Folk Dance (Official Video)
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Folk Dance
Old fashioned drums pick out the beat
Thick skins flappin' under sacred sheets
Flying half-mast on familiar streets
Pickin' and lickin' at the red wall meat
Flying far too low in the forbidden zone
Over hostile tribes of outdated clones
Hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-nosed to the bone
They gave birth to the first in a long line of drones
Lickin' up the dust as the servants dance
Ringin' out the bells and the sweaty pants
Uploading content to the hater banks
For a last little dribble of innocence
As word filters down to the grebs on the ground
Balls roll round, no team-players to be found
Interrupting the stream in the final dream
All for the glory of the opposite team
New creatures emerge in the ultimate purge
It's an eye for an eye and bloody hell on earth
And they're shaking and pounding on the banquet barge
Extracting juices in the final surge
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Burn Out
06:50
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Burn Out
The old rules don't apply
In the grip of foul desire
In the grip of foul desire
Inside the chaos wall
On a cross of burning gold
On filthy streets of filth
Inside the chaos wall
On dirty, dusty shelves
In ignorance and hate
In a storm of many years
Mirrors mirrors on the walls
In a tomb of plastic jewels
Carried off in plastic bags
Perfect for the living room
The old rules don't apply
In the grip of foul desire
Inside the chaos wall
Inside the endless road
As a part of the liquid whole
Hidden at the sewer mouth
In the grip of mindless dread
Crawling down the melting zone
In the tunnels of the dead
Below the stinking earth
The old rules don't apply
In the grip of foul desire
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Grow Time
02:30
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Grow Time
Hide in shadows
Hide in comfort
Hide from new host
Find escape route
Surf a tide of rot
Surf on the filth-sea
Surf to the island
Of all disease
Burst to consciousness
Burst in luxury
Burst to the next phase
To a more easy place
Hide Surf Burst Walk
Grow Rise Move Cry
Grow from one seed
Grow and harvest
Grow and cut back
Over-ripe fruit batch
Rise and spread seed
Rise and spread out
Rise and catch
The turning season
Move in armies
Move in pieces
Move as one mind
Through new territory
Hide Surf Burst Walk
Grow Rise Move Cry
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Peace Time
Run from the world
Run from the sea
Run from the future
To the empty city
Calming, soothing
Piped-in voice
Pushed and pulled from all sides
With ultimate force
Desperate
Animal howls
Rise above the sewer
Smell the burning
Explosions of joy
From believers
And those hated
Unmasked creatures
They joined with the losers
At the low point
Opened and closed the wound
For another one
Carried on bleeding
At a distance
Carried on feeding
Run from the world
To the empty city
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Call of the Wild
03:40
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Call of the Wild
Can you hear the money bleeding off the edge of the earth?
Forming spires of the nameless church
Can you hear the shifting bricks of gold?
Push through soil under city walls
“It's the call of the wild!”
Can y'hear the flowers feeding, getting strong and high?
Between the golden pillars of paradise
Can y'hear holes in the network open and close?
Eating through fuel in the exclusive zone
“It's the call of the wild!”
Join in and feed in the wild lands
Work by the light of many hands
Synthesize food in the meat-machine
Mixed with the ashes of the greatest of dreams
“It's the call of the wild!”
Burn all ghosts on the endless road
Edit the message, forget the code
Join with the beasts of the desert sand
Feed on the kindness of the golden hand
“It's the call of the wild!”
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Machine
03:56
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Machine
The planet ground it's distanced cheek
Scraping the barrel of disbeliefs
And flesh from the bone of the new machine
The cult of disease allowed to breath
They climbed head first into stinking holes
On the trail of their idols' filthy souls
As the platforms burned and their games changed
For flag-waving cross-bearing dragon slayers
The machine is
Shutting down
The machine is healing
The wounded crowd
The hollow earth's engine accelerates
And the old world king unlocks His gates
Leading private armies to the sterile zone
His inner earth engine is uncontrolled
His mast rose quickly from the rabbit hole
Infecting and connecting the misinformed
Injecting the fifth generation code
In the private groups of the immunised herd
The machine is
Locking down
The machine is shielding
The infected crowd
Aaaaaaah
Ah
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Bulk Buy
03:24
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Bulk Buy
What's inside?
What's interesting?
What's waiting?
What's happening?
Don't be shy of a nice surprise
Reach in for paradise
Pleasure for anyone
Right down at the bottom
A tasty surprise
An experience
Adventure
Excitement
Above the clouds
Above the crowd
Above the law
Reach in and feel around
Who knows what might be found?
Reach in and grab on
Right down at the bottom
Reach in and feel around
Right down to the ground
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The Journey
02:48
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The Journey
Believers walk and quake and shake
The grass grows long and the day grows late
As they trudge the road past the milestones
Carrying the sacred genetic code
To a golden field of ripening wheat
Where the sky is red with primative heat
Where the seed is called from inside the stone
Forcing the gods to change their tune
They smell the rising sap in relentless sun
As it seeps from the pores of the chosen ones
Browning the skin to the perfect shade
Easing the passage of another day
Believers cower in their idol's face
As it clamps down hard on morals and grace
As it forges their chains on the altar of life
As grey fire flows from it's holy mouth
A leap into the circle of dancing fauns
Where the idols are eaten as the new day dawns
Where the old and wise are sacrificed
Willingly led to the tree of life
All races of the earth swing from the tree
And float down the river of exotic dreams
On a shaky raft of fallen limbs
On the journey of tools and growing things
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