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Space
03:49
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Shannon I need space
Shadows on the sun
Somewhere beyond
The horizon
Shannon I need space
Constellations in your eyes
Rocket piercing periwinkle
Skies
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
We need to see other people
From up above the clouds
The storm is passing far below
Above the moistened ground
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
Shannon I need a break
Like the space between
The sun and the days
Shannon I need space
Orion rises in the east
His sword is hanging hunting
For a feast
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
What we know
Can never answer
Wherefore or why
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The Sin Eater
03:37
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Burn the bowl
Burn the cup
Sins devoured
Offered up
Place the cake
Upon his breast
Dip the ale
From his chest
I eat your death
That you may die
Life eats death
Yet does not die
Eats death
Yet grows with life
Married to your
Ghostly bride
Freedom for
This countryside
Ate your soil
Soul ascends
Absolution
Made amends
I eat your death
That you may die
Life eats death
Yet does not die
Eats death
Yet grows with life
I smoked your
Final cigarette
Burned whatever
Evil's left
Drank your hidden
Whisky ale
Secret passions
Ever frail
I eat your death
That you may die
Life eats death
Yet does not die
Eats death
Yet grows with life
I am the darkness
You cannot see
See yourself
When you see me
I am the terror
You feel inside
Cast me away
From your eyes
I eat your death
That you may die
Life eats death
Yet grows with life
Eats death
Yet grows with life
I eat your death
That you may die
Life eats death
Yet does not die
Eats death
Yet grows with life
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Television
02:15
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When television lost its potent
Power of mass hypnosis
We logged on with likes for friends
Who shared and therefore showed us
Humans glowed at night.
Our common eye, a cloud in the sky
A coiled serpent lay at the
Base of every tree
Branches to the
World-wide interlocking leaf
At its roots a network pulsed like
Mycorizal electricity
We are free
When we choose to be
We held a knife pressed to
The belly of a beast
Its face in a coercive state
Numbers in its feet
Once ready we built much more helpful
Mythological entities
We are free
When we choose to be
Our electric sheep shit petroleum eat the grass beneath our feet
We are free
When we choose to be
We are free
When we choose to be
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