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Only Computers Are Real
04:10
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Once I thought you were the sun in our lives
Put you up where only the Cloud now thrives
Everything's become so virtualised
Just wait until the Singularity arrives
We’re not what we really feel
Only computers are real
Only computers are real
Even our love life is an emulated retro game
And all Turing machines are the same
Because..
Only computers are real
Computers are real
Only the Cloud knows who you really are
That's why I'm in love with your avatar
I guess it all comes down to what you can feel
When only the computers are real
Computers are computers
It’s always been the same moment
All your memories are you (new)
It’s always been this moment
Only computers are real
Only computers are real
Computers are real
Computers are real
Only computers are real
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God’s Engineer
03:26
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Somebody asked me the other day
How the beta test was going
Hey.. all I could say with my reactions masked
Was that some of the cracks were showing
Well hello hello
This will need more time
It's 20/20
This would never work
And you'll lose all your data
Nobody asked me yesterday
To end the simulation early
But all that I could say
With my conscience clear
Was that some of the people knew, surely?
Well hello hello
This will need rebooted
They think it's 2020
This seems like cruelty
And you'll lose all your deity
Well you know it ain't always easy being God's Engineer
(Rip it up)
This keeps happening every single time...
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3. |
Not Quite People
02:51
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Lacquered radiogram
Plastic Beatle guitar
Upside down
Me? I didn't give a damn
Wanna be your equal (not close not cigar)
That's what you think when you are three
Shattered hologram
Romantic sequel to our fever dreams
Bizarre to me
Back to you
I had to give it all up
No choice but to give it all up
When we met I found the
Love that destroys
Don’t just give up
Call me now
We’re not quite people
Almost but so much more
That’s how you live when you are free
We’ve seen, we’ve seen a lot
We’ve been around every block
There’s al lot more time we’ll never see
Don’t give up
Call me now
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Urbane Foxes
04:36
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Night floats the city scum
As you wash in from the sea
(Time zones, like us, never seem to agree)
Routine implores we’ll succumb
By selecting you for me
Metal boxes come alive
50/60 Hz hum
Copper
Silicon
Quartz
Data
Connection…
..Failure
Reset
Try Again
Hello?
Metal boxes come alive
Urban foxes some survive
Urban foxes outgunned, connive
Urbane foxes contrive
With silicon, copper and quartz
At least for now, they survive
Firewalls open their ports
Any old one
In a storm
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RPG
02:49
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I thought about you the other night
Nothing Earth shattering to behold
Let's make it as real as we can, alright?
Just no limits on being bold
I know I know it's just role play
So I tried to put that in our games today, ok?
Well that got dark pretty quickly, yeah?
Something love-battering did unfold
We made it as real as we could, all right?
There's a limit to being bold
You said you said, “was that role-play?”
So, just try to put that in your games today, okay?
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Cosplay Kawaii Girl
02:50
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We’ve seen a lot of things
We’ve done a lot of things
There’s a lot more time
That we’ll never see
Online cosplay kawaii girl online
Online offline
We’ve seen a lot of things
We’ve been a lot of things
There’s a lot, a lot more time
There’s a lot more time
That we will never get to see
There’s a lot more things
a lot more things
That we’ll never get to see.
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Rock’n’Roll
02:59
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I thought we’d be free
This time, at last
If anyone had asked
We’d taken back control
It was time to rock’n’roll
But it didn’t quite work out
Like that now,
Did it?
The commies shut down all the world
Made sure there was such a lag
Before those secret reports unfurled
Now all the world’s a fucking Gulag
God’s taken back our souls
Now who’s left to rock’n’roll?
None to rock and roll
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8. |
Pylon
04:21
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The world's a nightmare
A bad sci-fi movie I agree
Proof from the lab in your armchair
All the conspiracies you see
You really believe it's all just 5G (right?)
You said it's getting in instead
Through your head
So you joined the tinfoil hat brigade
Ain't it enough just to be afraid?
