossom
Every time
Every time
Every time it’s bleak we dance
Every time
Every time
Every time it’s bleak we dance
We’ve seemed to want to dance
So now we dance
Never danced like this before
Want to dance
So now we dance
Never danced like this before
Every time
Every time
Every time it’s bleak we dance
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You say nothing to say it all
If nothing counts as nothing then I’m sold
I forget to be forgetful, write this down
House bound a new effective ground
You say nothing to say it all
The book has told me nothing but I fall
I count on an angel off duty
Always just a futility of life
If that is beauty I know I will fall
Could be just peeking into nothing more
When you want to erode into nothing
It could just stop you sinking too far
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
You say nothing to say it all
If nothing counts as nothing then I’m sold
I’m not so sure if nothing’s at the door
Even Pierrot strikes a pose on the moon
Generally speaking
We could always be just
Peeking into nothing
There is more, just thinking
Stops you sinking when you
Want to fall to nothing
All because
If that is beauty I know I will fall
Could be just peeking into nothing more
When you want to erode into nothing
It could just stop you sinking too far
If that is beauty I know I will fall
Could be just peeking into nothing more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
Oh, there’s nothing I want more
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Eyeliner
04:37
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Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
Boy you’re wearing your eyeliner
Dressed for show 24/7
Something about your self-awareness
You know just how to push
All the right buttons and yet
You’re still subtle in the limelight
You’re a casualty of pleasure
Dressed in sequins sparked in white lines
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you know just how to get your way
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you know just how to get your way
Walking the streets at night blinded by car lights
In and out of bars, your sore eyes gazing
At the stars, they are invisible in the city at night
But you, you are rather high
Like the stars
Boy you’re wearing your eyeliner
Pushing bars, pursuing the future
Singing songs, capturing creatures
Night after night
Pinned up phrases on the wall
Are the cut-ups that inspired you
You’re a dandy of the new world
Splicing pieces of the action
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you know just how to get your way
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you know just how to get your way
Walking the streets at night blinded by car lights
In and out of bars, your sore eyes gazing
At the stars, they are invisible in the city at night
But you, you are rather high
Like the stars
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
Boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
And you boy, you’re wearing your eyeliner
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7. |
Tommy Newton
06:28
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I’m just visiting you said and smiled
Oh, a traveller I said, your eyes
Are like moon coming round
Falling down horizon bound
And I just
Fell in love and as you came disguised
So I loved to be fooled with the lie
You checked in, I took your case
You fell down horizon bound
Settled in this hotel
So beautiful to me
We can be so happy
I took you in my arms
You fainted in the lift
We made love, then I took you to church
Only you can make my world
Is your secret that slowly unfolds
Shedding stories of survival?
Bought a house by the lake, you and me
And the booze, the flashbacks, the TVs
Does the love turn around
Once the secret is out you are bound
They locked the doors
You couldn’t turn around
Exam after exam
The water for your world
Your family who wait
The corporations’ greed
Betrayal and our story
Destined to break
You could never go back to your star
You could never grow this old
All experiments taking their toll
Just an alien lost into our world
Into our world
Into our world
Into our world
Into our world
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8. |
Tear The Page
03:45
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With your graces and poses in a world full of pages
The pages are ripped like his heart that you grip
In and out of your rooms, of the jazzy stairs
His world is slowing down in front of your smoky stare
In the stillness of the night you’ve been seen by the pier
Only few powerful understated phrases you can hear
In the consuming heat of silence and as the morning tears the night
You steal each other’s breath right in the cold air
Aha
Aha
Will the boat float, will you climb in
Stand and call to the river
Freeing words to the future
To change the world
There’s a question mark
You, him, him and the future
And the reasoning falls apart
Tear the page
