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The Time Traveller
05:13
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We did so well on the savannah,
that we got time to think about the stars,
and we can up and leave this planet,
and look back down on what is ours,
and as we race on some are left behind,
some burn out as others start to shine,
and you may never think about it,
you might not ever have the time.
We are the guardians of the only place ever called home,
spinning in an endless, empty unknown alone.
So ask the time traveller to tell you how the story ends,
my dear.
Ask him from me if there's time enough for us to make amends,
this year.
Because I do fear, the tipping points near, and they've no idea.
Some are fed but most are hungry,
most scavenge whilst some are out to dine,
the few get fatter from the many,
but how often is it ever called to mind,
as men with title and position,
build towers higher than any man climb,
from steel and glass they never pay for,
looking down on you from ninety stories high.
So who are these guardians of the only place ever called home?
Seven billion people here and people still dying alone.
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2. |
Artemis & Apollo
05:48
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3. |
Loose
04:41
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Well there's a spring in my step tonight and I don't know why
A tailwind behind me, and my feet are light
A flow to my movement and a grace in my stride
Yeah there's a spring in my step tonight and I don't know why
And I feel no urgency
No need for emergency
I feel the tension release and my mind is at ease, I feel
Loose
I can hear the sirens wailing
But it don't make me jump tonight
Mean eyes starin'
But it don't make me break my stride
Oh and there's a drum beat poundin'
And my heart it beats in time
Yeah there's a spring in my step tonight and I think I know why
And I feel no urgency
No need for emergency
I feel the tension release and my mind is at ease, I feel
Loose
And all these feelings conspire to put me on top
Gravity disappears with every step that I walk
The clouds split and the sun points like a searchlight to where I stand
The gods they smile upon me as they place their power in my hands
The blood courses through my veins but my face remains cool and calm
Yeah there's a spring in my step tonight since you took my hand
And I feel no urgency
No need for emergency
I feel the tension release and my mind is at ease
And the DJ speaks to me
In his secret frequency
I see my name in his lights
I'm no longer uptight
I feel
Loose
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Savages in Saville Row suits
briefcase, Italian leather boots
Sewing bloodshed trying to reap peace
pouring poison to cure the disease
you never learned the lessons
never learned the lessons
never learned the lessons that you ought to
Fighting fire with fire
when you shoulda used water
And you've done the dirty work in the devil's hours
And we've to pay the price now the debt is ours
I coulda wrote you a love song and made you smile
And left you looking at the world through covered eyes
I coulda wrote you a love song made you warm inside
And left you looking at the world in it's disguise
It's true, helping a man when he doesn't need help isn't really helping at all
He's gotta learn how to struggle, learn how to fight
How to stand up when he falls
But the fight is fixed
The fight is fixed
The fight is fixed
The game is rigged, the dice are weighted so he never rolls a six
And you've done the dirty work in the devil's hours
And we've to pay the price now the debt is ours
I coulda wrote you a love song and made you smile
And left you looking at the world through covered eyes
I coulda wrote you a love song made you warm inside
And left you looking at the world in it's disguise
Oh god made man and man made the borders
God showed us love and man gave us orders
But greater than the force of a mighty army
Is the power of an idea whose time has come
And you've done the dirty work in the devil's hours
And we've to pay the price now the debt is ours
I coulda wrote you a love song and made you smile
And left you looking at the world through covered eyes
I coulda wrote you a love song made you warm inside
And left you looking at the world in it's disguise
The savage in the Saville Row suit
Has a bag on his back that says "loot"
It's yours and it's mine but he says with a smile
Do as I say, not as I do
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5. |
Crests & Troughs
03:51
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I told you I don't wanna buy your things
And I told you straight
I told you I don't wanna be your friend
Can't you just go away
Cos every time I need you the very least
That's when you're there
I can't get no rest, can't get no peace
When you're in my hair
And someone keeps inviting you back
And I don't know why
He's in here somewhere
But he's buried to deep inside
You're with my friends but you're not them
And you can't pretend
This rollercoaster's ran its course
