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Little Atoms
04:28
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Little Atoms by the Allotropes (Swales)
Love lost
are we even surprised?
Looking back on our future
is better than our past
The future is here
but it feels like just now
reconfigurations of
same shit
different day
Little atoms don't know where they're going
bonds break and reform
gravitationally bound
just to stay grounded
Love lost
are we even surprised?
Looking back on our future
is better than what will be
The future is here
but it feels like just now
So time's the enemy but the future's your saviour?
It’ll all be better after it's too late
Reconfigurations of
same shit
different day
Little atoms don't know where they're going
they're grounded
(words by Steve Swales)
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Snowflake
04:33
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Snowflake by the Allotropes (North,Swales)
If you stare into someone's mirror
for long enough
you forget you're on the other side
look behind you
Well it's tough things change
pretty snowflake
We'll see what you
can make
my snowflake
Enjoy the ride -
there's no brake
perhaps you'll be a special lucky snowflake
as you melt on the butterfly's wings
Enjoy the ride
Snowblind Snowflake
perhaps you're special
and won't break,
Snowflake
- or will you melt
on the butterfly's wing?
So confused, just
worry about the weather
closer to home and besides
you make it too cold for butterflies
to flutter by
frigid snowflake
Stay awake or you'll miss your insect aeroplane
flapping its wings
on the complex plane
changing things
or perhaps it just dreamt you?
Wrong butterfly again
(words by Steve Swales)
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Call of the Raven
03:48
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Call of the Raven by the Allotropes (McManus/Swales)
So call the raven
And he’ll sing for you
Just call the raven
With a voice so true
Wake up your babies
The jelly’s almost set
Turn on the TV
To see what we might get
Look at the test card
That clown’s close to death
So call the raven
And he’ll sing for you
Watching with mother
We lie on the floor
Poor humpy-dumpty
He fell down the hall
He cried on Jemima
But she’s dressed in blue
Just call the raven
Don’t you hear him sing
Can’t you hear him sing
In a voice so loud and clear
(Words by Martin McManus)
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Wistful
02:58
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Wistful by the Allotropes (Swales)
We're always looking so wistful
these last few days
I only asked you if
we could be still be civil
for this phase
yeah I know, right
you always
wanted to be wild again
or maybe just feral
(always been so careful
in ways your wouldn't suspect me
You'll be be ok when we dis-
connect that's why I'm so random
Is that why you're so wistful?
Yeah you're so wistful)
(words and music by Steve Swales)
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Next Appearing
04:26
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Next Appearing by the Allotropes (North/Swales)
Let's do something else
cos I'm feeling
empty
inside me
Let's go somewhere else
Cos I don't think this is real
Simulation
Coming soon to this cinema
Next appearing
Simulated for you
by ..God
(that's the way it goes)
(words by Steve Swales)
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Pretty Girl
03:06
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Pretty Girl by the Allotropes (Swales/McManus)
Oh pretty girl
in your wasted world
you covered me
in rhapsody
like a happy song that
once was sad
You broke my heart
It felt so bad
So we left it there
just behind the chair
and now I know
I'm on the shelf
and you've
gone off with someone else
not me
no, not me
pretty girl
so just say goodbye
farewell
take care
my love will fade some day
my pretty girl
(you near broke your neck)
I near broke my neck
I felt so bad
so I'll leave love there
and not jump off the chair
(I'm not worth it)
no you're not worth it
pretty girl
such a shame
we lost
pretty girl
(words by Martin McManus and Steve Swales)
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Virtually There
02:33
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Virtually There by the Allotropes (Swales)
Heading home again
back to the Cloud
its warm and sunny outside
so it feels a disgrace
You got a new phone
so proud to talk on it all
the time while I'm with you
meeting in Meatspace - well, thanks!
Virtually there
I made the effort to get here
I won't be making that same
mistake (over) again (won't go)
I made the effort to live here so
I want to make the same
mistake again
while I'm virtually here
Virtually there.
(words by Steve Swales)
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Third Law
02:20
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Third Law by the Allotropes (Swales)
{with apologies to C. P. Snow)
So you can't win and..
You can't break even
(that's the second law) but..
There's a third law to blame:
You can't get out:
Out of the game.
Entropy
This Game
Thermodynamics
Can't get out of the game.
Thermodynamics
Damned by the third law again.
Give me free energy
and just let me escape
these four laws' jeopardy
Entropy
(words by Steve Swales)
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Lost Concentration
02:56
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Lost Concentration by the Allotropes (Swales)
Still you care
While me,
I might have lost a little
concentration
for well maybe decades
it’s crazy how I lost track
of the rate of my degeneration
so was
my heart soft when I was twenty?
Sadly like your head at forty.
Guess that’s reason how you track
Of the crap from our blank generation
At least that’s what I got
We set out, being different
Thinking there’s no difference
Thought the different were no different
When it came to defending us
They lost concentration
Yeah they lost their brains
And they lost concentration
Tried to be good but lost it too
(oooh and over again the glass still is half empty and evaporating)
All you girls made me lose concentration
(until we lose concentration once more...)
Until we lost lost lost
Concentration!
All you girls make me lose concentration
(words by Steve Swales)
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Under the Sun
05:27
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Under the Sun by the Allotropes (Swales)
Hello - it's the Allotropes..
Synthesizers drifting along for 40 odd years
nightmare grammar school boys ..and girl
punk rock, electronic robot -girls with
bakery boys, anti-art, sub-sonics
We heard it all before,
There's nothing new
Under the Sun
so here we are.
Nothing new under the sun
Bored with nostalgia
but scared of the future as well
that's why I
love you
(allotropes)
just little atoms all
(words by Steve Swales)
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Nofuturism
02:35
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.Nofuturism by the Allotropes (North/Swales)
Nothing without a struggle
and there's nothing with one too
How has always been a puzzle
but asking why will only break you
and so life goes on
and on and on and..
for a while
and then it doesn't
Nothing without a struggle
and there's nothing with one too
Why it all ends with a shovel
but knowing how will only break you
(words by Steve Swales;)
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It Stays With You
02:35
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It Stays With You by the Allotropes (Swales)
Make sure it will stay with you
so you'll know
and I will curse this world
(words by Steve Swales)
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Morpheus(instrumental) / Fun used to (reprise) by the Allotropes (Swales)
Fun used to make me ..and you happy
Fun used to make me happy
Fun used to make me, no you (ミク)happy
(words by Steve Swales)
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Other Theories
01:07
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Other Theories by the Allotropes (Swales)
(never enough [when it feels like too much])
Time and Space are they just (too much)
Information
Printed on the main event horizon - with mistakes?
Amongst the (hipsters and fakes and all the snowflakes)
Other theories like you just appeared
(you stay true, that's why I love you)
Well, hello!
Goodbye
(words by Steve Swales)
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I Didn't See
04:02
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I Didn't See by the Allotropes (Swales)
I didn't see that one coming
You came to me out of the blue
And now you're mine mine mine
I love you but it's not enough
to beat entropy
I can't stop this now my love
But I didn't expect that one.
(words by Steve Swales)
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