Lyrics, Disc 2: HOME
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The Shadow of the Past:
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The shadow of the past
And the reality of loosing
A foreign serving
The isolation
The barrier
The island
The abandoned districts
The detritus
The climate
The circumstance
The energy
The creations
The fall
The joining
The making
The joy
The excitement
Reality
The cognisance
The disillusion
The consequences
The dreams
The progress
The attempts
The perils
Immanent danger
The pressing on
To who knows what
The present
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Ramble:
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The answer lies somewhere between molecular and geological time
Between the speed of evolution and the blinking of an eye
In the rapid inter-glacial and the twilight of existence
Between star and star
A finger-breadth’s distance
An eyelash carelessly discarded
The temple of Jerusalem built up and destroyed
A moment’s hesitation and dinosaurs turn into atom bombs
And nuclear reactors begin to trace their lineage
Hoping to find some noble ancestor
A coat of arms perhaps?
And a title
The last time I say you your face was a little less care-worn
But these things will happen
And all things shall pass
And all things shall begin anew
And all of us will believe that novel ideas exist
And all of us will think that we will them to be
And in this simple act of willing we constitute their existence
These abstracts and concretes
We make them to be
And if we close our eyes they will disappear
And in ceasing to be seen they will cease to exist
And in ceasing to exist for us they will no longer be of this world
And if they are not of this world then what world are they of?
And why can I still see you when I close my eyes?
And why does the clock still change if we both ignore the time?
And how on earth can any of this make any sense?
And why am I asking in this way?
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Vision and Belief:
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You believe
We believe
But do you believe that we believe that you believe that we believe?
Time
I see you there but do you see me?
I hear
But do you?
Do you?
You
You face me but do you believe?
The kiss?
This bliss?
Oh yeah?
You
This time
This fucking crime
This determinism
And this schism between thought and action
Mind and belief
Time and space
And what lies underneath
Between the fat and the bacon
And the bitch and the back
And???
Between the bliss and the piss
Ad the fucking hole and the cracks
Between Peter Pan and left and right
And up and down
And time
Time
Time
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Beauty and Terror
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Lovely
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Terrible
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Confusing
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It’s a mystery
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It’s the only way
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Questions, Questions, and more Questions:
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It’s the same, it’s the same
Mankind is insane
It’s all becoming abundantly clear
As I draw near
Soon, some sort of conclusion
The confusion is deepening
I don’t get it
Where before I was so sure
What the fuck is happening?
Science is supposed to be my aid
Methodology…
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Difficulties
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I took the time to think this out
Why couldn’t you?
Why didn’t you?
What was wrong?
Was the drop too much?
Was the cost too dear?
Did you try?
What a mistake
What a shame
What a sham
I too the initiative
Big mistake
Arrived with more questions than answers
Arrived home with more baggage than I took
What a mistake
What a shame
What a sham
I took the shortcut
Then went back and took the long way around
What was I thinking?
What went though my head?
What a mistake
What a shame
What a sham
I took on this job
At a loss
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The Relation between Cause and Effect:
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I will remain true to my causes
My causes
My causes created me
Cause and effect
Determinism
That which determines causes to be
Cause is God
Effect is man
God is random, changeable
Man is set in stone
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Machine:
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Feed the machine
Feed the machine of determinism
Feed the belief in this detached meaninglessness
Feed the overwhelming pessimism
In the Schopenhauer-hour
Where it looses its flesh
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1911:
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1911
It was built
In the swingin’ 60’s
They gave the fucker wings
In the bored 90’s
Its antithesis was built
Facing it in opposition
Diametrically opposed
But now time moves faster
Once antithesis has been posed
And thesis is shaking tremors of fear
And antithesis is clipping off its wings
One at a time
With surgical precision
And when thesis stands alone
Crippled and without support
Robbed of her wings and her hope
Then antithesis will begin her final destruction
Which will not even leave her dead
But more annihilated than that
Will alter her very self
So she will be no more
And cruel antithesis will squat across from hideous synthesis
And they will revel in the horror of their work
An act against God and creation
An antithetical metamorphosis
A transubstantiation of the hideous
An abomination in the eyes of the divine
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The Deafening Sound of Evolution:
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Listen, listen, can’t you hear the sound of evolution?
Listen, listen, can’t you hear it fail?
Listen, listen, can’t you hear the sound of devolution?
As it all becomes apparent, and all that it entails?
Listen, listen, can’t you hear the house of cards coming down?
Listen, listen, can’t you hear it fall?
Listen, listen, can’t you hear the dominoes are clacking?
A chain-reaction, from one and then to all
Maybe it’s not this way
Maybe
Perhaps
Take a look now can’t you see the progress is progressing?
Take a sniff now can’t you smell the napalm in the air?
Listen now, now don’t you love that smell in the morning?
Smells like victory, but who really cares?
Maybe there are answers to these questions we ask
And maybe there are no real answers
But maybe that outlook is not so black
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Myth and Make-Believe:
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Make believe
Listen
Whisper
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All of the King’s Horses and All of the King’s Men:
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All that I can make of this is that it’s beyond my ken
I cannot grasp it
Nor could you
Nor could all of us together
This is difficult
Too difficult
For all of us
This is striving to comprehend what cannot be known
Or understood
But it is striving nonetheless
But what is striving?
Perhaps it is what is really important after all
But be careful
Be oh so careful
Watch out for easy answers
But now it becomes cyclical
It is fraught with peril
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Photographs:
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Time and space
Cause and effect
Every spacio-temporal event
Time and space
Cause and effect
Lie underneath the mechanized fountain
In the Sony centre
In Potsdamer Platz
Beneath, the deeper fountain
Mechanised as ell
In the bottom of the mall
You must go down an escalator to reach it
A floor beneath the ground
It is another fountain
It is not in the Sony centre
It is in Potsdamer Platz
It plinks and ploinks
It is a creation
Cause and effect
Time and space
A spacio-temporal event
With the weight of infinity to justify its importance
I took a photograph
Of space and time
And sound and mind
I am of sound mind and body
The body of my work deals with the mind
And sound
The sound
Abounds
I took a photograph
Of space and time
And sound and mind
I’m taking photographs right now
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Time Moves Too Fast:
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I watch you sitting there
I see that you are thinking
I see the wheels are a-turning
I see you making up your mind
But does any of it make any sense?
Does it even begin to?
Where is the 1 + 1 = 2?
Missing time must be accounted for
Impelling force, but of course, but of course
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Milestones and Millstones:
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Each milestone is a millstone hung around my neck
Each event is a meaningless decision
And all that unnerving consequence
Is of no consequence
Is coincidence
Time
Replete with contradiction
The problems of existence
In an eternal compromise
Before our eyes
Surprise
I like to listen to lies
Sometimes