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Personal Space
03:45
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M:
They bought up all the land
Underneath Australia and New Zealand
But they can’t get far enough from The Eschaton
I hope I live to see the day
When the planet burns
Beneath the white hot glare
Of my rocket boosters
Brighter than the fading sun
The universe will make
A lovely little living room
Orion is the only friend I need
L:
I was the only one
To make it on his ship undetected
Will he see more
As he manifests his destiny
A man claims his space
Stakes his claim to space
As I squeeze into this tight place
An alien invader
Hey, you can’t forget me
I’m breathing this air too
You are no friend but I still need you
M:
Oh what a wonder
A galaxy of my own
It wraps its starry arms around my home
I’ll never forget
It’s liberty I breathe
To fill my lungs with freedom
Fulfills my every need
L:
Hey, you can’t forget me
I’m breathing this air too
You are no friend but I still need you
M:
How could I forget
It’s oxygen I breathe
I’ll fill my lungs with solitude
Fill my lungs with need
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2. |
Indeterminator
04:02
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M:
I Travelled to your home town
San Francisco couldn’t be so big, right?
So I looked up your address in a phone book
And I turned up in the middle of the night
You certainly seemed surprised, you were holding
Something behind your back, I think a knife
When I told you I was here to save your life
You reluctantly let me come inside
I told you how important you would be
In the 2020 war against the machines
And when I asked the year, and you told me “1955”
And I realised I’d come back to the wrong time
L:
It’s been a hard one.
I’ve been forgotten.
It’s been a hard one.
I’ve been forgotten.
Here.
I’m here.
M:
It’s been a hard one.
You’re not forgotten.
In Here.
Here.
L:
I've waited here a long time
Let him go
The future’s mine to fix
But what now
My messenger
He never came
He’s caught up with her
She has my name
But wrong house, wrong year
I’m here.
I’m here.
M:
I was depending on you
I thought only you could help
I tried so hard to find you
But I discovered someone else
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4. |
Coventry
02:40
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There’s something you all know
I wanna know too
Will I be in this dark forever
Alien, fearful, tired of feeling severed
Just when I learn the moves you’ve changed one
Try to stay loose but I come undone
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L:
Woke in my house, lights flicker in and out
Moves through just like a breeze
His footsteps without a body
God he doesn’t see me
Thought I might be alright
But I’m as alone as I used to be
What does he want from me
And this was not the first time
L&M:
I cut a long story short
I cut our long story short
This old house is still a home to the children
of the spiders that we swallowed in our sleep
Now we don’t take our meals together
Every night my sleepwalk’s woken
My steps broken by the shadow in my bed
of words unsaid
L&M:
I cut a long story short
I cut our long story short
L:
You took hold of my sleep
Want to scream it’s not a dream
It’s the ghost of you
Move through me like you used to do
M:
And if I die
And if you die
Will we both be still hanging around here
Can a ghost haunt another ghost?
L:
They say you’ll fade in good time
L&M:
We cut a long story short
We cut our long story
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M:
I can go - I can walk - wherever I want
My face opens doors
I’m pointing at my name on your list
With a bony white finger
It’s there, it’s “Destroyer of Worlds”, that’s me
When I see a closed door
I don’t see a barrier
I see an opportunity
To move fast and break stuff
To blast it wide open
So me and my friends can enjoy
The remains of a door
The remains of a building
The remains of a city
L:
I can go - I can walk - wherever I want
My love opens doors
I’m pointing at my name on your list
With a bony white finger
It’s there, it’s “Corrupter of Hearts”, that’s me
When I see a closed door
I don’t see a barrier
I see an opportunity
To heal you til you love me
To blast you wide open
So I can build my nest and enjoy
The remains of your mind
The remains of your heart
The remains of your body
L&M
We can go - we can walk - wherever we want
We open all doors
No need to hide our names from your list
Our bony white fingers
Collapsing all walls we see
We don’t need no stinking horses
To kick off this apocalypse
And don’t you worry
Don’t you worry
We wrote our names down on your list
Because we can go, we can walk
Wherever we want
M:
We don’t need no stinking horses
To bring on this apocalypse
Don’t you worry, don’t you worry
We put our names down on your list
L&M
Because we can go, we can walk
Wherever we want
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7. |
Pocket Full Of Bones
03:55
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He was floundering
Got himself into taxidermy
Crime scene or natural death
It’s not been determined yet
They found him with his pockets full of bones
He was floundering
(In a sea of living things)
Got himself into...
(Way over his head,)
Taxidermy
(bringing things back from the dead)
Crime scene or natural death
(The forest doesn’t care)
It’s not been determined yet
(But all the people know...)
They found him with his pockets full of bones
He could never breath
(In a sea of living things)
The forest
(Way over his head,
set him free
(bringing things back from the dead)
What could be more natural
(The forest doesn’t care)
than an ending like this
(But all the people know...)
They found him with his pockets full of bones
They found him in a forest full of bones
He floundered in a forest full of bones
Now he’s in nature’s pocket,
out there in the forest,
he’s just bones
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Lily Sloane San Francisco, California
Lily Sloane is a San Francisco based musician, composer, podcast producer/sound designer, and psychotherapist. She plays
with electronic and acoustic instruments and vocal layering. No sounds or feelings are too big.
Photos 2021 by Kristin Cofer www.kristincofer.com
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