And it's time to end
So give me my Sunday's back you can't
Have them to keep
I need to know that when it's light
I should've gone to sleep
But someone keeps inviting you back
And I don't know why
He's in here somewhere
But he's buried to deep inside
You come with smiles and you leave with tears
But then you wipe them dry
You show us hope and you hide our fears
Such a beautiful lie
I've sailed your crests and I've suffered your troughs
And I still return
So in your warmth and welcome I will bask
And in your fires I'll burn
Cos someone keeps inviting you back
And I don't know why
He's in here somewhere
But he's buried to deep inside
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6. |
Trouble
04:49
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Ever since I was a new blood
looking for a new rush
I didn't have to do much
and trouble always brewed up
I started making good waves
doing what the school says
Man they were good days
but trouble works in cruel ways
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
Who woulda been able to say
that trouble would take me this way
I know I put a foot wrong
I know I shoulda been gone
But maybe I was too strong
as trouble stood and looked on
So this is where I am now
gotta keep my hands down
Gotta make new plans now
in case trouble sends a man round
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
Who woulda been able to say
that trouble would take me this way
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
I never thought I'd see the day
that trouble would take me this way
Take a deep breath as you're led through the door
"Click" goes the lock as you stare at the floor
All this that once seemed a distant affair
Is so far from real now, now that you are there
So everywhere I may go
Trouble has to say so
My head don't have no halo
So it's gonna have to stay low
Trouble's been a friend to me
Trouble is my enemy
Trouble gave me plenty
And trouble left me empty
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
Who woulda been able to say
that trouble would take me this way
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
the winds of fortune have changed
And dark clouds are rolling my way
Double trouble, toil and struggle, hot soup, soapy bubble
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7. |
Legacy
05:40
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Your overdressed lies
stand out against the naked truth
It's no surprise
I saw it before I'd even looked
Your friends in the high places
cover up your disgraces
keep all the straight faces
strictly need to know basis
And you can never lose
So start from a clean slate
Slim down to lean weight
Call on supreme state
To save us from our fate
Cos we, we are just pawns
In this big game, this big game going on
And soon we'll be gone
Will our legacy carry on?
Maybe one day, he'll come along
And the right man will drop the bomb
And I wonder, would it be so wrong?
To forego my freedom
To those sent to lead us
Stop all the dreaming
Be part of the sequence
Cos we can only lose
So start from a clean slate
Slim down to lean weight
Call on supreme state
To save us from our fate
Cos we, we are just pawns
In this big game, this big game going on
And soon we'll be gone
Will our legacy carry on?
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
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8. |
Fallin' Behind
05:28
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I know a man who is at war with himself
And it's a fight to the death
He doesn't know it yet and he keeps ignorning himself
He's in a terrible mess
And it's all just moving a little too fast to study
So he tries and he tries and he cries out his eyes
But he just can't deny that he's fallin' behind
I know a girl who doesn't know her own worth
She just does what she's told
She's been like this now since a very young age
And she'll be like this when she's old
And it's all just far too big and bold to study
Though she tries and she tries and she cries out her eyes
But she just can't deny that she's fallin' behind
A lightbulb will appear above her head (and all will be revealed)
A lightbulb will appear above her head (and all the wounds will heal)
A lightbulb will appear above her head (and enemies will kneel)
I know a boy who thinks it's time to be a man
And he just doesn't understand
He wants to move forward and by all means he can
But when he wants to move backward he can't
And it's all just moving a little too fast to study
Though he tries and he tries and he cries out his eyes
And he just can't deny that he's fallin' behind
A lightbulb will appear above his head (and all will be revealed)
A lightbulb will appear above his head (and all the wounds will heal)
A lightbulb will appear above his head (and enemies will kneel)
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9. |
The Wicked Kingdom
04:55
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The black gold is rusting
upon your crown
The palaces it built
are coming down
A new tsunami breaks
on your horizon
When it hits will you still be around?