In the hastiness of actions you’ve been down to the waterway
And the days of ideals take a different shape
You, him, him and the future doesn’t then end too well
Paper story turns red and it’s complicated
Now the shape of your memory is jumbled with words
Carefully reordered, here comes a different world
As the future resumes you retreat in your head
And the story makes room for what’s laying up ahead
Aha
Aha
Will the boat float, will you climb in
Stand and call to the river
Freeing words to the future
To change the world
There’s a question mark
You, him, him and the future
And the reasoning falls apart
Tear the page
Tearing pages, forging phrases
Gazes, meaning, stages
Haze flowing to the future citing phrases
Frenzy, jazz, young, new
Changes, chapters coming
Tearing pages, forging phrases
Gazes, meaning, stages
Haze flowing to the future citing phrases
Frenzy, jazz, young, new
Changes, chapters coming
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Cheap Champagne
06:07
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Drinking slowly some cheap champagne
In this shabby chic cafe
All the old electric dreams
Spilling drinks
Hanging to our memories
Treasure lost upon dusty banks
Midnight strikes and we leave our seats
Just our steps in the silent street
Leaping shadows across the green
Oh and we’re nearly there
Turn the key the door is creaking
We step in quietly while all are sleeping
When we finally reach upstairs
My eyes are stealing everything
I want to take it all away
Your coat
Falls onto the parquet floor
Behind every wanting
Lines are woven in golden ink
On the walls stars of old film prints
Hold their breath as we inch away
Oh our desire
Everything moves with cheap champagne
Even stars
Everything moves with cheap champagne
Every step to the sound of this beating heart
Everything moves with cheap champagne
Even stars
Heading back to the sound of rain
Deafening in its clarity
What it’s clear just fades away
Every step to the sound of this beating heart
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10. |
Altered Reality
03:17
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A game is nothing but a game
Unless you’re on this plane
I learn how to play chess today
I follow Alice through her maze
Altered reality
Altered reality
Deep in a state of virtual dream
Is everything just what it seems?
Altered reality
Altered reality
What if you told me that you came
To realise you understand
Would that change something in the chain
Or is it just a cycle game?
Altered reality
Altered reality
Altered reality
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Here comes the tide
Washing the words
Written in sand
Eroding the land
Those were fleeting times
Listening eyes
Whispering
Mine, playing in reverse
You were here
And miles away
A million miles away
You’re too hot to be cool
Too desolate and dark
With your printed page and champagne
And your favourite game
A dreaming state
The Guardian Of Your Mind
Sometimes one
Just can’t erase
Those indelible marks
Carved on the inside
They don’t even dull
With the years as they run
Like ink does on skin
Endurance flowers
You’re too hot to be cool
Too desolate and dark
With your printed page and champagne
And your favourite game
A dreaming state
The Guardian Of Your Mind
The Guardian Of Your Mind
The Guardian Of Your Mind
Here comes the tide
Washing the words
Written in sand
Eroding the land
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12. |
Waterloo
04:17
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You and me walking hand in hand
Through the gate of the past
The strength belongs to the battered souls
A wall becomes soft as dust
Don’t believe into carrying a plus sign
Above the shoulder line
Life is faster than light so we might hang around
Waterloo is such a beautiful view tonight
Now you take my hand
And you do what you can
To make my desires come true
I believe in you
Now you take my hand
And you do what you can
To make my desires come true
I believe in you
And all the little things
That we recognise
Are giving us immortality
All those memories are ties
There’s no currency out there
That can buy you this bond
We better make the most of things
Wherever we are that’s our place
Now you take my hand
And you do what you can
To make my desires come true
I believe in you
Now you take my hand
And you do what you can
To make my desires come true
I believe in you
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Raf and O London, UK
SE London Avant-Pop Duo Raf and O (Raf Mantelli, O Richard Smith) have marked out their unique and widely acclaimed song and sound world over the last decade. Hailed by The Quietus, FACT (TM - Joe Muggs Top 10 albums on FACT), Electronic Sound, they performed at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Union Chapel and were praised by Mike Garson, Bowie’s pianist for their unique take on Lady Grinning Soul. ... more
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