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Fascion
05:47
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Truth ain't what it used to be
Aren't I just so fucking edgy?
Visions of frogs in my head
History repeats until we're all dead
Minds warped beyond logic and reason
In and out of style but never out of season
It's in fascion not to show compassion
Yeah, it's hip not to care!
Fascion!
Rebrand right as rebellion
Fascion!
Put us under that spell again
Fascion!
Buzzwords and slogans on loop and repeat
Fascion!
Play on and on into the hands of the elite
A new generation with a new identity
Well we gotta belong to something...haven't we?!
Join the congregation, take pride in the nation
Welcome bigots of every persuasion
The hipster-fascionistas
Sheep in wolves' clothing
Goose stepping down the catwalk
On their way to the abattoir!
Fascion!
Rebrand right as rebellion
Fascion!
Put us under that spell again
Fascion!
Buzzwords designed to intimidate
Fascion!
Ad infinitum until it's too late
Unlawful enforcement
Celebrity endorsements
Ideology a publicity plaything
Bringing us the scandal we are craving
Tyrants on the covers of the magazines
Exclusive pics, bundles of sticks
Jesters' hats a fascion statement
We are dedicated followers of...
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2. |
The Human Delusion
03:51
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So loud our voice
No time to listen
So eager to lead
So easy to lead into submission
So proud we claim to be strong
So soon we need to belong
Employing tactics of intimidation
All in the name of self-validation
Shallow and transparent
Craving approval from others
All of us, frightened children
Crying out for our mothers
So sure of ourselves
So quick to cling to others
So quick to lash out
So quick to run for cover
Wallowing in distraction
Sharing self-satisfaction
Waiting for your reaction
The human delusion!
So quick to cry out in pain
So quick to inflict for personal gain
So quick to take a moral stand
Always willing to kill on command
Imaginary friends
Imaginary foes
What's the fucking point?
Nobody knows!
Meditating on our condition
Elevating to pole position
Falling prey to superstition
The human delusion!
Apex predator...?
No spine of which to speak
Apex predator...?
Truly the evolutionary peak
Apex predator...?
Destined to self destruct
Apex predator...?
Well and truly...
Everyone has a breaking point
Just gotta push hard enough
Everyone's hanging by a thread!
Just gotta pull hard enough
And if I really wanted to
I could so easily crush you
If I really wanted to
I could destroy you
(if I really wanted to...)
Believe.
In anything.
Just to belong.
To something.
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Some Other Land
06:43
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It's all getting so out of hand
I understand, I understand
You think you've just about got a grip on life
But shifting poles cause chaos to unfold
Reality drifts ever further from your tiny tunnel of truth
You yearn for an earlier time
It all seemed to make sense in your youth
They're coming over from some other land
The kids are speaking a language you don't understand
We're all sailing under the same sun
On seas of change to which you will not succumb
You're searching for devils and contraband
It's all getting so out of hand
I understand, I understand
You think you've just about got a grip on life
But shifting paradigms just leave you blind
You spend your final years refusing to adapt
Resisting revolutions
Existing in perpetual bewilderment
And then you die!
And then you die!
And then you die!
And then you die!
They're coming over from some other land
The kids are speaking a language you don't understand
We're all sailing under the same sun
On seas of change to which you will not succumb
You're sinking in marshes and quicksand
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Many Voices
06:50
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Seeing life through likes and other reacts
Illusion is here; forget the facts
Seeing life through a lightless prism
Refracted reality, a blind person's prison
In the age of superfinformation
We are the generation of oversaturation
Too many noises overstimulating our senses
Too many voices neutralising our defences
Lost in the layers of irony
Subdued by the silence of apathy
Paralysed by paranoia
Atrophied by atrocity
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Removed
07:59
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Torn from the womb
Thrust into a place so far removed
To a place that time remembered
Our nature is warped and we are doomed
We are ancient archaeology
Lost our way since the day we crawled from the sea
The last breath of humanity - a fading memory
Bringing back pieces of the past
Clawing at the veil of time
It's such a shame
Yearning to turn back the way we came
Along the inifinite loop
It comes back around again
Fate finds a way to redefine
And nothing is ever quite the same
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Abyss
10:19
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Artworks destroyed
Flowers crushed
Lining the streets
Children left to rot
No joyful music
No sentiment
No Spring
No Summer
Words mean nothing
Reality - a fading memory
All wisdom betrayed
All knowledge forgotten
No sorrowful music
No sad regret
No Autumn
No Winter
No sound to be heard
No birds on the trees
No songs to sing
No dreams left to dream
No sight to behold
No sunsets anymore
No romance left
No love, no war
No one watching
No one listening
No one answering
Nothing at all
No dice left to cast
No way back
Life itself abandoned
Abyss
Abyss
Abyss
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Congregation
02:42
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Come join the congregation
All you want is isolation
Unless you join our conversation
You'll be regarded with suspicion
Come and watch the game
You'll be glad you came
Come and have a drink
You'll enjoy it, I think
Come join the party
Come dance to our song
Life is much more fun
When you're singing along
You don't need a life of your own
Come and watch Game Of Thrones
We're sick of hearing you moan
Sit with us and get stoned
You're at the end of your tether
Well just pull yourself together
Talk about the weather
Just pull yourself together!
Come join the party, etc...
(Get fucked with us!)
(Get married with us!)
(Have kids with us!)
(Bomb kids with us!)
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Matt Ford Liverpool, UK
Working under his own name, Matt Ford is free from the restrictive constraints of a band name. Working on his own, he is liberated from the constant compromise which comes from playing in a band. He is able to be as schizophrenic and as multi-faceted as his artistic whim allows him to be. Matt Ford has no expectations to live up to, other than his own. The possibilities are endless. ... more
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