Don't mean to disappoint
But what's the point
Of getting on this pylon?
Guess it's a great view to all of those that do
But as you grab hold then
Science will throw you back again.
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Expert Systems
01:14
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Scientists industrialists
Naturists transhumanists
Humorists
Conspiracy theorists
Astronomers
Alien Visitors
Conspirators
Cancel-culture apologists
Commissioners
Operant conditioners
Meatspace prisoners
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10. |
Satan Rise
03:15
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Always that sinking feeling
Woke up somehow still breathing
Checked the latest propaganda
Taste that stinking being
Always that sinking feeling
About the alpha, beta and gamma
Always that sinking feeling
Always
Should we just call this ..upheaval?
it's making me dizzy
or it's just all His evil?
You know He must be so busy
They should give Satan a rise
Satan A Rise
Give the poor schmuck
A-rise
Arise!
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11. |
One Hertz
04:37
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I once had my finger on the pulse
And the liquor just made me feel bigger
I tried to ignore the trail of skulls
But if I’d been a quicker thinker
I’d never have breached your hulls
As we lay between the sheets
Waiting by your breast,
For some comment
Well I counted sixty of your heartbeats
As I waited for that moment: -“Not so fast”
But still one hertz
Am I really not a thrill?
But still one hurts
Every second I’m older
Life? I thought I’d try it, just for LOLz (one second per second)
Wish I’d been a quicker thinker
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12. |
Lucky You
07:11
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I don't care if you get it
Just as long as I've said it
And if the wit
Flew over your head
Then lucky you
I don't care if you'll get it
As long as you don't spread it
And if the spit
Goes over your head
Then lucky you
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13. |
Degree Absolute
03:48
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My what a welcome it's been
I guess I should apologise
While the rest of the world cries
You got stranded with me - at my place
On your little transatlantic holiday
After you'd finally looked me up - in meatspace
I know because you'd only packed lingerie
Now you're never going home again
Together forever
Because you swiped my face on your phone
And it's not love now
No it's not love
Locked down degree absolute
All those unplanned months together
Even though it was half over in our dreams
I got to fill out your real-life profile
Every attribute
What a time to be alive
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14. |
Mean So Much
04:11
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You mean so much to me
I got that bit nearly right
You gotta give me that
But there's a queue who'll kiss you for free
You're mean so much to me
You’re mean so much to me
You got that bit nearly right
I’ve gotta give you that
But there's a crowd who gets in for free
You're mean so much to me
I got that bit sadly right
You always give me that
Does it mean so much that
We can't get out alive tonight?
We gotta give it up
We got that clue almost right
They oughta give us that
Still there's that crew
Who’ll kill us for free
They’re so mean so much to you and me
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15. |
Break For The Bunker
06:44
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It's been such a long time since we saw the sun
I suppose we've been avoiding stuff
Tinned food, drugs and a gun
Everything else is just fluff
Still keeping up with events
While working on our prison tan
The outside filtered in
Yeah you got your echo chamber and I got mine
We spun down the lies like a centrifuge
Pieced together something just before the deluge
It' s something more sickly
That we're facing
That comes with rain
Well that escalated real quickly
We're all here to share the pain we're gracing
(Fish in a barrel comes to mind)
It's been such a long time since we saw the sun
And if you don't drive faster... we'll see another one
[Time to put your foot down Allotrope
Make a break for a bunker
while we Drop The Bomb]
Forty years ago you wrote yourself a letter
About how maybe it's all for the better
Putting us out of our misery
Then the wall fell and our victory
Well now, here's to the end of history
And your little vacation
At least we know now why there's no mystery
About why they keep rerunning this Simulation
Let's break for that bunker
Let's break for the bunker
Our new prison cell together
We know why they keep re-running this simulation
We're not getting any younger
Let's try to get a little older
Before we're vaporized forever
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