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The Great Reset
02:37
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Welcome back,
Yes welcome back to:
Your home from home
Another happy return
Whatever you want
You can rent ok?
You own nothing
And you'll be happy yet
With the Great Reset
Happiness - delivered by drones to your door
All your basic needs met
Be happy with that
Now that you're under
The Great Reset
Maybe that's all you can get?
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Electric Car
05:30
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Finally living in someone's future
Dream of electric cars - where's my Spinner?
Well I gave up on the jet pack years ago so
Might as well join the sheep
Are they electric too?
Mirror
Virtue-signal
Manoeuvre
Might as well join the sheep
Are they electric too?
Finally living in no-one's future
Just enough charge to purchase my dinner
Well I gave up on the jet pack years ago so
Might as well join the sheep
Are they electric too?
Mirror
Virtue-signal
Manoeuvre
Mirror
Virtue-signal
Manoeuvre
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3. |
Sanya
01:12
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There's a party going on at the pool
The biggest pool
In all of China
There's a party at the hotel
That runs the hotel
And everything else too
Well what can you do?
It's the Ghostnet HQ
Golden sands stretch for miles
Beauty queens on the beach
With perfect smiles
forever out of reach
To the cabaret acts who daydream of the beauty queens
Compete alongside the submarines
Of the nuclear fleet soaking up the sun
Someday they'll start another one.
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4. |
Replica
04:41
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I was curious
If you were serious
When you said
I'll be you
In your head (is that so wrong?)
You were serious
When I was dubious
'Cos you said
I'll be you
If you're dead
And whilst the insurance cover
Was something new
I wanted a lover
And I wanted to be God
So I made you be you
Is that so odd?
You're my Joi
Believe in you too
Yeah I'm a fan
I love you
I hope we've got a plan
I was curious
If you were serious
When you said
I'll be you
If you're dead
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5. |
And So Do We
02:52
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Are there other lives
Beyond our skies
Who don't talk so much
Or visit as such
best leave us alone
just let us be
ET hangs up the phone
And so do we
And so do we
ET hangs up the phone
And thus so do we
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6. |
There You Go
02:44
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There you go
once again
Still think you can win somehow?
The Party's over now
There you go
Once again
Another
Tiananmen
Too busy saving face
To save the human race
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7. |
Defector
03:08
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I guess I got shut down
Cancelled by the global elite
Denounced by some woke clown
Or clique
There's a defector - who reveals
That fridge door seals
Are not the only things that leak
By the way did I mention
She thinks it's a bio-weapon
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8. |
Just Doesn't Work
02:22
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This world just doesn't work
The way you think it does
No you can't dial out
Each and every quirk
To make it all equal
And if there's any doubt
The world just doesn't work
The way we think it does
Can't make it how it was
Or try to do that sequel
(No you can't dial out each and every quirk)
The world just doesn't work
The world just doesn't work
The world it just doesn't work
This world just doesn't work
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I could cry a million tears
But after thirteen billion years
Something a little smarter might have evolved
We never quite resolved
This little problem
Now did we?
Although that might soften
Blows to all our claims to be free
We're still somehow involved
Just never quite resolved
(Did we?)
We never quite resolved
That little problem now did we?
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10. |
Can You Tell?
04:08
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(Can you tell?)
Another one - done
Another depleted potential
You can probably tell
Speaking confidential(shall I go?)
I don't want to think
About this farewell
Much to much to drink
You see?
(Alcohol - should I drink or wear?)
It's the way of the world
And other clichés
Just being ironic
Or did we really care?
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11. |
Intermission
05:09
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You are far
From forgiven
It might yet come
To barbarism
But keep your bizarre avatar
With my Permission
As a welcome
Intermission
You've delighted me
So much already
Can we
Stop to listen?
I think I want a lengthy
Intermission
Not trying to be mean -
But - really I've been
Spoiled enough plenty
Think I want a healthy
Intermission
You are far
From forgiven
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