I wished the snow would keep on fallin'
The world we know, buried below
The white façade conceals the Wicked Kingdom
And the new people never know
Oh you can't hold it
You were bought and sold for black gold
No, you can't control it
So sell your soul for black gold
Now on the tundra the new world's thriving
And no man's rule holds no sway
The people go from day-to-day surviving
Father hunts while his children play
And mother makes a home for all to dwell in
She's equally valued in the role she plays
And each man sleeps just like a baby
Knowing the world was meant to be this way
Oh you can't hold it
You were bought and sold for black gold
No, you can't control it
So sell your soul for black gold
Until one day, one new man's stirring
And covets more than his neighbour has
He feels the call of the Wicked Kingdom
and sets out with a shovel upon his back
He digs down to a world built by slaves
and finds a crown and a black gold throne
And now he knows that his only purpose
is to multiply and multiply the things he owns
Oh you can't hold it
You were bought and sold for black gold
No, you can't control it
So sell your soul for black gold
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10. |
Words & Sounds
05:29
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Promises made in haste they say, are broken at leisure
Abandon all hope, ye who enter
You'll never know you were alive until you're dead,
unless you venture where others fear to tread
It's time for a little less carrot and a little more stick (that's what they say)
A little less easy and a little more strict
But these are just words and sounds
Is there any truth there to be found?
Yeah these are just noises that rhyme
But they captivate us and capture the divine
Hey!
Would you rather a flawed diamond, than a perfect pebble?
Did you fix the roof whilst the sun was shining?
Hearts are often broken by words unspoken
So let it all out whilst the flood gate's open.
Our mediocrity is not hard to see
As the sapling is bent, so grows the tree.
But these are just words and sounds
Is there any truth there to be found?
Yeah these are just noises that rhyme
But they captivate us and capture the divine
Hey!
I heard you say we're gonna get there, eventually
So I know we're gonna get there, eventually
Oh you said we're gonna get there, eventually
So I'm sure we're gonna get there, eventually
Yeah you said we're gonna get there, eventually
So I know we're gonna get there, eventually
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11. |
We'll See
04:41
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Now you've walked this journey with me
and shared the sounds that spent eternity in my head until now
you've seen through my eyes and heard through my ears
you've seen the depths of love, joy, elation, ambition, desire, anguish, struggle, confusion and fear.
You know one can make way for another with the wave of a hand or a glancing look
You know that pits can be as deep as mountains high, but each has a peak or a trough, and limits exist on the extent of any human ordeal.
However good or bad it is for you, it could always be better, or worse.
It's not possible to see the peak of the highest mountain from the depths of the deepest pit, but it's there no less and within reach.
You've realised now that there is no high without low, no win without loss, no gain without sacrifice.
You know that the world is not a fixed concept for us all to observe, but a variable and relative phenomenon, wholly dependent on the perspective of the observer for its definition.
The vision you see when you look at the blue sky might not be the same as that appearing in my head when I gaze upon the same sight, but we'll never know.
You know that time changes everything for a man, even if it changes nothing for matter.
You realise now that we all live on the same planet, but in entirely different worlds.
You'll know that no man ever steps in the same river twice, and that madness is not doing the same thing twice and expecting different results, you might do the same thing twice whilst everything else around you has changed in between times.
You'll know that despite all of the wondrous creations people have left on this earth, and the immensely complex structures of culture, art, society, law, science and economics it's the people themselves that are more valuable than any of their creations.
And further, you'll know that the connections, collaborations and co-operations we establish give us more satisfaction than anything we could ever attain alone.
Wealth is measured not in currency but in loved ones and friends.
Prestige is measured not in power, but in respect.
You'll know that simple things can have profound effects, that the ripples from the smallest pebbles spread across the widest pond.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
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