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Ctrl+Alt+Del
04:19
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I refuse to recognise this user
Attempt to answer and you’ll be denied
No matter how many times you try
To alter and shift the control
Your command always forced me to scroll
You had only one function to me
I escape gain the space to be free
And now, unfortunately
Now you’re just my strongest password
Control your expectations
Control your envy
Control the way you see repeats
Don’t push me
I refuse to compromise this future
No taskmaster can force me to quit
Block the access that made my screen split
Oh my memory longs to reset
I’m done playing with down, up, right, left
If only I could forget
Control your expectations
Control your envy
Control the way you see repeats
There’ll be no restart
I shut down
Override this update (R)
Control your expectations
Control your envy
Control the way you see repeats
Don’t push me
There’ll be no restart
I shut down
Override this update (R)
Control your expectations
Control your envy
Control the way you see repeats
Don’t push me to delete
I refuse to recognise this user
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2. |
Common Transaction
04:07
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Small hands learn quickly
To guard soft hearts
Hiding beneath folds of skin
Packaged up perfectly
Equal parts
Scared to lock out and let in
Dressed up in rosettes and ribbons
The wrapping’s surprisingly thin
The hope is if it’s darling outside
You won’t search for trouble within
I’ll find a known course of action
Have you grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction
If for a gift I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little gift can shout what’s unspoken
Too deeply hidden away
To come out and say
To come out and say
Small hands learn quickly that tender touch
Brings an exile to its end
Caress and embrace both become a crutch
On which they start to depend
And if ardour abandon their body
Then what can they do but pretend
Exchanging some contact for closeness
Is a bargain they learn to befriend
I’ll find a known course of action
Have you grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction
If for a kiss I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little kiss can shout what’s unspoken
Too deeply hidden away
To come out and say
To come out and say
-so speak-
Put some words to my life
Unleash stories I’m frightened to tell
-so speak-
Bravely open myself
Or risk living a personal hell
Just stand up and be counted
-take a stand-
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and be counted
-take a stand-
Stand up and be counted
Reject the known course of action
It would grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction
If for my life I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little life can shout what’s unspoken
Usually hidden away
We’ll come out and say
That we were afraid
We’ll come out and say
That we stood anyway
Stand up and be counted
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Blood Lust
04:47
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You’ve got those trusting wide eyes
And they’re desperately pleading
A carnal fever inside
That won’t stop ‘til you’re…
Bleeding
Seems you’ve thrown your lust in with your fear
Now my rage causes relaxation
And I know they say don’t trust relation
But I can tell is it causation
Clothes rip leaving you bare
And fingers circle your neck
Grabbing fistfuls of hair
Catching scraps of murmured threats
Though it’s dangerous to dare
Refuge ain’t worth regret
Brace yourself and prepare
For vicious groans and dripping sweat
You won’t believe your existence
Until you can feel your assistance
Don’t try
To deny
That you want me to
Hurt you
Alive in pain
It makes you real again
Alive in pain
It makes you whole.
You feel nails scratch down your back
And leather sting on your skin
Unsure how to react
To bring reward or punishment
When you start showing cracks
Then we truly begin
Strained rope going slack
Panic seeps out from within
Kneel to accept your instruction
There’s no guarantee of destruction
But I promise your downfall with seed
From seduction
Don’t try
To deny
That you want me to
Hurt you
Alive in pain
It makes real again
Alive in pain
It makes you whole
…It makes you whole.
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4. |
Lights
04:45
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Degrading constellations
False dawn of our creation
Ignoring implications
Luminous accusations
Florescent pollution
Pinpoints make no intrusion
One simple solution
Brings dark its absolution
The evening skyline looks like day
But truth behind it stays
They’d have to kill the lights to see
The stars in this city
And not even the night will be
Our escape from electricity
The earnest desire
Unleash artistic fire
Pushing our hopes higher
To cosmic planes aspire
Craving inspired attention
Truthfulness gets no mention
Convinced we breed invention
Looking to bring ascension
And so we gather hopefully
Ribs cracked faith beating free
They’d have to kill the lights to see
The stars in this city
And not even the night will be
Our escape from electricity
They’d have to kill the lights to see
The stars in this city
And all of us we fight to leave
Some trace some lasting legacy
Pull ourselves in tighter
So we can burn brighter
And we can’t concede
Intensity
Dies out quickly
They’d have to kill the lights to see
The stars in this city
And not even the night will be
Our escape from electricity
They’d have to kill the lights to see
The stars in this city
And all of us we fight to leave
Some trace some lasting legacy
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5. |
Song 18
04:21
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Shall I compare thee to
The autumn leaves that fall in spring
Or to the joy that the
Destruction of an earthquake brings
Shall I compare thee to my
Secret fear of taboo
I’m still waiting for the sun to cool
And though it may be thicker than water
If I’m dying of thirst I’m not looking for blood
So fuck you and your
Narcissistic tendencies
That back and forth
The games you play
Won’t end in you
Controlling me
Used to live in fantasies
Of how these things were meant to be
But now you’re finally come to see
You can’t contain me
Shall I compare thee to
The final moments of this world
Or to the grain of sand that
May one day become a pearl
Shall I compare thee to those
Stopped clocks that everyone knows
Silence and time can be so cruel
And though it’s meant to be bricks and mortar
I can’t build on foundations with this flesh and blood
So fuck you and your
Narcissistic tendencies
That back and forth
The games you play
Won’t end in you
Controlling me
Used to live in fantasies
Of how these things were meant to be
But now you’re finally come to see
You can’t contain me
Blank days
An infection
Infiltrate my recollection
I say
Cold rejection
Provides complete protection
And though you’ve backed me into a corner
Well, I’ll still be around when you’re done sucking blood
So fuck you and your
Narcissistic tendencies
That back and forth
The games you play
Won’t end in you
Controlling me
Used to live in fantasies
Of how these things were meant to be
But now you’re finally come to see
You can’t contain me
You can’t contain me (R)
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6. |
Birdcage
04:51
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The Fascinators are: Al Plant, Emily Snee, Gareth Rhys Prior, Hal Mycroft and Harrison Moore
Produced and Engineered by: Steve Van Niekerk
Sounds and Samples from: freesfx
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7. |
Helianthus
03:49
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Filled boxes
Lined up in their perfect rows
Where our roots reach low
And we can grow
Push upward and open
One by one by one
We are unfurling unbroken
So we turn towards the sun
Before it sets
And place our bets
On what comes next
Stock still in
Beds that no one seems to tend
And we slowly bend
At summer’s end
Fatigue turns to falling motion
Sink back down to dirt
Continuing cycles unspoken
So we turn towards the sun
Before it sets
And place our bets
On what comes next
*Turn towards the sun* (r)
We turn
We turn
Upturned faces
To brighter places
Turn
We turn
In darkened spaces
We still find traces
Turn towards the sun
Before it sets
And place our bets
On what comes
On what comes next
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The Fascinators London, UK
The weird glittery mind child of Emily Snee, Gareth Rhys Prior, Hal Mycroft, Al Plant and Jonathan Oliver, The Fascinators are spreading their own bizarre brand of drag rock/metal across the UK.
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