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Econocide
04:02
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Once the bespectacled shy mathematic
Spat in the face, slapped and kicked in the dirt
Entered the battlefield meritocratic
City boy dressed in a designer shirt
On market floors in a kingdom despotic
Make them believe it's a victimless crime
Synapses firing, hormonic narcotic
Deaf in the face of the warning bell's chime
Hail the living gods, rule the slime running through the troughs
Our eyes prowling their paths as lions, as lions
While the stocks shall rise, towards the flame we fly
Life is just patterns and dead cold transactions
Cycles of “you scratch my back, I scratch yours”
Miles away I can foresee your reactions
Made sure I'm scratched just a little bit more
Can't seem to back off my foot from the throttle
Frenzied and due to pay back borrowed time
Sorry, your message got lost in a bottle
Thought that our marriage would age just like wine
Failed deliverables, derived leveraged assets gone
My life I spent out on an island, my island
Neglect the wife, our newly born, and sign separation forms
Now take my life and salvage your horizon, horizon
It's my econocide, into the flame I'll fly
It's my econocide, time to expose the lie
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Haligonian Rain
04:09
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Chilled to the bone, rain all day
So let's waste away
In comfort zones, where broken bones can heal
Cold as stone, we're alone, swept apart
If the car would start
We'd take a ride past where dandelions weep
Buy a little time
'Cause it's pissing down rain again
And shit has come our way again
As the water falls
We’ve got to buy a little time
'Cause it's pissing down rain again
And life is looking plain again
As the water falls
Roads steeply rise and then fall
With the dry stone walls
Misfortune's angry clouds drift close behind
Driving down 'nto the dales, light is veiled
Past the boarded-up pubs
Where misery once had some company
Buy a little time
'Cause it's pissing down rain again
And shit has come our way again
As the water falls
We’ve got to buy a little time
'Cause it's pissing down rain again
And life is looking plain again
As the water falls
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Sackcloth Saints
04:53
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High in our fortress, disguised and once free
Suffered scars of bombardment by king's decree
In a fortnight the legions of cross and fleur-de-lis
Will have raised up a garden of severed trees
The savagery of inquisitor and crown
Won't bend our knees
We'll descend by the side of the sackcloth saints
Swear the vows, complete the final rite
Twenty-one, the laymen turned to heresy
Recount the days of those that burned here
Twenty-one declined the path of sanctuary
And braved the flames and soldiers' spurning cheers
Pray now, pray now, venerate the faithful
Our legacy is safe, to die another day
Fumes rise, the anger of flames is set free
But the murmur of prayer soothes our agony
The savagery of inquisitor and crown
Won't bend our knees
We'll burn by the side of the sackcloth saints
Walk the charred sacred pathway to the light
Twenty-one, the laymen turned to heresy
Recount the days of those that burned here
Twenty-one declined the path of sanctuary
And braved the flames and soldiers' spurning cheers
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So Far to Fall
05:17
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Far, we've come since we're cured of our scars
A long way removed from loneliness, from loneliness
Here, the downward skew it feels so near
I brace for the fall, not knowing when
We have been up so high
Here, where skies cannot be cleaner
Pastures can't be greener
Anticipate the storm
And there, where lights cannot shine brighter
The hand of death grips tighter
And dissipates the warmth
Our judgement call on the horizon
We climbed so high, so far to fall
The distant siren
Near, an abundance of all that is dear
So firmly immersed in cosiness, in cosiness
Our careers set to shoot for the stars
Uncertainty is not knowing when adversity will strike
Here, where skies cannot be cleaner
Pastures can't be greener
Anticipate the storm
And there, where lights cannot shine brighter
The hand of death grips tighter
And dissipates the warmth
It kills the warmth
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I told you so that this would end in violence
A tender war between a conflict and a lie
Is this the thunderstorm that comes and brings the silence?
The flash that strikes, it burns and parts both you and I
First strike, you're out
I told you so that this would end in violence
The surge of pain that hit me with the tidings
I never crossed my path with treachery so sly
Now play the casualty and force me into hiding
You left me down and out and hung me out to dry
First strike, you're out
First strike, you're out, you're out
I gave you one try, now you're out, you're out, you're out
In time the snowflakes will stop falling
Our time ran out and we were young
The rain erased what it fell upon
Let your desire keep from crawling
Intangible the memory
The weathered hands worn and marked with grief
Remind of you and me
I told you so that this would end in violence
A tender war between a conflict and a lie
Is this the thunderstorm that comes and breaks the silence?
The flash that strikes, it burns and parts both you and I
First strike, you're out, first strike, you're out
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Heliophile Enschede, The Netherlands
Heliophile is Gijs van Ouwerkerk and Maarten Vloon, a synthpop duo from The Netherlands. Consistent with their geographical
location, between the UK and Germany, their music can be described as a cross between the more accessible British synthpop and the slightly darker stuff made in Germany.
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