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Out There
04:49
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Always observing
from his lair in Tibet
We don't deserve him
but he's all we can get
This brand of transcendence requires an open mind
Once you achieve ascendence, what are you going to find?
The Invisible College
from a reliable source
who teaches ancient knowledge
by correspondence course
A small donation
grants you the briefest look
but the real information
is in his forthcoming book
For him it's like an addiction
he loves to play the field
That he's a work of fiction
one thing he won't reveal
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Subliminal
05:26
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So much information
life comes at you fast
in every situation
much of it slips past
Though they seldom show it
marketing don't miss a trick
Even when you haven't noticed
lots of their ideas get in and stick
This is your so-called 'future', and welcome to hell
Where you're manipulated every day and you're unable to tell
The Overton window is not where it was
Our motives are open to debate
We keep buying things that we don't need because
We're living in a deeply subliminal state
They don't care they're resented
Ignore your shopping list
The products they've presented
you're powerless to resist
Adverts made for twisting
decisions that you take
And though you try resisting
you can bet they'll find a way to break
How hard they work is scary
to get inside your brain
It's no use being wary
and pointless to complain
When personal volition
is as dead as dinosaurs
You can't trust your cognition
because your mind's no longer yours
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Skinwalker
03:49
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(Instrumental)
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Choose Your Delusion
03:39
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When life does not live up to expectations
at the ballot box or in romance
why should you change up your operation,
be subject to the fickle whims of chance?
Who needs reality, and its foundations?
A world of fantasy wants you to dance...
You're an astronaut!
You have psychic powers!
You keep seeing ghosts!
You're a movie star!
This week, you'll win the pools!
Your intellect just towers!
Just ignore those fools,
you're who you say you are
Have we all missed
that we exist
in a collective illusion?
Life is absurd
Don't follow the herd
Choose your delusion
Do not tell others how the secret found you
'cause in this game, we must rely on stealth
But the advantages are all around you
The way the whole thing simply sells itself
There were no shackles that you thought had bound you
You're free to leave the world of mental health
I see you're wary of a big commitment
I understand, it's what I used to fear
You really do need all of this equipment
For what it is, it really isn't dear
It will arrive by post in fifteen shipments
A small downpayment, and you're in the clear!
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Contemplation
04:37
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My next door neighbour's Elvis in disguise
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
When Jimi Hendrix visits, I am not surprised
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
They drink with Janis Joplin at the local pub
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
I think that they're all part of some Illuminati club
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
Just take time to contemplate the meaning of it all
The Men In Black are working at the corner store
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
You won't remember, but I told you this before
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
The local postman's gone a vivid shade of blue
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
I think I may have seen him once on Doctor Who
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
Just take time to contemplate the meaning of it all
The things we're told
The things we feel
Might be significant
But are they real?
Wolves and leopards roaming free around the country park
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
It's best to keep your wits about you after dark
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
The Government say not a single word is true
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
But rest assured that they have got their eye on you
(What does it mean? What does it mean?)
Just take time to contemplate the meaning of it all
The things we're told
The things we feel
Might be significant
But are they real?
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The Alchemist
03:46
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Mankind did not invent the wheel
It's all a plot and birds aren't real
And he has proof the Earth is flat
Might not be truth, but who cares about that?
The things he says,
they work like lead
Get in your system,
get you dead
He knows his faithful
won't be told
He weaves credulity
into advertising gold
His sponsors love to hear him preach
It's all about extending reach
Things in your blood? Then buy these pills!
Stupid is good; it pays the bills
A spaceship Moon! Fake DNA!
And each new loon can have their say
Take all the lies with a pinch of salt
If someone dies, it won't be his fault
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No Filter
05:57
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You mock me for accepting the consensus view
and tell me that I'm following the herd
Nobody knows any subject half as well as you
you're living in the realm of the absurd
You've gone beyond the need for proof
when 'what sounds right' will do as truth
Most of your world's a fabrication
Real life won't satisfy your needs
Can't tell the lie from information
You have no filter on your feed
Reality as we accept it is much too plain for you
You boast about your clarity of thought
But when it comes to things that you've decided must be true
You're the one who ends up getting caught
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You say you're trained and I don't mean to grouse
Your thesis just makes me annoyed
I see a pixel where you see a house
You're finding structure where all I can see is noise
Where your interpretations tend to fail
(and sorry, but this cannot be denied)
is that you're lacking any sense of scale
that house has doors that are two kilometres wide
You think that it's threatening;
I'm pretty sure I've heard enough
Because a photo can be anything
Provided it's been blurred enough
The question that occurs to me
(and it's the reason why I wrote this tune)
is why no-one else sees what you see
whenever they observe the Moon?
Please understand I'd help you if I could
but you're not really finding clues
Your scanner's only going to be as good
as the old photographs that you decide to use
But when it comes to quoting conversations
between the astronauts and ground
long since debunked as complete fabrication
I must conclude that all you've written is unsound
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Behind The Sky
04:45
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(Instrumental)
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Down The Rabbit Hole
04:40
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This rabbit hole you've fallen down's not good for you
The people here will not play by the rules
You might not care for money but I'll bet they surely do
One look at you, they'll think they've won the pools
A contribution large enough will open doors for you;
down here, they gladly suffer fools
In all this confusion, there is money to be made
You'll be the last to find it's not by you though, I'm afraid
Going down the rabbit hole to find out where it leads
Assuming that no-one has gone before
and thinking you can place your trust in everything you read
Is just an easy way for getting poor
Returning to the surface must be hard for you
I know this from the way you're looking dazed
Now they've extracted every final thing they could from you
your new-found friends will simply fade away
The sucker punch reality has got in store for you
is going to leave you properly amazed
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X
04:55
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Might not be Indiana Jones
but crystal skulls are his big thing
No concrete evidence on show
when gullibility is king
Exhuming each old mystery
like some misguided necromancer
Evidence ignored throughout history
And 'aliens' is always the answer
Science gets kicked to the kerbstone
Explanations they've not got
Designating the unknown
Marks the spot where they lost the plot
You'll be no wiser at the close
than you were right at the start
but when it comes to UFOs
our boy has taken things to heart
Our scepticism wears away
under a tide of self-delusion
When minds get flooded every day
with his less than firm conclusions
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A squamous presence
Rugose sense of dread
Feels like H P Lovecraft
got inside my head
These observations
completely unexplained
Eliminate the obvious
Something else remains
And from the headland
Above the noise of crashing waves
I hear the call
It summons all
Long-buried trauma
freshly risen from the grave
drawing pentacles
Surrender to the tentacles...
Amidst the tumult
my cries will go unheard
a strange compulsion
to chant the words
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Dude! What was that?
Swamp gas.
And that one?
Owls.
Is there any more coffee?
Should we be answering that?
I never bother, it only encourages them. They'll hang up.
Why is that light flashing?
It does that. Here, give it a whack with this hammer.
Weather balloon?
Weather balloon.
Chinese fire lantern?
Looks like it to me.
They're not expecting us to see anything, are they?
Nope.
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Chris Harris Bristol, UK
I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.
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